Buckingham Palace: Content Update 6

Announcements Update Logs
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Additions

  • Christmas festive theming has been added to the map

  • Christmas advent calendar has been added, come back daily to claim new rewards.

    • You can claim your free item claims at the Vendor “Inventory” tab.
    • Upon completing 20 days you will be entered into the King Gamepass Raffle.

  • Added two new civilian jobs:

    • Bus Driver – Transport NPCs and players along pre-defined city routes and earn pay based on completed stops.
    • Taxi Driver – Pick up NPCs and players and drive them to requested destinations for monetary rewards.

  • Horse Carriage for the Monarch – A ceremonial, fully rideable carriage exclusive to the Monarch role.

  • Added a new flatbed tow truck to Met Operations 7.

    • Additional information about this addition to the division will be posted in the respective MPS Channels.

  • Added weapon skins feature to guns.

  • Added a throwable rock to civilian vendors.

  • CCTV System

    • Player-controlled allowing you to mark players who are illegally trespassing.
    • Allows users to monitor crime hotspots and general activity across the map.
    • Accessible by:
      • Metropolitan Police
      • Qualified Royal Guard
      • Royal Guard

  • Bodycam System – Certain roles now have access to a body-worn camera feed.

  • Drone System

    • Available to both Civilian roles and Metropolitan Police.
    • Drones can travel up to 1,000 studs away from the controller.
    • Drone jammers are available and will disrupt drones within a 200-stud radius.
    • All drones support IR and zoom modes for surveillance.

  • PM Election System – The Government can now formally run elections for the role of Prime Minister, allowing players to vote and participate in the political process.

  • New Experimental GPS Waypoint Style

    • In Settings, you can choose between:

      • Legacy – Classic red arrows that guide you across the map through obstacles.
      • Experimental – A new A* pathfinding system that generates blue beams across roadways for more accurate routing.
      • Disabled – Turn off GPS navigation entirely.

  • Added RMP No.2 Uniform.

Fixes & Improvements

  • Added a setting to change the Fanfare volume
  • LG/HG Medals now properly display on their respective uniforms.
  • Job Overhaul
    • All jobs now include a point-based rank progression system, rewarding activity and performance.
    • Parking Warden – You can now tow illegally parked vehicles to New Scotland Yard for payment.
    • Delivery Driver – Job mechanics have been reworked for improved better delivery experience.
  • Various miscellaneous fixes and optimizations.
  • Removed dynamic vehicle clamp pricing.
    • This change supports MO7’s expanded ability to seize vehicles with their new tow truck, which now carries a more consistent (and higher) fee.
  • Fixed Scythe
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Additional fixes have been deployed in new servers*

Hotfix 1:

  • Disabled snow temporarily
  • Fixed Advent Calendar issues
  • Reduced drone volume
  • Attempted to address floating ghost trees glitch

Hotfix 2:

  • Drones now have a nametag of the operator with their team color.
  • Volume slider added to settings for Drones
  • Drone restricted airspace offence added
  • Fixed Signal Jammer’s claim permissions
  • Fixed taxi gps sometimes appearing in the sky
  • Fixed flatbeds being unable to release vehicles
  • Fixed so you cannot respawn your vehicle while it’s being towed
  • Fixed BTP ticket checkers to work for bus passes
  • Fixed drones colliding with cars causing disruptions
  • Increased Tow drop off zone at NSY
  • Fixed network ownership of the tow winch breaking
  • Fixed vehicle orientation when winching
  • Fixed vehicle orientation to forcefully re-align on weld.
  • Fixed taxi contact to appear at the top of Contacts.
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Hotfix 3:

  • Fixed players still being able to put other players through walls with cuffs
  • Increased amount of Civilian vendors on the map by one
  • Nerfed all vehicle armours on MPS
    • MPS vehicle armour still remains stronger than the armour upgrade, but is far more balanced
  • Fixed LTAA: players put into custody as a result of LTAA no longer retain their team weapons/uniforms
  • Fixed new Landrover collisions
  • Fixed unanchored parts at Thomas Banking Group
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Hotfix 5

Major Changes

  • Increased height that you must fall from to take damage
  • Reduced vehicle health for supercars
    • We want to trial the basis that these cars are more like ‘glass cannons’ wherein they are really good for speed, but not as good for durability. We will continue monitoring this, particularly with pursuits.
  • Reverted back to pre-Christmas map
  • Fixed Status 0 Cooldown
  • Fixed being able to put players through walls
  • RG LTAA Detection will no longer apply in trainings / private servers
  • Added experimental performance mode
    • This is accessible in the in-game settings menu and requires a rejoin for the changes to come into effect. This doesn’t do too much just yet apart from some slight changes to lighting / effects, but some of our testers have experienced a +5 FPS boost with this enabled.
  • Completed some optimisation works
    • We have focused on builds and collisions - we have began to convert some builds into optimised meshes for performance, modified/disabled collisions on some objects, anchored everything that was unanchored, etcetera. The difference so far may be negligible though this will contribute overall to our push for performance.
  • Began trialling small vehicle physics change
    • We have modified vehicle physics for car-on-car collisions to hopefully reduce the issue with being launched by certain cars when they collide with you.

Miscellaneous Changes / Fixes

  • Granted MO8 Access to MPS Formals
  • Fixed MO7 TSG Helmet Cap/Helmet Colours
  • Fixed MO7 TSG DCmdr access to PSU Commander colour
  • Fixed MO8 IST Covert Belt
  • Fixed palace tablet tool being droppable
  • Fixed heist objectives breaking on occasion
  • Expanded abuse detection specifically with vehicles to further players
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