So, a new police game has hit Steam which is basically everything Police 10-13 has aspired to be. Patrol Duty runs on Unreal Engine 4 and features a fictional open-world US city, offering you the chance to climb the ranks from Cadet to Captain, and dispense your own brand of justice by enforcing traffic regulations, searching for wanted suspects, and answering callouts ranging from crime scene investigation to firefights in armed robberies. It's also playable in 2-player-coop. FirstThirtyMinutes, Jeff Favignano or TheNorthernAlex (among others) already made several videos on it.

 

 

Too bad that the game is horribly buggy at its current state, something which is rather surprising (or not...) considering it was originally slated to release in January 2018. Here's hoping the developers can indeed deliver the massive fixes they are promising, because despite all its shortcomings, it still looks more enjoyable than any other standalone police patrol game we've got so far. Though that's not quite the achievement. 😄

lol everything 1013 aspired to be?  I have to beg to differ.  This game has horrid vehicle physics right off the bat, you can't actually pit a vehicle.  Bugs aside, the game graphically looks like it was built about 5 years ago.  So far the developers on patrol duty haven't even been able to communicate properly with their community.  Their partner company did the latest news update and basically told the community, game is done, incomplete, don't plan on updating, have fun lol.  The developers have openly said this is a false statement on certain discussion threads but still haven't managed to retract the news update and it's doing a pretty good job of rocking their reviews.

 

Yeah 1013 is taking a long time to pull together, but  at the same time, so far it looks nicer and seems closer to an LSPDFR standalone rather than yet another janky simulator game like patrol duty has turned out to be so far.

On 6/30/2019 at 3:55 PM, Cryptic Strolski said:

lol everything 1013 aspired to be?  I have to beg to differ.

Why? It's an open world police game powered by Unreal Engine 4. Exactly what Police 10-13 claims to be. 😉

Also, it has 2-player co-op, something we cannot have in LSPD:FR.

 

On 6/30/2019 at 3:55 PM, Cryptic Strolski said:

This game has horrid vehicle physics right off the bat, you can't actually pit a vehicle.  Bugs aside, the game graphically looks like it was built about 5 years ago.

Can't argue with these, because what you write is completely true (vehicle handling is actually okay, but collision detection is really horrible, indeed). The city also looks rather bland, though the character and vehicle models are pretty solid I think (the car interiors are also well-made). But then again, the latest Police 10-13 gameplay videos don't look better either... 😉

 

On 6/30/2019 at 3:55 PM, Cryptic Strolski said:

Their partner company did the latest news update and basically told the community, game is done, incomplete, don't plan on updating, have fun lol.  The developers have openly said this is a false statement on certain discussion threads but still haven't managed to retract the news update and it's doing a pretty good job of rocking their reviews.

Yeah, Astragon and Bigmoon certainly weren't on the same page (not just when it comes to release, but also during the entire development cycle - the last 1,5 years of development was carried out in utter silence). Still, this doesn't change the fact that Bigmoon managed to release an open world police sim powered by Unreal Engine 4 in three years, while Wingman couldn't produce any actual legit gameplay footage in 5... 😉

 

On 6/30/2019 at 3:55 PM, Cryptic Strolski said:

Yeah 1013 is taking a long time to pull together, but  at the same time, so far it looks nicer and seems closer to an LSPDFR standalone rather than yet another janky simulator game like patrol duty has turned out to be so far.

What do you mean it "looks nicer and seems close to an LSPDFR standalone"? They haven't even released any actual gameplay footage at all since the project was announced! The closest we got was the March dev update which quickly turned out to be a $100K Unreal Marketplace asset flip in its entirety (after 5 years of supposed development, no less). The fact that Matt Norman also amassed a large number of controversies in the past years doesn't put my confidence in the project either. Make no mistake, I'd also love to finally have a standalone police sim that offers the same polish and feature set that LSPDFR does, but I'm also pretty sure that given Wingman's track record, it won't be Police 10-13 that will fulfil these aspirations. That project is an exaggaration at its best (that won't end up better than Patrol Duty did, should it eventually get released), or a development hell pipe dream at its worst.

 

Like it or not, Patrol Duty is currently the best standalone beat cop simulator we have on the market, despite all its bugs and fair share of issues (which of course tells a lot about the genre as well). That's why I hope Bigmoon can indeed push out those patches they are promising in the game's Steam boards.

Edited July 1, 20196 yr by JohnBart

Currently I can't argue.  I'm just saying that I have high hopes for 1013 from what I've seen and Matt has apologized for his controversial actions and words, it's just a matter of whether or not he follows through on it, but the goal still appears to be closer to LSPDFR than Patrol Duty's.  But time will tell.

Yeah, well let's hope for the best then. As much as I love LSPDFR, setting up all the plugins and addons properly and handling all those GTA Online updates can certainly be tiresome in the long run, which wouldn't be the case with a well-made standalone patrol sim. Hope we'll get to see one released one day, either from Wingman, or from someone else. 😉