Okay guys, what am I missing?

A suspects flees on foot and a pursuit breaks out. I give chase, spamming the sprint key and after a matter of seconds I've lost sight of the suspect because it turns out that he is an Olympic sprinter. Who'd have thought it?! No matter, I'll report it to dispatch and return to my patrol. A few moments later I spot a ped trying to steal a car. I roll up, exit my vehicle and order them to surrender. Surprise, surprise they also flee. Yet again, the suspect appears to be a long distance sprinter and fail to even make a dent in their pace.

 

I've tried a few mods in an attempt to combat this, however they seem to increase my stamina rather than speed me up. I've also tried trainers but they're make you move unrealistically fast. For the past few weeks I've been hounded by foot pursuits that rarely end in my favor. I find the only way to "win" is to spam backup and to make sure a helicopter is over the suspect at all times -which is all very unrealistic. I don't expect to catch the suspect everytime, but why are all peds such fast runners yet my character is slower than translating hieroglyphics!

 

Is this intentional or this a bug? Further, is there anything I can do about it? Its really starting to take the fun out of things.

Your character and the suspect both have the same top speed when they are both the same gender. Females have a lower speed. The suspect will slow down slowly over time until they reach an exhausted state (this takes around 30 seconds). This is also around the time your own character is starting to become exhausted in an effort to make you think twice before stopping and trying to arrest. That being said, we will randomize the suspect top speed and exhaustion duration in the next patch so that you will encounter different levels of sprinters. 

My current character is a male and regardless of the gender of the suspect, I can't keep up, let along match their speed. I have also noticed today while testing that there appears to be no difference in speed regardless of whether or not I press or hold sprint (LShift or A on controller.)  This makes me wonder if this a GTA bug rather than an LSPDFR one. I'll keep exploring my options. Its strange because in videos, players always seem to catch their suspects with ease.

 

13 minutes ago, LMS said:

That being said, we will randomize the suspect top speed and exhaustion duration in the next patch so that you will encounter different levels of sprinters. 

Thank you. Regardless of my issue, this will be a nice immersive change 🙂

14 minutes ago, LostBoyLazarus said:

My current character is a male and regardless of the gender of the suspect, I can't keep up, let along match their speed. I have also noticed today while testing that there appears to be no difference in speed regardless of whether or not I press or hold sprint (LShift or A on controller.)  This makes me wonder if this a GTA bug rather than an LSPDFR one. I'll keep exploring my options. Its strange because in videos, players always seem to catch their suspects with ease.

 

Thank you. Regardless of my issue, this will be a nice immersive change 🙂

 

if you're using STP, press ENTER while running to boost the character speed.

46 minutes ago, LostBoyLazarus said:

I have also noticed today while testing that there appears to be no difference in speed regardless of whether or not I press or hold sprint (LShift or A on controller.)

 

I don´t know how it works on keyboard, but with controller you need to press A repeatedly to sprint. Not just hold 😉

35 minutes ago, Pazzi said:

 

if you're using STP, press ENTER while running to boost the character speed.

Thanks, but this is one of the mods that I tried (well, I'm using it anyway but you get what I mean.) It made no difference.

 

Just now, rabbit1988 said:

 

I don´t know how it works on keyboard, but with controller you need to press A repeatedly to sprint. Not just hold 😉

Yeah, I use a controller too. I've tried with the keyboard though which made no difference. I understand that holding A makes you jog while pressing it repeatedly makes you sprint but there was no difference between the two.

 

The only thing I can think of is if either InfamousSabre's Simple Foot Controls 1.3 or Narobic's Free Me! mod affected it. SFCs allows for changeable speeds though shoudln't affect anything outside of first person, while Free Me! effectively removes control commands/functions from your controller - however this wouldn't affect keyboard controls which also only has me move at one speed.

If there is no speed difference between jogging and running something is definitely wrong on your end. Try removing some plugins and see if that helps.

Hi 

5 hours ago, LMS said:

If there is no speed difference between jogging and running something is definitely wrong on your end. Try removing some plugins and see if that helps.

I removed a few plugins (including the aforementioned Simple Foot Controls) and everything is back to normal! Very happy right now!
 

Just now, Jon chavez said:

Hi 

Hi Jon 🙂