Robert C

Yeah, I was in freemode for five seconds and there were nothing but Minigun Rebels, Buzzards and Tanks on the streets. Pretty sure the armed rebel will be be a Pegasus vehicle, rather than one that goes in your garage. The Insurgent (big-ass armored car with a turret on top) definitely is. Melraz bought one of those Insurgents last night. The gun on that thing kicks ass. No auto lock-on, and a slow rate of fire, but it packs a wallop. Half a dozen hits will turn a buzzard into a fireball. Unfortunately, we found out the hard way (twice) that the gunner can fall out of the vehicle. I ran into one Insurgent in the very brief time I was in freemode after the third heist. I was all set to blow it up when some other asshole did it for me.

It's mostly gonna be night shift hours for me, till maybe next Tuesday. The baby is giving his momma a hard time right now, and I'm not crazy enough to tell her I'm gonna skip out on baby duties for 3 hours during the evening to play GTA.

Oh, I'm right there with you on garage space. I think I've got 1-2 spot free. I can get rid of my second mesa, that I use as an ignition bomb trap, and probably the sports car that came out 1-2 updates back. And this is gonna sound stupid coming from somebody that's been playing this as long as me, but how do you buy snacks?

Oh I definitely agree on this. You have to be really careful, and you have to communicate. It really brings something new to the game. I never really care if I die in regular missions, but this is very different. I went through about 4 armors shooting my way out of that damn prison.

The second time we did the mission, I know Stout accidentally hit the weapon wheel the second time. He was taking it really slow, so I doubt he ran, especially the third time. We just started shooting everything we could see as soon as they gave any indication something was up, and that worked out. One other thing we noticed. There is a preliminary mission for that heist where you have to steal a civilian car. It made it much easier to have two of us in that car, rather than having the second guy in a chase car. The new in-car shooting scheme worked wonders.

Stout and I both bought armored Kurumas. They cost 560K, I think, plus maybe 400K in upgrades. I love driving it though. Only downside I see is that I can't throw sticky bombs out the windows. We didn't need to buy anything special for the prison break heist. Did unlock several vehicles when we finished it, though. Sounds like Stout already bought one of em. That heist is amazing, though there was one REALLY frustrating part. I keep making the mistake of thinking I need to lose the cops at the end of the heists. For the first two, I just had to drive somewhere and the structure of the heist took care of that problem for me.

Heists are really not conducive to being able to sleep or logging off early. Of course, it would've been best to have started the second one before 2 AM.

The firehose thing isn't a bug. It's a feature, damnit. Gang cars were selling for more than twice their value. I sold one for 3x what I would normally have got for it. Noticed I kept getting a bunch of trophies last night. I missed most of what Lester said we were actually supposed to do, so every time we started something, I'd have to ask somebody what the hell was up. Also, if you thought Lester was creepy before, you were wrong. You were so wrong. New vehicles unlock after the missions that include them. I spent about 900K buying and upgrading one. Made a good chunk of that back, though. I'm gonna have to make a bunch of money, because I want a lot of these things. Already blew up several of the new cars in freemode, of course. We did a bunch of the new vs. missions. Those seem really badly balanced for now. The attacking team won every round of the 5 or 6 we did. Maybe they would get better if we played enough to learn where to hunker down, though I doubt we'll play enough to find out. First heist is basically My First Heist. It's two players only, and there's not much to it. It's more of an introduction to heist mechanics than anything else. Second heist is damn fun. The finale really does require a shitload of coordination/communication. I figure JT is gonna eat that up. It took between 2 and 3 hours to complete, I think, though that included a few wipes. Team lives in heists work different than missions. You start with either 1 or 0 team lives. If you start with 0, everybody has to stay alive throughout to complete the mission, instead of just one team member. Definitely makes you be much more careful, and really adds something to the game. Also, frequent use of body armor is your friend. Freemode was more peaceful than normal, we did manage to find a decent fights. I even managed to get myself surrounded by 5 dots at once, though it took a lot of work pissing people off to get to that point. At least I got to kill midgetkicker a few times. There was a constant barrage of heist invites from randoms throughout. I really can't imagine doing these things with randoms. If I get on today, it will probably be late.

I don't think your actual owned clothes make any difference in how you will dress during the missions. There are certain themes/possible selections. I didn't own anything I wore during the two heists last night. Also, that second heist we did was about the most fun I've in this game, even if there was one really wonky point in it.

I saw that and kind of wondered what they meant. I understand the longer reload time, but how the blue hell do you reduce the firing rate of a rocket? Make it fly slower? (For the record, I have never denied being a dumbass.) I'm betting they've increased the time it takes to lock on to a target.

Got on for a few minutes at lunch to make sure the update had happened. Saw something about drive-by controls changing. Need to see what that's about when I get on this evening. Hoping the flaregun will actually be deadly, unlike the old gas can.

Time to apply for a loan at the First National Bank of Stout. Be sure to pay on time. You don't want to meet the collections guy.

Somehow, this is still Jeff Fisher's fault.

Mine is mostly the release XBOX headset, with a few parts stolen from the one that came with my newer XBOX a couple years ago.

That's the great thing about Saint's Row. It actually would be a Flair gun.

Gathering a crew that can complete all of the heists in order without losing any lives. There is the ten million dollar issue. That's gonna be awfully difficult. Personally, I've somehow become worse at missions than freemode. Not sure what that says about the level of competition we've been facing recently. Anyway, I've started the update. Hopefully it will actually finish by the time I'm off work. I should be around quite a bit tonight.

Based off my performance over the weekend, I don't think anybody that is trying for the 10 mil no death bonus should try including me. I think I spent 5x the time spectating that I did actually playing missions.

Rockstar has some more stuff on the heists. Nothing earthshaking, but I did notice a couple things. - The mechanics of how these things pretty much will make it impossible to play with randoms, at least without high levels of rage and hatred - The payouts suck, as expected. $540K split 4 ways for 3 hours of missions?

It's materials, so it has an impact on the armor's properties as well. I played around with it on my Inquisitor. Didn't have the patience to do it for everybody.

I finally made it to Skyhold over the weekend and immediately found the storage. Couldn't figure out why people had been complaining about not having it. Makes sense now. Glad I get to drop off all those damn upgrades I was tired of carrying around.

I handled most of em, think I finished up on everybody we fought, but I could not snipe for shit for some reason. Even when I hit somebody, it would be after missing 8 shots. Had a hell of a good time though. I did help out with that first scrum by bringing the stupid with me. White dot got in the car with me after I killed him about 8-0, so I drove him right into the middle of that pile. Poor fella. That whole first crowd was terrible, and the guy I found down by the forum was even worse. I'll definitely be up for heists, if they're out Tuesday.

Hell, I'm tryin to dodge the whole damn thing. Outdoor wedding with temps in the 40s. I can hardly wait.

The streets did indeed run red with the blood of glitchers. Also, whino family made his triumphant return after we killed the crap out of him on Tuesday. Unfortunately for him, it went about the same as last time. I ought to be on tonight, after I get done with this wedding I gotta go to.

I would've posted the O Brother thing yesterday if I could've found just that part on youtube. The paperboy thing now has me wishing I'd have texted "2 dollars" to that guy after i pulled it off. I think I've only bee on 2 or 3 times in the last two weeks. I should be on late night over the weekend if anybody is around.

You've gotta get out and meet your constituents more, man. You know, kiss babies, shoot white dots in the face. That kind of thing. Most of that stuff sounds like really badly balanced pvp modes. All weapons on foot vs. players on motorcycles weapon locked to sawed off shotguns. Yeah, no imbalance there. I completely missed the part about trucks vs. bicycles though. I've gotta find a yellow t-shirt if I'm gonna be on a bicycle for that one. Pull one allah akbar on a bicycle and you get branded for life. Besides, remember what happened the last time I got in an 18 wheeler?