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Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS
my friend told me they're adding a Benny's Emperor, so anything is possible

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Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

GOD IS BED posted:

So my friend told me that a Cops & Crooks mode is coming to GTAO finally? He's not smoking crack is he?

Rumors based on game file digging. May or may not ever come out because it's been a thing for many years.

Don't get me wrong, I'd enjoy this kind of content. Probably the last big hurrah before GTA VI: San Fierro Bay Area I know nothing.

Zesty fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Dec 3, 2019

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

It would be an appropriate content drop to end on, due to subject matter and also the rumors of its existence hanging around for years now. I think I read somewhere that they mentioned Diamond Club would be the last big content drop, which may be true seeing as it was the only major update released this year and they've said they're fully committed to RDR2 online.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
I think that's the important thing to remember. GTA Online is pretty loving borked and they probably aren't getting their Shark Card purchases out of it. But RDR2 isn't like that (from what I hear) and they'd like it for people to move onto that to buy gold bars or whatever the gently caress.

Wolfsheim
Dec 23, 2003

"Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Zesty posted:

I think that's the important thing to remember. GTA Online is pretty loving borked and they probably aren't getting their Shark Card purchases out of it. But RDR2 isn't like that (from what I hear) and they'd like it for people to move onto that to buy gold bars or whatever the gently caress.

Is GTAO borked? Am I weird for only getting into it after the casino update?

RDO just seems like a worse version of the single player. Admittedly so did GTAO back when it was brand new, but now there's such a huge amount of stuff to do and different modes that it's a fundamentally different experience. And given the constraints of the setting and the much less tongue-in-cheek world I can't imagine it ever getting to 'stealing flying cars to hack a rogue AI to pay for upgrades to your government bunker so you can more efficiently sell guns to unlock missiles for your rocket bike' levels.

coupedeville
Jan 1, 2012

MY ANACONDA DOM'T WANT NONE UNLESS U GOT CUM SON!

Psion posted:

my friend told me they're adding a Benny's Emperor, so anything is possible

If only this leak were true :saddowns:

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

Wolfsheim posted:

Is GTAO borked? Am I weird for only getting into it after the casino update?

Besides third-party cheat programs being extremely widespread,

Zesty posted:

Personally, I just run The Bogdan Problem and glitch the ending so it's repeatable, but still pays out. It's worth about 1.2mil per 15 minute run and requires 2 people.

Hard to sell Shark Cards with these problems they won't/can't fix.

Crypto Cobain
Jun 17, 2018

by Reene

Wolfsheim posted:

Is GTAO borked? Am I weird for only getting into it after the casino update?
Content wise there has never been a better time to get into GTAO. Unfortunately, the proliferation of cheat engines, the insane loading times, and other problems mentioned above, make it a difficult game to love. It can still be fun played privately if you have enough friends.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
If you play on PC, we can scrounge together a bunch of goons to do fun things.

Discord link is in OP

FallinInTheBlak
Jan 20, 2013

Sarcastic. Sadistic. British.
:britain:
:wotwot:

Wolfsheim posted:

Is GTAO borked? Am I weird for only getting into it after the casino update?

Personally, I lost interest around the time flying vehicles were being added, that combined with all the businesses which were added which essentially cost more money to buy and upgrade than you ever made and the removal/nerf of cheese missions to grind if you did want cash.

I became a CEO and upgraded that almost all the way but then the MC content dropped which was essentially the same thing but with weed instead of crates, that pretty much started my decline in enjoyment.

ElwoodCuse
Jan 11, 2004

we're puttin' the band back together
I doubt we'd ever see it for legal reasons but there could be an incredible post mortem on GTA online. They clearly had no idea what they were doing and made poo poo up as they were going on but it still was a runaway success that made them a poo poo ton of money.

How hilarious is it that you still get that "you are carrying more than $5000" warning even though the game has never ever worked like that.

Sleekly
Aug 21, 2008



ElwoodCuse posted:

I doubt we'd ever see it for legal reasons but there could be an incredible post mortem on GTA online. They clearly had no idea what they were doing and made poo poo up as they were going on but it still was a runaway success that made them a poo poo ton of money.

How hilarious is it that you still get that "you are carrying more than $5000" warning even though the game has never ever worked like that.

it really shouldn't work but its great fun! im gonna miss it when its gone. trolls cheats grind and all.

ive been into RDO a lot lately and why they haven't introduced some inventor NPC to sell me a wireless i can hang on my horse is beyond me

Pen Expers
May 3, 2006

Pillbug

coupedeville posted:

crossposting from the LLJK thread:

Hey thats me! That's alright though, I'm pretty done with gta:o.

FallinInTheBlak
Jan 20, 2013

Sarcastic. Sadistic. British.
:britain:
:wotwot:

ElwoodCuse posted:

They clearly had no idea what they were doing...

ElwoodCuse posted:

...made them a poo poo ton of money.

I think it's pretty much this. I have no doubt that a lot of the devs/designers want to add fun and enjoyable content but were most likely told to focus on ways to get players to buy shark cards.

I'm honestly quite disappointed with the way online has gone, I hope it's somewhat different next iteration.

Preechr
May 19, 2009

Proud member of the Pony-Brony Alliance for Obama as President

Sleekly posted:

it really shouldn't work but its great fun! im gonna miss it when its gone. trolls cheats grind and all.

ive been into RDO a lot lately and why they haven't introduced some inventor NPC to sell me a wireless i can hang on my horse is beyond me

Because I’m absolutely certain that there are people out there who would pay real money just so they don’t have The Teabag Kid calling them up every 2 minutes to remind them that their laudanum warehouse is full and it needs to be sold before the marshals ride into town.

Inzombiac
Mar 19, 2007

PARTY ALL NIGHT

EAT BRAINS ALL DAY


Rockstar has so much goddamn money all they need to do is buy up APB (which would be extremely cheap), ya k out the customization engine and GTAO would love forever.

Edit: For those that never played APB, the customization was insane. You could make designs using a huge library of vector shapes that you could color and squash/stretch to your heart's content. Because the game would just be loading the shapes, not custom artwork, you could make elaborate pieces and the game would just see them as basic shapes.

You could then apply the designs to your car, clothes, guns and graffiti tag.

People much more talented than I were recreating stuff like Starry Night.

Inzombiac fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Dec 3, 2019

Solanumai
Mar 26, 2006

It's shrine maiden, not shrine maid!
I don't think the problem with free form customization is technical, but rather in moderation.

As soon as you give players any sort of creative control the first thing they do is draw a dick. The second thing they do is start with the edgy hate nonsense like swastikas.


But I do remember playing Forza 3 many years ago and seeing extremely elaborate anime drawings on cars that were just hundreds of shapes painstakingly layered and stretched. It was cool.

Slush Garbo
Nov 20, 2007

FALSE SLACK
is
BETTER
than
NO SLACK

Preechr posted:

Because I’m absolutely certain that there are people out there who would pay real money just so they don’t have The Teabag Kid calling them up every 2 minutes to remind them that their laudanum warehouse is full and it needs to be sold before the marshals ride into town.

nah, we'll get a notification that there is a telegraph waiting at the post office and we can't do anything else til we go read it

Babe Magnet
Jun 2, 2008

LJT phone calls except it's a guy with a messenger bag constantly running up to you out of breath and he's not on a horse so you can just ride away and he'll keep chasing you

Otacon
Aug 13, 2002


Babe Magnet posted:

LJT phone calls except it's a guy with a messenger bag constantly running up to you out of breath and he's not on a horse so you can just ride away and he'll keep chasing you

Slush Garbo
Nov 20, 2007

FALSE SLACK
is
BETTER
than
NO SLACK

Babe Magnet posted:

LJT phone calls except it's a guy with a messenger bag constantly running up to you out of breath and he's not on a horse so you can just ride away and he'll keep chasing you

hahaha

mp5
Jan 1, 2005

Stroke of luck!

Babe Magnet posted:

LJT phone calls except it's a guy with a messenger bag constantly running up to you out of breath and he's not on a horse so you can just ride away and he'll keep chasing you

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

Keep calm and Harry on.

ElwoodCuse posted:

I doubt we'd ever see it for legal reasons but there could be an incredible post mortem on GTA online. They clearly had no idea what they were doing and made poo poo up as they were going on but it still was a runaway success that made them a poo poo ton of money.

How hilarious is it that you still get that "you are carrying more than $5000" warning even though the game has never ever worked like that.

My theory is that they had these visions like, yeah, we'll have these flying bikes with missiles and there'll be these epic battles with crews protecting their cargo and it'll be so cool! When 99% of the time it's just some griefer going after someone trying to run cocaine solo.

Sleekly
Aug 21, 2008



Has the snow fallen yet? Does that still happen in Dec?

Cage
Jul 17, 2003
www.revivethedrive.org

Sleekly posted:

Has the snow fallen yet? Does that still happen in Dec?
Thought it was just for a couple days around christmas and new years.

mp5
Jan 1, 2005

Stroke of luck!

Sleekly posted:

Has the snow fallen yet? Does that still happen in Dec?

My understanding is it happens only around Christmas for a couple of days. Another reason to make friends with friendly modders, they'll change the weather any old time

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

mp5 posted:

My understanding is it happens only around Christmas for a couple of days. Another reason to make friends with friendly modders, they'll change the weather any old time

Happened into a snow-covered shard a couple weeks ago and people were panicking like drivers in Southern states. Hilarious

Inzombiac
Mar 19, 2007

PARTY ALL NIGHT

EAT BRAINS ALL DAY


I had snow for a couple hours about two days ago.

Really wish it was for the whole month. It was a really nice change of scenery.

Flaggy
Jul 6, 2007

Grandpa Cthulu needs his napping chair



Grimey Drawer
Picked up this game on sale, been playing for about a week now, running drugs from my hangar, right as I am about to deliver my biggest payday ever someone on a floating motorcycle kills me. 10/10 will play again.

On a more fun note, running more drugs, some guy in a chopper chasing me, shot him down 3 times before he left me alone.

Bryter
Nov 6, 2011

but since we are small we may-
uh, we may be the losers

Flaggy posted:

Picked up this game on sale, been playing for about a week now, running drugs from my hangar, right as I am about to deliver my biggest payday ever someone on a floating motorcycle kills me. 10/10 will play again.

On a more fun note, running more drugs, some guy in a chopper chasing me, shot him down 3 times before he left me alone.

If you disconnect your ethernet for a second you'll lose connection to all the other players but still technically be in a public lobby alone, making those sell missions a lot less risky.

90s Solo Cup
Feb 22, 2011

To understand the cup
He must become the cup



haven't played in a while and......

coupedeville posted:

Oh yeah, so this happened.



...goddam....i mean "congrats".

Also, how much of an uphill battle am I facing coming back to this game?

coupedeville
Jan 1, 2012

MY ANACONDA DOM'T WANT NONE UNLESS U GOT CUM SON!

Balliver Shagnasty posted:

haven't played in a while and......


...goddam....i mean "congrats".

Also, how much of an uphill battle am I facing coming back to this game?

Thanks lol but it gets even worse than that - my alt is at 245 :reject:

There's not much of an uphill battle coming back to GTA - the casino stuff is probably the only real big thing you've missed. Arena wars is a ghost town that is also a huge money sink and of course there's still always crates, whether you touch them yourself or you have your nightclub touch them for you. Not much has changed other than some new vehicles and new casino stuff to experience once then it's right back to the usual things.

Fart.Bleed.Repeat.
Sep 29, 2001

Clear your calendar, this is starting to pop up today


Yes, typical GTAO updates are on thursday, but big ones have been on tuesday. Also rumored that RDRO is getting something big on Fri the 13th, no idea if :rockstar: would double up like that? My uncle doesn't work at nintendo so I dunno nothin

Flaggy
Jul 6, 2007

Grandpa Cthulu needs his napping chair



Grimey Drawer

Bryter posted:

If you disconnect your ethernet for a second you'll lose connection to all the other players but still technically be in a public lobby alone, making those sell missions a lot less risky.

I did not know that, how fortuitous. Its kind of fun being chased while running drugs and guns, but yeah I need money so.....

Otacon
Aug 13, 2002


Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:

Clear your calendar, this is starting to pop up today


Yes, typical GTAO updates are on thursday, but big ones have been on tuesday. Also rumored that RDRO is getting something big on Fri the 13th, no idea if :rockstar: would double up like that? My uncle doesn't work at nintendo so I dunno nothin

...something is... happening...

https://twitter.com/RockstarGames/status/1202279088020475904

Fart.Bleed.Repeat.
Sep 29, 2001

sweet new lester hacking wallpaper :) I had a cap of the fleeca minigame screen as my work desktop forever

Otacon
Aug 13, 2002


Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:

sweet new lester hacking wallpaper :) I had a cap of the fleeca minigame screen as my work desktop forever

Bigger version could be snagged here: https://thediamondcasinoandresort.com/

Also, new item on Ms Bakers desk - casino vault blueprint?

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


hell yeah I want to rob that rear end in a top hat Texan

well actually I just want to riddle him with machine gun fire, but I will settle for robbing him

mutata
Mar 1, 2003

Oh wow, the Casino heist that everyone thought would be in the game years and years ago..

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coupedeville
Jan 1, 2012

MY ANACONDA DOM'T WANT NONE UNLESS U GOT CUM SON!

Neat if true.

Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:

Clear your calendar, this is starting to pop up today


Yes, typical GTAO updates are on thursday, but big ones have been on tuesday. Also rumored that RDRO is getting something big on Fri the 13th, no idea if :rockstar: would double up like that? My uncle doesn't work at nintendo so I dunno nothin

I'm skeptical about that in-game "screenshot" about the cheng family holdings. The lore that you get in the casino story missions plays out that the Chengs decide to liquidate all their assets in the casino because the business had become too much of a burden and it's sold to the Texans. So if it's a casino heist then why would the Cheng family still be involved at this point?

I mean I know that Rockstar had given up on hard continuity after the Doomsday Heist and Paige Terrorbyte missions (and some other Online story details that escape me at the moment) but this seems a little too sloppy for Rockstar - even if it is their B or C or D teams or whatever the skeleton crew they have on GTA:O is now.

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