Version 0.0.23 Released!

New version of the game released.  This update focuses on sound effects adding menu hover, confirm, and cancel sounds to the main menu, options menu, and pause menu.  It also adds a sound effect when completing a goal.

Continuing to work through the Q1 2023 roadmap:

• Menu sounds and goal reach sounds - Complete
• Fishtail correction for AI vehicles - Complete
• Improve police AI - better dynamic obstacle avoidance- In Progress
• UE 5.1 Upgrade: Currently on 5.0.3 - Complete
• Difficulty re-balancing
• Traffic AI collision avoidance improvements - In Progress

The next update will focus on improvements to the police  AI.  The first published version 0.0.20 brought a huge upgrade to the traffic AI making the spline path following system live that had been worked on and prototyped in parallel with other developments for several weeks.  With that change brought the potential to upgrade other aspects of the AI.  The police currently make use of the splines to know when a dead end T-intersection is approaching and slow down appropriately to avoid taking turns at full speed and ramming into buildings.  They can also use that information to know about nearby obstacles and slow down in dense traffic scenarios.  Similar to the T-intersection change, the spline information can be used when tracking the player through normal intersections.