New Patch just before the release of EMERGENCY 20



While we are celebrating the anniversary of the EMERGENCY series with the upcoming EMERGENCY 20, we have also developed a new Patch. Patch 4.0.1 contains numerous improvements and bugfixes for EMERGENCY 5, EMERGENCY 2016 and EMERGENCY 2017. The update will be delivered via Steam automatically.

Patchnotes:

Gameplay & GUI

• Fixed buildings in Cologne and Hamburg that were difficult for Firemen to enter
• Fixed rare issue with disappearing mouse cursor after curscene in the Oktoberfest event
• Improved interactions between diver and boat
• Collapsed buildings are now marked on the minimap
• Many small improvements to usability to make units more responsive

Graphics

• Wind turbines now turn the right way
• Fixed animation issues with the police dog handler
• Fixed off-center text in some loading screens

Multiplayer

• Compatibility with EMERGENCY 20 established
• Missing persons are now displayed better for clients
• Improved lighting of vehicles for clients
• Fixed rare issue where no treatment was possible after decontamination
• Improved stability of multiplayer server
• Fixed overlapping windows in the ending screens

World Builder

New Feature „Morph Component“: e.g. morphs „Mesh“ into „Tintable Mesh“

New dialogue to set map size when creating an empty map

Asset Browser

• Added searchable tags
• Added search function to the project section

Navigation Map Generator Tool

• Fixed crash when deleting a navigation-map in the Navigation Map Generator Tool
• Improved usability

Maps in write-protected projects can now be opened, but the user gets notified

Added warning in the log if there are holes in the ground map

Mesh Assets now support BGR-Colourst

„Save as Prefab“ can now overwrite files not in the EMERGENCY 5 project

Various smaller fixes and improvements

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Online Editor

• Improved project management [list]
• Fixed disconnects when importing a project
• It is no longer possible to open maps of currently inactive projects, since this could lead to terrain display problems
• When opening maps in write-protected projects we cut the connection tot he server for security reasons
• When opening write-protected maps or logging into an admin account the menu will appear red and a tool tip has been added
• Fixed issue where sometimes a new project would not show up in the clients project lists until the server was rebooted

Expanded project management

• Newly created project will be visible only to the user who created it
• Added "OwnerUserLogin", "RestrictedUserAccess", "ReadOnlyUserLogins" and "ReadWriteUserLogins" to manage project access for users

New map dialogue

• You can now create a new map based on the copy of an existing one in the online editor
• Added information to the dialogue when cloning a map

Improvements to asset management

• Asset modification dates internally saved in UTC will now be displayed correctly in local time
• Map assets can now be renamed by administrators
• Terrain assets are now handled by the online editor server
• Terrain source assets are now compressed
• Improved GUI when deleting assets

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Modding

„getLinks()“-problem solved

Patchable Mods: Mods can now be overwritten with newer versions