That was me! Yeah we were in a warzone in the middle of the Vinewood Hills area. The heists better drop soon, or I'll completely abandon GTA Online and drop all my time into Killzone: Shadow Fall.
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Grand Theft Auto: Online |OT| The Stimulation Has Began!
- Thread starter DietRob
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R* has completely lost control of this game.
Twice tonight I witnessed people putting some ridiculously hacked bounties on people (must of been in the trillions, more maybe?). Over the last few days I have witnessed first hand invisible AND invincible players and people dropping grenades in point to point races.
Combine that with just the abundance of people doing the LSC glitch (just watch the LSC on the map, the sheer number of people driving in and logging out).
What the fuck is going on? There is absolutely ZERO moderation happening.
Ive hit 91 and finally got my anti tank sniper with adv scope (love it!). I'll trickle along to 100 for the rocket launcher, but I cant imagine sticking around much longer.
Twice tonight I witnessed people putting some ridiculously hacked bounties on people (must of been in the trillions, more maybe?). Over the last few days I have witnessed first hand invisible AND invincible players and people dropping grenades in point to point races.
Combine that with just the abundance of people doing the LSC glitch (just watch the LSC on the map, the sheer number of people driving in and logging out).
What the fuck is going on? There is absolutely ZERO moderation happening.
Ive hit 91 and finally got my anti tank sniper with adv scope (love it!). I'll trickle along to 100 for the rocket launcher, but I cant imagine sticking around much longer.
What platform are you on?
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
There a good one for $205k.
Metalmurphy
Member
I keep getting 2-4 people lobbies, are the servers having problems again or has everyone simply stopped playing?
Never have I seen such potential in a online game be so poorly managed...
Never have I seen such potential in a online game be so poorly managed...
Seriously, I get full lobbies all the time. I am mainly in a party so we take 4 or 6 of us around to each one and the other 10 slots usually fill up.
There were definitely some issues last night around 6pmGMT though.
Spring-Loaded
Member
Some guy in a midnight purple/pink bugatti randomly chases me down and kills me near the Pay n Spray south of Vinewood. Tank time. He heads to the beach on the west coast. I start exploding him to smithereens over and over which is terribly easy since he keeps spawning out in the open. avoiding personal vehicles when possible. He spawns back on the street and since I want to minimize the number of personal vehicles I destroy and damage to the tank I back off for a bit.
I notice him driving back to the beach. I check his level and he's high enough to use a tank, so I head out to the beach just in time to see him running toward his own ordered tank. I fire, blowing him up and eliciting angry yelling from him. A few more kills, this time with a few tread kills. Either by selecting a mission on his phone or going to the in-game store then backing out, he teleports elsewhere in the city. my tank is smoking, so I swap with his, then blow up my old one.
I catch up to him as he's buying supplies from the Ammunation near the east-most pay n spray. I sit outside for a moment, carefully line up a shot and fire through the doors, killing him.
More killing ensues. A group of his friends roll up in a riot truck, valiantly trying to divert my attention.I nudge them every time they approach, sending them tumbling. While I was trying to maneuver around the cops I'd attracted, the guy climbs onto the side of the riot truck. I drive into them before they can flee and knock him off the side. Before the others realized he fell, I blew him up again.
He flees to a scrapyard next to the LA/LS river and engages passive mode once I arrive. Ass I'm circling, someone in a helicopter flies near me and lands. I get out and ride in the chopper's passenger seat. The guy flies to another spot along the river where a guy is sitting next to a helicopter underneath a bridge. We hover there for a few moments until I realize this guy wants help with killing the guy under the bridge. I use the helicopters camera to aim a rocket at him, fire and blow him up. my pilot then heads back to where my old friend is and attempts to land on a nearby roof, yet fails. We crash and explode.
A friend of the passive mode guy joins him. He exist passive mode and blows up the tank I left. I shoot back and forth with his friend while cops close in around them. I run around the scrapyard manage to kill the friend, but get killed by the friend after he respawns. They advance on me as I hide under a bridge. A third dude drives down the la river doing a drive-by at me in a golf kart. I shoot him, but get killed for the second time by the guy who started it all. i then see the the kill counter which reads "2 vs. 25".
I spawn on top of the bridge with a clear shot of jerk prime after he was killed by cops. I see him take aim with his sniper, but I headshot him. I call for a car, get in and leave the scene managing to hit the friend along the way. after calling for another tank, I notice the jerk following me. I start dropping grenade as he follows along the highway, but he crashes into me, I stick his car with a sticky bomb and blow him up, but it totals my car too since he was too close.
we're two blocks away from my tank. I shoot him, run for a bit, then kill him again with blindfire around a corner. he stops following and once I get to the tank, he leaves, his name no longer showing up in the lobby list.
I send a friend request to the guy who tried helping me earlier. I continue driving around in the tank, buying ammo and stuff for another half hour and get ready to quit as I pass by the insurance company building where cars respawn. I notice a purple car with hotpink secondary color parked outside, similar colors to the infamous bugatti driver that started this all. I didn't think anything of it at the time since it wasn't a bugatti. I notice some dots moving toward me, suspecting they're going to get their car back.
I decide to just sit in the road and ominously point the tank cannon at them as they pass by. As they approach, I see my old friend's username above his car. I blow it up, hear him yell and I quit for the day
And that's why you don't kill people minding their own business.
I notice him driving back to the beach. I check his level and he's high enough to use a tank, so I head out to the beach just in time to see him running toward his own ordered tank. I fire, blowing him up and eliciting angry yelling from him. A few more kills, this time with a few tread kills. Either by selecting a mission on his phone or going to the in-game store then backing out, he teleports elsewhere in the city. my tank is smoking, so I swap with his, then blow up my old one.
I catch up to him as he's buying supplies from the Ammunation near the east-most pay n spray. I sit outside for a moment, carefully line up a shot and fire through the doors, killing him.
More killing ensues. A group of his friends roll up in a riot truck, valiantly trying to divert my attention.I nudge them every time they approach, sending them tumbling. While I was trying to maneuver around the cops I'd attracted, the guy climbs onto the side of the riot truck. I drive into them before they can flee and knock him off the side. Before the others realized he fell, I blew him up again.
He flees to a scrapyard next to the LA/LS river and engages passive mode once I arrive. Ass I'm circling, someone in a helicopter flies near me and lands. I get out and ride in the chopper's passenger seat. The guy flies to another spot along the river where a guy is sitting next to a helicopter underneath a bridge. We hover there for a few moments until I realize this guy wants help with killing the guy under the bridge. I use the helicopters camera to aim a rocket at him, fire and blow him up. my pilot then heads back to where my old friend is and attempts to land on a nearby roof, yet fails. We crash and explode.
A friend of the passive mode guy joins him. He exist passive mode and blows up the tank I left. I shoot back and forth with his friend while cops close in around them. I run around the scrapyard manage to kill the friend, but get killed by the friend after he respawns. They advance on me as I hide under a bridge. A third dude drives down the la river doing a drive-by at me in a golf kart. I shoot him, but get killed for the second time by the guy who started it all. i then see the the kill counter which reads "2 vs. 25".
I spawn on top of the bridge with a clear shot of jerk prime after he was killed by cops. I see him take aim with his sniper, but I headshot him. I call for a car, get in and leave the scene managing to hit the friend along the way. after calling for another tank, I notice the jerk following me. I start dropping grenade as he follows along the highway, but he crashes into me, I stick his car with a sticky bomb and blow him up, but it totals my car too since he was too close.
we're two blocks away from my tank. I shoot him, run for a bit, then kill him again with blindfire around a corner. he stops following and once I get to the tank, he leaves, his name no longer showing up in the lobby list.
I send a friend request to the guy who tried helping me earlier. I continue driving around in the tank, buying ammo and stuff for another half hour and get ready to quit as I pass by the insurance company building where cars respawn. I notice a purple car with hotpink secondary color parked outside, similar colors to the infamous bugatti driver that started this all. I didn't think anything of it at the time since it wasn't a bugatti. I notice some dots moving toward me, suspecting they're going to get their car back.
I decide to just sit in the road and ominously point the tank cannon at them as they pass by. As they approach, I see my old friend's username above his car. I blow it up, hear him yell and I quit for the day
And that's why you don't kill people minding their own business.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
Great anecdoteHow do you get a tank?
$1.5M off the military surplus site, Pegasus drops it off in an occasionally annoying location.
$1.5m per spawn ? :0
$1.5 million to buy the tank, then $1k every time you call Pegasus to deliver the tank to its designated spawn location.
edgefusion
Member
I want to let people in my car, but not drive. Why isn't this an option? I'll give the carless a lift for a mission but I'm buggered if I'm letting them drive, or worse just go ahead and make off with my vehicle with me stranded.
The Albatross
Member
Got in a few full games last night, but only for races. Nobody ever wants to do anything other than "The Commute." It went on for 5 replays before I gave up being the host. I really wish the host could set a limit on the amount of times a race is played. I know for you folks who want to grind all day you want to do the same race over and over again... but damn it's boring for anybody else.
hillsighed
Member
That was ridiculously fun. Why is hunting people with bounties such goofy fun? I meant to send you a friend request after that, but forgot. I'm gonna shoot one over to you tonight. (I'm ScareGoat)
Callo Merlose
Banned
Some guy in a midnight purple/pink bugatti randomly chases me down and kills me near the Pay n Spray south of Vinewood. Tank time. He heads to the beach on the west coast. I start exploding him to smithereens over and over which is terribly easy since he keeps spawning out in the open. avoiding personal vehicles when possible. He spawns back on the street and since I want to minimize the number of personal vehicles I destroy and damage to the tank I back off for a bit.
I notice him driving back to the beach. I check his level and he's high enough to use a tank, so I head out to the beach just in time to see him running toward his own ordered tank. I fire, blowing him up and eliciting angry yelling from him. A few more kills, this time with a few tread kills. Either by selecting a mission on his phone or going to the in-game store then backing out, he teleports elsewhere in the city. my tank is smoking, so I swap with his, then blow up my old one.
I catch up to him as he's buying supplies from the Ammunation near the east-most pay n spray. I sit outside for a moment, carefully line up a shot and fire through the doors, killing him.
More killing ensues. A group of his friends roll up in a riot truck, valiantly trying to divert my attention.I nudge them every time they approach, sending them tumbling. While I was trying to maneuver around the cops I'd attracted, the guy climbs onto the side of the riot truck. I drive into them before they can flee and knock him off the side. Before the others realized he fell, I blew him up again.
He flees to a scrapyard next to the LA/LS river and engages passive mode once I arrive. Ass I'm circling, someone in a helicopter flies near me and lands. I get out and ride in the chopper's passenger seat. The guy flies to another spot along the river where a guy is sitting next to a helicopter underneath a bridge. We hover there for a few moments until I realize this guy wants help with killing the guy under the bridge. I use the helicopters camera to aim a rocket at him, fire and blow him up. my pilot then heads back to where my old friend is and attempts to land on a nearby roof, yet fails. We crash and explode.
A friend of the passive mode guy joins him. He exist passive mode and blows up the tank I left. I shoot back and forth with his friend while cops close in around them. I run around the scrapyard manage to kill the friend, but get killed by the friend after he respawns. They advance on me as I hide under a bridge. A third dude drives down the la river doing a drive-by at me in a golf kart. I shoot him, but get killed for the second time by the guy who started it all. i then see the the kill counter which reads "2 vs. 25".
I spawn on top of the bridge with a clear shot of jerk prime after he was killed by cops. I see him take aim with his sniper, but I headshot him. I call for a car, get in and leave the scene managing to hit the friend along the way. after calling for another tank, I notice the jerk following me. I start dropping grenade as he follows along the highway, but he crashes into me, I stick his car with a sticky bomb and blow him up, but it totals my car too since he was too close.
we're two blocks away from my tank. I shoot him, run for a bit, then kill him again with blindfire around a corner. he stops following and once I get to the tank, he leaves, his name no longer showing up in the lobby list.
I send a friend request to the guy who tried helping me earlier. I continue driving around in the tank, buying ammo and stuff for another half hour and get ready to quit as I pass by the insurance company building where cars respawn. I notice a purple car with hotpink secondary color parked outside, similar colors to the infamous bugatti driver that started this all. I didn't think anything of it at the time since it wasn't a bugatti. I notice some dots moving toward me, suspecting they're going to get their car back.
I decide to just sit in the road and ominously point the tank cannon at them as they pass by. As they approach, I see my old friend's username above his car. I blow it up, hear him yell and I quit for the day
And that's why you don't kill people minding their own business.
Beautiful post. I have a few stories like that, but that pic with the story made me laugh for a good thirty second.
| Praxis |
Banned
The Commute, Criminal Records and Down the Drain have made me stop playing. The voting and replay should be scrapped and just have playlists. People just can't be trusted.
Same thing happened when I bought Halo 4 recently. Don't think I played more than a quarter of the maps because people just voted for the same few.
HawksWinStanley
Member
So how long until R* patches the jerry can trick to blow up people's cars without getting bad sport points or having to pay for it?
I'm by no means a griefer but I had a lot of fun doing this to the dipshits who camp outside LSC. I'd wait til they go to get ammo or just kill them while they're driving and douse their rides. The process takes a good ten seconds or so, so when you pull it off without them catching you it's pretty satisfying.
I'm by no means a griefer but I had a lot of fun doing this to the dipshits who camp outside LSC. I'd wait til they go to get ammo or just kill them while they're driving and douse their rides. The process takes a good ten seconds or so, so when you pull it off without them catching you it's pretty satisfying.
I hope it stays.
HawksWinStanley
Member
It's fun so it won't.
was doing some stunt jumps earlier and one involved jumping your vehicle onto an island, and lost two cars into the drink because of it. called Mors Mututal later and got both vehicles back, but only one of them got delivered to my garage. The Voltic is gone, not at Mors, not in the impound, cannot claim it from calling Mors, am i screwed or is there something I haven't tried? Is this common place? I'm pissed cause I dumped all the max upgrades in that car.
I know I'm a few pages late, but first off, fyi, it's $1k for the Merryweather heli. Pretty useful on any mission or in freeroam if you don't fancy driving around looking for one.
I won't comment on the Death from Above mission, but all those "unstructured activities" are just examples of how you can make your own fun. There are plenty of other awesome things that you see in the trailer that happen often enough to not be impossible and rarely enough to be special - like someone in freeroam flying around menacingly in a Lazer, or a crazy plane/bike/jetski race with people crashing all around you.
The other stuff, well, they said "unstructured" for a reason. Sure, it might be highly unlikely to see a roadblock, or have someone cool protect you in a Buzzard, but that's what Crews/friends are for (also what mics/Skype/Google Hangouts are for). If you communicate well then you're much more likely to have more fun, and generate more of these random events.
Btw my friend and I stole a tank from someone the other day. It was so fun just rolling around threatening people, not blowing up anyone's stuff or killing anyone needlessly. We'd just be parked at an intersection, and people would drive in a block away. You'd see them screech to a halt and reverse as fast as they could up the road they came down. So funny. Also hilarious how the turret affects things, like knocking over lamposts and clothes-lining people off bikes.
Love following people while in a buzzard just to see if they decide to shoot, then it's my turn lol.
Doin a stunt jumps nothing too crazy with some friends
Trying to do a jump here, ended up crashing off my bike and it landed here.
You guys should try flying a Lazer through the tunnel that goes underneath the army base, i got half way through and my friend always seem to crash at the entrance but i got this nice pic from it.
Trying to do a jump here, ended up crashing off my bike and it landed here.
You guys should try flying a Lazer through the tunnel that goes underneath the army base, i got half way through and my friend always seem to crash at the entrance but i got this nice pic from it.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
Well, I've finally been dunce capped I called my tank to fight off an asshat who was going around killing people with his, blow him up and then mostly try to keep to myself while fighting off and running from the cops, ended up in a parking garage where someone drove in after me and intentionally crashed themselves into my tank and leaving me marked bad sport... Goddammit.
Rockstar really needs to fix that bullshit.
Rockstar really needs to fix that bullshit.
if its going to be fixed, id assume when the patch comes out, their thread they made on social club about changing how it works, should go into effect.
either way, theres still no incentive to actually play in a public lobby. cause i doubt they'll fix the issue where if someone kills you and you have your spawn set to "property" it still still just spawn you right there, defenseless from being run over again and again by the same guy.
i hope this beachbum pack actually ads more tangible missions and not just fetch quest crap, till then ive just been screwing around in singleplayer, since i can just reload a save and not worry about money being lost from all the deaths
abracadaver
Member
Is the emblem editor broken ? Ive been trying to create an emblem for a few days now but whenever I click on it in the social club there is an error, page not found or cant load page or something
or is it a IE problem ?
or is it a IE problem ?
PHOENIXZERO
Member
I hope they do make some more interesting missions and I wonder what happened with that AI assistance we were supposed to get in place of other people. Doing missions with random people is pretty much pointless and more frustration than anything.
I'm gonna have to find what you're talking about changing it. I doubt it'll change much if at all but IMO instead of the bad sport business it should just be you pay for their repairs and if you can't afford it then you either get the flagging or Rockstar allows players to go into debt.
Of course it'd be nice if the system was just smart enough to be able to detect who was the aggressor in a conflict so the person defending themselves doesn't get penalized, they could have it disabled for if the person getting attacked has a bounty on their heads.
Oh well, I haven't been playing a whole ton anyway lately, it'll be interesting to see what that side of the game currently looks like for the next couple days.
thelurkinghorror
Member
Try with another browser like chrome
PHOENIXZERO
Member
So, I just went to get back on and the patch is now out on PS3. Let's see what this does...
That was ridiculously fun. Why is hunting people with bounties such goofy fun? I meant to send you a friend request after that, but forgot. I'm gonna shoot one over to you tonight. (I'm ScareGoat)
If you are on XBOX then add me. We have ridiculously fun games almost every night and we play every type of job + missions from phones. Honestly, it's not boring if you play with the right people.
My GT is: mocoworm
Jason Frost
Member
Waiting to see what this patch will add to the online or remove from it...
They said that the Heists and Beach Pack would be added early in the week. It has to be that ?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=707623&highlight=
The $500k stimulus will be later in the week.
Is this up on XBOX ? Can anyone confirm ?
Yes it is but I didnt investigate what it did.
SymbiantXenos
Member
Idiots in tanks annoy me. Although all the server joined in in killing the person over and over again.
thesuperfunk
Member
Downloading the 39mb patch now!
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
**impatiently waits for the patch notes**
Vasili2K38
Member
Officially only the Beach Pack was confirmed, then I wouldn't expect the Heists until 2014 :/ . And for now there aren't official patch notes, only the update in R* official news from November 1st. Apparently they will test this new patch this week and if the erasing progress bugs are fixed we will get the first payment at the end of the week.
AnotherNils
Member
Sent you a FR. DakarZero
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Is it me, or are SMGs worthless for PvP? It feels like you either need to use the ARs at distances or the shotgun up close.
The Albatross
Member
This patch & beach bum are different, I think.
Still haven't seen an armored car or a crate drop. Level 35. Don't know what I have to do to see either of those..
I'll be relieved when they have all of the bugs sorted out, because I feel like they can then work on tuning the game and improving things, not just fixing bugs or chasing down glitches. Love to see some of the things other have mentioned -- AI partners if you want them, heists, tuning match play, etc. I'd also really like to see the ability for the host to actually set game settings, IE, like what weapons appear in a death match mode, free aim vs. lock on, etc.
Still haven't seen an armored car or a crate drop. Level 35. Don't know what I have to do to see either of those..
I'll be relieved when they have all of the bugs sorted out, because I feel like they can then work on tuning the game and improving things, not just fixing bugs or chasing down glitches. Love to see some of the things other have mentioned -- AI partners if you want them, heists, tuning match play, etc. I'd also really like to see the ability for the host to actually set game settings, IE, like what weapons appear in a death match mode, free aim vs. lock on, etc.