Robert C
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But the dudes still swarm around the construction site and have deadly aim. I didn't say it was impossible to do without a Buzzard. That second cement truck at the construction site is pretty tucked in, but I've never tried to take it out by going around the building.
Los Santos Connection is another one where I've pretty much got to have a Buzzard. That crap where someone's trying to hack the terminal is complicated without a Buzzard there to pick off the cars coming in.
I managed to get both of the trucks without ever going into the construction yard. Bounced a grenade launcher shot off a wall to get the one near the entrance, and sniped the second with an RPG from outside the fence. The backup guys in the SUVs got mauled before I even had a chance to shoot at them. Only downside was me accidentally blowing up Dolfan's shiny chrome Massacro after we got the one that goes into the cul-de-sac.
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You can't even begin to know how much I love the way they changed mission payouts. People are still whining about it, which blows my mind. I don't really need the money and I still think it's great for beginning players, 'cause they can make some real money right off the bat and afford the nice things I had to grind my ass off to get.
I don't mind that at all. I'm not gonna "grandpa" them and say "We bought our things by grinding Rooftop, and we liked it!" I'm happy for them not having to hope some higher-level character invites them to do Rooftop to make some real money. It's cool that "the next generation," or whatever you wanna call them, won't have to grind Rooftop to be able to afford things.
Cmon man, it's one of few benefits of being old. We get to do this:
Robert and I finished the night in a room with three other dudes, all three of which had grabbed tanks. We stood on top of a building in passive and watched the show. Then two of them got Buzzards. Then they started getting on roofs. I was like "jeez, fellas." One of them was putting $9,000 bounties and calling mercs on me at every opportunity even before we crossed paths.
I swear, I meant to remember what their deal was (two of them were in the same crew) to call for a Crew Jihad on them if any of you guy saw them in a room, but I can't remember anything about them.
That's the first time I've ever been in a room where EVERYBODY had a tank at the same time, other than us.
Those two clowns' crew was BRIK. They both had Brick at the start of their names. The third guy was ace something - don't remember his crew. I managed to take out one tank with sticky bombs. I lucked into a spot where I could hit the tank with stickys, but the tank couldn't get a shot on me. Dumbass stayed there till I blew him up. Felt good about that, as well as getting the two buzzards with RPGs. No god moders and no jets was nice, at least.
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I'm not entirely sure how a shortcut took you farther away from the mission, but there you go.
We'd get near the top of one of those hills, then things would go to shit and we'd roll all the way back down to the bottom again. We'd be 3 tenths of a mile away, do 15 rolls down the hill, and wind up half a mile away. I know that happened at least twice.
Can't believe I didn't wake my wife up from laughing so hard.
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Forgot to mention - never get in a Sandking with a drunk melraz. We took a shortcut from downtown to the Chemical Extraction mission, and it must've taken us 20 minutes to get there. We almost went into the ocean 3 different times. Misanthrope's buddy gave up after we crashed into the strip mine and nearly beat us there in a dump truck.
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New payouts are quite nice. 30K for Diamonds are for Trevor. 10K for a fucking Lamar mission. I might actually finish up the missions for Lamar and Simeon now.
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Well, he surpassed Foley last night. The left ear came off somewhere - can't find that either.
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Part of my cat's right ear fell off last night. No big deal really, we knew it was coming. He'd been hit by a car when we found him, and he had two cauliflower ears. The left one that hasn't fallen off is actually worse. The problem is, we can't find it. We know it fell off in our bedroom, but we have no idea where. So right now there's a detached ear somewhere in my bedroom - assuming the dogs didn't find it.
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They seem to have finally remembered to add the carrot to the carrot and stick approach they were using to get people to stop spamming Rooftop Rumle. Maybe they're finally figuring this shit out.
I'm wondering what the rewards would have to be get me to play the new airborne captures and escort vs. missions.
On the Lazers in freemode - I really wish they'd bring the shoulder fired anti-aircraft missile from San Andreas. That'd be one way to even the odds quickly.
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I went ahead and downloaded while I was home at lunch, so I should be good to go. May be late getting on though - gotta get the truck from my wife and go buy a shitload of mulch after work.
Really hoping the god mode bug is actually fixed for good. I'm not feeling too confident, based on Rockstar's track record thus far.
Loving the new tank icon deal. It should make our various sticky bomb tricks even easier to implement.
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I've only recently started using the RPG a bunch. I've got nearly as many RPG kills with this character as my female one, even though I've only used him maybe 10% as much in freemode.
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I'm pretty sure it's impossible to get in trouble by blowing up personal vehicles. I know I got the good boy bonus on night after blowing up at least 15. I probably average about 10 every time we're on.
Always makes me laugh when I'm running towards a personal vehicle which has just been relieved of its occupant and somebody shouts at me to stay away because there's a sticky on it - which was exactly what I was planning to do myself.
I kinda treat blowing them up as strategy. Getting rid of a guy's Zentorno tilts the playing field in our favor. I've also been known to blow them up inside the impound yard in the hopes of enraging the owners enough to come after us.
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Competition was a little better last night than the last couple, but still wasn't much of a challenge. Twice I got messages that melraz had killed somebody before I had even finished spawning into the server.
Theme of the night for me was the old trick of killing a guy, sticky bombing his personal vehicle, and then taking him, and it, out when he came back to collect it. I got at least 6 or 7 of those last night. Two came right in a row on an Adder and a Zentorno. Guy on an Akuma put a bounty on me after I interrupted his getaway attempt that way.
Stout took the classy, highbrow approach, paraphrasing Tennyson while mocking poor swagisfreak.
Only saw one clear cheater last night - the glitching jet guy that melraz and I watched fly through the ground. More tanks than I'd like, but the only one that lasted long was the guy that got in one and then immediately ran away from us.
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Yeah - that was the easiest survival I have ever done.
I mean Boneyard is a clinic right now but last night at Sandy Shore was easy peasey.
I think the only time any of us died was when I blew myself up because of the GOD DAMN TELEPHONE POLE!
I thought you survived that one. I saw it drop pretty much at my feet and ran like hell to get out of the way. Explosives were not our friend from that location. I thought for sure I would wind up shooting the sticky bomb I accidentally stuck right next to your head and wind up taking both of us out.
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Stout and mis - sorry to drop out like that last night. My router crashed again, and then I couldn't get back online. Figured it was a sign that I had better go to sleep, since I had to get up in 5 hours.
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That was the first god mode guy I'd seen in a while. There was enough other stuff going on, between being surrounded by other players and what had to be the entire LSPD, that it took me getting killed 3 times by the guy to be absolutely sure he was cheating. After that, I just slapped it into passive and gave him jazz hands every time he got near. Then his buddy showed up in a tank. All we needed was a jet to make it the worst of all possible worlds.
Rest of the night was pretty good though. I actually did one of those stupid DMs that promises a million RP and a billion dollars. Only did it because I noticed the host had left owned weapons turned on. Don't know if anybody else clued in to that. Wound up winning, got about 65 kills and a K/D of about 2.
We ran roughshod over a room or two in freemode, then went on a survival run. Finished Industrial Plant for the first time, and then did another one that was a cakewalk - almost as easy as Boneyard. I've never seen a survival turn to shit as fast as that sawmill one did on level 10. The other 3 guys died within about 10 seconds of each other. That left me trying to solo wave 10. I thought I had a chance till I realized we'd only managed to kill about 5 guys. The survival in UFO park had me rolling when melraz nearly ran stout over.
My shitty router only crapped out once. New router should be here tomorrow, and new modem by the weekend, so maybe I'll have a functional network by next week.
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Haven't run into any god mode guys the last few times I've been on, fortunately. The only glitcher was the guy in the sky, and melraz made short work of him.
Competition last night was pretty weak all the way around. We cleaned out the one server we were in, and I don't think we ever ran into anybody that was actually good. The only challenge was catching the one guy that was out on the highway with his Zentorno. Not sure I've ever seen the combat be so one sided in our favor.
We must've killed one guy 60-70 times. Poor dude was dropping 300-400 dollars every time too. Expensive night for him. I think he got two kills in return.
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No problem man. If i were in your place, I'd have damn sure been asleep before you were. As it was, I just figured my router shitting the bed again was a sign it was time to go to sleep myself.
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Yeah, I kept trying to get on, but stuff kept happening.
First time, I fell asleep as soon as I sold a car for Simeon. Second time my wife started shouting at me that the kitten's left ear was coming off. Third time my router died while I was in mid conversation with melraz.
At least my router problems should be solved soon. We're getting the whole house wired for cat5 in return for dinner for a guy and his girlfriend. Router will be replaced at the same time, so maybe I'll have an actual, functional network.
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At least he had two hands.
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Last night was kind of a mixed bag. Lots of good competition at times. Also, my router decided to make JT's look good by comparison and disconnect me 8 or 9 times, so I missed the hilarity Stout described.
I did end on a good note, though. We'd been warring with iceman for quite a while, and he was doing a number on us. I was two down on him and creeping up on his location, when somebody killed scrolls, another guy I'd been fighting with on and off. Scrolls spawned just down the street and behind me, and he was the bigger threat, since he had a clear view of me. I shifted my position slightly, sniped scrolls in the head, and turned back to find iceman coming at me hard while I was distracted. I managed to get him with the Mary Lou / shotgun combo.
3 jets flew over in quick succession right after that, so I figured I'd end there and go to bed. I slapped it into passive and climbed on a roadside hedge to watch the jet carnage. After a minute or two, I saw an ambulance barreling down the street at me. It crashed into the hedge and came to a stop right below me. That's when I realized it was scrolls trying to run me down. He might've been pissed at me because I'd killed him 5 or 6 times in a row, and I don't think he even managed to put a single bullet into me.
I had one of those "what the hell, I gotta try something" GTA moments and jumped onto the top of the ambulance. Apparently scrolls didn't realized you could surf those things, because he took off and started braking hard / ramming things to try to throw me off. I was laughing continuously as this poor guy spent several minutes trying everything to get me down. Finally, I guess he gave up, because he just started driving across town at high speed. The obvious solution to the situation finally came to me, so I came out of passive, threw a sticky bomb on the roof, and hopped off. I didn't take any damage from jumping off a moving ambulance at high speed, but poor scrolls died in an exploding ambulance. Surprised I didn't deafen Stout and/or wake up my wife from laughing so hard.
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I'm still pissed off that I didn't survive that 9K bounty. melraz and I holed up on a roof near the mall and murdered everybody that came at us, including the two tanks. We probably had about 30 kills up there. Finally, one of them realized that they had a clear sniper shot from down the hill, and that being uphill from us, or near us, was a serious disadvantage. I guess they had to get smart eventually.
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We had more god mode guys in the night shift. I think I've reported a total of 6 people now in all time I've played freemode. 4 of those were in the last 2 days. Right before I left, there was a god mode guy in a red suit and eagle mask running around near the downtown LSC. Stout and I slapped it into passive, and just sat and watched for the longest time. He was taking out herds of cops with a crowbar. Seemed like everybody else on the map was trying to take him out either by running him down with a supercar or sticky bombing him. Shit was exploding all over the place. It was kind of entertaining to watch, at least for a bit.
Seemed like almost nobody wanted to stick around and fight last night. Had a lot of short fights, but I only recall one guy that we went at it with for a long time. K/D went up another tick, at least.
Funniest thing of the night was doing the passive/sticky bomb trick on LT dewsh, or whatever that guy's name was in the tank.
Must've played too much last night, because when I woke up this morning I was dreaming it was raining redfish on my back porch.
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It had been a while since I'd seen god mode.
That guy's gamer tag didn't happen to be PxP Drugz, did it? I saw that guy in God Mode last night targeting cops.
At first I thought he was just in passive mode until he started knifing LSPD, stole a car and got a bounty, and then shrugged off tank shells from some asshole in a Rhino trying to collect the price on his head.
I reported the guy.... and then he sent me a PM inviting me to his crew's car meet.
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I know the first guy (the one I reported) was a different name. Started with an A, I think. Never saw the second guy's gamer tag. It was right after you left, and I was watching him through my sniper sights from a couple blocks away. I took off after that.
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I love it when someone puts a bounty on you and it's $1,000 or $3,000. "Come on, you cheap ass, put your money where your mouth is!" I mean, if I'm gonna go through the trouble to put a bounty on someone, I'm gonna make it worth people's time to off the bastard.
No Titans for me (gotta work), but I'll check in after work to see what's happening on the night shift.
Yeah, he only put a thousand dollars on me. Was about to text him and say I was worth a hell of a lot more when EVERYBODY started coming at me.
Other thing I forgot. I changed apartments and was moving all of my cars around to have high end stuff in one, and low end in the other. In freemode, with a bounty on me. Yeah I know, OCD and stupidity are a dangerous combination. I was driving my Adder to the high end garage when I saw a red dot right in front of it. Ran the guy over and parked the car. I drove another car out and took it back to the low end garage. Repeated that again, and came out of the low end to find the guy tailing me. Killed him again, and went on with my arranging. Got him one more time later on. By the end he's figured out what I'm doing. When I park the last car at the high end garage, he's right on my ass. Instead of parking and coming out again, I go into my apartment, come out the front door, and shotgun him in the back. Then I drove off in his car. Would've loved to be able to read that guy's thoughts.
Two guys in a Maverick got my bounty right after that - with the chopper blades - but I got them on my respawn when they stopped to pick up another guy and didn't get out of the way of my RPG in time.
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Not sure who all survived that one, but I certainly didn't I got cornered in the Death from Above house by a chopper and most of the LSPD. It didn't end well for me. Of course, that might've been for the best, because that way everybody else didn't have to wait 30 minutes as I tried to lose the cops.