If you're chasing a vehicle it will not make an effort to go around another vehicle in front of it. I remember the old lspdfr when the pursuits would require I get lots of backup and air support. 

I miss that.

This will be fixed in 0.4

 

On 5/14/2018 at 10:31 PM, LMS said:

Another big change is coming to pursuits, the AI for both, criminals and cops has been rewritten completely to allow for a much more realistic experience and more fine-tuning for specific behavior.  It is now based on behavior trees, similar to how many games or game engines define AI behavior.  We hope that by defining small parts of behavior and chaining them together to more complex actions, we will be able to maintain our code more easily and prevent it from growing too complex. 

 

We also tried to create a real challenge in terms of pursuits while still allowing the player to enjoy the chase.  This resulted in various different options for chases, for instance how well the suspects handle cars including possible boosts for their driving skills.  Some of you might know that GTA V limits the maximum speed for AI controlled vehicles allowing you to easily catch up and pass a sports car on the highway.  If you want, this limit is now gone resulting in a more realistic pursuit experience for fast vehicles.

 

Of course, while improving the suspect AI our cop AI started to show its age.  It has also been redesigned completely especially focusing on less aggressive driving behavior. Your fellow officers will now actually respect you and also only ram the suspect if the situation permits it. 

 

Finally, since we are now able to read data from the game’s internal pathfinding, we were able to introduce some interesting new features.  For instance, depending on the route of the suspect they might now also try to block the suspect from passing them, especially when called in recently as backup.  This also helps with clearing up traffic since we have a general idea of where the suspect and the cop cars are headed next and based on their vehicle type, the suspect will now also prefer different types of roads.