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Grand Theft Auto Megathread - OP 3.0
Arekan:
It would take me 43 minutes to download under perfect internet conditions.
That's not counting Steam's tendency to throttle downloads.
sir dooble:
So, over a year after release and i have finally played heists (although only a little bit as my character is relatively low level and doesn't have enough money for a big appartment with facilities for setting up my own heists).
And I have to say, I'm kind of disappointed with it.
The missions themselves are pretty cool and the vehicles you unlock to buy are awesome, albeit crazy overpowered.
But getting people to actually join you and be the least bit intelligent or capable is just nearly impossible.
It seems that 9 times out of 10, the host will probably kick you early in the lobby, or will set up terrible teams (giving the flying roles to people with 0 flying skill for example), or in the heist finale they'll try to seriously skimp you on your cut, or all the more likely, 3/4 through your mission the host will disconnect or lose connection, and everyone else gets kicked out and all progress is lost.
Add on to that the fact that you'll probably get someone unbelievably low level or just stuff on your team and they'll keep dying. Which doesn't help when the team gets a single extra life if on normal difficulty, but otherwise has none on hard. And somehow a single person dying causes you to have to start from a checkpoint (normal) or from the very beginning (hard). This despite the fact the person who died might have completed their task for the mission and be completely expendable (yesterday while playing a mission where we had to steal, drive, defend and deliver vehicles across half the map we had to restart at the very beginning because one idiot got out at the very end when we were delivering and jumped in front of the final vehicle parking, got run over and died).
Then if your teammates don't manage to kill themselves they get each other killed. They'll completely neglect that they're in a team and won't work together, as I experienced when a player driving a jeep with a mounted gun on it, which was intended to be used to defend the teammates in other less defendable vehicles being chased by waves of enemies, just forgeted off and left them behind where they got killed.
It doesn't help when those teammates also have no mic and can't coordinate. Somehow every prepubescent boy and redneck handicap in freeroam is constantly screaming nonsense or abuse down their microphone, but there's not a peep from anyone in your heist.
And then outside of the heists themselves, the introduction of fully armoured vehicles and mounted cannons means you'll be constantly slaughtered in the street. And if you do happen to retaliate then your only chance is to use explosives such as rockets and tanks. And because of Rockstar's stuffty insurance system destroying those vehicles (because the drivers are unreachable in their vehicles impenetrable by means of regular guns) will cost you $6000-16000 a pop, which is pretty much 25-75% of whatever you can hope to earn in any heist setup mission, should you even manage to complete one of course.
AtlasBlue:
--- Quote from: sir dooble on April 03, 2015, 09:27:10 PM ---So, over a year after release and i have finally played heists (although only a little bit as my character is relatively low level and doesn't have enough money for a big appartment with facilities for setting up my own heists).
And I have to say, I'm kind of disappointed with it.
The missions themselves are pretty cool and the vehicles you unlock to buy are awesome, albeit crazy overpowered.
But getting people to actually join you and be the least bit intelligent or capable is just nearly impossible.
It seems that 9 times out of 10, the host will probably kick you early in the lobby, or will set up terrible teams (giving the flying roles to people with 0 flying skill for example), or in the heist finale they'll try to seriously skimp you on your cut, or all the more likely, 3/4 through your mission the host will disconnect or lose connection, and everyone else gets kicked out and all progress is lost.
Add on to that the fact that you'll probably get someone unbelievably low level or just stuff on your team and they'll keep dying. Which doesn't help when the team gets a single extra life if on normal difficulty, but otherwise has none on hard. And somehow a single person dying causes you to have to start from a checkpoint (normal) or from the very beginning (hard). This despite the fact the person who died might have completed their task for the mission and be completely expendable (yesterday while playing a mission where we had to steal, drive, defend and deliver vehicles across half the map we had to restart at the very beginning because one idiot got out at the very end when we were delivering and jumped in front of the final vehicle parking, got run over and died).
Then if your teammates don't manage to kill themselves they get each other killed. They'll completely neglect that they're in a team and won't work together, as I experienced when a player driving a jeep with a mounted gun on it, which was intended to be used to defend the teammates in other less defendable vehicles being chased by waves of enemies, just forgeted off and left them behind where they got killed.
It doesn't help when those teammates also have no mic and can't coordinate. Somehow every prepubescent boy and redneck handicap in freeroam is constantly screaming nonsense or abuse down their microphone, but there's not a peep from anyone in your heist.
And then outside of the heists themselves, the introduction of fully armoured vehicles and mounted cannons means you'll be constantly slaughtered in the street. And if you do happen to retaliate then your only chance is to use explosives such as rockets and tanks. And because of Rockstar's stuffty insurance system destroying those vehicles (because the drivers are unreachable in their vehicles impenetrable by means of regular guns) will cost you $6000-16000 a pop, which is pretty much 25-75% of whatever you can hope to earn in any heist setup mission, should you even manage to complete one of course.
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Pretty much this.
Alyx Vance:
Is Pre-Loading where you can download the game before its completely out?
Ceist:
--- Quote from: Alyx Vance on April 04, 2015, 12:00:27 AM ---Is Pre-Loading where you can download the game before its completely out?
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yes