Update 1.0.6

Today Autobahn Police Simulator 3 receives an update to version 1.0.6! The biggest update so far includes many patches, various bugfixes, and some changes:

Changelog - Update 1.0.6

**Gameplay: **

• Tweaked car chase difficulty in mission “The Last Race”

• Updated MOT-checks to be more likely to be expired or shortly expired.

• Fast Travel is now blocked during “Roadblock” missions.

• Accident Sketches now show a road sketch to make it easier to place vehicles.

• Improved accuracy of the placed items in accident sketches.

• Tweaked sizes of smaller sketch objects in accident sketches.

• Tweaked placement of victims in mission “Danger of Explosion” to prevent cases in which the player can get stuck between rescued victims.

• Increased XP awarded for car chases.

• Increased probability for “Roadblock” missions to appear as radio calls.

• Time Of Day option is now available in the pause menu.

• Some rank tasks are now dependent on the current Time Of Day.

**Fixes: **

• Fixed a bug which could lead the Partner to stay in the car if you enter and exit the car to fast.

• Fixed various tutorial timings to prevent the player from getting soft locked if the tutorial is activated while the game is waiting for another task to be finished.

• Fixed a bug which caused the mission system to hang up if a mission was started at an unexpected time.

• Fixed a bug in “Traffic Control” missions which caused a soft lock if the player spams multiple buttons.

• Fixed a crash caused by the fire extinguisher in mission “Danger of Explosion”

• Fixed an issue which caused the accident photo mode to not be available in some cases.

• Fixed some disappearing subtitles in mission “Welcome To The Autobahn”

• Fixed the rank task requirement for “Broken Down Car” missions being triggered by just one done mission instead of the required number declared in the task.

• Fixed UI hint for Accident Sketch not disabled if a mission is canceled.

• Fixed some wrongly assigned voice overs in mission “Hold-up!”

• Fixed not being able to extinguish fires after restarting mission “Danger of Explosion”

• Fixed an issue preventing “Traffic Control” missions from being counted as completed after an arrest.

• Added missing Ui sounds to menus.

• Fixed an issue preventing the start of new missions in the mission board.

• Fixed random appearing dialogue icons on the map.

• Fixed center button in map menu does not center on the player.

• Fixed shooting dialogues being played after mission “Undercover Investigation” is finished.

• Fixed various colliders not being set up correctly for NPC’s in missions.

• Fixed some issues with the outro cutscene in mission “Danger of Explosion” if the player carries a victim.

• Fixed an issue with some evidence objects sometimes not spawning in “Procedural Accident” missions.

• Fixed wrong placement of donuts in the player characters hands.

• Fixed retry not possible in mission “Danger of Explosion”

• Fixed some UI bugs which caused unwanted line brakes.

• Added an extra reset to character and face animations in dialogues to prevent leaking animation states like open mouths or dialogue animations still being played after the dialogue.

• Fixed positioning of the logo on the police van.

• Fixed intuition overlay sometimes leaking into cutscenes.

• Fixed some cases where the save game did save mission information which it should not save.

• Fixed a problem with parking zones not appearing in “Road Block Missions”

**Improvements: **

• Improved the reset system for player and player vehicle in case of out of bounds occurrences.

• Separated various animators for humanoid characters to reduce the memory load of NPC’s.

• Replaced some State Machines checking for NPC speech topic updates with direct checks after certain gameplay events to reduce computation time.

• Improved camera handling for the player character.

• Tweaks to the player marker on the map should make the player standpoint more visible.

• Tweaked Fast Travel Point selection on map to make it easier to start a teleport.

• Markers for the locations of unique mission start points are now displayed for each unlocked mission.

• Updated vehicle animators to reduce needed computation time for lights.

• Added culling to off screen vehicle animators.

• Added Credits menu.

• Asset optimization for various world props.

• The sorting order of sketch objects in the accident sketch was revised. Now not yet correctly placed objects are always drawn on top.

• Improved audio levels to be more equal during dialogues.

• Added a save game check after loading a game to clear up accidentally saved data.

• Improved handling of needed characters to improve memory usage.

• Updated the animation and update system for the UI to reduce CPU usage.

• Optimized LOD settings for various assets.

• Added caching for some frequently accessed gameplay values to remove the number of required calculations.