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ExtraNoise posted:It's weird that the game will suddenly spawn a vehicle and the entire world will be flooded by that one vehicle. Then you will go back and none will be around. Makes sense for memory contraints.
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csidle posted:Yes. Great car for fast driving. Probably my favourite, although I prefer the Sultan XS over the stock. Are there no mods to remedy the car-spawn thing? There is a Sentinel XS, however. It's still just called a regular sentinel when you get inside though.
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May 6, 2011 01:15
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You can find a Sultan RS behind the abandoned bum house on the third island every time you go there.
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May 6, 2011 01:24
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Just remembered how fun MTA SA can be. I shall provide no further descriptions as these images speak for themselves: 
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ExtraNoise posted:It's weird that the game will suddenly spawn a vehicle and the entire world will be flooded by that one vehicle. Then you will go back and none will be around. When the engine is spawning new cars, it gives priority to cars in the same class as the one you're driving. So if you drive an Infernus, you'll be surrounded by expensive sports cars (Cheetah, Banshee etc). If you're in a low-rider, you'll be surrounded by those. There are still rules covering different areas and where each vehicle category can spawn, so that you don't end up with a bunch of farm vehicles in the downtown area etc. And there are special rules that I think are individually programmed (for example in Vice City a garbage truck would drive past the stadium each morning at ~6am, regardless of what car you were driving). Every GTA since GTA3 has worked this way, and as Doc Hawkins mentioned above it's solely because of memory constraints.
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May 6, 2011 01:26
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Starhawk64 posted:So, what's everyone's favorite car in GTA4? I'm partial to the Sabre GT. It's semi-common, tough enough to survive crashes, and has a sweet exhaust note to boot. Vanilla cars: SabreGT all around, but if I know that things are gonna get interesting, I'll take a Futo GT.  It's surprisingly durable!   Modded cars:  gently caress I can't choose just one  (Also god drat jpg compression ruined that picture.)
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May 6, 2011 02:05
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I love the Coquette, just because I'm a Corvette fan, and I always look for a silver one if I can get it. Infernuses are always nice too. Inferni?
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Capn Beeb posted:Vanilla cars: SabreGT all around, but if I know that things are gonna get interesting, I'll take a Futo GT.
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May 6, 2011 08:08
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csidle posted:Yes. Great car for fast driving. Probably my favourite, although I prefer the Sultan XS over the stock. Are there no mods to remedy the car-spawn thing? Get the simple native trainer and just spawn the car you want; its not really cheating if you only use it for that.
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May 6, 2011 08:21
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csidle posted:Those models look really great. Do you happen to have a list of the models you've installed? Buick GNX Chevrolet Chevelle '69 Charger '06 Charger (Replaces civilian Buffalo in TBOGT, but you could use it for any four door you want in the regular game) Ferrari F430 Scuderia Mercedes SLS
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May 6, 2011 08:34
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Give me all the muscle cars in GTA IV They are the best.
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organburner posted:Give me all the muscle cars in GTA IV Right on. Also like the rustbuckets though.
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May 6, 2011 11:40
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I was disappointed to discover that you can't take a beater through the Pay and Spray and give it a fresh coat of paint. The guy just says "not much I can do with this one" or something to that effect and it comes out looking just as lovely as it did before, if slightly cleaner.
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May 6, 2011 13:45
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Is there any way to fix the horrible building and texture pop-in? I tried lowering the view and detail distance to no avail, I'll still often be turning down a road that has gray soup for a texture. Running a E8400 with 4GB RAM and a 5750 1GB.
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May 6, 2011 13:54
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Lee Van Queef posted:I was disappointed to discover that you can't take a beater through the Pay and Spray and give it a fresh coat of paint. The guy just says "not much I can do with this one" or something to that effect and it comes out looking just as lovely as it did before, if slightly cleaner. Yes, that struck me as weird too. SplitSoul posted:Is there any way to fix the horrible building and texture pop-in? I tried lowering the view and detail distance to no avail, I'll still often be turning down a road that has gray soup for a texture. Running a E8400 with 4GB RAM and a 5750 1GB. It happens on the Xbox too, even on a clean and otherwise empty system. The 2 expansions are worse; concrete dividers, trees, flowerbeds, etc. popping up just before you crash into them, and sometimes all textures in the Booth tunnel are gone, so you're sort of floating through disconnected 3D panels.
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Underflow posted:It happens on the Xbox too, even on a clean and otherwise empty system. The 2 expansions are worse; concrete dividers, trees, flowerbeds, etc. popping up just before you crash into them, and sometimes all textures in the Booth tunnel are gone, so you're sort of floating through disconnected 3D panels.
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May 6, 2011 19:44
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Tewratomeh posted:Apparently it's an unpopular opinion, but I think Roman is the best GTA IV friend. By the end of the game I'd spent more time with him doing random activities than any of the others. I just couldn't say no to the guy... by the end of the game he actually kind of felt like a cousin. This. I don't have any cousins IRL, but the emotional bond with Niko that I felt while playing GTA IV was pretty special.
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A Quiet American posted:I finished the Gold Star achievement recently in TBoGT and this problem was somewhat frustrating. You'd be going for the fastest possible time in a lot of missions, so you're typically driving around Liberty City as fast as humanly possible. Unfortunately, in a lot of cases it doesn't give the game enough time to render all sorts of obstructions until after you've already smashed into them trying to take what looked like a very inviting shortcut. Some say cleaning the Xbox's disk cache and installing the game to be first on the drive should help, but that only seems to give minimal improvement. Others say it's better to play straight from the ROM, but apparently that may increase the risk of a RRoD. Pretty disappointing, 'cause driving in the IV instalments is great fun, I think. For that Gold Star, do you have to drive the vehicles chosen for you when you start the mission segment or is it possible to grab another?
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Starhawk64 posted:So, what's everyone's favorite car in GTA4? I'm partial to the Sabre GT. It's semi-common, tough enough to survive crashes, and has a sweet exhaust note to boot. My favorite was the one that looked like a Chrysler 300M. I'm terrible at driving and that car had the best balance of speed, durability and handling to me. Plus the black ones paired with a suit were the perfect look for a hitman 
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Der Luftwaffle posted:My favorite was the one that looked like a Chrysler 300M. I'm terrible at driving and that car had the best balance of speed, durability and handling to me. Plus the black ones paired with a suit were the perfect look for a hitman That would be the PMP600.
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Wait, what the hell? I hated the Washington with a passion.  Please inform me of its redeeming qualities.The Blista Compact is good, and the rusty junkers were cool just because they weren't really as bad as they looked. I very much like the Miami from TBOGT also.
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nerdly_dood posted:Wait, what the hell? I hated the Washington with a passion. Only the Washington and the Cognoscenti make this soothing flop-flop rubber on rough road sound in the Alderney port district. Quiet Self Actualization track on the stereo and you almost automatically reach for the cooler of booze on the backseat. quote:The Blista Compact is good, and the rusty junkers were cool just because they weren't really as bad as they looked. I very much like the Miami from TBOGT also. Which one's the Miami? Can't seem to find it.
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May 6, 2011 23:51
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Underflow posted:Which one's the Miami? Can't seem to find it. There's no car called the Miami; he's probably thinking of the Tampa, the two-door muscle droptop with go-faster stripes.
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I was so bummed that your car delivery buddy in Gay Tony didn't get a Tampa on his list  Yes these supercars are nice and all but do you have something more classic looking? No? Oh, ok 
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Starhawk64 posted:So, what's everyone's favorite car in GTA4? I'm partial to the Sabre GT. It's semi-common, tough enough to survive crashes, and has a sweet exhaust note to boot. Taxi. I realized I was playing too much GTA4 when I saw a Taxi in real life and thought about hijacking the passenger compartment so I could teleport to my destination. After that, Banshee
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Fudge for Hands posted:Taxi. I realized I was playing too much GTA4 when I saw a Taxi in real life and thought about hijacking the passenger compartment so I could teleport to my destination. After that, Banshee I started watching some speed runs from Speed Demos Archive. GTA is an interesting challenge. The traffic and the spawn randomness is such an uncertain factor that it has to be incredibly frustrating to even attempt. Since there's been a lot of discussion about annoying travel in San Andreas, I figured I'd link this guy's Badlands runs. He's a wizard with a Sanchez. video 1 video 2 His San Andreas run and his VC single-segment have commentary tracks if you download the videos. He goes into minute detail about how he selects paths, parts that are frustrating and his :spergin: level of perfectionism. The San Fierro Jizzy missions he said took him three months and hundreds of tries.
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Lee Van Queef posted:There's no car called the Miami; he's probably thinking of the Tampa, the two-door muscle droptop with go-faster stripes.
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awesome-express posted:Just remembered how fun MTA SA can be. I shall provide no further descriptions as these images speak for themselves: Sometimes pictures like this make me want to rethink being so stubborn about sticking to SA-MP. But apparently I find roleplaying (In the loosest sense of the word fathomable) with large numbers of angry prepubescents and/or Eastern Europeans 'fun'. One day I will find a new great server. There was Godfather RP (The original when the mode was exclusive), Spark's Protect the Prime Minister (Again an 'official' server for a mode) and Public Enemy Number 1 or something like that - a kind of precursor to Cops n Robbers. Ah 2007, I miss you.
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I have never had more fun with a multiplayer game than I did with the old Goon Theft Auto freeroam servers. I wish someone would revive them again, but I don't even know whether the source still exists or who has it.
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Huh... so apparently they made massive improvements to Multi Theft Auto, and people have made all kinds of crazy game modes and such through the magic of scripting. Here I was wading through Brazilians and poop-sockers on lovely role-playing servers hosted in Yugoslavia. I'll have to give MTA another shot, if anybody is still playing it.
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I was going to take a picture of some of my car mods like the other goon but I just decided to make a video of one of my favorites. Nissan 200SX Linked because you should watch it in HD. :l
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I don't know where you can find it; but this is the best car mod for gta4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOEnbJYn1Bc
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So is the DLC for gta4 worth it? Do they actually expand the base game and improve it or is it just slapped on mission packs and some new vehicles?
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Bobnumerotres posted:So is the DLC for gta4 worth it? Do they actually expand the base game and improve it or is it just slapped on mission packs and some new vehicles? I thought GTA4 was a pile of poo poo but loved the DLC. They're actual expansion packs that manage to have more mission variation, weapons, side missions and a better story than the vanilla game. Should take you around 25 hours to finish both of them. Just remember to play The Lost and Damned first then The Ballad of Gay Tony. They're worth it.
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Bobnumerotres posted:So is the DLC for gta4 worth it? Do they actually expand the base game and improve it or is it just slapped on mission packs and some new vehicles? The two of them add so much to the core GTA4 experience that I can't stress enough how much I suggest them, even if you weren't partial towards GTA4 proper.
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Bobnumerotres posted:So is the DLC for gta4 worth it? Do they actually expand the base game and improve it or is it just slapped on mission packs and some new vehicles?
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Bobnumerotres posted:So is the DLC for gta4 worth it? Do they actually expand the base game and improve it or is it just slapped on mission packs and some new vehicles? TLAD and BoGT are to GTA4 as San Andreas and Vice city are to GTA3. By that I mean go buy them right now.
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I hope the next game is set in like 2025 or something, with electric cars and hologram TV channels and poo poo.
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I hope it's going to be a '60s/'70s setting with muscle cars and boatsized sedans. Plainrides from a Chicago-like city to the SW states, blasting along dusty highways in a Shelby Cobra or Dodge Charger, elaborate drugdeals, flying in product from Mexico, escaping to Tijuana, corrupt cops, weird hippie communes and cults, Vietnam, race riots, undercover cop work, and so on. Multiple branching storylines depending on choices you make, characters getting older and put in situations at different times of their lives, stretches in prison and mental hospitals; the lot on 100+ DVDs so the game basically never ends or at least never plays out the same way. GTA Forever: Play Till You Die.
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Do you think they'll loving fix the cover shooting system in the next one? It's not that hard: you go in cover, left trigger to pop out and aim, right trigger to shoot either while aiming or to blindfire from cover while not aiming. Instead in GTA4 the left trigger just sort of makes Niko poke his head up, and the right trigger makes him pop out and shoot (which moves the reticule). Please God tell me someone else found this as annoying as I did. loving clunky-rear end wordy game why won't you let me love you?
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