Peds panic more than usual

[Onyx-21]

What should happen

It's not a hard bug per se, but it's definitely odd behaviour that breaks immersion.

With seasonal events enabled (which, as of opening this issue, activates the snow shaders) pedestrians are much more likely to panic if the player is driving a car. Even normal driving on the road (e.g. during "Three's a Crowd" when driving home Michelle) causes pedestrians on the adjacent pavement to scream and run away. I have tested this multiple times, and even slightly accelerating 2–3 m parallel to (thus not aiming at) a pedestrian is enough to make them start panicking and running away. This does not occur when seasonal events are switched off.

Checklist

• Check the latest git build in case it's already implemented.
• Search for other requests of the same feature.

[RecklessGlue540]

Did you notice this during the rainy weathers? (Snowy during the event of course)

iirc something related to having ped feet and vehicle wheels leave tracks on snowy ground caused something similar, but was fixed before a release.

[Onyx-21]

I didn't notice anything in my current playthrough on normal rainy weather, after switching off seasonal events. I will keep an eye out, tho.

But the tracks could be a very good guess, because in my testing I noticed that this issue does not occur if the player is sat inside a vehicle and you just stay parked on the side of the road. So if a ped walks by at that moment, they do not panic. It only happens as soon as you move.