Cryptic Callouts 3.0.0

Complete Rewrite

• Completely rebuilt Cryptic Callouts from the ground up with a new shared foundation focused on reliability, safer entity management and more consistent callout behaviour.

• Rebuilt all 11 existing callouts on the new foundation.

• Replaced repeated callout-specific systems with shared infrastructure for randomisation, proximity detection, background task cancellation, entity management and negotiations.

• Split Road Rage into separate scene and negotiation files for improved maintainability while preserving its existing scenarios, dialogue and stages.

Added

• Added Officer Needs Assistance.

• Added Illegal Street Racing.

• Added Burglary in Progress.

• Added Vehicle Pursuit Assistance.

• Added custom callout audio throughout the pack.

• Added configurable minimum and maximum racer counts for Illegal Street Racing.

• Added multiple Officer Needs Assistance scenario variants, including resisting suspects, fleeing suspects, multiple suspects and armed standoffs.

• Added individual flee decisions for racers during Illegal Street Racing.

• Added an interactive suspect interaction system to Burglary in Progress.

• Added active LSPDFR pursuit support to Vehicle Pursuit Assistance.

• Added configuration validation to prevent invalid distance and outcome settings from causing unexpected behaviour.

• Added centralised tracking for spawned peds, vehicles and blips.

• Added cooperative cancellation for delayed and background callout tasks.

• Added a shared negotiation menu for Hostage Situation, Domestic Disturbance and Road Rage.

Changed

• Improved callout spawning with progressive location searching when suitable locations are outside the initial search range.

• Reworked randomisation throughout the plugin to use a shared random source.

• Improved entity cleanup when callouts end or are declined.

• Improved handling of delayed and background tasks after callouts end.

• Improved the reliability of fixed-location callouts.

• Improved suspect behaviour and scene stability across the existing callouts.

• Road Rage now requires the player to explicitly clear the scene before the callout can resolve after completing the investigation.

• Burglary in Progress suspects now remain at the scene while the player interacts with them.

• Removed unnecessary wandering behaviour from Burglary in Progress suspects.

• Vehicle getaway outcomes in Bank Robbery and Store Robbery have been replaced with more reliable suspect outcomes.

• Existing Bank Robbery and Store Robbery getaway weighting is now transferred to the foot-flee outcome.

• Volatile Pursuit now uses its existing pursuit and combat systems without the previous custom relationship system.

• Improved configuration handling to protect against malformed or invalid INI values.

Fixed

• Fixed Bank Robbery, Store Robbery and Armed Mugging failing to display when suitable fixed locations were outside the initial search distance.

• Fixed spawned entities being left behind when Armed Mugging, Stolen Vehicle or Bank Robbery were declined from the callout panel.

• Fixed stale background tasks continuing to run after a callout had ended.

• Fixed Road Rage automatically resolving while the player was still investigating the scene.

• Fixed Bank Robbery suspects failing to reliably enter their getaway vehicle before the pursuit began.

• Fixed Store Robbery suspects failing to reliably enter their getaway vehicle before the pursuit began.

• Fixed Burglary in Progress suspects walking away while the player was attempting to interact with them.

• Fixed Volatile Pursuit crashing immediately after the callout was accepted.

• Fixed an invalid relationship group assignment in Volatile Pursuit that could cause an ArgumentNullException.

• Fixed malformed configuration values being able to invalidate outcome weighting.

• Fixed various callout cleanup and entity management issues across the pack.

Removed

• Removed the unreliable vehicle getaway outcome from Bank Robbery.

• Removed the unreliable vehicle getaway outcome from Store Robbery.

• Removed the custom relationship group previously used by Volatile Pursuit.

• Removed unnecessary wandering behaviour from Burglary in Progress suspects.

• Removed duplicated hand-written negotiation menu implementations.

• Removed repeated callout-specific randomisation systems in favour of the shared random source.

Notes

Version 3.0.0 is a major rewrite and expansion of Cryptic Callouts.

All 11 existing callouts have been rebuilt on the new foundation, while four new callouts have been added, bringing the pack to 15 callouts in total.

This update focuses heavily on reliability, cleanup and more consistent scene behaviour while also introducing new scenarios and custom callout audio.

It is recommended to use the updated CrypticCallouts.ini included with this release.