Grand theft auto V thread.

The heist were cool but I wish they gave you more freedom.

Literally like the first one sets it up as though you'll have some freedom, picking your crew, picking how to go about the heist, what route to take/how to do it.

When in all honestly after that the next 3 heists (that I'm up to ) have offerened NONE of that freedom again.

So far the heist after the first one have been linear with no choices to be made by you in terms of how you go about them and you are lucky if you get to pick a single crew member who comes along.

I wish they offered as much freedom for all the heists as the first one.
 
Stiler said:
The heist were cool but I wish they gave you more freedom.

Literally like the first one sets it up as though you'll have some freedom, picking your crew, picking how to go about the heist, what route to take/how to do it.

When in all honestly after that the next 3 heists (that I'm up to ) have offerened NONE of that freedom again.

So far the heist after the first one have been linear with no choices to be made by you in terms of how you go about them and you are lucky if you get to pick a single crew member who comes along.

I wish they offered as much freedom for all the heists as the first one.
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Anyone who finished the game had to of smirked from this. There is a lot of game left to play. You will be happy at the end. I promise.

Hint/spoiler. Pick the second option on the 68th mission. cough cough 30 mill a pop
 
Eshelmen said:
Anyone who finished the game had to of smirked from this. There is a lot of game left to play. You will be happy at the end. I promise.

Hint/spoiler. Pick the second option on the 68th mission. cough cough 30 mill a pop
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Why would you smirk at this? There's 6 heist in total in the game, I've done 4 of them and only the first offered decent choices in how you tackle the heist and how you go about it.

After you finish the last heist there's no more to do in the single player game.

So that means I have two heist left out of 6 and hopefully they offer more choices like the first did.

I'm not saying the ones so far aren't fun, just that out of the 4 only the first seemed to offer you real freedom in terms of crew choices and how you tackled the heist (slow, loud, 3 crew choices, etc). After that the others so far have been linear, no choices, no crew choices (outside of the 4th one, which only offered you one).
 
FacundoJose said:
i wish they still considered putting this on the pc... i could have saved some bucks just to get this game ahaha!
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These are coming out for PC Rockstar announced that they will take time to make things right for the PC platform, it's a matter of when is the question.

Some sources say next year, some are sticking by the old math rule of about a year half for PC release to come since this was almost the case with the previous GTA pc releases.
 
Stiler said:
Why would you smirk at this? There's 6 heist in total in the game, I've done 4 of them and only the first offered decent choices in how you tackle the heist and how you go about it.

After you finish the last heist there's no more to do in the single player game.

So that means I have two heist left out of 6 and hopefully they offer more choices like the first did.

I'm not saying the ones so far aren't fun, just that out of the 4 only the first seemed to offer you real freedom in terms of crew choices and how you tackled the heist (slow, loud, 3 crew choices, etc). After that the others so far have been linear, no choices, no crew choices (outside of the 4th one, which only offered you one).
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I think the plan was to get people going for multiplayer... but that's just a hunch of mine.
 
timtheenchantor said:
I think the plan was to get people going for multiplayer... but that's just a hunch of mine.
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Very likely.


It's going to be big but expect bumps in the early goings due to such high demand.



http://www.rockstargames.com/newswi...-more-details-on-grand-theft-auto-online.html

Dear All,

We are humbled and overwhelmed by the response to Grand Theft Auto V – literally overwhelmed in the case of some of our servers! We sincerely hope you're enjoying your visit to Los Santos and we know many of you have plenty of questions about Grand Theft Auto Online. First, we thought it would be useful to provide some details of the roll out of GTA Online, and how we hope you will be involved in making the game everything it can be.

Grand Theft Auto Online is going to be something brand new for us: a fully realized and living world for multiple players that will continue to grow and take shape over time.

The ultimate shape of GTA Online will be determined as much by you, the player, as by the work we put in. What you like and don’t like, what you play and what you want will determine how the game develops and what it turns into.

Everything we do will be informed by feedback from you all – from the types of missions that roll out to all kinds of future content.

We are planning for a constant stream of new content, tweaks and updates in the weeks and months ahead.

The first couple of weeks we expect to be heavily focused on tuning the experience as it goes from internal testing to the reality of being played by tons of people in the real world so that all the usual teething problems for an online game are overcome. We hope it will all run incredibly smoothly, but please bear with us if it doesn't, and help us fix any and all problems!

After that, we will begin releasing content updates and giving you the opportunity to make your own content.
GTA Community Feedback Needed from Day One
This is vital for the ongoing success of the game. The first few months of Grand Theft Auto Online will be critical as everyone enters this dynamic new world for the first time. Plenty of issues are bound to occur. Remember this interesting character?

One thing we are already aware of, and are trying to alleviate as fast as we can, is the unanticipated additional pressure on the servers due to a significantly higher number of players than we were anticipating at this point – we are working around the clock to buy and add more servers, but this increased scale is only going to make the first few days even more temperamental than such things usually are. This is part of the problem some of you have been experiencing with the iFruit App and some Social Club services – we apologize in advance for this and thank you for your patience in this area.

More than ever, we need your help to report your experiences, findings, likes, loves, dislikes and hates – and we will be looking at your feedback constantly to tune the game into its optimal shape and help guide how Grand Theft Auto Online will grow and evolve past this initial period. We will be checking out how people are playing and what they are not playing or not enjoying, while also monitoring feedback via two other new Rockstar channels:

[email protected]: This email address will be active from launch day as a place to send your input and feedback direct to us relating to the game.

GTA Online Forums at Social Club: At some point this fall after the initial release of GTA Online, we are planning to launch Social Club Forums where players can chat with one another about their online experiences as well as access a GTA Online Suggestion board to post about any suggested features, tweaks and changes you want to see.
Here’s a rough overview of what you can expect on day one as well as initial details about how the GTA Online world will evolve from there.

The Launch of Grand Theft Auto Online:
From launch, up to 16 players can enter the world together to partake in everything from:

Open-World Crime and Chaos: Go on your own or round up your friends to explore the open world together – catch a movie, go mountain biking, hit the shooting range and much more. Want to test the law? Knock over a convenience store, take down a gang or rob an armored truck for easy cash and Reputation.


Jobs: Los Santos and Blaine County are ripe with opportunity for the ambitious and criminal minded. Take on Missions and an array of other Jobs as a lone wolf, team up with your Crew or join fellow mercenaries and degenerates to pull off a wide range of robberies and illicit activities together.


Races: Everything from classic street competition and off-road tracks to boat racing on the open ocean, or take to the skies in aerial events. Jump into the madness of a GTA Race, or try out a brand new race type, Rally, where driver and co-pilot work together to navigate treacherous courses at high speeds.


Sports: Join your friends / any random stranger for a game of tennis, a round of golf or go base jumping and more, all for cash and Reputation.

Customization: Create your character using the Character Creator – then earn some cash and spend it getting dressed for success. You can also collect and customize cars for your garage and personalize your full weapons cache.

Reputation and Cash Flow: Reputation is earned from all your online exploits in everything you do in GTA Online – and will help you rank up, providing access to new features, weapons and criminal contacts. Spend cash you’ve gained on cars, clothes, guns, properties and much more. You can either quickly accumulate cash through profitable activities like knocking over armored cars, winning street races, doing stick-ups or a host of other cash-making endeavors – or if you’re the completely instant gratification type, you can choose to buy denominations of GTA$. You will have the option to purchase GTA$ through the in-game Store. The game and its economy have been designed and balanced for the vast majority of players who will not buy extra cash. There is no in-game paywall and nothing that should disrupt the balance of the game. You don’t have to spend real money to attain the cars, guns, clothes, flash and style of a high-roller in Los Santos, but can if you wish to get them a little quicker. The economy is balanced differently from the single player economy, and cash earned in one cannot be taken over to the other. Most players will earn cash much faster Online than in Story Mode.

Growing Pains: There will be the typical growing pains for an online game, including but not limited to crashes, glitches, crazy bugs, gameplay modes and mechanics that need re-balancing and other surprises! Even in GTAV Story Mode, some of you may have seen a few odd and even amusing little glitches out there last week. This sort of thing is inevitable in a massive open-world game and there’ll surely be lots more unexpected oddities like this in the Online world next week – rest assured we’ll be monitoring and actively doing all we can to smooth such things out as they happen, but we need your help to find them, as well as your feedback to help fine tune all of the game's systems so everything is perfectly balanced.


Currently Planned GTA Online Content Updates:
Here is a quick overview of a few initial things we’re working on for the first few weeks of Grand Theft Auto Online, alongside an aggressive period of tuning and finessing the game. We will give you dates for all of this content as soon as we have them – bear in mind that the order of things may well change, and we will probably add some extra stuff as well!

The Content Creator: The Content Creator will launch with tools to tailor and publish your own Deathmatches & Races.

The Beach Bum Pack: Featuring 4 new amazing beach fun vehicles, over 300 new items of incredible down tempo leisure wear and 2 new but not remotely relaxing weapons.

Capture the Flag: GTA Online’s take on the classic CTF mode including the ability to make your own using The Content Creator.

Heists: This update will introduce full-on cooperative Heist missions that will require careful planning, teamwork and sharp execution – along with the Heist Planning Board for your apartment.

Just to be clear, all of these updates will be free. We’ll have more info on this and much more additional content as our plans develop through the launch period, and as we get feedback from you. Please stay tuned for further info and updates. And remember – we need your help to make this experience all it can be.

Thank you everyone,
Rockstar Games
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Stiler said:
Why would you smirk at this? There's 6 heist in total in the game, I've done 4 of them and only the first offered decent choices in how you tackle the heist and how you go about it.

After you finish the last heist there's no more to do in the single player game.

So that means I have two heist left out of 6 and hopefully they offer more choices like the first did.

I'm not saying the ones so far aren't fun, just that out of the 4 only the first seemed to offer you real freedom in terms of crew choices and how you tackled the heist (slow, loud, 3 crew choices, etc). After that the others so far have been linear, no choices, no crew choices (outside of the 4th one, which only offered you one).
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Yes the abundance of "Non Linear" missions is low.
But through the whole story ,I never needed millions to complete. The other intense missions as well, the fights at the Observatory, the Heli and Plane missions, FIB bombings, all incredible scenes. And remember , this whole mapping out how to carry out the missions is new. Maybe they didnt want to overwhelm the experience. I found nearly skipping the cut scenes of the drawing board to just play.
 
Eshelmen said:
Yes the abundance of "Non Linear" missions is low.
But through the whole story ,I never needed millions to complete. The other intense missions as well, the fights at the Observatory, the Heli and Plane missions, FIB bombings, all incredible scenes. And remember , this whole mapping out how to carry out the missions is new. Maybe they didnt want to overwhelm the experience. I found nearly skipping the cut scenes of the drawing board to just play.
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I'm thinking a lot of this might be added in a DLC. Who knows, maybe even they'll add Las Vegas [SA had it, right?]. Knock over some casinos.

The groundwork is there for being able to do your own heists, just hasn't been realized yet.
 
probably limitation of the console hardware as to why not more open mission gameplay , cant fit anymore onto it.. 360 cough cough lol
 
I see that the online part is already a fucking mess forever loading screens and repeating animations.
 
Man, i absolutely HATE this character creator, why did they go with this stupid "Genetics" thing? Where you can't just tweak your characters face/skin color and instead hav eto choose your mothers parents/fathers parents and go through all that crap, take forever to make a good character that doesn't look goofy as hell.
 
The PC version will be announced soon. There has been proof that the game was developed for the PC along with the other two consoles. The .log builds have been posted.
Build logs
 
Occidio said:
The PC version will be announced soon. There has been proof that the game was developed for the PC along with the other two consoles. The .log builds have been posted.
Build logs
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Looking forward to it.

As good of a time as I've had with this on the PS3 I really can't wait for that and everything that comes with it.
 
Has anyone had a chance to play online yet? I'm stuck at work for the next 6 hours :9
 
I have heard a lot of bad things so far. I am waiting a couple days.
This might have been an issue specific with someone not doing something right but I heard some people got their save file corrupted by being Online.
I personally think the person probably went back the Home screen in the middle of something but who knows.
I am currently at 86.56% so I have a couple small Freaks and Misc things to do.
I did make 24million on the stock exchange yesterday though,
 
I'm pumped about the PC version, and I'm barely 50% through the PS3 version, so bring it on is what I say.

Might jump in on some Online tonight if I have some spare time.
 
Damn that character creator makes me a sad panda especially speaking as a former APB / APB:Reloaded addict. I have a feeling it'll be a few days before Online is in playable shape.
 
Going off cfg files doesnt give you much beyond hope. This is what i call a little more solid.

http://www.gta5tv.com/gta-v-pc-release-date/

Also online is having server issues right now.

Edit: I hope this latest patch fixed the last little bit of popin and a few other single player bugs.
 
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Awesome, GTA Online fucked up my furthest save. 10% which is like 4 hours or something just gone because of this fucked up shit. Can't swap characters on that save anymore and can't do any missions, just fucking fantastic :mad:
 
xIronCrossx said:
Awesome, GTA Online fucked up my furthest save. 10% which is like 4 hours or something just gone because of this fucked up shit. Can't swap characters on that save anymore and can't do any missions, just fucking fantastic :mad:
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Damn man, that sucks. :(



German Muscle said:
Going off cfg files doesnt give you much beyond hope. This is what i call a little more solid.

http://www.gta5tv.com/gta-v-pc-release-date/

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Wow, November of THIS year?! Seems too good to be true but I sure hope so!
 
That's obviously false....if it were true it'd be news on gamespot/ign, and other places.
 
Q-BZ said:
Damn man, that sucks. :(





Wow, November of THIS year?! Seems too good to be true but I sure hope so!
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I could see the next-gen ones around that time. But why the PC? Unless all three are included in that date.
 
An important thing to note is how they have not dropped any info regarding a next Gen version of GTAV which obviously would of hurt sales of the current Gen version if they would of advertised it. Also, if the game would of had 2 release dates it could of hurt the record setting sales that it had on release. And the game was released as the first major release of fall (among Batman, COD and BF4), if they would of split the sales between 2 release dates, than there is a chance that in the interim they would loose sales to the other major titles that are about to be released.

We could hear about a next gan/PC release mid November with some excuse about extras and polishing the game for a nice holiday release.
 
I played some finally , I have to say it's MUCH MUCH improved compared to the online of GTA: IV.

The missions make for some great gameplay, some of them pitting two teams of players against each other.

One mission I had was 4 vs 4, each team was tasked with ripping off a Van.

So each team starts out making a break to get to the van, each side racing toward it while trying to stop the others one.

Finally my team makes it and then the van actually crashed off the side of a hill right into the side of a small water tunnel (like the kind that are under roadways so water will drain from each side).

So basically each team starts firefighting over this crashed van, and the game is respawning us nearby on a motorcycle.

After about 5 minutes of fighting the area is littered with motorcycles from players that have died/respawned and you have people constantly driving in and crashing into others and slowly picking up the package and moving a few feet before getting hit, was hilarious.

My only complaint is that for some reason when in freeroam mode (when you aren't on a mission and are just running around the world) I kept getting spammed by job-invites, literlaly every second I had like 5 job invites that pop up on the side of your screen and fill it up, on top of your phone ringing/vibrating your controller, SUPER ANNOYING and made the open freeroam unplayable for me, they have to have a way to stop this/turn it off, you should only get job invites from the people within your foreeroam area (16 max) and definitely shouldn't be getting that many.

It's like I was bugged out and getting an invite from every player online, at least that's what it felt like.

Also does anyone know if there's a way to rename your character or anything? I somehow goofed on my name and can't figure out a way to even delete him, rename or anything.
 
Could you just put your phone on Sleep Mode? You can do it in Single Player to stop all incoming calls and missions.
 
Not able to get online with other players.
After 2.5 hours of trying, I'm at 4:1 loading times: play time.

Ruined my sp save on ps3 as well like poster above. Can't switch characters, missions don't activate etc. What a fucking mess. I'd be OK if GTA online didn't work still, but ruining all my progress so far has me listing my copy on Craigslist.
 
I havent tried online. I finally got it yesterday when I had a free night to play some games. I can say GTA V is way absolutely leagues above GTA IV. The story is actually interesting to me and so are the characters. Mostly the characters though, they crack me up.
 
I beat GTA V, and my wife did the same last week. That's kind of surprising, since we've never completed any GTA games previously, never making it more than a third through the missions. I'm not sure if we'll get back to it, though, for any of the side things.
 
had some issues getting the first race to load.
finally did and finished it. Went into free roam mode and i was 'kicked by other players'
loaded online backup and after 10 minutes of waiting, i got back into the game and again was 'kicked by other players'.....
 
xIronCrossx said:
Awesome, GTA Online fucked up my furthest save. 10% which is like 4 hours or something just gone because of this fucked up shit. Can't swap characters on that save anymore and can't do any missions, just fucking fantastic :mad:
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I'm not even going to fire up the game for a few days. I'll wait for them to sort it out. Pathetic.
 
Stiletto said:
I'm not even going to fire up the game for a few days. I'll wait for them to sort it out. Pathetic.
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Kind of reminds me of the Simcity debacle... the WoW launch debacle... or nearly every MMO launch in the last 2 or so years.
 
Exactly, how can anyone not know that any Massive Multiplayer game its best to avoid for the first couple weeks, it happens with EVERY major release title console or PC. Too think otherwise is naive.
 
ServerKing said:
Exactly, how can anyone not know that any Massive Multiplayer game its best to avoid for the first couple weeks, it happens with EVERY major release title console or PC. Too think otherwise is naive.
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Raw raw raw
Look at me on my high horse pointing out the obvious


Everyone expects the online to be hammered at first, but anyone who suggested that they know to avoid the game for weeks as it fucks your single player as well is a liar.
 
Droc said:
Raw raw raw
Look at me on my high horse pointing out the obvious


Everyone expects the online to be hammered at first, but anyone who suggested that they know to avoid the game for weeks as it fucks your single player as well is a liar.
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Nah, the fucking with the single player portion is an added bonus.
 
I am finding the stock market surprisingly addictive. I made a quarter of a billion dollars between 3 characters this afternoon, and another 30 million since then not even playing the game. There is a series of missions with stock tips in them that can make a lot of money if you play your cards right. I'm not even doing that well...there are a lot of people who are overflowing the 32 bit signed integer and wrapping around to negative values if they aren't careful.
 
enlightenedby42 said:
I am finding the stock market surprisingly addictive. I made a quarter of a billion dollars between 3 characters this afternoon, and another 30 million since then not even playing the game. There is a series of missions with stock tips in them that can make a lot of money if you play your cards right. I'm not even doing that well...there are a lot of people who are overflowing the 32 bit signed integer and wrapping around to negative values if they aren't careful.
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Give us some tips? You are talking about the Franklin/lester assassination missions?
 
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