Grand Theft Auto V

Is GTA Online still a lot of fun? I never actually delved into it.

Manach wrote:
b12n11w00t wrote:

Add me on social club if you haven't Manach, it's b12n11w00t there too. I can be CEO and we can alternate between vip missions and challenges. It's a very fast way to earn money getting abotu 100k an hour or so. Bonus is that you can do it in private so people won't hassle you.

Can't do private for CEO mission.

We are already friend on there as well.

You can't do cargo, but you can do the other VIP missions.

Balthezor wrote:

Is GTA Online still a lot of fun? I never actually delved into it.

I think so, as long as you stay out of public. Public is just a bunch of people running around killing each other. Even if they only get 2k for stopping you from delivering cargo, they still come for you. I've found in my experiences.

b12n11w00t wrote:
Manach wrote:
b12n11w00t wrote:

Add me on social club if you haven't Manach, it's b12n11w00t there too. I can be CEO and we can alternate between vip missions and challenges. It's a very fast way to earn money getting abotu 100k an hour or so. Bonus is that you can do it in private so people won't hassle you.

Can't do private for CEO mission.

We are already friend on there as well.

You can't do cargo, but you can do the other VIP missions.

Balthezor wrote:

Is GTA Online still a lot of fun? I never actually delved into it.

I think so, as long as you stay out of public. Public is just a bunch of people running around killing each other. Even if they only get 2k for stopping you from delivering cargo, they still come for you. I've found in my experiences.

Can you play online privately?

Balthezor wrote:

Can you play online privately?

There is both a solo session option, and you can start an Invite Only session without inviting anyone. There is also a Passive Mode that makes it such that no one can hurt you.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:
Balthezor wrote:

Can you play online privately?

There is both a solo session option, and you can start an Invite Only session without inviting anyone. There is also a Passive Mode that makes it such that no one can hurt you.

Pretty much this, but there are also Closed Crew and Closed Friends so that you don't have to invite. What's frustrating is the main way to access these private modes is that you have to be in Single Player and then select online from there. If you just select Online from the main menu it takes you to public every time.

Tomorrow is the stunts content, I'm pretty hopeful that it's awesome.

Cunning Stunts is the best silly racing game i've played in ages. I love it wholly and completely.

Anyone else on PS4 wanna do a go-round with me sometime?

Prederick wrote:

Cunning Stunts is the best silly racing game i've played in ages. I love it wholly and completely.

Anyone else on PS4 wanna do a go-round with me sometime?

I launched it the other day and enjoyed it. I just wish the driving was better. It made me want to play Trackmania.

Prederick wrote:

Cunning Stunts is the best silly racing game i've played in ages. I love it wholly and completely.

Anyone else on PS4 wanna do a go-round with me sometime?

If you find me on, and are willing to endure my terribleness, I could be down. It is a pretty fun update, though the best part was it compelled me to sell that ugly ass Batmobile looking supercar because it was no longer king of the heap.

A friend and I were playing some of the stunt races last night and some of the tracks are really great! Plus right now they are double cash so the payout was nice even with just a couple people.

Tried to invite some people (randomly) but only one person joined our race, so there were only 3 of us in the races. I would imagine with a race full of people it's a lot more fun. The tracks were cool, but when there's so much of a gap in between racers at some point it just feels like you're alone. lol.

Has anyone tried played in first-person with mouse/keyboard?

I finally got the game and fired it up over the weekend. I was hoping to play entirely in first-person while on foot, but I'm not feeling it so far. The engine doesn't feel very smooth. It's very floaty and jerky. I've mucked around with the settings but I can't get it to feel right.

Am I missing something obvious?

The only thing I use first-person for is driving certain vehicles. Motorcycles and some cars feel better for me. The first person was added with the update to this current gen and while it's plausible to use, it still feels weird and somewhat overanimated with how it tracks when you fall down or get hit.

I mostly just use a controller, it's much easier for me since I'm used to using that in the other games.

I keep wondering if first person view wasn't created with the idea of testing out GTA using a virtual headset for future games. It seems like such an obvious thing to do...

Trying to drive the ugly ass armored Kuruma that everyone uses online is nigh impossible.

I switched out of it pretty quickly. I could see using it for some relaxed strolls or exploring, but for missions it was more punishing than amazing.

By the way if you're even remotely interested in doing the ceo, biker or import/export missions but you have steered away because of it requiring you to be in a public session, I've found a fix for that. There's a program called Netlimiter. It tops you upload/download for a specific program to 5kb/s when you turn it on. Join a public game, turn it on and then watch as mysteriously everyone leaves and you're left alone in a public session.

Only downfall is you have to do stuff solo, which stinks since I can't play it with my buddy.

I finally started playing this!

Man, that first racing mission with Franklin can go jump in a lake. The cars handle super badly, I could barely see, so I always either hit something, or got run off the road by turn 2 and couldn't catch up. Of course, no option to restart. Thank goodness it gave you the option to skip eventually.

This was before I figured out that the green F at Franklin's house was a mission and not a safehouse marker. Not sure if I missed a tutorial thing about that. I was getting frustrated.

b12n11w00t wrote:

By the way if you're even remotely interested in doing the ceo, biker or import/export missions but you have steered away because of it requiring you to be in a public session, I've found a fix for that. There's a program called Netlimiter. It tops you upload/download for a specific program to 5kb/s when you turn it on. Join a public game, turn it on and then watch as mysteriously everyone leaves and you're left alone in a public session.

Only downfall is you have to do stuff solo, which stinks since I can't play it with my buddy.

That's evil/brilliant. Can you not disable Netlimiter once you're in an empty public session? Or does it only appear empty because of the lack of data?

You can disable it once you're in an empty session but it'll start connecting people to you, leaving it on allows for things like saving but not enough to allow people to connect to you for more than a few seconds before it routes them elsewhere. But I know some reddit people use it to initiate an empty room then invite a bunch of crew people so they basically fill a public lobby with crew members.

b12n11w00t wrote:

You can disable it once you're in an empty session but it'll start connecting people to you, leaving it on allows for things like saving but not enough to allow people to connect to you for more than a few seconds before it routes them elsewhere. But I know some reddit people use it to initiate an empty room then invite a bunch of crew people so they basically fill a public lobby with crew members.

That's sort of the path I was thinking about - I don't need an instance to be 100% empty, but if I can start fairly empty, then invite my friends I feel like the instances of being on-server with a blatant hacker (if I get turned into a giant orange ONE MORE TIME...) should be lower.

wolfstar76 wrote:
b12n11w00t wrote:

You can disable it once you're in an empty session but it'll start connecting people to you, leaving it on allows for things like saving but not enough to allow people to connect to you for more than a few seconds before it routes them elsewhere. But I know some reddit people use it to initiate an empty room then invite a bunch of crew people so they basically fill a public lobby with crew members.

That's sort of the path I was thinking about - I don't need an instance to be 100% empty, but if I can start fairly empty, then invite my friends I feel like the instances of being on-server with a blatant hacker (if I get turned into a giant orange ONE MORE TIME...) should be lower.

There was a huge banwave that went out during the holiday stuff. Dunno how long that'll work.

So I just started this up on the Xbone. Game looks and plays great. I wonder if it will get a 4k uprez, but it looks fantastic without. I really like the color palette in the game.

Got it on sale and am going to play tomorrow for the first time. Tips for starting out?

Single player or online?

Single.

Lookup how to min-max the stock market during the single player campaign. It is a pain in the ass earning all the cash you need for all the properties after the campaign ends.

Whoa this sale is the first time the games been sub-$30 afaik. Barring any bundles or GMG deals I didn’t notice before.

Maclintok wrote:

Whoa this sale is the first time the games been sub-$30 afaik. Barring any bundles or GMG deals I didn’t notice before.

That’s what pushed me over the edge.

Yeah min-maxing the stock market is the only real tricky bit of the single player, the rest is just playing it and experiencing the lives of some very sh*tty people.

The online stuff is a whole thing so if you ever get to that let me know and I can try to explain it.

Just played it for the first time; huh, for some reason I was expecting better graphics.