Robert C
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The Simeon import/export cars were also buggy - I could take one to Simeon's garage, but the door to the garage wouldn't open. It would play the garage guy's voice like you drove in, but you didn't get paid. You could drive away from the garage and come back and it still wouldn't let you in and dude would say something different.
Meanwhile, if you gave up and drove off in the car, it's still on the map as the Simeon car.
I had a problem with the pay and spray not letting a Simeon car a couple days ago. No idea why. Finally gave up and drove to another one, which worked fine.
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SoulReaper IL, Phil, and Mark nearly kicked the shit out of me, Dan and Robert in a team deathmatch last week. We had to fucking rally to win by one kill.
My homegirl knows how to handle herself when it comes to shotguns. She had a 10-6 run. I recruit good talent.
Not only did Mark and I have the worst game of darts ever, we probably had the worst dogfight ever. We traded being one kill to nil for five minutes in our vehcile deathmatch because we'd kill the other guy and then crash our fighter jet and lose a point. I am a pretty good helicopter pilot but I am shit when it comes to airplanes.
She was good. I finally gave up trying to shoot her, and just started using the grenade launcher.
Made pretty good paydays between Thursday and Friday. Should help towards funding my next freemode run, after the enormous hits my wallet took the first half of the week.
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The highlight of the night was my dumbass setting Pier to Pier for bicycles
I also have a new favorite kill in freemode as I shot Uncle KeeKee (or whatever) in the head as he tried to run me over in a Vinewood Tours Bus
My thumb is still cursing you for that one. At least I finally got my first bicycle race win.
I so would have smoked you all if I had remembered to use my Endurex.
Yeah, that was the biggest vehicle advantage I've had in a race in a very long time. Once Rippa got delayed by something, and then got hung up by the train, all I had to do was just avoid biking into things.
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The highlight of the night was my dumbass setting Pier to Pier for bicycles
I also have a new favorite kill in freemode as I shot Uncle KeeKee (or whatever) in the head as he tried to run me over in a Vinewood Tours Bus
My thumb is still cursing you for that one. At least I finally got my first bicycle race win.
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My total for the night was around 450K, mainly on personal vehicles and various explosives. Burned through my entire supply of MG ammo as well. Had probably my best sniper kill ever on hashby, or whatever that passive SOBs name was. He was fleeing for his life on his personal Akuma, and was 4 or 5 blocks away when I sniped him in the head mid-jump.
No idea how many tanks we took out last night, but it was a bunch. I know I got at least 3 myself. The passive/sticky bomb one melraz and I did was the best. The last one I got I ran into head on in a Blista as he was coming down a hill. My car somehow drove under the tank so I threw my sticky bomb on the underside.
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I had completely forgotten about the guys just minding their own business trying to play choo-choo. I think they were pretty much collateral damage of us chasing the two jet guys around. Once we separated them from their jets, they started having a really bad evening.
Yeah, those guys in the firefight with me and Dolfan and Phil got the hell out of Dodge rather quickly. Didn't even get to do my "HE'S RUNNIN' LIKE A SCALDED DAWG, BY GAWD" J.R. voice, though RUkered broke it out later at an appropriate moment.
Phil and J.T. pretty much routinely break up for me quite a bit. I still say we gotta dick around with the game chat (set on crew and friends) - there's gotta be less people worldwide using the game chat than using the Xbox chat.
The Herbinator~! (his title, not mine) sent me a message saying he's enjoying his summer school bus driving vacation and will be back on to give us a decided tactical advantage soon. He says hey.
Is it wrong that whenever I think of Herby driving a bus, I see this in my mind's eye?
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I had some guys kick my ass some after you left, but nothing too badly. The three or four guys around Del Perro were tricky smothering me, but I never felt really out of control. I managed to snipe a couple. At one point I had two guys marching on me and was dying to jump down off the little perch I was on, but I would've basically jumped into another guy's arms.
I could've fought back better if I had any RPGs or grenades for my launcher, so I headed to AmmuNation as Robert tried to draw them more toward town to sorta open up the fight a bit. They somehow took this as a cue that we were walking away, and two of them left. I definitely wanted to scrap some more, but I needed ammo.
God, I wanted to punish that guy in the Zentorno. Robert got him a couple of times. From reading about the glitch, I think the invincibility goes away if you request your personal vehicle or get it from your mechanic, so the key is to get him out of the car, then separate him from it so him getting back to it becomes a challenge for him.
Probably the best thing to do is leave the session, but I have a feeling we're gonna see a lot of people doing this.
I tried to keep him out of his car. After I shot him out of it, I camped near his car and killed him 3 or 4 more times. He finally went into passive till he could get into the thing, then made a quick getaway before I could shoot him out again.
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That was when it was down to just Stout and me.
I managed to shoot that guy out of two buzzards. He bailed after the second one. In between the first and second buzzards some other goof drove up in a POV Sultan, which immediately got blowed up. He called up his Entity, and but stopped right next to me to try to hit an armored car. RPG took care of the armored car, the Entity and him in one go. He left to go get a tank, but Stout was on to him, so we were both in passive waving at him when he came back by.
Buzzard guy went passive and got on top of a building at one point. Not high enough though, because he was still within reach of the fire truck's water canon. Then he spawned in the street AFK, so we took turns running over and drowning him. I got my $2k for good behavior right after killing him 8-10 times while he was in passive. I love GTA's moral judgements. I so want there to be a rub-a-dub-dub award for drowning so many players with the fire truck.
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I also remember Robert being really confused when he logged on and I was in the freemode session
I was a little baffled in general when I got on yesterday. Long day. When I saw you were still on, I figured y'all were all doing races or deathmatches. Was surprised, and pleased, to see you'd joined the freemode heathen brigade.
The Great Train Ambush will live on in the tales of DVDR douchebaggery. Rockets and bullets just rained down like mad and Burke's quality demolition skills was the cherry on top. Hiding his booby trapped car in the hightway pile-up and then detonating it when those assholes crashed into it was fucking great.
I personally was happy that we got to get some payback on the two jet pilot assholes. COWARDS~!
I'd love to have membership to the crew boards of whatever sets those people belonged to.
OMG, THESE DVDR FUCKS MAKE ME WANT TO KILL~!
Rippa slipped into the GTA chat channel and figured out that nearly everyone else in the room was in cahoots with one another. Too bad that we were close to half of the server population.
"Skittles"' gamer tag is SkItTIEs6903 and I think the player is a female although age is undetermined. I got a Friend Request from her sometime today and I accepted. Good to see at least one person had a no harm / no foul attitude. If the tables were turned, I'm sure they'd expect the same from us....
.... if we didn't hold grudges...
Somehow I don't think skittles is going to be sending me any friend request any time soon. I painted her purple top red with blood more than a few times. I just don't have your way with the ladies.
Too be fair - it seemed like just the two dudes in jets who were monopolizing the game chat
Yeah, one guy ended up joining the other guy's crew.
Awesome, we made another love connection. We are helpers.
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And then my night took a turn. I got my two favorite kills so far. We were up fighting on a hill off the highway in Blaine County. Mis and I spent a while tag-teaming police choppers with miniguns. I hear J.T. say that they've got scopes trained on a ton of guys riding the train. I join them and we wait for the guys to 'round the bend.
As it turns out, they're all riding alongside the train in cars. Since I suck with a sniper rifle, I missed killing two of the guys. I say screw it on the third guy and pull out the RPG. I lead the shot, and I'll be damned if the dude didn't drive right into the exploding rocket. It will be a million years before I pull that off again, but damn did it feel good.
The last assholes I got were two guys in a red Zentorno. They were basically doing a 2 mile loop on that highway, like they were taunting us or something. It was seriously like timing enemy A.I. patterns in Metal Gear. Just give it enough time, and they'll follow the same path. Anyway, I probably wasted 2 clips of sniper ammo trying to shoot them out of the car. Once again, fuck this. I drive my Entity down to the highway, coat the road with 5-6 sticky bombs, then drive back up the mountain and wait.
I pull out the sniper so I can see them coming. Sure enough, they're southbound once again. They get to the intersection and u-turn onto the northbound lanes. I follow them with the scope until they're right in the middle of my pile of joy, press left on the d-pad, and those bastards' car skidded fire like the Delorean going back in time.
I got to watch both of those through my sniper scope. Had to be the kills of the night all around. I'd been trying to get that red Zentorno forever, so I was quite happy to see it go. And that RPG shot was a thousand to one shot.
My own personal highlight came in the confusion after you took em all out. There was a maroon Escalade, or whatever it's called in the game, stopped in the middle of the highway. It was far enough away that I couldn't see people, but I could see when they got in the car. I just kept my sniper sights trained on the driver side window. 3 different guys got in that car in quick succession. I sniped all 3 before they finally wised up and found a different means of escape.
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Was it just me ir were everyones connections horrible? By end of the night, almost everyone was cutting out on the mic. I couldnt understand phil or jt at all.
I was crapping out more than usual even for my shitty, shitty router.
I got a "You guys are total d-bags" PMs from SharkAttack and Blizzy overnight, so mission accomplished. We did what we set out to do. You guys may see some negative rep coming your way!
I had a really hard time understanding some folks, but I could hear others clearly. At one point Rippa was shouting at me to pick him up in my car, and I couldn't understand a word of it.
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Robert, I didn't mean to just leave in the middle of our conversation, but I have a habit of shutting off my Xbox as soon as I see Michael start up his antics in single-player, so I did, then thought "hey, wait, that'll cut off the chat, too, dumbass," but by then, it was too late.
And Rippa got put through a baptism by fire, too - we ambled into a serious firefight about two seconds after arriving in Freemode. It was on and on often. But he was the damn star, just mowing people down.
What I was trying to tell you about cops in Freemode, Phil, is we kinda treat them like house flies. We sorta try to shoo them away, maybe, and that's it. They're gonna kill ya, but you can't let them take your mind off the white dot in front of you. It's all about killing dots, not killing cops. Cops kill you, you respawn, you go about killing more dots. How many times you reckon the cops kill us in an average Freemode session? About 20 times apiece? Fighting with cops is pointless and takes attention away from the true evil in the world, everyone else on the map.
Robert and I got into a serious firefight late in the night before Robert started spanking this one poor dude who had a bounty while I stood there like Chester going "Get 'em, Spike! That's my pal Spike! He's tough!"
I did not know until we were done with deathmatches that I had the "don't target friends" on the entire time. I'd forgotten about it. That's what I'll blame my deathmatch suckiness on.
Oh, Robert and I also ran into a guy whose Zentorno could not be blown up. He could be killed either in or out of the car, but the car could not be blown up. I planted three RPGs and two grenades in it from almost point-blank range and nothing happened. He drove up to me and killed me with a sticky bomb while staying right next to me. We reported him.
I had a really bad night all around, really bad, but the only time I felt like things were getting truly shitty is when I was being dominated by this man:
I think I actually dropped off before you did, so no problem. I was trying to run that hippo guy off before I dropped, but he just wouldn't leave. You'd think after we killed him about 60 times he would've got the hint. As it was, I only managed about 2 hours sleep. At the least, I've gotta figure that getting going without sleep to take care of the injured kitten we found yesterday has gotta wash away some of my freemode sins.
I think I did a little better than average. Had a couple bad spells, like first contact with the folks down by the beach. We held our own though, even though they had us outnumbered, and had already driven 3 guys into passive.
Zentorno guy was really annoying. That's only the second time I've ever reported somebody. At least the damn thing wasn't bulletproof. I shot him right in the face with my assault SG, and it made a nice bloodspray pattern on the windshield.
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Yeah, I hate to bring in the Rhino in on missions but I suppose overkill is what GTA is all about. I also didn't want to destroy the money and for some reason it is far more satisfying taking cops out with arms fire than it is to bring in a tank.
That statement should qualify me for humantarian of the year..... in North Korea... or maybe Hell.
GTA. It brings out the better angels of our nature.
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What Stout said. If you go back through this thread there are probably about 50 posts from me bitching about joining, and then immediately leaving, shitty DMs. It's annoying, but the best way I've found of getting decent matches is just joining at random and then bailing out till you find one you want. Downside to that is that it sends the invites to your friends list automatically, even if you quit out. Then Rippa gets annoyed because he joined a Prison Thugz match that you've already bailed out on.
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Oh yeah, that's another crew truism: If three or more of us get in a chopper, something bad is gonna happen.
I can verify this as a true statement, having completed a self-imposed ban from all things flying during missions after one such occurence where I promptly died early on in a mission, then took to piloting for the win with all members in the chopper before I crashed and failed it for everyone.
I am a little better now, aside from hacking crew to pieces with choppers while trying to either A) kill someone that is non-crew (like I did Melraz, numerous times on night) or B) pick up a crew member for evac/re-positioning (Herby at near the airport the last time the night shift were all together)
I still remember the time there were three or four of us in an annihilator and somebody Allah Akbar'ed us right as we were trying to take off. I was watching this Adder coming in on us fast and trying to war the pilot, when all of a sudden the whole world exploded.
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I care about my K/D ratio and getting killed, but I'm more concerned with the K side of the equation than the D. I'll frequently introduce myself to a group of players by driving up to their cars and sticky bombing all of us. My K/D is creeping up, at 1.42 last time I checked.
Stout, your K/D is ought to be rising. You've been much more of a killer the last few times I've played with you.
If you care about tints for the short range weapons, DMs are the place to get that, rather than freemode. That's where I got most of the kills for those. I've got the LSPD on the heavy sniper, advanced rifle, assault SMG, AP pistol, combat MG and assault SG. I was also pedantic and bought the LSPD tints for the bullpup rifle and special carbine only after I'd registered 600 kills with both. I unlocked the first tint for the RPG recently. I've also got a bunch of tints for guns I don't even own, from doing forced weapon DMs.
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I think "I'm too drunk for freemode" was the first thing I heard. It was one of those kinda nights.
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Gawd I can't please anybody. Might as well kiss my gun....gonna french kiss my shotgun.
Don't make me fake a migrane to get out of work and come up there on a welfare visit.. I already got a lot of shit to do this weekend like a million hours away in Maryland.
Jobber Thursday was relatively quiet. I saw no hide nor hair of the Night Shift guys, so I got beat by Mark by playing the most unremarkable round of golf in recent memory and then i went into free mode to watch WEAZEL while I ate dinner. I think I killed maybe one person the entire time I was online.
Two if you include me shooting Mark earlier in the evening for the $1K bounty on his head. Hey, I needed the SMG kill.. Those shits are hard to come by nowadays since even 20ish lowbies can get their hands on Bullpups and Special Carbines.
The GTA game database continues to act fubar. I got an invite to Coveted this morning while swiping the morning Simeon vehicle. The mission was marked NEW despite the fact that I have played that thing a dozen times. I assume the system considers the mission NEW to me since I haven't played the "improved" version.
That's what you get for having screwed up True / False flags in your POS database.
melraz and I got into some murdering after you'd logged off. I can confirm he was alive and well, and was deeply into beer #2. melraz tried for his first "kill target", and I hopped into his car for the ride. Glad it was a video game car rather than real life. He crashed into almost everything on the entire map, and the target got away before he could get him.
Needed to spend some quality time with the wife, so I didn't get online till she'd gone to sleep. Probably won't be on much till Monday evening.
Coveted has always been one of those things that the game won't realize you've finished it, kinda like a mission equivalent of Boneyard.
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We massacred the rednecks in Boneyard Survival last night just because the dumb broken database said we'd never completeed it.
We remembered being called "shitdicks" by our attackers way back when we got our first assault rifles. Good times. Robert earned his Wages of Sin back tattoo for his "main" character which is half the level of his alternate affectionately known as Skull Girl.
I shot Robert like nine times while in free mode because I am not used to seeing him use his guy toon. So now I have to forgive him and stuff for the times he shot me when I wasn't wearing a leather jacket.
I also noticed that everytime Robert comes around a blind corner in free mode, he instinctively combat rolls.
Not sure how long I'm gonna stick with the guy, but I'll probably do it for a while. Maybe unlock a few things. I have no clue when I got a world record with him, but apparently I did. I gotta do something with his look though. The hair glitch makes him look like a guy who'd own a copy of the Turner Diaries.
Like I said last night, I find myself doing the Mary Lou all the time, even when there's no combat going on.
The Ladies of the Evening can once again ply their trade in peace.
If the GTA Forum is to be believed, our favorite money glitch to talk abuot got hotfixed this afternoon.
Still no word on if the original glitch (ie. use the body of your friend or crew mate's toon) still works.
I swear to God that anyone who offers me a ride over the next few days is going to get shot first.
Yeah, it looks like that's done, till somebody figures out a new one. You can still dupe the car, but after you do that you can't drive out.
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The crew-created (forget who, sorry) deathmatch at the golf course..
That is Mark's deathmatch salute to ESPN's Dan Patrick entitled Nothin' But Golf Shots.
I really like that one. The one at the mansion with the grenades was kinda unfortunate, 'cause I haven't played it enough to know where the pickup weapons are. I'd just stumble across them. Now that I know, the first thing to do is to say "screw killing people" and try to get up on that roof where the sniper rifles are. I dunno how to get up there, though - I would be wise to go scout the location in a private room.
With four of us, that one would've been better as a four-way dance to keep both teammates from getting on the roof.
The way up to the mansion roof is to climb the storage container in the back. It's not there in freemode.
In a way, you were responsible for putting me up there. If your damn sticky bomb hadn't got me, I wouldn't have spawned up there in the first place.
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I was glad I managed to even the score 2-2 on last cub before he bailed. I had to work hard to get it, so it felt like quite the accomplishment. In my defense, he was a level 3. I always feel a sense of accomplishment getting high level players like that.
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You know, J.T.'s right about the pilot guy. Both times he killed me, he did so with machine gun fire. Most goofs try to kill you with rockets. Maybe it's the rockets that are horribly inaccurate. Maybe he was that damn good. I never saw him skip across the screen or anything, I'm pretty sure that guy on the ground was doing something, 'cause the game was going batshit.
The two jet guys we ran into at the airport a few weeks ago were also using their guns rather than rockets. They also tended to use the same sine wave sort of flightpath that the guy last night was doing. So either that's how really, really good pilots roll, or they're exploiting something. The guy last night got me four times. The first two were hard shots, but didn't seem impossible. I'm hard put to understand how he could've pulled off the last two. The third one in particular seemed next to impossible, as I was in cover down a narrow alley between two reasonably tall buildings. It would've required a near perfect shot to get me.
I still finished up on his two buddies on the ground, so at least there's that.
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I don't know about that, but the few times I've accepted apartment invites out of curiosity, it's been nothing but a bunch of dudes in nothing but short shorts doing the jack off motion non-stop.Oh yeah, what is it about apartment invites? Do I basically show up at the apartment to get slaughtered?
I hate to beat a dead horse, but one exception was the night we fought Bane. He simply invited us in because we were FIIIIINE GENTLEMEN AND WORRRRTHY FOES.
Ok, now I really don't feel bad that I've never accepted an apartment invite.
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Actually, you wouldn't even need to shoot anybody. Just go into cover near somebody else, shoot at some random target, and see if the other guy sees your blip appear.
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It had been a while since I'd seen god mode. I caught one guy completely unaware while he was targeting cops, and put an entire magazine of combat MG ammo into him. Didn't even faze him. Then I watched another guy take hundreds of hits from the cops with no effect. I think this is all somehow linked to the glitch that allowed UFOs. I drove thru that intersection and noticed it was full of traffic cones. I got the hell out of there.
Did manage to pick up a bunch of bounties in other servers. I got on a ridiculous run of killing dots with sticky bombs. I must've been doing something right, because one guy put a bounty on me after I'd got him 3 or 4 times in a row with stickys. Also successfully took out my first tank with the old style suicide bomb - load up a car and go off the radar. Then I sniped the guy on respawn till he left.
I did feel bad about one fight. Somebody came right up to me just after another firefight ended, and I wound up killing the guy 4 times in succession. A bounty spawned near me, so I took off and sticky bombed the bounty guy out of his Turismo. I was wondering about the level on the guy I killed 4 times in a row. Turned out he was a 7. I stopped my car and was about to text an apology when he comes crashing into me. I shotgunned him one more time before the server took a dump.