Warning: I know every mod I'm about to talk about "isn't updated" anymore. I'm begging for alternatives! 

 

I don't know where to go with this but all I want to do is patrol and traffic stops. Literally just write citations and occasionally mix it up lol! I installed just base LSPDFR and it was fine but there's nothing there. It was 0% policing and 95% a burglary or highs speed chase. Completely un-realistic policing. BUT FUN-ish! But it's basically just "steal a cop car" in vanilla GTAV with a little added element.  Then I found the "Must use mods" that work with LSPDFR and I've spent days trying to get Ultimate backup, compulite, Stop the ped, and ALPR working all-together (all the most recent, popular, realistic facing, but 'unsupported' ones). 

 

After trial and error I got them all to load and play nice without freezing my game, but in practice it was just half shy of being what you'd think the one thing this LSPDFR is supposed to be. pull up. light up, issue ticket or start arrest. It feels so close, until the rubber meets the road, then it's so far away. Anytime I'd go on a traffic stop nothing worked out. Cant write citations at all despite trying to work with the tablet (after working through all the citations it will never actually print one). no court dates. I can always arrest anyone all the time and there's no repercussions and no drawback to it. I'm at the point now where I can smoothly run through 2/3's of a traffic stop and then its like "pull the gun out and dome em' because why not?" I've worked endlessly through key bindings and ini files. but I also understand these mods everyone loved at one point aren't being updated. What a shame, because a few years ago I bet they were a blast! That's fine and I get it. But WHAT IS being updated??

 

I type all this rant to ask this: is there ANY CURRENT UPDATED mods that address this HUGE lack in replayability for LSPDFR? People MUST be having successful traffic stops and normal interactions (as far as criminals go) and no one is just driving around arresting people all day for expired tags, no citations, no follow up, and no career trajectory, rightr? I mean there's a goodman escalation protocol and anyone playing a cop MUST love that part of it?!?! If I wanted to go hog wild being insufferable I'd just play GTAV online!

 

Still, love you all for everyone that's working on this fun mod! I know it's thankless work

yeah thats one of the main issues with LSPDFR, unlike LCPDFR, it was never given ANY flavor, extra content or replayability on it's own and gets really boring, really quickly. and because rockstar is stretching gta 5 out for so long everybody good that used to mod became adults and got jobs and dont have time to mod anymore. so most actual good mods now are left outdated and given no flavor.

3 hours ago, Halmore said:

Warning: I know every mod I'm about to talk about "isn't updated" anymore. I'm begging for alternatives! 

 

I don't know where to go with this but all I want to do is patrol and traffic stops. Literally just write citations and occasionally mix it up lol! I installed just base LSPDFR and it was fine but there's nothing there. It was 0% policing and 95% a burglary or highs speed chase. Completely un-realistic policing. BUT FUN-ish! But it's basically just "steal a cop car" in vanilla GTAV with a little added element.  Then I found the "Must use mods" that work with LSPDFR and I've spent days trying to get Ultimate backup, compulite, Stop the ped, and ALPR working all-together (all the most recent, popular, realistic facing, but 'unsupported' ones). 

 

After trial and error I got them all to load and play nice without freezing my game, but in practice it was just half shy of being what you'd think the one thing this LSPDFR is supposed to be. pull up. light up, issue ticket or start arrest. It feels so close, until the rubber meets the road, then it's so far away. Anytime I'd go on a traffic stop nothing worked out. Cant write citations at all despite trying to work with the tablet (after working through all the citations it will never actually print one). no court dates. I can always arrest anyone all the time and there's no repercussions and no drawback to it. I'm at the point now where I can smoothly run through 2/3's of a traffic stop and then its like "pull the gun out and dome em' because why not?" I've worked endlessly through key bindings and ini files. but I also understand these mods everyone loved at one point aren't being updated. What a shame, because a few years ago I bet they were a blast! That's fine and I get it. But WHAT IS being updated??

 

I type all this rant to ask this: is there ANY CURRENT UPDATED mods that address this HUGE lack in replayability for LSPDFR? People MUST be having successful traffic stops and normal interactions (as far as criminals go) and no one is just driving around arresting people all day for expired tags, no citations, no follow up, and no career trajectory, rightr? I mean there's a goodman escalation protocol and anyone playing a cop MUST love that part of it?!?! If I wanted to go hog wild being insufferable I'd just play GTAV online!

 

Still, love you all for everyone that's working on this fun mod! I know it's thankless work

 

considering lspdfr has been out for over 10 years, it is extremely disappointing and very underwhelming that it is so bare bones and relies on other mods to be even remotely replayable.

i dont really know much about GTA V and 5 modding anymore because i switched to 4 and lcpdfr for this exact reason, so sorry if i might be wrong about some things.

every lspdfr "update" since like 2022 has added nothing to gameplay or fixed bugs and just made lspdfr compatible with the new gta 5 version
imo in lcpdfr other mods were addons that added flavor and other stuff, in lspdfr you practically NEED other mods to have the game be replayable or fun

Edited April 14, 20242 yr by 57z

LSPDFR has a single developer who is rather busy. Base LSPDFR works just fine for traffic stops and basic events. There are many plugins to expand on it further as well since it has a decent API. I see it as it's a modular system so you can make it how you want. The tickets and traffic stops not working is very much a you problem as they work for just about everyone else. 

 

You also need to realize it's a free mod, this isn't a triple A company that's making millions and not pushing new features. There are so many plugins and mods on this and other sites to expand on it more too. You will come to realize that this still tends to work better and have better mods than many other games out there.

 

Another issue is GTA itself has become stale, it's old as dirt now. If you don't enjoy GTA itself lspdfr won't be very fun either.

7 hours ago, Halmore said:

 

I don't know where to go with this but all I want to do is patrol and traffic stops

 

Whenever I'm in the mood to do this (traffic stops) I just use:

 

Compulite for running people and writing the tickets, plus I use the LSPDFR base ticket writing and enter the value that Compulite came up with as the fine for LSPDFR stat purposes. 

 

Prowler Radar for speed checks. There are some good places on the highways where you'll catch some ai speeding without even needing any additional mods. 

 

Callout Interface for ALPR and because it auto generates a CAD call when you start a traffic stop which just adds to the realism of it. 

 

That's really it. Stop The Ped may add some things you may want but it's too clunky for my tastes. Plus I don't like how it disables some things that LSPDFR does better by default (like actually making the arrest and escorting the arrestee). Although it may be the only option for requesting a tow truck, however in my experience, GTA V too aggressively deletes unused vehicles for a tow to even be necessary. By time I walk the arrestee to my car their car will be gone. 

You are wrong.
 A big stp alternative is being developed as  we speak. You can follow progress and even try betas
Go to
https://discord.com/channels/1022967756787822694/1080960718481924207
You need invitation afaik -I am not affiliated -btw
My ego-plugin is absolutely HUGE, and only meant as a 'replacer' of stp amo, because i never dl from porn-sites..
I have made features i missed and i keep doing that -Even though i am an '..adult', and then some..
(The most fun for me is getting an idea, designing the feature and making stuff work)
I would love to hear ideas for more gameplay related features, but requests/ Ideas/ suggestions must be precise and detailed! Not just "Make it more fun".

well until that alternative is ready STP is a must to download

i also recommend putting in

RiskierTrafficStops
DeadlyWeapons
Tourniquet
Immersive Effects
Restrain The Deceased
Plain Sight
Ransom Ambience

all of those should add quality of play and immersion especially if youre going around just pulling people over instead of accepting callouts

 

Hey I just wanted to hop in here and say thank you all for the helpful feedback! Later this week I’ll try to maybe trim it down a bit (like getting rid of STP and seeing how that goes cause I agree it’s clunky and might be the root of most of my issues)

 

I think I just ran into putting a bunch of mods on at once and not understanding the overlaps between them all. Maybe run just ALPR with callouts and compulite for a bit to see how that works out. 
 

I like the idea of riskiertrafficstops since thats my main focus but I feel like I have my hands full as it is working through a simple traffic stop. I know that sounds weird but I’m really focused on use of force escalation and protecting my case in an invisible court. Like not just pulling everyone out of their car and immediately searching them, instead questioning them and getting some kind of consent force and then assessing as I go.
 

for what it’s worth I still haven’t seen the option to (or gone to) court yet, so it’s mostly just my RP’ing with my self lol! But that’s probably mostly due to most of my stops ending with a suspect dead, arrested by the back up, or a failure to print my citations (which I agree is probably a user error but I was at it for hours just trying to get controls and overlays not to clash and never being able to print that ticket they deserved)

 

that isn’t to say I never arrested and hauled several to jail without incident. Just never see them again and never go to court for it. 

When it comes to the STP Plugin, I wouldn't get rid of it, you need a updated version that has better questions and feedbacks, and or use a AI plugin or software to speak to them.