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Rutkowski
Apr 28, 2008

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS GUY?
Started golfing yesterday and have played maybe ten games so far. Got -4 twice as my personal record, usually hover between par and -2. Is that actually good or will I be beaten easily by the more serious golfers? Also, putting loving blows. So many perfect hits that stop just before the hole.

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Slim Killington
Nov 16, 2007

I SAID GOOD DAY SIR

Rutkowski posted:

Started golfing yesterday and have played maybe ten games so far. Got -4 twice as my personal record, usually hover between par and -2. Is that actually good or will I be beaten easily by the more serious golfers? Also, putting loving blows. So many perfect hits that stop just before the hole.

Best I've done is 6 under, which I think a few other goons have echoed. Switch to power shot for putting and aim in front of the hole by 6-12 inches.

Rutkowski
Apr 28, 2008

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS GUY?
You mean a long put? And I can't decide how far I aim the shots, the game does that for me when I decide on what put to use. Or do you mean using one of the other clubs at the green?

Rutkowski
Apr 28, 2008

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS GUY?
Also, shame on all the people who golf without proper golfing clothes.

EvilTobaccoExec
Dec 22, 2003

Criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot, so my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts!

Rutkowski posted:

Also, shame on all the people who golf without proper golfing clothes.

Got my bikini, leather jacket, body armor, pig mask.

Check.

XenophobicAirport
Dec 15, 2007

Please have your weapons prepared at the terminal.

Rutkowski posted:

Also, shame on all the people who golf without proper golfing clothes.

It's all about posture/proper form rather than clothes, you know. (Also the fursuit :ssh:)

El Hefe
Oct 31, 2006

You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'

NattyBo posted:

Online now and ready for some blaine county survival because the pubbies I'm trying it with blow.

e: I can host (NattyBo1985 PS3) and we'll farm some dough if anyone wants.

I'm gonna add you Barca bro.

I'm elkwill84.

Rageaholic
May 31, 2005

Old Town Road to EGOT

What's the deal with other people being able to access personal vehicles? I've tried to get in other people's personal vehicles before and it wouldn't let me, and a message would pop up saying something like "This is ___________'s personal vehicle and you can't enter it, you fucker!" But I just got a motorbike, put a tracker on it and got full coverage on it and modded it a little, then some pubbie rear end in a top hat murdered me right outside of Los Santos Customs and stole my bike. I had to chase him down to get it back. How was he able to do that?

Reo
Apr 11, 2003

That'll do, Carlos.
That'll do.


Hold select/back and change the option near the bottom for vehicle access.

Got my custom emblem working after trial and error!

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



Rageaholic Monkey posted:

What's the deal with other people being able to access personal vehicles? I've tried to get in other people's personal vehicles before and it wouldn't let me, and a message would pop up saying something like "This is ___________'s personal vehicle and you can enter it, you fucker!" But I just got a motorbike, put a tracker on it and got full coverage on it and modded it a little, then some pubbie rear end in a top hat murdered me right outside of Los Santos Customs and stole my bike. I had to chase him down to get it back. How was he able to do that?

Hold select to bring up the ingame menu. You can select the permission of who is able to drive your car from there(as well as other things). I do wish there was a friends / crew / people currently doing this mission with me option. I don't want pubbies to drive my car, but people in missions have never hosed with it.

edit: or what Lunethex said.

OH NO MY DICK
Feb 24, 2013


Forums Jesus
Does Lester offer any missions that aren't Cops Capacity? Because gently caress that mission.

Lunethex
Feb 4, 2013

Me llamo Sarah Brandolino, the eighth Castilian of this magnificent marriage.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

Hold select to bring up the ingame menu. You can select the permission of who is able to drive your car from there(as well as other things).

I wish you could always have passengers in your car, just that under no circumstance they can take the driver's seat.

Rageaholic
May 31, 2005

Old Town Road to EGOT

Reo posted:

Hold select/back and change the option near the bottom for vehicle access.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

Hold select to bring up the ingame menu. You can select the permission of who is able to drive your car from there(as well as other things). I do wish there was a friends / crew / people currently doing this mission with me option. I don't want pubbies to drive my car, but people in missions have never hosed with it.
Ahh, okay. I've only opened up that menu like once or twice the entire time I've been playing GTA:O, so I didn't even know the option was there. Thanks!

Slim Killington
Nov 16, 2007

I SAID GOOD DAY SIR

Rutkowski posted:

You mean a long put? And I can't decide how far I aim the shots, the game does that for me when I decide on what put to use. Or do you mean using one of the other clubs at the green?

The L1 (or LB on 360) changes the shot in terms of power. You can change any shot to the strongest one and then just pull it back by aiming. The only other major thing I've learned is don't ever, ever use a sand wedge. You can chip out of bunkers with a 7 iron with no loss of accuracy or power, it's just like any other shot.

Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

Ahh, okay. I've only opened up that menu like once or twice the entire time I've been playing GTA:O, so I didn't even know the option was there. Thanks!

The quick-GPS feature in that menu is a lifesaver when you can't pause. I use it for basically every checkpoint a mission gives you, as well as finding the nearest mod shop or clothing store. It's also the menu you use to eat food and smoke cigs.

Rageaholic
May 31, 2005

Old Town Road to EGOT

Robawesome posted:

The quick-GPS feature in that menu is a lifesaver when you can't pause. I use it for basically every checkpoint a mission gives you, as well as finding the nearest mod shop or clothing store. It's also the menu you use to eat food and smoke cigs.
poo poo, you can use it for mission checkpoints? Well now I'm gonna use it a lot more often!

I've also never eaten any food or smoked any cigs the entire time I've been playing :shepface: I never buy any food when I go to the stores, I just immediately rob them.

marshmallow creep
Dec 10, 2008

I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

Jesus Christ I tried to run around in free roam for a bit; I think I lost 20 grand in as many minutes.

Lunethex
Feb 4, 2013

Me llamo Sarah Brandolino, the eighth Castilian of this magnificent marriage.
What is the general consensus on the Vacca? Good, bad, get something better?

MailboxFullOfBombs
Nov 1, 2010

Lotish posted:

Jesus Christ I tried to run around in free roam for a bit; I think I lost 20 grand in as many minutes.

I was thinking about ways to avoid this. Couldn't we just create a second character, drive them way up north so there's little chance of them ever spawning near other characters, and withdraw all the funds from the shared bank account until you need to use it with your primary character? That way you could run around as your primary character with an empty bank account until you need it. Your second character would be like a human off-shore bank account.

MailboxFullOfBombs fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Oct 13, 2013

tap my mountain
Jan 1, 2009

I'm the quick and the deadly

Saw a goon in a tricked out Z Type, so I had to quickly grab mine. We even had the same horn.


Then a few hours later I got classified as a bad sport for the fourth time, except this time restarting the xbox didn't save me.


I discovered that pubbies in the bad sports server are even more likely to get pissy when you destroy their car, and apparently you don't get dinged with bad sports for doing it in bad sport hell.

Lunethex posted:

What is the general consensus on the Vacca? Good, bad, get something better?

I love mine, its a top end supercar that only costs you 3 grand when you wreck it.

We need a bad sport only goon crew, was thinking the name Bad Goons would work.

tap my mountain fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Oct 13, 2013

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


Lunethex posted:

What is the general consensus on the Vacca? Good, bad, get something better?

Pretty good and fast and looks expensive without being too expensive.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Lunethex posted:

What is the general consensus on the Vacca? Good, bad, get something better?

In my limited experience, it’s the worst of the supercars in races. It looks pretty cool, though, and it’s just fine for speeding around in free roam.

HarmB
Jun 19, 2006



Lunethex posted:

What is the general consensus on the Vacca? Good, bad, get something better?

Handles like hot rear end in a top hat.

Reo
Apr 11, 2003

That'll do, Carlos.
That'll do.


Is there any trick to finding a car you want/need? The online mode suffers 1000% more from the "only 3 types of cars spawn at a time" thing than single player.

XenophobicAirport
Dec 15, 2007

Please have your weapons prepared at the terminal.

Lunethex posted:

What is the general consensus on the Vacca? Good, bad, get something better?

I think you could do much better. If you managed to get your hands on an Adder, the car with the fastest top speed in the game, then mod it to fill up its acceleration speed bar, you'd have a force to be reckoned with. A lot of the world record times are being set with the Adder.

PaganGoatPants
Jan 18, 2012

TODAY WAS THE SPECIAL SALE DAY!
Grimey Drawer

Reo posted:

Is there any trick to finding a car you want/need? The online mode suffers 1000% more from the "only 3 types of cars spawn at a time" thing than single player.

Wish I knew. I think going into a mission resets the crappy spawning.

Lunethex
Feb 4, 2013

Me llamo Sarah Brandolino, the eighth Castilian of this magnificent marriage.
Anyone up for some Race boosting with eskimo bob's method? I also want to boost some air races with people so I can max out my flying stat if you're up for it.

Knuc U Kinte
Aug 17, 2004

Harmburger posted:

Handles like hot rear end in a top hat.

As a perennial virgin, I'm trying to figure out of this is good or bad. :crossarms:

Reb
Sep 13, 2002

"...But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams."

MailboxFullOfBombs posted:

I was thinking about ways to avoid this. Couldn't we just create a second character, drive them way up north so there's little chance of them ever spawning near other characters, and withdraw all the funds from the shared bank account until you need to use it with your primary character? That way you could run around as your primary character with an empty bank account until you need it. Your second character would be like a human off-shore bank account.

poo poo, would that work? You wouldn't even need to go that far away. Just make sure you start in an invite only session.

Also what the gently caress is up with 300 crew limits?

TheRationalRedditor
Jul 17, 2000

WHO ABUSED HIM. WHO ABUSED THE BOY.
How does the magical Sandy Shores convenience store work with survival? I figured out how to get into the roof easily enough, but every time I go there after kicking off the survival in town it gives me the out of bounds warning countdown and fails. Did they patch it already?

Dinotron
Sep 2, 2008

Lunethex posted:

Anyone up for some Race boosting with eskimo bob's method? I also want to boost some air races with people so I can max out my flying stat if you're up for it.

Could you elaborate on Eskimo Bob's method? I don't believe I've heard of that, but definitely need to do some race boosting.

cl_gibcount 9999
Aug 15, 2002

Lunethex posted:

We eventually got to the planes (and I got railgunned by a tank all the way outside the base or something because my plane went down in a single shot and there was no missile) and I strafed a lot of people including some racist, trashtalking kids. I even blew up someone with a bounty the second he entered the session and was delighted with a blunt "What the gently caress?" :haw:

It can also be the AI jets they love to spawn on your tail, if they are close enough and can turn their nose on you, you will die instantly to their cannons without seeing anything other than you just blowing up. They have excellent aim, you must never cross their flight path in cannon range.

Mice Everywhere
Sep 7, 2007

I love animal porn! So F* you if you don't accept that!
Is there a way to rearrange cars in the garage? My giant truck is right in front of the bike rack and it's in the way. :mad:

Hockles
Dec 25, 2007

Resident of Camp Blood
Crystal Lake

Are there different maps? There are couple areas that I have noticed that aren't there when I go to look for them. Also, the entrance to my garage is different. And car spawns are completely different.

Reb
Sep 13, 2002

"...But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams."
Go into rally race. Didn't know about arrows from D-pad, though I have a mic. Idiot driver apparently doesn't have a head set or sound going speakers. Easy airport race, everyone by now knows where the points are. Misses one on the points around the C section of the race. Told him 3 times to turn around, doesn't listen because of reasons stated. Idiot just stops and stands there and quits a minute later. Why join the such a race if you don't have a head set or mic sounds to speakers....

A c E
Jun 18, 2007

Is this weird? Is this too weird? Do you need to sit down?

MailboxFullOfBombs posted:

I was thinking about ways to avoid this. Couldn't we just create a second character, drive them way up north so there's little chance of them ever spawning near other characters, and withdraw all the funds from the shared bank account until you need to use it with your primary character? That way you could run around as your primary character with an empty bank account until you need it. Your second character would be like a human off-shore bank account.

You are brilliant and I'm totally trying this!

HarmB
Jun 19, 2006



So, I was doing a few missions with some goons and dropped out into a session with some pubbies. One of these wouldn't shut the gently caress up, and we kept making fun of him. Especially because had a bounty set my an NPC and was certain it was one of "us bitches" and he was going to "roll" on us when he found out who it was. He said he wanted to "come see me" and that his "boy" was coming with. I called Pegasus, picked up my Rhino, and had all the Goons in session watch me on TV. I blew the gently caress out of him and his boy. Unfortunately for me, both were in personal cars, and that on top of earlier antics, put me into bad sport hell.

PaganGoatPants
Jan 18, 2012

TODAY WAS THE SPECIAL SALE DAY!
Grimey Drawer
So people are reporting hackers on PS3 now? :smith:

Elendil004
Mar 22, 2003

The prognosis
is not good.


Maybe I'm just dumb as poo poo, but how do I get into a freeroam with crew guys or even a mission? I got an invite from one guy and we did a few races then dropped to freeroam then he disappeared. I just wanna GTA with Goons and do missions and poo poo...

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Eriic
Aug 9, 2009

Twisp, is this a truth? Do you do evil?
Sorry kri-kri79 for shooting you in the face over a $6000 car, but Shakespeare got to get paid, son. :darksouls:

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