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Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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davebo posted:

I wanted to see what it was like so yesterday I did 5 laps each of two levels just by myself and it seems awful. I assume playing them with pubbies would just have everyone slamming into each other like normal.

If you get a group of people who actually want to race it's fun. Had a couple races where the 3 or 4 of us at the front kept slipstreaming and trading leads right down to the finish. If you know what you're doing you can make up a lot of ground from way back in the pack too. But of course you have to watch out for the "I'm just going to crash you because I don't know how to win otherwise" people, and the griefers driving the wrong way around the track.

But the "Downtown" track just sucks.

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Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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So what I've learned from this new race mode is that most people can't shoot worth a drat.

How can you be so bad at shooting, it's like half the game???

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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BitBasher posted:

I own GTA on PC and ps4 and play it pretty much exclusively on ps4 because it's more enjoyable there by far.
Except then I'd have to shoot with a controller, and the very concept baffles me.

Also, I'd have to buy a PS4.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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A friend of mine, after playing a lot of GTA Online told me he had an idea for a game: Sandcastle Kickers

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Jose Mengelez posted:

yank your ethernet cable out for a second (or use session sweeper if you're on pc) when you're stuck in the clouds and it'll drop you into a session alone, then hit "find new session" and it should put you in one in a fraction of the time.

i haven't the faintest clue why this works.

On PC you can also alt-tab out, bring up the resource monitor, suspend the GTA5.exe process for about 10 seconds, resume it, and bang, solo session.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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SolidSnakesBandana posted:

Counter-point: The Kuruma is lame and the people who use it are lame

I had a guy rage quit a heist setup once (I think it was PacStd bikes) because everyone else was using a Kuruma. Sorry for wanting to do it the easy way I guess.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:

I think Chumash bunker has the best access from the road

I'd vote for the wind farm, right down the highway from the city. Easy in, easy out.

Fake edit: oh *bunker*, not facility. In that case it's the farmhouse one.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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SolidSnakesBandana posted:

Hey dude, let the man play his multiplayer game as a singleplayer game for some unfathomable reason! He gains enjoyment from it somehow! Nevermind that he could achieve basically the same thing in a modded singleplayer game, he's not interested in such fallacies, just let him do his thing!

I get more enjoyment from playing solo than I do from , for example, getting orbed by the only other player in the session while I'm just doing a resupply mission for my bunker. Which actually happened.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:

I assure you my time is very valuable

:eng99:

Actually, shooting the hostages is a viable strategy. Once you get to the bikes and start following the GPS route, there will be a SWAT van in the road. Load everybody into the van and enjoy a leisurely drive up the western coast highway to the boat.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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YET ANOTHER FAG posted:

This is a strategy for bads. Don't do this.

As opposed to failing constantly because people are apparently incapable of driving a bike. :(

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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YET ANOTHER FAG posted:

Double funbux on doomsday finale. Not sure if the setups are 2x but either way money money.

Didn't they have problems with the 2x act II payout triggering their own anti-cheat code? How's that going to work with act III?

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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AzureSkys posted:

How lucky am I on my 2nd spin, or is this common? My 1st spin was yesterday after going to the casino for the first time and I got the 50k next to the vehicle.


Luckier than me. So far I've gotten 2 shirts.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Phweengee posted:

Anyone locked out of gambling? I think someone or something got mad at me for macro-ing horse races for hours on end. No gambling games work, though I can still spin the wheel and buy chips. When I approach a table/machine it says something like "this is not available right now, please try again later." I have no idea if/when functionality will be restored.

No, but I'm apparently locked out of buying clothes. The browse prompt never appears.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:

Definitely doable with 2 just need to take your time and clear area by area. Rambo tactics are not your friend. Same w the final. Clear what you can quietly but when the alarm raises be ready with a kuruma or insurgent to finish the bulk, plus the insurgent will be a little helpful chasing the choppers

Me and another guy did it by standing between two of the stables, just picking the enemies off as they funneled into the view, and occasionally peeking out to take down the choppers. And there's a whatdoyoucallit, truck with a gun, parked there for the end chase.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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OwlFancier posted:

If it wasn't centered entirely around getting money out of people there would be a lot more opportunity for just... things that let you have fun with your dumb poo poo you own. More freeroam poo poo with better payouts, less need to constantly add more powerful poo poo to keep people buying, no dumb missions that only exist to make you not want to do business stuff.

Like take hangar crates, some of those missions are actually fun, but because they have to limit the output to one crate per player they're pointless to do, so nobody does them, the whole thing is a waste of time and effort, and perhaps more to the point they never affect the rest of the freeroam world because nobody runs them.

The problem with hangars is that they're not worth it, even with a 2x week, compared to other businesses in the game. Like, I *could* do 3 source missions and a sell mission to get 60k, orrrr I could just source and sell one car for 80k.

If they cared about balance, hangar sales probably should earn 2.5 - 3x what they do now just to start with.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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I... still don't understand what you're asking. Socia Club for GTA V for me was "log in once, ignore it after that". Once in a while it makes me log in again, usually after the major game updates, but that's it.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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I want to have a heart-to-heart talk with LJT. Look, buddy, I don't know how to break it to you, but I don't actually give a poo poo about any of your businesses.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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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.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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I was on for a couple seconds but then voices of goons started coming out of my computer so I got scared and left. :ohdear:

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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I like whatever that car is that you get for completing the casino missions. It's just fun to slide around corners, especially in the snow.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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... Can I get you an aspirin or something?

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Looks kind of like an old Lambo Urraco.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Tried to start the heist for the first time tonight and immediately hit a bug where it wouldn't start the mission. Had to change sessions and start again before it told me where to go.

Never change, Rockstar.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Shere posted:

How is his first solution to the stealth portion at the beginning to literally do it in a way that makes absolutely no sense and obviously isn't working?
I tried it the same way. :colbert:

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Watch out if you're getting the patrol boat from the Merriweather HQ. It glitches into the wall.

Second time I tried it I got in it and moved it forward a little before opening the gates. That appears to have fixed it.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Finally got the elite challenge for Cayo Perico. Got a lucky draw and had clothes and the truck at the airstrip.

*And* I won the Master Hentai doll out of the Shiny Wasabi Kitty Claw machine (just need SWK herself now).

*And* I won the car using the 4 second trick.

A good weekend.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Floppychop posted:

Wait, you can reroll? I've been getting pretty much nothing but the tequila.
Friend, can I interest you in this truck full of ruby necklaces?

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Floppychop posted:

Drainage tunnel infil and main dock extract makes Cayo crazy easy. Just do it at night with silenced weapons and sneeki breeki.

Find the truck and a guard uniform and waltz in through the main gate.

You'd think they'd learn after a while...

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Mandrel posted:

i don’t think it’s meant to be assumed the player swims across the gulf of not mexico

Actually it looks like Cayo Perico is about 2 miles offshore from LS. If you go to the island while that business battle on the aircraft carrier is active you can see the carrier just off the coast, toward the end of the airstrip.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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If you haven't been following the news it looks like we're getting a fix for the long load time issue and R* is paying the guy who found the problem $10,000.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Pseudoscorpion posted:

I mentioned this in the Discord, but the problems with the load don't feel like incompetence, per se. Rather, it has all the tell-tale signs of legacy code. They probably had an old JSON parser lying around from a decade+ ago, since why would you reinvent the wheel if you've already written one?

My guess is they tested it with a small, 100-item list and it worked fine.

Ship it!

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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"Why can't you assholes be on time for once, eh? Arms out, let's go."

Couldn't they have recorded even one alternate set of lines for that guy?

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Distorted Kiwi posted:

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.

I always use the guard truck to get in, and you'd think that guy at the gate to the compound would wise up. "The last 20 times I let in a guy with a ginger mullet poo poo got stolen.... but, eh, go ahead."

Unless Rubio just shoots him before he has a chance to tell everyone about the guy with a ginger mullet and replaces him with an identical guard.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:

Is there anything with working pop-ups currently?
The Lampadati Tropos Rallye (Lancia Stratos ripoff) has working pop-ups.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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coupedeville posted:

I have ~20 virtual automobiles and struggle becuse even that is far too excessive.
Once upon a time I decided I was going to collect every storable special car that spawns in the game. So, all the gang cars, all the different types of unique VW busses that spawn on the beach, the two sports sedans that only spawn in one spot on Vinewood Blvd. around midnight, the gold and chrome Dubsta 2s, etc.

It's like 40 cars just for that. And I will never get rid of them. :colbert:

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Fixed an issue that resulted in players being unable to sit on the benches in The Music Locker.
Our long national nightmare is over.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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I think needing to finish well in the races is encouraging people to be even bigger dicks than usual. If that's possible.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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I got them all except one (the 811). Which I absolutely could not get to spawn after hours of searching.

Well played, R*

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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Yeah, this exotic exports is bugged. My list hasn't reset for at least 5 days, and I'm stuck at 9/10 with one car that just won't spawn.

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Presto
Nov 22, 2002

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I won the go kart off the casino wheel. Took it to the car meet time trial for a laugh and set my personal best.

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