Attention Officers,
Welcome to the LSS Patch 2 update notes! This release delivers over 185 fixes throughout the game. Highlights include correcting a tiled lightmap artifact that made lighting appear pixelated, addressing CS gas resistance in suspects, resolving multiple crash scenarios, and improving blood saturation on clothing.
For a list of known issues, visit our official Discord’s #known-issues channel.
We’re actively monitoring your reports. Please submit any new bugs via the Ready or Not Bug Reports channels on Discord to ensure they’re tracked and resolved efficiently.
Bug Fixes
Levels
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Grid‐pattern lightmap artifact: eliminated the checkerboard overlay that degraded lighting resolution.
- Ongoing work on refining shadow-edge resolution.
- Standardized LOD transitions across every map.
- Fixed unbreakable windows on assorted levels.
- Removed floating shower handles post‐glass destruction.
Training
- Applied missing textures in the split-team segment.
- Resolved soft‐lock when issuing rapid split commands.
- Restored progression after completing the shooting-range tutorial.
- Fixed crash triggered by aiming immediately after using the ammo box.
- Addressed crash when manipulating civilians during tablet exercises.
- Corrected visual glitches on one hockey-mask suspect.
- Ensured suspects always spawn armed.
Station
- Now able to approach the mission-select table from any angle.
- Eliminated black artifacts in all station variants.
- Fixed transparent head rendering on certain officers.
Thank You, Come Again
- Removed sporadic black artifacts scattered throughout the map.
- Prevented ground textures from merging with car tires.
- Corrected suspect briefing height mismatches.
- Re‐enabled front-door chimes when doors are kicked or breached.
23 Megabytes a Second
- Cleaned up black pixelation in various locations.
- Fixed errant music triggers, especially in co-op.
- Smoothed out music transitions under edge conditions.
Twisted Nerve
- Repaired overly absorbent mirror surfaces.
- Corrected black carpet rendering at the entrance.
- Potential fix for candle collision causing bullet blockages.
- Refined navmesh for consistent AI movement.
- Eradicated random black artifacts.
- Fixed texture bleed between ground and vehicle tires.
The Spider
- Stopped tire‐texture blending into the pavement.
- Made key interactables more accessible.
- Restored missing environmental audio cues.
A Lethal Obsession
- Unstuck Gerard when navigating vents.
Ides of March
- Removed black artifacts at multiple points.
- Corrected misassigned reverberation zones.
- Tightened music timeline flow.
- Eliminated wall‐clipping errors.
- Fixed intermittent TV audio drop-outs.
- Extended penthouse TV audio fade-outs.
Sinuous Trail
- Resolved texture merging issues.
- Fixed missing and redundant shrubbery sound effects.
- Optimized music trigger logic and transitions.
Ends of the Earth
- Cleared black artifact clusters.
- Prevented ground texture leak onto tires.
- Fixed AI getting trapped in attic crawl spaces.
Greased Palms
- Removed residual black pixelation.
- Ensured players spawn within bounds.
- Fixed misassigned reverbs.
- Refined in-level music triggers.
Valley of the Dolls
- Prevented civilians from clipping into hiding spots.
- Fixed floating guard eyewear.
- Removed black visual glitches.
Elephant
- Eradicated black artifacts in the environment.
Rust Belt
- Fixed stair collision causing awkward breaching behavior.
- Stopped ground-to-tire texture merging.
- Polished music trigger logic.
- Resolved rare map-generation hang on load.
Sins of the Father
- Improved resolution of floor textures.
Buy Cheap, Buy Twice
- Corrected character spawn positions preventing weapons between legs.
- Fixed tire-texture blending.
Carriers of the Vine
- Stopped suspects from engaging immediately upon spawn.
- Removed persistent black artifacts.
- Repopulated missing foliage.
Relapse
- Removed random black pixelation.
Hide and Seek
- Eliminated black artifacts in multiple spots.
- Restored missing ambient audio.
- Fixed incorrect transition-zone settings.
- Refined in-level music triggers and end-of-track silence durations.
Dorms
- Removed floating props in several areas.
Narcos
- Prevented civilian-clipping while crouched.
- Eradicated black visual noise.
- Stopped ground-to-tire texture blending.
Lawmaker
- Cleared black pixelation.
- Fixed texture fusion in certain corridors.
Mirage at Sea
- Encouraged SWAT AI to breach first doors reliably.
- Removed random black artifacts.
Leviathan
- Addressed sporadic black glitching.
3 Letter Triad
- Fixed overly glossy doors and props.
- Resolved texture blending anomalies.
Hunger Strike
- Closed gaps between doors and frames.
- Eliminated black visual artefacts.
- Corrected suspect armor values.
- Stopped ground-tire texture merging.
- Prevented out-of-bounds climbing exploits.
Stolen Valor
- Removed black artifacts in key areas.
- Fixed ground-to-tire texture bleed.
AI
- Improved suspect flight behavior under CS gas.
- Prevented suspects from freezing while reloading.
- Allowed unarmed suspects to perform cover-building.
- Ensured CS gas grenades by SWAT affect all targets correctly.
- Fixed flashbangs blocking arrests.
UI
- Removed deleted friends immediately from the list.
- Updated quick-command colors on gamepad wheels.
- Applied Ironman mode on new Commander saves.
- Filtered out non-owners from friend lists.
- Restored “Queue Command” to controller layouts.
- Fixed command-list quirks on specific gamepad setups.
- Corrected item counts on the wheel.
- Prevented stacked error messages when searching repeatedly.
- Fixed wrong-platform usernames displaying.
- Disabled crossplay prompts when disabled.
- Addressed missing localization entries.
- Resolved subtitle timing and display issues.
- Prevented mission-select menu from glitching on gamepad.
- Smoothed stutter in attachments menus.
- Ensured tablet chat shows your own messages.
- Fixed bind conflicts with lobby-manager controls.
- Stopped repeated achievement popups in menus.
- Replaced placeholders in Career Stats on fresh saves.
- Maintained gamepad focus in loadout menus.
- Corrected crossplay icons in stats screens.
- Hid supporter-only items from non-owners.
- Updated Steam avatars properly in lobbies.
Customization
- Fixed polo shirt description errors.
- Improved hair texture quality on multiplayer heads.
Audio
- Ensured microphones join lobbies muted by default on gamepad.
- Prevented VOIP loops when muting/disconnecting mid-chat.
- Fixed overall occlusion not applying correctly.
- Synchronized grenade and glass-break sounds reliably.
- Cleared stale audio events lingering in memory.
- Smoothened interior/exterior ambience transitions.
- Balanced 3D reflections and room probes.
- Adjusted bullet-whiz and lockpick-gun SFX volumes.
- Fixed audio occlusion on windows and interactions.
- Corrected bomb defusal/trap-cutting SFX timing.
- Tweaked TRPL mixing for reduced bass.
- Ensured MPX magazine-out sound plays.
Animation
- Improved tool-and-pistol movement animations.
- Aligned 590M iron sights while strafing.
- Fixed third-person lockpick and reload glitches.
- Removed duplicate holster animations in multiplayer.
- Re-enabled door-kick animations for non-rifles.
Replay Viewer
- Now shows correct film-settings values on reopen.
- Excluded idle end-screen time from mission replays.
- Displayed accurate player counts and mission grades.
Miscellaneous Fixes
- Resolved navmesh-related crashes and AI cover-search errors.
- Fixed multiple audio, VOIP, command-wheel, and UI crashes.
- Prevented rare tablet, evidence-collection, and animation crashes.
- Improved blood-soak speed on uniforms.
- Reduced character skin shine artifacts.
- Fixed session-join issues immediately after host restart.
- Ensured prompts persist after use.
- Blocked crossplay when disabled.
- Aligned lasers when FOV settings differ.
- Corrected bleed and friendly-fire logic on Casual difficulty.
- Stopped shotguns damaging SWAT under friendly-fire off.
- Fixed wrong‐direction firing when switching input modes.
- Ensured quick-select items remain accurate on gamepad.
- Fixed C-grade achievement tracking.
- Resolved invite-join issues when the game is closed.
- Eliminated ammo-box stutters.
- Prevented accuracy exploits on corpses.
- Secured checksum settings from lobby changes.
- Removed redundant avatar-fetch requests.
- Stopped force-feedback during pause.
- Made modded levels appear correctly in mission lists.
- Fixed slot-count mismatches on armor swaps.
- Optimized and restored missing VFX.
- Blocked free-lean exploits in geometry.
- Adjusted single-shell reloads on empty shotguns.
- Fixed blacked-out attachments in certain maps.
- Enabled window-bash to shatter reliably.
Feature Updates
Gameplay → General Performance
- Introduced a simple data asset for modders to spawn custom actors on BeginPlay.
- Enabled lobby‐size expansion via mods.
- Refined modded matchmaking logic:
- Hosts with mods or “Allow Modded Players” create modded lobbies.
- Modded players can only join modded lobbies.
- Unmodded players with “Join Modded Lobbies” enabled can join any lobby.
Visuals
- Continued converting Cascade effects to Niagara.
UI & Experience
- Added themed placeholder avatars for unlinked cross-platform users.
Known Issues
- Public match search UI must be reopened to retry failed searches.
- Lightmap shadow edges may still appear low-res.
- Cannot issue SWAT orders while looking skyward.
- ADS speed modifier for grips is nonfunctional.
- Certain arm models react to lighting differently than heads, causing uneven shine.