which city for GTA 5?

I dunno it makes sense to me. They're trying to create incentives for you to give them money as a shortcut to success. If you can build an efficient moneymaking playlist then why ever give them money?

The online game was imo built around the idea that it wouldn't be as financially viable as it has been, and the fact that all the updates have been free so far is a good sign. Not that I wouldn't pay money for a Gay Tony or an Undead Nightmare or etc. but the people who buy money in-game are helping to keep the servers running and the game freely updated for cheapskates like myself. If I have to work a little harder to get that Zentorno I'll just deal with it.

They say the names for Rooftop Rumble and High Priority Case (where you retrieve a briefcase from the top of that high-rise construction site) got switched somehow. I don't buy that since "High Priority Case" is actually a pretty good name for that mission.

Rooftop is more difficult than it used to be, but players have managed to make it go by easy. I played it way too many times last weekend since it was RPx2, and most of the time, I'd barely be finished clearing the garage before someone had already shot the documents driver and started heading up to Martin's. Most of my time in that mission was spent farting around with the host at the base of that bridge that goes toward the eastern LSC, blowing up cars in the intersection or knocking out glass with baseball bats.

Coveted is pretty tough now. The new location of the container plus the new location of the drop location + enemy helicopters and suddenly people fuck it up a lot more than they used to. You have to coordinate your efforts a bit. One person shoots down the helicopters while the other keeps the cargobob out of harm's way.

Rooftop by comparison is pretty doable on 1p.

tbh, I always thought the hardest part of RR were the Grangers attacking you on the way to Martin's. It was difficult enough with another person riding shotgun getting past those guys, much less impossible trying to drive and shoot solo. Would've been way out of line back in the day for someone to sit back at the garage waiting for the mission to end.

But now, that's the easiest part, leaving the other crew members to play dumb games like "Who Can Stand Up in the Truck Bed the Longest?" while one solo driver makes the lonely trip up into the Vinewood Hills.

I experienced two of the worst mission players this weekend.

First guy's on a mic, already a red flag. As we're grinding out Rooftop again, he's popping off about how he's got this playlist with stuff like Potshot on it that'll net a whole bunch more RP. Out of curiosity and mostly to get him to stfu, I message him with Send Invite. The mission finishes and he invites me to the playlist.

I can't remember the names, but the missions are all out in Sandy Shores. I can only hear about half of what he's saying because his mic is all garbled and he's talking just non-fucking-stop. He's saying that he has to hover the chopper here to spawn correctly for the next mission. I have to drive him there in his car or it won't work right. I start wondering if he's talking about glitching or what. No, it just turns out that he's fucking insane.

Before we start Potshots, he tells me as we're sitting in his car to pull him out of the driver's seat by pressing triangle and that's how it goes by faster. I've heard something like this in the car dupes, but when I try it, it only makes my character walk back to the passenger side. So he says, Ok, that's cool, I get you don't know it, I'm going to take a leak and we'll try it when I come back. He then gets out of the car and walks into some bushes beside the road and turns his back on me. I sit there for a little bit and then move to the driver's seat so he can show me this cool triangle move he's got.

He comes back and is surprised that I'm still sitting there. "What? You didn't start the mission? OK, you drive." I'm smdh anyway at this dude, but gun it down the dirt road to where the van we're supposed to intercept in. Finally, at long last, I can clearly understand this guy because he starts FREAKING OUT and going NO NO NO NO NO.

The van gets by us because nobody thought to shoot at it. We switch seats and I start trying to shoot at it as he drives. NOT AN AP PISTOL, USE THE MICRO SMG. Who the fuck still carries one of those? AP pistol works well enough in Rooftop Rumble, a mission I am now dearly missing.

Mission finally ends and we start the next and final mission in the playlist, a repeat of Potshots. He finally shows me what he meant by the triangle trick -- it's pulling an NPC driver out of his car (or van.) THAT secret glitch that no one knows about, right? He then shows how you can ignore the GPS line and go in a straight path, how easing up on the acceleration pedal works better than hitting the brake, and how you have to park the van inside the yellow beacon inside Trevor's garage.

I haven't been so ... not angry or frustrated... flummoxed? by another player like this in a game. At the final screen announcing the end of the playlist, he was all OK, OK, WAIT A SECOND, DON'T PRESS ANYTHING ... OK. PRESS SQUARE AND WE CAN REPLAY IT AGAIN. I mashed on the X button and poor guy was all, "Oh. OK. No, that's cool that you don't want to do this again."

The other guy who was the worst? Just a non-crew member who opened fire on me when I picked up the package in RR. I messaged him "Did you just try to shoot me?" and I get a message saying "Other players are trying to kick you out. Improve your behaviour!"

So the next RR mission starts, he's back, and we both make it to the package at the same time. I hit my player action and do an exaggerated face palm. He grabs the package and takes off. I head back to the host to see if I can climb up the building and land on his car. As I'm doing this, I see "Asshole_player has died. Collect the documents." I drive over to the green dot, and it appears as if our unfortunate hero has met his end by crashing into a rogue asteroid. Whoops. I deliver the package and get a text from him in the next mission saying, "Thx."

Who the fuck still carries one of those?

Can you sell weapons once you've bought them?

I mean, I would never sell the micro SMG anyway since it's one of the few weapons you can use while driving but it would be nice to sell some of the extra stuff.

I don't think so. I just drop them.

as if our unfortunate hero has met his end by crashing into a rogue asteroid

splain?

nothing like making a few attempts at Titan of a Job and either having some goober show up in a buzzard and rocket the titan to pieces (i shot him down myself the 2nd time) OR have someone jump in the cockpit with no strong concept of "landing" at the other end

i couldn't truly tell since it was just dots on the map, but i swear once i saw a dude hop in his car and drive all the way up to beat the plane to the airfield and shoot it down cos he didn't get to fly it

asteroids: hacker mods had left a few rocks in the middle of the street near the park.

For illustration purposes:

http://prod.cloud.rockstargames.com/ugc/gta5photo/1475/M3obBQrctU2owGO4FYcErA/0_0.jpg

It was a busy weekend for everyone.

lol i'd love to see that

i have noticed like 2 dozen traffic cones scattered in a tight bunch on one intersection downtown tho

damn things don't render/spawn until you're right up on them. Dude's little lime-green motorsickle never stood a chance.

I've never flown the plane in Titan of a Job. I was in a mission once where the pilot was waiting for everyone to climb on board, and I was like, no, go on ahead without me, I'm gonna do wheelies here at the airport.

http://i.imgur.com/wdAjbn4.gif

too much time on gta 5 tbh

http://media.rockstargames.com/rockstargames/img/global/news/upload/actual_1395250232.jpg

*applause*

There was some additional work done to that shot after it was taken, but I appreciated the ingenuity of getting the handshake to work by hitting the j/o action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-122_KcYMeQ

man i really don't care about this

https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/202968656

these are cool:

Cash rewards are no longer reduced by 50% on replay of a Contact Mission. Players will now receive the full reward for completing a Mission every time.
Players now receive more Cash for playing Contact Missions in groups:

Two players - +10% Cash
Three players - +20% Cash
Four players - +30% Cash

Cash and RP for Contact Missions have been rebalanced. This is to ensure that all Contact Missions pay out a fair reward in relation to the mission difficulty and amount of time taken. The potential cash payouts have increased significantly overall, although some specific missions have been reduced as a result of the rebalance.

this is lol

Both the Driver and Passenger are now able to see direction arrows in Rally Races.

Wait so what is the point of them then.

That's just racing with a passenger then.

Unless the passenger wants to be all "decrease speed at this rock, hit the brake by the bush, TURN!"

• Players who downgrade to smaller garages will now be able to request vehicles stored in previous garages from the Mechanic.

So basically I can live where I want now. That's kinda cool. I miss the smelly ol' two-car apartment and wouldn't mind a place in Sandy Shores.

• Players in Tanks will now show as such with a specific Tank icon on the Minimap.

Looking forward to seeing the map look like a game of Combat.

• Fixed an issue where it was possible to destroy a vehicle containing 4 players, and only kill the driver.

I wish I could've seen this. Did the other three jump out of the fire and run away?

• Fixed an issue where spectating players would sometimes appear in free mode at the North-East corner of the map far away from everyone else, after a job.

Lighthouse glitch?

I haven't been on in a few weeks. Just got bored and then started reading about mods raping players onscreen and spawning factory equipment in player garages. Might check out the flight outfit this weekend, but otherwise,

man i really don't care about this

― goole, Tuesday, August 19, 2014 2:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Flight School is one of my favorite things in the game for some reason, so I'm looking forward to this.

I still have bad flashbacks of James Woods admonishing my liftoff technique from GTA:SA.

Learn to fly, CJ...

*shudders*

Flying in formation is fucking hard

I think I only tried to get into the flight school once? And got fucking housed by the cops for attempting to infiltrate the airport? I am an idiot.

enjoyed several attempts at the air force zero mission, which seems lots of fun whether you're the target, the attacker or the defender. i'm not good at dogfighting, but felt i was getting better by the end of it.

Hey GTA thread. I think I've finally gone off the deep end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfSTF1Z9i7Y

Hahahahahahaaaaaa

holy shit dude

you gotta send that into R* somehow, they love that shit

come to think tho you might have to send along a youtube of the real thing so they know what the fuck it is

I was originally thinking, "Wonder if you still spawn standing up inside a car out by the lighthouse after a RR mission? That way I can get a close-up of the radio to switch stations – aw hell with it, I know what I can get by with..."

Also did Season 2 Gary Sandy and Gordon Jump shots ("Jump shots", har), but also wanted to the closing credits to be a surprise.

love it

OK, I do this too often - upload something too quickly.

Here's a final version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfQdvXkTZd8

amazing!

How did you approach that? Did you have a shot list?

Only a dozen or so edits in the intro. I just wrote it out like

:00 - :01 radio knobs
:01 - :04 looking west toward overpass

etc. I just made up the cast parts at the end.

Was kinda cool to figure out how they edited those closing credits back in the day - just tack on the guest stars to the usual cast roll. They just had that static shot of the skyline to always run underneath it, so they never had to worry about coming out of the cast shots into an awkward cut. The video canvas of 70s end credits.

Thanks everyone!

What's a good way to capture game video?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815131019

Could I use that to record television or movies, or does it prevent that somehow?

You might have some problems with Blu-ray? IDK

I had a tripod set up in front of the screen, but I was kinda going for shitty looking video anyway.

Awesome@!

get back to gta, you. it's been ages since you told us all a story.

― You've been yelped (stevie), Tuesday, October 7, 2014 8:51 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh, the tragedy that occurred this weekend… I now know what YLOD means.

Little man can't play his Mickey Mouse game anymore, we've covered up all the mirrors.

― pplains, Tuesday, October 7, 2014 10:09 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

NOOOOOOOOO [just had to google YLOD]

― You've been yelped (stevie), Tuesday, October 7, 2014 10:17 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It was weird, turned it on, downloaded the new update, joined an event to get the free mask and as soon as the LTS started, everything went herky-jerky and it turned itself off. I turned it back on, got as far as scrolling back to the CD icon when it went beep-beep-beep and turned itself off again. At this point, the little red light started blinking.

So I'm not quite at the Yellow Light of Death, but I'm close. Everything points to a $150 repair bill if I want to keep going with this.

Truth be told, besides that WKRP thing up there, I haven't really even been playing much lately, since August or so. I don't know how I lost interest so fast. It is weird.

Glad I didn't buy those cheap GTA:IV packs. I was very tempted since I don't have any of those on PS3.