I have signed up here to voice my great appreciation for RDE. I've been having fun for over a week now with this mod because of the sheer amount of lore-friendly content and attention to details that encouraged me to install it in the first place. :D
Being an avid observer, I have already reported handful of vehicle model bugs on GTA5 Mods. To @Yard1 - dzięki za przeczytanie raportów, poszukam więcej. :P
Now, I'd like to share my suggestions that I have already sent to the team through Google Forms page.
- I understand this mod is already content-rich and it made me happy to find @NefariousBonne's news saying about the upcoming 3.1 version with more cars. What I'd like to propose, is a few more kinds of vehicles. Some of them are already a part of IVPack that I'm using alongisde RDE. This gives me over 150 addon vehicles to use! I'm sure the vehicles I'll mention will feel in RDE home.
APC
Brickade
Police Stanier 1st gen
Police Merit
Premier, made by Thundersmacker
Police Presidente V10 aka Police Stinger
LSPD Enforcer
NOOSE Enforcer
I understand the RDE team might not want to incorporate the dated cars (Stanier 1st gen, Merit, Premier). However, APC, Brickade, Presidente and the two basic Enforcers would fit seamlessly in the mod, in my opinion. :)
- Another suggestion would be using other vanilla car models. I am aware RDE aims at realism - so I wouldn't expect any hypercar chasing me down - however, there are a few sports cars being used in the US by the police, like Ford Mustang or Dodge Challenger. I don't have that much experience in ZModeler3 - in fact, I did try to learn it with less than satisfactory results. :P
My idea then would be to add law enforcement variants of cars like Dominator, Gauntlet, Coquette (both IV and V variants), Buffalo S, Mesa, Radius and the like. I believe they wouldn't be needed to spawn in chases - a spawn point or two at a police station would be a good idea for an easter egg. :D
- The final suggestion: making more use of the police3 (Vapid Interceptor) model. Right now, it's underused - only the LSPD uses it. I read about the unmarked variant coming in the future but I believe other agencies, like FIB, should receive their own variant as well.
Just my two cents. My game can already handle 150+ addon vehicles so I think it wouldn't too large of a technical problem to try these suggestions. My inner police nerd is satisfied with the mod, nonetheless. :D Cheers to the team.