which city for GTA 5?

i have no idea how feasible it would be, but making yourself into flying specialist (a pilot, even!) in the online game could be lucrative?

gbx you are dead right. i have lost almost every road race i've taken part in. i've won almost every plane race, and its not even been close.

Curious, to those who are claiming 100% and/or finding all the hidden packages, did you cheat or was it all pure exploration?

I'm not cheating and still have quite a lot to find, good going if you have found this stuff without looking it up.

I finally got the last spaceship part last night, used a guide to find them. It would take years to stumble across some of them by chance.

Plus it was a good way to spend the 10 days Michael has to wear the Epsilon robes for.

i cheated. life is short.

I bought the Brady Games guide and had it to hand after finishing the missions. Agree with Goole: Life is short and very full of other non-GTA things. Have to maximise bang for X-Buck!

Fair enough, just wanted to know. I agree though for the newer GTA games, I never found all the pigeons in IV nor all the seagulls in Gay Tony. The earlier games weren't as big and it felt a lot easier to find stuff in those ones. Vice City was perfect size for hunting hidden packages.

V is vast, and yeah I'll probably never find them all before I get bored of the game.

did we ever figure out what city this was going to be set in?

Fun Fact: This post marks the first time in this thread the words "Los Angeles" have been used together.

things I did today:
- world record on two races (the fly around downtown one and In The Pipeline)
- sniped a guy from the tallest building as he was on his way to Simeon's. like, on the bridge right by the gun shop that's closest to Simeon's place on the docks. while he was driving. I am irrationally proud of this

Fuck, that's a long ways.

I'd put that on my CV.

i made some tracks

http://rsg.ms/1hUDDlj

http://rsg.ms/1hUDXAu

i also joined a crew. i asked the crew owner to add me and he sent me this:

welcome gool XO RESPECT,TEAMWORK,HAVINGFUN and LOYALTY 2 XO crew active crew with loyaal members! (non-active will be removed).one Crew One Team One tag "XOXO ON TOP" https://twitter.com/XOXOGTA5CREW ---see you on GTAV ONLINE :)

I was in first place in a race but then goole killed me, setting me off on a cascade of other people killing me, and then I finished in like 10th place.

sorry dog i don't even know what i'm doing out there it's crazy

seriously tho i had no idea that was you.

i raced a bunch against a crew of reddit dudes. i was able to keep myself from making fedora jokes.

xbox motherfuckers.

No, it's cool. Got the lobby all to myself.

I ain't mad atcha gooley.

I tried using my new headset for the first time the other day with a rando and regretted it immediately. Nothing makes me feel like I'm wasting my life more than small talk with xbox teenagers.

so s1ocki, did you find the subway?

http://i.imgur.com/ZwUDBSl.jpg

Haha, I love this stupid fucking game.

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I just don't get anything like that from the online play, all I get is jerky gameplay and people driving around trying to kill me. It lasts about ten minutes then i'm back to single player mode.

I've found the free mode to be a bit nasty, yeah. But online missions and races, etc - so much fun. Even though I suck at them, so much fun.

I stole a dude's tank last night! It was my first time driving one extensively. Man chased me all the way up the west coast highway in passive mode trying to get it back. Killed him anyway by blowing up the car he was driving.

Other players sped by me and I didn't even take a shot. Had too much fun blowing police helicopters out of the sky like it was Duck Hunt. I still hate tanks in MP, but that almost made up for the 727 times I've been spawn killed.

I eventually drove it into the ocean and accepted a Rooftop Rumble invitation to get out of there.

I actually whacked a guy with a high bounty on his head the other evening - like I say, I suck at videogames so this was a rare and thoroughly satisfying moment. He was clearly bummed about it though, and proceeded to chase me down in a helicopter. He almost caught me too, only I crashed into another car on the road, which enabled me to watch him smash the chopper into a nearby building.

He later placed a bounty on my head, and I almost immediately let someone else kill me, and afterwards texted my murderer that I hope he enjoyed the cash. It's important, I think, to not take any of this too seriously and maintain a sense of gamesmanship.

http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/news/article/52217/Grand-Theft-Auto-Online-Spring-Updates

all sounds pretty cool to me. more garage space! noncontact racing!

Hell, I wish they could do noncontact racing in one-man races, like how Grand Turismo used to show your Lap 1 car going up against your Lap 2 car.

I hear there's a possible story line dlc coming out later this year too

I only just discovered the Rat-Loader van last week, considering the hours I've put into this game I find that incredible.

It can be modded pretty funky as well

i was in LA for 10 days and getting constant weird deja vu "i murdered a man... there..."

Ha, now you know how General Patton felt when he arrived at Greece and started telling everyone he had fought there before.

fanboy rumormill was saying tomorrow was going to be the release of the 1.13 update. the creator tool is unavailable right now. hmmm...

Online loading times are ridic

Hadn't been playing as much lately. Went through that magical week where I could duplicate cars and sell them, making millions in the process. It was a glitch, sure, but it was a fun glitch. You'd do this thing where you'd mash two buttons at the same time while trying to drive the car into the garage, the car would turn invisible, you drive around floating above the ground and scare NPC pedestrians with your witchcraft before the car pops back into the picture, and then you'd walk into the garage to find your car there and oh yeah, still waiting where you left it outside.

Usually those dupe glitches are weird and awkward and you feel like you're going to jailbreak the game into always being in riot mode or something. "Park your wheels against the brick wall in Dungwood Hills, go to the Playstation Store, log out, go back to the single-player mode, get a friend to invite you to a session, hijack a helicopter (not a Maverick!), fly to North Yankton, dig a hole in the snow, jump in, pull your parachute, when you land, you should be back by your car with your friend's car next to it. Kill your friend and sell both." This invisible car strategy was not only easy, but fun and profitable.

But then they took that away in a patch and I was just deflated. I'd leave my garage full of useless Adders I couldn't sell and wander around, getting spawn-killed by tanks. This was getting ridiculous. I'm a grown man with two kids. Playing this game isn't a hobby. I should enlist my son to build a model train track in the garage, now there's a hobby. Of course, I'd have to get him to stop playing Lego Batman first, but I'm sure he wouldn't protest, right?

So I took a break. When I'd feel like playing, I'd do single player, which was annoying. Why is that fence next to my garage glitch? Where did all of these newspaper boxes that I'm driving into come from? How come I can't buy a flannel shirt at Ponsonby's?

I even got Red Dead Redemption back out. Now there was a beautiful game. Tried its online mode, but it's even more fucked up than GTA. Sometime in there, I guess I joined a RDR crew. I don't remember.

But yeah, I eventually came back to Los Santos. And the RDR crew had members on there as well. I don't know if it has anything to do with its roots in a cowboy game set in 1912, but the players seem to all be over 20, if not 30. No spawn killing. The other night, we played Rooftop Rumble again and then - THEN - instead of just going back to freemode, everyone went with a different mission. Six Buzzards flying over Los Santos, killing 12 innocent jurors in less than three minutes - $30,000 payout for me. The mission where you go to the Humane Labs and steal a van - tried this once before and the loser I was with couldn't hack the code (spelling a word out from highlighted letters scrolling through vertical chambers.) Not this time - another fast and easy payout.

Good gracious, I think I even heard a female voice on there last night. And she wasn't even getting called bitch. At first, I thought it was a squeaker, but her non-use of the N-word convinced me otherwise.

So I'm still in the city, making bank. Spend my spare time looking for the Lampadati Felon and going on Rumble missions (they're an easy and free way to get your vehicle out of the impound lot.) I still get into wall breaches, but I invite players to come in with me instead of shooting them from under the pavement. I've gotten pretty good at sniping the back tail rotors of police helicopters though that high-pitched whirring sound it makes when it goes down is much more disturbing than it needs to be.

And I still get spawn-killed, but whatever, it's Los Santos. There's a weird glitch happening with the Rooftop Rumble mission where sometimes the person hosting appears in the public session at the train tracks, just floating in midair above the tracks that go by the garage. You can hit them with a cro bar and everything, and they just stand there in the air. One night, I accept an invitation and get beamed down there except by the time I realized I wasn't in the mission but still in the session with everyone else, I got killed. I don't know what happened, but my car was at least down there too.

I open the door to get inside it right about the time a tank comes speeding down the avenue. Great. Tanks can destroy your car and not have to pay insurance. Like a stop-action claymation or goofy "dinosaurs in Africa" movie, the tank rolls up and points its cannon at me. What can I do? I stand by my open door and give the guy one of those Hey Bro fist bumps to my own chest. Couple of seconds pass, the cannon rolls back to a straight-ahead position and continues to roll down the road.

I watch it turn by the police station, hear the sirens blare, get into my car and go.

Good God, Vyvanse, what the hell did you just write?

But yeah, I eventually came back to Los Santos. And the RDR crew had members on there as well. I don't know if it has anything to do with its roots in a cowboy game set in 1912, but the players seem to all be over 20, if not 30. No spawn killing. The other night, we played Rooftop Rumble again and then - THEN - instead of just going back to freemode, everyone went with a different mission. Six Buzzards flying over Los Santos, killing 12 innocent jurors in less than three minutes - $30,000 payout for me. The mission where you go to the Humane Labs and steal a van - tried this once before and the loser I was with couldn't hack the code (spelling a word out from highlighted letters scrolling through vertical chambers.) Not this time - another fast and easy payout.

^^^ this is Living The GTA Dream imo

Six Buzzards flying over Los Santos, killing 12 innocent jurors in less than three minutes

ohhh *that's* how you do that one

I've gotten pretty good at sniping the back tail rotors of police helicopters though that high-pitched whirring sound it makes when it goes down is much more disturbing than it needs to be.

that works??

ps i'm never doing rooftop rumble again ever

I mean, seriously. It makes a hella difference.

I was doing my lone wolf thing, cruising around looking for a speedy four-door to steal, when I see on the map a crew member come my way. I stop the car and get out, and here he comes up Vinewood Hills on his quad-runner. He salutes, I salute, he drives off, and I just think what the hell is happening here.

I've even had non-crew members play along. I still crack on role-players, but I don't know, sometimes you get into that mode like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, dressing up in a pancho and sombrero and taking a blonde out to the movies. Instead of that, I put on some cop clothes, steal a cop car and go on patrol. I'm the only one who probably thinks it's funny, but parking in the LifeINvader lot with the headlights off and then taking off after a player with the lights going can be fun at times.

Anyway, one guy actually got out of the car after I turned the lights on and swear to God, he wasn't even wearing a shirt. I walk toward him and he runs up and lands a punch on my face. So I drop the weapon and come after him mano-a-mano in the middle of the avenue, but before the fight could finish, the damn connection went out.

Yeah, get that rotor with one shot (it's not easy) and the whole chopper starts spinning around. There's also an exhaust hole right behind the door you can get a couple of times, and of course, somehow killing the pilot is a solid way.

pp you get so much value out of this game, i am envious.

Did this get posted here? It could use some editing, but the cameo for Rooftop Rumble is, well, brilliant brilliant brilliant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vlM8RypMbA

And stevie, I have no idea why.

basically i race in this game and that's it. i'm over level 100 and have more than $2mil so until the new dlc gives me something to buy there's not much to do. log in, race 5 or 12 times, jack a high-price car, quit

during a few race lobbies i had a weird exchange of messages with a dude:

him: how do u have so much money???
me: patience
him: wat u mean??
me: dont buy anything!
him: [grammatically unintelligible statement about cars and/or apartments]

tbh i was mostly freaked out he could look at my balance. idk how to do that in a lobby

lol the race bit

I could read pplains' accounts of his videogaming all day. fact.

They are laconically brilliant.

Played a mission this evening, four of us, supposed to steal money and drugs from a deal going down on the roof of the building that's in the midst of construction. Instructions clearly state we need a helicopter, but my 3 comrades go straight to the building and try and figure out their way to the roof somehow. I have no mic to tell them we need a helicopter, so I drive out to the airport to steal one. Fly back to the building, cannot find comrades, fly to roof, bail out, land on roof and am promptly shot to ribbons by countless bad dudes. I then get to spectate the excruciatingly slow progress of my three comrades up the crane beside the building, all the way to the very top, where they were almost instantly shot dead.

That's how it mostly goes when I play GTA Online, and that's why I envy your experiences, PP!