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Newbie Report Picked this up at the last Steam sale. Only just started playing it properly this month. (I know, I’m slow, but I had to finish San Andreas first*) In the last week I have both fallen in love (with the online play) and been driven to frothing rage. (By some of the online players) I dressed my dude like a camo-loving redneck and drive everywhere on a dirtbike equipped with a truck horn. Including through a pedestrian mall I only discovered after a fortnight of play. I have been shot in the head what feels like 8,000 times. So far I’ve only taken out two players, one with a beautiful headshot in retaliation. (Or so I thought, as I actually shot some schmuck who just happened to be in the same area as my assailant.) The other guy ran out in front of my car like a badly-dressed lemming. I surprised the gently caress out of some guy by complementing his ability to snipe me as I parachuted out of an exploded helicopter, rather than making aspersions about his sexuality. We then teamed up and spent an enjoyably pointless hour trying to park speedboats on another headshot wizard, who decorated the beachfront with out corpses. In short, even with the somewhat toxic community, I’m playing this until my thumbs fall off. If you spot the Distorted Kiwi tooling around town, say hi. Then shoot me. *Note: I still haven’t finished San Andreas. Stupid flying missions
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If any goon here is called "Squash" in-game, I apologise for maliciously running you over last night. But seriously, if you're called "Squash" and on the freeway, you're really asking for trouble.
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Mar 8, 2018 20:53
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I started a stopwatch once it started to load. I was waking up in Club Los Santos in 75 seconds time. So, yeah... somewhat faster.
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Mar 17, 2021 05:18
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Inspector Hound posted:I just quick joined a survival called "60,000$ afk free money" or something, the upshot was that all the bad guys spawned underwater and immediately drowned, so we didn't need to do anything to win. It worked, I got my money, etc, but holy poo poo it took forever, probably 20+ minutes even with the enemies just immediately all dying. I had forgotten survival was 20 waves! Those things should be five waves, ten TOPS, anything more is just endurance and cheap "ha ha you made one mistake after an hour long gun fight, you lose" bullshit. And honestly, 60k? Is that the normal survival reward? Because if so, gently caress off Yeah, I played Survival twice during a double-dollar week. Both times it took a billion years to earn hardly anything. Despite being the worst shot on GTA Online, I'm quite enjoying triple-reward Dropzone this week. In one game, both teams agreed to see what happens when both the timer and Sudden Death clock expire. Result: Both teams were declared the loser, yet both teams got a $30,000 "round winner" payout. Walked away with $175k in about twenty minutes. Mad props to the Russian guy who drove into battle on a ride-on lawnmower, too.
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Apr 4, 2021 06:23
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mp5 posted:Probably but anytime I see a sparrow I blow it out of the sky with explosive sniper rounds on principle so I usually don't use my own for that I just purchased an unarmed Sea Sparrow. Please give me a warning shot before you evaporate me.
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May 31, 2021 03:33
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BitBasher posted:Takes I think 3 hits to kill, the first one is your warning shot! You’re a gent...
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May 31, 2021 03:55
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mp5 posted:i'd never dream of blowing up your lovely Sea Sparrow and i hope you enjoy it And so I sigh, dig out the cheque book and start strapping missiles to my Sea Sparrow. See you out there, pal.
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May 31, 2021 22:27
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mp5 posted:Well if you're on PC and in LLJK or GOON you have nothing to worry about!!! I am in LLJK, but with my New Zealand time zone I haven’t seen a single other goon in 150+ hours of gameplay.
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May 31, 2021 22:54
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BitBasher posted:It gets much, much easier after that first one. The first one is annoying. Unless you're me. I can now scope the island quite well, even though I keep driving my motorcycle into the ocean and having to run cross-country to the tower. But doing that actual heist solo? I have found DOZENS of innovative ways to mess it up. Shoot a pillar by the guards head? Check. Sneeze in real life, making me walk out in front of a patrol? Done it. Drive into a tree on the way out of the compound? Yep. Four successful missions so far... thanks to about 40 blown ones. Sometimes I wish you could just grab the secondary targets and call it a day.
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Jun 8, 2021 05:22
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BitBasher posted:If you scroll back in the thread I posted a video of a way to do it with zero shots on meaningfully moving targets and a pretty mellow difficulty level with a specific plan. Page 131, the more recent video is near the bottom. Trust me, I’ve probably already watched it. I just seem to find unique ways to mess up in each attempt. Pre-Cayo I was the type of player constantly dropping grenades at his own feet in heists.
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Jun 8, 2021 06:14
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Forum Joe posted:No it’s definitely not. The very first time you ever visit Cato Perico you have to do a scout mission and it HAS to be solo. You can’t invite anyone with you on that first mission.  EDIT: Also, pretty sure my first time on the island was a four-person scoping, with one guy modding and teleporting us all over the island.
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Jun 9, 2021 02:58
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My solo heist game skills are improving somewhat... got out undetected, with a full loot bag on my second attempt tonight. Did kind of over-estimate the me-concealing powers of the guard uniform, the first time. Has taken me over $5 million, although I’ll probably blow some of that in something fun and pointless, like a Vigilante.
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Jun 9, 2021 13:43
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Zesty posted:All those gaming channels are scripted and planned in advance to get what they want on video. Not sure what point you're trying to make, just posted that to show that, yes, you can scope in a group.
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Jun 10, 2021 08:31
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Well, mark it on the calendar, first time I solo-boosted Cayo on the first attempt, just five shots fired, off undetected with full bags. And picked up enough to pay for the luxury helicopter I brought for no reason whatsoever. I have no impulse control when it comes to deep discounts.
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Jun 14, 2021 02:51
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I used to run resupply missions for my meth business, but compared to the Cayo payout, it’s pretty small beans. I find by the time I’ve run the setups, the Nightclub has usually accumulated a good haul of goods to sell.
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Jun 16, 2021 13:44
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Yeah, I find that you tend to lose weapons, sometimes weeks after a modder bestows them on you. I always just immediately spend modded-money for plausible deniability.
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Jun 21, 2021 03:26
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You know, if I knew how often I was going to get patted down by that Cayo guard, I would have petitioned Rockstar for a series of increasingly ridiculous disguises. Huge false moustache, Groucho glasses, horse head mask, finally just arrive dressed as an exact clone of the guard himself.
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Jun 23, 2021 02:13
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I have spent FAR too many GTAbucks on vehicles I rarely drive. The 3rd level of my nightclub is full of the most obnoxiously colourful cars I own, include my favourite, a Custom Nero in Joker green-and-purple. I fully intend blowing several Million more in the next week or so.
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Jul 20, 2021 07:40
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Am I the only one who’s happy to pay his staff? With the amount of cars I’ve driven into rivers, oceans and left on fire on tall buildings, my mechanic needs a raise. And Pavel needs vodka money, dammit!
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Jul 22, 2021 01:21
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Tested out spawning in my corporate jet onto crowded city streets tonight. I caused an explosion big enough to destroy my CEO’s heavily-armoured Toreador. Guess my performance appraisal isn’t going to be great this quarter.
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Jul 22, 2021 14:00
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BitBasher posted:Also if you are already that far just get on the motorcycle that's right there and drive the bike off the cliff to the left over the helipad. It's faster than manually running off the cliff and a shorter swim IIRC. I found that driving very gently down the cliff meant I could actually ride the motorcycle a short way around rocks at the base. I usually try to grab a boat from the docks for a cinematic exit. Of course, old Eagle-Eye in the patrol boat spots me seven times out of ten, but it’s very satisfying to hijack him, throw his rear end in the ocean and make him swim back to explain himself to Mr Rubio.
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Aug 10, 2022 00:12
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BitBasher posted:The cliff I'm talking about has no rocks at the base at all that I remember, you sail over it at high speed and land about 40 yards into the ocean. I've also never seen a patrol boat there. If you exit Evil Kenivel-style off the South-West point, you can definitely get a huge distance out to sea. Used to be plenty of boats, but Rockstar seemed to remove them to stop players just sniping them off the cliffs. When i head to the North Docks, there's always one guy in an attack boat, who can apparently see me no matter how deep I swim.
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Aug 10, 2022 01:12
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Dropped three million on a Krieger this week, and it's the best three mil I've ever spent. The thing can outrun attack helicopters. It also has a VERY pleasing sci-fi-sounding engine.
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Aug 10, 2022 02:14
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wit posted:
Yeah, that’s happened to me. I think that Ammu-Nation guy is a nark
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Aug 10, 2022 06:00
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Wowporn posted:This doesn't save that much time but it's fun, when you have to go into the warehouse and kill the dudes for the fingerprint scanner if you just throw a grenade into the back of the room it will chain explode like 5 things and kill everyone in the room. That usually includes you but you spawn like 20 feet away so no downside I did that with a sticky bomb once. The force of the explosion resulted in my guy getting a flaming motorcycle to the face at VERY high velocity. 10/10 for comedy purposes.
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Aug 10, 2022 12:30
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Tristesse posted:You can also call Yohan now and get a free mission to get goods for your nightclub (basically a personal business battle) to fill it up extra fast. Yohan is my favourite person to call, as he always seems super happy to hear from you. He’s also WAY too nice a guy to be working for a career criminal, but everyone’s got bills to pay, I suppose.
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madeintaipei posted:Why does predictive text on my phone give me "butt on" before "button"? APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!
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