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Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
:frogsiren: Hey new GTO players. Here's what you want to focus on in Online. :siren:



-A Bunker, for doing research to unlock MK2 weapons and components.
-An apartment with a heist room, to host OG heists.
-A Facility, to exploit the Bogdan mission for 1mil every 15min. Also unlocks ability to host Doomsday Heists. There is a LOT of setup required here.
-An Arcade, to host the new Diamond Casino heists.

Money good. Weapons research good. Heists good (with goons).


Other things you might like:

-CEO Offices provide a lot of garage space. But don't waste cash/time on all the other SecuroServ grindy crap.
-Motorcycle Club Clubhouse allows you to instant spawn bikes near you. Again, don't waste time on Drug Manufacturing grindy crap.



Weapons/Vehicles

No doubt you'll find weapons/vehicles that suit your tastes. These are just generic things to get you started.

Vehicles
-Buzzard: Helicopter. For anything in freeroam that requires you go A to B. Has missiles. Can't be used during missions. This is what you use before you get your Oppressor MK2 to do your boring free roam PVE poo poo.
-Armored Kuruma: Excellent for PVE content. You won't die to bullets while in this vehicle.
-A Super: I like the Nero Custom. Everyone has an opinion on which super is the best. The point is they get you from A to B during missions quickly if you don't need your armored Kuruma for it.
-Oppressor MK 2: Requires Nightclub and Terrabyte. 9mil investment altogether. Once you have it, you want Chaff to be your countermeasures. A little practice with chaff/map-awareness and not even other Oppressors will be able to get one over on you.

Guns
-Carbine Rifle: Not special carbine but that's not terrible either. Generic shooty shooty. Aim for the head. Replace with MKII when you can.
-AP Pistol: Go-to weapon when shooting from inside a vehicle or boat.
-Sniper Rifle: Not the Heavy. This is for stealth PVE content. Add a silencer.

MK II Guns (available with Bunker Research)
-Carbine Rifle MK II: Extended Magazine. Generic all-purpose shooty shooty. Aim for the head.
-Heavy Sniper MK II: Use explosive ammo. You'll be able to destroy aircraft and other vehicles pretty easily on foot.
(yes, it costs a lot of time or money to get MK II weapons. Yes, it's worth it)

Explosives
-RPG: You know what this is all about. This and the homing launcher you want for some specific PVE stuff.
-Homing Missile Launcher: This loses a lot of utility once you get the Heavy Sniper MK 2. Good to have until you do though.
-Proximity Mines: Just for fun in PVP. Set traps. Put them around vehicles warehouses for maximum tears.
-Sticky Mines: More fun PVP stuff. Stick five to one tough vehicle while off the radar. Blow them all at once.
-Compact Grenade Launcher: Can be used from motorcycles. One-hit explodes most cars. Super awesome.




Things not to spend money/time on:

-Bunker Gunrunning. Lame Grind
-SecuroServ Vehicle Warehouses (import/export) Lame Grind
-SecuroServ Crate Warehouses Lame Grind
-MC Drug and other Illicit Goods Manufacturing? Whatever they call them. Lame Grind
-Nightclub Lame Grind that requires you got all the other Lame Grinds operating. You'll eventually need to buy this for an Oppressor MK2, but that's going to be a $9mil investment overall before you're flying your own so don't worry about this until you're established.
-Arena War content. It does have fun vehicles to buy when you have a stupid amount of extra money. Until then, not worth your time.



You need some cash? Send me a PM on here or Discord. We can get you started.

Zesty fucked around with this message at 05:49 on May 22, 2020

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Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

Dogeh posted:

Gok has an amazing beginner's guide on the Discord.
You should stop by and read it.

Here's the link to that. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1An_kcB7WFepgxEayKKNRCBORdxvEuwV59rW1EXyXQOg/edit

I disagree with all the grindy stuff he wants you to buy instead of doing Bogdan. It's the difference of $100-200k an hour doing it the Rockstar Approved way (to encourage you to buy shark cards) vs $4million an hour doing it the cheese way. But everyone can decide for themselves how they want to spend their time.

If you're new, join the Discord. Link in OP.

Zesty fucked around with this message at 05:30 on May 18, 2020

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
Updated that post a bit.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

mp5 posted:

Your suggestion of exploiting Bogdan, besides being an exploit, boils down to "you play this game by not playing the game" and if people want to do that all the time they can go play an idle/incrementer game where number just go up.

"Watch number go up" is literally the "play legitimately" method. Grinding for months and months and months in solo lobbies for a thousand hours of play is not fun. If that's your idea of "playing the game" then I'll happily play it wrong.

mp5 posted:

About half of your post is bad, but what do I know, I've only been playing the game for the last three weeks and I can't remember the last time you logged in.

Whoa whoa whoa. You've been playing for the past three weeks. :jerkbag:

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

Ripper Swarm posted:

On supercars, Zesty's right that there's no real consensus on 'best' (there are some that are duds, though). The differences at the top end won't really matter matter until you've unlocked all the tuning upgrades anyway. If you want a beginner's recommendation, the Zentorno has a lot of performance for a fairly reasonable price compared to the competition.

If you're into motorbikes instead of cars, the Bati 801 is a superb starting place (e: it's literally $9k, ie loose change). I really recommend a controller for riding though! FYI, GTA lets you use whatever control methods you want so you can freely and instantly switch between controller, mouse and keyboard.
Sadly, the days where you could rule a lobby with stickybombs/compact GL and riding skill are mostly gone due to power creep........but wait.... the Epic freebie pubbies don't know that :twisted:

If you're into motorcycles, totally get the Western Gargoyle. A loving excellent bike. I had 10 at one point but I think I dropped it down to 6. Like to keep extra to respawn after an explosion and get back into the action.

Gargoyle + Compact Grenade Launcher

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/WelldocumentedFirstAngora-mobile.mp4



Also found this gem while looking for those:

Zesty fucked around with this message at 10:47 on May 18, 2020

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
Yeah there's a hundred guns. Use whatever works well for you.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

mp5 posted:

You know exactly what i meant by "three weeks ago". Because a lot longer than three weeks ago I blew up your Vehicle Cargo and you slid into my DMs then came into the Discord and clutched pearls over the sanctity of the Fellowship Of The Ten Dollar SA Account

No, and yes?

Stop being toxic to goons on forums and in-game?

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

GyverMac posted:

This game is the most user unfriendly I've ever experienced. Me and a friend got this for free from the Epic store in order to just have some fun with the online part. First four days we couldnt even get online at all. Fair enough server loads and all that. Today we managed to get in. We create out characters, and theres a prompt to skip the tutorial. We figure since we both played this at release we kinda know the basics so we skipped. Turns out we cant join each others session without having completed the tutorial.... And apparently there is no way to start the tutorial once you skipped it. We had to then create new characters and go through the tutorial. But it doesnt seem to tell you when its complete, so we are clueless as to what to do. I get mission prompts from simeon and Gerald while my friend gets nothing. We spent over an hour trying to figure this stuff out, navigating through labyrinthine menus, dealing with ridiculous loading times, disconnects, hackers wiping out every player on the servers we were on, and still didn't manage to play together.

JFC. All i wanted was to dress up in tiger pants and a cowboy hat and rob liquor stores with my buddy.

I don't recommend RDO then. You think GTO is broken, doesn't hold a candle to Red Dead Online.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
There are Australian Goons in crew.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
Watch out for cheater money that rains from the sky. That gets detected in the anti-cheat. Grab a lot, and your money gets reset to 0... which is okay if you're spending it so you don't carry cash on hand... but grab A WHOLE LOT and they'll just reset your character.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
I hope it's not backlogged and your number is coming up. I'd spend what you can. Money isn't doing any good in your pocket. If you tell me what you have, I can make some suggestions of what would be good buys for... lack of a better word, progression.

hiddenriverninja posted:

What are the chances of getting blessed with millions of dollars in a PC lobby? I want to play but am bummed my console stuff isn't crossing over.

If you need money, we can get you some starting funds. Send me a PM on Discord and we can talk methods that work for you. Absolute worst case, Pac Standards can be run every so often.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
Shenanigans from tonight. At some point we had 17 goons at once playing games together.

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FemaleOnlyAnkole-mobile.mp4

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AffectionateCoolBrahmancow-mobile.mp4

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/EqualLameDonkey-mobile.mp4

Zesty fucked around with this message at 06:05 on May 23, 2020

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
It is, in fact, good advice for those who want to do Bogdan.

Zesty fucked around with this message at 01:24 on May 24, 2020

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

dogstile posted:

Do people on PC generally play with mouse + keyboard? I feel like i spend 90% of this game driving so i've just plugged in a gamepad.

I play with a controller 90% of the time and move a hand to the mouse for guns. It's not GREAT for playing on Free Aim but I prefer not being instantly popped by other players on an assisted aim mode.

For this game anyway. RDO has different values when it comes to aiming.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
Another night of hijinx.


Goon-made piratey fight
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/LimpEnlightenedGannet-mobile.mp4


Tried out a new vehicle in the funnel
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/WastefulHelplessGhostshrimp-mobile.mp4


Hunting Pack
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DearExaltedAcaciarat-mobile.mp4
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/PinkUglyBoutu-mobile.mp4
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/UnhappyVelvetyLeafwing-mobile.mp4

quote:

Do you like what you see? Brand new to the game and wanna see some of the more fun stuff it has to offer? Do you think the voices of goons is nectar to your earholes?

Join us on Discord for some zany shenanigans.

https://discord.gg/e7DsJJt

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
Friday and Saturday shenanigans? Understandable. People willing to play on Sunday night because the next day is a holiday? Makes sense. People playing on a Monday night? Well, we are in a pandemic.

We got 14+ goons together on a Tuesday? Preposterous.




































https://thumbs.gfycat.com/UniformImpoliteKatydid-mobile.mp4

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/HalfFarDungbeetle-mobile.mp4

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CalmMeagerBats-mobile.mp4

Zesty fucked around with this message at 04:50 on May 27, 2020

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

Well today was productive as hell. I got the terrorbyte AND the oppressor. I can’t afford the work station (or any upgrades for it) yet but I can now zoom around like an idiot. Going to stick with the Kuruma + Buzzard combo for my day to day mission running. I like being able to have both out when doing certain missions and a unupgraded oppressor is kinda lame.

A lot of people grab flares for it. I highly recommend chaff. Chaff and map awareness will serve you way better against other oppressors who can rapid fire enough missiles that the flares ultimately can't stop.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
RSVP, and I'll have the cooked pork.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
Dude. Come on. Come have fun with friends.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

BonerKid posted:

They should also make every character black for the rest of the month

Hell yeah!

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

Suddenly yanking people away from their addiction for two hours is probably going to have some sort of negative reaction.

Racism Awareness is like Cancer Awareness.

Yeah, we're loving aware. What else you doing about it?

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

coupedeville posted:

4) pilot sneaks behind fighter jet and demolition hovers in wide circle around prison just close enough to provide missile cover for your bros inside without getting shot down by the prison defenses

This is the most enjoyable thing to do in Prison Break.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
Shenanigans with your fellow goons. Check out our Discord to get involved.

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/BlackandwhiteRareGoldenretriever-mobile.mp4

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ScaredSentimentalHyrax-mobile.mp4

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ImpracticalEsteemedAfricangoldencat-mobile.mp4

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/PertinentElaborateHapuka-mobile.mp4

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:

I've seen talk about this, stats lowering after not being used, but have not found a single legit item confirming it

If that was true, literally everyone who had ever maxed stealth would have noticed it dropping.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
Have you tried running more dispatch missions?

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist

Wake_N_Bake posted:

I need help.

First, I fully acknowledge I’m an idiot. I haven’t played this in a long time. I have apartments, a yacht, a bunker, and I guess a clubhouse.

Somebody friend me on XBL: sawake. I’m lost.

You need any help with advice or do you literally need warm bodies?

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
Oh good, it has a flared base. Safety first.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
It's game night! Jump into discord with us. If the past few game nights are any indication, we'll be up in the 20+ goons shoving each other into small holes and RPGing each other and such. Things will start soon!

https://discord.gg/e7DsJJt

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
Oof. PS4.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
If you're interested in GTA Online and haven't jumped into the discord... uhh... now might be a good time to get in on that.

https://discord.gg/e7DsJJt

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
Fun and games happening on PC right now. Come jump on Discord with us.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
A single set is a minimum of 6 games, yeah.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
You on PC? If you need a partner, just come jump in our discord and ask. I'll sit in a voice channel for a little bit.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist


It's Goon Theft Auto Game Night!

Jump into our discord.

Zesty fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Jul 11, 2020

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AccurateCalmAsiaticgreaterfreshwaterclam-mobile.mp4

A taste of goon game night yesterday.

Probably doing more tonight! Check into discord anytime.

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
Another Goon Game Night

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CornyLargeAtlanticsharpnosepuffer-mobile.mp4

Zesty fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Jul 17, 2020

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist


https://discord.gg/9Afjsm

Zesty fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Jul 17, 2020

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
More shenanigans on PC GTA. Jump in discord. :killdozer:

Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist
They top themselves in RDO

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Zesty
Jan 17, 2012

The Great Twist


https://discord.gg/RdUbFN

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