Spring-Loaded
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Yeah, it's our fault. We brought this on ourselves.
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Grand Theft Auto: Online |OT| The Stimulation Has Began!
- Thread starter DietRob
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Yeah, it's our fault. We brought this on ourselves.
I'm honestly expecting heists to give 75k max, at this point.
Death penalty was bullshit to begin with. Sorry to be abrasive, but the best part of Online is the free roam.
Exactly. At this point R* needs to rethink their strategy and save this sinking ship. They can start by being more transparent with us and working with the community.
GreenTornadoX
Member
Heh, Rockstar apparently hates us. I was tempted to join the DTOID group the first day I was able to log in but I love this site more.
If anyone knows someone from Rockstar, they should send them a friendly message so we can have just one crew for 360 and PS3.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
While I wish the content creator and heists were here already, I'm having a lot of fun with the game as is still. I just hit level 50 at around 60 hours play, have a couple of cars that I've upgraded nicely and just saved up enough to buy a 10-car apartment. I've gotten there with a good mix of coop missions, survival, lots of races and dicking around in free roam getting cars and doing bounties. That's what the game is, and you either like it or you don't. Or more specifically, it's possible to have had enough. I don't think the community is dying so much as it's just natural attrition as the less super hardcore players drop out.
metzger203
Junior Member
I think it's kind of shitty that you don't have a choice between purchasing a Banshee with a hard top or no top. You just have to roll the dice and hope you get the one you want. They should at least add the option as a mod at LSC.
They should have given access to every toy in the box immediately. Having to go through a tedious leveling-up process just to get some of the weapons I liked in the Story Mode is fucktarded. I hate that every developer now wants to do this Call of Duty bullshit where you have to grind the multiplayer for hours just to get some cool stuff.
Outside of offroad races, the only place I can say for sure is the Chopper Trail (I think that's the name of the mission) mission, a Trevor mission you get at level 70. You chase down a chopper across the desert in a Dune Buggy, then bring some van back to Trevor's place. Apparently, if you're in a dune buggy when the mission ends, there's a chance you'll still be in it when you go back to free roam. AFAIK you can't mod it at all, but apparently there's some way to insure all types of vehicles so that may not matter anyway.
Current Infinite Money Glitch (If you are tired of the nerfing and losing characters/progression)
http://youtu.be/CPyFYAeKxE0
http://youtu.be/CPyFYAeKxE0
jobber
Would let Tony Parker sleep with his wife
Crime is everywhere just like the game!
A buddy and I nicked some super car off the street and took it for a spin in the countryside. We were taking it in turns to launch off stuff and do crazy stunts, which was fun enough. But by the end the car was squished into this really strange, pointy shape, which seemed to make it more aerodynamic. Plus the wheels were contorted in such a way that it actually had better acceleration than before. As far as mountain climbing goes, it was unsurpassed. I've never seen anything like it. We were laughing our arses off at this stupid crushed tin can absolutely bombing it up the slopes and flying into the air.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
I wish they gave us more mini game stuff to do in free roam that we saw in most gta games like taxi and vigilante or whatever.
Even if it had a low payout it'd at least be something.
Or the drug drop off thing they have in the story mode.
Even if it had a low payout it'd at least be something.
Or the drug drop off thing they have in the story mode.
Neuromancer
Member
Ok thanks. Don't want to miss it somehow.
I disagree to it being bullshit. It's fine enjoying free roam, but having some sort of incentive to stay alive is apart of the game. It's in the single player, I'm not sure why having some actual weight to dying is bs. I think it makes free roam that much more fun because if you're saving up for that supercar and you get into a skurmish in freeroam then the stakes are higher. I feel like there isn't enough stuff to spend money on as it is.
I figure Playing GTA Online... is quite a bit like making love to a beautiful woman.
You work your way slowly up from the bottom.
Even if you start off small, pretty soon you'll be on top.
You won't always get what you want, but it'll be worth it in the end.
If you spend real money to be harder and faster, it'll be over before you know it.
Grinding is acceptable, but it's not the way things were designed.
There's no need to rush and blow it all early.
And it's err... better... with your friends?
You work your way slowly up from the bottom.
Even if you start off small, pretty soon you'll be on top.
You won't always get what you want, but it'll be worth it in the end.
If you spend real money to be harder and faster, it'll be over before you know it.
Grinding is acceptable, but it's not the way things were designed.
There's no need to rush and blow it all early.
And it's err... better... with your friends?
Hahahahahahha omg
Haha. Loved the part near the end when he spends 90% of the time trying to commute to the moving target.
Sums a lot of the crap design issues. Wish it included the crap matchmaking and load times. Tired of racing with this now skeleton of 1 other person out of 15 available where no one else joins? Well let's make you reload the free roam map before you can choose to join a different race with new people, just to load a different areas race, only to get kicked by a crew who is boosting and get sent back into free roam. Just to try again, and be put back into criminal records with 2 other people.
Tired of racing? Any of the team deathmatch games are almost always uneven since you can't get a full lobby before a match ever. Parachuting? Lets do it with guns making it so you can float for a long ass time only to get shot near the end and not make the landing, giving you no money and minimal xp. Survival? Due to crap sharp shooting AI, armor with the resilience of a wet paper bag and AI that materializes behind you, the only real strategy is to find the perfect camping spot and fire from safety.
It's the above that finally made me stop playing. Too much of a hassle, and free roam ain't that great unless you have friends to back you up. I'll check it out again when the stimulus comes and for the free dlc
Who the hell is xGnr?
He sent me a message saying HaloGAF which is the subcommunity im active in here, so I thought he was an ally but then he killed me. There was a dude terrorizing everyone in a tank. I was trying to take him down but I guess he had friends... Its bullshit how some people can just buy a tank and there's no way to get rockets.
Like I said before, there should be a way to get rockets but not be able to buy ammo for them.
He sent me a message saying HaloGAF which is the subcommunity im active in here, so I thought he was an ally but then he killed me. There was a dude terrorizing everyone in a tank. I was trying to take him down but I guess he had friends... Its bullshit how some people can just buy a tank and there's no way to get rockets.
Like I said before, there should be a way to get rockets but not be able to buy ammo for them.
See You Next Wednesday
Banned
LOL jesus I had a good laugh at that.
brokenbeans
Banned
I've got everything I need now if I don't have friends online I'm not bothered about playing, I free roam I don't wanna do co-op missions I can't go into random free roams as everyone is a dick.
Plus every car I own is a magnetic for idiots.
Plus every car I own is a magnetic for idiots.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Dick Justice
Banned
Some fucker was chasing me around in the tank, and after killing me once, apparently lost the will to live, as I managed to saunter up and throw him out, and then proceeded to return the favour, chasing him around and killing him around 10 times before he finally holed up somewhere like a little bitch.
They really do need to start getting content out ASAP. And up the payments.
I also dont like how the community is fragmented across 3 aim modes.
Free roam should be free aim, as this helps decrease griefing and auto aim is dumb.
And all other game modes should be the hosts decision like in GTAIV.
I also dont like how the community is fragmented across 3 aim modes.
Free roam should be free aim, as this helps decrease griefing and auto aim is dumb.
And all other game modes should be the hosts decision like in GTAIV.
I actually like this idea. A lot. As a hub, the free roam mode should have as little separation of players as possible. For missions and activities, it should be up to the people who are playing to decide with the host what they want.
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
I don't know if I'm having fun playing this or I just want to rank up to where my friends are. I'm level 19 now. I had problems where my friends would select to go to free roam after every mission instead of doing another mission.
The whole matchmaking in this game is fucked up. If I want to play a different game mode, don't make me a fucking host, help me join a game in progress. You end up with several people trying to host a game with none of them joinable with each other.
At least now I have a shit load of ammo. I'm a beast on survival.
The whole matchmaking in this game is fucked up. If I want to play a different game mode, don't make me a fucking host, help me join a game in progress. You end up with several people trying to host a game with none of them joinable with each other.
At least now I have a shit load of ammo. I'm a beast on survival.
AnotherNils
Member
I should clear up, I like your idea, I just wanted to take the opportunity to bash the weird vehicle despawning when going into LSC.
SonicXtreme
Member
if you had it tracked you will get it back. you can mod it again after it gets destroyed.
Callo Merlose
Banned
How do you get Trevor's truck? I saw it in a low level mission, but it didn't let me store it in my garage.
After it's destroyed and you get a new copy you're supposed to be able to mod it again... sorry man, Mor's sucks
lem0n
Member
edgefusion
Member
Anyone on PS3 want to trade back and forth some sports car wins? Add me on PSN: edgefusion
Metalmurphy
Member
What ever happened to the 500k that we were supposed to get?
Do we need to do anything to get it?
Do we need to do anything to get it?
Victory Red
Member
The Albatross
Member
You need to wait like the rest of us!
they've pushed it back till all bugs are resolved. When that happens, who knows.
The Albatross
Member
Pretty much with you.
The matchmaking is the biggest problem for me. Plus, the innablity to play in any mode with friends. To play in a "full" mission/mode/job with friends, you MUST join a random, then quickly invite your friend, and just hope he makes it in. If he doesn't, he gets kicked back to the open world or is forced to spectate. When the game ends, the odds of that room sticking together for 1 more full match are almost nill ... so again you have to quit back to free roam, you usually get separated, and do it all over again.
It's pretty crummy.
They wanted this menu-free experience, and in many ways it is, or they're hidden behind something "in world" (your phone)... but really... I would trade in this system for menus ANY day, if that meant avoiding the 45-second cloud-view loading screens for every successful/unsuccessful match join.
turtlesbonanza
Member
Pause > Online > Jobs > Host Job > Rockstar Created > Coveted
Takes about five minutes to do (quicker if you have friends to do it with). Pays $12,000, can be repeated by pressing square at the score/rewards screen.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
Some dude with a bounty jacked a green Simeon car before I could get to it. There were also 2 other dudes trying to get to the car that got there first.
Somehow I got past them and sticky bombed the target car. Blew it up, got 1k and spoiled everyone else's chance at turning in that car. If I couldn't get it, no one would!
And then I escaped by diving my car into the cracks between the freeway ramps by going over the barrier and somehow getting free to drive away. They tried to chase me but couldn't figure out how to follow.
Suckers!
Somehow I got past them and sticky bombed the target car. Blew it up, got 1k and spoiled everyone else's chance at turning in that car. If I couldn't get it, no one would!
And then I escaped by diving my car into the cracks between the freeway ramps by going over the barrier and somehow getting free to drive away. They tried to chase me but couldn't figure out how to follow.
Suckers!
I like your style
^^^ Haha
I had an amazing bounty hunt this morning, involving the target flying around in a Titan, pursued by a handful of eager beavers in choppers and smaller planes.
I rigged a random stunt plane with a sticky and tried to get close enough to detonate, but after about 5 minutes of hectic air maneuvering, I gave up and popped myself. Still so fun jostling with the other pilots and imagining what was going through the bounty's mind as he hefted through the skies.
It was truly the stuff GTAO is made of.
I had an amazing bounty hunt this morning, involving the target flying around in a Titan, pursued by a handful of eager beavers in choppers and smaller planes.
I rigged a random stunt plane with a sticky and tried to get close enough to detonate, but after about 5 minutes of hectic air maneuvering, I gave up and popped myself. Still so fun jostling with the other pilots and imagining what was going through the bounty's mind as he hefted through the skies.
It was truly the stuff GTAO is made of.
SymbiantXenos
Member
Sniped a bounty running away on foot in one shot.
Complete fluke but funny. Even got a txt from him saying good shot.
Complete fluke but funny. Even got a txt from him saying good shot.
I know having millions definitely made the game more fun for me. Fucking around in free roam is the best part imo.
tokyostomp
Banned
The funniest thing that happened to me was when I had a bounty set on me by a npc.
I sort half forgot about the bounty on my head and the server was half empty. I decided to get a chopper and just off the Maze building and parachute my way down. I see a blip coming near me and I think to myself, screw this guy he's all the way on the ground waiting for me to land.
I'm trying too look for him on the ground but I am way too far up to see anything. I let go of aim and let the camera return to normal so I can enjoy the view of the skyline
Suddenly I hear a chopper and before I can move my camera I'm scrambled by its rotor blades!
I'm dying with laughter as the damned chopper was going full tilt and half inverted.
I send the guy a text, "Well done sir, well done!"
He texts back, "Had to improvise = )"
I sort half forgot about the bounty on my head and the server was half empty. I decided to get a chopper and just off the Maze building and parachute my way down. I see a blip coming near me and I think to myself, screw this guy he's all the way on the ground waiting for me to land.
I'm trying too look for him on the ground but I am way too far up to see anything. I let go of aim and let the camera return to normal so I can enjoy the view of the skyline
Suddenly I hear a chopper and before I can move my camera I'm scrambled by its rotor blades!
I'm dying with laughter as the damned chopper was going full tilt and half inverted.
I send the guy a text, "Well done sir, well done!"
He texts back, "Had to improvise = )"