-NPC AI has been upgraded and they will now perform activites such as sleeping, cleaning and taking walks among many other activities. An NPC could be sleeping in their home one moment and the next moment they could wake up and take a walk around town, go to the tavern, or go fishing in the nearest body of water.
-In addition to your bounty, you will now have a Heat meter. Heat measures how much you're wanted, and it works alot like Just Cause 2 in the fact that guards will come running after you, the amount of guards and bounty cost getting bigger every level of heat, and if you manage to hide your heat meter will cool off. Guards will kill you on sight above a certain level of heat. If lower, they will stop you and attempt to arrest you.
-There will not be jails in the first phase of the Justice System in Update 6, although they are talking about adding it for Phase 2.
-Cities will have hidden Outlaw hideouts where fences are located, as well as safe havens from guards.
-You will have a fame and infamy level, which determines NPC's reactions towards you. For example, a high infamy may cause vendors to set higher prices for their goods or even not sell to you at all, although you can still steal their goods. A high fame meter affects positive NPC behaviour, and having higher fame may get you lower prices at vendors. Infamy is increased by criminal activities e.g pickpocketing, murder, while fame is increased by acts such as stopping criminals as an enforcer, or completing quests.
-Killing livestock will count as murder.
-Animals cannot witness crimes.
-If you kill everyone that witnesses your crime, your bounty and heat meter will be cleared.
-A list of all known crimes is: Murder, Theft, Assault, Pickpocketing, turning into Werewolf Form, being a Stage 4 Vampire, feeding on people as a Vampire, breaking into houses, trespassing, and aiming weapons at people.
-Enforcers vs. Outlaws is a prominent part of the system, with PvE activites for both sides having a big role.
-You can become a guard in PvE and catch criminals. This will also increase your fame.
-There will be skill lines that revolve around the Justice System.
-The time of day may play a role in the system, and affects when shops are open and NPCs are sleeping in houses.
-All houses now have locks on them, and you need to use lockpicking to get in. Make sure you aren't spotted or guards will come running after you.
Houses now have some extra goodies inside, such as safes and lockboxes.