Police Response Overhaul

Police Response Overhaul

Police Response Overhaul makes fighting the police in Schedule I more dynamic, dangerous, and unpredictable. Instead of the same small response every time, law enforcement escalates with the chaos you cause: extra native patrols on the street, a GTA-style wanted ladder, cruiser and foot backup, officer variety, and Cartel Final Responses as the daily body count climbs.

This is a full replacement for Even More Foot Patrols. Delete old DLLs before installing. Do not run them together.

Verify mod integrity and see changelogs at GitHub

Uninstall first

Delete these from your Mods folder before installing, or they will load twice / fight the officer pool:

• []EvenMoreFootPatrols-Mono.dll[/]

  []EvenMoreFootPatrols-IL2CPP.dll[/]

This mod's assemblies are PoliceResponseOverhaul-Mono.dll and PoliceResponseOverhaul-IL2CPP.dll.

Main Features

Body Armor – Adds a separate Body Armor listing at Thrifty Threads for $12,500 next to the normal Tactical Vest. Pick any vest color at the shop, equip it in Outerwear, and incoming damage drops by 50%. Only the Body Armor purchase (or overhaul armor) grants that reduction — the cheap vanilla vest does not. Armor is lost on death; the shop listing stays. Heavy police (elites, enforcers, SWAT, juggernauts, and anyone with a long gun) wear the vanilla tactical vest and take the same reduced damage. Street cops vest less often; mixed SWAT crews vest most of the time.

Ambient Law Presence – Uses Schedule I’s native patrol scheduler instead of cloning extra cops onto routes. Vanilla foot groups run 1–N officers (typically 1–2, up to 3 at night or high wanted level), with extra native foot loops, vehicle patrols, and night sentries. Law intensity rises with wanted stars so more of the city’s existing activities actually turn on. With More Guns installed, street / cloned patrols can roll custom weapons when AmbientMoreGuns is on (default).

Dynamic Police Reinforcements – Backup comes in waves about 12 seconds apart at low wanted (faster as stars climb, down to ~3. 5s at 5★). Early waves prefer two cruisers when the concurrent cap allows, and car drops also send foot flankers. If the car cap is full, the wave converts to foot instead of being skipped. Default concurrent cap is two response cars (configurable 1–3). Mixed cruisers stay driver + passenger. Rifle, shotgun, Special Response, and juggernaut waves pack 3–4 if the car has seats and deploy as cars (not foot) when that is the intended personality. Cruisers leave from real station vehicle spawn points; empty cars are reclaimed so backup does not stall. After you wipe a wave, follow-up backup keeps coming without dumping every queued wave at once.

Smart Dispatch – Foot units are fine when you are close to the station (~100m). Farther away, or when you are in a vehicle, responses prefer cruisers. Nearby ambient street cops within ~80–120m can be drafted into the chase (a couple at a time) without replacing station response car waves. Local-alert radius and caps are configurable under PoliceResponseOverhaul_Tactics.

Ground Units – Pure foot personalities spawn 2–3 officers on their own. Car waves also bring 1–2 foot flankers so early fights feel thicker. If K9 Patrol is installed, dedicated K9 units arrive in a cruiser: the handler drives and the dog takes a passenger seat, stays inside, and is hidden while seated so the model does not poke through the roof. Foot sweeps can still pick up a dog on foot. Officers who already walk a K9 beat keep theirs.

Wanted Stars – Wanted level works like GTA: 0–5 white stars in the top-right. The 6th star stays hidden until you earn it; then all six turn gold (JuggernautsEnabled, default on). Solid while cops have you in a chase, flashing while they are searching, gone as soon as you lose the wanted level. Death or arrest clears that player immediately (about 25s of arrest grace so station cops do not cuff you again on spawn).

Wanted Ladder – Stars climb one tier at a time. Early stars come from the first couple of kills; 3★ and 4★ need two more kills at that level, 5★ needs three at 4★, and 6★ needs four at 5★. Dumping a pile of cops in a few seconds will not skip you to Special Response. K9, rifle teams, and shotgun teams show up through 1–4★. Hitting 5★ always sends Special Response (elite SWAT with smoke). Keep fighting at 5★ and you earn gold 6★ and a juggernaut squad.

Different Response Personalities – Waves roll cruiser (1–2 cars), foot sweep, K9, or SWAT.