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God dammit. I had a lovely spruced-up Futo that I was racing with on Saturday night. Passed out on the sofa, woke up and the loving thing had gone. No tracker on the map, no insurance number on my phone, nothing. Rats rats rats. On the plus side, I did learn that if you end a mission while driving someone else's unique vehicle, you spawn in a copy of that vehicle, down to the upgrades. Got myself a nice Sandking XL that way, complete with cosmetic/power upgrades way beyond my own level  EDIT: Also, the Sandking XL sells for $30k at the garages. If you have it as a personal vehicle, allow someone else to hop in at the end of the mission and then have them hock the one they appeared in and split the cash. Boom! Flint_Paper fucked around with this message at 10:21 on Oct 14, 2013 |
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awesome-express posted:So I got attacked by two dudes in a custom ride. I retaliated, blew their poo poo up, got a bad sport rating and now I'm in bad sport hell. Great. I blow people's cars up all the time and I've never been in bad sport hell.
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Knuc If U Buck posted:I blow people's cars up all the time and I've never been in bad sport hell. Yeah, you really have to work at it in order to bad sport. I was in a tank and it took me at least a dozen cars before I got sent there.
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Party Plane Jones posted:Yeah, you really have to work at it in order to bad sport. I was in a tank and it took me at least a dozen cars before I got sent there. It's a cool way to get revenge on people who attack you because a lot of them seem to want to save money by leaving their cars uninsured. 
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Knuc If U Buck posted:I blow people's cars up all the time and I've never been in bad sport hell. Is it a cumulative count towards the score? Does it reset after a certain period?
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What the gently caress, A couple of times now I've been kicked/disconnected during freeroam definitely not on a mission and each time the game tells me I'll be labelled a bad sport if i keep quitting in the middle of a mission.
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Party Plane Jones posted:The thing that made the older games so much better for killing people in aircraft is that the machine gun mounts tracked the closest vehicle. Meaning you could still kill people, you just had to be zooming along at breakneck speed at low altitude to get them. Rockets on the other hand were dumb fire, except for the Hydra's. With the changes to the flight model and how tracking/locks work its annoyingly hard to kill people with anything; Copilots are definitely needed since you can actually hit something with the TV missile. I'd kill for a pontoon helo, though.
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Why in hell does the garage keep replacing my best car, even if I tell it to replace the damned Sanchez? I really dig my Zion Cabrio but it keeps disappearing instead of that damned bike  I need a bigger garage.
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I'm up early this morning, putting in calls to martin and doing pretty much whateveer comes up, if anybody's interested, I'm cj coyo7e on XBox. It never fails to crack me up when I show up to Martin with pictures of his dead ex-girlfriend, when he comes out in the middle of the night in the dark, shouting at his wife that he's playing golf (at 2am). "Fore!" What's the scoop on "Chumash and Grab"? I don't think I've ever played it, what do you have to do? edit: also regarding Bad Sport points, I shut off my console and avoided it twice yesterday, and then got a $1000 good sport bonus as soon as I came back online.
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Many pages ago someone wanted to know if the Dune Buggy could be found online. I can report that they can be found in the rank 70 mission “Chopper Tail” from Trevor. I did not attempt to take it to my garage or end up in the driver’s seat at the end of the mission. Personally, I’m happy with my BF Injection, but next time I get the mission I’ll see if I can keep a buggy at the end.
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coyo7e posted:What's the scoop on "Chumash and Grab"? I don't think I've ever played it, what do you have to do? I was invited to this once, it was pretty easy. You go to a pier and shoot a bunch of guys. Some more guys appear on boats and you have to shoot them while they drive around in the water. Then you steal a boat and take it to a drop off point, guys in boats are supposed to chase you but they seemed easy to lose. IIRC you only get $3000 for it which made me wonder why it was an advanced ranking mission if it pays lower than No Hay Bronca that Gerald gives you at level 9.
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Whoever said death from above was the worst mission good fuckig god if you gave a a five year old design tools to create a missions this would be it. The only thing missing is the loving tank
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Platystemon posted:Many pages ago someone wanted to know if the Dune Buggy could be found online. I've stolen one in the desert when I was level 10-15 or so, and sadly you can't drive it into a mod shop.
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So are all the missions where It's you completing a task against computer controlled enemies started through calling one of your contacts? I just basically want to do co-op with my mates.
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LanthGhost, sorry I RPGed you when you came to visit me on the building I thought you were a random guy who was coming to claim my bounty when I heard the chopper flying up on me.
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Oct 14, 2013 12:47
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For anyone who has the .50 pistol I have a question. I've landed a few player kills with it but none of them seem to be going towards my pistol whipped award progress. Is anyone else having this issue? Also, my bullpup shotgun color won't stay pink! My .50 will stay gold, but the shotgun is being finicky. What gives? 
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theperminator posted:What the gently caress, A couple of times now I've been kicked/disconnected during freeroam definitely not on a mission and each time the game tells me I'll be labelled a bad sport if i keep quitting in the middle of a mission. Yeah, this keeps happening to me, but so far I haven't had any negative ramifications. Hopefully it won't decide my lovely connection makes me a bad sport. What's everyone's favorite free roam vehicle that you can just steal and take to the mod shop? All the fancy stuff is too expensive to buy and too hot to steal, apparently.
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This is my new main ride, complete with clown horn and crew (orange) tire smoke. Once I hit level 61, it will be replaced by an even more gaudy Ruiner.
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coyo7e posted:I'm up early this morning, putting in calls to martin and doing pretty much whateveer comes up, if anybody's interested, I'm cj coyo7e on XBox.[/spoiler] Messaged you, I'll be on for maybe another hour. Was just bumming around West Hollywood and got into an amazing sniper duel on the top of the Beverly Center. Jesus the native Los Angeleno in me loves this game.
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Spoon Man posted:This is my new main ride, complete with clown horn and crew (orange) tire smoke. Once I hit level 61, it will be replaced by an even more gaudy Ruiner. What the gently caress is that spoiler. It looks like it should have a few rocket launchers slung under it.
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RoboJoe posted:LanthGhost, sorry I RPGed you when you came to visit me on the building Oh don't worry, the bounty marker didn't let me see you were a crewmember anyway. They really need to fix that. And coyo7e, sorry, I don't have a mic atm, and I can barely understand voicechat anyway so I mostly ignore or turn it off.
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If I had studied French, I would understand the voice chat I run into in two out of three lobbies in this game, because what in the fuuuuuuuck..
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Feenix posted:My apologies to the goon crews on 2 accounts: 1) most of my game time is when my 9 month old son is napping next to me. I do have my headset on and an listening. Let's play together! I can only get on when my one year old is napping. Thank goodness he is a good sleeper. I felt so bad - I had to jump off a survival the other night because he woke up and his foot go caught in the slats of his crib and my husband was already asleep for the night. PSN is cashcamden99, felt terrible about it! I was playing with two cool dudes, too. Edit: to those two guys, you may remember me as the dummy who grabbed the rocket launcher and died almost IMMEDIATELY. 
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So I've been racing non-stop for 3 nights now. Finally have a comfortable sum of money (still no property, but at least my car looks good) and I've levelled to 39 on racing exp alone. My win/loss ratio is like 1:4 and it really starts to feel like it's a test of skill around level 20-30 I'd say. As opposed to "bumper cars" in earlier levels. Holding a straight line when people try to PIT you actually becomes a skill, along with avoiding the initial clusterfuck in the first 2 or 3 turns. I don't go out of my way to try and bump people off the road unless they do the same to me first, and I don't feel like I'm suffering for it. It actually seems like the more aggressive racers end up in last place more often than not. A couple tips I think I should share:
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Last night, every time I left my apartment, I automatically had a 2 star wanted level for some reason. Was that a bug people were experiencing, or am I missing something
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Antti posted:What the gently caress is that spoiler. It looks like it should have a few rocket launchers slung under it. It's based on the Plymouth Superbird. Also, it's awesome. stuart scott irl posted:Last night, every time I left my apartment, I automatically had a 2 star wanted level for some reason. Was that a bug people were experiencing, or am I missing something Check your texts. Are you driving a car that Simeon wants?
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The only thing I would add about racing is to not stress about custom cars. With catchup (that most leave on) and slipstreaming, you can pretty much keep up no matter what (with the exception of bringing the Sandking to an off-road race, don't do that.) Of course, bringing in your gaudy custom rides to the race is fun.
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I didn't realize how involved some of the later missions are. I fell asleep spectating some fellow AWCOs doing Dock and Stock II, and when I woke up 15 minutes later, they were finally finishing it up. I got to run it with them later, failing the first time after our distraction heli got shot into the ocean. The second time we ran jets as interference, and it was awesome. Thanks for the invite, Johnnyonoes!
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Wikipedia posted:in the case of the Superbird, a horn which mimicked the Road Runner cartoon character. This needs to happen now. MEEP MEEP falconry posted:[*]If for whatever reason you decided to play a GTA Race, you can shoot missiles behind you by holding the rear-view button and firing Okay, so I wasn't hallucinating or the victim of lag last night when I was second and the leading car missiled me to death as I was trying to slipstream past him. Finished fifth.  Good list by the way.
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Hello. Could anyone confirm if this still works? Its someones post from earlier in the thread, I forget who sorry. Criminal records, 3 laps, only 2 players, first lap slow (~38 sec), 2nd lap faster (beat first by 4 sec. ~33 sec), 3rd lap fastest (beat 2nd lap by 4 sec, ~25 sec). Traffic,wanted,custom all on, catchup off. Split times to personal (this is prob most important). Weather and time both current. Slipstreaming and the order you place in the race have no effect. Angrygreek and I just leveled up 13 levels this morning doing it. It basically doesn't save your personal lap records properly so each race it thinks you broke the record. So you can brake the record each lap for each race.
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Akion posted:It's based on the Plymouth Superbird. I thought it was a different one a few times, but come to think of it it was a Patriot for at least a few of them. But it was my personal vehicle, and it would say in the corner "Simeon doesn't want personal vehicles" every time. So I guess I'll chalk it up to that. Weird mechanism though. I can't drive my personal vehicle if Simeon wants it?
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I let everyone get in front of me any time I race. People usually run one another off the road giving you room to take over the top spot. Do the same on the turns, people love running one another off the road in the very sharp ones. stuart scott irl posted:Last night, every time I left my apartment, I automatically had a 2 star wanted level for some reason. Was that a bug people were experiencing, or am I missing something Was the last car you drove a stolen one? That's happened to me as well - I'm too poor for an apartment, but it happens when I was launched into free roam after a mission or once when I came out of a clothing store. Both times I had previously been in a car I jacked. Agent Burt Macklin fucked around with this message at 13:41 on Oct 14, 2013 |
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Lanth posted:Oh don't worry, the bounty marker didn't let me see you were a crewmember anyway. They really need to fix that. I did laugh when I killed myself too though because the radius on the RPG is always bigger than I expect  Rockstar should really add something to let crews ally with other crews so they show up marked on the radar differently, because not being able to see the marker around people in Stairs when you're in Goon Street (and vice versa) makes things difficult unless you pay attention to the user list in the game you're currently in (and like what happened above sometimes mistakes happen!) RoboJoe fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Oct 14, 2013 |
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Some guy shot me and gave me a two star wanted level along with it, in case anybody is collecting weird wanted level poo poo.
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Aishan posted:The only thing I would add about racing is to not stress about custom cars. With catchup (that most leave on) and slipstreaming, you can pretty much keep up no matter what (with the exception of bringing the Sandking to an off-road race, don't do that.) What if my Sand King is modded out with Engine 2 and Turbo?  Seriously, races are the most fun I've had with this game yet. There was one race where one of the guys went afk at the start and the guy behind him got turbo and slammed into his infernus. That was also the race where we did Super cars in Rockford Hills, which ended up with everyone missing the first turn and sliding up the hill in some desperate attempt to stop. I couldn't stop laughing for the entire race. I'm actually going to get one of each car and mod it out so I can bring my A game to races. Already got a Sport (Elegy), an Offroad (Sand King  ) modded out. I have a Sentinel XS for Coupe races and a Dominator for Muscle in my garage but they still need tuning.
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Aishan posted:The only thing I would add about racing is to not stress about custom cars. With catchup (that most leave on) and slipstreaming, you can pretty much keep up no matter what (with the exception of bringing the Sandking to an off-road race, don't do that.) Kelly posted:I let everyone get in front of me any time I race. People usually run one another off the road giving you room to take over the top spot. I agree with both of these, good points. Also, I'm not in any goon crew, but I'm exploder37 on PSN if I ever get the chance to race any of you guys. I had somone wearing a goon tag named "Noofty" I believe, kick my rear end the other day.
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Squirrel Burger posted:Messaged you, I'll be on for maybe another hour. I found out that you can go into Start Menu -> Players -> Commend to keep people from getting closer to Bad Sport (I went from "Sketchy" which is apparently right on the cusp, to "Clean Player"), was running $30k missions with a level 130 pubby fresh out of the bad sport lobby (twice) who said that if you lose races you get Good Sport points, as well as doing missions and failing them repeatedly. YMMV
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falconry posted:[*]Get a turbo start in the beginning of the race by holding only the reverse/brake button until a quarter-half second after "GO" and slam R2/Right trigger (thanks to whatever goon it was that stated that earlier in the thread) You can just hit R2/RT at the right time to get the boost. You don't need to hold the brake button at all.
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falconry posted:[*]Feel no remorse This. You gotta be brutal to survive GTA Online. After coming in 2nd in a friendly game of golf my competitors and I spawned at the entrance to the club. After noticing one of my competitors had a bounty, I immediately hit him with a sticky bomb and got $3000. Unfortunately I got a Bad Sport notice because I accidentally killed the other competitor and destroyed his car in the process. The owner of the car then challenged me to an impromptu deathmatch where I won 5-to-1 by nailing him with more sticky bombs. I'm sure the money I got from the bounty was completely offset by all the sticky bombs I used, but you can't put a price on being OG.  Can someone explain how car bombs work. Does your car still have the bomb equipped when you get it back from the insurance company? I'm just asking because it sounds like a great way to troll. Get a popular car to pawn off for cash (say a Lampadati Felon GT), paint it an eye catching color, fit it with an ignition bomb, leave it inconspicuously parked in a high traffic area like outside a mod shop, then wait for a sucker to try and take it. Instant gratification.
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