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My mistake, it actually does refer to Merryweather.


* StockMarketGame: The web browser features a simulated in-game stock market which becomes the focus of some of Franklin Clinton's missions under Lester Crest, where assassinating certain businessmen allows certain investments to become profitable later on. In addition, helping a random encounter stockbroker bound for Liberty City will also give any of the three protagonists a chance to make a good investment in their stocks not long after dropping him off at the airport. [[spoiler:After getting ending C where you kill Devin Weston who owned 11 percent of Merryweather, the CEO of the company Dom Percival will text all three characters by thanking them for getting rid of him and that their actions would make him a profit on the stock market after he bought all of Devin's shares in the company. This hints at putting all of your money for each character in the Augurary Insurance stock right after receiving the text. Doing so however is the most risky investment in the game with it being advised to turn off your autosave feature if the stock market doesn't go the way you want it to.]]

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* StockMarketGame: The web browser features a simulated in-game stock market which becomes the focus of some of Franklin Clinton's missions under Lester Crest, where assassinating certain businessmen allows certain investments to become profitable later on. In addition, helping a random encounter stockbroker bound for Liberty City will also give any of the three protagonists a chance to make a good investment in their stocks not long after dropping him off at the airport. [[spoiler:After getting ending C where you kill Devin Weston who owned 11 percent of Merryweather, the CEO of the company Dom Percival will text all three characters by thanking them for getting rid of him and that their actions would make him a profit on the stock market after he bought all of Devin's shares in the company. This hints at putting all of your money for each character in the Augurary Insurance Merryweather stock right after receiving the text. Doing so however is the most risky investment in the game with it being advised to turn off your autosave feature if the stock market doesn't go the way you want it to.]]
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* StockMarketGame: The web browser features a simulated in-game stock market which becomes the focus of some of Franklin Clinton's missions under Lester Crest, where assassinating certain businessmen allows certain investments to become profitable later on. In addition, helping a random encounter stockbroker bound for Liberty City will also give any of the three protagonists a chance to make a good investment in their stocks not long after dropping him off at the airport. [[spoiler:After getting ending C where you kill Devin Weston who owned 11 percent of Merryweather, the CEO of the company Dom Percival will text all three characters by thanking them for getting rid of him and that their actions would make him a profit on the stock market after he bought all of Devin's shares in the company. This hints at putting all of your money for each character in the Merryweather stock right after receiving the text. Doing so however is the most risky investment in the game with it being advised to turn off your autosave feature if the stock market doesn't go the way you want it to.]]

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* StockMarketGame: The web browser features a simulated in-game stock market which becomes the focus of some of Franklin Clinton's missions under Lester Crest, where assassinating certain businessmen allows certain investments to become profitable later on. In addition, helping a random encounter stockbroker bound for Liberty City will also give any of the three protagonists a chance to make a good investment in their stocks not long after dropping him off at the airport. [[spoiler:After getting ending C where you kill Devin Weston who owned 11 percent of Merryweather, the CEO of the company Dom Percival will text all three characters by thanking them for getting rid of him and that their actions would make him a profit on the stock market after he bought all of Devin's shares in the company. This hints at putting all of your money for each character in the Merryweather Augurary Insurance stock right after receiving the text. Doing so however is the most risky investment in the game with it being advised to turn off your autosave feature if the stock market doesn't go the way you want it to.]]
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** Some of the random event characters that you can give rides for actually can have multiple in game effects that are lost if you give them to the Altruist cult such as one new getaway driver for heists that is actually one of the best in the game and takes the least amount from the maximum pay, one becoming an opponent in golf, one giving you a special increase in the stock market to help maximize your money, and one that can be a booty call when completed. It is heavily recommended that you bring the drunk passenger, the drunk couple, and the runaway bride to the cult since they reward you with less than the cult would.

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** Some of the random event characters that you can give rides for actually can have multiple in game effects that are lost if you give them to the Altruist cult such as one new getaway driver for heists that is actually one of the best in the game and takes the least amount from the maximum pay, one becoming an opponent in golf, one giving you a special increase in the stock market to help maximize your money, and one that can be a booty call when completed. It is heavily recommended that you bring the drunk passenger, the drunk couple, and the runaway bride girl with a violent boyfriend from Hitch Lift 3 to the cult since they reward you with less than the cult would.
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** In the final Epsilon mission for Michael, you can either allow the chopper with $2.1 million fly away to Cris Formoge and be rewarded with a unique vehicle, a rusty tractor that you can't get anywhere else in the game, or in order to get the gold medal you can [[spoiler:betray the cult by stealing the money for yourself, kill the cult members, destroy the chopper, and finally escape which results in an angry Cris calling you for your betrayal]]. If you choose the former you lose access to that money while it you choose the latter you lose access to the tractor. While it actually is possible to collect the money and obtain the tractor both during your first time, the vehicle is so slow to escape on that it isn't recommended. Doing either however doesn't affect access to the Epsilon Probe collectibles.

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** In the final Epsilon mission for Michael, you can either allow the chopper with $2.1 million fly away to Cris Formoge and be rewarded with a unique vehicle, a rusty tractor that you can't get anywhere else in the game, or in order to get the gold medal you can [[spoiler:betray the cult by stealing the money for yourself, kill the cult members, destroy the chopper, and finally escape which results in an angry Cris calling you for your betrayal]]. If you choose the former you lose access to that money while it you choose the latter you lose access to the tractor. While it It actually is possible to collect the money and obtain the tractor both during your first time, time by shooting at the vehicle is so slow cultists and losing the wanted status by circling around the building you are at and checking the location of the tractor, driving it towards the tailgater with the money, and driving it to escape on that it isn't recommended. complete the mission. Doing either any of these options however doesn't affect access to the Epsilon Probe collectibles.
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* RecruitingTheCriminal: [[spoiler: After he blows his cover following the jewelry store heist, Michael, along with Trevor and Franklin, is forcibly made to do dirty work for the FIB. Unfortunately for all three of them, Steve Haines has every intention of working them until they're KIA or he feels they've outlived their usefulness. While their enslavement doesn't prevent them from committing "honest" crimes on the side, getting out from under the FIB's thumb is a huge driving force in the plot.]]

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* RecruitingTheCriminal: [[spoiler: After he blows his cover following the jewelry store heist, Michael, along with Trevor and Franklin, is forcibly made to do dirty work for the FIB. Unfortunately for all three of them, Steve Haines has every intention of working them until they're KIA or he feels they've outlived their usefulness. While their enslavement doesn't prevent them from committing "honest" crimes on the side, getting out from under the FIB's thumb is a huge driving force in the plot.plot, especially after Haines betrays Michael and plans to arrest him anyway and later forces Franklin to kill Trevor. This comes back to bite Haines in ending C where Trevor decides to kill him by sniping him.]]



* RiseAndFallGangsterArc: Each of the three protagonists follows this arc to a greater or lesser extent. It's most obvious in the case of Franklin, as he rises from a quiet suburban life to a life of high-rise crime. Michael returns to a life of crime after his family continuously disrespects him. And Trevor wants to cause destruction and chaos for its own sake, though the extra money certainly doesn't hurt. In the end, all three of them fall to some degree. [[spoiler:Franklin has to kill either Michael or Trevor to cover his own ass, and even the one who survives ends up with virtually nothing to show for it. With the Los Santos PD hot on their trail, all their money effectively worthless since they can't buy their way out of trouble, and a wake of bodies behind them, Franklin laments that the lifestyle of a gangster simply wasn't worth it, one way or another.]]

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* RiseAndFallGangsterArc: Each of the three protagonists follows this arc to a greater or lesser extent. It's most obvious in the case of Franklin, as he rises from a quiet suburban life to a life of high-rise crime. Michael returns to a life of crime after his family continuously disrespects him. And Trevor wants to cause destruction and chaos for its own sake, though the extra money certainly doesn't hurt. In the end, all three of them fall to some degree. [[spoiler:Franklin has to kill either Michael or Trevor to cover his own ass, and even the one who survives ends up with virtually nothing to show for it. With the Los Santos PD hot on their trail, all their money effectively worthless since they can't buy their way out of trouble, and a wake of bodies behind them, Franklin laments that the lifestyle of a gangster simply wasn't worth it, one way or another. In ending C however, he instead helps keep both of them alive while getting rid of all their enemies in the process.]]



* StockMarketGame: The web browser features a simulated in-game stock market which becomes the focus of some of Franklin Clinton's missions under Lester Crest, where assassinating certain businessmen allows certain investments to become profitable later on. In addition, helping a random encounter stockbroker bound for Liberty City will also give any of the three protagonists a chance to make a good investment in their stocks not long after dropping him off at the airport. [[spoiler:After getting ending C where you kill Devon Weston who owned 11 percent of Merryweather, the CEO of the company Dom Percival will text all three characters by thanking them for getting rid of him and that their actions would make him a profit on the stock market after he bought all of Devon's shares in the company. This hints at putting all of your money for each character in the Merryweather stock right after receiving the text. Doing so however is the most risky investment in the game with it being advised to turn off your autosave feature if the stock market doesn't go the way you want it to.]]

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* StockMarketGame: The web browser features a simulated in-game stock market which becomes the focus of some of Franklin Clinton's missions under Lester Crest, where assassinating certain businessmen allows certain investments to become profitable later on. In addition, helping a random encounter stockbroker bound for Liberty City will also give any of the three protagonists a chance to make a good investment in their stocks not long after dropping him off at the airport. [[spoiler:After getting ending C where you kill Devon Devin Weston who owned 11 percent of Merryweather, the CEO of the company Dom Percival will text all three characters by thanking them for getting rid of him and that their actions would make him a profit on the stock market after he bought all of Devon's Devin's shares in the company. This hints at putting all of your money for each character in the Merryweather stock right after receiving the text. Doing so however is the most risky investment in the game with it being advised to turn off your autosave feature if the stock market doesn't go the way you want it to.]]
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* StockMarketGame: The web browser features a simulated in-game stock market which becomes the focus of some of Franklin Clinton's missions under Lester Crest, where assassinating certain businessmen allows certain investments to become profitable later on. In addition, helping a random encounter stockbroker bound for Liberty City will also give any of the three protagonists a chance to make a good investment in their stocks not long after dropping him off at the airport. [[spoiler:After getting ending C where you kill Devon Weston who owned 11 percent of Merryweather, the CEO of the company will text all three characters by thanking them for getting rid of him and that their actions would make him a profit on the stock market.]]

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* StockMarketGame: The web browser features a simulated in-game stock market which becomes the focus of some of Franklin Clinton's missions under Lester Crest, where assassinating certain businessmen allows certain investments to become profitable later on. In addition, helping a random encounter stockbroker bound for Liberty City will also give any of the three protagonists a chance to make a good investment in their stocks not long after dropping him off at the airport. [[spoiler:After getting ending C where you kill Devon Weston who owned 11 percent of Merryweather, the CEO of the company Dom Percival will text all three characters by thanking them for getting rid of him and that their actions would make him a profit on the stock market.market after he bought all of Devon's shares in the company. This hints at putting all of your money for each character in the Merryweather stock right after receiving the text. Doing so however is the most risky investment in the game with it being advised to turn off your autosave feature if the stock market doesn't go the way you want it to.]]

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** There's also [[spoiler:''player characters''. Ending the game with the "Kill Michael" or "Kill Trevor" missions renders them and their assets permanently unavailable in the postgame. This doesn't ''intentionally'' lock you out of OneHundredPercentCompletion, but the knock-on effects make it very difficult and any content exclusive to that character is gone for good.]]

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** There's also [[spoiler:''player characters''. Ending the game with the "Kill Michael" or "Kill Trevor" missions renders them and their assets permanently unavailable in the postgame. This doesn't ''intentionally'' lock you out of OneHundredPercentCompletion, but the knock-on effects make it very difficult and any content exclusive to that character is gone for good. If Trevor is killed, the Vanilla Unicorn will also stop acting as a safehouse in the process.]]



** In the Enhanced versions and the Enhanced and Expanded versions of the game for players who are linked with their Rockstar Social Club account and are returning from the original versions, they can take pictures of 50 Monkey Mosaics throughout the game and unlock a random event where they take a picture of the artist behind them which unlocks the Go Go Monkey Blista vehicle for all three characters. If the artist ends up being killed in the event however, the vehicle is permanently lost in the process with players advised against doing so.



* StockMarketGame: The web browser features a simulated in-game stock market which becomes the focus of some of Franklin Clinton's missions under Lester Crest, where assassinating certain businessmen allows certain investments to become profitable later on. In addition, helping a random encounter stockbroker bound for Liberty City will also give any of the three protagonists a chance to make a good investment in their stocks not long after dropping him off at the airport.

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* StockMarketGame: The web browser features a simulated in-game stock market which becomes the focus of some of Franklin Clinton's missions under Lester Crest, where assassinating certain businessmen allows certain investments to become profitable later on. In addition, helping a random encounter stockbroker bound for Liberty City will also give any of the three protagonists a chance to make a good investment in their stocks not long after dropping him off at the airport. [[spoiler:After getting ending C where you kill Devon Weston who owned 11 percent of Merryweather, the CEO of the company will text all three characters by thanking them for getting rid of him and that their actions would make him a profit on the stock market.]]

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** Some of the random event characters that you can give rides for actually can have multiple in game effects that are lost if you give them to the Altruist cult such as one new getaway driver for heists that is actually one of the best in the game and takes the least amount from the maximum pay, one becoming an opponent in golf, one giving you a special increase in the stock market to help maximize your money, and one that can be a booty call when completed. It is heavily recommended that you bring the drunk passenger, the drunk couple, and the runaway bride to the cult since they reward you with less than the cult would.



** In the final Epsilon mission for Michael, you can either allow the chopper with $2.1 million fly away to Cris Formoge and be rewarded with a unique vehicle, a rusty tractor that you can't get anywhere else in the game, or in order to get the gold medal you can [[spoiler:betray the cult by stealing the money for yourself, kill the cult members, destroy the chopper, and finally escape which results in an angry Cris calling you for your betrayal]]. If you choose the former you lose access to that money while it you choose the latter you lose access to the tractor. Doing either however doesn't affect access to the Epsilon Probe collectibles.

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** In the final Epsilon mission for Michael, you can either allow the chopper with $2.1 million fly away to Cris Formoge and be rewarded with a unique vehicle, a rusty tractor that you can't get anywhere else in the game, or in order to get the gold medal you can [[spoiler:betray the cult by stealing the money for yourself, kill the cult members, destroy the chopper, and finally escape which results in an angry Cris calling you for your betrayal]]. If you choose the former you lose access to that money while it you choose the latter you lose access to the tractor. While it actually is possible to collect the money and obtain the tractor both during your first time, the vehicle is so slow to escape on that it isn't recommended. Doing either however doesn't affect access to the Epsilon Probe collectibles.
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** In the final Epsilon mission for Michael, you can either allow the chopper with $2.1 million fly away to Cris Formoge and be rewarded with a unique vehicle, a rusty tractor that you can't get anywhere else in the game, or in order to get the gold medal you can [[spoiler:betray the cult by stealing the money for yourself, kill the cult members, destroy the chopper, and finally escape which results in an angry Cris calling you for your betrayal]]. If you choose the former you lose access to that money while it you choose the latter you lose access to the tractor. Doing either however doesn't affect access to the Epsilon Probe collectibles.
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** At certain points in the game, Michael has the option to go to therapy and talk with Isaiah Friedlander with the dialogue changing based on what missions have already been completed. What the game doesn't tell you is that most of these are only available in between certain missions with the first two taking place at Friedlander's office while the next two are only available by calling him on Michael's phone. If these aren't done at certain points, they cannot be done throughout that playthrough since they don't count as replayable missions. The only ones that aren't affected by this are [[spoiler: when Michael and his family all go to therapy together when he gets them back together again as part of a story mission]] and the final therapy session that can start during the final few missions of the game and can still be completed after the main story is finished [[spoiler:as long as Michael is still alive in the ending that you chose]].
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** Career Builder and Career Progress for the Ninth Generation versions of Online which changes the opening of that game a little bit and helps assist new players with picking which career they want to do first after robbing and obtaining $4,000,000.

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** Career Builder and Career Progress for the Ninth Generation versions of Online which changes the opening of that game a little bit and helps assist new players with picking which career path they want to do first after robbing and obtaining $4,000,000.$4,000,000 with the options being an Executive, Gunrunner, Nightclub Owner or a Biker.

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** A one time-only transfer for your player character from the Seventh Generation version of Online which creates a copy of that version. After Online support for Seventh Generation consoles ended in 2021, this is no longer available.

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** A one time-only transfer for your player character from the Seventh Generation version of Online which creates a copy of that version. After Online support for Seventh Generation consoles ended in 2021, this is no longer available.available for that generation. While it is also possible to do so in the Ninth Generation from the Eighth generation, it will instead transfer your character to that generation with all of the progress going to the new one instead, making you unable to get it back on the previous Generation consoles.
** Hao's Special Works which replaces the auto shop in LS Car Meet in Online for the Ninth Generation versions where Hao offers performance upgrades to vehicles alongside new vehicles and both races and time trials exclusively for those vehicles.
** Career Builder and Career Progress for the Ninth Generation versions of Online which changes the opening of that game a little bit and helps assist new players with picking which career they want to do first after robbing and obtaining $4,000,000.

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** The Rockstar Editor which allows players to create, edit, and share videos of story mode and Online as well as Director Mode for the editor which allows players to select from a list of characters as "actors" and control aspects and props around the game world. While both were originally a PC exclusive, they were added to console versions on September 15th, 2015 as part of the Freemode Events update. While it is still available on PC versions as well as Ninth Generation console versions of the game, it was later removed from Eighth Generation versions on February 20th, 2024.

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** The Rockstar Editor which allows players to create, edit, and share videos of story mode and Online as well as Director Mode for the editor which allows players to select from a list of characters as "actors" and control aspects and props around the game world. While both were originally a PC exclusive, they were added to console versions on September 15th, 2015 as part of the Freemode Events update. While it is still available on PC versions as well as Ninth Generation console versions of the game, it was later removed from Eighth Generation versions on February 20th, 2024.2024, [[PermanentlyMissableContent meaning all trophies involved with that mode can no longer be obtained if you didn't get them before then]].
** A one time-only transfer for your player character from the Seventh Generation version of Online which creates a copy of that version. After Online support for Seventh Generation consoles ended in 2021, this is no longer available.

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** The Rockstar Editor which allows players to create, edit, and share videos of story mode and Online as well as Director Mode for the editor which allows players to select from a list of characters as "actors" and control aspects and props around the game world. While both were originally a PC exclusive, they were added to console versions on September 15th, 2015 as part of the Freemode
Events update. While it is still available on PC versions as well as Ninth Generation console versions of the game, it was later removed from Eighth Generation versions on February 20th, 2024.

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** The Rockstar Editor which allows players to create, edit, and share videos of story mode and Online as well as Director Mode for the editor which allows players to select from a list of characters as "actors" and control aspects and props around the game world. While both were originally a PC exclusive, they were added to console versions on September 15th, 2015 as part of the Freemode
Freemode Events update. While it is still available on PC versions as well as Ninth Generation console versions of the game, it was later removed from Eighth Generation versions on February 20th, 2024.

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