Cop Jobs Bugs

[Heimer]

While doing the Cop Jobs DLC I noticed a major bug with the Hostage Situation jobs. When you approach the spotter to fast, you can not interact with him to get the Rifle he has for you. I had this happn multiple times. If you walk slowly to him it seems to work. However I had one last mission on the map and it was a Hostage mission at the dock area in Central. No matter how I approached him he would not talk, and then the mission failed and reset everything. I cleared the map down to that one last mission only to have it bug out and it made the DLC a pointless waste of time and money.

[bean]

D:

Ive had that happen to me with countless NPCs in this game, ty for the info, i will definitely be careful... when it happened the last few times i had the feeling that it could have the potential of ruining... idk... something important... Now you've confirmed it.

I know that wasnt any help
I apologize

[Moloch Horridus]

Same here, it seems there is no way around it.

In my opinion the whole DLC is just waste of money, it's easy and badly designed (or bugged as hell).

Most car chases start with the suspect either coming from behind you or driving straight at you making them extremely easy to stop by shooting the tires. Then you beat up two guys and catch the third.
All robberies are just basic shootouts in small quarters and chasing the last guy down, and he is very slow so it's just too easy.
Sniper missions are way too easy also, only difficulty seems to be with approaching the guy who gives you the weapon, and that's because of the bug described above.

These are the three main mission types, there are couple of variations, but they all are basically the same and repeated ad nauseum.
Strong Don't Buy.

[DoubleD]

Yes running up to anyone stops the interaction.

[similarly]

Has anyone figured this out? I tried walking up to the officer who is supposed to give me the sniper rifle, but I can't interact with him. It's frustrating.

[similarly]

Okay, so I parked RIGHT next to the guy, walked up, was able to complete the mission. Can't figure out the other hostage mission by the docks though.

[similarly]

Okay, finished it. In case anybody else has this problem, here's what I did.

Basketball court: I parked the van right next to the spotter, then walked past the spotter (holding shift so I wouldn't jog), then walked up the stairs. That allowed me to talk to him.

Docks. Instead of driving up next to the spotter, I drove to the right and parked behind the two stacks of cargo containers. I then was able to walk (holding shift so I wouldn't job) up to spotter from BEHIND so that he wouldn't see me. That let me talk to him and finish the mission.

[Mienstiner]

The way I fixed it, for a moment when you run up to the spotter, you can still talk to him.
So I ran up to him and just mashed the interact button (I remaped to 'e'). It works for me, but I don't know if it will for anyone else.

[Pierrari458]

I had to slowly nudge my way round until I saw the Offer Help promt. AND I SMASHED THE KEY. It worked... just.