Police search doesn't stop

[Chlora_Virgo]

Hello!
I accidently made the police in the area angry, but even after hiding for like half an hour the search hasn't stopped.
Any solutions for that? Is it common?

[Stainless Steel Rat]

A search in any specific area has a timer up to 100% hostile panic searching which takes a couple of minutes for it to reset back to . Half an hour you're exaggerating... Hide better.

[FALLENV3GAS]

Bin Laden hid for how long yet you can't last half an hour?

[Vassago Rain]

A cop may have gotten stuck on something, or the body of whoever you killed is partially merged with a wall. Either way, you can just escape the scene and come back a few minutes later. They'll have resumed their neutral behavior.

[Chlora_Virgo]

Originally posted by Ro.:

A search in any specific area has a timer up to 100% hostile panic searching which takes a couple of minutes for it to reset back to :zero:. Half an hour you're exaggerating... Hide better.

I wasn't clear enough in my post, It didn't have any timer as it usually does, so I supposed that was some kind of bug. Anyway, hiding in the sewers helped.

[Chlora_Virgo]

Originally posted by FALLENV3GAS:

Bin Laden hid for how long yet you can't last half an hour?

And he's still dead at the end ;)

[Chlora_Virgo]

Originally posted by Vassago Rain:

A cop may have gotten stuck on something, or the body of whoever you killed is partially merged with a wall. Either way, you can just escape the scene and come back a few minutes later. They'll have resumed their neutral behavior.

Thanks, It may have been a bug, going down the sewers instanlty helped.

[FALLENV3GAS]

Originally posted by Chlora_Virgo:

Originally posted by FALLENV3GAS:

Bin Laden hid for how long yet you can't last half an hour?

And he's still dead at the end ;)

That's what THEY want you to 'think'...

[Renegɐde]

This happens quite a bit to me as well. It's definitely a bug... It happens when an NPC gets stuck in panic mode. Look for an NPC in the immediate area that's stuck in some kind of animation loop. Pop 'em with the stun gun or tranquilizer rifle, and eventually the Search Completion timer will start to count up (if you have that aug activated).

Sloppy, Eidos.. just sloppy.

[CRIMSON KING]

leave area completly via train or go into a loadable area. happens ALOT to me while trying to get ontop of buildings and hitting someone when i drop or land on a police car ect.

[☯ Monkey]

Just save and load it... It will "fix" the searching.

[Χάρης]

You may wanna take down the targets that are alerted. This once happened to me with a robot which was stuck at alert status ( red light all the time ). Once I took it down it stopped. Sometimes it is not a robot, maybe an officer or something. You gotta find the target causing that.

[TheJebblue]

Originally posted by ☯ Monkey:

Just save and load it... It will "fix" the searching.

Yup, I saw this a few times, reloading works.

[Pierre Manslapper]

Originally posted by Stainless Steel Rat:

A search in any specific area has a timer up to 100% hostile panic searching which takes a couple of minutes for it to reset back to :zero:. Half an hour you're exaggerating... Hide better.

He's not exaggerating. I have this problem too where the timer never shows. I've literally hid in a duct, left the game to go eat, came back and nothing had changed.