UserErr0r posted:

Performance modifications add up in price.

edit: or is that a shark card idiot bait trap as well?

Nintendo Kid posted:

I didn't spend near that much to have it tuned up for racing.

Shima Honnou posted:

My crew and I spent some time during the weeklong bonus for Pacific sussing out the best tactics. It's possible to beat it in like 1 hour and 15-30 minutes or so, with speed. Enough that we've ran it multiple times in a night just because.

First part's easy, just have the navigators drive themselves while the drivers dick around. The trucks seem to always start in the same place so once you've got a feel for their route you can find them quick. If you feel cheeky, have one of the drivers sit around on the road with the mall that has a road that goes under it, near the Los Santos Customs place, since the truck you have to steal spawns down that road.

Saving Kramer from the FBI is a wildcard. We bring an armored Kuruma on land all the way out to the bridge beyond Zancudo. There's four sea-doos there you can use and it's close enough that you can literally snipe the helicopter before you even get there (But a shitload of cops spawn on the beach and rush you quick). After that two of us use the sea-doos that spawn to get to the cabin where you stash vehicles in Humane and then climb a hill and hunt helicopters, and two others take Kramer on the police boat to the the Kuruma then drive on the road along the river that the sea-doos take. Usually the Kuruma can just climb the same hill the rocketeers do and wait out the cops right there while rockets keep the 'copters off them and cops are unable to easily climb it, then safely drive Kramer over where he needs to go with like 2 minutes on the clock to spare. This mission is the one that eats up the most time.

Van is insanely easy. We send two dudes in the front and two jack a car to go in the back alley, behind the boxes the rival crew uses as cover. You can't drive past those boxes but the NPCs in there are all setup to use that poo poo as cover so you can shred over half their force with a quick drive-by. After that it's just drive out as normal and we usually waste a couple minutes dicking around blowing up the van in various ways. If you feel like it, you can also park your own vehicles right in front of where you need to go for the fight with the heisters and they won't despawn so you could do it in a Kuruma or Insurgent if you wanted, despite having to drive the van back to the same place.

Convoy is also easy. We just jam up the bridge, then drive a car up the hill and everyone gets behind it as cover (Generally the convoy doesn't even shoot since we're too far away though, but just in case), takes out sniper rifles and has a contest to get the Hind D down before it even gets past the mountains, and then we just snipe everything in the convoy and drive off. One in the truck, three in the Insurgent with gun, everybody drive-bys (Remember, sweep the cabin of a car to basically murder the poo poo out of anything inside). The most dangerous thing here is the truck getting blown up from nuking Merryweather jeeps that get too close, or the helicopter spawns getting close enough to let off a good volley, but they shouldn't because whoever's on the big gun should be going nuts on it and everything around you for the whole second half, especially when you get into town with lots of civvie targets.

Bikes is another super-easy one. The hard part is getting in, which can be solved with a Kuruma or just a lot of murdering. Then just drive out and take the route the game wants you to take, but take the sidewalk instead of the street. You have to drive past some scaffolding, be careful of ramping off a civvie and wiping out, and be careful at street crossings, otherwise you're basically done in like 2 minutes.

For the heist itself, we go in, kill every civvie just for fun and to get NOOSE to spawn. A trick here is only have one person take the money instead of both. One dude can carry the whole amount, and then even if he takes hits it's less risk of losing the money since it just drains from one pool instead of two. Then we blow everything up with two in the front with gatling guns or grenade launchers taking everything possible down before it becomes a threat, money dude behind us a little bit, and one guy with an assault rifle or something behind him killing any spawns to protect the money man. Get to the bikes, and then instead of leaving with them, two dudes without money take them down the street. Turn right from the complex the bikes are at, then left. Down the street there's an unlocked SWAT truck (This isn't there if the alarm isn't rung so you have to get NOOSE called, I think), those two dudes get in the front seats and off you go back to the complex where the moneyman and his protector stayed behind. Back in and let them get in the back. After that, it's just a cruise on down until you get to where the Convoy mission happens. Instead of following Lester's loving dumb plan, turn onto the dirt road and follow the river down until you get to the boat. Drive-by anyone who's too close when you reach the boat and then just drive the truck into the water. After that everyone ditches in the water and gets in the boat, then you're done usually with a few minutes to spare on the clock. The interesting thing here is we've done this plan multiple times without losing a single dollar, although do be aware that cops can sometimes score hits through the back windows of the SWAT truck so the dudes in back are not completely safe. Just make sure they don't open the doors and shoot out, because that's where they're at risk. The two up front are your turrets, the two in back you're keeping safe. I suppose you could also take the highway along the coast instead and just turn off at the same place you would for parking the Kuruma on the beach for saving Kramer, you'd just be approaching the boat from a different angle.

In the end, after we figured that poo poo out it went from one of our least favorite to one of the better heists for us.

geeves posted:

In the time it took you to write this you could have made a video of how awesome your exploits are.

LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:

people with the GOON plates are from the sa group correct?

titties posted:

No.

frenton posted:

I thought custom plates were unique. Are there a bunch of people with these GOON plates and if so how DO you get them?

LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:

people with the GOON plates are from the sa group correct?

AirRaid posted:

No we have better, more original ideas than that.

I still have no idea what to put in my last garage spot.

AirRaid posted:

No we have better, more original ideas than that.

Shima Honnou posted:

Pacific Standard Heist

AirRaid posted:

No it's a reference to the highest number you can roll on a standard die and the fact that the car the plate is on has 6 wheels.

Literally, Rolling Sixes.

Zigmidge posted:

mandatory drug testing (we'd all fail)

AirRaid posted:

T1g4h posted:

I laughed way too hard at this

T1g4h posted:

e: Support got back to me, 2 week ban. Cool, that's 2 weeks to run through Torchlight II then

Capn Beeb posted:

And with that avatar you've got there, the Mad Max game is a little under two weeks away.

UserErr0r posted:

Since that hussy c0upedeville is seeing other people, is anyone interested in doing the "all heists in order with the same people" challenge thing, over the course of the next week? PC version, obviously

UserErr0r posted:

Since that hussy c0upedeville is seeing other people...

T1g4h posted:

Yup! Pre-ordering that when I get paid Monday because I have to have that Ripper body

I don't care if it's terrible as gently caress, everything i'm seeing makes it look like Assassin's Creed Black Flag, but with a post-apoc wasteland and sweet rear end muscle cars. I'm all in regardless.

Danthrax posted:

Hey PC goons, I'd like to play with more of you. I'm in WEZL but haven't done any field reporting yet. I should get on that. Here is my social club page, be my friend please. I can't get a group of pubbies through heist setups, help would be appreciated and I'm usually game for helping with missions/heists/hi-jinks/etc.

FallinInTheBlak posted:

Join the mumble channel.

Thief posted:

Cool and thanks, I prefer missions but assumed heists were more popular because the payouts come in bigger chunks.