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Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
Nice OP, Powershift! You're only missing some small things, I reckon:

List Of Actually Useful Phone Contacts:

Mechanic- Summon Personal Vehicle
Lester- Off The Radar
Lester- Remove Wanted Level
Lamar- Call Mugger
Merryweather- Call Mercenaries
Assistant (with owned office)- Retrieve Impounded Vehicle

and that gif of the oppressor kill on the yacht dude needs to be in the OP, you know the one.

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Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
We're not going to see official confirmation that GTA 6 even exists until Rockstar's done releasing the PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2 and they won't even hint RDR2 PC exists until RDR2 is released on consoles.

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
This is America and anything that can be a drive-thru, will be a drive-thru.




(I just...found it up here. Don't even own a Bullet, so I reckon it's a street car that spawned funny)

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
I'd be completely OK if the next GTA is Online 2 and they never bother with the single-player part ever again: there's other SP open world car stealy shooty games out there, some of which improve on GTA 5.

However, there's nothing quite as detailed and expansive for multiplayer as GTA Online. Right now, its very clear that in a lot of cases in Online they're limited to hacking new stuff in in ways the systems were not originally meant to support, but imagine what Rockstar could do if they built for Online and planned for player-owned businesses from the ground up. That Chinatown drug dealing thing you guys talk about, OJ mode, Cops & Crooks, Adversary modes with scoring other than 'first to 2 rounds wins' - who knows how much is missing because they want to do it but can't?

I mean gently caress, it took them 3 years of Online to figure out how to add different ammo types to guns and that whole system is still clunky as hell.

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

Buschmaki posted:

I have a problem where everytime a particle effect goes off, like smoke from tires or muzzle flashes my screen will go absolutely crazy. Like, a giant blurry rear end triangle is drawn from the particle effect to the edge of the screen and I have no clue what's causing it. My graphics settings haven't changed at all.

Check your drivers and verify your GTA files, something might have corrupted. Otherwise, you might be looking at the first sign of a dying graphics card :ohdear:

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

Hugh Malone posted:

I simultaneously hate and participate in the highest grossing entertainment franchise to date.

Yo there are plenty of other threads to talk about Star Wars in

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

Jedi Knight Luigi posted:

Total longshot on this since it looks like only about 10 people post in here, but does anyone else feel like the NC layout is almost exactly like Gnadenlos in Vienna, Austria? That's exactly the feeling that hit me the first time I walked down those virtual steps.

Can't speak from experience, but Vienna does seem a likely place that a bunch of Scottish game devs would go for a boozy long weekend.

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
I used to give out the advice that all you needed to terrorize pubbies have fun in GTA is a Bati 801, a micro uzi, compact grenade launcher and a bit of skill, but the power creep is real and that combo will lose most of the time to deluxos and oppressors.

Still a super cheap investment though!
If the bike life is for you then you can take it further by getting a basic clubhouse filled with 10 Bati 801s. That's under 300k and lets you chain summon bikes that regen your health while riding them right next to you so you never have to walk to your next victim.
If your tastes are more PVE get an Armoured Kuruma after the high end apt, nothing helps grinding like being bulletproof.

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

in it, voted 5

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
How did this get here I am not good with computer

Ripper Swarm fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Aug 27, 2018

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
Hunter is good for groups as its one of the few air vehicles that gets much stronger with a copilot. If all 3-4 of you want to roll in the same vehicle (and you want something that isn't a Buzzard for a change), I hear the Tula is fun?

Comedy option: Bombushka

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

Eregos posted:

Hardcore grinding strats

I'm mildly curious to know if you've applied the same rigour and focus to your, y'know, actual life.

Are you minmaxing GTA on your private tropical island in between bouts of jetskiing, cuddling turtles and partying with supermodels?

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

Sounds like you're living your best life then!
I'll definitely recommend Path based on that post, keep an eye on their weekend sales for a stash tab sale and check the PoE thread here for the essential ones to get before you get seriously into it.

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

coupedeville posted:

Here's my idea - Casino Crates(TM)!!!

You acquire a casino warehouse for your criminal enterprise, and there you buy a crate through securoserv for a set price and RNG decides whether you get a bad crate or a jackpot crate! I for one can't wait for this wholesome and compelling gameplay in daddy rockstar's next exciting GTA:O update!!!!!

:homebrew: :homebrew:


An idea is striking me as well! What if you have to ferry every Casino CrateTM you buy across the length of the entire map in some sort of slow, defenceless van?

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
yeah, we all know coupe's monitor is on 24/7 displaying the hit videogame Grand Theft Auto: Online from Rockstar Games

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

Darkness5780 posted:

Is this the place to ask for help with heists?

It is if you're playing on the Ouya or Commodore 64, if you're on PC you can also ask in the Discord.

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

hiddenriverninja posted:

I hate how you have to buy a thing to buy a thing

it's why I missed the discounts for the jet pack and tank


It's deliberate, the idea is you consider buying a shark card to not miss out on the discount

:capitalism:



T1g4h posted:


Hi, it's me, the world's biggest Tampa fan. The Tampa owns, always buy the Tampa :h:

That's almost my Tampa, except I went all the way and gave it the tiger stripe livery

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
yeeeeeeep

"LJT here, I feel like out little operation's going well..."

I don't know what he says past that, that's where I've hung up for the past thousand calls

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
Interesting that they say there will be mid mission choices. Wonder how reactive it's going to be?

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
Phonepostin so no link, but check out the trailer for the new Ryan Reynolds film Free Guy and tell me they're not heavily inspired by GTA and the Pacific Standard job in particular...

Taika Waititi cameo'd so I'm going to watch it even if it's as dumb as it looks


e: no longer phoneposting so here you go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2m-08cOAbc

Ripper Swarm fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Dec 9, 2019

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
Before you blow your cash on a Firetruck that you'll have to go all the way to a Pegasus spawn point to use, remember that the LSFD operate an on-demand delivery service.

Their phone number's real easy to remember too!

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
Heists are all well and good, but the snow won't be here long so enjoy it while it lasts!

Ripperswarm recommendation: Find a Futo and throw it around on the hill roads near the Vinewood observatory. Kept me grinning for most of an hour

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

Inspector Hound posted:

Lol @not being able to say any version of "Rockstar" you can imagine, or just "Xbox"


That's to prevent people scamming by impersonating Rockstar/Xbox support staff.

Yes, you would have to be very dumb to fall for that scam, and yet...

Ripper Swarm fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Jan 5, 2020

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

Inspector Hound posted:

Hello, plz giev me ur password? I'm president of lanoiredev, joe cumflaps

On the other hand, this guy can say 'cumflaps' so he must be legit R* staff!

My password is 'CREAMPIE'

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
rumor mills need clickbait.


as it is, as it was, as it ever shall be

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
On supercars, Zesty's right that there's no real consensus on 'best' (there are some that are duds, though). The differences at the top end won't really matter matter until you've unlocked all the tuning upgrades anyway. If you want a beginner's recommendation, the Zentorno has a lot of performance for a fairly reasonable price compared to the competition.

If you're into motorbikes instead of cars, the Bati 801 is a superb starting place (e: it's literally $9k, ie loose change). I really recommend a controller for riding though! FYI, GTA lets you use whatever control methods you want so you can freely and instantly switch between controller, mouse and keyboard.
Sadly, the days where you could rule a lobby with stickybombs/compact GL and riding skill are mostly gone due to power creep........but wait.... the Epic freebie pubbies don't know that :twisted:

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

quote:

featuring our latest take on Heists in an entirely new location

This time, players purchase an entirely new 'Heist warehouse' they can use to source 'heist crates' held by gangs across Los Santos. With enough crates stored, players can make some ill-gotten gains via a daring "reverse heist"!

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
They could copy Saints Row again and add helicarriers

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
Or hell, the favourite of any creatively bankrupt franchise is still available: space!


Not-Elon Musk from the Doomsday Heists has returned and he's doomsdaying again! Quick, buy the silo under Chiliad to travel to his moonbase and heist his uh, tech whatever! Lester will keep talking continuously for the entire time!

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

namlosh posted:

Do the casino penthouse missions though, once you do like 5 or 10, you get a sweet car that can’t be bought any other way I think?

Note that you only get given the car once you've hosted the mission chain, just playing in someone else's lobbies won't do it

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
Shamelessly stealing all the hot news from the GTA Goon Discord, filled with cool cats and fun times.


The community heist challenge was won, so here's one of the rewards we got:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m50a3OLCLBQ

It's a teaser for the next game update, the 'all-new take on Heists'. The body randomly spawns in-game now (and does nothing), but the resident GTAologists are certain the island is not an existing location. After 7 years are we finally getting a new landmass?? That'd be something.

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

CBJSprague24 posted:

How many people are back to actively playing on PS4 from the crew and do you need one more? I think my PS+ expired but I bought a card which was intended to be a gift and I can take a break from Cities Skylines for and am always down for good times with Goons.

GTA and Cities Skylines both have hugely exaggerated traffic networks for their city size so sometimes I finish a cool district and think "Wow, I should send this to Rockstar and they'd immediately hire me as the map designer for GTA 6"

Then I remember that GTA:Online is raking in so much money for so little effort that Rockstar isn't even making GTA 6! :rimshot:

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
Hey goons, the Coil Brawler has a lot of power, very little in the way of brakes and right now all the road surfaces are frictionless snow!

Try the dam tracks near Mirror Park at full speed for Maximum Fun and in my recent experience, many insurance claims

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
So.
Last night I hit Online Rank 500 hacking the air defences on the aircraft carrier.

I guess I now have to admit that although there are many areas it could be improved, GTA is, in fact, A Good Game.


and that I am an awful nerd with brainworms, but most of you knew that anyway

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

Beautiful

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
Stuff I saw in my 30 min pokearound:

Membership for the new car meet is 50k, lets you use the facilities and start ranking up
All the new cars are between 1-2 mil, you can unlock trade prices by ranking up in the car meet
I saw an outfit that unlocks at car meet level 1000
Auto shop is 1.2-1.8mil, they're all in central/SE Los Santos. Haven't bought yet but that unlocks the new mission chain.
There's a prize car you can win by completing the club challenge. The challenge I have is to place 3rd or higher 3 days in a row. Dunno how often the car refreshes, guessing weekly like the casino wheel?
New collectible: USB sticks with DJ mixes on them. You can play them in car radios.

Biggest news of the update: in the vehicle section of the interaction menu, you can now hide radio stations from the radial menu

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

Penitent posted:

So I am finishing the GTA 5 Campaign and I'm thinking about getting into GTA Online.

One of the must frustrating elements in the Campaign is that it's incredibly easy to lose cars that I have acquired and modded. I can save cars in garages, but if I use them during missions or events, the cars often disappear between cutscenes. I wish that garages provided for a limited number of "save slots" so vehicles that are lost out in the world would return to your garage.

Does GTA Online improve on that at all?


Yes.

In Online (barring rare glitches) you have to deliberately sell or overwrite a personal car to get rid of it. Also, you can own something like...80? 100? personal vehicles these days.

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

Psion posted:

is this related to how all my chrome wheels (where I ground out the requirements for each category) giving me a price mismatch/failure every single time I try to use them or is that a different flagging mistake?

not like chrome wheels are at all a big probem but I put in the work for those, rockstar.

Lol, I think that problem is R* trying to apply an Auto Shop discount to a base price of 0 and getting NaN. I just went down the street to LSCustoms for my free chrome wheels.

Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.

Sleekly posted:

sometimes when you are fleeing Cayo Pavel will warn you about some huge thing on the sonar (but he doesnt want to panic you) and then he says its an old friend and no threat.

what is he going on about?

It's an Easter egg. Nessie will show up if you take a boat to a certain point off the main docks

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Ripper Swarm
Sep 9, 2009

It's not that I hate it. It's that I loathe it.
I might be misremembering but I feel like you could probably slam through the main story in 3 and VC in a weekend each if you tried, they're not long games

Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:

Deep down i think my wish is that the current gta V engine was modular enough that teams could re-create those 3 games in the current engine. Maps? NPC assets, weapons, player models, vehicles? So much of that SEEMS like it could be a lot of re-skins, and then code the mission scripts. Of course the city maps would be much smaller than the entire island, but that could make it a quicker project, many fewer assets to deal with, for example.


Well as you point out, the big issue is that the GTA V engine is not modular, it took them 7 years to add a new island that you can't even go to in freeroam lmao.

But apart from that, they'd have to redo everything from scratch. The code/scripts and the map, gun, character, vehicle assets would all have to be recreated in the V engine. They can't even reuse music and voice acting because, for example Ray Liotta's performance as Tommy Vercetti was licensed for a game called Vice City. They'd have to renegotiate to use it again in a GTA V DLC. That's not impossible, but any decent agent is going to ask for a huge amount of money for rights to put it in a literal billion dollar+ game

So if you're putting in all that effort anyway to redo almost everything...why not just make something new and lazily remaster Vice City for people who still want to play that in 2021?

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