rafaelmfernandez

Sorry I gotta jump in here at this point.

 

You say that you moved on to another version how ever a lot of your mods that come out have so many bugs to start with that instead of create patches, which you guys are finally are doing now, you come out with a whole new version.  I can give a pretty good account on how things have gone down with a few hit and misses.

 

First we had the NY mod which was a reskin of the LA units.  Things were pretty well done.

 

Then you guys did your own map which was the snow map and it had huge amount of bugs in it that it was mostly deemed unplayable.  From there you guys went on to the Manhattan project. 

 

Manhattan V1.0 again had bugs and to many was unplayable if I remember correctly.

 

Manhattan v2.0 I can't really remember anything from this one.

 

Manhattan v3.0 unplayable to practically anyone that did not have a high end computer... you guys finally came out with the SD version which was playable at the beginning but when you added a patch in to it for some reason everyone started to get a CTD after roughly 5 minutes of game play.

 

Now you are coming out with this which again I agree with MikeyPI it seems really pointless, good if you want to train your own members of your clan, which you said you do, but other than that like he said would crowed my mod folder if I decided to down load it.

 

But hey... up to you man.

I love how you say, "I gotta jump in here at this point"

Better if you didn't.

That is your own opinion.. you can either look at it the way you are looking at it, or look at it as we have not only released a mod, but several versions and updates. We are one of the few modding teams that ACTUALLY delivers. I change and move onto other versions because people want new product. No one wants to play the same mod everyday for the rest of their EM4 gaming time. Its like if they just made one Grand Theft Auto, shitty graphics etc. Same with us, we went along started shitty with NYC Submod as noob developers, now look at us. Delivering some of the most high quality product out there at this point. 

As for your comment on V3, it is our most stable version as of 3.0.5C. As long as you have a computer that can actually run the mod you won't be complaining. We are not going to lower the quality of our mod for someone who does not have a decent computer. This mod is for people who have decent PCs that can run other games such as GTA IV. It is not our fault. Mikey was not saying the mod was pointless he was saying that we should try and put them together instead of separate releases. I have never seen anybody in my life down talk a developer that is ACTUALLY delivering to the people here. I can make as many mods as I want as long as I deliver. I have never started a mod and dropped it. (Besides WTC Mod)

Notice how all of our releases are different. New maps, new features, new scripts, new sounds, new units. I go through with my work whether you like it or not. There are people with Low spec computers that I feel we owe something. This is a small mod that will only take me a week to develop not 4 or 5 years and counting. This is a mod to give people the features that they are missing out on in Manhattan and Brooklyn and Maybe just maybe, motivate them to upgrade there computers which not only will benefit them with our mod, but will open up a new door for them called PC gaming. Battlefield, GTA, Minecraft, so much to play. 

Now when your mod comes out and its flawless (No CTDs, no bugs, no lag) then you can tell me how I should do things, When the reality does slap you in the face, be prepared to take so much shit from people like you that you will need an island the size of Staten Island to dump it on. 

 102.5 sq miles (265.5 km²)

This looks cool, would be cool to see all the modders on the EM Forums come together and pitch in to LA mod V2 for Hoppah for all he has given us lol

That is what I figured, thank you very much.  do you know if there is anything under the pushbumper on the hood or is that plain white as it appears?

Its plain white as well, it took me a second to see if that thing on top of the van was a lightbar or not but I see its just an Air ventilation. Other than that all angles on the OCME van should be covered, let me know if you have any other questions.

Hi Folks,

Me and MikeyPI are trying to find some more pictures on this particular Medical Examiners Van (older cononers unit for NYC):

OCME stands for 'Office of Chief Medical Examiners unit'

METT stands for 'Medical Examiner Transport Team'

Is there anyone who can find more detailed pictures or knows what is written on the passenger door (first picture)?

The van is an older version of the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiners Unit van and it was definitely used when Heath Ledger died on jan 22, 2008.

Thanks in advance.

Your best friend,

Hoppah

Written on the passenger door is "City of New York Office of Chief Medical Examiner"

I was actually very aware that your mods are not optimized in any way, it just seems to me that releasing things that are related in fragments just clutters up people's games with more versions, perhaps a multiplayer version being separate from the freeplay/sp versions isnt a bad idea for a large mod to cut load times, but hey to each their own. 

I don't see how that would work. We have released the following mods:

Manhattan Modification V1

Manhattan Modification V2

Manhattan Modification V3

WIP

Brooklyn Modification

and the Training Academy

Each one is completely different units, sounds and map. Each version is a different mod but each update is just a patch. You don't have v3.0.2, v3.0.4 and v3.0.5 all in your mods folder, we make that clear in the instructions. Each update is a stand alone and you should delete the previous one. Honestly the only thing related through each version is probably the units, however we update them with details and accuracy through each patch and update we release. Go back to release 1 of the Manhattan Mod and look at the difference between those units and the ones we are showing now. For me its just a big learning process, each release I have learned more and gotten more knowledge and experience under my belt as a modder which is really beneficial. Each release is different and putting them into one big one would just be even more of a clutter and to me would be more confusing, Id have no idea how to make that work unless through a third party launcher which would be pretty cool, self updates n stuff but one can only dream.

Poor optimization is something that can be fixed with an afternoon or two's work. Be it internal team, or asking someone else to take the mod and clean it up. I cleared out the unused thing sin mine, and spent an afternoon or so, and it loads twice as fast, and is a fraction of the initial size

I know it can, Ive done a lot but when it comes to Manhattan Mod I have 500+ textures needing optimization coming from GTA IV's multiple textures per building and the way we made our rigs we have on average 10 textures per vehicle model that me and Dyson produced. Optimization would take a lot longer than an afternoon. We went through and converted a large amount of images before release of v3 and found transparency had been lost, we went through trying to delete prototypes and models not needed finding out we needed them later on. We will start completely fresh when EM5 is out but for now our base that we have been working off of since New York Submod is really unstable and Im afraid if we even touch one thing it could all collapse. But were looking into options. Brooklyn Mod for one is extremely optimized so were excited to see how that will run on the low end computers.

P.S Tested the mod on an Intel laptop, runs extremely smooth. 

I don't have any ctd,but after hot fix c.

I still can not use the ladder 21 after uninstalling the ladder

I dragged and dropped and replaced files

any ideas?

Reinstall it, when you load the Modification does it say 3.0.5C?

Tbh i'd have just consolidated these projects as one large one since you're using the same things (including units) from fdny, things like this one could have been in the mission section of the mod.

Well you are not very familiar with our mods then. They are poorly optimized, if we were to include the Brooklyn modifications and the Manhattan Modifications into one project the mod would probably be about 5-6 Gbs and take about 15-20 minutes to load each session. Besides we are the only modification out there to continuously update and patch our mod. We go through and update our models and textures all the time and release updates to the public so that they can get something new out of our mod and not play the same things all the time. I.E Engine 65 and Engine 34 received new rigs last year and when they did in real life, we made them in the mod and included them in the next update. We feel this gives our player base more motivation to follow our progress and play our mods.

The Brooklyn mod is to take people away from the crowded city streets of New York City and the automatic fire alarms and EMS runs and throw them into a neighborhood of crime and arson and lots of fires.

That being said each time we do something new we try to optimize best we can going through removing useless things that are not being used. In this case, we are trying to remove ALL unnecessary and make our mod as small as possible, that would be all of the Manhattan and Brooklyn buildings used. The only models under houses now are just 5 buildings that will be at the Training Academy. We removed 80% of our apparatus fleet keeping 2 engines and 2 ladders. So far we have bought our mod from 2.5 Gbs to 400mbs. 

Everyone making suggestions, I'm sorry but this is not a modification I am going to spend a lot of time on. This is a small time project I will have done probably by the end of this weekend. It was going to be private just so we could train our multiplayer guys but being so much easier to run and smaller in size I decided I would release it so you low spec guys could mess around with the new features. There will be no progress bar, and there will be no calls outside the academy. 

Call me cynical, but I think that there needs to be the explanation of the asterisk 

I use it to catch people's interest. So that they actually read important things. JMHO 

ok thank you, im thinking an alien ware x51 with 4th gen intel core i3 processor and nvidia geforce gtx 645 with 1gb gddr5, you think that'll do?, and sorry for all the questions i've never bought a gaming pc so i really dont know what im doing.

That is way beyond what you would need for this mod so it should run it flawlessly.

hey im gonna be buying a gaming pc so is there any special specs that i need in order to play this?

Wow...that looks nice.  So will all the ladders have unlimited water like the most recent release of the Manhattan mod?

I recommend any type of Nvidia Geforce card, I have a 680m Which is awesome, I don't recommend ATI or AMD just cause I've heard of a lot of problems with them. Graphics card is all that really matters.

Most likely unlimited water still.

V3.0.5 Hotfix C (Contains Hotfixes A & B)

This hotfix hopefully fixes any remaining bugs such as Rescue 1 Doors, St Lukes speed commands, and the control panels continuing to have the command. Thanks to everyone who has reported a bug.

To be sure that the hotfix is installed, when loading the modification, check the description to see if it says 3/30/13 as the date and 3.0.5C.

Link: https://mega.co.nz/#!xIBh3IYb!Df73eFtjxowWg-fgk0twhPHK1gxY18ilV7C4-eKfeDw
 

Thanks, I noticed these issues after, apparently something went wrong in the patching I will fix it asap.

V3.0.5 Hotfix B (Contains Hotfix A as well)

Link: https://mega.co.nz/#!0NgRwZwT!OfC5QiDqy9viX6lxesgdHJzmjVf_VlWf0fB0-MosVwg

Changelog: 

-Rescue FFs not being able to open gates

-New sirens added back onto the different ambulances

-Speed commands to units that were missing them

-Light fixes, corona edits

-Added a dynamic light to the Tower Ladder Bucket

-Limited water on Ladders, they will now have unlimited water

-Removed the gates command on the control panel to avoid confusion

-Fixed Battalion 9 Headlights stuck on even when engine is off

This is likely the last Manhattan Modification Release until Emergency 5 unless any major bugs come to our attention.

Hey Raf, I was playing Challenge mode and the first major call I got, immediately ended the game, I was wondering if there was anything I could do to fix that.

 

Thanks 

CHALLENGE MODE does NOT work in this mod, only do endless.

Check out this great gameplay video from Sanddunes on youtube of 3.0.5 showing off all of our new features!

So I noticed a few things while I was playing today:

 

1.  Some cars don't have the speed controls anymore.  I think they're the ones with the reworked lights, like the EMS Supervisor GMC Sierra, the FDNY and St. Luke's ambulances, and a lot of the police cars.

 

2.  I couldn't get my ESU Light Rescue to move out of the station.  I tried pressing the HQ button and everything, but it wouldn't budge (and yes, I turned the engine on).

 

3.  Rescue 1 garage bug that everyone else has mentioned.

 

That's about it so far, but I only got through a few calls before a random CTD after a Times Square riot.  I'll play more later and let you guys know if I notice anything else.  

Thanks everyone for reporting these issues, they will be addressed in hotfix3.0.5b this weekend! Along with the new sirens not being on the ambulances. Thanks for hanging in there and not saying this mod sucks lol

Not sure if its just me, but I cant open any of the garage doors on the stations. I've completely deleted all previous versions and installed the hotfix.

Get a firefighter and click the gray box with the red button to open the door

Manhattan Modification V3.0.5

*COME PLAY YOUR FIRST V3.0.5 GAME WITH NYCERU MULTIPLAYER GROUP* Teamspeak IP: 64.154.38.226:9494

Final Manhattan Modification V3 Version.                                                      

Completely Delete your old Manhattan Modification V3.0.2 or 3.0.4 Folders and place this new one into your Mods folder. THIS IS A STANDALONE MOD

Download link: https://mega.co.nz/#!dJpmETpA!DHr2-sMlBN2v62qK0xoAYkRpqvxp5zSdJqmuUvz4Kww

Changelog Features:

-Both Tower Ladders 21, and 35 are fully functional (Do not reverse, lights added to Installed Tower Ladders)

 

Everyone calm down! EM5 is scheduled to be out in Q4 2014... 

However, keep in mind guys, EM5 Will be a different game engine. The only thing I could think that could port over would be models. Remember. You would have to redo ALL of your lights, your map, your scripts etc. To me its stupid to wait and I say you guys go through with what you are now with EM4 and do not wait. I have my own plans for EM5 but Im still working with EM4 while I can. Even if you have to, you can release the mod on the LA Map or something of the sorts. In my opinion its kind of a ridiculous thought to wait EM5.. Just keep those notes in mind. You will have to do about 80% of the mod over.

 

EM4 Map scene idea for a motor vehicle accident into a building. This scene is a FBI had surveillance on a wanted suspect for murder. Suspect mad the FBI tail and evaded.  In the escape in a NY cab ,cut off a NYPD unit crashed into a building stricken two innocent bystanders. Suspect fled the cab and was apprehended a block away by multiple responding units. Scene one fire EMS response with a large crowd gathering.    music by Bomb Squad Larry ( peculiar bliss)     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rafael PM sent to your Yahoo email.

 

Cool video, I didn't get your email. Try rafaelmfernandez@yahoo.com Thanks

I'm sure they mentioned that their problem was with all the Rockstar GTA buildings they used.

Its not just the buildings, its the vehicles, lights, and all. People play SD version which has not one GTA building on map and still crash. Your mod has great potential but I am afraid that low end computers as soon as they turn on one or two of your apparatus lights there FPS will be about 1. CFD did an incredible job on our Seagrave Marauder II and GMC Sierra, we ended up having to redo the Engine ourselves as the Lights were so detailed that our FPS dropped about 10 frames and then with the GMC it drops about the same for players with low spec computers. I can't imagine having a full out fleet of CFD's Lighting. What I recommend you guys do as this is a huge problem that is bound to blow up in your faces near release is find two or three people that you absolutely trust with specs ranging from Intel HD 4000 integrated graphics, to ATI radeon/AMD, and then up to Nvidia. Do some benchmarking tests. Best way to do this is in a multiplayer session where the host can observe the situation and compare FPS with each player. Its a suggestion but I hope you take my advice. On V1 release date when it blew up in my face that so many people were excited to play but just to crash to desktop its not a nice feeling. Don't make the same mistake I made. Find beta testers that can keep there mouths shut and ones that know what they are doing. I could make a few recommendations.