Lethal Pursuits V3.0 - Difficulty Guide

Choose the preset that fits how intense you want the pursuit system to be.
Each folder contains a different pursuit balance setup.

[Rookie]
Description: Beginner Pursuit / Warm-Up Mode
Difficulty: Very Low
- Lowest cop pressure and slower Heat 1-10 escalation.
- Smaller cop counts with fewer support calls.
- Helicopter pressure is reduced and appears later.
- Roadblocks, Heavy support, and Leader strategies are less common.
- Busting is more forgiving and evading is easier.
Recommended for: first-time players, casual driving, testing, and players who want the lightest version of Lethal Pursuits.

[Casual]
Description: Light Pursuit / Casual Challenge
Difficulty: Low
- Lower cop counts and less aggressive support spam.
- Helicopter appears later and gives the player more room to escape.
- Roadblocks and Heavy/Leader strategies have longer cooldowns.
- Heat escalation still exists, but mistakes are easier to recover from.
- Busting is more forgiving and evading is easier than Standard.
Recommended for: casual players who want pursuit action without full chaos.

[Standard]
Description: Core Lethal Pursuits Experience
Difficulty: Balanced
- Balanced cop escalation from Heat 1-10.
- Moderate roadblocks, support strategies, and helicopter pressure.
- More tactical formations than vanilla without going overboard.
- Higher Heat levels become serious while still staying reasonable for most players.
- Designed as the main intended Lethal Pursuits experience.
Recommended for: players who want the default balance of challenge, chaos, and playability.

[Intense]
Description: Aggressive Pursuit / High Pressure
Difficulty: High
- Custom roadblocks are enabled more often.
- Higher cop counts, tighter support cooldowns, and stronger roadblock pressure.
- Helicopter behavior is more aggressive and harder to ignore.
- Formations and pursuit tactics are less forgiving.
- Mistakes are punished faster, especially at higher Heat levels.
- Completely Revamped the cops Performances, as they now turn, accelerate, backup, and brake 2x more better and they catch up more.
- Reworked Radio/Speech System, as they now are more faster when they make dispatch calls.
Recommended for: skilled drivers who want a much tougher pursuit experience.

[Merciless]
Description: Maximum Lethality / No Mercy Pursuit
Difficulty: Extreme
- Custom roadblocks and support pressure are pushed to their most intense setting.
- Fast support cooldowns, aggressive formations, and relentless helicopter pressure.
- Heavy units, Leader strategies, and roadblocks become a major threat.
- Designed to punish bad routes, crashes, and slow reactions quickly.
- Higher cop counts can affect FPS or memory on weaker systems.
- Completely Revamped the Cops Performances, as they now turn, accelerate, backup, and brake 3x more better and they catch up more.
- Reworked Radio/Speech System, as they now are more faster when they make dispatch calls.
Recommended for: experienced chase players only. This is the chaos preset.
