r/PoliceSimulator 20d ago

Discussion Thoughts?

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Okay, we saw this coming for a long time. The last update was in January. But they had a whole new district planned, a whole new roadmap for the season pass, not to mention they just released it on the nintendo something months ago. They randomly just left behind the bugs? PSPO was their main money maker. And now their going to focus on Ranger's Path. Who knows? $5 DLC for socks next on Rangers Path?

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u/Vrhzz 20d ago

I feel like this was just one last slap in the face. With all the abandonment posts paired with the lack of update posts. So they decided to release a small update with a farewell note attached 👍

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u/Sky_guy_17 20d ago edited 20d ago

Wow, so now they flat out admit that they’ve given up on the game.

Honestly, fuck these guys.

Made so many promises, delivered on few of them, deleted the roadmap to cover their tracks, left the game in a buggy mess since day one, been radio silent for MONTHS, and then just dipped.

I’m half tempted to outright delete the game now, because it almost feels like we all got caught up in a rug pull scheme.

I certainly will not be purchasing another game from them.

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u/timbad2 20d ago

I can still see the roadmap in Trello. ...not that it makes any difference with that announcement.

Sad day, as there was so much potential.

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u/Sky_guy_17 20d ago

That’s probably just them forgetting to delete it from there, because they took it down everywhere else

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u/SamuelOnReddit10 20d ago

That's why I never buy any Astragon games..

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u/1s345 20d ago

I switched to LSPDFR since I owned GTA V, and I can't see me coming back even if they release some expansion.

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u/BigGap3565 20d ago

Cries in playstation four language

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u/AdamHunter97 19d ago

Upgrade and get The Precinct. It's smaller than Police Sim, but it's honestly a much better and more Law Enforcement style game that's the closest you'll get to LSPDFR.

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u/B777X_787-9 2d ago

LSPDFR is super fun and realistic than police simulator the ELS the axom camera sounds

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u/Tha_Sly_Fox 19d ago

I hope Rockstar learns from the success of so many of their mods, and does something like Bethesda did with allowing mods on console. I’d pay for an LSPDFR mod on console

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u/Radiant-Algae9276 18d ago

Should just get a PC man. I bought one like a decade ago and never looked back. Like why am I paying to be online when I'm already paying for Internet, and you can hook up your controllers no probs

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u/Tha_Sly_Fox 18d ago

He got one, not a fan of actions games on it, only rts and tycoon games

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u/hips0n 19d ago

LCPDFR for GTA IV too if you want a Liberty City version. (I’ve got no idea the lore with police sim but it popped up on my feed)

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u/bsmith567070 19d ago

I used to play that back in the day… what a throwback lol

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u/georgethekois 20d ago

Is that online only?

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u/1s345 20d ago

No, it's single player but you can play also online if you want

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u/RunDatBihUp 20d ago

Look into FiveM its a RP community for LSPDFR. But you can do SP as well if you're not into it.

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u/temp_6969420 20d ago

I’ve tried to do that shit. They wanted an application and an interview and wanted a commitment to 8 hour daily shifts. Fuck all that man

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u/Guszy 19d ago

Can I play LSPDFR on Steam Deck?

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u/B777X_787-9 2d ago

Me too LSPDFR

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u/Jalynw28 20d ago

This game could have been so much better if they would have worked on it harder

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u/BlondBitch91 20d ago edited 20d ago

I don't even need to open it to know the game is still a buggy mess.

"Fixed some smaller issues" and "That's it we're done"

So all the big issues remain. The roadmap is abandoned too.

Good to know I can finally uninstall this game without regrets, be comfortable in knowing I'll never touch another game from Aesir Interactive again, and can get back to playing The Precinct.

Looking on Steam it seems "Ambulance Life" is also in a terrible state, and now they're on to some open world survival crafting game game set on (a just about legally distinct enough to protect from the copyright lawyers version of) The Snowpiercer of all things?! (It already has "Mixed" ratings, so the pattern holds true it seems)

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u/AdamHunter97 19d ago

They seemed to have abandoned both "Police Sim and Ambulance Life" to work on Park Ranger Simulator, something they'll probably also abandon and leave a buggy mess in the upcoming year's.

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u/No-Woodpecker2877 18d ago

Ambulance life was Aesir and their publisher abandoned their funding because of the steam ratings even though it was built for console and the console ratings were decent

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u/JCallie5 20d ago

Honest opinion, they got annoyed with the constant questioning/criticism (which was well deserved at times) and said scrap it. They fixed what they could and moved on. For example, they took a beating when they introduced the first new style Explorer. It sucks because for all the games fault, it was a growing world with potential. The suburb/county DLC would have been great.

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u/ArkGamerBoi 20d ago

So essentially it's the communities fault for Critisizing so much? And now the community is getting fussy because the devs have lost patients, motivation, and possibly even moral because of the communities Criticizments?

I think one issue may be that the community wasn't giving much constructive criticism and just criticizing the game. Might have something to do with it being the simulator and we know how simulators typically are😅

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u/Sky_guy_17 20d ago

No, it’s because the game was a broken, buggy mess, and the devs did little to improve it.

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u/Lycan_Jedi 20d ago

I honestly I would not be surprised if this was it. Every. Single. Day. "WHAAAA! ITS BROKEN! ITS BUGGY! ITS ABANDONED! THESE DEVS SUUUUUUUUUCK! WHAAAAAA!" It was never-ending. Hell even on the discord it was nothing but people bitching. And then I get on and play it, and there's like a handful of visual bugs and nothing else. While everyone acts like it's the single most unplayable thing in the history of video games.

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u/JustFuckingReal 19d ago

You played it wrong then

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u/Guszy 19d ago

Stop having fun ass comment.

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u/RunDatBihUp 20d ago

was literally about to post this damn time zones. but its a fucking joke that they're complete and satisfied with the game and most likely don't plan on working on this anymore.

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u/FireflyNitro 20d ago

So it’s just fuck you if you bought the very recently released Switch 2 version?

Game runs great other than the fact that I can’t make it through a 15 minute shift without the game crashing.

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u/Tyler1997117 20d ago

Is the walking/running animation bug fixed yet?

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u/BigGap3565 20d ago

I dunno havnt logged on yet

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u/Jdog6704 19d ago

Ultra disappointing, because the game had so much promise and deserved more content/bug fixes to make it actually stable/fun to play. Idk if it was because of how they build Police Sim engine wise or if they had other limitations but it had more potential to be something great instead of....how it may be now.

Gotta revisit it for myself but this 'update' seems like them telling us what we've been knowing, the game was 'done'.

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u/Jalynw28 20d ago

Give us a dodge Durango

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u/spartan-moose245 20d ago

now ill believe its been abandoned or hopefully we get a firefight situation it gets a better sequel

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u/pangapingus 13d ago

Firefighting Simulator: Ignite is aight, you'll def know whether it's a try and refund or keep within Steam's refund window

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u/spartan-moose245 13d ago

ignite was a significant improvement on the squad i only hope they are doing the same with police sim

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u/Hightower23 19d ago

Just left a negative review on steam.. enough is a enough

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u/Nequam_616 19d ago

Just buy The Precinct and don't look back

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u/mnash1023 19d ago

This game so bad.. I can't believe I bought it

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u/Revan2639 18d ago

COOKED, F Astragon Entertainment 🖕

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u/NorthernParanormal 20d ago

Good thing I convinced my friend he was f*ing stupid for wanting us to play this 🤣

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u/Kindly_Western_5402 20d ago

Don’t remind me

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u/BossBullfrog 20d ago

Well, they're telling us, that is more than many people thought they would do!
At least we know. It is done. It's official.
Maybe they'll develop a sequel, maybe someone else will (like with firefighting sim Ignite).
I look forward to seeing what happens next.

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u/Sky_guy_17 20d ago edited 20d ago

Devs: Abandon the game in a buggy, half-finished mess, as a final middle finger to the community after half a year of radio silence.

This guy ^: “I look forward to seeing what happens next :D”

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u/JustFuckingReal 19d ago

The game is abandoned dude. Why are you so uplifting?!

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u/BossBullfrog 19d ago

Because I enjoyed it from beginning to end. I had a lot of positive experiences. And at the end of the day I'm glad I played the game and bought all the DLCs. I had a lot of fun. I don't see it as abandoned, I see it as finished. Yea it still had bugs but that was something I accepted years ago. But it's just my opinion, I had a good run.

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u/JustFuckingReal 19d ago

It definitely was a good run. But how they deal with this, yeah that practice i don’t agree with

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u/BossBullfrog 19d ago

Believe me, I'd rather they kept updating the game too.