Immersive Santos 1.4

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Mod Overview

This mod adds more everyday activity, varied events, and believable reactions to Los Santos and the surrounding areas. It combines a script with an OIV package to make the world feel busier, more responsive, and less predictable.

OIV Package

Crime Awareness

• Fixed broken crime witness data that could cause crashes or be ignored by the game.
• Increased gunfire hearing distance from 50 m to 100 m.
• Increased explosion hearing distance from 65 m to 150 m.
• Increased the detection distance for shooting pedestrians or police officers from 14 m to 40 m.
• Increased the detection distance for shooting vehicles from 30 m to 50 m.
• Increased the detection distance for non-lethal weapon use from 4 m to 15 m.
• Made suppressed weapons slightly more noticeable, increasing their detection distance from 3 m to 6 m.
• Increased the distance at which killings, police killings, and collisions with pedestrians are noticed.
• Ambient pedestrians now notice nearby deaths from farther away.

Living Streets

• Pedestrians no longer remain in the same activity indefinitely. People using phones, smoking, leaning, drinking, window shopping, or reading maps move on after a few minutes.
• People wait longer at bus stops.
• Fewer police officers stand around idly.
• More people sit on benches.
• More homeless people appear on the streets.
• Twice as many birds appear in trees and on telegraph poles.

Version 2.0: OIV Changes

Peds.ymt: NPC Behaviour

• Addressed the behaviour of NPCs who prepare to fight but flee when targeted with the camera or a weapon they have already seen drawn.

pedaccuracy.meta: Shooting Accuracy

• Reduced AI accuracy from 2.0 to 1.3, making police and gang members less precise.
• Reduced professional pistol users’ accuracy against other AI from 2.5 to 1.8.
• Adjusted distance scaling: full accuracy applies below 3 m, previously 5 m, while minimum accuracy applies from 25 m, previously 15 m.
• Made it harder for NPCs to hit you while you are walking, running, or driving at speed.
• Reduced wounded shooters’ accuracy from 0.5 to 0.35.
• Reduced the player’s blind-fire accuracy.

motivations.meta: Mood Changes

• Anger builds 2.5 times more slowly and starts at a lower level.
• Fear builds more slowly and starts at a lower level, reducing immediate panic.
• Happiness develops at a more natural pace instead of changing instantly.

scenariotriggers.meta: Reactions to Shocking Events

• Reactions are no longer guaranteed for every pedestrian.
• Reaction probabilities are 85% for cowardly exits, 90% for instant exits, 80% for fleeing, and 95% for normal reactions.
• Crowds now respond less uniformly, with some people reacting while others continue their activities.

noisetuning.meta: Footstep Noise

• Reduced sneaking detection distance from 10 m to 7 m.
• Reduced walking detection distance from 15 m to 12 m.
• Increased running detection distance from 25 m to 30 m.
• Increased sprinting detection distance from 30 m to 40 m.
• Applied the same values to the single-player and multiplayer tables.

crimes.meta: Vehicle Theft Detection

• Reduced vehicle theft detection distance from 50 m to 28 m, allowing thefts on quiet streets to go unnoticed more often.

propsets.meta: Pedestrian Props

• Enabled the previously disabled brown-bag bottle for drinking pedestrians.
• Balanced handheld food distribution between bagels and both doughnut types.
• Increased the frequency of coffee among people drinking in deckchairs.

agitatedtriggers.meta: Confrontation Triggers

• Gang members take longer to react when you enter their territory: 0.7 to 2.5 seconds, previously 0.1 to 1.5 seconds.
• Pedestrians take longer to complain when you stand directly in front of them: 0.9 to 1.8 seconds, previously 0.35 to 0.6 seconds.
• Adjusted reaction delays for standing behind someone to 4.5 to 7 seconds, and for blocking someone with a vehicle to 6 to 9 seconds.
• Pedestrians notice being followed sooner, after 6 to 10 seconds, but escalate more slowly, with 3 to 5 seconds between stages.
• Intimidated pedestrians remain intimidated longer before reacting again: 22 to 38 seconds, previously 15 to 25 seconds.
• Increased gang support probabilities to 45% for the Families, Vagos, and bikers, and from 25% to 40% for other gangs.
• Increased gang support distance from 10 m to 13 m.

agitatedpersonalities.meta: Group Confidence

• Pedestrians now need three nearby friends instead of two before group confidence encourages them to confront you, reducing random fights with bystanders.

agitatedresponses.meta: Reaction Intensity

• Changed twelve responses that previously forced maximum fear to use 0.75, reducing immediate full panic.
• Pedestrians resume their previous activities once you are 22 m away, previously 30 m.

Script Features

Living World

• Adjusts pedestrian, traffic, scenario, and parked vehicle density by time of day and area, including beaches, downtown, nightlife districts, gang neighbourhoods, industrial zones, the airport, countryside, and suburbs.
• Creates a daily rhythm with busy morning and early-evening rush hours, followed by quieter streets late at night.
• Adds groups of two to four pedestrians walking together, sometimes with a dog.
• Encourages pedestrians to use existing benches, ATMs, vending machines, and shop windows.
• Adds small groups chatting, smoking, drinking, or standing together, with activities suited to the area and time of day.
• Adds office workers gathering outside in the evening to smoke and talk.
• Adds nighttime club queues with a bouncer at the entrance.
• Fills terraces and cafés during the day.
• Adds people waiting at bus stops.
• Adds couriers who double-park, carry parcels to a door, and drive away.
• Adds refuse trucks working their rounds with two crew members walking behind.
• Keeps pedestrians off roads and crossings. Script-controlled pedestrians who enter a traffic lane are directed back to the pavement.
• Spawns activity at a distance or outside your view, preventing scenes from appearing directly in front of you.

Shops

• Adds customers to shops and Ammu-Nation stores, with activity ranging from empty to packed depending on the time of day.
• Adds extra clerks and occasional queues at counters.
• Gives clerks activities such as checking phones, drinking coffee, smoking, leaning on counters, and doing paperwork. They change activities while you are not looking.
• Temporarily closes robbed shops, prevents customers from entering, and adds police officers parked outside investigating.

Interiors

Optional and disabled by default.

• Adds people to otherwise empty interiors.
• Includes preconfigured banks that work in the base game, with tellers behind counters and customers waiting or queueing.
• Supports custom coordinates for offices, bars, shops, and homes when used with a mod that enables additional interiors.
• Interior pedestrians appear only while you are outside and the interior is loaded.

Traffic

• Adds broken-down cars with raised bonnets, smoke, and owners calling for help.
• Adds vehicles arriving, parking, and locking, followed by occupants walking away.
• Adds cars refuelling at petrol stations, with people standing nearby.
• Drivers stuck behind you honk and shout through their windows.
• Faster highway traffic overtakes you.

Realistic Reactions

• Pedestrians move away briskly when you carry a weapon nearby or crash close to them. Carrying a weapon near them does not trigger a wanted level.
• People raise their hands or cower when you aim at them.
• Pedestrians show stronger fear around gunfire.
• Crashes attract varied reactions: some people leave, while others record with their phones.
• Pedestrians interact with their surroundings and talk to one another.
• People stop to photograph your parked car. Muscle, sports, sports classic, and super cars are included by default.

Witness System

• Crimes no longer trigger an instant wanted level unless a police officer sees them.
• Witnesses flee first, then report the crime using a mobile phone or the nearest phone booth.
• Interrupting a witness before the call ends by knocking them down, killing them, or aiming at them prevents the report.
• Police officers who witness a crime trigger a wanted level immediately.
• An optional setting prevents crimes without witnesses from generating any wanted level.

Identity and Disguise

• Police remember the outfit, mask, and vehicle associated with a crime.
• Changing your clothes and vehicle without being seen clears your wanted level.
• Dark window tints or a changed appearance prevent automatic recognition, unless an officer gets close enough to inspect you.

Progressive Vehicle Damage

• Heavily damaged vehicles develop throttle stutter.
• Hard impacts can bend axles, causing the vehicle to pull to one side.
• Severe impacts can damage the brakes and cause intermittent brake failure.

Ammo Economy

• Each Ammu-Nation has limited ammunition stock for pistols, SMGs, rifles, shotguns, sniper rifles, and machine guns.
• Large purchases increase prices, and ammunition can remain out of stock for several in-game days.
• Prices vary by area, with higher prices downtown and lower prices in the countryside.
• Gunfights around the city reduce available stock.
• Stock replenishes and prices fall over time.

Dynamic Events

Events appear according to the area and time of day. You can pass by or get involved.

Police

• Vehicle patrols around the area.
• Officers taking breaks outside stations or beside patrol cars, drinking coffee, eating doughnuts, smoking, or chatting before returning to patrol.
• Road checkpoints with cones closing a lane, patrol cars with lights on, an officer directing traffic, and others checking drivers’ documents.
• Occasional police chases that can continue on foot, with backup units and arrests.
• A police helicopter circling over the city and gang neighbourhoods at night.
• Municipal tow trucks removing badly parked vehicles.

Police do not intervene in other events unless this behaviour is enabled in the INI file.

Gang Territories

• Gang members gathering beside parked cars in territory controlled by their own gang, drinking, smoking, keeping watch, and dealing to passing buyers.
• Weapon deals from car boots, with lookouts and buyers leaving armed.
• Street drug deals, especially in gang neighbourhoods and industrial areas.
• Fights between local rival gangs, including the Families, Ballas, Vagos, Marabunta, Aztecas, and The Lost.
• Gang drive-bys.
• Gang memory: killing enough members causes that gang to attack you on sight in its territory until it forgets about you.

Crime

• Armed muggings and snatch-and-run thefts, usually targeting existing pedestrians. Victims may fight back or chase the thief, and incidents are more common in rough areas.
• Traffic accidents with injured people and onlookers filming.
• Street fights with spectators cheering and recording.
• Store robberies with getaway cars.
• Carjackings.

Emergency Services

• Ambulances and fire engines respond to real incidents with sirens.
• Paramedics treat injured people and transport them away.
• Firefighters extinguish burning wrecks.
• Fire crews respond to burning dumpsters in gang neighbourhoods at night.

Street and Traffic Events

• Racers and nighttime street race gatherings with spectators.
• Taxis picking up passengers.
• People interacting with parked cars.
• Vehicles carrying bicycles on their roofs.
• Tuned cars leaving Benny’s.
• Tow trucks towing vehicles.
• Work crews and electricians.
• Air traffic.
• An add-on vehicle injector that allows your add-on cars to appear in traffic.

Countryside and Coast

• Tractors and combines working in fields.
• Fishermen on piers and shorelines.
• Hiking groups, sometimes accompanied by a mountain biker.
• Truckers resting beside their vehicles, smoking or drinking coffee.
• Convoys of three to five Lost bikers riding in formation.
• Off-road vehicles.
• Campsites with tents and bonfires.
• Barn finds featuring rare abandoned classic cars you can take.

Optional Events

Disabled by default.

• Traffic stops where drivers may flee.
• Foot patrols.
• Foot chases involving tasers and arrests.
• Escorted prisoner transport convoys.
• Police raids that can escalate into shootouts.

Hotspots

• Save custom locations in-game and populate them with crowds, beach parties, queues, construction crews, electricians, or parked aircraft with pilots and mechanics.

Super Lively Mode

• Enables a much busier city with more pedestrians, heavier traffic, packed shops, more events, and more crime.
• Lets you choose which systems receive a boost, including density, crowds, shops, events, crime, reactions, and traffic.
• Allows you to adjust the strength of each boost.

Configuration

• Includes more than 50 events, each with configurable weight, spawn chance, cooldown, areas, active hours, and per-area probability multipliers.
• Configure features in ImmersiveSantos.ini, including police behaviour, daily routines, interiors, models, gang territories, shop locations, and petrol stations.
• F10: Enable or disable the mod.
• F11: Save your current position as a hotspot.
• F9: Reload the INI file in-game.
• Disable hotkeys with EnableHotkeys=0.
• The mod automatically pauses during story missions.

Version 2.0 Changelog

Real Life Mode

• Added a [RealLife] section with a single switch that makes scenes active before you arrive.
• Builds scenes well ahead of you, mainly along the road you are travelling, allowing several scenes to be running when you reach them.
• Increases spawn, activation, and despawn distances for events, crowds, shops, and interiors.
• Adds more events, reduces cooldowns, and keeps the event director checking continuously while creating scenes one at a time.
• Increases police activity, including patrols, checkpoints, interrogations, and chases.
• Raises activity levels in quieter areas, including the countryside, industrial zones, and airport.
• Increases interaction with surroundings, makes shops busier, and keeps interiors enabled.
• Includes a strength setting from 0.5 to 2.0 and SpawnAheadChance to control how often scenes are placed ahead of you.

New Events

• Street preachers addressing small crowds.
• Film crews working on pavements, with camera operators, actors, runners, and security.
• Protests with chanting crowds and police attendance.
• Buskers and human statues attracting spectators.
• Beach yoga classes.
• Muscle Beach workouts.
• Drug users slumped in alleys or getting high.
• Paparazzi pursuing celebrities with bodyguards and camera flashes.
• People parked in the countryside at night watching the sky for UFOs.
• Moving services.
• Street works.
• Street vendors.
• More homeless people begging or sleeping on cardboard.
• Weekend flea markets and garden garage sales.
• Tenants arguing with landlords while moving out.
• Hand car washes in car parks, with buckets and sponges.
• Minor crashes without injuries, with drivers arguing, exchanging information, and photographing damage. Accident severity varies, rather than every crash involving serious injuries or police.
• Owners finding parking tickets on illegally parked cars, holding the ticket before returning to their vehicles.
• Queues of cars behind refuse trucks or stopped buses.
• Drivers changing flat tyres on the roadside.
• Drivers running red lights and narrowly avoiding collisions, prompting other motorists to honk.
• Learner drivers travelling slowly with an instructor beside them.
• Police officers taking statements from robbery victims with notebooks.
• Taped-off scenes with officers keeping onlookers away.
• Ambulance crews attending to an elderly man who has collapsed on the pavement.
• Firefighters practising at fire stations.
• Officers chatting with neighbours through an open patrol car window.
• Officers ticketing illegally parked drivers.
• Drunk people leaving bars alone, in groups, or supporting one another.
• Nightclub entrance fights broken up by bouncers.
• People calling taxis outside venues and arguing about fares.
• Early-morning fast-food vans with queues of drunk customers.
• Couples kissing in alleys near clubs.
• Graffiti painters working with lookouts.
• Street memorials with candles and flowers.
• Basketball games with spectators.
• Street barbecues with loud music.
• People selling clothes or trainers from open car boots.
• Shell games or card games on folding tables, with spectators.
• Ice cream and drink vendors walking along the beach.
• Beach volleyball games.
• Lifeguards.
• People playing with dogs.
• Photographers.
• Tourists.
• Hunters.
• Livestock trucks stopped near animals.
• People drinking outdoors in quarries at night.
• People using metal detectors on beaches or hills.
• Abandoned vehicles, including burning cars in vacant lots, wrecks, and vehicles that have broken down during a journey.
• Traffic jams.
• Influencers filming dances with tripods while nearby people watch or react.
• Bodybuilders posing in calisthenics parks.
• Apocalypse preachers and flat-Earth advocates holding signs.
• Loose dogs running through crowds while people chase them.

General Fixes and Additions

• Added more events while maintaining stability.
• Added an INI option to disable notifications.
• Reworked spawning to address scenes appearing too close, too far away, or incorrectly.
• Reduced the frequency of rare events.
• Added optional map blips for major events.
• Improved NPC reactions to events.
• Fixed crashes related to OIV files.
• Reduced gang fight frequency and added an INI setting to control it.
• Increased NPC numbers at nighttime parties.

Performance Notes

Version 2.0 ships with settings at their maximum values to showcase the full experience. If you experience crashes, significant FPS drops, or use a low-to-mid-range PC, adjust the INI settings to suit your system.

WOV Installation Order

If you use WOV, either Enhanced or Legacy, install this mod’s OIV package first. Install WOV afterwards.

Compatibility

• Immersify: Compatible.
• WOV: Compatible.
• RDE/PEV: Compatible.
• No incompatible mods have been identified.