Woltep

I have an issue I responded the Swift Water Rescue to a person drowning and the people got out of the car but they couldnt get in the water and the guy died.

One of the three persons in the car is a rescue swimmer. He can enter the water ;-)

I updated the first post with some tips and tricks:

General tips and tricks:

• Vehicles can be towed by the police. Just select a police officer and click on the vehicle.
  
• You can dispatch units either with the button or by clicking on a free area anywhere on the map with the left mouse button.
  
• The "shift" key changes the priority of some commands. For example it helps you picking up the valve and entering the DLK.
  
• You can also transport uninjured people in the RTW.
  
• If you don`t manage it to finish an event look for objects or persons on the map that have to be transported.
  
• Rediricting the traffic works best on streets with multiple lanes in each direction. The end of the redirection should be near the orignal path of the cars redirected. Othewise they will delete themselves.
  
• The stations Tiergarten and Mitte (BF, FF) arrive at first on the scene in most areas of the map.
  
• In ERS Berlin you have only a limited amount of water and air. Keep that in mind!
  
• When a homicide occurs it is really important to secure evidence. Especially weapons!
  
• When confronted with a hazmat situation try first to find the source of contamination and seal it.
  
• The doctors car automatically escorts the ambulance to the nearest hospital. Just enter the RTW with the doctor and then send both units home with the "Back to Base" button.
  
• Animals can be transported in the KLEF. Firemen can pick up dead animals.
  
• In the mod directory XML/bfreeplay.xml you can find a file where you can change the frequency of events, the ingame time and the weather.
  

Vehicle names and their meaning

VUKW Traffic Control

EWA Patrol car

FUSTW Unmarked Patrol Car

NEF Doctors Car

RTW Ambulance

LHF Fire Engine

TLF Pumper

ELW Batallion Chief

DLK Ladder

DEKON P Hazardous Materials Squad

KLEF Light Equipment Truck

GRUKW Group carrier

WRW Swift Water Rescue

KRIKW Crime Scene Investigation

ERKKW Hazmat Detection

PKW Car

FWK Rescue Crane

Since some of you guys have a problem with the vehicle names - here is a list.

<string name="STR_EN_TOOLTIP_VUKW">Traffic Control</string>

<string name="STR_EN_TOOLTIP_EWA">Patrol car</string>

<string name="STR_EN_TOOLTIP_ZSTW">Unmarked Patrol Car</string>

<string name="STR_EN_TOOLTIP_NEF">Doctors Car</string>

<string name="STR_EN_TOOLTIP_RTW">Ambulance</string>

<string name="STR_EN_TOOLTIP_LHF">Fire Engine</string>

<string name="STR_EN_TOOLTIP_TLF">Pumper</string>

<string name="STR_EN_TOOLTIP_ELW">Batallion Chief </string>

<string name="STR_EN_TOOLTIP_DLK">Ladder</string>

<string name="STR_EN_TOOLTIP_DEKON">Hazardous Materials Squad</string>

<string name="STR_EN_TOOLTIP_KLEF">Light Equipment Truck</string>

<string name="STR_EN_TOOLTIP_GRUKW">Group carrier</string>

<string name="STR_EN_TOOLTIP_WRW">Swift Water Rescue</string>

<string name="STR_EN_TOOLTIP_KRIKW">Crime Scene Investigation</string>

<string name="STR_EN_TOOLTIP_ABC">Hazmat Detection</string>

<string name="STR_EN_TOOLTIP_PKW">Car</string>

<string name="STR_EN_TOOLTIP_FWK">Rescue Crane</string>

<string name="STR_EN_CLOSESTEWA">Selects the closest available patrol car</string>

This text also appears when you hover your mouse over the names,

The KLEF can transport animals.

Did you start the updater with administrator rights?

The mod does not work for me, im running 911-First Responders, I AM launching through the ELS Berlin shortcut, the shortcut then says the mod is upto date and i start the game...

Once loaded its like:

Mine looks the same =). That IS the ERS Main menu. Just click on ERS Berlin and start the first or second mission.

For all the guys who have the ERS main menu in normal mode

DO NOT LAUNCH YOUR EMERGENCY LIKE YOU DID BEFORE.

START EM VIA THE ERS LAUNCHER WHETHER YOU WANT TO PLAY ERS OR NOT.

Choose between ERS Berlin and Emergency 4 standard version there!!

It should work with all versions of Emergency including 911FR

Dear Community,

after a long period of waiting, we are now ready! We publish the community version of ERS Berlin today. We received a lot of feedback and fair comments after showing a first playable version of our modification on four game stations from 5. till. 12. June 2010 at the Interschutz in Leipzig. In the last few month a lot of work was done to achieve an attractive and as much as possible bug free version for the community release. On September 24. 2010 a limited beta test was started, which revealed a lot of bugs that we fixed afterwards. I will use this place to thank again all beta testers for the invested work! After some debugging sessions in the last few days our Updater and load balance system was finished and tested positive, so that we are ready to rumble.

You can download the setup file of the Updater here:

http://s.ers-berlin.de/67 (Server: ftwebsite.de)

The Updater carries about the download and installation of our modification and keeps it up-to-date. The necessary steps should be self-explanatory

You can use the following threads in case of questions and remarks:

Allgemeine Diskussion / General discussion

Technischer Support / Technical support

Support - Spielinhalte / Game content

Technische FAQ / Technical FAQ

We wish a lot of fun with ERS Berlin!

Representative for the whole ERS team I want to thank all involved people, that made this modification possible! Certainly I have to appreciate the team members themselves, which immolated a lot of leisure time for this project and made it that, what it is today.

Have fun guys ;-)

Yeah...but he also says that there may not be a workaround for some strange assignment error in the engine :/

The problem seems to be that EM4 can only handle a limited amount of prototypes loaded at the same time.

In ERS we pushed it to the limit - so sometimes when you play long enough and call too many units the game crashes :-(.

There is still quite allot of vehicles to come guys and a good few scripts and more equipment.. This will still be a little while. The beta still has at least 30 cars left to add.

No. Not every vehicle will be added to the game. We already have too many prototypes in game. Some vehicles are planned only for missions (there will be no missions in 1.0 )

Our update system [german version]

Regards

Woltep

Ok, just wondering why they weren't shown...

You can see some of them on our homepage.

When released will the betatesters get the full version throuh the uppdater?

Probably yes.

Good news:

ERS Berlin will be released in the first quarter of 2011.

Right now we have enough beta testers.

Yeah..the freeplay mode is completely new and based on a MissionScript like in RTS.

If you have applied kow long time is it befor you are a part of the "closed" group?

I honestly don`t know

At intershuzts i think they said that it will be out within 3 months of then. Did they mean beta or not?

Beta

Yes, for a large group of people. Basically everyone who wants to and has the technical understanding to work with our beta tools. Everyone who wants to be a beta tester has to apply and then gets access to an internal forum with further information and downloads.

What's an Open Beta version?

Wikipedia.org :

"Open and closed beta

Developers release either a closed beta or an open beta; closed beta versions are released to a select group of individuals for a user test, while open betas are to a larger community group, usually the general public. The testers report any bugs that they found and sometimes minor features they would like to see in the final version"

Official "Emergency and Rescue Simulation Berlin" topic

http://www.ers-berlin.de

Features:

* New missionscript-based freeplay mode

* New map

* New vehicles

* New GUI (General User Interface)

* Multilanguage (german / english)

You can download the mod here

Okay, let's go through this step by step:

1. Download the setup.

2. Run the setup, you do NOT need to install this in your Emergency / 911 game folder, just let it install where it wants to.

3. Once that's done, run the "ERS starten" program. You find this either on your desktop, start menu or under C:/program files/ERS Berlin. A prompt will open, where you can select either ERS Berlin, or regular Emergency 4. It will tell you that the mod hasn't been downloaded yet, and ask you if you want to download it.

4. Wait for the download to finish.

5a. If you're running EM4, you can now click "Start Game" in the same prompt used to download it.

5b: If you're using 911: FR, it seems that this won't work. Start the game the normal way, then go to "Mods" and activate it like any other mod.

Screenshots:

Editor:

In Game:

The Team

3D:

-Stormi

-DerLukas

-NNico

-EmFreaky

-Apex

Support:

-Chidea

2D & Map:

-David

Persons:

-Walter

Scripting:

-Woltep

-Bass-Ti

Web:

-Andreas

Technical Support:

-Majen

Press Fotos:

-Berlin Firefighter

General tips and tricks:

• Vehicles can be towed by the police. Just select a police officer and click on the vehicle.
  
• You can dispatch units either with the button or by clicking on a free area anywhere on the map with the left mouse button.
  
• The "shift" key changes the priority of some commands. For example it helps you picking up the valve and entering the DLK.
  
• You can also transport uninjured people in the RTW.
  
• If you don`t manage it to finish an event look for objects or persons on the map that have to be transported.
  
• Rediricting the traffic works best on streets with multiple lanes in each direction. The end of the redirection should be near the orignal path of the cars redirected. Othewise they will delete themselves.
  
• The stations Tiergarten and Mitte (BF, FF) arrive at first on the scene in most areas of the map.
  
• In ERS Berlin you have only a limited amount of water and air. Keep that in mind!
  
• When a homicide occurs it is really important to secure evidence. Especially weapons!
  
• When confronted with a hazmat situation try first to find the source of contamination and seal it.
  
• The doctors car automatically escorts the ambulance to the nearest hospital. Just enter the RTW with the doctor and then send both units home with the "Back to Base" button.
  
• Animals can be transported in the KLEF. Firemen can pick up dead animals.
  
• In the mod directory XML/bfreeplay.xml you can find a file where you can change the frequency of events, the ingame time and the weather.
  

Vehicle names and their meaning

VUKW Traffic Control

EWA Patrol car

FUSTW Unmarked Patrol Car

NEF Doctors Car

RTW Ambulance

LHF Fire Engine

TLF Pumper

ELW Batallion Chief

DLK Ladder

DEKON P Hazardous Materials Squad

KLEF Light Equipment Truck

GRUKW Group carrier

WRW Swift Water Rescue

KRIKW Crime Scene Investigation

ERKKW Hazmat Detection

PKW Car

FWK Rescue Crane

This topic is free for general discussion and questions regarding the mod

Have you checked the unit.xml file for the boat?

The line "missions value" should contain any mission in which you want to use the boat.

Regards

Woltep

I beleve that SW stands for Station Wagon or the origional patrol car

No. SW stands for the german word "Sonderwagen", which means special vehicle and is a type of armored personnal carrier from the german police forces.

Nice submod btw.

Regards

Woltep

How about changing the actual red ambulance to this one?

Only some little model and skin changes would be needed.

That's interesting! Is that mod already out? Or is it possible to download the script what makes that possible? I need to test that by myself

I think the mod uses this script:

http://www.emergency-forum.de/thread.php?threadid=10823

But it has some bugs. Civil cars near an emergency vehicle try to drive to a position on the right in front of the car (vector). If this position is on the sidewalk everything looks good and works well. But for example if this position is behind a crash barrier the civil car will search a position, where it can get behind the crash barrier and drive that way. It looks unrealistic. Also some civil cars get stuck in objects on the sidewalk and can´t keep on driving.

But try it yourself

Regards,

Woltep

I like the new fbi units =)

Hoppah, did you ever plan to convert some of the em3 la mod missions to em4 ?

Ground texture & scripts (apart from some small changes) should work in EM 4

I loved the "protect the president" mission

Regards,

Woltep

I've suggested them before but here are my major suggestions in one place:

-replace boat unit with a Swift Water Rescue truck(either with the boat on top or on a trailer, using the script. Of course would require a new boat too)

- replace the crane with a heavy rescue ( the back of the unit does rotate so it would be like the crane with the boom facing backward)

- USFS firefighters in hotshot gear

-LAX firefighters in ARFF gear

-Specialized hazmat firefighters(decon/ medical/ and fire control, maybe different protection level suits, and SWAT in hazmat gear?)

-Firefighters in water rescue gear which can move fast on land and swim out to rescue but not dive (would look a lot like USAR firefighters...probably not possible)

-A reset script for the trailers behind the fire station

I really like the idea of putting heavy rescue 56 in the mod.

Here is are some pictures: 1

2

I personally thing the yellow faun crane doesn´t fit in the LA mod.

I also propose to give swat units the possibility to drop down from helicopter.

I have already made a script for it (which can be downloaded on my homepage and does not have the bug with the THW bag). So it would not be much work to bring that feature in the la mod.

Regards

Woltep

Yeah, its ok if you do some changes.

The script changed for the mp5 would also be a real cool thing ;-)

edit: by the way: the charger looks great!