Remove Gang Retaliation

Background: I got annoyed by the unnecessarily difficult and somewhat tacky (game mechanic wise) Maelstrom car chase after killing Royce in The Pickup at Allfoods, so started digging into the game's tweak files to remove it. Figured the logic used to remove the Maelstrom chase would extend to the rest of the gang retaliation chases. Enjoy driving undisturbed now.

Installation:

Drag the zip file into Vortex mod manager "Drop Files". Then, yes to install to staging.

To test if it's working:

In vanilla, make a savegame right before the offending gang retaliation event occurs. Load and confirm that it occurs in vanilla (i.e. you get into your car and immediately the COMBAT alert screams and 4 cars spawn in). Then enable the mod (Vortex mod manager or manual install) and confirm that the savegame does not spawn the gang retaliation event.

Implementation details:

DeletedvehicleRecord = records in the appropriate dynamicspawn tweak files corresponding to the offending gang. This appears to prevent the game (scripts?) from spawning the gang retaliation vehicle and its occupants. Note: this is somewhat crude tweak file based solution and may benefit from refinement (remove the actual source scripts / logic chains that spawn these events if accessible/possible instead of preventing them from functioning correctly)