In this update, we've boosted our custom vehicle content, added some specials, fixed a lot of bugs and made a lot of improvements elsewhere.

Update Highlights

As per usual with these new-year update posts, we'll begin by listing all of the neat highlights so you don't have to stare at the list of changes (at the bottom).

📍 New Feature: Party Waypoint Markers

A new feature that was added this update was map-wide markers for party leader waypoints. When the leader of your party places down a waypoint, your GPS updates and shows you the route to the destination.

Now, the same logic applies, but a marker is shown across the map so you can see where the destination is relative to the world.

⭕ Improved: Meet Zones

We've added two new meet zones for two new locations (see below), one new drift zone, and adjusted one other meet zone to make it suitable for its associated location improvement (also below).

🏠 Improved: Apartments

We fixed an issue where you were unable to re-open the apartment selection menu after stepping into the marker and manually closing the menu by backing out of it. The UI for selecting and managing an apartment has been moved to the top-right corner of the screen to avoid annoying conflicts with chat.

We've also increased the distance at which the markers for apartments become visible, and changed their colour to a darker purple, making them more visible and noticeable from a distance.

📺 Improved: Media Player

The Media Player, accessible to Ultimate Supporters as well as any player inside a supported apartment, has been improved. The Media Player allows you to play and watch YouTube videos with other players in sync on a 3D screen.

The UI for adding a URL to the player has been updated for a more modern look and feel, and the 3D audio is much better now, but still not perfect. We'll be looking to improve this in future updates.

🌴 New Location: Cassidy Tower

The Ambitioneers are back at it again with yet another great release. This turns a previously boring city building into something that's nice to look at and compliments the overall skyline of the city.

Comes with a pool and a recreational rooftop area for maximum relaxation, with or without your friends!

🏁 New Location: East Customs

In this update, we've added a new location: East Customs.

This is a garage and tuner shop for all of your sport and super mechanical needs, and is also a car meet location!

Its location in Cypress Flats, East LS makes it a viable car meet location choice for all the drifters due to it's ease of access to both docks drift zones.

🔧 New Location: Route 68 Garage

Ever wanted a nice pitstop location in the desert? This is the place for you.

Situated right next to the Dollar Pills and Suburban stores in Sandy Shores, the Route 68 Garage is the perfect spot to get your vehicle fixed, tuned and painted.

The existing meet zone surrounding this area has been expanded to accomodate for this new addition.

👕 New Content: Clothing

In this update, we've fixed a few issues related to clothing that was introduced in last weeks update, and added a lot of male clothing.

Players have reported issues with some hair items and we'd like to confirm that this is now fixed as per this update!

Another thing that was re-added is improved facial features for female peds. A lot of you brought this up after last weeks update and we're glad to say that it's back.

Thank you for reporting these issues to us!

Got a clothing suggestion? Submit it here, but do NOT suggest any branded items as they will not be added.

🚗 New Content: Vehicles, Wheels & Audio

Just like last update, we've added some new vehicles. This one is more focused on adding special vehicles, so there's a strong emphasis on quality over quantity here - next weeks update will feature a lot more vehicles 😉

We've added over 1,300 custom wheels and rims to the server in a large variety of styles, bringing the total close to 1,600!

In this update, we've also added back custom engine audio sounds. You can find them in the usual place within vMenu by going to Vehicle Options 😏

Here are the special vehicles that were added in this update:

Hachiraito HR R88
Hachiraito HR GT6R
Hachiraito HR S18 Silhouette

These vehicles come from the very talented team at Hachiraito which we are proud to be partnering with to bring consistent quality and improvements to our servers. The vehicles are not in their final form and will be receiving continuous improvements as we (that includes you!) give feedback on them.

Credit for the wheels on our server goes to these amazing creators: TGIJ, Ydrop, MGgames 100, and Roost4r!

Got a vehicle/car suggestion? Submit it here, but do NOT suggest any branded items as they will not be added.

🚧 Moderation Update: Voice Chat

In this update, we're introducing a new automated system that will automatically mute severe and deliberate cases of toxicity in voice chat.

This uses our voice chat monitoring system (that we were already using for manual enforcement) in combination with machine learning to determine toxicity levels in voice interactions between players.

If you get muted for something that you shouldn't have been muted for, then please open a ticket on our Discord so we can investigate and tweak this system for better results.

Full update log

• Added 3 new zones to the available selection for rotation (by @nex)
• Added various improvements to server anti-cheat (by @nex)
• Added party waypoint markers for better waypoint visibility (by @nex)
• Added smoother facial features for female peds (by @ney)
• Added an exit option to the apartments selection UI (by @nex)
• Adjusted the respawn logic for better viability in PvP scenarios (by @nex)
• Adjusted the logic of 3D audio for the media player to be dependant on the players' camera (by @nex)
• Adjusted the UI for the URL input of the media player (by @nex)
• Adjusted the position of the media player UI to the top-right (by @nex)
• Adjusted the position of the apartments UI to the top-right (by @nex)
• Adjusted the marker distance and colour for entering apartments (by @nex)
• Fixed a bug where cross-server mute notifications would sometimes show the wrong admin (by @nex)
• Fixed issues with custom engine audio (by @Robotic, @Sparky & @StOneR)
• Fixed a bug with the game that allowed players to abuse thermal scopes/vision to see and shoot through walls (by @nex)
• Fixed clothing-related issues with hair (by @ney)
• Fixed conflicting texture issues with certain vehicles (by @Sparky)
• Fixed a bug with apartments where entering a marker and closing the menu would prevent it from opening again (by @nex)
• Fixed a bug with the death screen where getting killed by players would result in a weird weapon name (by @StOneR)
• Fixed an issue where two players could use the same name at the same time (by @nex)
• Removed copyright-infringing weapons from the server (by @Yonji)
• Removed the listings in vMenu for vehicles that were removed from the server due to PLA-compliance back in December (by @Robotic)

We'll be back next week with more to show, but for now, enjoy this update.
Good luck and have fun! 💖