MM2 cops after oponents?

[Diatosta]

Yep, cops can go after oponents in MM2 (sure some of you might already know this, even because of that famous interview ), but you have to be "careful" for that to happen. See in the video below (by me! ):



As you can see (or atleast that's what I think), cops will only pursue oponents if you're near the cop (a.k.a. they are in your field radius, but you don't need to be looking at them, think of an cupula around you ), they're not chasing you (duh) and oponents manage to pass in front of him, and still there's a 50/50 chance that they won't go after them.
Also, as you are able to see in the end of the last race (second try) when the cop looses the oponents of sight, it will stop as normal, and chase anyone that passes by them, if the above requeriments are met (in that case, me ).
I still gotta find out if there is the 3 cop limit when pursuing oponents, I'll probably have to modify some race to make more than 3 cops at one spot

[The_Most_Wanted]

I had known that thing for a long time and i did it many times in mm2

[NotoriousA]

This is a very interesting discovery. Reminds me of how the cops would chase opponents in NFS!

[Diatosta]

Yeah. Funny thing is that I saw it many years ago (and I still read it from time to time) in the interview to the MM2 developer, refering to this big inovation, but only yesterday I saw a video that told me how to do it (and it was quite wrong (looking at you Slaps )), so I kinda found it by myself

[Franch88]

I don't do the game races in a serious way since long time, and could never notice that the cops can also start to chase an opponent. Your near presence is important to let this work, though, so you've to make it happen on purpose staying behind the opponents.

[Storm_Sullivan]

Unfortunately, that generally means ya lose the race right?

[e-cobra]

I never noticed that.

[Seahawk]

Yeah, I noticed that one time before. Once while I was playing a race 2 cops started chasing an opponent. But they were out of my sight, I just saw them on the map.

[Kushpreet]

It's a new thing, Diatosta. Good job in finding this.

[e-cobra]

It's a new thing, Diatosta. Good job in finding this.

It isn't a new thing. It existed from the time MM2 was created. Diatosta did a good job by making a video of it and showing us all.

[RohitXL5]

LOL @start when suddenly race started. Nice video. You can become MM2 theorist.

[Diatosta]

Ok, so I tried 3 ways as seen in the video below:



As you can see, they only pursue oponents when I'm close to them, and as seen in the end of the 3rd try, they'll the same as in players, that will still pursue them even after they finished. Also, as seen in the bonus, cops can pursue oponents & you at the same time, making a total of 6 cops active at the same time (atleast that's the most I got). Pretty cool, huh?

P.S.- No Cheat Engine was used in the making of the video

[NotoriousA]

So now it's possible to have more than three pursuers. It keeps getting better and better!

[Franch88]

This second video explains and shows better the working of this thing. It's native of the game, but actually it's not so well implemented since the opponents chasing by the cops depends only by your presence close to them.
Great bonus try, that's the real discover done: it shows that the limit of three cop cars active in chasing is related with the car that they're chasing, so it's not a sort of forced limit independently from anything. Another thing is that from the video seems that the cop cars can't follow more than one opponent, in fact the remained cops didn't started to follow the second opponent which showed ahead them.

So now it's possible to have more than three pursuers. It keeps getting better and better!

Yes, and it's native of the game, but, are always only three the cop cars that will follow you and one of the opponents.

[The_Most_Wanted]

I think the number of cops or opponents chasing may increase if we used the "+3 cops" trainer, then Diatosta can make the Third part of this video and show us the results of it.