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Grand Theft Auto: Online |OT| The Stimulation Has Began!
- Thread starter DietRob
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It's poorly described. What it really wants you to do is to start 25 races. Could be the same one. Replaying a race doesn't count. You need to go in to a race and do it. Go out to free roam and go back in. It's the going in that's counted. I had played every race in the game and didn't have that stat completed. Took me a while to figure out what it really wanted.
PinkCrayon
Member
My character refuses to save. I back out of online through the menu properly every time and every time I log back in I've lost my levels. Should be almost 60 by now, stuck at 54.
Codeblew
Member
What is the max money you can lose if you forget to put your money in the bank or just get tired of doing it all the time in my case?
Try hitting start, go to the online store and then cancel out once it loads. That may get the save to work.
Try hitting start, go to the online store and then cancel out once it loads. That may get the save to work.
Does there need to be other people there? Guessing it's not a race otherwise
I want to say no, you can do it solo. But I'm not entirely positive.
Callo Merlose
Banned
Rockstar support is a fucking joke. 264 hours, 91 levels, all lost since saturday. Have they gotten back to me? No. Have they given me any indication that I'll get my character back? No. I really, really hope this doesn't happen to anyone else. I loved this game because of the potential it has, but they're focusing on patching the wrong goddamned things. The Social Club site shows my progress, why can't they just create a character with those same stats instead of throwing virtual money at a problem? $500,000 is a drop in the bucket compared to the time I spent levelling. I wish they cared.
I've tried to host solo, with other people and join other games. Nothing is getting it up. Back to sniping to get that one instead.
I wish you the best -- and as long as social club is accurate, have hope.
Guess you can ignore my pm then. Oh and congrats.
Wow that is awful. Are tanks similar? Or do you just park it in your garage? If all super-class vehicles are like the helicopters it'd make some sense.
TangoAlphaLima
Member
So since acceleration can be significantly increased through mods, and brakes slightly so, are the top speed and handling stats essentially the most important stats to consider when buying a car?
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
So how do you start that opening race with just Lamar, and no human players? I don't want to play with anyone, I just want to run around the city with my own character. But I can't get the first face to start with Lamar only. I've seen tons of videos of that race with a player and Lamar...but me? It's always forcing me to play with 8 players. Even if I pick solo, or invite only.
Revengineer
Unconfirmed Member
I don't fucking understand how this still works, but it still works. It's better than the old version.
Been a while since I did the tutorial, but I think you have to be with other people. After the race you have to do a mission with other players and I think rob a store with them as well. Sucks, but its just a few jobs.
I hate it when your with another person you start driving to the drug deal and the dude jumps out for a motorcycle and I lose my starter car after that stupid cutscene with Gerald
Like most of the other people....start lsc glitching.
Better off doing 1 lap racing..makes you a ton more money then all mission combined.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
Just go around and stealth kill grind pedestrians and rob stores. It's a lot more fun.
I was gonna ask this. I'm sitting in LSC right now trying to see what I need to soupe up my Sultan and it looks like there is no way to modify top speed. What were they thinking in LS Customs balancing?
There should be something that allows you to edge up the top speed a litte. Acceleration can be maxed out with the turbo. Oh, and lots of things that should help a cars performance don't.
What if Armor slowed the acceleration/top speed down? The spoiler and suspension should up the traction stat. Wheels should perform differently in different scenarios.
Tanks are the same but it's easier than zancuda.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Maybe they changed it with the patch or something. I just checked and yeah, people used to race with just Lamar and do these opening missions alone. This is a massive bummer. Oh well.
Ploid 3.0
Member
Near the launch of online the matchmaking didn't work. That's why some was able to get in with just Lamar. Now you can do it by blocking ports on the router to disable matchmaking.
Quicker too lol
The Albatross
Member
Goddam LTS...
Game starts, it's 4 vs. 4 vs 4. Somehow it becomes 5 vs. 4 vs. 2...
No balancing.
Game starts, it's 4 vs. 4 vs 4. Somehow it becomes 5 vs. 4 vs. 2...
No balancing.
Yeah, you click team balancing on and it does the opposite. So dumb.
What an awful little snot. I would have laughed hard if I'd heard his mum say something like that over the mic. Just hilarious thinking of some little brat trying to play and be cool online while his parents do the dishes and laundry in the background, shaking their head at their steaming little shit of a son.
Btw, can someone clarify a couple of things for me?
1. When racing in a certain vehicle class for win unlocks, do impromptu races count?
2. Does it count when you race with people exclusively from your crew/friends?
3. I read somewhere that motorcycles count towards all vehicle types. Is this true?
Ploid 3.0
Member
Really? It didn't seem quicker from the video. I'm going to do this on another account and just go crazy and see if they bann it. Heck a new way to make fast money will probably be found in the future.
1 not certain, but I don't believe so.
2 Yes, aslong as you have atleast one opponent, it doesn't matter if they are crew or friends.
3 Yes that's true. It's also the case for supercars.
TangoAlphaLima
Member
Huh? I've hit top speed on a variety of vehicles, and it definitely feels different. In some supercars, top speed can be scary.
lazybones18
Banned
where does one find the Sandking XL?
I was playing earlier with my cousin and some guy kept killing me for no reason. Now, this is to be expected but it's a shame the game responds you very close to where you were killed. Got killed 14 times before I could finally kill him. I had no bullets, he had an assault rifle. No fair.
Believe it can be purchased.
Check your stats page. Have you hit 250mph?
VibratingDonkey
Member
Cargobob was hovering around the helipads. I made the universal sign for "pick me up" by just sitting around in my car. As he was flying me to the airport a plane suddenly came straight at us. I sailed my car down to safety with a hail of fire and wreckage above me.
Drove the busted ass car the rest of the way, got in heli, had a bumper car derby against another player heli, eventually the cops showed up and I landed on top of three cop cars and about as many explosions. Spawned and got shot for no reason. Grabbed a car to see if there was anything in the hangar. Saw a guy on a bike behind me, since he wasn't immediately shooting me I thought he was racing, but of course he was just trying to get close enough to attach a sticky bomb.
Got in a heli. Just as I was about to catch up to and try to land on a Titan midair, it exploded and a jet flew by. Hit Y just a little too late to not finally succeed at bailing out (and surviving) right before the second round of missiles hit. Then I switched session because I knew he'd just circle around the airport and shoot down anything as soon it got in the air. Kind of like how he and his buddy tried to shoot me every time they saw me on foot.
In the new session I went to the desert airfield, grabbed a heli, and as I was closing in to parachute above Los Santos at maximum altitude I got kicked.
Don't you just love and hate this game?
Drove the busted ass car the rest of the way, got in heli, had a bumper car derby against another player heli, eventually the cops showed up and I landed on top of three cop cars and about as many explosions. Spawned and got shot for no reason. Grabbed a car to see if there was anything in the hangar. Saw a guy on a bike behind me, since he wasn't immediately shooting me I thought he was racing, but of course he was just trying to get close enough to attach a sticky bomb.
Got in a heli. Just as I was about to catch up to and try to land on a Titan midair, it exploded and a jet flew by. Hit Y just a little too late to not finally succeed at bailing out (and surviving) right before the second round of missiles hit. Then I switched session because I knew he'd just circle around the airport and shoot down anything as soon it got in the air. Kind of like how he and his buddy tried to shoot me every time they saw me on foot.
In the new session I went to the desert airfield, grabbed a heli, and as I was closing in to parachute above Los Santos at maximum altitude I got kicked.
Don't you just love and hate this game?
TangoAlphaLima
Member
Nope. 127mph. But I don't have any clue why that would matter to the discussion. 250mph is nigh on impossible in real life anyway. You have to be in a very controlled environment.
Ultimately some cars in GTA can go faster than others. It likely doesn't make a big difference between the variances in high powered vehicles, but between highs, mids, and lows, it can probably be noticed. (I.e. You won't notice between a Vacca and an Adder, but you will between a Vacca and a Sandking.)
My point stands you never hit top speed. I've won over 50 races and own two supercars I've only hit 138mph.
Ploid 3.0
Member
Callo Merlose
Banned
Yes. I lost a level 91 character, but I used to love spawning tanks and buzzards and giving them to low level players and just watch them wreck shit. This game has so much potential that Rockstar is squandering.
GhostRidah
Member
There was a guide last week that showed the prices and views of the places to buy with pictures and everything, anyone have the link by any chance?
VibratingDonkey
Member
AFAIK you can do nothing in pre-match lobbies. Please tell me I'm wrong.
One guy had a busted mic that kept making this obnoxious noise. You don't exactly want to fiddle around in menus once the race has started. Had to take my headphones off.
All Simeon's car collectathon does is annoy me when I accidentally steal a car on the list and get two stars on me. Would appreciate it if you had to activate it somehow.
TangoAlphaLima
Member
But that could be top speed. Maybe your supercar only goes to 138mph (not realistic for real life, but maybe it is for GTA). The 127.55 top speed I have is in a Karin Sultan. From the spreadsheet going around, the Sultan has a 7.8 top speed. Most supercars are in the low 8s. It's certainly possible that 10mph difference is reflected in those numbers.
I'm not suggesting chasing tenths of a point in top speed if it means sacrificing handling or brakes, but I think it nonetheless is a stat I wouldn't ignore.
No my super cars top speed is 250 and 240 mph.
I don't even think it's possible to hit it ingame.