Version 6.3 | Last Updated
1 month ago
**Requires BEARDLIB for auto-updates while in-game. Otherwise, you will simply be notified when an update is out.**
I can't lie, there's not really an easy cure for PAYDAY 2's vanilla AI, with years of old, outdated, and relatively broken code, it's a wonder that it works at all to begin with, which is why most of the major rebalances and overhauls tend to re-factor a large majority of it into something that suits their style of gameplay.
Of course, not everyone is fond of rebalancing huge aspects of the game, and wish they could have the AI fixes from those mods in Vanilla without locked match-making keys.
**And this mod is as close as you will get.**
Within the constraints of keeping things as close to Vanilla as possible while still fixing and improving AI, this mod will fix some of the bigger issues that plague the game.
**Cops are now somewhat close to tactical:**
Vanilla has an issue in which cops are constantly relocated to the position the player is, even if their objective isn't actually to assault the player. This is both a waste of performance AND makes them overly aggressive in a particularly dumb way, this also causes special enemies to be unable to use their special attacks 90% of the time, as they end up thinking they need to go into travel-logic.
This has now been fixed. Cops will approach the area the player is in, and wait until their teammates are close before pushing, they will also proudly announce them opening fire and pushing in.
**Enemies no longer break when sent into panic by skills or perkdecks:**
Due to a mishap in setting up the panic animations, once a cop goes into panic, they'll be stuck unable to move until either you force them to play another animation somehow, or, their level of detail gets updated. (It's easy to test in Vanilla, make a cop play a panic animation and they'll be stuck doing nothing forever until you either turn away from them or send them into a stagger animation.)
This no longer happens.
**There are now more high-definition AI enemies allowed:**
Vanilla has a maximum of 3 high-definition AI enemies per player, up to a total of 12 important enemies, however, if there's less players than that, the game never tries to add the maximum number of important enemies that there would be with 4 players, meaning that enemy AI is actively dumber in single-player than in multiplayer.
This is now fixed, and the number of important enemies dynamically scales with player count properly.
**Improved enemy pathing:**
Vanilla is riddled with tiny little things that make enemy pathing take way longer than it should, I'm just going to list those out:
- Pathing sometimes over-complicates itself, turning straight lines unescessary bends and delaying the intended movement.
- When an enemy is travelling to a destination, there's a tendency for logic updates to get wasted and cancelled early when it's not nescessary.
- Pathing priority is not sent correctly most of the time, this causes pathing to take way longer in the engine because it gets tossed in to the ultra-mega-backburner.
- Cops/Team AI will occasionally unescessarily choose to strafe or moonwalk towards their destination, even when there are no targets to shoot or aim at, which reduces their movement speed.
LIES fixes these issues up to a point, allowing cops to travel from point to point much faster and at intended speeds.
**Various other fixes:**
I can't cover everything into these big examples, here's some other stuff that impacts gameplay massively without really being obvious:
- When enemies perform a path-finding search, they have to wait for the next logic update to actually utilize it, even if the path is ready to be used. In LIES, as soon as path-finding is done, enemies will try to update their travel and attack logic without updating "detection", ensuring minimal movement delays, without sacrificing performance.
- Enemies can't really reload while moving in Vanilla due to a improperly set animation tag, in LIES, enemies determine how bad they need to reload or not, and try to stop moving in order to do it.
- Enemies in Vanilla sync some bad movement data to clients when cops start walking, causing a rubberbanding effect when a cop performs a movement animation for clients. This is fixed in LIES if you're hosting.
- Various enemy height checks in code are using values from PD:TH, where enemy models and proportions were different, causing enemies to think they are well-hidden by cover when they might not be. LIES fixes this.
**Improved chatter:**
Enemies in vanilla have a bunch of unused voicelines. This mod adds some of them as functional things they can say. Just as a little bonus.
While there isn't much that changed, the hope here is that the changes will be noticeable enough to make the game feel just a little fresher and better, after all, AI is just that, it's artificial intelligence, the intelligence is all...**LIES**. (ba-dum-tss)
**OPTIONAL FEATURES:**
This mod isn't just all fixes and gray, there's a few things that are new in it.
**Customizeable Aggressiveness, Movement Frequency, and Reaction Time:**
If the mod starts making the game feel easy and cops feel too tactical? Just crank up the aggressiveness and reaction time. Watch those cops snap towards you like you're playing Classic DOOM on Ultra-Violence.
**Max Enemies Multiplier:**
Allows you to decrease or increase the maximum amount of enemies that spawn to your liking. NOTE: Values higher than default will affect performance negatively.
**Custom Navlink Delays:**
Adjust the individual delays for movement animations, used by the AI for things such as climbing a fence, or jumping down a ledge, which sometimes are way longer than the actual animation itself, causing enemies to have to wait around long periods of time just to perform those animations.
**Cover through LUA:**
Normally, cops taking cover is somewhat ineffective in Vanilla due to the engine functions relying on outdated information, meaning most of the time, their searches for cover will fail and they'll have to default to simpler movement instead.
By overriding the cover functions with my own, cops now take cover through LUA and actively try to cut line of sight with threats if possible:
- Off: Vanilla behavior.
- Simple: Overrides the regular cover code with similar code without checking for the outdated information. Minimal performance cost.
- Vis-Check: Same as above, but checks whether the character taking cover would be actually covered up by the cover, improving the effectiveness of the search, at the cost of some performance.
In addition, even if you are not using Cover Through LUA, the outdated information that the engine usually relies on will be generated to allow characters to at least *try* using it.
**Smart Engagement:**
Minimize the tendency for enemies to continue moving into danger if engaging at a distance would be viable for their purposes, and makes them look even more tactical while doing so. Toggleable.
**Spicy Tactics:**
Adds entirely new AI behaviors and new tactics from Vanilla, and changes things to be just a little bit harder:
- Enemies do not always know where you are, and will instead use everything to their advantage to find you, such as cameras, their fellow teammates, snipers and such.
- Flank enemies will now chase down lone heisters who have abandoned/been abandoned by their team.
- If an enemy cannot find viable cover, they will try to take cover behind a shield, or position themselves near a medic.
- On Mayhem and above, specific enemy groups will prefer to target heisters who are doing interactions, reviving players, or reloading. They will also call out reloads from heisters.
- On Mayhem and above, enemy dodges will be improved, and they will dodge more frequently.
- On Mayhem and above, various enemies will have increased magazine capacity.
- Minigun Bulldozers can now throw grenades.
- Some specific damage stats on Death Sentence are altered due to different weapons being used.
- On Death Sentence, ZEAL Heavy SWATs that use rifles will have an underbarrel grenade launcher and be able to launch grenades at heisters.
- On Death Sentence, Marshal Marksmen will no longer have a glint or trail, and will gain Armor-Piercing rounds.
- On Death Sentence, Minigun Bulldozers now gain increased damage, and their damage slowly increases while firing, up to a 3x damage multiplier after 4~ seconds of firing.
- Captain Winters will now slowly approach players and can now spawn in single-player.
- Certain maps will have specific gimmicks and altered spawngroups.
May contain some extra surprises.
Extremely not accurate to Vanilla, but accurate to our hopes and dreams. NOTE: High sodium content. Toggleable.
**Fixed/Low RNG enemy spawns:**
Restores shotgunner groups, also comes with the option to minimize the group spawning RNG for a more consistent spread of units. Also allows ZEAL SWATs and ZEAL Heavy SWATs to carry shotguns if their group would normally carry those.
**Allow assault groups to retire:**
After a specific update, assault groups could no longer walk off the map and despawn when an assault is over, this option restores that feature. Toggleable.
**No Joker Stagger:**
Makes Jokers unable to be staggered by enemy attacks which allows them to follow players better. Toggleable.
**Team AI Shouters:**
Allows Team AI to help players with escorts and surrendering cops. Toggleable. Not accurate to Vanilla.
**Forced Spawn Delays:**
Prevents enemy spawn group cooldown timers being reset when no other groups can spawn, reducing cases of enemies constantly pouring out of nearby spawn points. Toggleable.
**FAQ:**
- Will this mod conflict with Full Speed Swarm/Iter/Better Bots/Keepers/Think Faster:
Yes, and if I see a crashlog with any of these mods in it, I'm going to ignore it from now on.
- Will this mod conflict with (insert other mod here)?
Give it a shot on Holdout singleplayer, if it crashes only after this mod is installed, there's your answer.
- Will this significantly affect the game's difficulty?
Maybe, you might see special enemies using their attacks MUCH more often in certain cases, the change to panic animations might make certain perkdecks like Muscle feel a little weaker, but it'll all be within the intended behavior that was SUPPOSED to be there to begin with.
- Does this improve Team AI?
Yes, significantly so. Team AI's target priority code has been reworked entirely, and their logics have been improved to help them keep up and position themselves near players.
- Why did you name the mod LIES instead of something more friendly?
I was originally going to name it Fuglore's AI Deals and this entire page was gonna be themed like a car sale, but then I realized that'd be funny and I'd not allowed to do anything but use exclamation marks.
NOTE: **When updating LIES, please make sure to delete the old "LIES MWS" folder just in case.**
Version 6.3:
Massive performance improvements this update. For real.
- Adjusted the rate at which cops spawn to match Vanilla:
Due to me organizing and adjusting how spawning system works for enemies to allow for better performance on a enemy-by-enemy basis and fixing wasted tasks, I also unintentionally sped up the rate at which enemies spawn.
In Vanilla, there is an issue that happens where an enemy group can partially spawn in one update, and finish late in the next one, essentially making it so that for one update, additional enemy groups cannot be "prepared" to spawn, despite it being technically possible for the group to finish spawning in the current update.
In essence, this wastes an update, and I fixed it without putting much thought into it, however, Vanilla attempts to handle this in a rather poor way, and would "speed up" these wasted updates in order to get through them faster to spawn more enemies, this meant that me fixing this bug, indirectly made the group spawning be performed a lot quicker than intended, and with a lot more enemies, causing performance issues on weaker CPUs.
With this update, I've fixed this by reducing the maximum amount of enemies that can spawn in a single update, and removed the "sped up" updates that Vanilla usually performs when spawning enemies, improving performance overall, and making the mod a lot closer to how Vanilla usually behaves.
Other changes:
- Added the Max Enemies Multiplier option:
Allows you to reduce or increase the maximum amount of enemies that spawn to your liking. NOTE: Values higher than default will affect performance negatively. Default: 1.
Spicy Tactics:
- Fixed an issue that caused the Bulldozer enrage warning noise to continue playing after their death.
Version 6.26:
- Optimized the task system for better performance.
- Attempted fix to various crashes in CopLogicIdle.
- Fixed a crash relating to "weird" security cameras in specific heists.
Version 6.25:
- Fixed a bug caused by a slight typo.
Version 6.24:
If the police are pigs, are the ZEALs [salmon](https://youtu.be/hiYS7kpJQUU)?
- Fixed various crashes.
- Improved the smoothness of enemies, civilians and cameras detecting players during stealth.
- Added some extra dialogue to guards and other non-cop enemies in stealth.
- Fixed various instances of enemies getting stuck in stealth.
- Improved enemy dialogue to play more often as they're moving.
- Improved shields' priorities regarding reloading their weapons and moving.
- Adjusted cover generation code.
Spicy Tactics:
- Enemies no longer always know where you are, but will instead search generally around the last position you would have been detected in until you are found.
Cameras, snipers, gunfire, attacking enemies, or standing near areas where the enemies spawn from will reveal you to them.
Broken cameras do not reveal you.
If you are detected, previous enemy behavior will continue for 9 seconds before they consider you undetected again and try to sweep for you.
Version 6.23:
Updates are always a doozy to deal with...is what I'd say. If most of these crashes weren't my fault.
- Adjusted enemy aggressiveness.
- Polished previous adjustments to how enemies wait for their fellow group members.
- Adjusted some internal cover generation code to allow for cover to be created in cases where there isn't any for an AI navigation segment. I might polish this up a lot more in the future.
- Fixed various crashes related to CopLogicAttack and TeamAILogicAssault.
Spicy Tactics:
- Added the generic Police Response/FBI Special Agents to Lost In Transit.
Version 6.22:
- Fixed a crash as client when joining other players.
Version 6.21:
- Fixed a small oopsie.
Version 6.2:
You bet your ass I'm giving someone that new Deagle in Spicy Tactics at some point.
- Fixed a very rare crash with CopLogicAttack.
- Fixed enemies not properly following specific behaviors in map such as Proving Grounds. (Not all bugs have been fixed here.)
- Improved how enemies wait for their fellow group members.
Spicy Tactics:
- Updated to support the Marshal Shield spawns.
- Fixed tons of Marksmen spawning in Panic Room.
Version 6.1:
- Fixed an issue which caused ZEAL Swat to use shotguns when Fixed Spawngroups are not being used.
- Attempted fix to a very rare Vanilla issue when Captain Winters dies.
- Optimized enemy objective reassignment code.
Spicy Tactics:
- Fixed an issue which caused a lot of Marshal Marksmen to spawn in Panic Room.
- Attempted fix to an issue which causes the Damage Resistance and Captain icon from Winters to persist even after the assault ends.
Version 6:
- Added "Movement Frequency" option:
Adjusts the delay before enemies travel from location to location. The **SLOWEST** setting emulates Vanilla delays, the **NIGHTMARE** setting is accurate to the *intended* speeds.
- Added "Navlink Delays" option:
Adjust the individual delays for movement animations, used by the AI for things such as climbing a fence, or jumping down a ledge. **NO CHILL** completely removes nav link delays and may cause a *stacking* effect on cops.
- Added some new code to rotate coverpoints automatically, making enemies able to take cover in some cases even with Cover Through LUA disabled.
- Added some new code to prevent cases of navigation segments with no AI Coverpoints in them, they will now generate one.
- When using Fixed Spawngroups, ZEAL SWATs and ZEAL Heavy SWATs will use shotguns on their appropriate groups.
- Fixed a bug in Vanilla in which damaging enemies would cause them to briefly see through walls and think they can shoot the player.
- Adjusted Team AI reviving other Team AI, and improved their reaction time to it.
- Fixed Team AI reviving players snapping out of the revive animation occasionally or getting stuck after reviving.
- Reduced cases of enemies clipping their heads through walls.
- Fixed a rare crash when converting an enemy, or when an enemy gets released from being cuffed.
- Adjusted enemy aggressiveness when suppressed.
Spicy Tactics:
This update is dedicated to [**D**](https://i.imgur.com/3V4zrp3.png)eat**H** **S**entence players who want something refreshing and fun to deal with.
- ZEAL Heavy SWAT on Death Sentence now use rifles with underbarrel grenade launchers, but deal 150 damage when shooting. They can fire a new grenade every 30 seconds per unit, with a global delay of 5 seconds between them all.
- Other enemies whose rifle weapons "scale" with the difficulty now deal 150 damage too.
- Marksman units on Death Sentence no longer have glints, or unique trails, and gain Armor-Piercing rounds.
- Minigun Bulldozers on Death Sentence now gain increased damage, and their damage slowly increases while firing, up to a 3x damage multiplier after 4~ seconds of firing.
Have fun. Please let me know of any bugs or crashes you run into.
Version 5.22:
- Fixed another crash that happened if you weren't using Low RNG spawngroups or Spicy Tactics.
Version 5.21:
Well, that wasn't very spooky, sorry.
- Fixed a crash that happened if you weren't using Low RNG spawngroups or Spicy Tactics.
Version 5.2:
Happy Halloween, here's something that will make you shiver.
- Improved defensive fallback behavior for cops, they should now *try* to get away from sight, even if no cover points are involved.
- Adjusted aggression on the lowest setting.
- Adjusted the "height" at which cover is checked to better match character models' heights. (Applies to Cover Through LUA as well.)
- Adjusted shield groups' aggressiveness level.
Spicy Tactics:
- Shield groups will now specifically try to slow down and guard escorts in attempts to prevent objective progression.
- On OVERKILL and above, "Ranged Fire" enemy groups will now attempt to deploy tear gas if there are heisters camping in a single spot for too long. Tear Gas grenades run on a separate cooldown than Flashbangs and Smoke Grenades.
Version 5.15:
I kind of have to apologize for the recently high frequency of crash-fix updates.
But, also, to the people who are in the comments section, giving me crash and bug reports, or just generally giving their thoughts on the mod, I **really** appreciate it, it makes it much easier for me to improve my mods if I know when there's something wrong with them! **Thank you!**
- Attempted fix to all of the follow_unit related crashes that are caused by players leaving/joining lobbies or going into custody.
Version 5.14:
- Made enemies move into cover a little more consistently.
- Fixed a few access violation crashes.
Spicy Tactics:
- Improved dodges for enemies on Mayhem and above.
Cover Through LUA:
- Fixed some cover points that were being ignored when being initially registered.
Version 5.13:
I'm sending this crash to the Columbo dimension.
- Fixed a crash caused by players joining or leaving lobbies while being followed by enemies using "Flank" or "Deathguard" tactics.
Version 5.12:
- Fixed enemies in Big Oil Day 1 being nearly immediately alerted.
- Fixed a crash relating to the "deathguard" tactic.
- Made enemies in stealth use better pathing.
Version 5.11:
And now, for our national Dallas. *low quality midi version of razormind plays*
- Fixed a crash in CopLogicTravel involving follow_unit.
- Reverted CopBase compatibility changes in attempt to fix the reported "weapon_range" crashes.
- Changed the order of some code in GroupAIState in attempt to fix the reported "weapon_range" crashes.
Version 5.1:
- Adjusted enemy aggressiveness on the lowest setting, adjusted shield aggressiveness.
- Made it unit logic changes or objective completions allow direct updating of the unit's group. This should essentially result in more consistent defensive and offensive behavior from unit groups.
- Fixed a few inconsistencies in GroupAIState.
- Fixed some inconsistencies in CopLogicTravel that was causing enemies to occasionally leave their teammates behind.
- Added some safety checks to allow compatibility with mods that replace enemy weapons. Those will only be incompatible with Spicy Tactics now, usually.
Spicy Tactics:
- Fixed a crash in Cursed Kill Room.
Version 5:
- Added new dialog that enemies use before pushing into an area on lower aggression levels.
- Fixed enemy aggression not working properly.
- Fixed a typo causing some fallback cover code to not work properly.
- Fixed cases of guards in stealth stopping in areas where players are in and not moving until the player has left. (Possibly Vanilla)
- Fixed various bugs in GroupAIStateBesiege relating to enemies stopping early if the areas they're moving through have criminals in them, this should be more consistent now.
Spicy Tactics:
- Marksmen on higher difficulties have their magazine size increased, letting them fire off more shots before reloading.
Version 4.9:
- Fixed cases of bots getting stuck in Framing Frame Day 2.
- Adjusted some aggression settings that had the wrong timers set.
Spicy Tactics:
- Increased the range at which a heister is considered as not separated from the team.
- Adjusted the Marshal Marksmen timers on all heist, when not in Midland Ranch, they take 5 minutes instead of 10 to start spawning. This timer is greatly lowered on higher difficulties.
Version 4.8:
I was busy listening to the newest Guilty Gear Strive song on loop and forgot to release this update.
- Fixed various crashes.
- Adjusted how the Enemy Reaction level settings work with Tasers and Cloakers to no longer use an animation that stops all movement.
- Adjusted Smart Engagement on Tasers and Cloakers to let them execute their special attacks at their proper ranges.
- Fixed flank cop dialogue not working properly.
Version 4.7:
I have procrastinated on making this update because having to update everything for auto-updates is a pain.
- Fixed another crash if you had another mod that changed enemy spawn groups with Spicy Tactics enabled. Note that this will disable some unique behavior from Spicy Tactics.
- Adjusted it so that the ZEAL Sniper uses the same engagement rules as Marshal Marksman.
- Fixed various cases of enemies shoving their heads into walls, additionally, made it so that won't mean they can see players on the other side of the wall if they're doing *that*.
- Adjusted low aggression levels so that enemy groups no longer have to directly drop a smoke grenade to charge, it can be another group that deploys the grenade.
- Fixed a crash in Meltdown with Spicy Tactics enabled.
Version 4.6:
- Fixed a crash if you had another mod that changed enemy spawn groups with Spicy Tactics enabled. Note that this will disable some unique behavior from Spicy Tactics.
Spicy Tactics:
- On Mayhem difficulty and higher, Green Bulldozers, Saiga Bulldozers, and LMG Dozers will now get mad after prolonged confrontation with a heister, gaining double their usual damage.
You will know when it's active, as the Bulldozer will play a specific animation, and make unique sound effects.
This effect lasts for 5 seconds, and takes at least 5 more seconds to activate after it ends. You can avoid it by either running away from the Bulldozer, or cutting line of sight for a period of time, the Bulldozer will also let you know that you're successfully doing that by playing a unique noise, too.
Version 4.51:
- Fixed a crash with Captain Winters.
Version 4.5:
- Reworked a variety of code in CopLogicAttack relating to enemy movement, this should result in enemies relocating cover-to-cover more often and charging when they feel fit to do so.
- Fixed cases of scripted enemies trying to retreat after spawning in specific cases.
- Fixed an issue in which Gensec Heavy Shotgunners were spawning in Murkywater heists due to a Vanilla typo.
Spicy Tactics:
- Made respawning SO's from earlier heists spawn more often, and made the respawning cloaker SO's take longer before leaving.
- Made Captain Winters and his cohorts more oppressive on difficulties above Mayhem.
- Added an addition to the Marshal Marksmen in Midland Ranch, texas police will now continually respawn during waves and assist in the assault.
- Fixed surprise groups spawning in Holdout when they shouldn't.
- Added a longer assault break when Spicy Tactics is enabled. This is one of the few boons I will grant you when using Spicy Tactics. Use it wisely.
Version 4.42:
- Fixed a crash in coplogicidle.
- Adjusted cloaker AI to be more sneaky if targets are further away than their kick range.
- Reduced cases of Cloakers doing jumpkicks from invalid heights.
- Fixed a crash relating to Captain Winters with Spicy Tactics on.
Version 4.41:
- Fixed auto-updates.
- Fixed a crash in CopLogicTravel.
Version 4.4:
- Slight adjustments and fixes to Team AI so they do not immediately exit their attack logic when there are no enemies in sight. (Vanilla.)
- Fixed various cases of enemies staring at things like broken glass and such during assaults or combat. (Vanilla.)
- Adjusted enemy aggressiveness on various settings.
- Adjusted a few parameters in CopLogicAttack in order to allow enemies to perform aggressive/repositioning movement more often.
- Jokers now use Team AI's enemy priority code, allowing them to better target special enemies.
Version 4.3:
- Improved Team AI's ability to get closer to players overall. (For example, in Alaskan Deal's train, the Team AI will no longer constantly shuffle around the middle.)
- Adjusted a few issues regarding Team AI movement.
- Adjusted LUA Cover parameters slightly.
Spicy Tactics:
- Cops will try to be more mindful of their allies' positions when moving to their objectives.
- Added a generic set of surprise-spawns chosen at random on Mayhem and above if a map has no other surprise-spawns. Have fun.
Version 4.22:
- Fixed a crash in BossLogicAttack.
- Adjusted the order of when enemy dodges are performed to fix problems of enemies not dodging when they should.
- Allowed enemies to turn towards attentions when they're not shooting.
- Added autoupdates through Beardlib.
Version 4.21:
- Fixed a very big oopsie if you had Spicy Tactics on, causing certain specials to not obey spawn caps properly (even with fixed special spawncaps on).
- Reworked a specific surprise for Spicy Tactics.
Version 4.2:
- Greatly re-improved pathing speed. (I had changed a parameter for optimization reasons a few updates ago. I have now changed it back, as I've found it's not affecting performance as badly as I thought it was.)
- Reduced cases of Jokers not following their owners. (This is a Vanilla issue. It's just more noticeable now that Jokers actually try to keep up with players.)
- Made it so Hoxton will properly follow you up until the van arrives in Hoxton Breakout Day 1. (This is not a thing in Vanilla...but somehow, still happens anyway due to other bugs, I think. So people expect it to be there...so I've made it happen.)
- Added more surprises to Spicy Tactics.
Version 4.1:
- Compatibility with the new heist.
- Small change to Team AI when deciding to follow players.
Version 4:
Re-wrote and reworked most of the Cover Through LUA code for better performance, added multiple options:
- Off: Vanilla behavior.
- Simple: Overrides the regular cover code with similar code without checking for the outdated information. Minimal performance cost.
- Vis-Check: Same as above, but checks whether the character taking cover would be actually covered up by the cover, improving the effectiveness of the search, at the cost of some performance.
Added "Reaction Level" option:
- Adjust how reactive you want enemies regarding shooting in Loud. *Slow* is the closest to Vanilla.
Added Spicy Tactics:
- Adds entirely new AI behaviors and new tactics, and changes things to be just a little bit harder. Extremely not accurate to Vanilla, but accurate to our hopes and dreams. NOTE: High sodium content.
Other changes:
- Team AI will now try to ignore enemies behind them if moving to a player when trying to revive them, or when called and their target isn't a sufficiently important enemy.
- When a Bulldozer is reloading, they will try to take a few steps away if an enemy is too close to avoid getting face-dumped.
- Various crash fixes and bugfixes.
- Misc. optimizations.
Version 3.471:
- Fixed an issue where delayed callbacks would not be executed properly due to a change in the previous update.
Version 3.47:
- Various performance improvements.
- Various sound fixes.
- Fixed a few cases of enemies not shooting when they should due to the previous update.
Major adjustments to the task queue in order to keep enemies moving, and optimizations:
- Moved the despawning of shields be handled by callbacks instead of the AI task queue, freeing up space.
- Tasks are now prioritized by the "oldest" execution time, meaning that tasks queued by a Bulldozer that is shooting players a second ago are now more important than a enemy in travel who just spawned. This should **greatly** reduce cases of enemies not noticing players when initially encountering them, and make AI much more reactive.
- The task queue buffer will no longer balloon up when not enough tasks are being executed, reducing performance impact in maps where assaults take a while to start happening.
Version 3.46:
Major improvements and fixes to cops shooting while moving:
- In Vanilla, if a common enemy is moving away from a player while moving at running speed, they're supposed to be unable to shoot the player, and face the direction they're running.
- This doesn't work correctly, as Vanilla never properly ensures that the cop will face the direction they are moving, and, only checks the final position they're moving to, rather than the direction they're moving in, meaning that you'll get cops who, will be unable to shoot you, while still looking at you for no reason, which slows them down, and makes them look stupid.
- In cases where enemies aren't even targetting a heister, they might still end up looking at unimportant objects, such as glass or dead corpses while moving, even if those objects are behind them, which slows down their pathing.
This has been fixed over the past couple of patches, and will greatly speed up enemies and bots' movement towards their destinations when they are supposed to be running.
Version 3.45:
- Slight improvements to cops taking cover in CopLogicAttack.
- Misc. fixes.
Version 3.44:
- Fixes to the previous version.
- Fixed cases of enemy death lines not being interrupted properly.
- Attempted a slight compatibility change to support Keepers.
Version 3.43:
- Made it so if cops are not supposed to shoot the player, they will turn to the direction they are moving in order to move faster.
- Adjusted and improved some of the reload code.
Version 3.42:
- Fixed a case in which enemies and bots would stop to reload during travel and be stuck until their reload was finished.
Version 3.41:
- Fixed a crash in CopLogicTravel.
Version 3.4:
- Added a new option, Special Enemy Reaction Delays, which adds a small delay before special enemies can execute their special attacks upon targetting a valid heister. Toggleable. Not accurate to Vanilla.
- Fixed cases of Cloakers getting stuck after jump-kicking players.
- Made it so Cloakers will stop beating players after 15 seconds of a non-stop beatdown, even if no players are around.
- Added new chatter for scout/hostage rescue groups approaching areas with hostages or loot.
- Added new chatter for cops on Death Sentence/units with radio chatter breaking drills/saws.
- Made enemies talk more often.
- Made Dozers and other enemies try to reload their weapons if applicable while moving.
- Fixed Dozers occasionally staring off into the sunset.
- Fixed duplicated Charons. (The other Charon has found new purpose in life.)
- Fixed cops cancelling their own voicelines and other Vanilla issues.
Version 3.3:
- Added a new option, Fixed Special Spawncap, which fixes Minigun Bulldozers, Medicdozers, and Phalanx Shields not counting towards their respective spawncaps. Toggleable. Not accurate to Vanilla.
- Fixed Team AI using their chatter too often.
- Fixed cases of Cloakers getting stuck unable to move, but able to shoot.
- Added in some functionality to let enemies back into the navfield if they walk outside of it due to clipping. (Such as hurt animations, or the "run_stop" from movement.)
- Minor AI optimizations.
- Fixed Force Spawn Delays not working if Low RNG groups were not enabled.
- Properly cooked the update, and added more seasoning. It just needed another hour or two.
Version 3.21:
- Completely undercooked the update, so I reverted it.
Version 3.2:
- Added Team AI QOL as an option, allowing them to help players with escorts and surrendering cops. Not accurate to Vanilla.
Version 3.1:
- Greatly improved Team AI target prioritization, you should see them want to kill specials way more often now, especially ones targetting them.
- Fixed various cases of Team AI spotting enemies through walls, and spotting enemies they're not targetting. (Vanilla)
- Fixed a variety of general issues with Team AI intimidating civilians from Vanilla.
- Fixed an issue in which Team AI would not intimidate civilians if there were no enemies around or they weren't in Travel logic. (Vanilla)
- Made Team AI only stay crouched if they've taken significant amounts of damage and need to regenerate.
Version 3.01:
- Fixed a crash with Cloakers.
Version 3.00:
- Added a new option, Forced Spawngroup Delays.
- Fixed an issue that caused Team AI being unable to turn while told to stay still. (Vanilla)
- Improved Team AI cover movement.
- Misc. changes and optimizations.
Version 2.98:
- Fixed an issue that caused Cloakers to be stuck beating players endlessly after a sprint kick. (Vanilla)
- Fixed an issue that caused Cloakers to spam smoke grenades when dodging or kicking players. (Vanilla)
- Fixed some small issues related to enemies seeing/opening fire on players that are barely covered up. (Vanilla)
- Fixed enemies trying to fire through walls at their targets instead of at the last-seen position of the target when shooting. (Vanilla)
- Fixed a few crashes caused by Iter...but you should **really** not have both installed.
Version 2.97:
- Fixed a crash caused by a missing sanity check. (Vanilla)
- Fixed a crash in which I made the same mistake as Vanilla did above. (Not Vanilla)
- Fixed enemies not retiring as they should be when Low RNG spawngroups are enabled. (Chocolate & Strawberry)
Version 2.96:
- Fixed Cloakers not leaving their hiding spots. (Vanilla)
- Some small stuff to make enemies entering attack logic update their detection faster for faster reactions when engaging.
- Small optimizations.
Version 2.953:
- Fixed a crash in CopLogicTravel caused purely by Iter. (Using Iter will result in bots having strange paths. Use whatever you'd like, but don't blame me for that. Either take out Iter, or take out LIES.)
- Small optimizations.
- Made it more likely that cops will try to face their target after moving.
Version 2.952:
- Actually fixed the CopLogicAttack crash. For real this time. If you get it again, you didn't update, or you're using some funky mods.
- Fixed a crash in multiple logics related to weapon_range not being set properly (Vanilla, usually mod-related.)
Version 2.951:
- Fixed a crash in CopLogicAttack.
Version 2.95:
- Fixed small bits of buggy behavior from Shield enemies.
- Fixed cases in which enemies would play a "Surprised" animation during Loud meant for recently alerted enemies only. (Vanilla)
- Fixed a bug in which enemies would play a crouching animation when already crouched, this was most noticeable with Medics, who would constantly play this animation when damaged. (Vanilla)
- Fixed a crash with hiding cloakers.
Version 2.94:
- Made it so cops try to take cover close to doorways when approaching the area they are moving to.
- Improved shields' response time to pathing and positioning. Bring a GL.
- Made it so enemies try to check if they need to turn more often. (I cannot fix the turning animations themselves being broken, sadly, as that would cause desync between client and host.)
- Fixed cases in which enemies' heights wouldn't be checked properly regarding things like cover and such. (Vanilla)
- Fixed a rare case of drop-ins crashing. (Vanilla)
Version 2.93:
- Fixed cases where if a Taser was not already opening fire, but tried to tase a player, they would get stuck unable to shoot or tase.
- Made tasers better at recognizing WHEN to tase a target.
- Minor task optimizations to diminish how much the task queue gets overwhelmed.
- Made the "hit" variation of enemy dodges proc on enemies being shot rather than being based entirely on stagger animations.
Version 2.92:
- Fixed a crash in Nightclub.
- Made it so enemies only cry out for help when *entering* the suppressed state, and not when leaving it.
Version 2.91:
- Fixed a variety of issues with enemy and bot pathing.
- Fixed a few instances of potential crashes for drop-in clients caused by a deprecated function. (Vanilla.)
- Made it so that Fixed Spawngroups will use the proper shotgunner GENSEC SWAT models.
- Fixed a small issue in which preemptive dodges would not work if clients or bots aimed at enemies. (Vanilla.)
- Small optimizations for cops in idle logic.
- Fixed a crash in GroupAIStateBesiege.
Version 2.9:
- Improved Cloaker logic while they are hiding to help them get out of the hiding spot better.
- Made the OVERKILL MC Biker Leader more aggressive.
- Fixed Team AI not obeying being called if you're near them.
- Adjusted Smart Engagement on lower aggression levels to be more cautious.
- Adjusted Jokers to follow players better overall.
- Added a new option to disable Jokers being hurt or staggered.
- Fixed a rare crash in CopLogicTravel.
Version 2.81:
- Fixed a crash with scripted pathing from characters.
Version 2.8:
- Fixed cops walking back and forth during travel logic.
- Improved travel logic updates for even less wasted updates.
- Adjusted some map-specific navigation that was glitchy.
Version 2.74:
- Fixed a crash with Bulldozers.
Version 2.73:
- Attempted fixing cops getting stuck walking in place.
Version 2.72:
- Fixed Brooklyn 10-10 softlock.
Version 2.7:
- More pathing optimizations.
- Made Team AI and converts better at following players.
- Fixed low RNG spawngroups not spawning enough cops, and reduced the RNG even further.
- Improved Bulldozer chasing behavior.
- Fixed an issue from Vanilla that causes desync for clients when cops start a walk action and the first nav point is a navlink. Only works for clients if you're host.
Version 2.6:
- Adjusted enemy pathing and pathing optimizations.
- Improved how cops take cover in travel.
- Fixed a bug from Vanilla that would cause Team AI to follow players in Stealth when they weren't supposed to.
- Improved Team AI response times to pathing.
- Adjusted enemy aggressiveness settings.
Version 2.51:
- Fixed a crash.
Version 2.5:
- Added new options.
- Made special enemies update their logics more often through brain updating.
- Fixed cases in which enemies would never stop firing.
- Greatly reduced the frequency of enemies walking through walls.
Version 2.41:
- Fixed a crash with CopLogicAttack.
Version 2.4:
- Added warnings if the mod is outdated.
- Moved a few tasks to delayed clbks in GroupAIStateBesiege to prevent them from filling up the task queue.
- Adjusted the enemy aggressiveness settings slightly.
- Adjusted upd_movement to give priority to movement and cover behavior.
- Fixed various issues in upd_aim.
- Fixed some issues in TaserLogicAttack.
Version 2.3:
- Fixed a crash in GroupAIStateBesiege.
Version 2.2:
- More Team AI adjustments.
Version 2.1:
- Adjusted Team AI follow distance code to make sure they don't constantly walk back and forth.
- Fixed a massive fucking oopsie causing NPCs to walk through walls sometimes.
- Fixed the allow assault groups to retire option not working.
Version 2:
- Improved enemy pathing further, fixed an issue with Team AI from vanilla.
- Improved enemy chatter.
- Added some customizeable options.
Version 1:
- Release
Credit me if you need to take anything from this mod.
Dependencies
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SuperBLT (https://superblt.znix.xyz/)
Off-site Mod
Instructions
**Make sure to first have SuperBLT installed. Click the link in the dependency list.**
Optional video tutorial for installing SuperBLT, BeardLib, and mod_overrides mods: https://youtu.be/rin_sjSJIkg
1. After downloading the mod, use a program such as [7zip](https://www.7-zip.org/download.html) or [WinRAR](https://www.rarlab.com/download.htm) to extract the main folder of the mod.
2. Drop that folder into the `mods` folder which is supposed to be in the game's installation folder (don't know where that is? click [here](https://wiki.modworkshop.net/books/payday-2/page/finding-payday-2s-install-folder))
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