Patch Notes

What's New

• Preset forms for common issues: RDM, VDM, combat logging, cheating, being stuck, vehicle problems, bugs, compensation and store purchases
• Attach a clip link to your report. Medal clips play right inside it
• Look back at your closed reports for two weeks to read how they were resolved, with a "Still need help?" button to start a new one
• Half written replies are kept, even if you close the panel or relog
• Staff can send you a guidebook page or a location as a button in their reply. Locations show a small map of the spot, and one click sets the waypoint
• Push-to-talk keeps working while the panel is open, except while you're typing in a text box
• An optional sound when staff pick up or reply to your report

The guidebook has been rebuilt in-house and replaces the old one. It opens the same way, with F9 or /help, and every guide and help point carries over.

• Help points are now listed by name on the city map, under Services
• Staff can link you straight to a guidebook page from a report reply, and your report comes back when you close the guide

New Loading Screen

• The loading screen has been rebuilt. Announcements still come from Discord, now joined by event and notice promos, store sale cards, community leaderboards with your own rank, and a restart countdown
• A welcome back card shows your characters, dailies, unlocks and news since your last visit. Cash and bank now show your real balances, shortened so large amounts fit
• The restart countdown now uses each region's own restart times
• The bottom bar no longer sits under the game's own loading text

Character Select

• The loading screen now dissolves smoothly into character select
• Your cursor no longer goes missing on character select after the loading screen closes
• The MDT tablet no longer flashes up during the hand-off

Interactive Turf Map

The Map tab in the crew hub (F6) has been rebuilt. It loads faster, never shows blank squares while you pan, and you can click turfs to act on them.

• Every turf shows in its controlling crew's colour, with crests and names appearing as you zoom in. Your turfs, hot hoods and redzones each have their own borders, and a live redzone fight shows in red
• Highlight buttons for your turfs, hostile turfs, hot hoods and redzones fade everything else back
• A marker shows where you are, with a "Find me" button to jump to it
• Click a turf to see who controls it, your crew's influence, whether it's hostile, any hot hood bonus and redzone status. From there you can set a waypoint, open the turf on the Turfs page, or open the Redzones page
• If your map is set to dark mode, the hub map uses it too

Search and Filters on All Turfs

• Search by turf name or by crew. Typing a crew name finds every turf it controls, holds influence in, or has flagged hostile
• Filter to Unclaimed, Contested or Buffed turfs, each showing how many turfs it would leave
• Sort A to Z, by most contested, or by your crew's influence
• Press / to jump to the search and Escape to clear it. The search bar stays at the top while you scroll

Cleaner Redzone Fight Panels

• Fight panels take up about half the space: rules, pot and buttons on the left, every crew in a compact table on the right
• During sign-up each crew shows how many fighters have accepted and how many more it needs. While crews ready up you can see who is still waiting, and during a contest the crew holding the zone shows as Holding
• Live fights show each crew's capture progress, closest to taking the zone at the top. Your own crew is highlighted in your crew colour
• The sign-up details show the right fighter range for your server

Fixes

• Fixed crew names not resizing properly in the hub
• The redzone crews leaderboard no longer shows a broken kills line

Separate Timers for Free-for-alls and Sign-up Fights

• Free-for-all redzones start every 90 minutes on their own clock
• There is always a sign-up open. Once a crew has enough fighters accepted, everyone gets 10 minutes to join
• After a fight is picked, the next sign-up opens 45 minutes later for a solo crew or 30 minutes later for a fight between crews. Every two extra crews that signed up but weren't picked take 10 minutes off, down to a minimum of 10
• If every crew pulls out before sign-up closes, the fight isn't cancelled. The countdown pauses and picks up where it left off once a crew is back in
• The Redzones page in the crew hub shows both countdowns at the top

Sign-ups and Results

• Win results now go only to the crews that fought, including any crew that contested mid fight. Crews that missed the ready-up, or whose contest was called off, no longer get it. Sign-up alerts still go to every crew
• On NA and AL, crews can now sign up for or contest a redzone fight with 3 accepted fighters

MDT: Dispatch Board

• Send an announcement straight from the dispatch board, on the in-game and web MDT
• Sort units and filter them by rank
• Choose between stacked, side by side and units only layouts
• Department chips start with every department on and remember your choice per character

MDT: Terminal Sounds and Alerts

• A volume tray on the taskbar lets you switch each type of sound on or off, and the slider covers in-game pings too
• An alert bell keeps a feed of recent alerts, with a do not disturb mode
• A live TRACE chip shows while a trace is running
• The Internal Affairs logo shows in the MDT again

Dispatch and Roles

• The dispatch respond keybind is ignored while you are dead
• FTO, Medical FTO and LSPD Command Discord roles now sync with your in-game job

Submarine Air Warnings

Submarines carry their own air supply, and until now nothing told you how much was left. Your sub now warns everyone aboard as the air runs low.

• A heads-up at a quarter of a tank, while there's still time to surface
• An urgent alert with an alarm tone when it's nearly gone, and a repeating alarm once the air is out and you start suffocating
• As the air gets critical the screen blurs and pulses and the camera drifts, getting worse the closer you are to empty. Surfacing refills the tank and clears it

Fixes

• Air lasts the same with a crew aboard. Air was being used once for every person inside, so a passenger halved your time underwater. It now drains at one rate, and subs keep track of their air correctly after a server update
• Reviving inside an empty sub. Reviving someone inside a sub that had run out of air didn't take. A revive now sticks, but surface first or they'll start suffocating again

• Falling through the world. Walking out of a property could drop you through the map. Leaving now holds you in place until the ground is ready, then sets you down facing away from the door. This covers your own property, visiting someone else's, and being pulled out by an admin
• Stuck above the door. Homes with anything built over the entrance, like a porch roof, balcony or some canal houses, could set you down on the level above your door. You are now put down at your own front door
• Property shops. Changing only your shop's name from Manage Shop no longer fails with a "too far from the property" error. The menu now shows your current buy point, stock point and label

Rentals: Networked Spawning and Facelift

• Rentals from the airport desk, bike racks, jetski docks, Cayo and the prison lot are now spawned by the server, so everyone sees the same car
• If a rental fails to arrive you're told straight away and refunded, and rentals are cleaned up when you return them, log out or disconnect
• Rental plates are unique, and basejumping now always charges correctly
• Renting from a marker no longer fades your screen to black. The marker stays interactive after closing the menu, and the return prompt only appears when you're sitting in your own rental, so your personal car is never deleted by mistake
• The prison lot shows the correct return prompt and pricing

LS Customs and Garages

• Turbo kept at property garages. Storing a vehicle at a property garage could wipe its turbo, and customs would then sell it to you again. Your turbo now stays fitted
• Performance upgrades. Some vehicles listed a top upgrade level they couldn't take, so buying it charged you and applied nothing. Upgrade lists now only show levels your vehicle can fit, and if an upgrade can't be fitted you're told and not charged
• Extras stay visible. Previewing some body mods hid the vehicle's extras for good. They now come back, as long as the vehicle isn't damaged
• Pearlescent kept. Picking a primary or secondary colour no longer wipes your pearlescent
• Replacement test drives. Test driving a replacement vehicle from a garage no longer fails with "Failed to start test drive bucket"

Handling and Sounds

• Handling has been reworked on a batch of vehicles, including the Dice, Emerus, Kisai RS, Meteor, Nobile and Tokage
• Updated engine sounds for a number of vehicles

• Any truck can finish. If your truck is written off or swapped mid run, another truck can bring the trailer in. Returning a rental mid run no longer ends the delivery
• Hand-ins at the bay. Container deliveries were being refused at the bay if the container handler was hired after the truck. Fixed, and a refused delivery now tells you something went wrong
• Busy depots. Jobs are no longer refused at random when another trucker is standing by the spawn rows, or at depots whose trailer rows sit far from the office
• Run again. You can start a second job straight after a delivery without returning the truck and hiring again
• Bring your own truck. Your own truck is now picked up anywhere within 150 metres of the depot office, instead of being refused with "bring your truck to the depot"

Drug Labs

• Lab upkeep is less demanding on EU and AL. Parts now roll for failure every 4 hours on every region, so an unrepaired lab takes around 64 hours to lose all five parts, up from around 32
• Control panel calibration is easier to control. Drag in any direction, scroll a gauge to step it, and hold Shift for fine tuning. Knobs are bigger, needles drift slower and pause after you touch them, the green band is wider and progress drains more slowly
• Calibration rounds now last 35 seconds as intended

Weed and Hemp

• Putting part of a stack of potted saplings into a trunk or storage no longer frees your hands. You keep carrying until the last one leaves your inventory
• Hemp fibres cost $300 at the Low Tier Shop, down from $500, with up to 200 per restock. The Mid Tier Shop now sells them too at $250, with up to 300 in stock on most restocks

What It Does

• Staff roles. Your ranks synced to Discord roles, removed automatically when someone leaves or changes rank
• Loyalty card roles for the card a customer holds, and a customer role for anyone who has ordered from you
• Business roles. A special role for the employees of a business or gang that's a good customer
• Staff list channel kept up to date by itself, however long your roster gets
• Slash commands. /status, /menu, /deals, /loyalty and /orders for customers, plus /customer, /sales and /mystats for staff

Good to Know

• Everything is optional and off until you switch it on. Roles and channels are picked by name from a searchable list
• A preview shows who would gain or lose a role before anything changes
• Command replies are only visible to you, customers only ever see their own info, and staff commands check your current rank in the Mainframe
• If your server had the old bot, it needs linking on the new page within 30 days. Your old setup doesn't carry over

• New CFX Public Stress Test #3 participation award, which unlocks an animated CFX Stress Test player card frame
• The CFX Stress Test #2 background now shows up for players who already had the achievement
• Animated player card frames now glow on arena member cards too

• Backpacks. Many newer bags weren't adding any carry capacity. Every bag and backpack has been re-checked and scales by size, with the largest backpacks and duffel bags reaching the 36kg limit. The bonus applies next time you change your bag or vest, or spawn in
• Redline Escalation. The mission no longer gets stuck on "locate the target vehicle"
• Boosting. The boosting app displays properly in light mode, and one contract vehicle spawn point has been moved
• Garbage job. One dumpster variant that had no collect option can now be collected from
• Starving while dead. You no longer starve over and over while you're dead
• Pillbox. Chairs at Pillbox that couldn't be sat on now work
• ID card. A hint above the card now shows which key closes it
• Server stability. Joining players are now held back until they have a real position, fixing a rare server freeze on login