which city for GTA 5?

my latest pet peeve: people who don't vote in lobbies. dude. let's get off this screen. thank you.

oh and i think i figured out the 'fast start' thing in races. i couldn't get it to work for anything until i had my tv turned up too loud. the 3 2 1 go! countdown has a booming noise on every count, but there's also a slight echo on each one. the trigger instant is on the final echo, not the final beat.

I somehow nailed the fast start thing on a half-dozen races in a row the other night. I don't know how, though me trying to hit that final beat after a few beers may have helped.

i don't really play gta 5 anymore - i've gone back to saints row instead :/

http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2014/01/20/grand-theft-auto-v-gives-players-chance-eddie-adams/

His character stays in passive mode, wears a “MEDIA” jacket, and travels around Los Santos in a news van.

I would blow this guy up in his little media van to Kingdom Come.

Took this one once because it kinda made me pause for a moment and just say to myself, "damn."

http://i.imgur.com/HGwLkU1.jpg

But then I went right back to blowing shit up.

surely you all know this but R* dropped the hammer on the money cheats. my passively acquired $1.5 billion returned to $200k. but my sweet pad, 10 tricked out cars and many boats and aircraft are still with me. rendering the game somewhat goal-less.

had a couple PP-style odd interactions, all wordless. there's a funny tension when a guy pulls up to you in his car, and you don't know, are you going to shoot me? run me down? invite me to something? this guy just kept honking til i got in. then he drove around aimlessly for a while. i shot at a few people, never enough to get more than 1 star. then he found another player standing idle. he parked, got out, drilled the guy. then he just stood there. i wondered if he was messing with the camera. the third man respawned and came back for us both. for a split second i thought, how can i explain that i wasn't responsible for his murder, but then, out came the carbine. i think by then we had attracted 2 or 3 stars, and it was kind of a shitshow after that. i was just looking for an SUV to steal, and then this.

the 'prison thugz fight' deathmatch is totally stupid and everybody loves it

"Prison Thugz Fight" a nice palate cleanser, I feel.

I never even got any of the counterfeit money but they still took all the money I earned, I guess because I had a lunar lander in my garage [which is now gone :( ]

I have now done Jumps Jumps Jumps infinity times.

they took earned money??!?!???!

Yup. I never received a dollar from anyone.

Prison Thugz seemed like a lot of fun until that asshole drove a bus in through the doors.

Oh shit you can do that?!

yeah a dude last night went like 17-2 by driving the truck around. on my team thankfully.

i've tried it but people seemed a little more adept at hopping out of the way...

come to think, is that the only instance of the blue prison bus on the entire map?

Now that you mention it....

I'll try tonight and see if I can drive that bus out of the prison, out of the stupid verified deathmatch, out of the online session and maybe take it for a spin on Gran Turismo 5.

I wish there was a good way to find user created races. I played one last night that I loved so much. It starts off inside Fort Zancudo, and traffic/cops is turned on. You have four stars essentially for the whole race. Very very chaotic and fun.

map of the gang attack locations, which are time sensitive:

http://www.gamingreality.com/2013/10/gta-online-gang-attack-locations.html

I went through some of those one night. Took me forever to get past that cult one on the mountain since they'll shoot at you any time of day.

Was coming back from all that through the tunnel when *SLAM* ~~ GANG ATTACK! Wha? All of a sudden, there were members of The Lost taking shots at me from inside the tunnel. Kinda exciting when danger pops up on ya like that.

Forgive me for a Dad moment, but six-year-old Beeps came up with the name "Shoots & Ladders" for our game. I thought it was pretty good.

We've taken it away from her four-year-old brother though. Even after emptying the ammo, he still had a tendency to pistol-whip any pedestrian he saw. The final straw was the weekend when he began proclaiming that everything was bullshit.

He and I still sit down and race cars. He picks the colors and pats me on the back when I successfully land a jump.

when did u start letting yr 4yo play video games and when would you say he started developing dexterity/acumen for gameplay? sounds like he's pretty good now?

He's been tapping an iPad since he was just over a year old. He started playing with a joystick, games like Sonic the Hedgehog and Katamari around two or so? I mean, he didn't really know what he was doing, but it was around then that he made the connection between the game controller and what was happening on the screen.

He and his sister have a Toy Story game that's very sandboxy like GTA, and that's been going on for over a year. It's crazy how those two have memorized where in the game certain features are, how you have to go down that tunnel and up that ladder to get to the treasure, etc. It's got races, find these pieces of whatever, strategies like you have to go hit the knob in that room to turn on the thing in this room.

He's gotten pretty good. He plays the old Sega version of Crash Bandicoot, where you have to spin around to get this guy or jump up to get that guy. Also some Frogger moves of jumping onto and then immediately off of a hippo's back to get somewhere. I'm impressed.

i started up a female online character, just to see what it was like, and if having a low-level character w/o any money or whips was still fun. it kind of is? here's what i learned

in the intro mission, lamar shows up with a rose at the airport and keeps asking to have sex with you.

i've always liked playing dress-up in these sandbox games. the ladies' clothes all look pretty good. and since the game has some kind of 'market pricing' for goods (you've notices this in the mod shop, haven't you? esp with paint jobs?) it means the clothing is pretty cheap! since it's about 100 to 1 dude avatars the demand is low.

i received 1 unprompted friend request after about 5 mins of freeroam play. lol.

you share a bank account with your first online player, but nothing else, to my knowledge.

My second character is female too. Characters share a bank account, but also, when I take my male first character into his wardrobe to get dressed, there's an option for "Pumps" that wasn't there before. (It's always empty, though.)

that popped after xmas, before i started up the life of a new female criminal. i think the elf shoes were in the pump category, and now everybody is stuck with it.

i like working out totally irrelevant quirks of this game like that, and having no clue how, like, stealth works

The "stealth" in this game is infuriating. I went on one of those jobs where you blow up a bunch of cars, at the docks, and figured I'd just pop dudes with the sniper rifle from a container lift, easy peasy. Climbed all over, jumped everywhere, nobody did nothing. Settled in, raised the rifle to my eye: everybody goes ham and starts shooting me. What's the point of sniping of you can't do it unnoticed??

The only time I've ever seen stealth work is during deathmatches.

Even the silencer you can fit weapons with seems to be bullshit.

Right? Like why buy it

i think the silencers and stealth mean more in pvp game modes

open letter to rockstar games:

can you change the way lobbies work, please?

they should be set to a particular game type, like race, deathmatch, mission, w/e. then your 6 vote selections would all be in the same category. 9 times out of 10 people want to keep playing in the same game type. which a lot of the time just means repeating the same event, if that's the only one given.

the bottom row of 'procedural' votes (repeat, refresh, freemode) could be changed to votes to switch the game type to another. it makes no sense to have a vote option to return to freemode anyway, there's a quit button! who cares if a majority vote to return, why dump the voting minority out of the lobby?

i have never played a 'vehicle deathmatch' except i think on my very first time logging in. they don't turn up in lobby votes, that's why! duh. a lot of content is basically stranded and unplayable.

thanks!

freemode is different from quit because if you freemode you all go to the same session, whereas if you quit you go your separate ways. Important if you've got a gang together.

i do agree that the lobby system needs work though.

oh really? i've never noticed that i guess!

so it turns out i'm like really good at racing in this. i suppose doing a bunch of research and (esp) having a billion dollars for a week helped. being able to hang back and be cool while everyone runs into each other is key.

oh really? i've never noticed that i guess!

so it turns out i'm like really good at racing in this. i suppose doing a bunch of research and (esp) having a billion dollars for a week helped. being able to hang back and be cool while everyone runs into each other is key.

hanging back is crucial I've learned (the hard way, several times)

it is pretty satisfying to have someone try to ram you and totally fuck it up

i know this isn't gran turismo, but it is a little disappointing that there is basically one car that is just better than the rest in each category, and that the tuning options are so barebones. there's really no tradeoffs and no reason to have certain cars at all. in the racing anyway, but in the missions too for that matter.

You can tune your cars up as much as you can in the story mode, provided you're a high enough level / have won enough races. My Elegy is maxed out.

right, but the best car (the elegy for sports, eg) maxed is better than the 2nd best maxed, you know?

Yeah that's true. But if you're in a maxed out Vacca (or whatev) and someone else is using a non-modded Adder you can beat them.

Catchup Mode is trash btw.

right, but the best car (the elegy for sports, eg) maxed is better than the 2nd best maxed, you know?

― goole, Monday, February 3, 2014 3:24 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not true for all categories apparently!

my mans on youtube did a bunch more tests and it looks like in the sedan, SUV and muscle categories fully upgrading can shift the top 3 around

http://youtu.be/c5awInMO58k

tip!

more underwear, guys

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

As you see above, I love the glitches, the wall breaches. It's fun having the idea in the back of my mind that the whole damn city is just one big mirage like in The Matrix and full of little spots where you can manipulate space in a way you're not supposed to.

For most of the time I've played this game, I've used the wall breaches as a way to survive bounties, enjoying with too much pleasure as bounty hunters would come stalk me and I'd blow them off the screen from some unknown dimension.

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

But I don't know. After searching for a few bounties myself and being met with glitchers commanding tanks and having health bars that can't be budged, I've changed my thinking.

So now, I've been scouting new physical locations to hide out in, areas accessible to everybody. My new favorite has been this boring terminal building on the other side of the airport. It's got two entrances: one at the top of some stairs and one that can only be accessed through the roof. It's got Coke machines to refill the health meter. It's got a neat water cooler you can blow holes in and make waterfalls while you're passing the time.

I'm 1 for 3 in bounties out there, but I think I've got the hang of it. You really have to pay more attention to the doors by the stairs. I spent so much time thinking someone was going to drop down the hatch from the roof that some dude completely snuck up behind me in the hallway and killed me. But then there was the time that I stood too close to the stairs and got blown up by a grenade. Plenty of reason to move around.

http://i.imgur.com/Vl9vxKw.jpg

The suspense of watching the little white blips on the radar circle yours before finally here comes another character bounding through the doors will keep you alert. This cowboy, like Hank Williams Jr complete with the hat, sunglasses and beard, jumped through the doors and I caught him in midair with a shotgun blast. Then I spit Beechnut into that dude's eye.

Had two brothers after me. I don't know if they were really brothers, but one's name was ItalianNiples and the other one was EgyptianNiples. ItalianNiples would not quit picking the same route each time, and I just kept hitting him. He was clever enough to use tear gas though. Better tear gas in your hallway than a grenade, like my granddaddy always said.

One guy in a jet tried to bomb the building. That shook the roof a little, but I don't think Rockstar has figured out how to allow jets to blow up buildings yet. He did, I assume, hover near the stairs entrance and shoot bombs through the doors. I watched it all from the Coke machine, thinking to myself dead-gum!

When the bounty lifted, I climbed up the hatch to have a celebratory moment of fresh air. I remembered that I had stuck a sticky bomb on one of the cars outside and clicked the controller to see if it was still there. It was. The explosion gave me a wanted level and all of these heretofore-hidden office workers started pouring out of the hatch too. Hit one of them with a golf club for $14, but that only sent my wanted level higher, not lower.

But it was kind of fun to be a part of the real world of the fake world for once.

pplains, there's a surely lucrative book in your gta experiences. i would buy at least one (1) copy. they are my favourite things to read on ilx at the moment.

i played online w/a ILXOR yesterday, for what I think is the first time! Gooole, apologies for disappearing offline after our one race, my other half had just served up dinner. also, apologies for my appalling showing, coming tenth of ten. Am pretty sure that the guy who came ninth was cheating btw as he never seemed to actually overtake me, but instead materialised in front of me, sometimes in an invisible car.

Gooole I tried to accept your invite to a race, I think it was Saturday or Friday night, but it just didn't work for some reason.

they are my favourite things to read on ilx at the moment.

otm

i just finished single-player yesterday after basically playing all day. it was pretty anti-climactic. i guess i'll drive around and finish up the strangers and freaks missions, buy a bunch of properties and then..? then i guess that's it.

i have never had any interest in playing multiplayer myself but i LOVE reading about it.

the multiplayer is amazing fun. and pretty forgiving to people who like to play games but aren't actually *good at games (like me). I won a bike race on sunday (my stats are 10:1 wins:losses) and I felt curiusly intoxicated by my success.