joined u crew, havent done shit online with this yet because i just started, but hi dere
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Monday, 17 February 2014 17:51 (ten years ago) link
Another good place to hide from a bounty is inside a tank. ^__^
― polyphonic, Monday, 17 February 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
wait you can ride the subway?
― gbx, Monday, 17 February 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
It's boring, but yeah, you can ride that thing all day.
― pplains, Monday, 17 February 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
Hey, wait a damn second here.
― pplains, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 01:16 (ten years ago) link
i actually got away from the cops one time by ducking onto a subway. it was thrilling. everybody was dressed pretty nice and looking at me. i couldn't sit down, just stand. it was awkward.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 01:50 (ten years ago) link
also, i once tried to drive all the way through the subway. i almost made it until i ran into the workers who freaked out, i think a couple of them tried to chase and shoot me. i crashed my car and abandoned it and ran to the next station and never tried it again.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 01:57 (ten years ago) link
Ride around aimlessly through Los Santos on the subway, pretend I'm that guy from Ghost.
― pplains, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 02:03 (ten years ago) link
playing a mission with a guy whose vanity plate is SEXIBOII as we speak
― goole, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 02:34 (ten years ago) link
he's not on the mic but i said "sweet plate dog" and he honked
also he can't drive for shit
Wonder if he'll post snapmatics of you tied up in his trunk when it's all over.
― pplains, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 03:13 (ten years ago) link
I'm not your sexiboiiSexiboooiiiiiI'm not your boiitoii
― the Norwegians are leaving! (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 06:14 (ten years ago) link
haha wait there's a subway?!
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
It's huge too, and there are sub tunnels which connect to the sewer channel
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
how have you not found the subway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWSkrI7Xv3k
― pplains, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
is there any actual point to training the goddamn dog btw
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
oh shit i haven't thought about that dog in months
― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
hope someone else was feeding him...
no there's really no point.
there is supposed to be some kind of search mechanic where he hunts for hidden items for you. but that's what the internet it for. i never tried it so idk how it works.
the ifruit app is pretty bad all around
― goole, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
oh god yes
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
yet i am still compelled to go and pick up dog poop when it commands me because i am weak
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
So my kindle fire and Samsung Galaxy ace smartphone are apparently not good enough to install iFruit.
That's pretty shitty stuff from Rockstar imo.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
on the plus side, it really is awful man, so dont mourn too much
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
just tried figuring out one of the odder details of this thing - what the radar colors mean in online. and, it makes no sense
http://gtaforums.com/topic/612225-i-dont-understand-the-deathmatch-radarblip-system/
Not trying to bump my own thread but this is the first result on google for this sort of thing so I thought I should give an update (plus I can't seem to edit my posts on mobile). I've finally realised what the problem is: blip colours in TDM are reversed for some reason, so your blip is blue when youre hidden and changes to grey when you become visible. Whereas in regular DM it starts white and changes to red when you have been spotted. It's slightly different in LTS too; your blip is grey when hidden and blue when visible. Really confusing having it different for each game mode.
i mean it's a forum post so big grain of salt but yeah
― goole, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
what's the deal with that googlemaps pplains linked to 2 days ago?
― NI, Thursday, 20 February 2014 01:47 (ten years ago) link
Someone made a passing mention elsewhere that the Portugese island of Flores resembles San Andreas somewhat. I can kinda see what they're talking about, with the river bleeding in from the west, the mountain ranges, the little astro-boy cowlick at the top.
http://i.imgur.com/OnLUox3.jpg
But maybe not.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 February 2014 03:03 (ten years ago) link
yeah it really does, i thought it was a fake island plonked in the middle of the ocean by googlemaps. have rockstar said anything about it?
― NI, Thursday, 20 February 2014 03:10 (ten years ago) link
i dunno about that—for one, where's the giant city
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 20 February 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
It's right where the subway is – o wait, forgot about you.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 February 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
There's a mission right now called Rooftop Rumble where you shoot up about a dozen or so bad guys in a parking garage and then hightail it back to Martin's place with a dropped package. Pretty quick mission that nets something crazy like $18750 and 4000 RP when you do it.
Played it a bunch of times with this one guy who was hosting it. He'd set the difficulty to 1.5 and knew all these tricks like hiding out in wall breaches until the mean people disappeared. I went from 72 to 74 ranking in no time and made close to $100,000 easily.
We'd finish the job and go back to Freemode since they won't let you keep hitting replay any more. He'd stand to the side and go into pause mode while I would deposit my money. Then he'd vanish like in Star Trek and within seconds, I'd get the invitation for another round.
But here's the thing - all of his cars had clown horns. So we'd finish the shootout and the first thing he'd do is squeeze that clown horn for me to come around and meet him. Or we'd go back to freemode, and a few times he'd get into his car and squeeze the clown horn for me to get in while we paused and deposited. It was like having Harpo Marx as a partner in crime.
On one mission we ran, two others showed up to play in the invite menu. With four of us, we all made quick work of the garage staff, but one of the new guys picked up the package. Harpo got nervous and kept driving up to the guy, squeezing that clown horn. I got into the car with the second guy, and the four of us drove up toward Martin's - first guy; me and the second guy; and Harpo in the rear with these clown honks that kept weaker in sound.
Right before the first guy delivered the package, Harpo committed suicide.
Was he a kid? Was he autistic? Did he just have an accident in the hills and kill himself that way, not necessarily committing suicide? Whole thing was weird, but like I said, made some bank in the meantime.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 February 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
pp, again, if you write a book of your gta adventures, i will buy the shit out of it
― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Thursday, 20 February 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
haha, thank you again, but why buy anything when you can read it for free on ILX™?
I will take Shark Card donations, tho'.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 February 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
it's like asperger noir
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 February 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
That's a mean thing to say about ilx forks
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Thursday, 20 February 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
Not sure what a true sufferer of aspergerers would do with a mission called Rooftop Rumble WHERE THERE IS NO ROOFTOP LOCATION INTEGRAL TO THE MISSION.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
will you settle for "toontown noir"
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:16 (ten years ago) link
There's a dude playing online as a photojournalist. Super cool:
http://highway62.tumblr.com/post/77298301212/bobbycaputo-instead-of-shooting-people-this-guy
Thanks for the heads up, Matt.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 20 February 2014 19:38 (ten years ago) link
I fucking hate hate hate flying in this game. Done the Trevor airstrip thing a bunch of times, crashed on landing each time, no idea how the fuck I'm supposed to slow the plane down. F u game
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
I can't believe a GTA game has a half-baked, unclear, broken or just plain shitty game mechanic
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 23:05 (ten years ago) link
Maybe you guys should just get better at the game
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link
flying is best in first person view. but the sound for when your gear goes up and down is pretty quiet so you might have flip back and forth to check.
you slow down with left trigger?
― goole, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
Finally gathered all letter scraps and ufo. Both anticlimactic as was expected. Pay-offs are crap really.
Epsilon done. Now just tracts to gather. I am sticking with it but not going to try for 100%. Don't really enjoy replaying mains oddly enough and I really thought as I was playing them first time around I would because I could relax but I'm a way I just found myself wondering why bother...
I think the game is amazing and enjoyed a slight return to CJ but the Michael and Franklin characters weren't that finished. I liked the fact that Franklin was engaged with his decisions and got the fun.
This is probably the first game I would buy DLC if it's released as large areas of the map feel unused.
I would also buy PPlains book "L'EtranGTAr".
― hyggeligt, Wednesday, 26 February 2014 23:19 (ten years ago) link
ah so you slow the plane down with the car brake, that would have been a cool thing for the game to tell me, kept fucking around with the rudder controls which were the only thing i saw them mention like an idiot
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Wednesday, 26 February 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
my landing gear kept going up and down like it couldn't fuckin make up its mind. flying is definitely kinda hard. i love the shit out of trevor's drug running missions (including the ones with the dune buggy) because you're made to redo them until you're totally on point. most of the rest of the game you don't have to actually be that good at.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 27 February 2014 01:04 (ten years ago) link
RT throttles the plane up too, if that wasn't obvious.
i don't remember when the flight school opens in relation to the trevor airstrip missions, but going thru those maxes out flight skill for each character. tedious but useful (like going thru each shooting range challenge with each character) (yes i did this)
― goole, Thursday, 27 February 2014 01:12 (ten years ago) link
i don't have a ton of data to support this but flying seems like a p easy way to earn RP and cash in the online game? i was pretty frustrated with the mechanics at first but once i learned to just take things niiiiiiiice and easy (instead of with the pell mell style favored on the road), i found it p simple to take first in most of the (like, five) air races I've since entered. most ppl seem to crash out because they're trying to fly like they're driving a motorbike, so just ~not crashing~ is often enough to stake out a sizable and domineering lead
― gbx, Thursday, 27 February 2014 03:41 (ten years ago) link
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, Thursday, 27 February 2014 03:43 (ten years ago) link
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.
― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Thursday, 27 February 2014 07:28 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 27 February 2014 09:15 (ten years ago) link
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.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 27 February 2014 10:44 (ten years ago) link