Lawcountry: 2023 Christmas Update

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:christmas_tree: Christmas Update

New Features

:christmas_tree: 2023 Christmas Event

Christmas has officially arrived in the state of Lawcountry. Here’s what you can do in this limited time event and what you can get with Christmas XP (CXP):

Activities

** :red_circle: Christmas Bingo!*

Every 8 minutes, a bingo round near Timothy Park, where the event is, will start! There must be at least 3 players for the round to begin.

Sit down in the chairs allotted to the bingo games, and a UI will appear in a FNAF styled menu. Hover your mouse over the arrow button at the bottom to toggle your bingo menu. Once an image is called on the screen, mark it on your card! 5 in a row, including the free spot, is a bingo! A button will appear on your screen when you have 5 in a row.

However, note that if you leave the seat at any time, you forfeit your round and can’t sit down until the next round! This is to prevent people from joining last second to win the game.

Rewards:

  • Winner: 60 CXP
  • Participation: 5 CXP

** :gift: Present Delivery**

Retrieve presents from Santa’s sleigh, and deliver it to houses and buildings around the map! Once you receive a present, a blip will appear on your map where you will need to delivery it. Place the gift down in the spot to finish the delivery. Once you deliver it, you are free to retrieve another gift and do it again!

3-5 CXP per delivery

** :santa: Gnome Hunting**

No, it isn’t actually gnome hunting. You aren’t shooting any gnomes today. However, there are 2 gnomes that wil appear in random spots around the map. If you find these gnomes, go up to them and hold down the associated prompt to receive your reward! Once you finish the prompt, it will disappear to another location. Note that the other Gnome B will NOT disappear if you find and complete the prompt of Gnome A. Only Gnome A will teleport.

50 CXP per gnome discovery

** :sparkles: REWARDS**

General Rewards

  • $10,000: 70 CXP
  • $25,000: 140 CXP
  • $50,000 - 260 CXP

Team XP

  • 75 XP: 90 CXP
  • 150 XP: 170 CXP

You do not need to be on the team to claim the XP

Clothing Market
All clothing items are 100 CXP each.

  • SLPD Class A Uniform (Red Candycane)
  • SLPD Class A Uniform (Green Candycane)
  • SLPD Class A Uniform (Red & Green Candycane)
  • Candy cane belt attachment

SPECIAL REWARDS

  • 2013 Konegseg Agoro R
  • Top Speed: 175 MPH
  • 0-60: 2.82s
  • Realistic Agera R Doors
  • 1400 CXP

All of these rewards are exclusive to this event. Once the event is over, they will no longer be obtainable! They will remain in your inventory forever, so don’t miss out!

  • Added global Christmas Event stats
  • Global CXP Leaderboard
  • There may be an award for the top 3 when the event ends :eyes:
  • Total Presents Delivered
  • Total Gnomes Delivered

:red_car: New Civilian Car Customizations

License Plate System

  • Every car you own now has a generated license plate number. You can change this license plate in the shop, toggle visibility for both your front and rear plates exclusively from each other, and change the background of the license plate!
  • Toggle Plate Visibility: $500
  • Text Change: $2,000
  • Background Change: $1,000

:blue_car: Secondary Color

  • Exclusive to certain vehicles that possess a valid second color
  • Change your car’s second color to a color of your choice!
  • $750

:wheel: Rim Color

  • You can now use the custom color picker used by the primary color selection to pick the rim color of your choosing!
  • $1,000

:bulb: Headlight Color

  • Change the color of your headlights to make your car stand out even more! Although, some colors may make visibility harder for the headlights. Choose wisely!
  • $1,250

Send your new car combos & customizations in #lc-gallery!

:PoliceBlue: :PoliceRed: New AI PD Callout: Active Shooter

Handle the shooting assailant! This assailant is armed with 1 of 4 weapons: G17, Desert Eagle, AR-15, or M4 Carbine. You must respond as quick as you can and take out (and hopefully arrest) the citizen!

Notes

  • The NPC wanders
  • Weapon damage from this AI is 80% reduced from actual player weapon damage amounts.
  • The active shooter will lock on and shoot nearby players
  • You can tase them or use a Riot Shield, your choice!
  • 20 XP for arresting

:PoliceRed: :PoliceBlue: Added Whelen V2V Sync ELS

This has been highly requested, and with the new client improvements noted later in this message, we took the opportunity to also implement this!

From now on, all ELS is synced across all vehicles, which means that the ELS patterns will flash the same way across all vehicles. This makes for more uniform/organized on-scene ELS! However, they will only sync to the same vehicles and same stage. ELS will not sync if a vehicle is a different vehicle from yours, or the same vehicle model (as yours) is on a different stage of ELS. Though, since there is only one stage of ELS in the SLPD vehicles currently, you won’t see this stage limitation much. Unfortunately, in real life and in-game, two different cars have different ELS packages, so they can not be synced.

You can read about the benefits of having synced ELS here

Improvements

We have heavily optimized and rewrote some core game scripts. As the game’s scripts become older, and our programmers’ scripting knowledge expands, it is necessary to rewrite certain things for the game so it performs at its best. You can find our changes below:

  • GUI handling is now on the client as opposed of the server. This should lead overall reduced server memory.

  • Wanted time GUI no longer depends on server to display accurate wanted time

  • Rewrote RadioHandler & CAD Manager scripts

  • Cars are now exclusively stored into ReplicatedStorage, as opposed of having 2 copies of each vehicle in ServerStorage and ReplicatedStorage (for server-client differences previously)

  • ALPR & Pursuit detection is now ran on the client

  • ELS is now handled on the client, which will lead to less laggier/slow patterns. This does not mean you can only see your pattern, you will still see everyone else’s pattern!

  • Rear belt attachments no longer float off the belt

  • Players can no longer jump when detained

  • Tazed players now stay on the ground for 7 seconds instead of 5 seconds

  • Tazed players will have a significant walkspeed debuff and can not jump for 8 seconds after being tazed

  • AI no longer do damage when tazed

  • AI no longer attack players that aren’t on a team with weapons

  • Streetlight callouts now spawn in a random fashion as opposed of having the same few ones every time (it wasn’t randomized before)

  • Added physical button for notifications with a callback (e.g. crew invitations), as opposed to clicking the notification. This naturally fixes the issue with trying to close the notification and it presses the notification.

  • Crew invites can no longer be spammed

  • Crew cuts now adjust automatically when players leave or get kicked

  • Trunk GUIs titles now reflect whether the vehicle has a trunk or frunk

  • Removed & refunded level 4 engine from the customization shop

  • Engine upgrades are now priced based on horsepower of the vehicle

  • Doors to the bank vault are now uncollidable so you can access the entrance of the bank vault. Bank robbery soon?

  • Updated credits frame

  • Made SLPD stage ELS slower tempo (since it’s ran on the client now, it naturally was faster than the server)

  • Spike strips and riot shield rank requirement decreased by 1 level

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed bug with ejecting players from seats
  • Fixed backend bug with popped tires not fully functioning
  • Fixed spamming error of missing handle in F9 logs
  • Fixed uncollidable windows at DMV spawn
  • Fixed bug where trash callout would count callout completion numerous times for badge
  • Fixed bug with CAD making inventory disappear
  • Fixed bug with callouts not properly being cleaned up after primary unit leaves
  • Fixed bug with tahoe not having a vehicle category
  • Fixed bug with running lights not turning on automatically
  • Fixed bug with hellcat charger not displaying some stats
  • Fixed bug where trash callouts wouldn’t spawn after a while
  • Fixed insignia for higher SLPD ranks (was off by 1)
  • Fixed bug where cars would duplicate in the garage after importing/exporting
  • Fixed bug with callsigns not being exclusive
  • Fixed bug with being able to walk while animating
  • Fixed bug with duplicate names in crew lists
  • Fixed bug where skip button would show when game was loaded
  • Fixed bug where players could not respawn even when not wanted
  • Fixed bug with calling emergency services
  • Fixed bug with 911 GT3RS parts being removed with interior and shiny windshield
  • Fixed bug with windows of Audi R8 not being blacked out
  • Fixed bug with streetlights staying on during a broken streetlight callout
  • Fixed bug where gas pump would not reset when players left while refueling
  • Fixed bug with duplicated servers on the Owned tab after changing the server code
  • Fixed bug with EA exclusive car only having one headlight
  • Fixed bug where some DOT cars could drive without gas
  • Fixed bug where players can drop tools
  • Fixed bug where register prompts would not show after being robbed
  • Fixed bug with blips not disappearing after leaving a RoLyft job
  • Fixed bug with blips not disappearing while finishing tasks in RoLyft Job
  • Fixed bug with RoLyft countdowns not showing
  • Fixed bug where colors would default to white in car customization
  • Fixed bug where players could buy their already engine customization
  • Fixed bug with license first and last name being mixed up
  • Fixed bug with passive mode remaining enabled when rejoining
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