which city for GTA 5?

I forgot to mention this! I sniped a guy on the runway of the LSIA from the roof of the docks over the BugBusters!

Not as bad-ass as your skyscraper scoping, but it was definitely one of those "I never thought this would happen to me, but..." moments.

and by most proud i mean among my actual irl achievements

Well, yeah.

anybody else seeing hair disappear on everyone after the update?

yep. jobs was borked for a bit just now as well - 12 people joined for a 1-4 mission i was hosting, and it crashed, and after that you couldn't access jobs via the phone or the pause page for a while.

100%

SPOILERS Ahoy

Was disappointed with the Chilliad story, after all that its just a ufo in the sky. What's with the fancy poster in the cable car station then?

So I checked it out on the web, seems nobody knows. Possible future dlc or just rockstar tease. I checked out the other ufo's and that one above the military base makes a horrific noise when it appears.

And lost the fucking ufo car already, I'm guessing it doesn't come back?

yeah in my completed save, franklin had it in his garage; i flipped to him last night to check out his personal car (the 1.14 update renamed it "Buffalo S") and it was gone :(

Have you got the three man army achievement yet? get three star wanted level with all three characters together (not on a mission)

I flipped to Trevor recently to something I hadn't seen before, he was riding a moped on the highway with some other guy. For ages Trevor just kept repeating jives at the guy "Scooter Brother, hey Scooter Brother where are we going today?" haha

Are any of these new cars top of class?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ-bHgZSDXY

impt update!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MroJ5GlpLz4

"spoiler alert" lawl

Are any of these new cars top of class?

That 6-wheel Dubsta is a mean, mean machine. Hit cars and they just go flying. An NPC got all mad at me and turned into a red O on the map. I turned around and flipped his car over where he promptly vanished into thin air.

Some pick-up truck full of red player •s started shooting me as I went back to my apartment. I gunned the acceleration and just knocked them into the next block. With the armor on 100% and bulletproof tires, I circled around just to hit them again.

I drove that thing over a boulder. It is sick.

I wish there was a Super car that I actually liked.

So Rockstar put an option into everyone's garage to allow you to rearrange your cars. Welcome news for anyone that's ever had a Sandking right in front of their elevator or wanted to file everything by color.

It didn't take long though for a new glitch to be discovered to accompany this feature. It involves almost buying a new car and knocking over the tool box while your cellphone is open. I learned how to do it with a souped up motorcycle, but when I tried it with an Adder, I somehow flipped the damn thing over and killed myself, respawning over by the park where the pot guy is in the original game. Who knew a tool box could be so strong?

I had no idea Bati's could be so fun. All you have to do is pop a wheelie and you can pretty much drive over anything. I drove straight over the map from the Humane Labs to Chumash on one of those. Guardrail in your way? Pop a wheelie and whoosh, you're 20 feet in the air. Sports car coming toward you? Pop a wheelie and whoosh, you're 40 feet in the air. Sometimes while I'm hanging in the air, I'll hear this rattle sound. At first, I kept thinking someone was after me or my air-conditioning was acting weird, but I finally figured out that the sound was coming from my rims spinning around. This game.

Still play some missions, trying to gather up RP for my second character. The mission where you follow a helicopter with a dune buggy to a police encampment seems to be pretty popular now. I skip the dune buggies, get on the Bati, and fly through the air like a winged pegasus to a hillside overlooking the encampment where I snipe the devils before they even know I'm there. Nice break from the Rumble.

I was on one mission the other night where you have to steal vans from near the mining site and take them back to Lester's. I was on the Bati, one of my crewmembers hopped on as a passenger and I promptly drove us into a hail of 1.5 difficulty gunfire. The Canadian fella who hosts the missions (guessing by his accent) somehow ducked all that, grabbed a van and hightailed it back to the city while we were all spectating. Turned out, this was one of those missions where, no sir, you have to bring back all the vans to finish. Poor guy goes alway the way back to Blaine Co., goes through all the gunfire again and finally brings it to a close - earning all of us freeloaders some sweet RP as well.

("Sorry it took me so long," he said. -- another clue that he's Canadian.)

I haven't been playing so much lately. The other night, I was on and looked out the window. There were my kids in the backyard, catching fireflies, running around in the grass. Oh for god's sake, I shut the console off and joined them. Plenty of RP IRL too.

It didn't take long though for a new glitch to be discovered to accompany this feature. It involves almost buying a new car and knocking over the tool box while your cellphone is open.

lol what in fuck

like, how? where?

speaking of batis, i once landed in an obstacle style race using motorcycles that was seriously insane. all over the city, using bounces off of steep curbs and retaining walls to launch up onto rooftops. all 68 checkpoints were used. no joke, i gave it 45 mins before throwing in the towel and i only got halfway thru.

speaking of Batis, it's a testament to the writing of these games that I didn't notice the joek in the name of that bike for 8 months. (Bati 801 = Bati BOI)

Skip to about :45. And buying the Rebel is only for being able to sell it over and over instead of once every hour. If you use a car off the street, you can still do the dupe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgjsCqOAJ7g

This one's slightly better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFjupWo1KoA

What are your top five tips for someone who just started playing a few days ago and just blew up Steve Jobs

read the thread, it's all there man

the 'tips' are only if u want to do stuff like make a useless shitload of money before the final heist. do you want to do that?

Go online. Have some real fun

I kid.

It's a little complicated to explain (I started the SP under one account, but created a new acct for MP, not realizing how PSN/PS3/Rockstar accounts work, so I've been having to sign in and out of accounts to go back and forth between SP/MP) - but just to keep from having to see Michael go Jimmy! every time I logged in, I started replaying the SP.

I've learned that I like to explore and ride around by myself, but play missions with other people. Invite Only sessions are my favorites.

(Unless I'm playing with my Ranked 127 guy with the tank and minigun. I can take a session of dozens with that guy.)

Yeah I guess I should just reread the thread

Mainly worried about missing out on side missions and story forking and stuff like that

But from past experience GTA games are too on rails to let you miss out on anything the first time through

The only decision that really matters, other than the stock market stuff, is the last mission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYIrTzJBu3k

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/9FBAAC08-458B-434D-B0BA-F9A51502C899_zpsciypm7mr.jpg

Too much time on ilg

Still weirds me out.

I had to google it to make sure it wasn't a common (b)un that I had missed

Is it? I still don't get it.

Also, is that your ride?

I don't think so!

Maybe somebody at Rockstar still loves you, Pleasant Plains

That's not my ride, I still don't know how the new garages work in GTA5, little flummoxed by the fact that driving a car into a garage doesn't auto-repair it

Still in single player mode, no PSN account

Have noticed that most cars seem decently fast now

Annoyed that when you're driving fast, spawned cars still seem to mirror the one you're driving, even if not the exact model

They don't get auto-repaired? I mean, they're fixed if you go off and be another character or start a saved game, right?

I don't know, I just drive Michael's tailgater since he's always sitting in it.

The spawning is maddening, especially if you find a "rare" car and then all of a sudden, everyone's driving one. It was helpful when I was looking for a four-door Felon. Found the two-door and then drove around for a minute before finding the four-door.

Not on PSN because of internet or what? I'm on PSN. Roberto Spirelli is like the only other PSN ILXor, and I've never seen him on there.

Out of laziness, I guess

Hm, okay - I drove a car into that one garage to the east of Michael's house and it took me into a weird mechanic's garage that's supposed to be mine but idk why! It was scary in there so I left

Usually just take whatever car is parked in front of Michael/Franklin/Trevor's home

I mean, there really is no reason to store a car in Michael's garage - everybody around his hood drives a 6 liter V8

not to gtasplain but yeah each char has a 'character vehicle' that's always available where you are and doesn't need to be saved (franklin gets two, his car and motorcycle) if you mod those those mods stay on them. if you destroy it, i think it spawns again in its vanilla form

any other car you want to save and/or mod you need to store in that garage (4 spots) or it'll disappear if you leave it somewhere, flip to another. each character has a garage attached to his house for 1 more slot too

i never figured out how the 'impound' mechanic worked. if you drive a vehicle (not your personal) for a while and then leave it somewhere the cops sometimes pick it up.

also michael's wife's and daughter's cars can be modded up and those mods will 'stick' w/o storing too, interestingly enough. so it seems like the game keeps track of a few unique vehicles.

Okay, so if you mod Trevor's off road car and take it out, switch to another car & turn off the game, it'll spawn back at Trevors place w/ mods the next time you turn the game on?

I think so? Like I drove to Los Santos that first time in a different car with the juggalo and when I started again, the red jeep was parked underneath the apt.

Those weird garages can hold more than one car, and you can also access all the special vehicles from inside there like the Roosevelt.

It'd be cool to see you online, but I get the lack of rush. The first crew I joined is made up of a bunch of dudes from another board. They're all right, but sometimes it's a drag to log in, see one of my friends come up and honk the horn. I get in and we just drive around and blow shit up which is ok, but you know, maybe I just wanted to go ramp the Bati by myself. I'm not some Lone Wolf McQuaid, but you know.

My current crew is ok like this. There's one guy I run a bunch of missions with. We don't know each other, but I see his name on an invite, I know he's ok to join because he won't fuck shit up. The other night, I see the caption "Soandso just killed pplains' crew member", "Soandso just blasted pplains' crew member." My crew member was getting some shots in, but was still losing at a 1:2 rate.

So I go over in the Dubsta 6x6, and run over the rival. Didn't kill him, but as he stood up and aimed to shoot me, my crew member got his in. Blam. I played my little jazz horn at the crew dude, he saluted and we parted ways.

A few nights ago, a friend from the old crew found me and we were driving around with him aimlessly casting sticky bombs out the window. My headset's not working right so I'm mute, but he's all, "come on, let's just find a red dot and go after him."

About that time, there's a member of my current crew on the map. He sees me I guess and comes toward us to run around. My crew's pretty straight-forward about not killing other crew members and I'm worried about the hot head in my front seat.

So like a complete nancy, I jump out of the truck, run over to the crew member and start doing jazz hands all over the place. He starts doing some jerk off motion and I text the hot head saying he's ok. "Yeah, ok." he says.

We start driving around aimlessly again, I get bored and accept a Rooftop invitation. Don't know what happened to those guys after that.

I had a great evening last week. I ended up playing Rooftop Rumble with a bunch of guys, only I wasn't paying 100% attention, and they'd all gone off to get a chopper without me while I popped into the kitchen to feed the cats. When I got back in I drove off to try and get another chopper to play catch-up, but they were all gone, so I returned to the skyscraper building site and started slowly walking up the massive crane, hoping I could be of some help or maybe catch the end of the firefight and jump into their chopper or something.

While I was 3/4s up the crane, my team nabbed the prize and choppered away without me. I finished my walk up the crane, figuring maybe I could try and snipe the bad guys' choppers, but they were too far away, so I just stood at the top of the crane and soaked up the peaceful vibes. But then, just above the radar, a message popped up to say that all my team had died in a chopper crash, and that the package had been dropped. So I quickly parachuted to the ground, stole a car and drove over to the wreck, picked up the package and drove it the ten feet or so to the drop-off zone. I pretty much saved the day, by not concentrating and by being shitty at the game, and I think my confreres reluctantly considered me a hero at the end of that game.

Ha, that's happened to me.

There are so many bold go-getters who play that mission that oftentimes, I'll just head south after the garage is cleared. Sometimes I'll hit the impound lot if I've lost a car or go knock over a convenience store.

Once though, back in the old days of Rooftop, I had gone into the strip club and opened fire. As I'm picking pockets from the pile of dead bodies I see that "dropped the package" message, "other player is spectating." Uh-oh.

So I start heading back out, but then here come the red dots on the radar. They've found me at the club! I look outside real quick and there they are, parked right at the end of the red carpet, bouncers laying dead on the ground. I retreat to the ticket window where I'm behind the door when it opens. Here they come and I get them one at a time. Finally run out as I see another red dot coming from the hospital. Grab the Granger and take off.

Lord knows what those other players thought when they went to spectator's mode and saw me inside the Unicorn.

Lord knows what those other players thought when they went to spectator's mode and saw me inside the Unicorn.

genuine lol

some amazing bitchassness in races lately

1. on a "long-haul"-alike, in a lobby with just one other person, low level. he's the host, chooses supercars. after only about a quarter of the way around the island, i'm about 30 secs ahead of him. so i decide to wait for him on the zancudo bridge, why not. the 30 secs tick by, he zips by me, and i take off after him. i get up to him and draft around him, and then he rams me. and we repeat that li'l pas de deux for the whole rest of the map. i get up to him, draft around, and he rams, sometimes successfully. over and over again. it was amazing. like 10 minutes of this. i don't remember if i won. never do anyone a favor.

2. on "long haul" itself, first with muscle cars, catch-up off. i try out my new blade. the host, a guy in a dominator, gets out in front and nobody can catch him, i think i placed 2nd or 3rd or something. the lobby votes to replay, the host switches to sports, again with catch-up off. i pick my massacro. after dodging the inevitable aggro pack bullshit i get up front, and w/o catch-up, and nobody cooperating enough to draft up, nobody can reach me. the host & previous easy winner is the closest but never closer than 5 secs behind the whole way. during the final stretch going north, i notice his numbers getting further and further back. did he wipe out? give up? and then pops up the message: "other players are voting to kick you. improve your behavior to stay in the session". it had to have been him, stopping up to dick around in the host menu. that probably takes the cake for most punk ass shit ever.

and they'd all gone off to get a chopper without me while I popped into the kitchen to feed the cats.

please tell me this is something that happened in-game

and then pops up the message: "other players are voting to kick you. improve your behavior to stay in the session".

That is the bitchiest ass thing.

I'm still trying to rack up wins on the second character to get stuff like Turbo. Hard as hell when no one runs in non-custom races and I can't compete with someone who's got the turbo.

This crewmember and I did swap off wins on some straight-line route on the big bridge by the docks. He also got me my rally-race wins. But I'm still short like a dozen wins form getting anything cool.

you know what i'm bummed about, in retrospect? that out of some sense of honor i didn't buy all the air/water/military etc vehicles back when everyone had a $1bil in cheater money. a lot of them are pretty useless ($500k for a bus?) but would have been fun