Grand Theft Auto V Talk.

[AxB]

Last night, I got three different invites to join crews with names like 'Detroit Ghetto Playaz'. So, if you have a female avatar, and you're running around the city with blonde hair wearing just a white bikini*, suddenly some people get very friendly.

 

I was in ZombieWooHoo's** apartment with some guys who were probably teenagers. Zombie phones up Nikki the stripper to come over. I figured I might as well get a lap dance seeing as she was there. Change view, and there's three guys behind me taking pictures on their phones. And then they start texting me saying "OMFG That so SO HOTTT!". And here's me thinking young kids today are all about the super hard internet porno all the time. 

 

Finally got my Orange tint on the Advanced Rifle. Next stop Blue (LSPD). Got the Scoped Out Award as well (Broken Skull Tattoo unlock)... I've somehow got a bronze on Pistol Whipped but I don't know how. 

 

* There's an apparently New Deathmatch at the Richman Mansion (the guy top of the Leaderboard has done it 5 times, as of last night). I thought I'd get in costume for it.

 

** She's in the DVDVR Crew sometimes. She's one of those people who joins the crew of the highest level person in the room. She's a girl with a boy avatar, I don't know why.

[J.T.]

I know a couple of girls that play the game in other crews who only use male avatars.  Keeps the unsolicited Friend Requests down to a minimum.  Moongirl acfually leaves her mic off sometimes for fear that creepy guys will proposition her over chat.

 

I am trying to get more of the tattoo awards because the normal tattoos suck. 

 

As far as the Reward tattoos go, I only wear the "Wages of Sin" back tattoo (10 waves of Survival) and the Grim Reaper w/Shotgun (5 Gang Attacks in one game day) on my right arm but I have unlocked all of the Clown back tattoos for robbing all of the convenience stores on the map, the LSC tramp stamp for completely modding a vehicle, and the Hottie leg tattoo for getting 25 lap dances.

 

I would like to get the Seven Deadly Sins tattoo but that would mean getting over 1K kills and I don't really care to deathmatch that often or get into firefights on public servers with griefers..  If I am going to get into a firefight, I'd prefer it to be a Team Deathmatch or Capture event where our crew is murdering other dudes.

 

In other news, unused GTA5 content will find its way to GTA Online.

[RIPPA]

I know a couple of girls that play the game in other crews who only use male avatars.  Keeps the unsolicited Friend Requests down to a minimum.  Moongirl acfually leaves her mic off sometimes for fear that creepy guys will proposition her over chat.

Well - we will make sure she never plays with Fresh then.

And to be fair to JT - the dude I was talking about helped out a lot in the mission we did so after JT capped him, he left his money alone. Just bought us enough time to jump out of the public server.

[J.T.]

Yeah, I tend not to take dropped money from other players if I can help it (not like there's a lot of it anyway), but I don't hesitate to put bullets into craniums in pro-active self defense.

[odessasteps]

It was good to have a day off from playing the game.

We heard at the end of the day someone at work had passed away so i wasn't in the mood to kill people.

Playing mahjong on the new laptop was much more soothing.

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My time playing may need to be whittled down soon, once i start working heavy on the new issue of the magazine. Two hours of mayhem may cut into my need to watch 1984 Mid-South and we know JT gets annoyed when i multi-task when playing, since it leads to poor driving and or getting shot.

[J.T.]

I am sorry to hear that, man.

 

In a similar vein, all this talk about the Headhunters in the Wrestler of the Day forum makes me want to revisit some of the W*ING and FMW I have on tape, with focus on MR. GANNOSUKE~!.

 

And yeah.  KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD~!

[odessasteps]

And as we were talking about the other day, i am prob going to set up my vhs/dvd converter to see if i have those SST squashes with Lee Scott.

[J.T.]

And as we were talking about the other day, i am prob going to set up my vhs/dvd converter to see if i have those SST squashes with Lee Scott.

 

YES~!

[J.T.]

FUCK YEAH~!  There is a YouTube vid of the best incidental music in the fucking game!

 

[jstout]

I was playing the other day with a girl who had a male avatar and a unisex name. She got mighty pissed off at me (not sure if it's smoothed over now or not) because I assumed she was a 12-year-old boy because I'd been on the game lately with a lot of 12-year-old kids over their school break and they all sounded just like her.

 

I said she sounded like a kid whose balls hadn't dropped yet - that pissed her off for some reason - and I tried explaning that what I meant was 12-year-old boys have no bass in their voices 'cause they haven't gone through puberty, so they sound like girls. I'm not sure why that made her so mad.

 

Her mom was also in the chat room with us, cussing like a sailor and telling us about the six months of jail time she did. Good times. Thing is, I wanna stay on these people's good sides, 'cause they're not the types you want as enemies in Freemode - they're complete assassins. Best players I've played with so far in terms of just roaming around wreaking havoc. 

 

I'm not sure why these level 13-20 guys are running around starting fights with level 100-plus people. When I was at level 13, I tried to stay out of Freemode as much as possible. Some level 20 kid started chasing me last night, and I thought "really?" I killed him twice with no kills for him before the tanks started rolling in and I had to bail.

 

A kid and I got to talking on the main chat of the game a few nights ago, and I'm standing on the roof of a building warring with a lower-level player who started crap with me a night later when the kid swoops down with a cargobob and picks me up. I like getting along with people. Some nights, it seems like the vast majority of the room is live and let live, and those nights are fun. I know I could play in a private room, but it's boring when you're by yourself after you go sell a car or go to AmmuNation or whatever chores you have to do.

[Cristobal]

Being a higher-level type, I try not to target indivdual players unless and until they've done something to deserve it. Instead, I look for groups of people. Either they're already in a big free-for-all, in which case I wanna join the party, or they're all together, in which case it seems like a fair fight. A lot of times, it seems like people are doing sideshows or whatever near the Los Santos Customs, as they're all in their tricked-out cars.

As many times as I end up blowing those cars up, I really have no explanation for how I've never been to the bad sport lobby.

[jstout]

I've attacked players without provocation about three times now, but twice I thought they were getting ready to attack me and I shot first. They probably were, but I didn't know that at the time, so I should've held off. Then after they killed me, they'd be fair game. I don't wanna be like a lot of people in the game - I don't wanna attack people with no provocation. 

 

The third time I consider a special case, a situational case of bad behavior - it was when I had RUkered and melraz in the back of my truck and I just wanted to roll up on somebody with two players in the back of a truck with guns drawn. As karma works, we shot that guy to hell but got RPG'd by another player I didn't even notice on the map five seconds later.

 

Blowing up another player's car is one of the most satisfying things you can do in Freemode. A guy was absolutely owning me the other day - I think the score at one point was 15-2 - but I did manage to blow up him and his Elegy once with an RPG when he got cocky, so for some reason it kinda became worth it.

 

It's gotten to the point where I'll take my car home or abandon it far from the scene if I know I'm gonna start warring with people. I'll just steal cars, 'cause your cars are either gonna get blown up by someone or impounded by the cops.

[Big Fresh]

I know a couple of girls that play the game in other crews who only use male avatars. Keeps the unsolicited Friend Requests down to a minimum. Moongirl acfually leaves her mic off sometimes for fear that creepy guys will proposition her over chat.

Well - we will make sure she never plays with Fresh then.

And to be fair to JT - the dude I was talking about helped out a lot in the mission we did so after JT capped him, he left his money alone. Just bought us enough time to jump out of the public server.

Crew does not cockblock crew.

[Neil Koch]

FUCK YEAH~! There is a YouTube vid of the best incidental music in the fucking game!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXoTpeGvAYM

I really like the non radio soundtrack. Reminds me of the Getaway games on PS2.

[Robert C]

I didn't get on till really late last night.  Got into stuck into a group for Judging the Jury with 4 guys from one crew, and wound up doing 4 or 5 missions with them.  They were doing everything on hard, and just killing it.  None of them was really high level, but they were working together like a machine, completing pretty difficult missions really quickly.  Tried to hold up my end, but on at least one mission they had the whole thing mopped up before I even got to the objective.  Made about 12K RP in maybe 15 minutes.

 

Then I got into an LTS, with just one other guy on my team.  I got wiped out first, and then he proceeded to take out the entire other crew.  Apparently it was my night to get carried to victory.

[Robert C]

Dolfan and Novacain - sorry for bailing out of that mission just now.  My Xbox dropped me off of live, and I can't get back in.  It's been happening all day for no discernible reason.

[Dolfan in NYC]

It's all good in the hood.  My XBox just dropped me too for some reason.  I suddenly realized how tired I was and saw the 2:20 time on my clock.  "Oh, maybe that's why"

[jstout]

Apparently it was my night to get carried to victory.

This happens to me a lot. Just sit back and enjoy the ride. Though I have carried Survival missions before, so it all works out.

 

EDIT TO REMOVE BAD INFO: They patched the game. They, for now, took away no money, no ill-gotten gains like cars and tanks. Maybe they just said "screw it." They didn't even fix the barbershop glitch. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

 

All y'all need to puff on some crystal meth so you can stay up and hang with the late shift. There were five of us: Jones, RUkered, melraz, Misanthrope and me. We were in an Xbox chat room directing traffic and wrecking one poor guy's day. So he actually gets in the car with one of us, and we drive off and invite him into the chat room. Nice dude. He was laughing about us slapping him around.

 

So now there's six of us, and we head to the airport and just rain death on the only other poor slob in the game, who started trouble with us earlier. To his credit, he didn't just quit immediately, he took a beating.

 

He quit eventually and jumped right back in the game, respawning at his apartment (the building with the most-expensive apartment). I really wanted to fly a Cargobob with all six of us over there, land it, get out and start whoopin' his ass again, but we couldn't get that going. So we drove over there and started kicking his ass again. Good times, good times. "We're from Tennessee, just look over us."

[Neil Koch]

They didn't release a new patch. That link is just some guy's wish list.

[RIPPA]

They didn't release a new patch. That link is just some guy's wish list.

 

Though ironically enough when I went to play this morning - my XBOX downloaded an update for the game.

 

I assume it is one that it just hadn't downloaded before (for whatever reason) but still

[Reggie20x6]

I love that no matter how hot of a playing streak I'm on, the moment I do a mission with a DVDVR crew member I die within five seconds and look like an idiot.

 

Although, we got to Wave 9 on the Industrial Plant Survival, and that is the furthest I've ever made it on that one (I've completed all of the other ones). We probably would have beaten it, but the random Level 7 player decided to bail out in the middle of that 9th wave. I hope that kid's internet dropped because I have absolutely no idea why he would have quit there - because just as he did the numbers game took over, and I got mowed down by the 10+ red circles that suddenly appeared on the screen after left.

 

 

Leavin' a survival right at the end? That's a paddlin'.

[Neil Koch]

I had something like that happen last night. I had to finish off level 10 of Boneyard (with the three helicopters) by myself.

[jstout]

You're right, that is someone's wish list (didn't see the person's message board name at the bottom), but they definitely released a new patch. People were having a hard time playing last night because some had the patch and some didn't and they weren't allowed to game together. Eventually, more people got the patch and that was less of a problem.

 

I love it when they drop you out of a session and make you download the patch immediately. I was gaming with Misanthrope when suddenly I was booted off Xbox Live, and when I re-signed back on, I had to download the patch. Not the first time that's happened.

 

No one online can figure out what they actually fixed, if anything. Maybe it goes into effect later, maybe after they've had time to explain what's coming.

[RUkered]

This happens to me a lot. Just sit back and enjoy the ride. Though I have carried Survival missions before, so it all works out.

 

EDIT TO REMOVE BAD INFO: They patched the game. They, for now, took away no money, no ill-gotten gains like cars and tanks. Maybe they just said "screw it." They didn't even fix the barbershop glitch. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

 

All y'all need to puff on some crystal meth so you can stay up and hang with the late shift. There were five of us: Jones, RUkered, melraz, Misanthrope and me. We were in an Xbox chat room directing traffic and wrecking one poor guy's day. So he actually gets in the car with one of us, and we drive off and invite him into the chat room. Nice dude. He was laughing about us slapping him around.

 

So now there's six of us, and we head to the airport and just rain death on the only other poor slob in the game, who started trouble with us earlier. To his credit, he didn't just quit immediately, he took a beating.

 

He quit eventually and jumped right back in the game, respawning at his apartment (the building with the most-expensive apartment). I really wanted to fly a Cargobob with all six of us over there, land it, get out and start whoopin' his ass again, but we couldn't get that going. So we drove over there and started kicking his ass again. Good times, good times. "We're from Tennessee, just look over us."

 

 

 

That was a fun night. It was nice to be the bullies for a change. And that kid that I invited into the party just reminded me of how old I was. He sounded like he's a decade or four away from drinking age, but whatever, he was cool about us kicking his ass.

 

I was basically delirious by the time I hopped off and went to bed. It's been a while since I stayed up until the sun damn near came up. But like jstout said, y'all puff on the meth and get with the late night rolling death crew. I'll probably be on again tonight.

[misanthrope304]

Yeah, same shit happened to me about 10 minutes after it happened to jstout (patch), at that point, I just said fuckit, and went to bed, I'm at work now.