I would also like to give my gratitude and thanks towards the LCPDFR staff for their excellent mod and support!

I can't start my own post on the Suggestions board for some reason, so I am posting it here (and also in a thread in the Suggestions board). Here are a couple of suggestions that I have to add to the discussion:

1) Callouts with locations closest to you rather than in set places are much more fun to deal with, not to mention more realistic. In the latest version, I have to drive halfway across the city sometimes!

2) Have the police be able to make traffic stops and arrest random NPC. I know that the game has regular people disturbing the peace and running from the police, but it'd be nice to see other cops make traffic stops besides me. Especially since all those sporty cars tend to run the red lights anyway!

3) Your partner should be more responsive. In the 0.95 beta, your partner would protect you from most bad guys. Now, he'll only shoot once in a while, and most likely die because he doesn't protect himself. When you open your trunk, it should heal and clean the clothes of your partner too! (That for yourself only was already an excellent addition, BTW.)

4) In the latest mod, while pressing "E" to arrest someone, nearby cops will teleport out of their police cars. When they are in motion, they look like they are flying out of their windshield and into the street! This did not happen with the other mods, where your partner will reappear somewhere everytime you arrest someone. Just an annoying bug that appears hard to get rid of!

5) When performing CPR, your character drops down on his knees twice, and upon the second time he will say something. Can it be adjusted to only drop down once and still say his line?

6) The newest update brings with it a new taser. I have a question about the taser addon itself. What happens if I am using custom weapons.img and weaponsinfo.xml files due to modded weapons and modded weapon statistics? Which file(s) and/or value(s) would I need to add/change to use the taser?

That's all for now! Keep up with the good work!

Edited January 31, 201214 yr by Foruman

That's nice to hear. Great suggestions.

But that 'Suggestion' bar was locked for a reason. Next time, try not to get around it or the G17 Staff may be involved.

Edited January 31, 201214 yr by Sharp-

That's nice to hear. Great suggestions.

But that 'Suggestion' bar was locked for a reason. Next time, try not to get around it or the G17 Staff may be involved.

Sorry, did not know that suggestions aren't welcome at this time. I assumed that it was OK to post there because people still posted replies to threads, and I was wondering how they got those threads there in the first place if the whole board was locked. I'll pay more attention next time! When will suggestions be open again then?

Edited January 31, 201214 yr by Foruman

6) The newest update brings with it a new taser. I have a question about the taser addon itself. What happens if I am using custom weapons.img and weaponsinfo.xml files due to modded weapons and modded weapon statistics? Which file(s) and/or value(s) would I need to add/change to use the taser?

Also, does somebody who does modding know if this is possible? I mean I have experience with modding with SparkIV and stuff to get the custom weapons and cars into the game. But I don't know what the taser changes, and so I am just asking to see if anyone knows what I should change in my modded files to make them work with the new taser system. This is new to me because all the previous mods just used the handgun as a taser, so no other mods to the game files were needed.

This is not really a support question, just a general modding question to the mod community. I'll eventually figure it out if no one knows and/or wants to respond to this.

Thanks!

Edited January 31, 201214 yr by Foruman

And another thing, please don't double post, that is considered spamming. Just edit your first post to revise/add more.

That's alright, as long as you know now, that is what matters.

And since you brought it up, in the future, if you have any question relating to mods, just post them into the Content/Modification section. Support is basically just for LCPDFR problems.

The taser comes with RC2, download RC2 and tick the box that has the Taser in it, and press continue to continue with the installation. After that, the taser should appear in your GTAIV Directory, name nailgun.wtd and wft. And when your in game, press ALT+T to take out your taser. Your taser now is another gun in your weapons slot, but it does duplicate the pistol, so when you shoot it, people will run and react like if it is a pistol as you are firing it.

Edited January 31, 201214 yr by Sharp-

And another thing, please don't double post, that is considered spamming. Just edit your first post to revise/add more.

That's alright, as long as you know now, that is what matters.

And since you brought it up, in the future, if you have any question relating to mods, just post them into the Content/Modification section. Support is basically just for LCPDFR problems.

The taser comes with RC2, download RC2 and tick the box that has the Taser in it, and press continue to continue with the installation. After that, the taser should appear in your GTAIV Directory, name nailgun.wtd and wft. And when your in game, press ALT+T to take out your taser. Your taser now is another gun in your weapons slot, but it does duplicate the pistol, so when you shoot it, people will run and react like if it is a pistol as you are firing it.

Hey, thanks for the heads up! I'm still pretty new here, but will adhere to the rules as best as I can.

The question I have about the taser is actually a bit different than that. I actually have modded weapons, so I have modded weapons.img and weaponsinfo.xml files. I understand from the patch notes that the mod installer will update these files to add the weapon in. What I'm asking is that what can I do manually to add the taser in so that I don't have to overwrite the files with my modded weapons. Based on my knowledge about that file, there should be a separate entry for the statistics of the taser in the weaponsinfo.xml file. Do I simply need to add this into my modded file, and add the nailgun.wtd/wft files into my weapons.img file? Or you say they are added to the directory, so I only need to add the appropriate information to my custom weaponsinfo.xml file?

Thanks agan for your time and efforts!

Edited January 31, 201214 yr by Foruman

Of course, I'm not blaming you at all, we must learn as we move.

Actually no, the taser goes in by itself, it depends if you want it or not by ticking the box during the RC2 installation.

The taser is a separate weapon, I'm not sure what it really replaces, but i'm pretty sure it replaces the original nailgun.wtd from the game, which I never saw a original picture of a nailgun from SparkIV before. from what I've seen, it just adds another weapon to the game.....but it uses the same engine as a pistol and that is why people run away from it.

Edited January 31, 201214 yr by Sharp-

Of course, I'm not blaming you at all, we must learn as we move.

Actually no, the taser goes in by itself, it depends if you want it or not by ticking the box during the RC2 installation.

The taser is a separate weapon, I'm not sure what it really replaces, but i'm pretty sure it replaces the original nailgun.wtd from the game, which I never saw a original picture of a nailgun from SparkIV before. from what I've seen, it just adds another weapon to the game.....but it uses the same engine as a pistol and that is why people run away from it.

Alright, thanks! I'll look into it some more and report back if I find anything, especially how to integrate the taser's custom weaponsinfo.xml file into an already modded weaponsinfo.xml file.

Well if you do, just post it under a new topic. Since others can see it to while its not buried down here which barley people would look into. :)

Thats a very nice post and some awesome suggestions!

Thats a very nice post and some awesome suggestions!

Hehe, I hope that the DVP team can take some of the ideas and put it into the next release. :D

Edited January 31, 201214 yr by Sharp-

Hehe, I hope that the DVP team can take some of the ideas and put it into the next release. :D

Agreed.

Agreed.

Thanks for the support all! I do hope that whenever the DVP team decides to take suggestions again, that they look at this post and try to implement the things said here.