Things that need to be changed

[Ratone]

I think the cops need a major Overhaul. I felt they were pretty weak in GTA IV, in the sense that I didn't fear them like I used to do in GTA 1 and 2.

 

Here is my opinion:

 

-"Wanted": Your character should be wanted ONLY if

1) A cop saw you commiting a crime

2) A civilian saw you and when the cops arrived on the scene you were hanging around.

3) This should work independently to the numbers of stars, here is an example:

 

At night, you blow up 10 cars straight. Killing around 7 people.

That affords you a "3 star level", the stars blink and there is a perimeter mounted around the area (exactly like it worked in GTA IV, BUT, the cops aren't running for you yet). If a cop sees you out of a vehicle, or gets too close to you inside a vehicle, or you start acting suspicious (driving fast, commit another crime, bump on a car, etc) Then you're wanted, and then, just then, the cops are into you, following you, trying to cut you down and etc. If you are able to escape the perimeter in time, then you lose your stars and its all back to normal.

 

 

- The cops should be tougher, harder, but if you hit em good, they should feel it.

Roadblocks should be back, undercover cops should be in, they should really try to close the perimeter around the wanted area with road-blocks, cops, helicopters and everything. They should try to run for you, catch you, not just shot from the distance.

BUT, if you hit 'em, like putting down a helicopter, it should take more time for another helicopter to pop back. Same thing about cop cars and roadblocks... And things should take time, meaning no magical roadblocks one second later, cops should take time to organize specially farther away from the crime scene.

 

In short, for me, the game needs a rebalancing on the difficulty related to cops.

The player should be able to get away before being wanted, BUT, if he is wanted, he should fear the cops.

[Jeeebuuus]

In IV you could run down many peds. with your car and not get a star. You could shoot a ped. and get one star. If you shoot a cop three stars. The cops favored cops over anyone else. They should change that.

[grovestreet2010]

I think the cops need a major Overhaul. I felt they were pretty weak in GTA IV, in the sense that I didn't fear them like I used to do in GTA 1 and 2.

 

Here is my opinion:

 

-"Wanted": Your character should be wanted ONLY if

1) A cop saw you commiting a crime

2) A civilian saw you and when the cops arrived on the scene you were hanging around.

3) This should work independently to the numbers of stars, here is an example:

 

At night, you blow up 10 cars straight. Killing around 7 people.

That affords you a "3 star level", the stars blink and there is a perimeter mounted around the area (exactly like it worked in GTA IV, BUT, the cops aren't running for you yet). If a cop sees you out of a vehicle, or gets too close to you inside a vehicle, or you start acting suspicious (driving fast, commit another crime, bump on a car, etc) Then you're wanted, and then, just then, the cops are into you, following you, trying to cut you down and etc. If you are able to escape the perimeter in time, then you lose your stars and its all back to normal.

 

 

- The cops should be tougher, harder, but if you hit em good, they should feel it.

Roadblocks should be back, undercover cops should be in, they should really try to close the perimeter around the wanted area with road-blocks, cops, helicopters and everything. They should try to run for you, catch you, not just shot from the distance.

BUT, if you hit 'em, like putting down a helicopter, it should take more time for another helicopter to pop back. Same thing about cop cars and roadblocks... And things should take time, meaning no magical roadblocks one second later, cops should take time to organize specially farther away from the crime scene.

 

In short, for me, the game needs a rebalancing on the difficulty related to cops.

The player should be able to get away before being wanted, BUT, if he is wanted, he should fear the cops.

It should also be like if you commit a crime and there is no witness then you shouldn't get a star no matter what it is. I hate it when in GTA IV I'm in a boat way out in the ocean, so far that I can't see land and when I shoot into the air I get a star. Cops shouldn't be psychic.

[Cole Phelps Gta]

. Cops shouldn't be psychic.

I agree it annoys me when you commit a crime ''in private'' in other words when no ones around and you still get stars . how do they know what you did and when ?

 

It used to annoy me so much in red dead redemption when i'd lasso someone to kidnapp them and i'd get a bounty wtf ? if no one was their too see me how do they know what i did ?

 

I should be able to commit acts of unspeakable evil in private and not have to rely on cheats to have my privicy

 

 

 

 

[J-B]

 

Like most people have said the cops should be fixed and i agree with the shotgun cops they are annoying, and also the drive-bys the cops do at a 4 Star Level like they would do that in real life.

I don't mind the cops drive-bying me or shotgun cops doing a lot of damage at close range. I mind the shotgun cops doing ridiculous damage at long range , ranges that if I was using the shotgun I would be lucky to even hit them at all. I also mind that when cops start drive-bying me they become more accurate from their moving vehicles then they are on foot. I thought the shotguns in RDR were fair when the AI had them , they never killed me with them at absurd ranges. Now the problems I mentioned seem way more apparent in free mode than in single player , I don't if that's because you have less health or something , but I hope it gets addressed because it's a real fun killer at times.

Edited November 30, 2011 by J-B

[MrcTOtheJ]

For as dumb as the cops act sometimes they are surgeons with both pistols and shotguns at ranges that are unrealistic. Particularly if your on a bike making your escape, they could tone that down. Also if you shoot someone as they are exiting their car they won't respond to being shot until the animation completes, it looks silly and is unnecessary.

I know IV's cops must of has some insane training with those .12 Gages to be able to do what they do with them.

 

I mean there's no way in real life they'd be able to hit you at those ranges with a shotgun, hell the player can't even do it, makes me mad beyond belief sometimes.

 

Euphoria needs some work too like other people have mentioned. I mean it's the bomb, but sometimes it acts out in some weird and un realistic manners, that while good for the "lolz" get annoying after long periods of play.

 

Also Psychic cops should be goten rid of too, they should only come if they're in the area and see you, or someone calls the cops on you, and if someone dose call the cops, you should have time to chase it out of there before the come, unless the crime is something big like setting off a bomb destroying 5 cars and killing about 12 peds, then they should set up a rather decent sized search for you so it'd be hard to get away.

[thestoneman420]

I'd really like the ability to just have the friggin guy sit! all these GTA games and building on realism and they can't add the feature we actually use everyday.

Aww not this sh*t again. I remember this from pre-IV days...people begging to give Niko the ability to sit.

 

...anyone who is passionate about the feature to 'sit', shouldn't be playing GTA nor any other game come to think of it.

[Grand_Theft_Peanut]

Considering you can blast by a cop going 150 mph running 30 red lights and annihilating other peoples vehicles without obtaining a wanted level, don't complain that the police react o you hitting their vehicle. It could be much worse.

LOL true, if the cops got onto u after every single crime u did the game would be unplayable due to constant wanted levels

[GRINCH ASS BITCH]

That's how it was with the original "Driver" game and it was pretty fu­cking annoying.

[procrastinateking]

 

The Police being such girly bastards over their cars.

 

Honestly, this use to piss me off SO MUCH in Vice City & San Andreas and it's sort of improved a little bit in IV but it's still there - when you could be driving so fast - come to a red light and begin to slow down and you sort of bang into the back of a Cop Car and just kind of bump it, no damage done.

 

And they get out and start going crazy at you and you get a Wanted Level, it's even more annoying when you're the one who is being a good citizen just driving about - and THE POLICE HIT YOU first and then they still have the cheek to give you the wanted level and the un-needed chase, dick heads.

Sounds like real life to me

[Hobo-Lord]

they need to have disabled hookers/strippers.

or midget hookers/strippers.

maybe amputee. but thats pushing it.

 

personally, I hated the aiming system. It was not challenging and extremely flawed and difficult to work with.

Remove the auto lock, and we have a winning game that will make GTA V grow a dick.

[xUSMC SSGTx]

This isn't a wish list. This is list of things we come up with that we think need to be fixed or removed from the game. One of the biggest things that needs to be fixed is doing back flips on bikes. Why the hell does the bike spin around horizontally when your flipping backwards vertically? I don't know how many times that has happened to me in GTA IV and caused me to crash. What are some more things like that, that need to be changed?

 

Edit: Another thing is when you're free falling without a parachute I think you should be able to control your body, and be able to do flips, and spins, etc while in the air. I hated how it was just the same animation every time in GTAIV.

Ummmm..... exactly WHY does this not belong in the WISHLIST thread?

[jamieleng]

You need to be able to get food (and thus health) at your safehouse instead of having to go out and buy it. Jeez, doesn't anybody in Liberty own a refrigerator?

Yeah, call Pizza this and let them deliver right away

Hey that's not a bad idea. I'd get a meat feast delivered to me when I'm at low health in the middle of a fire fight. Hopefully they're not scaredy cats like the 'basically trained' paramedics.

[Darkshade12]

The Police AI need to be Vastly improved.

[Humzz]

The NPC damage should be similar to RDR. For example, if you shoot someone in their leg, they limp off instead of holding their bellies

[ArienMC]

In IV you could run down many peds. with your car and not get a star. You could shoot a ped. and get one star. If you shoot a cop three stars. The cops favored cops over anyone else. They should change that.

Nah, Getting three stars for every ped you kill would get really annoying.

[ArienMC]

they need to have disabled hookers/strippers.

or midget hookers/strippers.

maybe amputee. but thats pushing it.

 

personally, I hated the aiming system. It was not challenging and extremely flawed and difficult to work with.

Remove the auto lock, and we have a winning game that will make GTA V grow a dick.

Yeah the aiming system is garbage. I never understood the auto aim system, it's 2011 I'm pretty sure we can all aim on our own now.

[AceRay]

they need to have disabled hookers/strippers.

or midget hookers/strippers.

maybe amputee. but thats pushing it.

 

personally, I hated the aiming system. It was not challenging and extremely flawed and difficult to work with.

Remove the auto lock, and we have a winning game that will make GTA V grow a dick.

Yeah the aiming system is garbage. I never understood the auto aim system, it's 2011 I'm pretty sure we can all aim on our own now.

Are you talking about auto-aim or without? Because if you ask me, we should have the option of either.

[J-B]

they need to have disabled hookers/strippers.

or midget hookers/strippers.

maybe amputee. but thats pushing it.

 

personally, I hated the aiming system. It was not challenging and extremely flawed and difficult to work with.

Remove the auto lock, and we have a winning game that will make GTA V grow a dick.

Yeah the aiming system is garbage. I never understood the auto aim system, it's 2011 I'm pretty sure we can all aim on our own now.

Just turn it off in the options. Problem solved.

 

I don't really use auto aim in IV anymore mainly because I ended up playing so much more free roam than single player.

[Algonquin Assassin]

Why do people insist on removing things that they don't even have to use? IMO it's extremely selfish.

 

There's no good reason other than preferrence as to why auto-aim should be removed. I'm replaying GTA IV again without it, but I don't care if others like to use it.

 

Just leave it the way it is.

[J-B]

Why do people insist on removing things that they don't even have to use? IMO it's extremely selfish.

 

There's no good reason other than preferrence as to why auto-aim should be removed. I'm replaying GTA IV again without it, but I don't care if others like to use it.

 

Just leave it the way it is.

I'm not even sure why they want to remove something that's optional to begin with.