Early Access 0.852.3

This patch focuses on improving vehicle AI navigation reliability, traffic stability, and fixing several edge cases that could lead to crashes or inconsistent behavior.

Vehicle AI & Traffic

• Improved advanced vehicle pathfinding to be more consistent and properly avoid traffic where applicable.

• Fixed multiple issues in the traffic emergency response processor, ensuring entity tracking and linking remain stable when vehicles are pushed through intersections.

• Fixed a bug in the vehicle yield system where offsets could be applied twice, causing conflicts.

• Fixed pull-over logic so AI vehicles now correctly consider all valid lanes instead of only forward lanes.

• Re-enabled collision on medium LOD traffic vehicles to prevent overlapping with players and AI.

• Vehicles removed from Mass Traffic now remain high-resolution actors.

• Adjusted entity detection logic for avoidance to fix issues in packaged builds.

AI Behavior & Gameplay Logic

• Slightly increased likelihood of fleeing behavior over direct threat engagement.

• Improved callout location cooldown logic, now correctly including indoor locations.

• Added a debug option to clear nearby or all callouts (developer menu only, does not affect vehicles).

Stability & Fixes

• Minor adjustment to threat reference tracking to prevent nullptr-related crashes.

• Fixed a stair collision issue in the 929 apartment that caused AI to get stuck.

• Fixed issues with traffic stop vehicle spawn offsets.

• Disabled input when the player is ejected from a vehicle.

Player & Vehicle Interaction

• Increased the force required for player ejection from vehicles.

• Adjusted ejection force behavior for more consistent results.

Settings & Misc.

• Disabled the traffic density slider.

• Several fixes and stability improvements.