Early Access Update 0.852 is now live

This update brings major improvements to vehicle AI, camera behavior, and overall stability, alongside a wide range of fixes and refinements.

Vehicle AI & Traffic (Major Improvements)

• Overhauled advanced vehicle obstacle avoidance into full C++ implementation for better control and performance. Vehicles now properly consider Mass entities across all LOD states.

• Developed a new method for vehicle AI traffic detection using transform-based calculations instead of collision tracing, improving performance and ensuring that emergency or fleeing vehicles have limited overlap with mass AI entities.

• Improved vehicle collision avoidance and movement behavior.

• Fixed an issue where vehicles committing infractions could become stationary and cause traffic pileups.

• Improved traffic stop path generation, vehicles now always find a valid pull-over location, even if not ideal.

• Adjusted vehicle overlap resolution, now using spline-based forward/backward movement with side detection fallback.

• Improved police vehicle following logic, using dynamic forward targets that interpolate to the suspect vehicle.

• Adjusted sensitivity for AI detecting when their follow target vehicle is stuck.

AI Behavior & Gameplay Logic

• Improved civilian AI engagement to immediately set threats as targets instead of waiting on memory updates.

• Fixed a bug where AI stored threats with a memory duration of 0.

• Added safeguards to prevent AI from interrupting activities or triggering animations while inside vehicles.

• Improved tackle logic to only trigger when moving forward at sufficient speed (still WIP for animations).

• Fixed callout scoring logic to properly account for maximum possible calls.

Player Interaction & Mechanics

• Added an onboarding board in the roll call room outlining police protocols (traffic stops, weapon usage, dispatch).

• Added new escort command menu variation, allowing you to release suspects without directly looking at them.

• You can now place suspects into vehicles while escorting when looking at a vehicle.

• Ensured player hands are cleared before certain interactions (e.g. searching, receiving ID).

• Improved player ragdoll get-up detection logic.

• Disabled destruction of the player body on respawn, fixing damage carry-over issues.

Camera & Animation

• Fixed head becoming invisible when transitioning from ADS to holster or third-person.

• Disabled ADS camera while reloading.

• Reworked camera collision tracing to better handle occlusion while maintaining visibility of the target (WIP).

• Removed unintended camera roll when exiting focus.

• Adjusted third-person camera pivot to reduce clipping during forward lean animations.

• Adjusted vehicle camera pivot and pitch limits.

• Fixed camera rotation mode resetting when dropping a pistol.

• Added safety check preventing view mode changes while using the DAS terminal.

Vehicles & Controls

• Adjusted vehicle stopping logic to use proper braking when AI exits.

• Vehicle customization default key bind reverted to E.

• Fixed incorrect normal map on Chevrette Canis when using paint liveries.

• Fixed customization advisor appearing incorrectly on rear deck slots.

Stability & Performance

• Fixed a rare crash caused by navigation mesh generation during world streaming.

• Fixed a crash from Mass vehicle AI accessing invalid entities.

• Replaced hard references to threats with weak pointers to prevent crashes.

• Fixed an issue with the escape button being non responsive.

• Fixed A* vehicle avoidance pathfinding issues.

World & Misc.

• Fixed some traffic lights not spawning.

• Adjusted exit positions for AI and player to ensure proper ground alignment.

• Minor improvements to small object detection for camera occlusion.

• Fixed missing ground collision in several spots

• Fixed a full screen issue