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Just a couple of community updates that we have for you. The development itself is currently going great. We've also made our forums public and do have 2 threads that we'd like you to read upon just to get a better feeling of what our community is about. Community Introduction Thread & Economy Plans Monthly Community Newsletter - August 2024 As always, if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask them either here, on our forums or on our Discord!

And absolutely happy to be back as well

Well guys, we're back once again. This time with a heavily improved organization in our development team. At the moment we have 3 dedicated developers as well as 2 modellers working on the project and have been making some great strides at bringing this script up to date. We're currently still in development stage therefore we're not yet ready to reveal our Roleplay setting plans but are actively posting script sneak peaks as well as answering all of your questions on our Discord which you may join at this link: http://discord.ag-rp.org/ Additionally, we've posted some more up to date screenshots onto the main thread which you can find in the "Other" spoiler and will be actively posting development updates here, on our discord as well as our upcoming forum and we can't wait to share more with you guys! And last but not least, the plan for release is aimed towards the upcoming Winter. However, at this stage we can't really say if it'll be towards the end of 2024 or early 2025, we'll let you guys know about any release date plans when we're more confident about the script reaching it's final stage.

SERVER CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE THE CHEATING SITUATION HAS GOTTEN WAY OUT OF HAND AND WE DO NOT HAVE THE ENERGY NOR MANPOWER TO DEAL WITH THIS WE DO HOPE TO PUT IT BACK UP ONCE (AND IF) MTA:SA PATCHES THE LUA INJECTOR ISSUES, CHEERS

Update 1.3.3 !! Update going live on Friday, January 26 at 19:00 GMT+1 !! Bug Fixes Fixed local chat being opened if previous message ends with "y" button and enter gets pressed too quickly Fixed ALPR not shutting down after your own vehicle is destroyed Fixed "Enable Vehicle Shader" in /settings sometimes not triggering properly Fixed no Player <> Player Collision Chaos Effect Fixed Pay 'n' Spray displaying cost to Donators when it shouldn't have Fixed players being able to kill / damage each other after an event ends Fixed client-sided chaos effects staying active on a player after using /event leave Fixed player blips sometimes not being properly created (mostly the case with FD) Added a possible fix for the rare occurrence of "falling" at login screen Fixed an issue with Chaos effects "spikestrips", "explosive barrels", "road barriers" not streaming the objects in properly sometimes Added a possible fix for "Get Ramp'd" where players would get stuck into them (needs extensive testing!) General Improvements Greatly optimized how the walking peds are handled, we've had reports of improved FPS in local testing so hopefully that transfers to low end PC users Replaced LV North East Precinct map with a new one mapped by @WolfSchultz Completely replaced the old login songs with a set of new ones, we hope you'll love them as much as we do! Improved ped's fighting behavior (most noticable in street brawl) "Mexico" effect in Chaos now lasts for the entire round Updated "Spawn Rhino" Chaos effect to "Spawn Rhinos", it now spawns a random amount of Rhinos around the crook Flower, Vibrator, Dildo, Cane, Fire Extinguisher, Spraycan, Shovel, Bat, Nightstick, Golfclub are no longer deemed illegal Completely re-worked "trespassing" callout, it's not preset location based (167 locations in total) so that it actually feels like trespassing. Also added random outcomes to it as well Adjusted vehicle unlocks ranks to accommodate for the newly introduced models, see the full table of changes at the bottom of the changelog! Greatly reduced vehicle health loss for player vehicles on collisions Updated HPV1000 model (thanks @Majster), it's windshield no longer flickers upon light state changes and it now actually features department based "badges" Removed Dillimore's Station towing point as it was useless considering we already have one at the upper side of the town Updated TXDHack to fix the reverse lights that the new Merit uses as well as all the other Crown Vic police car mods (you can actually see the lines in them now when the lights are on) Updated Flint County Sheriff Department's vehicle spawn color based on the internal staff voting, it's full gray now Added a warning message once the mods are reset via SAPDFRMods for players that have "vehicle detail shaders" enabled Improved AI's turning with long vehicles (trucks, busses, limos, etc.) Busted now sets police vehicles colors & shaders based on the location they spawn in Removed Cheetah from the "Street Race in Progress" callout Re factored a ton of code to improve the overall script stability (over 3000 ineffective lines of code have been deleted!) Pulling injured peds out of their vehicles in the MVA callout now applies an injured animation to them Improved pedestrian DUI checks, they no longer "walk to a point" but act as if they're taking a breathalyzer test via random animation Removed the F3 backup menu as it was useless and nobody was truly using it /settings are now bound to the F3 button by default It's no longer possible to eject all of the peds from the vehicle by pressing "F" or "Enter" New Features Added a brand new "radial menu" which makes interactions a lot easier and quicker Completely reworked the pedestrian interactions and integrated into the new radial menu Added a "fast follow" button which will make the peds follow you with the sprint active Reworked traffic stops, they no longer use the markers but rather "click on vehicle" feature, in addition to that they also use the new radial menu making interactions smooth as butter Backup menu (B) has been moved to the new radial menu Right clicking on vehicle to call for towtrucks also brings the new radial menu MVA vehicle interaction has been updated to use the new radial menu Added a brand new police vehicle, Police Huntley, big props to @Majster for the outstanding work on the model! Replaced Unmarked Merit with a new marked Police Merit model, created by @Majster FBI Rancher has been replaced with a brand new model created by @Majster Added a brand new Bayside precinct map, now you can arrest peds there as well as use it's newly appointed vendor, thanks to @WolfSchultzfor the map! Implemented Discord Rich Presence feature Vehicle Rank Unlock Changes Vehicle - Old Rank - New Rank Police Ranger - Rank 5 (SLO/Corporal) > Rank 3 (POII/DSII) Police Huntley - Rank 6 (Sergeant I / Lieutenant) Police Merit - Rank 9 (Commander/Sheriff) > Rank 5 (SLO/Corporal) FBI Rancher > Rank 6 (Sergeant I / Lieutenant) > Rank 9 (Commander / Sheriff) Update Screenshots

A Roleplay setting that this community has truly needed for a long time! Finally something fresh and unique and I absolutely love playing on the server, keep it up guys!

Update 1.3.2 Bug Fixes Fixed the hole in the hood present in the Unmarked LV's model (thanks @Majster!) Peds can no longer be placed in the back of parked police vehicles Fixed exp rewards for towed vehicles Fixed ALPR text showing on top of your own vehicle if you activated it while entering the car Fixed AI transport not actually giving the money even though the UI showed it as so Fixed EXP render showing money reward even if there was no money reward (no more +0$) Fixed water level not being properly reset after it's Busted Chaos effect ends General Improvements Cuffed peds can no longer be killed to prevent other cops trolling arrests Reduced Pay 'n' Spray cost for Cheetah to 5$ as suggested by @TomAB Pay 'n' Spray now shows how much money it took from you after it fixes your vehicle in the chatbox Added Health pickups to all hospitals & FD spawn points (for the FD maps with interiors, look around the kitchen / cafeteria areas) Traffic Stop vehicles will now ignored traffic lights to prevent them blocking their pursuits Big Smoke's Crack Palace no longer has a big hole inside of it Christmas Christmas scripts are now enabled again! Make sure to visit the Christmas areas to listen to some music, relax and get some coffee from the vendors Get in the Christmas spirit by wearing the Santa Hat (/santahat) Santa will drop Christmas gifts in the form of exp & money rewards on a regular basis Enable snowfall & snow shader in /settings And last but not least, don't forget to fill your fellow officers with the snowballs by throwing snowballs at them with the "1" button! AI Overhauled AI spawning, now vehicles & ped sets will depend on the zones that they spawn in. (i.e Industrial will spawn Industrial vehicles, Grove St. will spawn Grove St. gang members, Airport will spawn vehicles such as busses, etc.) Greatly improved AI's braking distances, now it depends on where they're located at. I.e AI at the highway will brake much sooner than those inside the city areas driving slower Pursuit AI will no longer brake at just absolutely everything, they'll try to ignore other AI & players as much as they can to make pursuits somewhat more fun *Updated AI in ~50% of Los Santos, now they will drive faster than they used to (increase from ~30 km/h to ~60 km/h in many areas) * The initial plan was to cover entire Los Santos for this update, however we heavily underestimated the time that was required to actually update all of the nodes inside of the city. Instead of delaying the update for this reason alone we've decided to release it as it is for now and cover rest of the areas in the next week or two and drop it as a "silent" update for which we'll notify you in Discord whenever we update. San Fierro and Las Venturas will follow after.

New Milestone Reached! We've reached 50,000 registered accounts! As a big thank you to the community for reaching this milestone we've decided to double the exp rewards until next Saturday (July 22). We'd like to send a heartfelt thank you to all the members of the MTA:SA community for this amazing journey. In addition to that, in case you were wondering we're still alive and kicking and there have been multiple smaller updates pushed into the server through 2023 which we didn't announce anywhere else publicly other than our Discord server (mainly due to their small size). We did, however, recently introduce a "Busted Chaos" script to add a lot more fun to our popular Busted events which we host every Saturdays. We'd love to have you join us in one of these events and check it out! You may find more info on our Discord (link in OP) about these events. Kind regards, Advanced Gaming Management

Recently we've released a new version of our Busted gamemode which features the popular "Chaos Mod" in it. What the script does is it basically sends a random chaos effect every 30 seconds causing lots of mayhem in the Busted rounds. Here's a recording from our last 2 public events & 1 private test session from which I've taken the highlights out in case you're interested in seeing this gamemode in action: You're more than welcome to join us on these events which we host every Saturday evenings, simply join the SAPDFR Online server if you're interested.

Hey there guys, recently I've been making some compilations from the clips I recorded during the SAPDFR: Online Busted events which we host almost every Saturday so I figured I'd share them here: I'll probably make some more in the future, once I do I'll post 'em as well :). Hope you guys like them.

For those interested, we host BUSTED as well as other events almost every weekend, if you're interested please feel free to hop onto our Discord and you'll be notified in time when the next event is scheduled for. Here's a little video compilation our staff member HerrHelix has made from one of the events: Cheers.

New Flint County Sheriff's Department Map Showcase A little sneak peak of a new FCSD map that's coming to the server soon, credits go to our highly talented mapper @WolfSchultz

I've been lurking in your Discord for the last few days and have noticed that you guys have some interesting ideas going on. Best of luck with the project!

Update 1.3.1 is now live! We're thrilled to announce that 1.3.1 update has been released much sooner than we initially expected we would thanks to positive feedback we've got from our testers during the test session. This update completely revamps the callout system as mentioned in the post above and adds a lot more action for players across all in-game departments, the changelog is as follows: Bug fixes Shaders in the county side on vehicles should now properly work (the Bone County Sherrif on the back) The scoreboard should now properly calculate how many players it can display before a scrollbar appears MVA callout has been fixed, it had several errors Going in service with F4 will now properly say whether you're FD or EMT General improvements Renamed Angel Pine to Flint County Fixed in-game time sync Added over 80 new pre-set locations for multiple callouts (street brawl, street race, armed robbery, building fire, fire callouts) Experimental feature: we've taught the towtruck to rotate their vehicle when they spawn, so that they might find their way easier to their target. Resulting in much more reliability. If this properly works, we'll introduce it into every backup unit. New features Dispatch is now limited to departments Dispatch chat is hereby split into 2 categories: Global: all the calls and notifications are gathered here, from the entire server Department Name: LSPD, FCSD, etc are the department filtered notifications to keep you focussed on what's happening in your jurisdiction Even though this changelog is rather small, it's still a huge game changer for the overal experience of the server. Let us know what you think on Discord or here on the forums. We would love to hear your response!

Upcoming 1.3.1 Dispatch (Callout) Changes We have some major changes coming to the callout system for 1.3.1 and have explained everything in detail on our forums, so if you're interested make sure to have a read as this update is going to drastically change the gameplay (for the better) on the server once the update drops. Forum post link