🛠️Ambulance Life Patch | 2025-03-06

Hello, Medics! Patch 1.3 is now live!

Check out the details below!

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🛠️ Patch Notes:

🦠 Bugs & Technical Improvements

• Multiple Crash Fixes.
  
• Significantly reduced the likelihood of our NPC Cars bouncing around randomly.
  
• Cars will no longer crash into Callout Scenes.
  
• Fixed a bug where the driving camera snaps back after a manual reset.
  
• Fixed several Instances where patient’s arms would clip into their sides.
  
• Fixed Several Visual Issues with our Callout Assets.
  
• Fixed Several Visual Issues with our World Assets.
  
• Fixed Several Issues where patient’s arms would be twisted.
  
• Fixed a Bug where you could get stuck on the First Shift.
  
• Fixed several markings on the highway which were pointing in the wrong direction.
  
• Fixed flickering UI.
  
• Removed several invisible Barriers.
  
• Fixed a Bug in the Introductory Shift where the Partner refused to exit the Ambulance.
  
• Removed Hospital Markers that are in locked districts.
  
• Reduced the odds of the stretcher getting stuck on the Ambulance Door.
  
• Fixed the Parking Assist Sounds.
  
• The patient Protocol Body Temperate will now always correctly be in the unit that the player has selected.
  
• Deactivated another Cactus collision. (lol)
  
• Fixed a wrong icon being shown upon unlocking the glucometer.
  
• Fixed build ID showing twice in the splash screen.
  
• Fixed a flaw in the parking validation and adjusted the colliders on the ambulances.
  
• Fixed white placeholder Icons.
  
• Fixed flickering Skid Marks.
  
• Fixed Anamnesis Camera Positions in Catastrophic Event 01 (The Freeway Catastrophe).
  
• Fixed several floating Assets.
  
• Fixed floating stretcher in Cutscenes.
  
• Fixed the Lighting in the Customization Scene.
  
• Fixed further Glass Visuals in Catastrophic Event 02 (The Burning Mall).
  
• Fixed Railings Visuals in Catastrophic Event 02 (The Burning Mall).
  
• Improved performance on Lower Graphics Settings.
  
• Added an automatic HDD/SSD detection.
  
• More PSO Caching: Reduced the amount of lag spikes, especially on High and Ultra Settings. This will cause the initial loading screen after downloading the patch for the first time to be a bit longer.
  
• Significantly Improved overall Visuals through due to the activation of Ambient Occlusion and Global Illumination (Also for Consoles):
  
  

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  AFTER UPDATE (High Graphics settings)

  
  
  
• Enabled traffic density setting on consoles.
  
• Enabled video settings tab on consoles to be able to tune the following Settings:
  
  • Brightness/Gamma
    
  • HDR settings
    
  • UI scaling
    
  • Color Blind settings
    
  • Toggle Motion Blur
    
  • Toggle Bloom
    
  • Toggle Lens Flare
    
  • Toggle Depth of Field
• Updated Lighting to not have overly blueish tone in shadowed areas.
  
• Improved Main Menu Layout and UI.
  
• Selected Tools will no longer remain in your hand and clip through the screen when opening the patient Protocol.
  
• Disabled NVidia Frame Generation by default to prevent UI artifacts and screen tearing. These can be re-enabled for a performance Boost!
  
• Enabled text wrapping in several handbook elements.

🧪 Quality of Life Improvements

• Removed duplicate Evidence from the Handbook
  
• Added some additional Feedback for when Patients went into Ventricular Fibrillation:
  
  
  
• Simulation Mode will now additionally deactivate the following guidance Features:
  
  • The patient Protocol will no longer directly tell you which clues point to which Diagnosis Options by providing red/green ratings.
    
  • The Recommended Treatment steps after selecting a Diagnosis will no longer be shown in the Treatment HUD.
    
  • Players will no longer be able to load the Last Checkpoint after going Game Over.
• Balanced the Callout Director to more evenly distribute our different callouts.
  
• Reduced maximum waiting time for next callout from 50s to 30s.
  
• Switching patient from a police officer to a homeless person in training callout 03.
  
• Added an automatic Discovery for very close patients.
  
• Catastrophic Events will now Trigger even when approached from the wrong side.
  
• Increased the Odds of Preexisting Conditions to appear on patients.
  
• Increased the maximum Output of the Thermostat to 98°F/37°C.
  
• Patients will now change their skin color a bit more slowly when their body temperature changes.
  
• Slightly reduced patient’s base blood sugar consumption.
  
• Added an Option to Invert X and Invert Y Axis.
  
• Added Advanced Tooltips to our Tools which briefly summarize their effect:
  
  
  
• Added a Reset to Default Button to our menus.
  
• Added additional Player Guidance Recommendations to the Callout Overview UI.
  
• We will now Highlight Life Saving measures if appropriate Evidence has been discovered.

🚧 Known Issues

• Scoring Screen may not be initialized properly after a Tutorial Mission.
  
• Switching between different menus in the Customization Settings may temporarily remove hair from characters.

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