DarkRP Update [11/02/2022]

[Nutter 13,275]

Hello DarkRP mains, my sincere apologies for the server crashes spanning across the last 3 days of our Halloween event

For anybody who was not made aware of the situation, a VIP member of our community was abusing paywalled tools with exploits, across what appeared to be 5+ different alts.

While the patch took 3 days, it was a bit tricky to figure out, but eventually, I had figured it out with the help of @Proggy and a few other community members 

 

To make up for the instabilities, I had decided to release a pretty lengthy update! Especially now that I am enjoying coding so much.

 

HUD

Over the past year I have improved with my lua skills quite a bit, I figured it'd be time to tackle our servers' UIs, and the most logical first step would be the HUD

I have re-created our hud from the ground-up with no reference code, and made sure every missing detail is now accounted for, IE: wanted players, arrested, and lockdowns.

 

Full Screen - Old HUD

Full Screen - New HUD

 

 

 

Ammo Count - Old HUD

Ammo Count - New HUD

 

 

 

Wanted - Old HUD

Wanted - New HUD

 

 

 

Arrested - Old HUD

Arrested - New HUD

 

 

 

Other Players - Old HUD

Other Players - New HUD

If Unprestiged

If Prestiged

 

 

In the event of server data breaking, this HUD will not spam you with errors, I've added "failsafes"

Any data that can't be fetched will be displayed as "LOADING" until it can be collected

 

 

 

Party System

The beloved party system is making a return to the server, while it was not fully recoded, I have greatly optimized it and patched up dated code in order to make it a more robust system that should suffice. @Bizzy has hinted at already having re-created it, but as of right now, we have no release date. 

And also...

For the stupid ones who refuse to disband their party properly

 

 

 

F4 Menu

For the sake of simplicity, moving forward your character's level and prestige will be displayed in the F4 menu, where you will be met with anything that is level/prestige-restricted

I have added coloring to the otherwise plain black and white menu in order to help players in searching for a job

The character display has also been significantly zoom in, to showcase the playermodels better.

This leads me onto another issue which is..

alot of classes did not have a unique color, so that has also been adjusted, and the sorting of the F4 menu has been changed to be random but more coercive!

 

 

 

Jail System

I fixed a bug literally nobody reported to me..??

Players who "smuggle" a knife to jail can use it to lockpick PD doors regardless of their job

(previously restricted to arrest thief roles)

 

 

 

Map

We are officially back on our regular Downtown map

This halloween event has been an incredible success, and such a fun time

Looking forward to what will come to the server on December for Christmas!

 

 

 

Advanced Dupe

Players can now put down dupes that included forbidden items

I have modified Advanced Dupe to skip items that cannot be pasted, removing the necessity to go to single player and modify your dupe to be used on the server

[HtmlRoot 29]

Major W update. Glad you fixed the annoying bug where I can't lockpick myself out when I'm like DJ or something. Also nice HUD update. Even if some people don't see a difference, I looked closely and admire the differences.

[Proggy 3,355]

Now you can take a day off!

Get yo girl some chicken nuggies

[KingMash 255]

Thank you for being honest about those issues. 
 

but damn garnet this update is huge. 

13 minutes ago, Nutter said:

Players who "smuggle" a knife to jail can use it to lockpick PD doors regardless of their job

I thought this was on purpose lmao

 

 

Color coating the F4 menu. Man out here thinking of everything. 10/10

[Proggy 3,355]

52 minutes ago, KingMash said:

Color coating the F4 menu. Man out here thinking of everything. 10/10

I suggested it YEARS ago

[StraightWhiteChristianMale 343]

good shit homie

[ChrisRid 553]

Awesome update! It’s great that you’ve managed to rebuild a lot of the systems to be super optimised, and make things look really good too in the process. Well done to you and Proggy for finding the exploiter and good news about the Super-Duper fix. Can’t wait to see how Bizzy does with the new Party System, that would be amazing to have everything re-done for sure! Can’t wait to get back on and check it all out

[HtmlRoot 29]

Only issue is we can't see what weapons/tools jobs get.

[Shin_Tsukimi 2,165]

The last thing I read on forums pre-surgery. Thanks for the awesome update!

[hex_ 199]

2 hours ago, Nutter said:

Players can now put down dupes that included forbidden items

W

[Vortex1 64]

This update is so refreshing and I’m very happy with the results. You said you 

8 hours ago, Nutter said:

have improved with my lua skills quite a bit

Which is awesome to hear for the future projects and updates you have to offer the community. A1

[xFish 311]

9 hours ago, Nutter said:

I have modified Advanced Dupe to skip items that cannot be pasted, removing the necessity to go to single player and modify your dupe to be used on the server

THIS

THANK YOU

[L E O 9]

Good Update! 
This is for you mr Nutter ----------> W

[Salteeeens 158]

Nice one! 

[1998Corolla 41]

NOICE

If I could make a suggestion, the lockdown flashing on the top bar is now suuuuper dark, and makes it hard to tell if there is one.