Cryptic Callouts 4.0.0

Complete Rewrite

• Rebuilt the existing 15 callouts around a new shared IncidentCallout framework.

• Added OwnedScene to manage the people, vehicles, blips, routes, and NPCAI registrations belonging to each callout.

• Centralised scene creation, arrival detection, player interaction, pursuit handling, resolution, and cleanup.

• Changed callout scenes to create their participants as the player approaches the dispatch location.

• Changed resolved scenes to remain available for investigation until cleared when automatic ending is disabled.

Added

• Added Assault in Progress.

• Added Criminal Damage.

• Added Hit and Run.

• Added Suspicious Person.

• Added Vehicle Break-In.

• Added a fatal collision scene, reporting witness, and fleeing driver to Hit and Run.

• Added a context update that lets the Hit and Run witness give a fuller statement after the driver has been located.

• Added optional NPCAI integration without making NPCAI a requirement to play Cryptic Callouts.

• Added case-specific NPCAI facts for eligible suspects, witnesses, callers, victims, and responding officers.

• Added role-based interview guidance for detailed, chronological statements.

• Added guidance that separates firsthand observations from assumptions, dispatch information, and facts a participant could not know.

• Added caller-specific facts so participants do not incorrectly claim they called 911.

• Added NPCAI context updates as incidents develop, including after compliance or when a witness becomes safe to interview.

• Added authored pedestrian, road, and residential scene locations across Los Santos and Blaine County.

• Added separate locations for the reported home and the neighbor’s property in residential incidents.

• Added a marked backup officer and patrol vehicle to assist during vehicle pursuits.

• Added retry handling if a pursuit backup officer or vehicle cannot be created on the first attempt.

• Added first-run generation of CrypticCallouts.ini when the configuration file is missing.

• Added configurable keys for talking, issuing commands, clearing a resolved scene, and manually ending a callout.

Changed

• Reworked pedestrian placement to check ground height, avoid road surfaces, and keep spawned people apart.

• Reworked residential caller placement to find a suitable position near the caller’s property.

• Reworked vehicle placement to search outward for usable street positions and avoid overlapping callout vehicles.

• Expanded the vehicle search to better handle locations such as rural junctions and divided roads.

• Expanded the default spawn range to support authored locations throughout the map.

• Changed the default controls to J for talk, K for command, H to clear a resolved callout, and End to abort.

• Added migration for applicable older generated key and spawn-distance settings.

• Changed Bank Robbery so the robbery crew is placed outside the bank.

• Changed Domestic Disturbance to support a three-person scene.

• Added a Burglary in Progress scenario in which the reported person is a resident mistakenly identified as a possible burglar.

• Reworked Road Rage’s investigation around accounts from the reporting driver and the accused driver, with different responses as the scene develops.

• Revised scanner audio selection for callout dispatches. Custom callout audio already existed in v3.0.0.

• Changed NPCAI handling so actively fleeing or fighting suspects remain under their scripted pursuit or combat behaviour.

• Changed NPCAI context updates to retain a participant’s original case facts alongside later developments.

Fixed

• Fixed the Volatile Pursuit passenger failing to shoot from the vehicle by restoring the earlier in-car weapon and combat setup.

• Fixed the seated Volatile Pursuit passenger being added to the LSPDFR pursuit before their in-car combat behaviour could operate as intended.

• Changed the Volatile Pursuit passenger to join the pursuit after leaving the vehicle.

• Fixed Hit and Run failing to find a usable vehicle position in some areas by expanding its road-position search.

• Fixed failed scene creation being retried every frame and duplicating partially spawned people or vehicles.

• Added scene-error logging and kept the manual end control available if a scene cannot be completed.

• Fixed unsupported NPCAI mood descriptions, including errors involving Concerned, Calm, Shaken, and Upset.

• Fixed NPCAI context changes losing a participant’s original account of the incident.

• Added NPCAI registration retries and queued context updates when the API is not ready immediately after a participant spawns.

• Improved removal of NPCAI context when a participant’s conversation is suspended or the scene ends.

• Improved cleanup of callout-owned people, vehicles, blips, and routes when a callout ends or is declined.

Notes

Version 4.0.0 rebuilds the 15 callouts from v3.0.0 and adds five new callouts, bringing Cryptic Callouts to 20 callouts in total.

The five additions are Assault in Progress, Criminal Damage, Hit and Run, Suspicious Person, and Vehicle Break-In. Existing callouts named above are listed for the changes made to them, not as new additions.

The Volatile Pursuit passenger’s in-vehicle gunfire was confirmed working during in-game testing. The observed Hit and Run vehicle spawn failure prompted the expanded position search; that change should not be described as a confirmed fix for the separate LSPDFR exception seen in the log.