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GTA Online PS4/XB1 |OT| Just ignore the bodies (and look forward to heists)
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pocketaces
Member
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brokenbeans
Banned
Yeah that's fair enough I personally don't play in lobbies only with friends so that's not really a problem for me. If it was I have a tank and they would never make it to the Buzzard
Summer Haze
Banned
Haha, I have no idea. Must have lead boots.
SpookyFries
Member
Is there any way to add back the lock on snap? In the last gen version you could press the right stick left or right and it would snap onto the next target
MMaRsu
Member
Ted
Member
In terms of connecting Sunday seemed a lot better than Friday or Saturday. I could join sessions on Sunday but the load times are still lengthy with a general few errors. Regardless I soldiered on and actually had quite of lot of fun levelling up new characters to get some share footage of the whole new player tutorial and to test out the character creator.
I was mostly playing with randoms as clicking join crew with aim set as free aim yielded a "timed out when matchmaking for a compatible GTA Online Session to join" error but Baron joined me for a quick mission before the vote screen separated us. My random character had just reached level 5 though so I went and tried one of these high value challenges. I couldn't find a 250k one but there was an IGN crew one for around 110k for 5 laps of criminal records.
Being a low level player joining randoms in missions is quite a laugh. I was doing extradition with some level 70+ players and when we spawned they all took their chromed adders and started throwing themselves at the fences at Fort Zancudo to try and jump in with limited success. Meanwhile my lowly level 3 stole a car, drove to Trevor's and picked up one of the waiting jets....
Overall so far it's been a mixed bag, the connectivity issues are infuriating and the lack of people accepting jobs equally so but when it all comes together and you are running across country at night with someone else in the car raising hell, police blues and twos lighting up the surrounding countryside and your heart racing, it is so much fun.
I fought the law.. and the law won
Using the capture functionality on the PS4 I reckon we could easily make "GAF in 60 seconds" or the like with 4 or 5 willing people with a spare character slot (to create specific model types) who are up for joining an invite only session, running through some semi-scripted events and then all uploading the raw share footage somewhere to share and edit.
If anyone is keen, let me know and I'll organise a session (with notice I can do most days 2200-0000 GMT and weekends 2300-0200 GMT).
On a thread update related note, I have been trying to keep up with updates but I am falling a little behind, apologies!
I was mostly playing with randoms as clicking join crew with aim set as free aim yielded a "timed out when matchmaking for a compatible GTA Online Session to join" error but Baron joined me for a quick mission before the vote screen separated us. My random character had just reached level 5 though so I went and tried one of these high value challenges. I couldn't find a 250k one but there was an IGN crew one for around 110k for 5 laps of criminal records.
Being a low level player joining randoms in missions is quite a laugh. I was doing extradition with some level 70+ players and when we spawned they all took their chromed adders and started throwing themselves at the fences at Fort Zancudo to try and jump in with limited success. Meanwhile my lowly level 3 stole a car, drove to Trevor's and picked up one of the waiting jets....
Overall so far it's been a mixed bag, the connectivity issues are infuriating and the lack of people accepting jobs equally so but when it all comes together and you are running across country at night with someone else in the car raising hell, police blues and twos lighting up the surrounding countryside and your heart racing, it is so much fun.
I fought the law.. and the law won
Using the capture functionality on the PS4 I reckon we could easily make "GAF in 60 seconds" or the like with 4 or 5 willing people with a spare character slot (to create specific model types) who are up for joining an invite only session, running through some semi-scripted events and then all uploading the raw share footage somewhere to share and edit.
If anyone is keen, let me know and I'll organise a session (with notice I can do most days 2200-0000 GMT and weekends 2300-0200 GMT).
On a thread update related note, I have been trying to keep up with updates but I am falling a little behind, apologies!
Cc23830
Member
Do you play ps4 with the the same name as your Gaf? As I raced a doc morbid last night, smashed him in to a cliff on the first couple of corners and won a 8 player race. Probably not, I drive a pink zentrono or a matt black entity and race record of 128 wins with 158 loses psn name KingKongRat from the Gaf clan
brokenbeans
Banned
The Marshall is woth every penny of the 500k I paid for it.
Zombie Lyle
Member
Bought one yesterday. I'm having so much fun driving about and having police chases in it.
Absolutely. Got up to the top of Mt. Chilliad yesterday. Was fun to get up there with it.
Has anyone noticed that helicopters and planes don't spawn much on online? The helipad near the airport never has them anymore (and I don't think I've seen any at the airport either) and the one time I did find a heli was at Trevor's airport so I stole it to go steal a fighter jet and there wasn't anything at the military base (not one fighter jet/plane/heli/tank anything).
And I mean that heli pad usually was reliable on having one unless some one just stole a bunch of helis (and when I was there no one was even flying in a heli).
And I mean that heli pad usually was reliable on having one unless some one just stole a bunch of helis (and when I was there no one was even flying in a heli).
Baron Von Beans
Member
For all NEW PS3/4 GAF Crew applicants - *PLEASE* be sure to send me a FR, or a message on the R* Social Club or here, with your Gaf name, and/or R* Social Club name/PSN name if any of those differ from each other. I have a ton of applicants to go through, and reading a message is way easier than filtering thruogh a message board for potential applicants.
I've got a small list of people I need to check up on, so please be patient as I go through the requests. If you have applied to the PS Crew, and have not yet been accepted, please send me a PM!
I've got a small list of people I need to check up on, so please be patient as I go through the requests. If you have applied to the PS Crew, and have not yet been accepted, please send me a PM!
I have noticed this as well...every time I've tried to nab a Lazer it hasn't really worked out well in my favor...I say give it time. First few days of release, Online was devoid of Simeon text messages, HPV cars, or crate drops. I see them fairly often now. Once the hub bub dies down some, everything will work better than ever. Heck, Sunday morning I was hopping between online lobbies like nobodies business. Loads times were VERY quick, and got in several 20+ people lobbies. It was a dream, the true next gen GTA experience was had.
We need to get a XB1 crew going, honestly.
Ted
Member
Apart from the bodywork (Jamaican flagged version looks ace) is it appreciably different from the Liberator? Can it seat 4? Is it a Pegasus vehicle or can it be stored in a garage? Can it be modded as LSC?
If you guys do, let me know so I can add it to the OP. Thanks.
brokenbeans
Banned
Alright guys, having tons of trouble with only one mission: High Priority Case. What is the way this mission is intended to be played? Because my friends and I can't do it with the ladder and crane and have absolutely no luck finding a helicopter. Does it seriously require you to buy a Merryweather bird and shooting out the pilot? This seems incredibly broken.
No it doesn't it's an awfully badly designed mission. You can do it with the yellow crane climbing up that and parachuting from the boom to the roof then walking back across the red beam and back down the crane. You can also get Lester to locate a helicopter if you've got that unlocked.
Thanks, forgot he had that option. Maybe will have better luck.
pocketaces
Member
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BobTheFork
Member
SO, are we still considering The Turbo car part 'broken'?
I finally bought and fully upgraded my Zentorno, but I left off the turbo to be safe.
Also, R*, work on your matchmaking. Maybe it's the only race you can put me in at the time, but I feel horrible every time I end up in a room with all new characters. Now, that doesn't stop me from lapping all of them because they left custom cars on, but I feel bad lol
I finally bought and fully upgraded my Zentorno, but I left off the turbo to be safe.
Also, R*, work on your matchmaking. Maybe it's the only race you can put me in at the time, but I feel horrible every time I end up in a room with all new characters. Now, that doesn't stop me from lapping all of them because they left custom cars on, but I feel bad lol
Ah, thanks for the heads up, I went ahead and submitted my request to join the GAF crew!
Baldwin_the_First
Member
I need to take a similar picture of the one I had taken about a year ago in GTAO, but on PS4 this time.
With the new graphics and effects in play, should be realy nice.
With the new graphics and effects in play, should be realy nice.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Servers are really bad tonight
psn
Member
Make sure you visit the San Andreas flight school and go for gold.
TheAdmiester
Member
It's so fast it can almost take off backwards.
Seriously. Get one, reverse as fast as you can, and it'll start to flip over backwards and kill you.
valkillmore
Member
Not what I wanted to hear after working 12 hours. Was gonna hop into bed with the wife and do some online jobs. Hope I can get online.
Ted
Member
Not sure. Did some quick, very unscientific, straight line tests today, they're not entirety conclusive but they make me think it possibly is working inversely to how it should in terms of power.
Times below are non-turbo first then turbo, the rest of the car is the same, fully modded. Times are start point and end point of capture (displayed as rounded to .n) and then the difference.
On phone so hard to go into detail. Pictures tell a thousand words.
Teletraan1
Banned
Are these servers just garbage or did I choose a bad day to start playing this?
I don't know man. For the first time I managed to play quite a few races/missions without being thrown off online. Seems random.
Mr. Luchador
Member
It took 30 minutes to get into a server with a friend, and when we got into one it was us and 2 other people for an hour or two. We didn't drop connection, but we never tried any missions.
JetSetRadio
Banned
Things seem to be smoother for me, get put in 20+ lobbies everytime and timeouts become rare. Loading times to get back into freeroam coming from a lobby can be nasty though.
Summer Haze
Banned
Yeah, this is one thing I'm really unhappy with. I thought it would load much faster than what it does.
Baron Von Beans
Member
I don't know what is happening...I must be lucky then...
I played for about one hour yesterday, on remote play no less, and load times between lobbies were very very fast. WAY faster than anything on PS3, rivalling loading story mode pn PS4. I'm talking less than 10 seconds. It was NUTS. THose lobbies had 1-4 people in it, but even a 20+ person lobby took marginally longer...curious...
Teletraan1
Banned
We had terrible wind here yesterday, maybe it was making me lose connection briefly or something but I couldn't stay online for more than a few minutes. I had internet when I bitched about how bad it was so I didn't think it was on my end. I will try again tonight. I was kind of intrigued by this mode. It kind of pulled me right in and then I had non stop problems.
Cronnie
Member
If we play the 250k challenge, is it possible to lose 250k? Just want to make sure how it works before I dive in.
Yup, you're basically putting down the 250k as a bet, if you don't beat the challenge time you lose the money.
Baron Von Beans
Member
If we play the 250k challenge, is it possible to lose 250k? Just want to make sure how it works before I dive in.
Cronnie got it dead on. Be sure av2k if you do a challenge, find one on criminal records. A lap takes less than 30 seconds, so use that as a gauge if you can. If no Criminal Records is available...well...good luck :\ The first one I did was a point to point race, and I was able to finish with a stock Zentorno with time to spare, but that might not always be the case
jellies_two
Member
ok rockstar need to patch online
its too unreliable to enjoy
I get into a good group we do a few missions then blam get dumped back to single player. re-Join online, and its single person server.
A lot of time spent fighting this, restarting, waiting, but no social head of steam built up to make it worth the time invested...
its too unreliable to enjoy
I get into a good group we do a few missions then blam get dumped back to single player. re-Join online, and its single person server.
A lot of time spent fighting this, restarting, waiting, but no social head of steam built up to make it worth the time invested...
QueenOfThorns
Member
Online kept kicking me back to single player. Guess I didn't get the memo as I tried again and it kicked me out and took every weapon I have in single player.
MADGAME
Member
I haven't played GTA Online since Christmas last year, until now. I'm pretty much acclimated to it again, but activities and missions are quite different. Are there some efficient activities for accumulating money? Not looking to seriously grind or cheat, just hoping to get some insight on some of the more profitable activities.
Last time I played it was the cargobob mission where you stole a storage tank and got a quick $12,500 but it seems to be gone now. I experimented with a few activities and races, nothing seemed to be a nice payoff.
Last time I played it was the cargobob mission where you stole a storage tank and got a quick $12,500 but it seems to be gone now. I experimented with a few activities and races, nothing seemed to be a nice payoff.
Teletraan1
Banned
My exact same experience.
AnotherNils
Member
Does anyone have a crazy 1-3 second delay when they pull up their phone online? Hell, even when I get a call it takes a second or two for the phone to come up. I don't recall it doing this on the 360.