GTA V - General Thread

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Wow, looking through the pages, I am drooling just waiting for GTA V to come out :D Playing Max Payne 3, first playthrough on hard, imagining the scope of GTA V with nice graphics like Max Payne 3.

Playing GTA V for the 1st time, I would feel like I am a kid in a huge toy store, confused what to do :lol:

Yeah, why is Slashfan banned ? He was still posting stuff yesterday ...did he slashed something :sly:

EDIT: I see, funny picture thread .. :(
 
I just found this summary on GTAV.net, which included some new facts, and, of course, some "old" facts as well:

Features:
*Players can invest in their character through customizing their appearance, improving their stats, owning customized vehicles, purchasing personal property, choosing their favourite weapons and vehicles and taking part in missions, jobs and activities.
*Players have the freedom to explore alone or with friends, work cooperatively to complete missions, band together to participate in activities and ambient events, or compete in traditional game modes.
*As progress is achieved through the world of GTA Online, players will be introduced to new characters, missions, rewards and such.
*A maximum of 16 players can be active at any one time as part of an online universe of hundreds of thousands competing to earn Reputation Points (RP), money and almost limitless material acquisition.
*As you speak into your headset, your GTA Online character will lip-sync broadly in time. When robbing a store, AI characters will react to the urgency in your voice, stuffing money more quickly in the bag.
*The Content Creator will allow players to create and share their own missions and activities via the Social Club cloud. Other players can beat your target times and scores, then rate your mission. You can even choose which creators you want to follow and curate your favourite missions.
*The Feed, a twitter-like program, appears on screen to relay all your emails, texts and messages from Social Club.
*Rockstar has no plans to sell Grand Theft Auto Online separately, and it doesn't require a code, online pass, or anything like that.
*The world of Grand Theft Auto Online will constantly grow and change as new content is added, and at some stage GTA Online will head into new locations. *Access to Grand Theft Auto Online is free with every retail copy of Grand Theft Auto V and launches on October 1st.

General:
*Your ranking will be based off of shooting, driving, parachuting and flying skills.
*People can access their data through Social Club and via their iPhones or iPads.
*There is a mode called "passive mode" which means you can't shoot people and they can't shoot you.
*A "Bad Sport" stat will be given for bad behaviour such as blowing up another player's car, and if it's done persistently you will be punished.
*If your multiplayer character at Max Payne 3 had a high level, it will be carried over to GTA: Online for more bonuses that you will unlock.
*Matchmaking is based off of ranking, so it prioritizes your friends' rankings, crewmembers' rankings and even strangers so that when you need people, you know who to get.
*GTA Online tracks who your rivals are and lets you know when they've come online so you can get some revenge on them.

Multiplayer:
*You can assemble a team from your friends list, or recruit according to specialist skills. As you rob a liquor store or perform a heist, the team member that does the job gets the cash and can choose how much to share.
*It's possible to spread the wealth by sharing cash, weapons and ammo among your team. In turn, they can 'defect' and try to steal your cash.
*You can pick up your phone to 'ring' friends in single player and invite them into your world. Your friends will be listed under 'Contacts' on your phone.
*Set up challenges and post it to the Social Club and players can try and beat your score, if they beat your score -- you give them cash.

Miscellaneous:
*You start GTA: Online arriving to Los Santos pennyless and you must complete a few missions first to get a feel of the online.
*There will be loads of property to buy at different prices, according to their views and location. You can use your in-house CCTV to spy on people at your front door, or take showers, surf the net, change clothes and watch the game's many TV channels.
*You can take out insurance and ring for a replacement car if yours gets destroyed.
*You can pay a personal mechanic to fix your cars automatically, or deliver them to any location.
*You can also check any vehicle's stats for speed, handling etc, before making your choice to purchase.
*You can watch real-time events such as police chases on your TV moments after you see them speed past your house.
*Your custom cars show as markers on the map and get impounded if you leave them too long. You can pay to retrieve them.
*You will be able to deposit your money into your bank account as often as you can. When another player kills you, they can snatch the wallet right from your dead body.
*You can switch between single player and online mode by selecting your multiplayer avatar from the character wheel.
*Passengers will be able to change the in-car radio, via a radio selection wheel similar to the weapons wheel.
*You will have contacts available at anytime that will provide different services on or off mission, as you rank higher you will have access to characters with new and stronger abilities. Examples of such are being hidden from the radar and setting a bounty on another player if you're being chased.
*If you steal a vehicle, you can spray and change the plates. Some vehicle customisation businesses might not be willing to do that and you may get a wanted level.
*Weasel News will pick up people that have got wanted levels.
*There is a planning room in people's apartments.
*If you are in a heist and need some help, you can invite your friends and they will be teleported to you instantly.
*The experience is seamless between transitions for free-roam and missions.
*You can call up a private security firm to bring in an airstrike, i.e. destroy street races.

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You can have nemesises? (Nemesi?) This seems like something they've put more effort in than Simcity and their servers. :p
 
Have you even seen the Online trailer?
Yep. I'm just not interested in online play any more - where your gaming experience is defined by other people, approximately half of whom have stolen the game and 90% are either kids who've no idea what they're doing and just want to shout racist and homophobic drivel down headsets or griefers. Or both.

Last time I played anything online was a GT5 iLAN a week since. Before that was a GT5 iLAN in May and before that... was... uhhh... whenever I stopped playing MW2.
Why is Slash banned? :O
I'm pretty sure it's because of the Funny Pictures thread
We have a banned user log for this and it's not "because of the funny pictures thread".
 
Not sure if legit video previewing customised cars. I did recognise the Feltzer though. It's now a Black Series edition. I'm unsure what the Elise/Exige and Audi A6 lookalikes will be called.
 
It could be "real", as those cars have all been seen in the trailers - as far as I remember. But it's not official content, at least.
 
The Elise isn't supposed to be an Elise, it's made by the company 'Voltic' and it's supposed to be a Tesla.
 
Tidbits such as that, and other information has been revealed. Here's a compiled list of what the interview bore:
  • The camera will zoom out and pan away to your online character seamlessly. During the animation, a matchmaking process will be in progress.
  • Matchmaking will depend on which friends are playing, and what people have ranks near yours.
  • You can do almost anything you can do in single player in GTA Online.
  • Each mission requires a rank depending on difficulty and complexity. The bigger your rank, the more difficult the missions will be.
  • There are around 700 missions in GTA Online.
  • Missions will be ordered randomly as you play Online.
  • For certain heists you might need certain weapons, vehicles or characters such as a sniper or a driver. This will also depend on the mission creator if you download the mission from the Social Club.
  • Some missions are so complex they need plenty of good communication.
  • There will be descriptions to help each character on its heist function.
  • You can change weather, time of day, time you want it to rain or to be a certain weather state, radio station to be tuned at the start of the race or mission in the Content Creator.
  • There is something called "team lives". If you have 4 team lives and 4 people, if everyone dies there will be 0 lives left, or if you die 4 times, the team will have 0 lives left, which means if anyone dies, it's mission failed.
  • You can watch races and deathmatches on your apartment TV.
  • There are masks to hide from the cops.
  • The Online will be run on the Social Club servers, data will be stored on the cloud. There are datacenters from NY to San Diego, and more Rockstar studios.
Source

Looks like I will never get the GTA V platinum if the online really has +700 missions.
 
The attachment that we usually have to the main character is lost when we have the 3 protags in the SP. Looks like GTAO will give us that connection back when MP is like a huge campaign all in itself with the character development etc.

Hope that makes sense :dunce:
 
I wonder if you can still go around holding an RPG on your shoulder, and cops won't even bat an eye at you.

Its perfectly acceptable to walk past a cop in GTA IV with a high powered weapon, but as soon as you point it at them, they're after you.
 
CallmeDan
I wonder if you can still go around holding an RPG on your shoulder, and cops won't even bat an eye at you.

Its perfectly acceptable to walk past a cop in GTA IV with a high powered weapon, but as soon as you point it at them, they're after you.

Hahahahahahaha! Just thought of a YT video where the commentator was calling the cops racist for chasing him when he pulled out a Glock in a park, and for stealing a squad car...

TheGamingLemon is his username. Almost as funny as Nerdcubed
 
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I wonder if you can still go around holding an RPG on your shoulder, and cops won't even bat an eye at you.

Its perfectly acceptable to walk past a cop in GTA IV with a high powered weapon, but as soon as you point it at them, they're after you.

You're also allowed to drive at over 200km/h in the crowded downtown streets, run red lights, drive against the traffic and cause huge pile-ups... but as soon as you make a slight dent on a cop car, you're in a world of trouble, young man. :sly:
 
You're also allowed to drive at over 200km/h in the crowded downtown streets, run red lights, drive against the traffic and cause huge pile-ups... but as soon as you make a slight dent on a cop car, you're in a world of trouble, young man. :sly:

:lol: So true.
 
Carbonox
You're also allowed to drive at over 200km/h in the crowded downtown streets, run red lights, drive against the traffic and cause huge pile-ups... but as soon as you make a slight dent on a cop car, you're in a world of trouble, young man. :sly:

Lol these are some things I wish would get the cops attention. I been playing gta4 recently and smash up everything and end with a tiny tap to a cop car. Only than do they care.
 
Lol these are some things I wish would get the cops attention. I been playing gta4 recently and smash up everything and end with a tiny tap to a cop car. Only than do they care.

Sometimes it's over-sensitive too. I can just be squeezing in between traffic and scrape along side and get a wanted level, or on the flip side, ram the cop at 40mph and they don't even care.


Something I would like to see return to GTAV from GTASA is the civilians getting into police chases.
 
Lol these are some things I wish would get the cops attention. I been playing gta4 recently and smash up everything and end with a tiny tap to a cop car. Only than do they care.

It's unrealistic but I think it's the right way to do it, you would spent 90% of your time trying to escape the police if it was realistic and as I know from MCLA that gets frustrating.
 
It's unrealistic but I think it's the right way to do it, you would spent 90% of your time trying to escape the police if it was realistic and as I know from MCLA that gets frustrating.

The last Driver game I played was like that too. It totally ruined the game.
 
Something I would like to see return to GTAV from GTASA is the civilians getting into police chases.

Well, to be fair, the police did chase pedestrians in GTA IV, just on foot.

But I agree, I'd like to see car chases return.
 
Eks
Well, to be fair, the police did chase pedestrians in GTA IV, just on foot.

But I agree, I'd like to see car chases return.

Oh yea, forgot about that. It's pretty funny getting someone to chase you down and then when you find a cop, stop and the guy chasing you will punch you and get arrested. :lol:
 

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