Do they cease to shoot permanently, or intermittently?

When assigned a squad, combines and metropolice of Half-Life 2 and Garry's Mod have a behavior where only two members of a squad can shoot at once. This doesn't seem to take into account line of fire, so if a squad is separated it can be the case that the squad members you are currently facing don't have the shooting 'permission', but those that do -- can't see you.

Otherwise, some other addon might introduce an issue, if you have addons that modify NPC behavior.

the combine with smgs dont shoot me for some reason, they shoot when they first spot me but then they stop

There is a control room outside the map with some buttons, one of which removes the NPCs. A command that will teleport you there is listed in the description.

I used sv_cheats 1 how do I remove npcs?

Sorry, didn't see the May 12 comment for some reason. There is a control room under the map, you can use the command I provided in the description to get there. It has a button to remove all NPCs.

With regards to citizens attacking you -- the system is a bit clunky, but generally you have a bit of time to kill an alerted individual or two before the whole city is alerted. I wish it was more refined, and people would become alerted naturally, but it's the best I could come up with, with my experience and the way the game is structured.

I hate that every time a citizen attacks you. Everyone in the city starts attacking you.

@DanilaFoxPro my game lags everytime i play this, How do i remove npcs

Hm, didn't see those comments for some reason. But there is a console command in the description for getting into 'the control room' and it has a button for removing NPCs (may require 'sv_cheats 1').

How to Remove NPCs?

how do I remove the NPCs?

first time playing this map, dude this is amazing i never knew how far and cool garrys mod maps can be

Ok.

Generally breaking something or shooting somewhere will get you arrested. And since I am using Half-Life 2 NPCs, 'getting arrested' means eventually getting shot. Something about judgement being delivered, verdict being guilty, and sentence being death. You can listen to what metropolice and their dispatcher woman are talking about when they arrest you, if you want to find what the sequence is.

I'd also like to note, In that same area, I accidentally broke a window, and then everything rushed me.

Fair.

Good point. Though I am not sure it's possible to 'hop over him' without additional addons.

Well if you go down into a random place there is alot of metro cops
you can get past the first metro cop by hopping over him
then you walk up into what i guess is a police station, and the entire map will blast you until your dead.

If you mean the combine, I don't think so. You can certainly draw the metropolice' attention by trespassing occupied apartments, after which they will shoot you (since I couldn't make arrests work). But I think combine only show up if you start killing the metropolice. Additionally, from what I remember, in all instances it would be breaking and entering, since you would have to break a lock or some sort of barricade in order to trespass.

I have one question, is there a way to make the entire us military kill you for a mere tresspassing?

Dang, When I used noclip they were infinite, but when your seriously fighting its not infinite?

Eventually you can fight off pretty much everyone, yes. I think helicopters and snipers will perpetually show-up, but other than that -- all opponents are finite.

I have no diea if this is a glitch or intentional so. I just like battled for like 10 minutes, and then made it to the underground the alarms went off and i shut them off (could be what happened) then i went up fighting more combine, and there was... nothing. no enemys spawned anymore. Can you fight off the military or is this a glitch?

My heart always skips a beat when somebody claims that something is broken. :D
Glad you got it working.

I got the problem fixed, I forgot to say that-

Works fine for me, are you sure you don't have any addons that might affect NPC relationships?

this addon is now broken, i just joined in a map and heard: We trusted you, and then ALL THE CPS RUSHED ME.

okay so as it turns out
it just really doesn't like the csm addon

the police are so ruthless they will start to hunt you down once you just spawn in an item
or just
turn on the csm feature if you have that addon apparently???

I think the strategy that I mostly use is to move to a place, hold it down for a while, then move to a new place and so on. That way they don't have the time to setup and organize, and I get the chance to collect health, batteries and ammo. It gets tricky with the helicopter and snipers, but still manageable. I still die from time to time, especially if I happen to run face first into a shotgun.

Yeah, I still have comments subscribed on this addon and never thought to take it off. It's been a while since I've been mingling around in Gmod addons, and I've got other things to manage now.
The persistence of the police is something that's really nailed down by this map.

Just like police IRL, they will get you. Hide on the rooftops? Snipers will cut you down. Hole up in that one building you can only enter through a window? It'll get gassed. Being in the open? Not for long unless you have tons of health or know what your doing.
Best way to live longer is to be in a place where there is only a single entrance. Put a turret there and you are gold for some time.

Regards police being ruthless. I wish I could make them.. more nuanced in terms of detection and searching. But I like that they bash doors and jump around in some places. Helicopter is a bit overkill, but at least it's reasonably quick to take down (with rockets).

Shadowysn, glad to see you around. I recall you pop-in from time to answer comments before me. Good to see somebody stick around, contributing to the conversation and trying help others as well.

To be fair, when the wanted criminal is an immortal god-like being that can summon anything, change everything's stats, and phase-fly through the world, a ruthless force sounds somewhat reasonable even if not the best response.

damn, police are ruthless and will get to you no matter what

best map ever i loved it

That's weird. NPCs don't react to weapons unless you walk through a metal detector. I guess they are somehow more perceptive on your end. :D

ah okay nvm Im being dumb. It was cause I was holding a weapon

Do you mean the gmod_admin_cleanup command cause thats not changing it. theyre all swarming toward me when i spawn in. Its a shame i really like your map :(

Do they start being hostile, or do they become hostile? Does 'Clean Up Everything' button help?

NPCs can become hostile if you perform certain actions or visit certain areas, for example if you break into somebody's house. There is also a known bug where you would get blamed for somebody tripping over a door.

All the NPCs are hostile for some reason, I dont have any mods that effect their behaviour and other NPC maps work fine

How much is it using? How does it compare to other maps?

this map using a lot of vram for some reason

BEST MAAAAAAAAAAAP

Suggestions/Problems/Bugs/Everything Here thread lists known problems with the map.

Addon-wise, what I usually suggest is a process of elimination. Disable all addons, see if the problem persists. If it does not -- some addon is probably at fault, and you can either enable them one by one, or in groups, to narrow down which one it is.

So far, I don't think anybody has mentioned any addons that cause crashes or low framerate. Even though the problem gets mentioned with some frequency. I don't know if they gave up, or solved the problem in some manner and neglected to comment.

CPU and Memory usage just shoots up at complete random and freezes my whole computer, I only have 190 addons (which is apparently low by normal standards). If someone could maybe pinpoint a specific addon that might be causing this, that would be great.

There is this on subway entrance that crashes my game every time I try to go down it.

Yo this is one of the best most interactive city maps I think I ever played.

Alright, I'll get back to you on that

Try to disable all your addons and see if it solves the problem. If so -- probably one of the addons causes the problem, so you can find it by process of elimination.

Whenever I try to open this map it insta-crashes my whole game, I have run this map many times before and it worked great, any idea what might be causing this???