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Business battles can either be completely fine or absolutely terrible, depending on the other players. If it's the foundry, airport, or scrap and salvage ones and everyone else either ignores you or agrees to just split the goods, no drama, it's completely fine. When someone decides to fight over the cargo it sucks, when someone decides to grief it it's just misery.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Yeah, plus you can overcome the Tony's curse by delivering in a lobby with at least 11 people, counting yourself. I think fewer now, didn't they boost the % bonus? Just did a full 360/360 crates Nightclub sale ($1.9mil), in a fully packed 30 person lobby, for the limited-time 2x Sale Bonus:  A+. Would highly recommend.
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I think nightclub sales got a huge boost anyway, I just sold (not with the one-time 2x bonus, mind you) a fairly empty nightclub and the payout was about what I used to get out of about 8-10 hours idling. I think the base value for goods went up.
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Hi Pals! I've been looking for a new game and I originally played GTA V singleplayer way back in like 2018 but never got into the multi because I heard it was buggy trash. Is it worth getting into this late in the game, and if so is it still a hellscape if you only go in solo with no friends?
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Spaced God posted:Hi Pals! I've been looking for a new game and I originally played GTA V singleplayer way back in like 2018 but never got into the multi because I heard it was buggy trash. Is it worth getting into this late in the game, and if so is it still a hellscape if you only go in solo with no friends? Well they've toned down the ability for wankers to mess your poo poo up for no reason lately and there's probably about 100-150 hours of content in the online if you want to private server it. Pubbies are still an absolute cancer and the average player age seems to be like 10yo. The economy kinda got fucky so its nearly impossible to grind missions up to a fun level without knowing what youre getting into. But they kind of throw money at you at the start now to ease that off. I followed this guys tutorials on how to get yourself sort of stable when I started solo and it was a chore for like 10 hours of grind but I can make a mill or so in a play session. Heists are very fun, especially Cayo Perico and if you know what youre doing you can do that whole thing solo. The big update changes have been very much letting people play it without pubbie servers and hobbling the laziest styles of griefing and trying to get people out of a grinding gameplay loop. So I'd say yeah.
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Spaced God posted:Hi Pals! I've been looking for a new game and I originally played GTA V singleplayer way back in like 2018 but never got into the multi because I heard it was buggy trash. Is it worth getting into this late in the game, and if so is it still a hellscape if you only go in solo with no friends? I started about two years ago and it was fine, even coming in late. If you have the criminal enterprise starter pack that will help a lot, you'll start with $1million and be able to get a bunch of free properties, guns, and cars. You can open your phone's internet and check the realty sites and the car sites to see what's free. If you have prime you can link your account after doing the tutorial and get $125,000/week if you log in. First things first, do the tutorial even if you know what you're doing, otherwise you won't be able to link your prime for free cash. Second thing, go to the casino and buy the membership for $5,000. They'll give that back to you in chips, you can collect $1,000/day in chips for showing up, and most importantly you can spin the wheel for free poo poo that can be extremely helpful early on.
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I can't buy the machineguns for my Dewbauchee Champion in my MOC but everything seems to indicate I should be able to, do I also need to have specifically an agency vehicle workshop to unlock the ability to use them? Or am I mistaken and I need the workshop for this?
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explosivo posted:I can't buy the machineguns for my Dewbauchee Champion in my MOC but everything seems to indicate I should be able to, do I also need to have specifically an agency vehicle workshop to unlock the ability to use them? Or am I mistaken and I need the workshop for this? Yeah you'll need an Agency to grab Imani tech for those vehicles
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Otacon posted:Just did a full 360/360 crates Nightclub sale ($1.9mil), in a fully packed 30 person lobby, for the limited-time 2x Sale Bonus: i'm trying to ask wolfram alpha how many tacos you could buy with $5,509,020 and it keeps refusing me but I'm sure the number is very, very high
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Otacon posted:Yeah you'll need an Agency to grab Imani tech for those vehicles Awe dangit.
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Psion posted:i'm trying to ask wolfram alpha how many tacos you could buy with $5,509,020 and it keeps refusing me but I'm sure the number is very, very high Due to inflation it's actually only about 30. The imani tech thing is frustrating because they added the function of all the other garages to the arena garage, but then they keep adding more stuff that's excluded
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Aug 14, 2022 19:57
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Yeah in an alternate reality I could see it being a "realistic" thing where you have to shop around between different vendors for specific upgrades, but for this game you have to buy those vendors in the first place 
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I mean, yeah, it's an incentive to buy an agency, like a terrorbyte is hypothetically an incentive to buy a nightclub, and a mk2 is an incentive to buy a terrorbyte. Honestly the agency requires a bit of work to get together but really pays for itself eventually and becomes a great source of both passive and active income. Front-mounted machine guns on one car are pretty much the lowest-tier incentive for owning one, both because they suck and you can put the same thing on a dozen other vehicles elsewhere.
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The Agency is also the closest thing to a single player dlc we might ever get.
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The only vehicle I actually use the machine guns on is the death bike cause they blow cars up fast
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Front mounted machine guns are useful if you can also put on the imani RC tech. Creep on someone and just blast em
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Yeah that's true, but overall they're not super useful. Every single other imani tech option is more useful. Also I was doing a dang elimination security contract with my armored kuruma earlier and a bunch of the bullets were getting through. Did the kuruma get a stealth nerf or are they equipping some of the gang members with FMJ rounds? Baron von Eevl fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Aug 15, 2022 |
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NPC aim is absurd, they can and often will snipe you through the tiny window slits. But, the good news is that it's easily exploitable. Whenever you can, put the back of the car facing the bulk of the NPC spawns, they almost never attempt to flank when they have a clear shot at player's vehicle.
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THF13 posted:I don't bother resetting the follow the helicopter mission. You're not guaranteed to get the skyscraper next. You can look on the map to see what direction the helicopter is going, fly straight down its path until your lock on missiles target the merryweather guys and start clearing them out while you wait for the helicopter to actually arrive and land.
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If you're playing in private lobbies and are doing the cayo setup solo just join a new session crew or friends only if the mission starts and it tells you to go to Merryweather HQ. If you have the Kosatka as your spawn point you'll just respawn in bed and can start the mission again right away.
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pointlessone posted:NPC aim is absurd, they can and often will snipe you through the tiny window slits. But, the good news is that it's easily exploitable. Whenever you can, put the back of the car facing the bulk of the NPC spawns, they almost never attempt to flank when they have a clear shot at player's vehicle. This is highly dependent on the vehicle and how your player sits in it. Even going all the way back there are non bullet proof cars that NPC's simply won't hit you in from certain angles because they always target the same place on your body. If that place is behind the hood or door then you rarely get hit even if the window is open. The opposite of that is that some cars, particularly trucks and SUV's usually have you sit higher where the NPC aim spot is free and clear and you can get blasted easily because nothing is between you and the bullets. On many "armored cars" with cosmetic armored plates the plates don't stop anything anyway, so drive them only for fashion reasons. Long story short if you are getting shot through window slits it's not the AI aiming, it's the car. The AI always aims at the same spot. Just drive a different vehicle until you find one that works better. Some just suck the way they are arranged. As an example from way back, when being shot from the front the Carbonizarre (I think) has you sit so low you can take a lot of fire and it will almost all hit the top of the hood and you can return fire and kill those shooting at you. This is because you sit very low in that car and the spot at which the AI aims is below the car's body panels. AI aiming isn't magic, and you can learn how to get around it if you try. AI does not, at all, aim around armor or cover. They are either shooting you or not, there is no more nuance to it. Some cars are just bad for this.
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BitBasher posted:This is highly dependent on the vehicle and how your player sits in it. Even going all the way back there are non bullet proof cars that NPC's simply won't hit you in from certain angles because they always target the same place on your body. If that place is behind the hood or door then you rarely get hit even if the window is open. The opposite of that is that some cars, particularly trucks and SUV's usually have you sit higher where the NPC aim spot is free and clear and you can get blasted easily because nothing is between you and the bullets. On many "armored cars" with cosmetic armored plates the plates don't stop anything anyway, so drive them only for fashion reasons. All correct. Low exotic cars, even early ones like the Adder and Zentorno, work best for being pursued by shooting enemies because they have small or no back windows. The Kuruma and some of the Arena cars are better if you expect to fight from the vehicle, especially over the frontal arc. Weaponized cars even the playing field, but you have to be quick to aim the .50/minigun and even quicker to angle the vehicle for max protection. Some of this is just how the game has to spawn enemies in from the front of you. Annoyingly, that means faster vehicles may not be better if you expect to be chased. Staying off the freeway helps somewhat. Matrix rules. The delivery Speedo armored up is nearly ideal. Shame it weighs nothing. I have trouble squishing bikers in a head-on collision sometimes. Honestly, I usually use whatever armored sedan looks cool. The Schafter V12 SWB is a great choice. Cheap to buy, faster than the Kuruma without that one's handling quirks, and seats four. Note: the Stirling GT has been glitched as of this latest update. Totally bulletproof windows. Go ham.
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BitBasher posted:*Aim bot chat* Lol. I just peeped the username. Have you replicated your project car in-game? The Impaler is kinda close.
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madeintaipei posted:Lol. I just peeped the username. Pffft absolutely! As close as I can get it at least! Impaler/Buccaneer are both in the ballpark. At work now so no screenshots. Impaler doesn't have the sunken in rear window so it looks off a bit. It's probably the closest though. I actually have the cash for the chassis now and I'll be taking a trip to outside Chicago to talk to the factory and order it when I'm back from my vacation at the beginning of next month. Been saving for that for a couple years now.
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hi an update after 24 hours in GTA Online: Is there a way to stop the same seven popups and texts (about buying docks, or going to the LS Car meet, or working for the feds, and also there's a deal in the store, and also and also and also) from appearing every time I log in? I'm gonna guess not because some of them advertise ~limited time offers~ Also boy howdy I've tried so many times to pubby my first heist and it's just constant disconnects 
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Yeah, buy the things. That's it.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Yeah, buy the things. That's it. the fact that they prevent you from interacting with parts of the gameworld by not making prompts show up until the ads disappear is ... creative
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I think it's unintentional and due to layering crap on top of crap for 9 years. I'm at the point now where the casino lady and Lester call me after I join and eventually I get a text about a yacht or a MOC but that's kinda it.
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Spaced God posted:hi an update after 24 hours in GTA Online: Is there a way to stop the same seven popups and texts (about buying docks, or going to the LS Car meet, or working for the feds, and also there's a deal in the store, and also and also and also) from appearing every time I log in? I'm gonna guess not because some of them advertise ~limited time offers~ I just started a new character when E&E came out. after about 300 hours i have most of them stopped. My mechanic still calls to remind me i can get cars delivered.
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Powershift posted:I just started a new character when E&E came out. after about 300 hours i have most of them stopped. My mechanic still calls to remind me i can get cars delivered. I don't think I've ever had the mechanic call me but once or something 
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It's that an e&e only thing? Or maybe if you call him once he stops?
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Baron von Eevl posted:It's that an e&e only thing? Or maybe if you call him once he stops? I've used him dozens of times, he still calls. I don't know if it's a regular edition thing but DJT no longer calls, his notifications that your whatever business is out of stock comes up as a notification above the minimap. There's nothing like being in the middle of a gun fight and not being able to hang up on the fucker.
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Occasionally one of my MC businesses will decide it should alert me it's still empty, but I think LJT texts me about that.
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Neat, if you have a mariachi Tornado, lifeguard SUV, Speedo van, or probably a couple other vehicles like them, those can now be fully upgraded in the vehicle workshop in the Avenger or MOC.
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Is a cargobob worth investing in? It seems like it'd be great for the missions like the excess weapons parts delivery if I could carry the truck across the map but wasn't sure if it wasn't great for use in online for some reason. I imagine it's a pretty easy target in public lobbies but that's not an issue for me since I'm only playing in private lobbies.
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explosivo posted:Is a cargobob worth investing in? It seems like it'd be great for the missions like the excess weapons parts delivery if I could carry the truck across the map but wasn't sure if it wasn't great for use in online for some reason. I imagine it's a pretty easy target in public lobbies but that's not an issue for me since I'm only playing in private lobbies. It can make life easier but I usually forget to use it. The Jetsam varaint is slightly more expensive but it can be painted in the hanger.
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explosivo posted:Is a cargobob worth investing in? It seems like it'd be great for the missions like the excess weapons parts delivery if I could carry the truck across the map but wasn't sure if it wasn't great for use in online for some reason. I imagine it's a pretty easy target in public lobbies but that's not an issue for me since I'm only playing in private lobbies. It can’t hook any delivery vehicles that are worthwhile; best you can do is hook the cars for import/export delivery.
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I've only done 2 of the spare parts deliveries so I don't know how many variants there are, but neither was anything approaching difficult and my bunker's the paleto one. One of them ostensibly a gang was chasing me, I saw the circles on my radar but even with that slow-rear end truck they never got anywhere near me. The other I just had to drive to a store in the city.
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Baron von Eevl posted:One of them ostensibly a gang was chasing me, I saw the circles on my radar but even with that slow-rear end truck they never got anywhere near me. It's actually semi-annoying! Merryweather Mesa's: If they catch up to you, they ram you right in the butt, a la Hunting Pack, and can send you spinning if you don't correct for the change in momentum. You can't shoot behind you (because of the giant crate in the bed blocking your line of sight) but they can't really shoot you either, unless you crash or spin out. Don't let them catch up to you, though, and you won't even know they're chasing.
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Preechr posted:It can’t hook any delivery vehicles that are worthwhile; best you can do is hook the cars for import/export delivery. Does import/Export still spawn aimbot NPCs if there's no one else in the lobby when you're stealing a car? Or did the new private lobby settings change that too? I doubt it but figured I'd ask
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