This patch focuses on improving vehicle AI navigation reliability, traffic stability, and fixing several edge cases that could lead to crashes or inconsistent behavior.

• Improved advanced vehicle pathfinding to be more consistent and properly avoid traffic where applicable.

• Fixed multiple issues in the traffic emergency response processor, ensuring entity tracking and linking remain stable when vehicles are pushed through intersections.

• Fixed a bug in the vehicle yield system where offsets could be applied twice, causing conflicts.

• Fixed pull-over logic so AI vehicles now correctly consider all valid lanes instead of only forward lanes.

• Re-enabled collision on medium LOD traffic vehicles to prevent overlapping with players and AI.

• Vehicles removed from Mass Traffic now remain high-resolution actors.

• Adjusted entity detection logic for avoidance to fix issues in packaged builds.

• Slightly increased likelihood of fleeing behavior over direct threat engagement.

• Improved callout location cooldown logic, now correctly including indoor locations.

• Added a debug option to clear nearby or all callouts (developer menu only, does not affect vehicles).

• Minor adjustment to threat reference tracking to prevent nullptr-related crashes.

• Fixed a stair collision issue in the 929 apartment that caused AI to get stuck.

• Fixed issues with traffic stop vehicle spawn offsets.

• Disabled input when the player is ejected from a vehicle.

• Increased the force required for player ejection from vehicles.

• Adjusted ejection force behavior for more consistent results.

• Disabled the traffic density slider.

• Several fixes and stability improvements.

This small patch focuses on improving vehicle AI behavior, stability, and overall gameplay consistency, along with a set of fixes and visual improvements. The main focus has been a rework of the vehicle AI avoidance framework. While it’s already performing better, the system is still very much a work in progress.

• Overhauled AI vehicle follow logic, improving consistency across both simulated and non-simulated states. Includes support for more aggressive (ram-capable) following.

• Overhauled vehicle avoidance logic. Vehicles now commit to avoidance paths and only merge back when space is available (WIP but more stable).

• Temporarily disabled the traffic infractions processor to isolate and resolve traffic instability issues.

• Vehicles commanded to pull over no longer consider traffic vehicles as obstacles.

• Improved AI spawning at callouts, ensuring vehicles and characters spawn in valid, non-conflicting locations.

• Fixed a bug where AI shared engagement data, breaking the Can Engage logic.

• Improved police engagement behavior to prioritize taking cover instead of moving toward unclear last known locations.

• Added shuffle to dispatch scenarios for better variation and replay ability.

• Added vehicle seatbelts for the player (default toggle: "Z").

• Fixed camera roll issue when exiting a vehicle.

• Adjusted ambulance suspension and steering speed.

• Fixed normal maps for all Chevrette Canis paint options.

• Replaced elevated subway rail mesh with HISM to improve performance and fix visual issues.

• Increased flashlight and spotlight intensity.

• Increased medic gurney floor trace distance.

• Fixed scalability settings not saving correctly.

• Enabled Italian translation.