It's time to step into a new role - the Flashing Lights: Department of Transportation DLC is OUT NOW!
Help repair vehicles at busy roadsides, install crucial roadside guardrails, repair traffic lights and clear life-threatening debris from the road before disaster strikes.
This DLC includes 5 new vehicles, 5 new missions types, 5 new department locations, and a selection of new playable characters.
Flashing Lights: Department of Transportation is now available to purchase either separately or via the Chief Edition. The Chief Edition includes the base game plus all DLC, with an additional 10% discount. This is a 'complete the set' bundle, so if you already own the base game or some of the DLC you can still make use of the Chief Edition to pick up the rest of the DLC with the additional 10% off!
As previously revealed, we are hard at work on the next set of updates for the base game. Take a read of the previous announcement for details.
- New vehicles: DOT Tow Truck; F600 VMS; BUCK VMS; BUCK Flatbed; DOT BUCK Utility
- New playable DOT characters (2 male & 2 female)
- DOT callout: "Vehicle blocking driveway" [ID 5000]
- DOT callout: "Debris cleanup required" [ID 5001]
- DOT callout: "Signal Outage Reported" [ID 5002]
- DOT callout: "Roadside Assist Required" [ID 5003]
- DOT callout: "Guardrail Installation Required" [ID 5004]
- Construction barrel and barrel with light available in DOT vehicle trunk
- Guardrail and spare tires available at DOT department building garages, to use in missions
- DOT vehicles have storage for items as well as any debris or used tires etc. These will store as trash to be discarded later. Also added slots for guardrail and spare tires
- Garbage container at station can be used to discard any items
We have also released a small patch for the base game which includes the ability for all departments to call for an AI tow truck, rather than just police.
For those of you who make and/or play mods, good news: we've added texture mod support for the minimap and the MDT.
New
- Texture mod support added for Minimap and MDT (more info for modders can be found here.)
- Police tow truck model updated (replaced old tow truck)
- AI tow truck pick up can now be called by all departments (was limited to police only)
- NPC pickup tow truck now uses DOT livery and character instead of PD
- DOT department buildings
Fixes
- Audio issues in vehicle menu
- Players holding items multiplayer sync
- Crashed van prop in mission editor had camera zoom issue
- Suspects now shoot as intended and guns now show up when frisking
- Material fixes for fences in suburbs
- Terrain fixes in Beach Town
- Towed cars flew up when in transport
- Fixed issue with pedestrian navigation in Port area
- Missions info prompt could get stuck and not show any info for any missions