Responding Patch – Early Access 0.852.2

This small patch focuses on improving vehicle AI behavior, stability, and overall gameplay consistency, along with a set of fixes and visual improvements. The main focus has been a rework of the vehicle AI avoidance framework. While it’s already performing better, the system is still very much a work in progress.

Vehicle AI & Traffic (Major Changes)

• Overhauled AI vehicle follow logic, improving consistency across both simulated and non-simulated states. Includes support for more aggressive (ram-capable) following.

• Overhauled vehicle avoidance logic. Vehicles now commit to avoidance paths and only merge back when space is available (WIP but more stable).

• Temporarily disabled the traffic infractions processor to isolate and resolve traffic instability issues.

• Vehicles commanded to pull over no longer consider traffic vehicles as obstacles.

• Improved AI spawning at callouts, ensuring vehicles and characters spawn in valid, non-conflicting locations.

AI Behavior & Gameplay Logic

• Fixed a bug where AI shared engagement data, breaking the Can Engage logic.

• Improved police engagement behavior to prioritize taking cover instead of moving toward unclear last known locations.

• Added shuffle to dispatch scenarios for better variation and replay ability.

Player & Interaction

• Added vehicle seatbelts for the player (default toggle: "Z").

• Fixed camera roll issue when exiting a vehicle.

Vehicles & Handling

• Adjusted ambulance suspension and steering speed.

• Fixed normal maps for all Chevrette Canis paint options.

World, Visuals & Performance

• Replaced elevated subway rail mesh with HISM to improve performance and fix visual issues.

• Increased flashlight and spotlight intensity.

• Increased medic gurney floor trace distance.

Settings, Localization & Misc.

• Fixed scalability settings not saving correctly.

• Enabled Italian translation.