Another hot fix, this time we took some time to re work how the vehicles handle in Montgomery County. Please test and give us some feedback. We are also aware of an issue where you cannot start a multiplayer game if you select a region before hand so to bypass this issue until we patch it, just don't select a region before making a server.

0.7.8G Changelog:
Tweaked handling across all Montgomery County Vehicles (Waiting for feedback)
Fixed Multiplayer fires not being synced

0.7.8F is live and fixes several issues that arose after the last hot fix. Change log below

0.7.8F Changelog:

Made handling (Turning radius and turning speed) uniform on all fire vehicles in game

Fixed an Issue with not being able to put out fires after re implementing MP

Added more spots on Montgomery County vehicles in Multiplayer

Setup other doors on MC Vehicles for Multiplayer

Fixed Quint Pump turning off right after turning on

Fixed Radial Menu for hoses not working on Squad 28

Added Radial menu on each side of hose bed for Quint

Removed floating car doors in Montgomery County Auto body shop Fire

Fixed Division 4 AI RTS opening the wrong garage door

Fixed Right Engine supply model not disabling after deploying

Good morning! Happy New Years everyone! I hope you are all excited for what 2020 has to bring! I know I am. We have finally re implemented multiplayer in this new hot fix which just went live. We are unsure of how buggy it will be since we barely got to test due to lack of active players who were willing to help with closed testing. So we have decided to hope for the best and hope that the community will report the Multiplayer issues they find on each map so we can begin to fix those issues. We also fixed several annoying bugs, change log below!

0.7.8E Changelog:

Reimplemented Multiplayer on all maps (this is what took some time)

Fixed the infamous Double Character issue (clone)

Fixed Can causing characters arm to glitch out

Fixed hose couplings stuck in the air when pulling lines in Multiplayer

Removed Graphics and Resolution dialog on launch ( Set your settings in the main menu and save them)

Fixed handling of E78 and 49 spare

Sped up L68 Spare

Hope everyone had an enjoyable holidays. I myself just returned from some quality family time last night and got straight back to work. We finally were able to fix the critical spawning issue and now are shifting our focus to fixing all hose and hydrant glitches. Then we will move onto improving handling and roads on the Montgomery County map.

0.7.8C is live 0.7.8C Changelog:

Fixed the critical Spawning Issues

Fixed some issues with hoses and hydrant connections (Needs more testing)

Fixed Division 4 not being able to spawn a character

Fixed Division 4 AI not opening the garage doors

Hotfix B is up for update 0.7.8 and fixes a lot of annoying hose issues, and a bunch of other bugs you have all reported! Thank you and keep it up so we can continue at this pace!

0.7.8B Changelog:

Fixed issues with hoses on Engine in Montgomery County (Needs more testing!)

Fixed Front Supply Lines not registering on all Engines in Manhattan

Added attack line discharges on the Tanker so it can be used as an Engine

Temporarily moved the Engine with the rest of the Fire Vehicles (Temporary work around for spawning issue, while I wait for Donut to fix it)

Players can now spawn in a police character however it is currently still the NYPD Officer on all maps

Fixed Lighting stages issue on all PD Cars

Fixed not being able to take Stretcher out of the Fire Ambulance

Added the ability to spawn an officer on a Tow Truck

Added the ability to delete the Tow Truck

Fixed a floating bus fire in Manhattan

Added Occlusion Culling to Montgomery County (Should help with FPS)

Fixed the View Distance slider to work in Montgomery County (Should help with FPS)

Fixed the tutorial button in Montgomery County

Fixed floating benches at head statue in MC


Fixed Barn Doors not being able to be opened after cutting locks off

Moved the character spawn point on the Tanker

Here is the first hotfix for 0.7.8. Thank all of you for your patience in allowing to address some of these very annoying issues. We are so happy with the feedback we are getting. Please continue to provide feedback and bug reports so we can continue to bug smash before we move forward to a public release.

0.7.8 A Changelog:

Added clickable UI buttons for users whos F1 F2 etc. keys are not working

Fixed issues where character would spawn at different trucks (Needs more Testing)

Fixed Tow Truck spawning inside, moved PD Spawn point to outside the precinct

Fixed some issues with picking up and dropping hose couplings as well as couplings disconnecting on their own (Needs more Testing)

Added a Hospital/Clinic (In an alley street marked on minimap)

Fixed Car Fire not going out at windy hill shed fire

Fixed Engine character spawn point being broken

Fixed minimap not showing

Moved POV 3 spawn point to a more suitable area

Improved Minimap functionality

Fixed the Fire Ambulance driving on its own while driving another vehicle

Repositioned the Brush Truck in the Firestation to use the rear door

Fixed some floating parked cars in Manhattan

Fixed some unsymetrical issues with the Quint outriggers

Removed the FDNY Ambulance door on the Fire Ambulance

Improved handling of Ladder 75 Trailer

Fixed MCSD Explorer Grill Lights

Fixed MCSD Explorer misaligned passenger side wheels

Fixed Rocky Brook Ambulance not moving (Use P to release parking brake)

Temporarily disabled spawning a Police Officer character while we look into why he falls over on spawn


Changed Atlanta Airport Highway sign

Changed POV Lights to Blue to be accurate with NYS code

Moved the Tahoe POV Spawn Point to be in a better position

Fixed One of the sloped roads not having collisions

Increase the scale of Jeep POV

Slowed down waves of the water material to make it look more realistic

Fixed the traffic UI, issue showed offset clicking points in the settings menu

Fixed a flickering issue with the rear fire station door in Montgomery County

Smoothed some of the troublesome roads in Montgomery County

Fixed floating boat fire in Manhattan

Fixed floating downed tree in Montgomery County

Fixed L74 not being able to return the can

Tweaked Brush Truck Handling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZE0-Msozh0







The highly anticipated release of Update 0.7.8 is here! You heard that right. Montgomery County is here! Just in time for the Christmas Sale starting tomorrow morning. EmergeNYC will be 20% off (20$ USD) through January 2nd 2020. Switch to the Staging Branch to start your download now!

View the full changelog here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KWPEdrBo-45zmnZXZNx-CSv38wWCc0yafiA5nu8AJGM/edit?usp=sharing

This is v0.1 of our Montgomery County map meaning there are only about ~40 emergencies and just as many bugs. We want to welcome our players in to the testing and polishing phase of Montgomery County. We know you guys have waited impatiently for months and months for a release and we kept saying “give us just a little longer” Well, the end of the year creeped up on us and we feel like we haven’t delivered what our community expects from us. We feel comfortable that we have squashed so many of the game breaking bugs and feel that gameplay is virtually stable. I have decided to abandon the hope of delivering a perfect product polished and all to you guys and want to welcome everyone into the testing phase to find the problematic bugs and get feedback on ways things should work. This game has been built on community feedback and bug reports and we are excited to move into the next stage of development.

As after every big update, we will be patching the game daily and making fixes and changes based upon all of your feedback and reports.

Multiplayer is disabled in this build while we want our players to solely test the single player gameplay to help us find bugs and provide important feedback to continue to improve the game with each hotfix. We are also working on several Multiplayer issues that render it unplayable at this time.

This update has been in the works since earlier this year and I have faced tons of criticism and accusations that I figured now would be a good time for me to address.

“These developers are so stupid adding new things when they need to fix the broken game”

While deciding to go through with the idea for Montgomery County may not have been the right timing, I still feel as though this update will hopefully be a breath of fresh air to our players who have been waiting for new content. People were claiming that we were solely adding things and have abandoned the original Manhattan map which is as far from the truth as possible. Manhattan has new emergencies, countless bug fixes (As you can see by the 8 page change log below) as well as the Fire Academy. The game all around has seen tons of fixes and improvements, but is still far from perfect.

“This game is a scam”

Believe it or not, it’s not a scam. I am not here to take your money, hence the huge free update! I am a sole individual running and creating this game with little to no outside help lately. It is difficult to work the hours I do and try to please every one of you with an explanation or a response. I do this not for the money, but because I love this game and what I have built from the ground up with many of you who have been here since the very beginning. It is easy to say hateful and ignorant things when you don’t know what has to go into something of this scale.

“This project is dead”

Many have began spreading these rumours, which I take blame for not having been communicating better these last few months while trying to get the game to a place where it is stable enough to replace 0.7.7J. So many new issues arose, game breaking bugs that took weeks to fix, it was nightmarish where i’m sure any other single game developer would have pronounced the project. But that is not an option for me. This is my livelihood and the only way this project will die is if I die or get locked up. Progress maybe slower than what everyone wants, but it is moving a long as is already leaps ahead of most of the competition.


Change Log!

Entirely new rural map with over a dozen new units, 50 new emergencies, and more!

New Emergencies on Manhattan map!

New Brush Fire Scenario in Fire Academy!

Optimizations to improve loading and streaming times when loading vehicles and characters

Added Interior to Engine 32, Ladder 66 Firehouse

Added Spotlights to all Police Cars

Added water coolers and waste bins to rear of all Engines

Added Boat Fires to Manhattan

Readded Bridges to Manhattan

Tweaked Handling & Speed of many trucks including Ladder 75 & Rescue 9

Fixed all game breaking issues with Tiller Ladder 75

Fixed FDNY/NYPD Boats to work as expected

Fixed Helicopters (Will now hover in position when released)

Removed Unfinished Bus Fire Radio Call

Added Loading Text when spawning trucks with the new Addressables system

Fixed a Physics issues causing trucks to teleport into the sky and float over downtown

Extended the reach of Engine Deck guns spray

Fixed Engine 31 Spare returning to quarters with AI Command

Improved K12 & Chainsaw Roof Cutting

Fixed Locks that dont drop after cutting in the Fire Academy

Fixed extremely loud sound of ceiling breaking heard from anywhere on the map

Fixed picking up and returning all EMS Bags

Reworked how Highrise packs are equipped (Uses radial menu now)

Fixed Tower Ladder 68 being unable to return to station with RTS AI

Fixed Missing Icon on Power Off Manhole calls

Fixed Missing Minimap Icons in Manhattan

Tweaked Water Textures

Fixed Pitt St. Manhole Fire call not being on a manhole

Fixed holes in sidewalks where subways used to be

Fixed Trucks spamming their air horns while returning to the firestation with AI

Reintegrated the old World Trade Center as a toggleable option

Added new Montgomery County vehicles to Fire Academy

Fixed L75 missing minimap Icon

All RTS buttons work properly now (Go to emergency, Go to Truck, etc)

Fixed character running too fast

Fixed Missing Health Icon

Fixed Squad 28’s rear roll down door missing Icon

Fixed Squad 28’s rear roll down being opened with E from anywhere

Fixed FDNY Ambulance Cab lights being on always

Redid Health and Damage when inside of a fire

Synced Fire Alarm resetting in Multiplayer

Fixed curb in Midtown Firehouse causing B5 not being able to reverse into bay

Fixed shading on NYPD Taurus front bumper to match the rest of the car

Fixed Lighting on the NYPD Tahoe

Fixed Squad 28 AI (temporary fix, truck is in cage outside firehouse)

Fixed Fire that wouldn’t go out in Building 2 Fire Academy

Fixed Invisible DOA patient on Manhattan Car off Freeway accident

Removed Explosion from Gun shop Call causing issues in Multiplayer

Reworked how NYPD and EMS cars handle

Added colliders to all Manhattan Buildings

Fixed being unable to get off turntable and deck gun issues

Removed the Pause option (Game will continue running while Settings menu is open)

Fixed duplicate doors at Coffee Shop

Fixed E78 Backup not having a mask

Fixed Tower Ladder Pike and Hooks being too high to grab when outriggers are down

Fixed a rotator parking brake light on Ladder 68 Spare

Fixed missing emergency beacons

Fixed being able to see under the map at the School

Removed colliders off ground decals causing issues of AI getting stuck

Fixed the apartment floor texture above the Laundromat

Fixed helmets inside E78 firehouse

Fixed broken compartments on L68

Added colliders to trees

Fixed Ambulances being too fast

Lowered the curb in front of Rescue 9’s firehouse

Fixed issues with the Pike in First Person View

Fixed issues with K12 returning on 66 and Rescue 9

Fixed a duplicated moon

Fixed issues with compartments opening when trucks are in firehouse next to each other

Fixed Division 4’s firehouse saying Battalion 5 still

Fixed Blurriness when in First Person View in a truck

Fixed an issue where AI trucks wouldn’t respond

Fixed hoses snaking across the ground on their own

Fixed an issue where Ladder 75 and Division 4 would get stuck trying to enter the tunnel

Fixed FPS counter showing infinity when in the Pause Menu

Fixed Invisible barriers that B5 kept hitting

Added collisions to barriers by the pier

When in Photomode Truck and Character controls are disabled

Fixed Squad 28’s spare pump not working properly

Fixed contradicting directional arrows on 63rd Street in Manhattan

Fixed Laundromat Washing machines floating in Mid Air

Fixed missing store fronts in Manhattan

10-8 on Private Dwelling calls now resets all houses

Fixed E30 Officer unable to switch to turnout gear

Fixed fire hydrants along West Side Highway floating off the sidewalk in the street

Fixed being unable to return fire extinguisher to E30

Fixed a bug with the settings menu when pressing escape

Fixed being able to reach the top of the 11th floor fire call

Adjusted brightness of redirectional bar on some FDNY trucks

Fixed L66 outrigger visual issue

Textured all Q Sirens

Removed floating panel down the street from Squad 28

Fixed an issue where Squad 28 deck gun stops working

Fixed a residential not having entry stairs

Fixed any remaining fires that won’t go out

Fixed being unable to go First Person with Bunker Gear Battalion 5

Fixed issues with duplicate characters

Fixed all outrigger and bucket lights

Fixed Firehouse table collisions at 30 and 75

Fixed F1 Scenario menu being a yellow box

Fixed all Hydrants

Fixed rear flashing lights on E31 flashing too quickly

Fixed restricted RTS Camera movement around the Pier Fire

Fixed S28 baydoor being too wide

Fixed Squad 28 Kitchen Appliances

Fixed player moving forward before turning

Fixed an issue where it took several tries to return hoses on Engines

Fixed Rescue 9 not using sirens when responding

Fixed L74 getting stuck at offramp

Fixed steps of firehouse showing through wall at E78

Fixed all garage doors to be able to open with the radial menu

Fixed difficulty maneuvering Victorian Dwelling Stairs

Fixed No Doors and Windows on the Victorian in Manhattan

Fixed sporadic portable ladder movement

Added the ability to jump in First Person

Fixed Squad 28 deck gun not feeding off water supply

Fixed a Bitdefender issue

Fixed Quick Attack Nozzle still spraying without hose

Fixed duplicate emergency icons at bus fire

Fixed Rain coming through interiors

Fixed not being able to use First Person in Engine 31

Fixed missing sidewalk collisions at factory

Fixed 3rd floor apartment fire door

Fixed a see through wall/Fence at the warehouse

Fixed carrying dummy at Building 2 causing damage

Fixed Missing Station numbers on Midtown Firehouse

Fixed Engine 49 Halligan not returning

Removed option to pick up axes from under truck seats

Fixed an issue with returning some nozzles to their compartments

Fixed returning the quick attack line now will remove the nozzle instead of dropping it

Lowered brightness of roof cutting outline

Fixed an issue where L75 outriggers and ladder would move while the truck was responding

Fixed an issue where player was unable to grab halligan from E32

Synced pump compartments on Engines for multiplayer

Fixed issues with being able to equip the highrise pack from anywhere on the map

Fixed an issue with the tutorial tab in the main menu not being able to be clicked

Slowed down the speed of L68 spare outriggers

Fixed an issue player being unable to maneuver down private dwelling stairs

Fixed Driver of Squad 28 being unable to use turnout gear

Fixed Issue when on Tower Ladder at Pier Fire would teleport your character

Fixed Battalion 5, Division 4, and EMS Supervisor Headlights not turning on

Added Grill LEDs to B5, Division 4, and EMS Supervisor

Fixed EMS Character Carry Position

Fixed an issue where patient will float when giving them Tylenol

Fixed EMS Notepad Font

Fixed Ladder 68 Bugged Compartment Doors

Fixed Issues Entering and climbing stairs in Laundromat/Apartment Building

Fixed Doors in buildings with interiors

Fixed Engine 30 Spare Supply Line side object not being disabled when deploying hose

Fixed Engine 78 Supply Line side object not being disabled when deploying hose

Fixed Jaws of Life Material being see through

Fix Carrying EMS Bag Animation

Fixed Stretcher Push Animation adding IK

Added IK to Highrise Hosepack Carry giving a more realistic feel

Fixed physics on Rescue 9 allowing you to clip through the rear of the truck

Made Rear doors on Rescue 9 opened on start

Fixed Rescue 9 Q Siren not working in RTS Mode

Fixed Grabbing and Dropping stretcher not working

Fixed SCBA already being on for L74 Officer

Fixed No Tones going off for 47th Street Manhole Fire

Made popping audio of Manhole Fires louder

Removed fire audio from Laundromat Fire

Fixed many corner street lights sticking off of sidewalks in Manhattan

Fixed Squad 28 garage door being too wide

Fixed E30 L75 Garage Doors not being flush with the wall

Fixed Division 4 AI to work properly now

Fixed Ladder 57 Spawn points so characters do not spawn in coke machine

Fixed Units with duplicate scene lights

Fixed E32 Quick Attack Line and Supply line hose model not disappearing when deploying hose

Fixed Material on all GMC Sierra SUVs to look more realistic

Fixed all issues with units getting stuck at tunnel entrance of Central Park transverse entrances

Added a floor to second story of E30 L75 to prevent being able to see through the floor through the windows

Fixed missing/broken Car doors on burning cars in Parking Garage fire

Fixed Missing Door Icons on all doors

Fixed Nozzle return when returning quick attack line

Fixed Ladder 66 outriggers sinking through the ground
And oh so so much more…..

Hey everyone, just an update on progress towards release. The remaining critical issues are problematic because they only happen in the build and work perfectly fine in the editor. This is going to require some digging into and more extensive testing to figure out why issues that we have fixed in the editor, are only in the build. It makes no sense. That is where we are now. I am leaving to NYC for the weekend and coming back Tuesday to meet with some FDNY Personnel about potential plans in the future for VR implementation to be possibly used in drills. I will also be doing my usual buffing and stopping by firehouses. I had originally planned to take my PC with me to be able to work on the go but decided the risk of my PC being broken while traveling was way too high and if anything were to happen to it, it would severely delay the release of this update. I will be taking my Laptop to see if there are options for me to work over the cloud remotely.

So long story short, only a few game breaking issues remain, not a simple fix, need to dig into why the issues are only happening in the build and not in the editor. Will be gone for 5 days in NYC, not taking PC as its too risky to try to travel with and risk breaking it. Donut will be digging into the issues over the weekend. Our goal, as every year is to have the update ready for this year's Christmas sale. That is the goal! Stay tuned for further updates!

Thank you all for your patience again.

My steam people! I know our last update to you guys was in September. Before you guys read the below message. I sincerely want to apologize for not communicating efficiently in this community. The amount of negative feedback on this platform from reviews, to discussions really takes a toll on me mentally. So I haven't been keeping up to date with a lot of your comments and concerns in the discussions and instead my staff have been keeping me on the need to know. A lot of the things posted here can get really personal, hateful, and it really is discouraging at times. But besides that we have been hard at work and have an update for you guys!



Hey everyone! I wanted to give you all an update. I know so many of you are skeptical, frustrated, angry, disappointed, and many other verbs. Especially with my lack of communication with the community especially on our Steam Page. First of all this will be pretty lengthy so take a seat. I want to thank my Support team for doing an incredible job this month. I am not sure of the specifics of the stats but we have fixed over 250 (Two hundred and fifty) bugs since 0.7.7J. The game experience you will all have in 0.7.8 will be much smoother and stable than any update in the past. We are still in closed testing and making leaps of progress everyday. Every day new bugs are reported and are fixed but our main concern has been the game breaking issues, things that will completely ruin your experience and make you want to throw your PC out a window, and oh boy did we run into those.

Just an example of some of the issues we ran into and got stuck on, some for weeks even. Things that worked perfectly and just broke and ceased to work. Fires just stopped working and wouldn't be extinguished by water causing us to have to update the code to be more reliable, Police cars and EMS vehicles spawning system broke preventing you from being able to drive the vehicles. Tower Ladder Nozzles and Deck guns broke. Item pick up broke. I could go on and on. These are things we did not foresee but happened and caused delays in the development of not just Montgomery County but the huge update we plan on releasing very soon, like in the next week or two. Maybe even sooner, I cannot tell you guys anything concrete because who knows if anything major will break next, but we are at a point now in testing where these game breaking bugs have been weeded out and now we are just left with a list of mostly cosmetic and minor issues. Things that wont break your game and prevent you from enjoying the game. In the past we approached this process much differently.

We didn't have a support team before who goes out of there way and dedicates hours of their day to testing, writing bug reports, breaking the game, helping others with their issues, and helping me get this project done. Before we would just hope that things worked the way they should and let all our players test, and the results were a lot of complaining, frustration, etc. Now that we have a dedicated testing team, we are able to find all these bugs before our player base finds them and allows us to not be overwhelmed with issues and reports when we put an update out on the staging branch or public branch. We are hard at work everyday, just because I haven't posted much in here does not mean things are not progressing. Many people can attest to that.

Our game plan as of a few days ago, we decided we will be releasing an update on all branches which will include the hundreds of bug fixes and improvements for the Manhattan and Fire Academy maps. The Fire Academy will also include all of the new Montgomery County vehicles for you all to become familiar with while we move into the next stage which is VIP Montgomery County Map testing. We will be polishing that and making sure it is ready for you guys. Support can tell you it still needs some work but so many of you are convinced that we dropped Manhattan for this new map which is not true at all. In fact 90% of the bugs we have fixed come from the original maps.

We are down to like 3 game breaking bugs, being 1. if you have more than 5 vehicles spawned, doors and compartments start to dissapear off of trucks preventing you from accessing the items inside, 2. When exiting a vehicle you can still control it, and 3 some item positioning on the new firefighter model causing issues. Once we get those figured out which shouldn't take too much longer, we will be golden for a release of 0.7.8 FINALLY which will address so many issues you all have been having. I hope you all can forgive my absence in the community, but I have not been absent from developing. I promise you guys once this update is released, it will hopefully change a lot of people's perceptions on the game and on me. It has taken so long because I do not want to make the same mistakes I did in the past by releasing broken updates without testing thoroughly and man, this update has been tested thoroughly for weeks so it will be a much better and more stable experience than any update we have put out in the past. If you have any other questions or concerns please contact me or a staff member and I will do my best to get back to you ASAP!

Love all you guys, even the haters!

*Apologize for the low quality from the livestream*

https://youtu.be/tegOBRF7OOw

Thanks to everyone who watched the livestream! September is looking like the month for the first Montgomery County Release with how smooth this livestream went.

Welcome to Montgomery County, a small rural area located in Upstate New York. Run a volunteer Fire Department, a sheriff's department and keep the citizens of Montgomery County safe. EmergeNYC Montgomery County free update coming soon. Visit our brand new website for more info: https://www.emergenyc.net/