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Where do you get ties? I need a tie. How will people know how classy I am I I don't have a tie? Probably why no valet would take my ride at the pier... 
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I'm not entirely sure what I did to become a lieutenant in Awful Company, but I don't mind the promotion. AWCO 4 Lyfe 
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Reo posted:How else do you propose to succeed at a mission where enemies can materialize behind you, kill you with one/two shots, and have laser accuracy from across the map? I agree completely that the damage is a too high in Survival missions, but I think allowing cheese tactics to trivialize the mission is a terrible solution. I think health should be a resource you manage by using healing items or sprinting to health kits when the opportunity arises. I think you should be able to restock your food items at the beginning of each game the same way you can restock your ammo, but that they are finite until the end of the match. If I am going to die I want it to be because I played badly and ran out of options to protect myself, not because I made a small error in positioning and died before I knew what was shooting at me. At the risk of sounding cliche I think Dark Souls sets the best example for balancing difficulty without resorting to Be Perfect Or Die bullshit. Most things in Dark Souls are not capable of killing you outright, but every mistake you make adds up because your health and resources to replenish it are finite. There are very few challenges in Dark Souls that require you to play perfectly or use one single correct strategy to overcome them. Most of the co-op missions in GTAO work this way because you can approach them in many different ways and you usually do not die instantly if you get caught out, so you have time to get yourself behind cover and heal up if you need to. Eriic fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Oct 17, 2013 |
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Oct 17, 2013 19:06
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TheRationalRedditor posted:That solo tactic someone posted a few pages back was great. You fly there on the far end of the runway, run over by those bleachers, snipe the 2 guys guarding the far plane with one bullet, run up to the jet and C4 it, steal the jeep that's there, and drive by sticky the remaining 2 while being shot ineffectively. Very fun. Why do you guys keep saying the "far end" of the runway? The jet with the 2 soldiers and the jeep beside it is on the NEAR end... the far end would be where the lone jet sits and there is no jeep there.
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Oct 17, 2013 19:15
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:Where do you get ties? I need a tie. How will people know how classy I am I I don't have a tie? I think it is "Accessories" at Suburban and maybe just "Ties" at Ponsonbys 
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Oct 17, 2013 19:21
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Eriic posted:I agree completely that the damage is a too high in Survival missions, but I think allowing cheese tactics to trivialize the mission is a terrible solution. I think health should be a resource you manage by using healing items or sprinting to health kits when the opportunity arises. I think you should be able to restock your food items at the beginning of each game the same way you can restock your ammo, but that they are finite until the end of the match. If I am going to die I want it to be because I played badly and ran out of options to protect myself, not because I made a small error in positioning and died before I knew what was shooting at me. At the risk of sounding cliche I think Dark Souls sets the best example for balancing difficulty without resorting to Be Perfect Or Die bullshit. Most things in Dark Souls are not capable of killing you outright, but every mistake you make adds up because your health and resources to replenish it are finite. There are very few challenges in Dark Souls that require you to play perfectly or use one single correct strategy to overcome them. Most of the co-op missions in GTAO work this way because you can approach them in many different ways and you usually do not die instantly if you get caught out, so you have time to get yourself behind cover and heal up if you need to. Well the problem is that you have to use cheese tactics to survive and they're taking away the cheese tactics without changing the reason you needed to use them. It would be great if you didn't have to camp one spot but with the way the combat mechanics work it's the best way to do it. Any survival I've been in where everybody runs around is usually doomed to failure or falls back on the one guy who set up inside of a garbage can somewhere.
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Oct 17, 2013 19:25
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Things online needs: 5. Bring back the face-plant 6. Better beard options
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Oct 17, 2013 19:29
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Vaiyne posted:6. Better beard options 7. Some more rugged clothes I just want a proper leather jacket and some denim tops, maybe even a denim cutoff/vest R*?  Also some better tattoos, the lack of basically any head and neck tattoos annoys me.
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Oct 17, 2013 19:32
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ninjahedgehog posted:I'm not entirely sure what I did to become a lieutenant in Awful Company, but I don't mind the promotion. AWCO 4 Lyfe Awwwww snap, I'm a Lt. too. Don't know what I did either, but AWCO 4 eva ya'll.
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Oct 17, 2013 19:33
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Rutkowski posted:I'm thinking of making a new PS3 crew for those of us who play a lot but missed out on the larger crews and as such are forced to play solo most of the time. Obviously, other goons would be welcome too but priority to those without any major crew to their name. Would people be up for this? I'm not really down for public freeroam alot and or constant madness for madness sakes, so I have a serious business sorta crew for my friends and I that we started. We mostly play private sessions and I drag them through the fun higher level missions and such. Anyway, you guys are more than welcome to join in, and the emblem looks fantastic on the back of a hoodie. http://socialclub.rockstargames.com/crew/left_hand_path/ If you just want the gooniest of goon play then wait for the merge of the current two smaller goon groups and join them. We are more of a small heist crew then dogfighting 8 jets over the city or hunting pubbies.
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Oct 17, 2013 19:44
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I'm going to try and grid Landing Strip tonight at like 6pm EST (and as soon as Lester gives it to me). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPlolmIgojc Xbox GT: kormak1 (I'm in the stairs inc crew). e: Can you enter planes after jumping out? They should add that. KoRMaK fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Oct 17, 2013 |
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Oct 17, 2013 19:46
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Moochewmoo posted:Except the online component is a pretty drat big part of the game. Rockstar pushed the multiplayer hard. Did they? Multiplayer was a complete mystery up until a few months before release.
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Oct 17, 2013 19:47
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Eriic posted:Dark Souls sets the best example for balancing difficulty without resorting to Be Perfect Or Die bullshit I think you're correctly identifying a game that's challenging but fair, but incorrectly picking out the difference in the two. Dark Souls has two fundamental design elements that are different from GTA: 1) enemies in Dark Souls don't have assault rifles or shotguns or anything that approximates them and 2) everything in Dark Souls is very deliberate placed and enemies stand in those very deliberate spots until you hit or approach them. The former means you always know what hit you or killed you, because even with projectiles you can see something zooming through the air and trace where it came from more easily than in GTA, but in a grander sense the minority of enemies in Dark Souls who use ranged attacks at all are using spells they "charge" or firing bows which have a long delay between shots. By contrast, every single enemy in GTA is carrying a gun and there's really no forewarning or anything. The latter means enemies in Dark Souls have a limited capacity for the random nature of spawn locations and AI (are spawn locations in Survival always the same for each wave? idk this) to gently caress you really badly without you understanding why or having control of the situation, picking a poor spot without even realizing it was a poor spot beforehand. It also makes it easy to memorize exactly where to go and what to do to survive and quickly kill enemies; if you've ever watched a speedrun of the game, the player pretty much doesn't kill anything but bosses because it's so easy to just blow by the rest of the enemies through a combination of memorizing their locations and the level layouts. What I'm getting at with all this is that they're too fundamentally different games, and I don't think there's any kind of magic bullet change that would let you turn GTAO's difficulty into Dark Souls' kind of difficulty without revamping its entire structure. The thought that immediately lept to mind was allowing you to regenerate your health to full instead of half, but that just means you spend more time sitting behind cover (cover shooterrrrs).
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Yardbomb posted:Also some better tattoos, the lack of basically any head and neck tattoos annoys me. loving colored tattoos. I want my girl character to have one half sleeve and a huge sacred heart on her chest
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Oct 17, 2013 19:52
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9. A way to get more team lives in the middle of a mission.
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Oct 17, 2013 19:57
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KoRMaK posted:9. A way to get more team lives in the middle of a mission. Yea, if you stay alive long enough or truck it over to the hospital you get another team life!
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Oct 17, 2013 20:00
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There are a bunch of easy strats for Base Invaders, you can land at the farthest plane, plant a sticky on it, run up to the others, snipe the pilots and sticky them, then detonate them all at the same time reducing the time you spend running around with the base alarm going off. Or you can just jump in the jet that spawns in the middle of the base and crush everything with your guns. It's probably one of the easier missions to solo even on hard.
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Oct 17, 2013 20:06
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Did the port forwarding jazz and I'm still getting "voted" or timed out. Damnit R*, I just wanna have fun!
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Oct 17, 2013 20:07
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Finally got some time to check out GTA Online. Guess I was kind of lucky in being too busy to play during the time when it was impossible to get on, it's been very smooth for me. However I'm wondering - are motorcycles impossibly hard to find in Online, or do they need to be unlocked or something? I've driven pretty much all over the map without seeing one. Or bicycles for that matter.
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Oct 17, 2013 20:08
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Good day today. I created another jaded gamer when some guy didn't shoot me on sight, so I followed him around on foot for a while, then shot him. I killed him another 3 times after that, but then he discovered passive mode. He came at me and flipped me off for a couple of minutes. Of course, I stole a car and drove over him. Lesson taught, I left him alone after that. Gooncrew member joined and we went after some people, most notably a couple of guys in a monster truck thing that both had bounties. I assume they placed them on themselves in order to draw people in. Anyway, we ruined them for a while but they eventually took off. I stole a firetruck and we chased after them and killed them a few more times. We had 4 stars at that point and cashcamden stole one of the SWAT trucks but it was a bitch to drive and we ended up dying a bunch of times (never losing the 4 stars). He drove us to Trevor's airport thing where we took the chopper out. We now had 5 stars, a first for me. I thought I was real smart when I landed us in a hangar, trying to escape the helicopters. Of course the helicopter proceeded to enter the hangar and just fly perfectly for about 5 minutes. I was out of ammo so there was nothing I could do. I got back into the helicopter and flew off, ditching cashcamden (sorry bro). I jumped out when I reached the wind turbines and managed to bring down both helicopters that were after me, but I was on foot so I unceremoniously died shortly afterwards.
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KoRMaK posted:I'm going to try and grid Landing Strip tonight at like 6pm EST (and as soon as Lester gives it to me). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPlolmIgojc I think I'll join you on that this evening. Also, to highlight the bullshit difficulty of this game, just watch this video starting at :23. The dude is using a sniper rifle at max zoom, and the enemies are using assault rifles and poo poo. Watch how fast his health drops. That negates the entire point of a sniper rifle. How did Rockstar gently caress up so badly on that? It makes all prior GTA characters seem nearly invincible. It used to be so fun to go on the biggest rampage you could until you died. Now you've got three cops murdering you on three stars in an intersection. The cynic in me says that Rockstar wants you to die quickly because you have to pay money in free roam, and they've monetized in-game currency, but...
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The Midniter posted:I think I'll join you on that this evening. Hey that video actually reminds me of something: doesn't ARMA 2 have that exact same problem? I saw a video of some guy on a mountain several miles away of his target, assassinate the guy with a sniper rifle. The target's buddies all knew where the sniper team was and killed like one or two of them and almost killed the guy recording no problem.
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The Midniter posted:I think I'll join you on that this evening. I just think everyone should start with whatever the max health is, that should not be part of the leveling-up process. Low leveled characters are so much flimsier than the GTAV single player characters.
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Earwicker posted:Finally got some time to check out GTA Online. Guess I was kind of lucky in being too busy to play during the time when it was impossible to get on, it's been very smooth for me. Fairly sure you have to buy one. Use your phone and go to the Travel search thing from the home page and select the bike shop (it's closer to the bottom of the list). They are fairly cheap, most expensive one being under $16,000. If you want a solid colour bike, don't pick the ones without pictures. I made that mistake once and ended up with the Sprite bike, which was nice but aside from my 84 Sheriff SU, all my A c E fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Oct 17, 2013 |
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^^^^^^ Bikes exist but yeah they're crazy rare. Luckily the best ones are still fairly cheap once you get through the starter lowbie jobs. E- if you head up North you can snag a chopper pretty easily. Don't think you can insure any of the bikes from the Lost though. GNU Order fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Oct 17, 2013 |
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Oct 17, 2013 20:26
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Vaiyne posted:6. Better beard options For real. I was so disappointed I couldn't have the beards from single player at minimum. edit: Also, the only facial hair color is black. I know that's the case for a lot of folks, but mine's blond. Why aren't there facial hair colors like there are for regular hairs? marshmallow creep fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Oct 17, 2013 |
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Oct 17, 2013 20:28
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I have a BMX (two actually since it duped itself) and one of the racing bikes I found just in free-roam not far from my apartment. BMXs are crazy fun to putz around and irritate people trying to run you over. Does anyone know if the "get shot while in a vehicle in passive mode" thing applies to bicycles?
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Pleads posted:I have a BMX (two actually since it duped itself) and one of the racing bikes I found just in free-roam not far from my apartment. BMXs are crazy fun to putz around and irritate people trying to run you over. If I remember right, you have to run people on bikes over and it's actually kinda tricky. Can't shoot them if they're passive on a bike. I may be wrong, but I remember getting into a passive mode biker confrontation on one of my first days playing.
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Roughed up, vehicle destroyed and abandoned, but dammit, I eventually got away from the cops!
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I spent entirely too much money pimping this car out and now I don't have an enough for the fancy apartment with a 10 car garage, and I'm really paranoid that I'm going to lose it based on what you guys said  Yes it has a tracker but it's the one from LSC 
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Oct 17, 2013 20:37
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10. Colour code the text message pop-ups so you know if the invite is from a crew mate or a pubbie. I shouldn't have to memorise the 299 other members of my crew, especially if they aren't in the same session as me.
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Oct 17, 2013 20:38
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Has the Stimulus Package update hit yet?
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Up until today I believed I wasn't going to do the car selling glitch and that I could just make money the normal way. After running enough missions to get about $200k then losing all of it trying to have fun killing pubbies I have decided I no longer care. I did it with the free Elegy until I could afford a more expensive car and when I get back from class I'm going to have a great time NOT getting pissed that in 10 minutes I lost 3 hours of work.
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frontlineKHAAAN! posted:10. Colour code the text message pop-ups so you know if the invite is from a crew mate or a pubbie. I shouldn't have to memorise the 299 other members of my crew, especially if they aren't in the same session as me. Yea this is annoying. I'd gladly accept goon crew invites but I only know about 5-10 at a glance.
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Woodburger posted:Up until today I believed I wasn't going to do the car selling glitch and that I could just make money the normal way. After running enough missions to get about $200k then losing all of it trying to have fun killing pubbies I have decided I no longer care. I did it with the free Elegy until I could afford a more expensive car and when I get back from class I'm going to have a great time NOT getting pissed that in 10 minutes I lost 3 hours of work. This is such a lame excuse to abuse exploits. "I hosed off a bunch and wasted my money and don't wanna do it again." I get people doing it because the game ate your modded car or something, but doing it to avoid your medical costs and stuff is lame. MacheteZombie fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Oct 17, 2013 |
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frontlineKHAAAN! posted:10. Colour code the text message pop-ups so you know if the invite is from a crew mate or a pubbie. I shouldn't have to memorise the 299 other members of my crew, especially if they aren't in the same session as me. Yep - that right there.
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Exited a race last night in the desert and saw a bounty over by the airfield. He was with 3 crew members as I did a quick drive by to assess the situation. I decided to drive away and snipe from afar. As I pulled out a sniper rifle and aimed I got sniped. Being well outnumbered and determined to get that bounty I called in some mercs. When they arrived I flew in with my BF Injection, bailed out and grenade launched everyone and everything except for the mercs. The bounty was only 1k. So I lost 9500 funbux, paid some insurances and picked up some badsport points but well worth it.
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Someguy posted:There are a bunch of easy strats for Base Invaders, you can land at the farthest plane, plant a sticky on it, run up to the others, snipe the pilots and sticky them, then detonate them all at the same time reducing the time you spend running around with the base alarm going off. Or you can just jump in the jet that spawns in the middle of the base and crush everything with your guns. Easiest tactic for me is to do it backwards. Start on the freeway north of the tunnel, jump the fence using the ramp to the right of the north side tunnel entrance. Stick the jets, park on the right side of the bob, take the bob back, run over to the plane, then back in the bob. Mission takes three and a half minutes to complete without shooting a single shot at the marines. Then to restart it, because you end the mission at the airfield, take a heli or plane back over to the freeway mentioned, then restart. With loading times, it takes about 8 minutes a cycle.
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I am not one of those guys who needs to be sexually attracted to females in a video game to enjoy them, but my god, it has to be said, Why are boobs so loving low in this game? Every female GTAO character looks near-elderly (even if they are not) due to the fact that they have this GIANT flat chest/sternum and then boobs down below. It's weird.
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MacheteZombie posted:This is such a lame excuse to abuse exploits. "I hosed off a bunch and wasted my money and don't wanna do it again." Really? You don't see how loving around in freeroam should be an integral part of the game? You really think you should have to choose between an apartment that takes at least 10 ingame hours to save up for and maaaaaybe 2 hours of ammo and hospital bills for freeroam fuckery? I look at it like a cheat code. It doesn't affect other players' enjoyment, it only affects my own experience. My experience without cheating is frustrating and limited. My experience cheating doesn't allow me to go crazy, it just let me play the game in what I believe is the spirit it was originally intended.
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