Helicopters can only be evaded by driving through larger tunnels. In Most Wanted and Undercover, police helicopter are called in on higher heat levels to keep the player in sight. Players can use Pursuit Breakers to wreck multiple police vehicles within their area of effect. Players must leave police visibility by evading all engaged police units to enter Cooldown mode. This is indicated by the pursuit bar filling completely blue. Players enter Cooldown mode if they evade the sight of all engaged police vehicles for a certain length of time. In Most Wanted and Carbon, players also earn bounty for certain actions. Players can increase the total cost of state from the pursuit by damaging police vehicles, destroying property, increasing pursuit length and committing infractions. Police vehicles will call in backup as their engaged numbers diminish. Police forces will attempt to bust the player by using tactics such as PIT maneuvers and roadblocks with increasing aggression as higher heat levels are reached. Following that, the player will receive pursuit HUD information, although their HUD will not be changed if they are in a race event. Racing in high cop probability events or after finishing a raceĪ pursuit is announced with the camera zooming towards a police vehicle that has witnessed the player perform one of these actions.Collisions with police or traffic vehicles.Police units will engage in a pursuit upon seeing the player committing an offence or upon following an emergency call after committing one of these offences: In Most Wanted, players can trigger instant pursuits within the Bounty section of the Blacklist menu.
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Patrolling police vehicles can always be found in random locations within free roam mode and will actively seek for the player if they commit a driving offence. Patrolling units are shown as red arrows on the minimap in Carbon and Undercover. The scanner will beep quicker, the closer the player is located to a police vehicle. Players are warned about the nearest police vehicles in their surroundings by a police scanner or their radar map.