This is related to the change from #3070. @rkwapisz I'm assigning this to you.

Thanks. I'll take a look at this.

I suggest we hook the natives that try to set the wanted level and reject the call if never_wanted is enabled. However, this could have side effects like getting the game stuck in a loop, where it needs the player to be wanted for something like a mission.

I suggest we hook the natives that try to set the wanted level and reject the call if never_wanted is enabled. However, this could have side effects like getting the game stuck in a loop, where it needs the player to be wanted for something like a mission.

Thanks. I've been able to try a few things with hooking SET_PLAYER_WANTED_LEVEL.

I can confirm with the log outputs that SET_PLAYER_WANTED_LEVEL is being invoked when trespassing into Zancudo or Bolingbroke. However, even when I prevent the native from being called, the wanted level is still being modified from somewhere else. I thought maybe SET_PLAYER_WANTED_LEVEL_NO_DROP, but same thing.

Arguments are coming in correctly, so the player and wanted level checks are as expected. Yet despite the appearance of my BLOCKED SET_PLAYER_WANTED_LEVEL messages the wanted level continues to refresh consistently.

Note that increasing the player's wanted level by attacking peds does not involve SET_PLAYER_WANTED_LEVEL (this was previously unknown to me).

SET_MAX_WANTED_LEVEL to 0 helps prevent this, but the problem with this is that while we can remember what the max wanted level was before enabling never_wanted, we can't know what it SHOULD be once the player disables it. Could be some corner cases (perhaps some heists?) where the player is doing something with never_wanted at a point where the game wants to change it, but we ignore that change entirely.

void SET_PLAYER_WANTED_LEVEL(rage::scrNativeCallContext* src)
{
	const auto player = src->get_arg<Player>(0);
	const int level = src->get_arg<int>(1);

	LOG(INFO) << "SET_PLAYER_WANTED_LEVEL: " << self::id << " " << player << " " << level << " " << src->get_arg<BOOL>(2);

	// Stop the wanted level from being set in the first place by a script if g.self.never_wanted (and we're not trying to set it to 0)
	if (player == self::id && g.self.never_wanted && level > 0)
	{
		LOG(INFO) << "BLOCKED SET_PLAYER_WANTED_LEVEL: " << self::id << " " << player << " " << level << " " << src->get_arg<BOOL>(2);
		return;
	}

	PLAYER::SET_PLAYER_WANTED_LEVEL(player, level, src->get_arg<BOOL>(2));
}

This is actually true, sometimes the wanted level goes on and off and i can see it on the cops visually trying to attack me for a second and they leave, it's not just on the fort zancudo.

@rkwapisz Please see @ShinyWasabi's post here: #3152 (comment) as to why that occurs.