Tim

At the moment, no release date has been set. When this happens, there will be a note on the first page

Exactly, but we have not started that phase yet.

And if we do that, we'll have some criteria regarding the selection of our testers

The models are done, why should we spend even more time with them?

I think that Tim is a paramedic (well, German equivalent) in Germany.

DING DING DING HIGHSCORE!

Oh and concerning the equipment:

We included many new tools, and "americanized" the ones that were available. They will all be "american style" so don't worry about that.

Anyways, i don't think their gonna have vomit in this mod. lol.

Why so sure?

Coming along slowly as I currently make a pause due to some private problems, but it's progressing well

Well, if that guy pukes all the way through your ambulance, you really got the short straw

I prefer putting a barf bag somewhere on the stretcher, so I always have one in range to react fast enough

Quite some time ago we were working on a new multiplayer system, but stopped the development, to favour the singleplayer part.

If the SP is released, we might think about a multiplayer part, too

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=1855

Hows that?

Should work. I'll test that and let you know.

you know what else would be cool? if you had a choice of sirens that you can use in the game.

That will be included as well

just thought I would say, is it possible to have accidents/fires/crimes etc happen ingame that are said on the radio ?, would be very hard, even impossible, just a thought though

Absolutely impossible. You cannot analyse the radio sounds in realtime, create a logical context and combine that in a game. No way Jose

Hey there guys,

it's been quite sime time since I last replied in this topic, but today I've got some news for you

1. Graphical User Interface

Today I started to replace the dummy graphics of our new interface with the ones that will be released. The mod will feature a brand new GUI, without any similarities to the standard EM4 one. So forget about the blue bars, and all those little command icons, you will not see them in our release version! Screenshots may follow in a couple of days

2. FDNY radio stream

From now on, you will be able to turn on the radio in any FDNY vehicle. This will trigger the FDNY live stream from www.thebravest.com. So you will be able to listen to real and live radio sounds while you play, and even control the sounds within EM4.

A quite fast internet connection, in combination with a flatrate is recommended

Just to remind you every time you ask they are probly going to hold the mod longer.

No, but every time they do that I have to sacrifice a puppy, to calm FFW TUT down.

Last I checked we are free to make suggestions for this mod and others.

That's correct. Why should it be forbidden to state some ideas and suggestions? That's bullshit. We need ideas from other people. 100 persons have more ideas than 4 or 5.

FF or Tim, you mention that things will not be very automated. Could you elaborate on this a bit? For example if, well when, you need to provide medical aid to a person, will you actually have to control the defib? Will you have to manually give some one say 15 chest compressions one at a time?

Of course the gameplay is not that detailed, it wouldn't work. Imagine there are 4 patients, and 2 of them need CPR, that would be way to much work. We do not have much automatic stuff, but it is enough to make life simple, but still challenging

FF, another question, in the videos you guys hadnt done any of the command icons yet. Can we get a preview of some of the new icons? Just a few to get the general idea to see if they look similar to the default icons?

The Icons will be designed to look like the default icons, regarding colour and design.

Will the patrol the city command keep ambulances in certain areas or is it a free-for-all, same goes for PD?

You can call any vehicle you want to have at the scene, there are no limitations. It just may be that there are differences regarding the ETA of different units.

Bitte hör auf deine Beiträge mit online Übersetzern zu übersetzen. Das versteht kein Mensch... wenn du Fragen an uns hast, stell sie notfalls auf deutsch, aber Google Überstzungen machen keinen Sinn, das ist grausamstes Englisch.

And for the english speaking audience:

Please stop translating your posts with online services. Nobody will understand it... if you have any questions, you would like to ask us, ask them in german, but Google translations are useless, they result in horrible english.

I live in Germany, we have a whole different EMS system as in the US. So you can't compare our trainings, with the ones in the USA.

I'm alive and feeling great

I just did not have any time at the moment to work on sparetime activities.

On saturday, I had a final examination of some EMS qualification, and I made it

I hope that I can now continue working on the mod, as I should now have some more spartime left.

is that picture nwy or old because the rims on the 10 brothers are still red and not silver.

It's a new picture, the silver rims were accidentally overwritten, but they are not lost!

The next shots and of course the download will feature the correct, silver, ones.

So, will you be having lots and lots of ambulance models with different unit numbers, or if you dispatch lots of ambulances, will they all be Unit 343? Nice picture by the way.

They will all be Unit 343. While we have individual Fire Department trucks, we do not have individual Ambulances. As you will need quite a few of them, we decided not to limit them, resulting in a fix "unit ID".

You can't change that, the game is hard coded to just light a random thing on fire when the fire event comes up. That's why the game'll tell you there's an electrical fire, and it's a tree on fire.

Of course you can change that, and that's just what we did. We wrote our own incident-trigger-scripts to make it work. You won't be called for an electrical fire if a tree is burning

Our multiplayer concept was built upon 2 fire stations on the map. And every player would control only one vehicle, and there would be only one incident at a time. This would've been a whole new multiplayer gameplay style, but we did not proceed working on the multiplayer part. But who knows what the future will show

A multiplayer version would be possible, we also tested it, and it worked. But we won't do any multiplayer version, because the effort would not be worth it for the few people who play MP.

Sorry, but I don't get what you mean? Which program?

Pretty sure you can still save games...

It would be possible, but

Never understood the point of saving freeplay games anyways.

I completely agree with that. In almost 4 years of playing Emergency, I never saved a freeplay game. It is especially useless in our mod, as there is nothing you can achieve or have to achieve.

Yes, they do that. How else should they get into the stations if there is no backdoor?

There's always a way around. *hint hint*

No need to be mysterious.

That's basic stuff, just calculate a new position, based on the actual one. Check if it's blocked, if it's free, let the vehicle go there and put it back on its path after X seconds. If the position is blocked, try another one.

Someone on the german forum did that one or two years ago, and I rewrote the whole thing from scratch, working in a different way, a couple of months ago, civil cars that pull over is nothing special anymore.