Greetings, I think a while back I posted a topic asking if there was any good GTA:SA RP servers for Law Enforcement gameplay. I did get some responses of which I was thankful for, but I just couldn't follow through on any of them due to technical difficulties. I've played GTA:SA and GTA IV for a long time, but my computer is kinda old and doesn't handle GTAIV too well, let alone the glory that is GTA V.  Gmod RP servers can be cool (Especially with Photon ELS) , but once again they kill my computer after a while of playing.

 

So this time I'm asking if you guys know of any low-spec, non-RAM/graphics intense stand alone games that have decent Law Enforcement roleplay?  Please throw anything at me, preferably free but retail works as well, new or old, even if they have Playstation 1 graphics, lol...

 

Thanks for reading.

 

 

Edited December 27, 20178 yr by Animefan162a

Hi!

 

If you have an old rig, your best bet may be the San Andreas First Response mod for GTA:SA, available here. It's a single-player CLEO mod (that is, a scriptmod in vein of LCPD/LSPDFR), and according to its description, sounds relatively decent enough to fulfill your roleplaying needs. I haven't tried the mod myself, though, and don't know how CLEO and the mod should be installed, but I'm sure  you can find information on it via Google. :)

 

I know a couple of retail law enforcement games as well, but most of them tend to have huge issues either in the gameplay or technical department. That said, let me list some that I more  or less enjoyed, even with all their shortcomings:

 

• Autobahn Police Simulator: Mostly traffic and speed enforcement, received tons of patches but still have severe control issues. If you can get used to that, you may enjoy the game.
   
• Enforcer: Police, Crime, Action: A low-budget indie game from Brazil, offering small town-policing in Arizona. Duties include traffic+speed enforcement, issuing parking tickets, searching for suspects with warrants, arresting drug dealers, and partaking in occassional shootouts. It's really a basic game with ugly graphics and a bit clunky controls, but I still kinda liked it enough to put a couple dozen hours of playtime in it. :)
   

Frankly, when it comes to police roleplaying, nothing beats LCPDFR/LSPDFR at the moment. Police Simulator 18 and EmergeNYC may be some of the better upcoming games in the genre, but the former is due in summer 2018 only, while the latter is more in vein of the Emergency-series (even though we can play as NYPD police officers in TPS-mode as well, as far as I know).

 

Hope this helps. :)

 

EDIT: Note that your topic may be in the wrong forum category. ;)

Edited December 28, 20178 yr by JohnBart

Huh? Sorry, I thought this was the proper section for it. I didn't want to put it in the Law Enforcement section because all the posts I saw there were about real life policing.

 

Ah yeah, I've played quite a bit of SAPD:FR, since it actually runs smoothly on my computer.

 

I've heard of "EmergeNYC" but hadn't heard of "Autobahn Police Simulator" or "Enforcer: Police, Crime, Action", or "Police Simulator 18" so I'll have to check those out.

 

Thanks for your response.

 

 

Don't mean to bump my own thread here but, has anyone heard of maybe a Law Enforcement game that mirrors SAPDFR (I.E. open world map based on a real city) but has multiplayer aspects? I have a burning feeling that there's some sort of magical good old Police RP game out there that I just haven't

heard of yet.

Edited December 30, 20178 yr by Animefan162a

Well, I know that Flipswitch Games plans EmergeNYC to be multiplayer-compatible as well, with 32 players (police officers, firefighters and EMTs) playing in the same session, either in RTS or in TPS mode. However, the game is still in pre-alpha, even though the devs frequently update the game with meaningful patches, so I think this is something you should keep an eye on for 2018. I'll certainly do. :)

 

Excalibur Publishing also supports a similar title, called Flashing Lights, with the difference that this is planned to be a TPS-only experience, as far as I understand (and set in a fictional location instead of New York City). I'd be a bit careful with this one though, because Excalibur, as a publisher, has a notorious track record in abandoning their games (Euro Ship Simulator, Enforcer and World Ship Sim are just a couple of titles in recent years that they simply left to die). I'd wait for at least the early access start (due in 2018 Q1) and check the first Steam reviews on how serious the project looks like.

 

Police Simulator 18 will also support a two-player cooperative mode upon release.

 

Apart from these, I'm afraid the only alternatives left are the more complicated ones. You can either try organizing an LCPDFR session in GTA IV v1.0.7.0 (your best bet, I think), or delve into the modding scene of games that have police RPing aspects. You already mentioned GMod - other than that, I know that Operation Flashpoint (an awfully great, and awfully old favorite tactical shooter from 2001, currently called ArmA: Cold War Assault) and ArmA 3 have/had such policing mods.

 

In case of Operation Flashpoint, there was a pretty good, Czech Republic-based police package (Nogova Police Forces), with regular officers and tactical units, along with a wide variety of patrol and armored response vehicles. The downside is that you need to set up your own scenarios with the in-game editor if you want to use them to your liking, because the only mission I found that plays like a police patrol is this one. That said, you may want to give this one a try, as Operation Flashpoint literally runs on any PC, no matter your hardware, and you can find a lot of tutorials online on how to use the editor, or how to create multiplayer missions with this package if you want online RP with your friends.

 

In case of ArmA3, there is an RP mod called Altis Life, where I know you can play either as a civilian, a criminal, or a law enforcement officer.  According to the website, this may be more in line with what you are looking for, the problem is that ArmA3 is pretty much of a resource hog, so if you have problems running GTA IV or GTA V on your rig, you will definitely face performance issues with this game, I'm afraid.

 

That's all I know, but I hope these help you out. Happy New Year! ;)

Ah hah, I see. I've always played Operation Flashpoint/ArmA: Cold War Assault for the Conquer The Island missions, I never knew they had any RP stuff, that's cool. I heard of the RP gamemodes for ArmA 2 and 3, but never really looked into them; DoubleDoppler did quite a bit of (rather nice) British police pedestrian and vehicle mods for ArmA 2.

 

Thanks again for the info, I hope you also have a Happy New Year.

I've always like SWAT4.  Check youtube for vids on that.