I hadnt played in a couple years and returned.
I knew there was a couple things I would have to get for complete, enjoyable, realistic, immersive gameplay. ALBO's stuff. arrest manager, police smartradio, TrafficPolicer, and Traffic Control, an of course some callouts.
I did, and began playing however I posted about erratic behavior of arrested peds when using smartradio for transport. they would follow transport officer, get into and immediatly back out of his/her vehicle and come back to me, follow me a ways then dissapear. wacky.
a fellow from germany told me to not use arrest manager anymore, use the NEW built in Backup (B) menu.
this new backup B menu and the M menu for a radio are neither well thought out or well done or complete compared to the wonderful stuff from ALBO, Police SmartRadio, and Arrest Manager., and dont do half the stuff. they do backup ok, but close roads doesnt work (for me). ped vehicles drive right thru my scene and over me an God forbid u fire a shot. u know how crazy an stupid those ped ai drivers are. Traffic Control plugin is marvelous and solves this problem so much better, and has roadblocks. THAT WORK.
Arrest Manager had/has much much more features than your sad little quickly made an cheesy looking menu in upper left corner. and wheres the Tow Truck??. or Coroner??., you dont have a Tow Truck. OMG.
that was all implemented and integrated and worked like gravy with ALBO's PoliceSmartRadio and Arrest Manager, and Traffic policer. it was beautiful. well thought out and done. and so cool the radio pops up on the screen and does everything- tied into Arrest manager and Traffic Policer. Your little B backup menu is sad sad sad in comparison. immersion and roleplaying breaking.
Im sticking with PoliceSmartRadio and Arrest manager for my game. the wacky ped behavior at Transport I can overlook because I get SOOOoooooo much more and better, more immersive gameplay AND functionality & options with them than your B backup menu. AND a Tow Truck. AND Coroner. AND Roadblocks, and breathalyzer, write parking tickets, drugalyzer, SpeedChecker Radar Trap, mimic my driving to pull people over (Ctrl R), I can Tackle people with Arrest manager, and manage the whole scene with H. I can set Police and Tow Truck and Coroner to go thru roadblock to get to my scene, and more an more an more.
to give up the functionality and options of PoliceSmartRadio, andArrest manager, and TrafficPolicer/TrafficControl to use your sad incomplete little gta-inspired menus because arrested peds act a little wacky?. OK with me. Total worth it.
I beg you to re-visit this menu system. make it work with smartradio, more complete, and functiona,l and immersive inspiring or at least give me a way to opt out or shut it off and use plugins.
No offense, Best regards-