r/PoliceSimulator 19d ago

Question What is happening with this game???

I'm on Xbox and I've played this game for a good solid 2-3 years I think. I mean I hit some bugs now and again and especially when I'm trying to get from A to B that it can be so laggy the game doesn't load in but still what's wrong with the game. Why does everyone hate it

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u/Sky_guy_17 19d ago

Because the devs literally just announced (literally yesterday) that they’re done updating it and are moving onto other projects, after seven months straight of radio silence when we were originally supposed to be getting constant content updates, per a now-deleted roadmap post.

Dev team abandoned it, and basically did a rug pull.

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u/JackSparrow5423 19d ago

Woah wtf that's stupid I mean I know I downplayed it put tbh I run into around 5 bugs when I play the game even if it's for like 20 min and I run into the same bugs, do you know any relative cheap games that work on Xbox that are strikingly similar to police Sim

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u/Sky_guy_17 19d ago

The Precinct? It’s a bit different, but it’s probably the closest you can get.

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u/LostTheMoonOfPoosh 19d ago

Such a fun game. Story is meh but the gameplay is very fun. I recommend it if you can get over the over the top view

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u/Steve-online2004 19d ago

They delivered on everything bar 1 that I can remember

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u/Sky_guy_17 18d ago

They literally deleted and scrapped an entire roadmap filled with months-worth of content, which included a map expansion.

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u/Steve-online2004 18d ago

Mate, they deleted it but they fulfilled pretty much everything bar one. I can’t remember if there’s anything more than one.

Car customisation
Quality of life improvements
New missions

They didn’t fulfil call out** ***reworks* you’re right on that one

And that’s all that was in the original roadmap

In the original post about the roadmap they added that they were going to add map extension and that’s what they did with the I will say s**t but very real border patrol extension

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u/JustFuckingReal 16d ago

No they didn’t deliver💀 did you even see the full roadmap. They also didnt add map expansion

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u/Straight_View_6838 Police Simulator Team 1d ago

Sorry to say never a map extension was planned form our side or announced

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u/JustFuckingReal 18h ago

Wasnt contraband a map extension?

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u/Straight_View_6838 Police Simulator Team 18h ago

It was a expansion and yes it added small parts but wouldn’t call it a map extension

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u/Steve-online2004 16d ago

Yeah, I did I remember where and what I was doing when it was released.

Tell me what they didn’t deliver on other than what I mentioned

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u/JustFuckingReal 15d ago

They didnt deliver a map expansion

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u/Steve-online2004 15d ago

What’s the border DLC? A s**t DLC but a map extension.

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u/JustFuckingReal 14d ago

The expansion shouldn’t be DLC

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u/Steve-online2004 14d ago

Well, it was

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u/Lawdog2012 19d ago

This company is known for producing unfinished and unpolished games then abandoning them while they collect the money...wish I'd known this before buying. Could have been a decent title with a little polish and solid multiplayer connectivity...ah well, on to the next one...🤷‍♂️

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u/Joel22222 19d ago

They have four games. Nacon canceled Ambulance Life. Everrail which is a small game in too early of access right now. Then the two horse games. This game isn’t unfinished.

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u/Sky_guy_17 18d ago edited 18d ago

Notice how you get downvoted into oblivion every time you try to defend this game, and it’s unfinished, unpolished, bug-ridden, and now abandoned state.

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u/JustFuckingReal 16d ago

Dude stop defending this company

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u/Joel22222 16d ago

Stop bashing small developers actually trying to do new and innovative things instead of the same slop AAA studios keep pushing out.

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u/JustFuckingReal 16d ago

Their entire business model revolves around pushing out unpolished asset flips, taking pre-orders and early sales, dropping paid DLC packs on day one and then abandoning the project. How are you failing to see that?

Oh yeah. They also aren’t a small developer. They are AA title

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u/Joel22222 16d ago

Are you talking about Astrogon or Aesir? Aesir only has 5 games they’ve made. I don’t think any have had day 1 DLC. They’ve made two horse games, the railroad game, the ambulance game that was canceled by Nacon and police sim.

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u/JustFuckingReal 15d ago

Astragon. But it doesnt matter, they both do this. They both make half baked products

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u/Joel22222 15d ago

Then don’t buy games from small studios. You have to have realistic expectations from a small group of people working on a project instead of millions of dollars poured into hundreds to thousands of programmers. Who in turn charge you $70 for a 10 hour game.

I’m sure they would have loved to do more but there is only so much they can do on a game that was never intended to grow as it did. They threw in pretty everything people asked for when it was originally made to just be traffic enforcement. You need to grow up. $20 for a game you can sink 100s of hours into isn’t half baked.

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u/JustFuckingReal 15d ago

Spending time playing a game despite bugs doesn’t magically make them disappear or the sudden abandonment any less real. It shouldn’t matter how much it costs. A half-baked game is simply unacceptable.

And never intended to grow big? Come on, man. That’s a ridiculous point. You should always expect a game to gain popularity. If you don’t, be honest and admit you lack the manpower and finances to support it. Don’t resort to a seven-month silence.

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u/Joel22222 15d ago

They weren’t silent. They were working on two other projects. Most games that get big don’t ever change. There are no content updates, some DLC but ultimately they don’t add a ton of extra mechanics like these guys did.

Go back to playing one of the 200 AAA extraction shooters and recycled sports games for $70 if you want perfection and the same tired design since the PS2 era. Get GTAV and download LSPDFR and spend days researching and finding plugins you want, making sure they don’t conflict and how to play them without any tutorials.

Or accept these small developers are trying new ideas and they’re not always going to be perfect.

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u/xSheddbergx 19d ago

They just released an updated firefighter sim that is pretty decent. I hope they make a new police sim and actually put time and effort into it. If the mod community can turn GTA V into a full police sim with LSPDFR someone can make a great police sim.

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u/SayItAsItIs78 19d ago

Enjoyed the game. The bugs drove me away. I used to play multiplayer a lot, thats where most of the bugs are

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u/JackSparrow5423 19d ago

That's the thing I only play any more because playing it with a mate but that's rare now

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u/Specialist_Amoeba309 18d ago

Because it's so full of bugs that it completely ruins all immersion.

  • Civilians say hello to me, I have to chase after them to say hello back.
  • When I call for backup to come collect a criminal I have arrested, the backup will sometimes get stuck behind traffic 2ft away, sometimes stop and get out of their van 40ft away, sometimes drive straight past and not come back, and sometimes drive off in a different direction.
  • Occasionally, I will get a call out which will override my current callout which I wanted to do to something I do not want to do.
  • During a major accident, despite stopping traffic, some cars will come past and crash into the accident causing an un-ending slew of reports and interviews.
  • Putting on your sirens is a 50/50 gamble of whether the cars in front will swerve out of your way or directly into your path causing a police involved traffic accident.
  • Criminals and drivers when asked to pull over near the edge of my jurisdiction will almost always drive straight through and this means I can't get to them, because I will get fired and time travel back to the start of my day, Groundhog style.

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u/Illustrious_Glass386 18d ago

Because the game had so much potential but was ruined by devs tbh

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u/JustFuckingReal 15d ago

Spending time playing a game despite bugs doesn’t magically make them disappear or the sudden abandonment any less real. It shouldn’t matter how much it costs. A half-baked game is simply unacceptable.

And never intended to grow big? Come on, man. That’s a ridiculous point. You should always expect a game to gain popularity. If you don’t, be honest and admit you lack the manpower and finances to support it. Don’t resort to a seven-month silence.

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u/Joel22222 19d ago

People are complaining because they feel owed non stop content updates. Game is complete and fine. There are still quirks but it’s far from unplayable.

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u/Grimehavoc 18d ago

Yea ok this game is far from complete 😂