Hey Role Players,

Welcome to Update 0.1

We’re incredibly excited to show off the work, that we have been doing for the past few months, please enjoy this long list of what is now at your hands.

Update 0.1 - Patch Notes

Animations Overhaul

All first person animations have, received a entire new look with the new implementation of "ALS" Advanced Locomotion System players can now see there full body within FP. Also with full foot and leg tracking for that extra touch of realism. Also Every single TP animation has been taken out and replaced with ALS, as well as some custom animations for our weapon system to work smoothly along side.

Sound

All Third Person and First Person gun sounds have been redone alongside with a complete overhaul of the sound system, with ambient noise and VoIP for player, proximity VoIP will be added in as apart of a weekly update after release of 0.1.

Map

Alongside the new update, the team has put together a new map (temporary) until the next major update of 0.2 in the upcoming maps were we will be releasing of first full release game, map.

Vehicles

Drivable cars have been added into CivilContract but due to some implications on physics related crashes we have decided to wait until one of the upcoming weekly updates to give us some extra time to fix these vehicles related crashes.

UI

With 0.1 comes the new main menu, and UI overhaul in-game and out of game, some examples of where you will find our new widgets are, NPC stores and the main menu.

Dedicated Servers

From the release of 0.1 CivilContract will be only run on Dedicated Servers.
The partnered hosting company "Nitrado" is the only place where users will be able to get a server from, but not to worry our friends over at Nitrado will take good care of you, with there more than fair prices and great customer support you will feel like a "GOD" with your server, having full control over everything. (The first few weeks of launch of 0.1 will be official servers only.)

General Development/Back End

Through out the development of the 0.1 update, the development team has taken drastic changes to the way the games being coded, moving to forms of C++ and blueprint to leave the team with more options and flexibility when it comes to further development. As well as a complete rework of the player controller, and weapon system/inventory system.

Patch Changelist

Performance

Level streaming to, keep a lower load on the PC.
Added More LODS for in-game props/assets.
Please note: we have many aspects of optimization still to come. And more work will be done in the future as we progress with the development of CivilContract.

GENERAL GAMEPLAY

Reworked: NPC stores, with new UI and easier interaction.
Added: High end clothing store.
Added: Low end clothing store.
Added: NPC run gun store.
Added: Police job, with ability to use interactions on players.
Added: Hotel/Apartment for players to own a house/room.
Added: Dedicated servers.
Added: Better quality insurance with joining servers.
Added: VoIP chat.
Removed: Text chat temporary. (Will return in a hotfix soon)
Added: 2 types of guns.
Added: New weapon system.
Added: Weapon holsters in inventory.
Added: Player name tags, using new system. (Screen Space widgets)
Added: Vehicles. (Will be adding new vehicles in weekly/fortnightly.
Added: Increased server slots to 32. (Will be going up to 120 eventually, this is mainly for stress testing.)
Added: Police tasers, used to stop suspects and arrest them.
Added: Car shop/Dealership, used for purchasing vehicles.
Added: ATM'S for players to easily manage there economy and prevent losing too much when they die.
Added: Ability to remove magazine from gun, and amount of ammo per mag.
Added: Ability to put rifles on your back (holster.)
Added: Police database system, MDT. (So police can see what players are wanted and player's prior offences.)
Added: New map. (temporary)
Added: Ragdoll system
Removed: Cellphone to be reworked in future updates.
Added: New models/Art Assets.

SFX

Added: New ambiance to the new map. (Birds, Wind, Traffic, Talking)
Added: Vehicles. (Engine Idle, Shifting gears, Gas down, Break, Crashing)
Added: MDT, (Police Computer) Added new beeps for when getting a result on a suspect.
Added: Inventory, Dropping gear or equipping gear new sound effect.
Added: Death Sounds.
Added: Car interaction, Indicators and headlights switch sound added.
Added: Main Menu, background music.

ANIMATIONS

Added: Turn in place, character animations.
Added: New FP and TP camera.
Added: New Boom stick for cameras, to prevent clipping with close interiors.
Added: Walking/Jogging/Running both for all stance types, new animations.
Added: Weapon movement and idle animations for secondary weapons.
Added: Weapon movement and idle animations for primary weapons.
Added: Crouching with weapon animations, and no weapons.
Added: Head rotation when free-looking with "left_alt" key.
Added: Focus mode animation, when holding right trigger.
Added: Ragdoll when tazed or when killed.
Added: Animation for standing up out of ragdoll state.
Added: Handcuffing animations and unhandcuffing animations.
Added: Leaning animations for when running/jogging and turning.
Added: Abrupt stopping of movement animations.
Added: Reload animations for all stances for rifle.
Added: Reload animations for all stances for pistol.
Added: Driving steering arms FP animations. (Coming soon with driving patch)
Added: Dragging handcuffed person animation.
Added: Foot tracking for all surface types.
Added: Equipping items and equipping items animations.
Added: Crouching stance turn in place animations.

HUD/UI

Added: The in-game HUD is now minimal, with your wallet displayed in the inventory menu.
Added: Complete inventory UI rework. (Subject to change only temporary)
Added: Complete new Main Menu UI rework, with multiple pages.
Added: New NPC store menus, displaying shop inventory and player inventory.
Added: ATM UI redone completely.
Added: Police laptop UI menu completed.
Added: New respawn screen.
Added: Added hotel NPC store ui.
Added: Police equipment store UI rework.
Added: Player name tags above heads.
Added: VoIP indicator, showing if player is talking.
Added: Vehicles 3D Interaction system using spacial screen widgets.
Added: Startup splash images/videos. (Startup Credits)
Added: Police desktop UI redone.
Added: Moved quick-slots to inside inventory, to keep minimal look.
Added: On server browser, ping indication and map image next to server name.
Added: Police ticket/fine system UI improved.

BUG FIXES

Fixed: Most overlapping UI issues.
Fixed: Issues related to picking up items.
Fixed: Multiple issues with inventory items not moving, or being responsive.
Fixed: Bugs related to police interaction menu.
Fixed: Jail time counter fixed.
Fixed: Officers screen when player refused screen UI.
Fixed: Improved pause/escape menu.
Fixed: Inventory icons redone.
Fixed: All animation hitching with movement
Fixed: Weapon holstering animations.
Fixed: Weapon unholstering animations.
Fixed: Weapons fire sound playing more than once when using an auto-clicker.
Fixed: Handcuffing sound effect when, being cuffed or cuffing other players.
Fixed: Not enough money when purchasing items sound effect.
Fixed: ATM withdrawing and depositing money.
Fixed: Foot steps sounds bugging out on certain materials.
Fixed: Gun impact sounds.
Fixed: Weapon reload sound to the animations speed.
Fixed: Hover-over and click UI buttons sound effects.
Fixed: Hitching with movement on high ping.

Visual Improvements

[PP] effect to glow when looking over items to, help the player know witch item they are concentrating on. Changed lighting main level using, TrueSky to help with making the world feel more alive, as well as adding new volumetric FOG alongside the TrueSky weather system, such as rain and thunder.
Changed from static built lighting to dynamic lighting, to allow the development to build larger levels and not have to worry about large .builtdata files, making it easier for level loading and server hosting.
Improved the overall look of inside building by using PP to darken the rooms.
Added some new lighting effects in the apartments to make it look like light is coming into the room.
Setup a illusion material for false interiors of buildings that are not enterable.

Known Issues

Weapon some times, doesn't holster correctly. (Can be fixed by unholstering and reholstering)- We are working on a hotfix for this.
VoIP is not 3d only 2d, a hotfix will be released for this as well.
Joining a server sometimes it will kick you if your ping is too high just simply restart the game and rejoin, the issue will be solved. (Will be adding prompts and warnings to tell the user why they were kicked).
Vehicles, some times break after a prolonged time with on server restart. (Hotfix will come soon, this is due to how the physics are handled within the game.)

Currently Working On for 2.0 and weekly updates in the meantime. (in no specific order)

New player character with an advanced customization menu (Sneak Peak).

Please read

The 0.1 release of the game, is not meant to be amazing this update is mainly a needed steppingstone for the developers to get the game to were we want it to be for the next major updates being. (0.2 & 0.3).

Where to next?
Thank you so much for your continued support over our Early Access. We’re already hard at work on Update 0.2 - working over a huge number of bug fixes, new features, new vehicles (and vehicle types) and many of the things we’ve listed above.

Cheers,
CapitalGamingRP Studios