Grand Theft Auto V

Grand Theft Auto Company Boss Isn't Sold On Video Game Subscription Services: Xbox is leaning into monthly payment models for the next-gen, and while it seems to be working out, not everyone is convinced.

This might be great for games like call of duty which can be played in a few hours but sucks for everything else.

I was watching this pacifist run, and it's quite revealing just how much the game cheats for you from the very start. For one, your allies are terrible shots and will take ages to kill a few cops. For another, some enemies are literally immortal to your allies so that you are the one that must kill them.

Also, you get some really weird bugs with characters dying/suddenly reviving when a mission takes too long.

The next one is even funnier, and has even more weird things. Like a bunch of enemies suddenly spawning just because you climbed over something.

It's kinda weird to realize that sometimes enemies are just immune to any damage that doesn't come from you, like rockets or fire.

Edited by Redmess on Nov 20th 2020 at 11:13:34 AM

A new DLC, the Cayo Perico Heist.

It's not just a new heist with some new vehicles, but adds an entire new island to the game.

Perhaps this is the future of GTA Online? Adding more and more land masses to the map?

GTA 5 Has Sold More Than 140 Million Copies.

Amazing and disgusting at the same time, really.

It's a fun game. Amazing open world, very immersive npc behavior. Possibly the most diverse fleet of vehicles in any game ever. It's not surprising.

Oh, absolutely. But the single player portion hasn't had any love in years, and I'd like a new game at some point. They've already skipped an entire console generation.

..holy shit

you're absolutely right.

GTAV will exist on three different generations of the same consoles.

Oh my GAWD

Well, Red Dead 2 is out of the way. Surely. SURELY.

IDK, though I never found a single player GTA game I connected with very much. First thing I did when i got GTAV was switch to online mode and grind for money until i could afford a hangar, which i then filled with attack aircraft.

Hacker reduces GTA Online load times by roughly 70 percent: Homebrewed DLL solves inefficient parsing of in-game shop files.

Better late than never. Hope Rockstar implements this.

how is it that people who've never seen the source code, working in their free time, are able to fix utterly critical issues better than the people who are literally paid to make the game work

That's a very good question...

Maybe the programmers knew but did nothing about it because if they did fix it, Rockstar would stop paying them extra for trying to fix the problem.

I doubt they pay them extra to fix it.

And if they're really that toxic about their jobs, they should be fired.

This strikes me as a creativity issue rather than a job security issue yeah. Maybe it makes the game less secure?

Also, why is this game so uniquely full of hackers

Even fortnite doesn't get hacked like this

Because it is wildly popular and quite old.

Developers to update GTA Online to address poor load times after community fix: Rockstar acknowledges t0st’s patch fixes issue, then pays out a $10k bug bounty.

Well, that's good news then. Shorter load times for everyone. Shame we had to wait like seven years for it.

I have a weird glitch during the Yacht missions where a Swift will be parked on top of the hot tub during the mission. It even respawns there.

Is anyone else having that happen?

Online summer updates and release date for next gen versions of V and Online.

Sounds fun, but I'd like to hear more about how the game will be upgraded for the next console.

I’m still just wondering why they are even bothering with porting V to the new consoles as you can play the previous gen versions.

Okay I know the answer is most likely because V made so much money but it feels redundant to make next gen ports when the consoles can already play the previous gen versions.

Yeah, the answer's money.

And the PS 5 version could have some sort of updates beyond simply porting the PS 4 version that would be impossible on the old one. They did exactly that with the PS 4 version, after all.

This is just going to be the PS 4 upgrade, redux.

Still feels redundant to me.

Anyways, I got the PS 4 version of San Andreas yesterday.

Oh, no argument there. But that is the justification, at least. And I guess we will be stuck with it for a while longer anyway, in any case.

This is some great news: there is a new DLC for online... and it's going to feature Franklin post Union Depository!

I don't know why he would. My version of Franklin is a billionaire now after a string of mysterious assassinations and completely unrelated stock purchases, just like his two former colleagues.

Hell, at this point Franklin could just buy his entire old neighbourhood nice upscale homes and a lifelong pension. Not sure why he would ever go back to a life of crime.

Franklin's house in Online has been updated as well. There's now pool toys around, and a second dog bowl at Chop's doghouse... and a playground slide. Looks like this is definitely way in the future now.

Edited by Redmess on Dec 17th 2021 at 2:08:58 PM

Yeah, DLC is out and it actually has a few missions where you play as Lamar and Franklin - justified as you (and a second player, potentially) smoking some extremely strong weed and having an "out of body experience". It's actually really cool seeing where these two are at now. To summarize:

• Tanisha's marriage to that shithead doctor fell apart and she got back with Franklin, and by and large the relationship has actually flourished - they even have multiple children!

• Lamar has also grown as a person... relatively speaking. He's still a lovably reckless, violent idiot, but he's realized the futility of the gangbanger lifestyle and is trying to go quasi-legit like Franklin, having started growing legal marijuana for a startup business he calls "LD Organics", which by the final mission with him and Franklin he's actually getting off the ground - turns out he's surprisingly great at viral marketing.

Edited by Dirtyblue929 on Dec 18th 2021 at 1:54:09 AM