I think I’m going crazy but the AI cops keep following me…

Ok hear me out: this might sound crazy, but some of the AI cops (well one of them) were following me around town without their lights on.

It started when I was going up one of the streets on the West coast USA map. An undercover cop passed me and immediately made a U-turn and started to follow me. I just kept driving until I noticed that every turn I took it took as well. At some point I started recording (I’ll post the video if you guys want me to) before I turned the corner and it respawned due to me being out of range. I found the same car about 30 seconds later but it would not tail me AT ALL. Is this a bug, a feature, or am I just paranoid?

 

ive seen cops in real life following a suspicious car, so maybe youre just tipping on doing illegal things, kinda wierd tho yeah

 

Yeah, thanks for telling me

what’s crazy is that I’ve never had that happen before so yeah definitely weird
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I also looked it up but no results from google so idk

 

Cops can actually do that irl too, they can follow you without their lights on if they think you're a little suspicious. I had one tail me without their lights on at night irl (don't worry, it's nothing serious). I'd say it's a feature and applaud BeamNG's attention to detail.

 

If we're talking about the same thing it's probably a bug, seems to happen when a police car cycles (despawns and respawns somewhere else) while in chase or follow AI mode. Even if they were after another traffic car for some reason when spawning the chase target defaults to player vehicle. Quite hard to repro but if you stay in the same spot and let the traffic run for a while (and are lucky enough that traffic doesn't come to a complete jam) cops sometimes come stop in front of your car and just sit there (follow mode), or ram you (chase mode). The follow mode seems more common than chase mode, probably because traffic vehicles don't often make it to the second chase level before despawning. The game is supposed to reset AI modes when traffic is cycled but due to how vlua works traffic vehicles being cycled often don't receive the command.

 

they should make that bug a secret feature.

 

I agree they should make that a secret feature

 

Apologies in advance, but good sir I believe your assumption that you are becoming crazed is indeed correct. I personally suggest seeking professional help as soon as feasibly possible.

 

Perhaps it could be a cool "investigative" AI mode if done correctly. In sandbox gameplay it's just funny bug but for my mod (hardcore career, have to pay to repair damages) I had to find a workaround and fix it myself. Cops doing a 180 in the middle of a highway to go after your car is amusing until you can't avoid them and poof goes hours of progress.

 

yeah, these details would be really good for beam