Community:GTA IV Gripes/Police

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Cops manage to shoot your tires out, even if you're going 100mph.

And they have multiple cops firing lots of bullets to shoot your tires down to stop you from running away.

Actually, I was chased by cops and one cop shot my tires out no matter how fast I am going. I think R* must've used an aimbot to stop you from running.

Who says it was a gun shot? I have ran over things before that have popped my tires.

Lucky shot? I don't seem to have that problem in my game.

Somehow, an LCPD Cruiser can keep up with an Infernus that is easily twice as fast. And then they can't keep up with a slow municipal bus.

They can keep up with an Infernus due to the sheer number of police cruisers. Aren't cops aren't meant to ram the person they are chasing unless under extreme circumstances?

But he also mentioned abou tthe Bus transport vehicle. I mean, how can cops be so sluggish to keep up with a slow moving bus vehicle? Really weird and bad realism.

if i understand correctly you're saying "how can the cops keep up with a slow vehicle?" my answer would be: by going slow :p

After you complete the story, you can't call Francis to lose your wanted level at all.

Francis would only do it once in the story anyway. Besides, there is always Kiki.

Cops don't deploy spike strips, or utilize special pursuit vehicles for highspeed chases. Nor do they cordon off areas to trap the player.

They block off the bridges, and send more helicopters after you.

No matter how hard players try to get away from the police's radius, cops seem to spawn near the player's vehicle. Hiding is nearly impossible, even on secluded areas.

Rockstar, I believe, was trying to make the game more realistic. It's like that in real life, too.

Yes, especially in Star Junction, there are more cops in that area around than others. Plus the police of course dispatches more cop cars around the radius to search for you.

Once the chase ends (your stars turn grey and there's no cops immediately near you), you should really pull over to jack another car or get sprayed, especially if you're still well within the wanted area.

The radius is another thing that's irritating. I get in the chopper, and somehow, I can't evade the radius. It stays where it was. Crappy realism, I mean, you evaded the cops, but not the radius? Pathetic.

It would be hard not to notice a helicopter over head, would it? Not, they can still track you if your in a helicopter. There are very few places to hide in the sky.

To escape while in a helicopter you can fly very fast and then bail out into water and hope that boats don't find you. You fly far enough to evade a 4 star wanted level but i havn't tried 5 or 6 stars.

You can't evade or outrun your wanted level in a helicopter.

It's rather difficult to run away when everybody in the city can see you flying 200 meters up in a helicopter. Don't you think?

You can evade and outrun wanted levels when they are low (i.e. 1 or 2 stars) as not as many police are searching for you.

There is a way, albeit kind of a cheap one. If you have Playboy X's safe house, you can fly low over the roof and bail out onto the balcony. Then you can run inside and save your game, which should clear your wanted level.

To escape while in a helicopter you can fly very fast and then bail out into water and hope that boats don't find you. You fly far enough to evade a 4 star wanted level but i havn't tried 5 or 6 stars.

Cops somehow manage to stay alive even after multiple gunshots, and their weapons do more damage to the player. They seem to be bullet sponges, and still get up after a full magazine from an AK has been shot into them at medium range.

Some of them have body armor. As members of a police force they would have superior weapons and training.

I don't think beat cops wear body armor, and their weapons are exactly the same as the ones the player can use.

NOOSE wear body armor, plus police have had training for years to get great with a pistol, plus they know where to shoot, unlike most players.

I would be indeed surprised if there were any police officer on the street today that aren't wearing kevlar. There's just no excuse in today's society to be without it. I find headshots to be the most painless and effective way to thwart the LCPD.

Undercover police officers do not appear at 3 wanted star levels or higher.

There never were undercover police officers. Those seen in casual clothes in previous GTA games were FBI agents.

Yes there were. There were casual clothed police clothes equipped with a sort of sub-machine gun in GTA VC and GTA VCS driving VCPD Cheetahs. Also, even if there were never undercover officers before, there's no reason why it couldn't be in "realistic" GTA IV.

I don't remember seeing any in the previous games either. Besides, maybe you just haven't come across any?

Pay and Spray has become almost useless. When no cops are around, it's easier to just outrun them. When they are around, you can't spray.

But there's more to a Pay 'n' Spray than losing Wanted Levels. They will change the paint of a car if you don't like it to the color you've driven most, and they will also repair damaged vehicles. It just doesn't make sense for a cop to be right on your tail when you enter a Pay 'n' Spray, only to ignore you when you drive out.

Even when the cops ignore you, your car does'nt get resprayed to clear wanted levels, so this heavily detracts realism as the cops prevents players from entering the Pay N Spray.

You try to flee the cops, and you go into a garage right in front of them and they somehow lose you? That is what was taken out of this game, and added more realism. Think a little harder next time about what is and isn't realistic.

It's possible to enter a Pay n Spray while you are at the center of the search circle as long as the cops don't see you go into one. This is a lot better than trying to evade the search circle.

Those annoying pedestrians keep calling the cops whenever I do one small shove, making it harder to score a few bucks without those boys in blue knowing.

It's the attempt at realism. If someone came up to you on the street, shoved you and said "Give me all your money", wouldn't you either run or punch them, before calling the cops?

Cops do not initiate a car chase to pursue other criminals, much like in GTA San Andreas, which heavily detracts realism.

Actually cops do initiate car chases, just not as frequently. Not only can they do that, but they can also arrest unlawful pedestrians and put them in a nearby cop car. GTA IV is more realistic compared to San Andreas, by the way.

But I don't see other criminals driving and performing drive-bys to cops while being chased. All they do is peerform foot pursuit and catch a criminal only. This pulls realism away.

Cops can stop criminals faster then you think they can, so you are less likely to see a car chase that started in Alderney end in Dukes.

Criminals no longer carjack vehicles.

Yes they do.

Not true, you can see cars being jacked in parts of Tudor. It's rare, but it happens.

Yeah. Completely rare. been in Tudor, stood there and watched. no criminals ever carjack vehicles. Lacks realism

Whatever happened to the "good citizen bonus" you got in GTA:VC? It was kinda cool.

Would a cop in your town really want someone taking the law into their own hands?

Unless you can be a good samaritan , taking the law into your own hands IS illegal.

On occasion, if you knock over a criminal running from an officer, and he sees it, they will thank you for your help but you receive no monetary reward, just a good feeling.

You can't bribe the police to get your weapons back, like in GTA:VCS. Shouldn't that have been put in, it was in a PSP game, so it would be easy to put into a PS3 game

Remember the Mayor's Crackdown on Firearms? This means all guns are repossessed and taken else where.

You can't earn a special reward right after you kill all criminals appear in the "Wanted List" in each different islands. This means no more earning extra armor protection.

The reward of kill all criminals in wanted list on each island is the achievement that's enough

Too bad you don't earn anything from your PS3 version. A lame effort by R*

I have the PS3 version. The reward is the possibility to gain 100%

You can't become a cop, and I don't mean steal the police uniform and impersonate one. I mean you can't call 555-RECRUIT and become an actual officer.

Normal academy training takes a very long time, about 12 weeks average, and requires a lot out of applicants. Niko most likely doesn't have the time to undergo LCPD training. Besides, if you have several arrests, that would disqualify you at the start of your background check. Besides, I think Niko has his reservations about police, coming from eastern Europe, where most police agencies are corrupt.

Isn't that basically what you are, when you accept the vigilante missions? You're a cop without a badge.

There isn't any database about Niko Bellic in the in-car computer access.