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Hope so, then we'd have a reason to have it in our games. It's a good looking bar, reminds me of a flattened out SAPOL light bar.

As seen in this video: I've recently taken a liking to these light bars (especially with the top/bottom flash pattern @9m33s). There's some older Whelen Freedom's roaming around, one older ELS Freedom I believe with two columns at the front (in this model: http://www.lcpdfr.com/files/file/15575-2010_cvpi_blaine_sheriff_els/.), but none of the ones as shown in the vid. I'm aware that bxbugs has made a non-ELS Freedom IV exclusively for the highspeed-gaming server (which impressively does all three types of patterns, "blocky", "diagonal" and "top/bottom"), which they use as an all blue bar for their Virginia State Police cvpi, but being made for a server - I'm not holding my breath for a public release. Would be hectic to see in game, so just throwing the suggestion out there in the hopes that somebody is looking for their next project.

We're taking a break from big name YouTubers for the next few Spotlight's. They will no doubt return, but they've had a good reign on our front page! In the next couple of releases, I actually hope to focus on mod dev's. If you've got any tips for who specifically I should feature in a spotlight (or a which part of the community I should look at), feel free to shoot me a PM, or flag us down on Twitter @LCPDFR.

Spotlight has rolled around again! This time we feature another well known name in the YouTube community. In this edition of the Community Spotlight, we got to sit down with another well known name in LSPDFR/YouTube content creation, (Officer) FirstThirtyMinutes. At the time of writing this article, FirstThirtyMinutes has published 1,640 YouTube videos and has nearly 520,000 subscribers - those are some huge numbers - and growing rapidly! For those unaware of you who are, can you tell us a bit about yourself? My name is Carson. Im 26 and live in the great state of South Carolina. While I’m not a real officer myself, I greatly support the effort of police departments in bettering their communities. How'd you find out about LSPDFR and can you give us a rough estimate about when that was? I actually learned about LSPDFR through playing the LCPDFR mod for GTA IV. When GTA V came out on PC, I knew it was only a matter of time before LSPDFR would be released. Roughly when did you start getting into YouTube/producing LC/LSPDFR videos? My first ever LCPDFR video was uploaded on my channel July 22nd, 2012. LCPDFR was the entire reason for me wanting to get a “gaming” PC. I saw how much fun people were having pretending to police the streets of Liberty City and wanted to play myself. What made you love LSPDFR so much? The great community here! Seriously; I have gotten to know so many mod creators and members over the past few years. I am entirely blown away by the amount of high quality stuff being created by the community. It’s really a great bunch of people. What motivated you to start making LC/LSPDFR videos and what was it like starting out? Before I started creating videos, everyone who played LCPDFR looked like they were having so much fun. I’ve always enjoyed shows like “COPS” so it seemed like a logical thing to do. Starting out in anything is always a challenge. I continued to upload episodes and more people seemed to subscribe. I’ve always enjoyed the “law” side of law enforcement and encourage viewers to tell me how they would have handled a situation differently. Do you have a favourite song? Is it by any chance “Bad Boys” by Inner Circle? Not my favorite but "Bad Boys"is a great song! I enjoy most genres of music except Country. So how’d the name [Officer] “FirstThirtyMinutes” come along? Why not something like “OfficerCoolGuy”? Probably, one of my most asked questions! The original idea for my Youtube channel was to feature the first 30 minutes of gameplay for new games. I wanted to let people see what a game played like before purchasing or renting. I did several hundred videos of this concept and simply kept the name and added an officer to the front of it! Anything you'd like to see added into LSPDFR next? Whether it be a feature that didn't make it to LS from LC, or something new you've thought of yourself? I guess it would be in the form of a callout pack but some specific callouts for helicopters and boats. Probably, the top 2 requests I’ve seen in Youtube comments. What's been your favourite and/or most used vehicle to use on patrol? Of course, the faithful Crown Victoria. Favorite police car is the Carbon Motors E7. I think having a specific vehicle for law enforcement is a great idea but the implementation by Carbon Motors was flawed. I think we might see another company in the future attempt to bring a specialized mass produced vehicle to the market for LE. How much planning goes into an episode, is it an on the spot type deal, or are episode ideas organised in advance? The hardest part for me is figuring out what to base each video on. Putting out a patrol video almost daily can make it a little repetitive. It always helps if there’s a great new vehicle that’s been released or a new callout pack. Other than that, I just commentate on what’s happening. Nothing is scripted. So what's your daily schedule like now, being full time on YouTube, does recording and editing take up most of your day? (about how many hours go into each, recording/editing?) To record a 20-minute patrol video, takes roughly 3 hours. I normally record about an hour of gameplay. Cut the bad parts out. Spend about 45 minutes importing and editing. Another hour rendering then another hour to get it to upload to Youtube. That doesn’t include the countless hours trying to troubleshoot why LSPDFR or GTA V is crashing haha. It has by far been my most rewarding career and I love going to “work” every day. Do you play any other games other than GTA/LSPDFR or outside of the ‘Police’ type genre entirely, if so what attracts you to this genre of gaming? First person shooters will always have a special place in my heart. Playing Halo 2 growing up was a big part of that. I’d hate to admit it but I’ve always been an off and on Runescape player. I’ve been playing Old School Runescape since its introduction a few years ago. I don’t know why it’s so addicting. Also have a couple hundred hours into Planetside 2. Was there a career you’d ever liked to pursue other than YT? When I was in college, I majored in Finance and, currently, hold a few FINRA licenses. I’ve always enjoyed helping people with money problems so that might even be a possible future transition. Other than that, I’ve wanted to be a lawyer. In 2015, I even took a 6 month course to get my Paralegal Certificate. Unfortunately, the time and financial commitment always held me back. "Have you been nominated for any (YouTube/Entertainment) awards as yet?" No awards besides the plaque Youtube sends you for 100,000 subscribers. My wife even made me a special one for 500,000! Roughly how long did it take to reach your subscriber milestones, one thousand and so on? The first thousand was by far the hardest. Once you get started, it can snowball. I think it took a little over a year to get that first one thousand. The next milestone for me is the big 1 million subscribers. I find it important to stay focused on your goal and continue to make steady progress. If you make something you are proud of, people will notice. Do you ever get recognised while out and about from your videos? Only a handful of times. I'm pretty shy in real life so I do apologize if I'm awkward. That being said I always enjoy meeting viewers! Has the trip been fun so far? Is there any end in sight/do you ever plan on returning to normal non-famous life? Youtube has been, by far, my best and most interesting job I've ever had. I realize Youtube won't last forever so I've made plans to go back into the financial industry if I can no longer continue to make enough earnings to live on. Even if I stopped Youtube full time, I would continue to put out videos. Youtube started off as a hobby and is still a lot of fun for me. We’re near half way done with this year already! Can you let us in on some of your goals for the rest of 2017? n January of this year, I was fortunate to marry the love of my life. We had a blast at the wedding and spent a week in Turks and Caicos celebrating. Financially, trying to eliminate as much debt as possible from my life. The wife and I are also trying to cook more at our house. For Youtube, continue to try to get out a video a day! I want to do another charity stream this year and donate the proceeds to another organization that supports LE. Jeff and I were able to raise over $1k in 4 hours last year! Anything you wish to say to the community? This is such a special community to me. I think everyone involved should be proud of what it has accomplished. Keep creating content and being supportive of others and this community will thrive for years. I am so blessed to be part of it. That’s it for this edition of Community Spotlight! Massive shout out and thank you to @FirstThirtyMinutes for taking part as well as @Carrythxd, @jngo79, @Lundy, and @Mikofiticus for the seriously amazing images! In the next few editions of Community Spotlight, we’ll be looking at smaller channels and mod creators! If you have any ideas about who we should feature in a community spotlight, send us a tip or let us know on twitter! Thanks for tuning in! Until next time, take care, officers..

This is Steve's first Spotlight on LSPDFR. Stay tuned, another great creator gets a spotlight release soon!

There's really no wrong answer here when discussing the issue because we don't physically have the computer infront of us, we can't see for ourselves everything that's going on, but here's the main difference between you two, just the settings and he runs MVGA (which of course is more taxing again due to it's nature, and you have to turn some graphics settings to max for it to even work well), and then you got AA which is a major resource hog, you guys may have different settings for AA as well. This comes back to like I said, the differing expectations in how the game looks but also performs at the same time. So some of the issue is just high expectations, I'm sure if OP could settle for High settings his stutters would go away, but yeah, I find it hard to hand out that sort of advice when I myself find it hard to "settle" and turn down my settings.. Personally, reading back on it now, I'm surprised that he can get 40FPS with very high settings and MVGA on that gear, 40-50FPS in GTAV on very high gfx is not easy, especially with bare min gear. (I would consider 6300 and 960 not very far off a FX 6100 and GTX 660).

It just depends on your settings and expectations for how the game will look and run, among other things like the what the rest of your setup is..

Ah yeah, I actually agree with LukeD to be honest. For some reason I had it in my head that ... He has older gen AMD > Just recommend the newer gen AMD, they'll be cheaper .. But looking at the prices for the decent Ryzen chips they're pretty expensive... Scratch what I said .. Grab a 6th gen intel processor, or the newer 7th gen if you have the budget. An i5-6600k is way better than what you have currenty, but I'd recommend a i7-6700k if you can. 6th gen is dropping is price because of the release of Kaby Lake, but Skylake is still really good, so you should be able to grab one for about half the price of a new Ryzen chip that'd have matching performance.

LSPDFR is a pretty CPU intensive plugin to be running on top of a AAA game, so many things going on at once especially if you have lots of plugins, so I'd say upgrading your CPU would definitely be the most beneficial in this case However if you were going to do that I'd suggest considering investing a Ryzen chip and mobo over 'upgrading' to just another older gen AMD chip .. Better performance plus future proofing.

This seems more edged towards that other one .. Which .. Is that Garry's mod w/ an urban map?.. Unsure.. Did see a snippet of GTAV with an SAPOL car though .. This is about the time of year that news corps begin to lack content and resort to their trash tier stuff.. The 7News story earlier this year was a shock because it was way too early in the year than usual for their anti-game smearing..

Suggesting edits ^ Most of those lines taken from the old thread refer to how I had it set up with having the list of mods there on the front page, but I don't think that's relevant here (unless you were bothered to do that, but I'm not sure how many people really even used it). Stuff in green is stuff that you can add if you like, stuff crossed out is mostly irrelevant lines that you can delete if you like.

Is it a specific charger model or all 2015 chargers? I know there's a few different '15 Charger models out there now, so if it's just one specific one perhaps just try someone else's? All of my ELS vehicles including the chargers I use just use the default handling and vehicle meta lines and I don't have an issue what-so-ever (except for being able to walk through some of the vehicles, but that actually doesn't bother me..)

It’s spotlight time again! Over the next few months, we’ll be sitting down with a couple of well known, and lesser known, names in the LSPDFR community. In this edition of the Community Spotlight, we got to chat with one of the biggest names over on YouTube, SteveTheGamer55. At the time of writing this article, SteveTheGamer55 has published 1,430 YouTube videos and has over 480,000 subscribers - insane numbers! For those unaware of you who are, can you tell us a bit about yourself? Hello, I’m a full time YouTube content creator, I started my YouTube channel about 5 years ago as a hobby and have grown over time to the point that I am at now. How'd you find out about LCPDFR and can you give us a rough estimate about when that was? I found out about LCPDFR after testing the Police Pursuit Mod by Team-NeO around 5 years ago, and then soon after decided to switch to and primarily use version 0.90E of LCPDFR due to its stability. If I remember correctly I found out about it through a YouTube video, I was watching some videos about NYPD vehicles ported to the game and somehow stumbled across an LCPDFR gameplay, but I cannot remember who that video was by. We were lucky enough to have you apart of our first ever LSPDFR Stream, for the release of LSPDFR 0.3, what was that like to be a part of? That was an amazing experience, and I would love to be a part of any future live streams! What did it feel like playing LCPDFR for the first time? Amazing! Being in the shoes of a (digital) officer and getting a small taste of what some of them go through day to day was very new to me and a great experience to be had. Game crashes, which we all knew about very well at the time, could become a bother but never really took the fun factor out of the overall experience for me. What was your experience like with Police Pursuit Mod compared to LCPDFR, what made you enjoy LCPDFR more? I have always thought that LCPDFR has been a more stable and feature rich modification, even though the team behind Police Pursuit Mod were doing some pretty neat things with their project at the time. The continuous updates and improvements to LCPDFR was really the main factor for me, and that's one of the reasons why I have stuck around here since. Roughly when did you start getting into YouTube/producing LC/LSPDFR videos? I started recording videos with 0.91 back around September 2011 as a hobby and haven't stopped since. But I just recently became a full time YouTuber/content creator as of June 2016. What made you love LC/LSPDFR so much? I had wanted to become a cop when I was younger but just never did follow through with it since I had decided to pursue another career as a bio-medical engineer which gave me some of the best experiences in my life. Even though LCPDFR/LSPDFR was not an official game, the mod did provide one of the best police simulation experiences out there for me personally, ever since playing it for the first time I have been addicted. What's been your favourite and/or most used vehicle to use on patrol so far? My preferred vehicle of choice would have to be the Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor (CVPI), simply due to its power and durability. You pretty well specialise in both LCPDFR and LSPDFR, how do you think LSPDFR stacks up against the original and classic LCPDFR? Other than the crashes, I am still in love with LCPDFR due to the fact that GTA IV's location is based off of New York City, which is where I currently reside. The experience that it provides me is true to life. The experience that LSPDFR provides is similar in nature, I just can't wait to see what's in store next! Anything you'd like to see added into LSPDFR next? Whether it be a feature that didn't make it to LS from LC, or something new you've thought of yourself? One thing that would be great to see added to LSPDFR would be a way to track stats and compare them with other players, something like what used to be offered for LCPDFR back in the day, but with more detail. What motivated you to start making LC/LSPDFR videos and what was it like starting out? I was inspired by one of the emergency vehicle modelers of the time, GFXLE. Starting out was hard and nerve-racking as the LCPDFR/LSPDFR community is sometimes very vocal and provides a lot of valuable feedback, being new to voice overs and being in front of the microphone was also very difficult in the beginning. Over time things just become natural and you truly come to enjoy the experience. How long did it take, in rough estimates to reach the one thousand subscriber milestone, also ten thousand, fifty thousand, and the most recent milestone, a whopping four hundred thousand subscribers? In truth, I never went into it expecting to gain any following, it was all for fun. So yes, When everything began to grow at a consistent rate it was crazy to watch, and I am still amazed! I hit my first 10K Subscribers roughly one year into it, 50K in just under three years, 100K in about three and a half years, and I am where I am now with 450K+ Subscribers after around four and a half years. Do you play any games outside of the 'Police' genre, if so what are they? My main focus continues to be LCPDFR, LSPDFR, and my Let's Go To Work series within the GTA franchise. Outside of that, I do sometimes play other games such as American Truck Simulator, Forza Horizon 3, Watch Dogs 2, NBA 2K17, and a handful of others when I have some free time. I absolutely hope to branch out and try some new games on my channel(s) at some point, I just want to be sure that it is something my viewers would want to see. So, what's your daily schedule like now that you're full time on YouTube, does filming and editing take up most of your day? I always try to pick a schedule that gives me the chance to have a regular lifestyle and that also allows me plenty of time to focus on creating content for YouTube. Although, some content can take many hours to produce and losing track of time is inevitable in those cases. Can you let us in on some of your goals for 2017? My primary goal for 2017 is to keep going strong at what I do and to continue uploading the best content possible for my fans, and anyone else who decides to check out my videos. Anything you wish to say to the community? Sure, I would just like to say thank you to the community for providing me with this once in a lifetime experience, without your support and feedback I would not be in the position I am now. I truly hope that everyone continues to provide the valuable feedback that they do and remain engaged with me for as long as this ride lasts! That’s it for this edition of Community Spotlight! Massive shout out and Thank You to @STEVETHEGAMER for letting us interrogate him and @Bozza, @Mikofiticus, @Sleepwalker and @Wilson Sellars for the amazing gallery images!

You mean like ... A federal police body, right? Kind of like, say .. the FBI, or a local example for me, the Australian Federal Police..?

Yep, I play on a similar system (i5-6600k instead of i7), all max settings - my FPS does take a hit going from x4 AA to x8 AA in the GTA settings panel though, so keep that in mind if you were wanting max AA, but x4 with a second type of AA (don't run all three types of AA in GTAV) still looks amazing.

Woah, well if that ain't the whackiest light bar setup I've ever seen... Do Montreal cop cars really use this?