Federal Callouts - Alpha 0.560

Federal Callouts was created to give more purpose to the FIB, DOA and IAA models.

Federal Callouts was created to give more purpose to the FIB, DOA and IAA models.

In it's current state it is stable but does not have all of the planned callouts. There are currently 6 callouts included in Federal Callouts, at least 9 more are planned.

Current Callouts

Potential drug deal - Pretty self explanatory. You're sent out to watch if a guy sells drugs, and if he does, arrest him. Watching isn't the hard part... (currently 4 different paths the callout can go when you move in to arrest the suspect). Around 20% of the time the intel is bad (if this ends up being too frequent I may lower it).

Prevent assassination - This requires more investigation. You are given a gender of the killer and an area to look for him. The assassin will strike after 1-5 minutes so your response time can be crucial. Look for the odd man out - someone who is following another person.

Armored car robbery - Robbers are moving in on an armored car. You must help the guards protect the armored vehicle. If you arrive before the robber stay with the truck and wait for them to arrive.

Wanted person - (previously execute arrest warrant) There is a suspect who has a warrant out for his arrest. Arrest him. Responding code 3 may make your job harder. (This is the first few variations of the callout - eventually there will be many more. If you are looking for a callout where the suspect is in a vehicle, check out Traffic Policer).

Escaped prisoner - You're given a name, description, prior and general area. You need to find the escaped fugitive.

Kidnapping - Disabled in 560 by default. I'm overhauling this callout and it'll be out in a new update soon (you can enable it manually if you want cancer)

Current Features

Agency detection - There are two name settings. Based on which model you pick when you go on duty, Federal Callouts will pick the more appropriate name.

Suspect danger level - when looking for a fugitive or someone with an arrest warrant, dispatch will tell you that person's crimes and that will tell you roughly how dangerous they will be (armed crimes = armed suspect)

Customizable callout spawnpoints - As of writing this only the drug deal callout will utilize this feature. This feature lets users specify their own spawnpoints (and remove existing one) for callouts. You can find the spawnpoints in /Plugins/LSPDFR/FederalCallouts. Each folder is for a different group of spawnpoints. For example, "Drug" contains the drug deal spawnpoints. You can use this tool to created spawnpoints. File name does not matter. Tags are currently not utilized. Heading (which way you are facing in the world) is used so when creating spawnpoints for callouts that spawn a single ped like Potential drug deal make sure your character is facing the way you want the dealer to be facing. When finished, simply place the XML file in the correct folder mentioned earlier and Federal Callouts will load it the next time the game starts!

Dispatch audio - All callouts support dispatch audio for when the callout pops up and many support it during the callout itself.

Vehicle Repair - Just pull up to your department's garage and the mechanics will repair your car for you, good as new. I added this feature when I heard @FirstThirtyMinutes would find it useful for streams and I figured I would like it as well. More repair locations will be added as necessary. The icon will be near police stations and will look like this:

Except, of course, it will be white in-game.

Videos

Overview Video (Thanks Jeff Favignano)

Potential Drug Deal & Assassination (Thanks FirstThirtyminutes)

Planned Callouts

Sting operations - I will add a variety. The current WIP is one where the suspect thinks he has a bomb in his van but he really doesn't. Most (if not all) will be based on real FBI sting operations.

Execute search warrant - This will be pretty simple but also take some time as I need to gather locations. Search a store or house for evidence of an alleged crime or for a wanted fugitive.

Terrorist callouts - Some of these will be sting operations. Others will be real tips and you need to stop a terrorist attack, whether it be a mass shooting or a bomb. (thanks for the idea Hystery!)

Bank robbery investigation - This might be a lengthy callout. You are sent out to interview some staff and other witnesses of a bank robbery. You need to interview witnesses and collect evidence. I might make this multiple callouts that work together (I have a few ways of doing this in mind) but it might also just be one big one, I'll see how it works out.

More are planned... I plan on having at least 10 by the time this is finished. Some are still just ideas... some might be your ideas! Feel free to give me ideas in the forum thread.

Planned Features

Better callout AI - Suspects will see marked police vehicles and won't commit crimes in front of them. They might eventually lose the eyes in the back of their head (i.e. instead of getting too close to a drug dealer and spooking him, he'd have to see you. think how the GTA V police search system works, where they have to look for you or you lose your wanted level)

Abundance of variation - Pretty straightforward. I hope to get rid of almost all predictability of all the callouts.

Playstyle tuning - Are you a beginner or more experienced? Tune the settings of the individual callouts to match your playstyle and adjust realism. Don't like a callout? Turn it off.

Wrong Jurisdiction - In the settings file you will be able to set callouts to only play for certain agencies. There will be 3 modes: all, federal, local. If you feel some callouts are better tuned to federal or local agencies then you can make them only appear when playing as those agencies.

Installation

REQUIREMENTS:
LSPDFR 0.3.1
RagePluginHook 0.57

For an easy installation, open the FederalCallouts zip file and drag the two folders (LSPDFR and Plugins) into your GTA V root directory. The folders have been created in the download so that they correctly match the folders inside your GTA V directory.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO LOAD THIS PLUGIN VIA THE CONSOLE OR STARTUP.RPHS: LSPDFR WILL DO IT AUTOMATICALLY

Before asking me for help

Make sure you are running RPH 0.57 and LSPDFR 0.3.1

Make sure to include RagePluginHook.log and your RPH Version

What's in the next update

• Stingray callout
• Overhauled kidnapping callout
• Bomb sting callout

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