Robert C

Rooftop Rumble was the only mission annouced to be buffed but Melraz and I smoked it even on Hard difficulty. Dry Docking however kicked our asses. I approve of the increase in quality of opposition given to Merryweather. They should be much more formidable than the street gangs and renegade bikers we're used to dealing with. There was a never ending spawn of Merryweather guys starting right at the beginning of the mission. We took out more than 60 of them on the one run we completed. They were spawning both inside and outside the building. To make it harder, the guys outside didn't just come up the alleyway beside the building. Stout tried taking cover near the door the second time, but they kept spawning behind him. The only strategy we could come up with was mis on the hacking/safe cracking, me in cover inside the building handling the random spawns inside, and Stout outside well away from the doorway and in cover behind a car. We took some damage but it finally worked. Definitely made us think about shit, which was a nice change. I have a Bati 800RR, an Elegy RH8, a Phoenix, an Entity, a Mesa Off-Road (RIP being able to grap vehicles from missions), the new Dinka Thrust, and a Sultan. I think that I am going to get a Picador to mod as a low rider and the Massacro and a clean Rebel will round out my garage. If another vehicle strikes my fancy, I will probably just swap out one car for another. I don't really feel the need to get another garage. My original garage has 7 supercars (5 bought during the free money days) in it, and one high end sports car. The second one is full with all that stuff I listed plus the Tailgater, Mesa, and my modded Baller. I've still got about $4M left for 2 more. Thinking about getting a Massacro, but I want to try it out in a few races first. Thinking about a convertible Banshee too. They're not very good cars, but I like driving them when I can steal one.

I modded a bunch of stuff on it. I don't remember all of them but I know I did the engine and armor. I got the Livery version, just because that's what the guy I rammed into head on up by Sandy Shores was driving. I've never owned one before, so I don't know if this is different from the past.

Did Stocks and Scares with mis and stout last night. Didn't see any announcement about this one, but it's definitely different now. You've got to have some serious strategy now. JT will love it. Took us three tries to work out a successful approach, and even the third run was close to failure. Just about filled up my second garage. Got customs of Gauntlet, Sanchez, Bati 800, Sandking XL, Sentinel XS, Blista and Sultan. Thanks to Stout for finding the Sultan. All three of us got the new Zentorno supercar, and set out on a quest to make it even uglier.

Shit, I can't read. So happy early birthday then.

Since somebody clued me in, and he'll probably only see it if I post it here - Happy Birthday to melraz, Private Pyle, the one and only mayor of tha DVDR GTA nite shift. Hope your day is THAT DAMN GOOD man.

Had some weird shit happen in that one server we cleared. We were down to two white dots, and they were both at Trevor's airfield. We all had guns out, so nobody was in passive, but we couldn't shoot each other, even with me and one white dot standing right in front of each other shooting every weapon we had. I finally got frustrated and ran the guy over with a sandking I'd found. Then I ran his buddy over. Second guy shot an RPG right into the back of the sandking as I was running him down. Somehow the truck survived. Oh, and the cops in this game can kiss my ass. They're hardcore with the new update.

Sorry about bailing out on y'all. I had a minor crisis happen at the house. All was well by morning fortunately. Knew I was in trouble when I got the "you're going to be ok not playing any more tonight, right?" line.

...this guy makes me wanna blow my 'buying a new computer' budget to buy an Xbox 360 and a 2nd copy of GTA V. It would be well worth it too. Especially around the time beer #2 hits. Yeah, I lost that ability a long time ago. Makes his posts that much better.

I'll probably be on a bit later than normal. stupid bugs.

I'm pretty sure somebody succeeded in killing a person on foot with rockets in LS Forum a while back. Could be wrong though. The first time I tried to get Dan last night, the damn rockets flew right past him, on on either side.

Is it wrong that I'm hoping I get hit by that lose a weapon bug, so I can lose the damn Gusenberg Sweeper? I've been trying to drop that thing for months. And I already know I'll be actively trying to get the psychotic mental state in freemode. If it makes people come after me, all the better.

Aw, I'll miss hearing somebody shout "fuck off Lester" during heavy combat in freemode. Won't miss it happening to me though.

Oh hell yes. I can't log on at the moment, but I'm telepathically setting that in my xbox right now.

Hopefully I didn't kill either of them. No real I idea to be sure, though. I was trying to get to a Simeon car, and it wound up in the middle of a huge scrum. After things settled down a bit, I noticed a crew colored dot.

I got on a little on Saturday. Unlocked the Grim Reaper tat that I don't have any place for, and got an ignition bomb kill or two. Ran into somebody with a crew tag in freemode - soul reaper, or something like that. Don't know who that is, and couldn't find a similar name in the online list. I may have run them over without realizing, because I didn't think any crew would be in the server. I ran into another server where the sticky bombs wouldn't work, but this time it saved me. Was in the Simeon car when somebody threw two onto the back of it. Both disappeared, so I just hopped out, shotgunned the guy, and blew up his Entity. The same server was the source of endless bounties. I stole 3 cars, and got 3 bounties put on me for them.

The guy that kept messaging me was funny. First he claims to be too good for us. When I asked why we were killing him 3 for 1, he starts whining about it not being fair because he's outnumbered. I don't think being a badass works that way. I've had the sticky bomb issue happen on a few servers. Leaving for another session usually fixes it.

Last night was tank night for some reason. Saw more last night than I had in the last few weeks combined. There were two guys on the last map that grabbed at least 3 tanks each. I honestly don't see what would be fun about driving around in one of those things. I grabbed one once after getting sick of those two fools. I was honestly glad it was on fire by the time I'd taken both of their tanks, so I wouldn't have to deal with the thing. Did get one good kill right when we got into the first server with our bounties. I was down an alleyway and saw two or three guys park at the other end to come after me. Launched a grenade into their parked cars, and the entire left side of my screen lit up with alternating messages of you killed so and so, followed blew up so and so's personal vehicle. Got one more ignition bomb kill as well. Shot a guy out of the Simeon car. Thought he would come after me, but no luck. Parked the car and ran away. Another guy came by to try to steal it, probably as the timer was about to run out on it.

I get insanely frustrated at death matches because I'm awful at them. The shotgun ones I have an okay chance but as soon as a sniper rifle is involved I'm completely screwed. I just get super quiet (even moreso than usual) because I don't feel like I've been around chatting online enough to curse you all as much as I'm doing in my head. I think a lot of the problem is that I have almost no history of online gaming, and really 75% of the games I've played since I was a teenager were sports games, so I never developed the muscle memory or knowledge of tactics to be able to compete with most people playing online. I'm getting better, no more of the 2 kills, 20 deaths type of matches like when I first started but I'm still lucky to get anywhere near a 1:1 k/d ratio. This was the problem I had at the beginning. I was trying to think of the last real shooter I played much of, and all I could come up with was Goldeneye for the N64. Only other one I've played was Doom 2. I've never played a game online before this one. I learned how to do the Mary Lou shit because I started doing a lot of DMs with randoms, and got tired of having it done to me all the time. That made a huge difference. I still get schooled in DMs on occasion, but I come out ahead more than often that not. One thing that bugs me about DMs is that they reward stupid play. I did one last night that threatened to go on forever. I was in a hurry to log off, so I just ran around the map inviting people to shoot me, and opening up on anybody I saw. I wound up winning the thing, but had at least 5 more deaths than anybody else in the match. That just seems dumb to me. Maybe that's how DMs work in all games? I've just never done them before. And like melraz said, feel free to cuss me out. Him cussing me out after my sticky bomb the tanker trick in a DM may be my favorite moment of this game.

JT and I definitely differ on the big bag o' guns. I've always liked the ability to access all my guns at once in the GTA games. I don't want to analyze the mission objectives and make intelligent decisions on what weaponry to bring. I want to solve problems through the application of overwhelming firepower. Plus, I know I'd always end up with heavy sniper/combat MG or combat MG/assault shotgun. Like how I only ever used 2 guns in ME3. That said, I do wind up with way too many types of guns in this game. I always dump everything I don't use, so that I don't have to cycle through shitty weapons. After doing a few DMs with forced weapons last night, I left a pile of 6 or 7 guns on the ground in freemode. Wish I could drop the damned Gusenberg. Looking forward to the extra garage space next week, though I'm disappointed that they won't have mansions. Me being a nerd, I've already got a list of cars to buy. I'll probably be on for a bit tonight till about 7 my time. Might check out a bit of the draft to see where my fellow Aggies end up.

Extradition is just a matter of bringing the right equipment along. If you grab 2 fighter jets and a buzzard or two, it becomes pretty easy. Certainly easier than trying to steal a damned cargobob. The fighter jets make short work of the plane taking off from Zancudo, and the buzzards can tag the DA easily. Have one person in place on the ground where the DA is going to spawn and you're golden.

I think about half of us immediately thought Midnight Express as soon as you said that about tag teams. I'm now 2/3 as evil as JT. Got sticky bomb kills 16 and 17. I take way, way too much pleasure in those.

Damnit. I just got Seven Spanish Angels out of my head.

That is an interesting way to remember it. In actuality - I somehow was battling JT for first. I am directly above him. I go "JT I am directly above you". (since we were doing a good job all night long trying to communicate when we were passing as to not boning each other) JT immediately flies up. I blow up and see "KidSix bombed you" JT goes happily on his way That event disappered from my mind in a haze of Allegra. I totally forgot that I buzzed the rudder of your Mallard. I think I I was just stunned to actually be in first place during plane race and not have crashed during the first three checkpoints.. Had I been paying attention and not been an asshole, I'd have given up the lead with you being that close. I thought for sure I had that helicopter race in the bag, but then came the mid-air cluster fuck with Dolfan's hot pink helicopter and I had to make the emergency landing on the docks. Buzzard was too fucked to fly so I respawned to get a new aircraft. Can't blame Dolfan for that one. I was flying the pink chopper. I think he was flying a crew colored one. I was wondering aloud before the air first race who I would crash into with Dan not involved. The answer was apparently everybody

Plane races are the bane of my existence at this point. I could see the big crash at the bridge coming, but there wasn't a damn thing I could do about it. Had planes directly above and below me, and couldn't turn left or right because of the path of the course. It got comical after the respawn. Lost my right wing on the second try, and lost the left on the third. Fourth pass I had the tail on fire. Fifth time was a charm. I'm amazed I finished that one. Sorry again JT about being so useless in freemode. Between my dad calling, getting a delivery at the house, and my wife needing help with her back, I was far from all there. If I'd known that would all hit at once I'd have just bailed with everybody else.

I think the archenemy/victim stuff is for a single session, like one DM or one freemode run. Otherwise, I think most 360 folks would top my current archenemy and victim. Dan and I shoot each other at least half a dozen times in every DM we do.