Be Excellent To Each Other

Do you have a hover car?

That's Grim... And Craster on the scooter isn't it?

Me and Cras on the scooter, which due to its top speed of somewhere between a stroll and a jog was the ideal vehicle to arrive at the fighting after all the other players had killed the Bad Men.

The hovering car was some sort of weird glitch.

We took a bus into a drive-by.

I'm still laughing.

No, we all took sensible cars. Mid crashing a drug deal APoD just arrived in a bus, running over two bad guys. The surprise was the greatest part!

Joans is having this for his birthday. I can't wait!

Anyone up for moar Gta tonight?

I'm out at the dogs and don't know when I'll be back, but it's so damned freezing out that it may not be late

Yes.

If I'm around, chuck an invite if you please.

I'm out

Spoilers!

Surely by now it's not a spoiler that you have a birthday?

I an Dave.

I'd forgotten when it was.

Yesterday. Your party was quite good fun.

For no particular reason me and the chaps picked this up again a few weeks ago and have worked through all the heists, we did most of them ages ago but we've got a new Saturday night regular - (he's separated from his wife so now has LOADS of time to play videogames, has already got a new girlfriend on the go but she has her own place, he's never seemed happier, to be honest) - so we decided to start from scratch again, and work all the way through to the main Pacific Bank Heist over several Saturday night sessions.

The Pacific Bank Heist was last night and that's a hell of an adventure, five setup missions and then the heist itself. Took us from 9pm to 1am to complete although three of our number were getting increasingly well-oiled which arguably didn't help (I'm on call this week so was drinking nothing more potent than orangeade, so watching their progressively more drunken, ahem, 'sub-optimal play' was highly amusing).

Overall GTAV remains an absolutely stunning game, its ability to create emergent gameplay is absolutely unparalleled IMO, even just the time when you're back in an open session between heist stages tends to chuck up all sorts of crazy stuff because there'll often be game modes active on the shard and suchlike. (Or we try to kill each other, much to the chagrin of our heist leader who just wanted to get the next stage started.)

As for the heists themselves, whilst some of it is necessarily prescriptive, a lot of the time it just gives you a series of goals and leaves you to work out the best way to do it, which we love.

We've also had a look at the new Cunning Stunts DLC, which is a bit like Trackmania in GTAV-world, and is really good fun, albeit a massive change of pace from the main game.

Oh yes one of the heists has Trevor as its ringleader, which is as amusing (and psychotic) as you might imagine....

After the payoff from the heist I'm sat on $1.75m in cash, (our payoff was nowhere near what it could have been as so much of the take from the bank was destroyed by our own ineptitude), although I only have two cars. Once you've got a Karuma Armored there's really no need to have anything else, and I already have a nice apartment, I may however take a look at the new CEO stuff which requires you to have an office complex, the cheapest one was about $1.4m I think.

The number of attempts it took us to do the escape on the bikes on the last heist was ludicrous.

I have 24 vehicles.

Riles, myself and a non-forumer spent most of our CEO time playing a version of Tron on the office games console.

Meta!

Yes we took a fair few attempts at that as well, although I'd say 50% or more of the failures were simply down to outright fuck-uppery, including but not limited to someone failing to find the correct button for his parachute and therefore just falling off the side of a mountain to his death, and one of the chaps attempting to find such a novel route to the destination that by the time he died from cop he was further away from it than when we'd started on the bikes.

Even when we completed it one of the guys became detached from his bike somewhere up on the mountain so never got to parachute, and therefore had to run all the way down to the creek, as we navigated up the creek (and up waterfalls ) on the boat to meet him.

It's a really challenging game in many ways, but it's always so incredibly good fun at the same time. The checkpointing on the heists is just about right too IMO, so you never have to go back further than the start of the current 'chunk'.

@Grim... So does the CEO thingy open up any sizeable amount of new 'stuff', like decent missions or anything on the scale of a heist? Or is it just bragging rights with the office?

I need to get back into this now I can't baseball anymore.

We worked out that if you blow up the bikes, it removes the checkpoints and you can just drive straight to the boat

Obviously every attempt was on 'hard mode' because we shot the hostages.

Apart from the very, very first attempt. No idea how we achieved that.

The dream team were on crowd control

Just like the lab chopper setup. That redefined the phrase "dream team"

Putting the bad guys in the ground while Joans slowly drowned.

"I don't know why I can't make it through the pipe"

"You are pressing X to use the rebreather, right?"

"Oh"

I became the CEO of a company this evening.

So what is there to do in there?

I'm the only member of our heist team who has enough cash to buy a CEO headquarters (the others keep spending all their cash on cars and apartments and incredibly expensive trainers), but I'm not fussed about the headquarters if it doesn't open up any new interesting multiplayer stuff for us.

Are there any multiplayer missions or heists or generally just things to do with your mates that come out of the CEO headquarters?

According to the activity wall on my PS4, Cras has spent $335k on clothes and $9m on cars. Most of the car money went on the worst paint jobs you can imagine.

I have spent so much on paint.

Paint fumes be addictive.

This thread is so much more interesting when you just imagine everyone is talking about their real, day-to-day lives.

Just when Cras first started on GTA, I bought shares in a paint company. I'm now a gazillionaire.

Bear in mind, I'm new to this and not exactly the best GTA player but...

Last night I became a CEO which involved buying an office and then a warehouse in a public game. What I can see happening so far is that I hire my friends as associates (Because of this, I get to chose their clothes too). Then I have to get on my computer in my office and buy some containers. They could be narcotics or guns or stuff like that.

I then have to go and find said container (even though I'm paying for it...) and then after I've picked it up I have to travel across the map and drop it off at my warehouse. Once I've done this several times and my warehouse gets full, I can sell my stock in the warehouse for big profits. (an exmaple being that last night one box cost me $2,000 which I could then sell for £10,000)

Any time I'm out and about carrying boxes or dropping them off, other people in the public game can see my whereabouts and they can ambush me for big rewards. Also, you get NPC attackers on the way but they're pretty easy to out run.

And this is it so far. I make a fair wedge of cash off the shipments and my associates get paid. Everyone's happy!

Cheers Vision that sounds like it might be alright, I'll drop the cash on some CEO headquarters and have a play about. Now we've done all the heists we are after new shenanigans for multiplayer.

In my Armored Karuma no one will be able to take my boxes off me.

To be honest, I didn't encounter much resistance when I was transporting the boxes but your mileage may vary.

Also, you don't always get to drive your own car. Last night we stole a truck and a van but you will be able to buy a massive armoured transport if you fancy. You can get loads of boxes on that.

Excellently one of my well-heeled chums has made this problem go away in that he bought a $3.5M shark credit card (which I think are £25-£30?) and then got his CEO headquarters. (Also, an armoured limousine with a minigun, because of course you would, right?)

He has found the same as you Vision in that initial activities at least seem to be largely restricted to box collecting and putting them in warehouses.

Still, that'll do for us, so our session this week will be in the employ of our CEO chum and we'll just see what the game chucks at us.

I thoroughly expect us to fight to the death first, arguing over who gets to use the minigun on the limo.

How to land some planes:

Bravo!

Thought you'd nearly crashed it at the end but that's some high skill!

Aaargh, need to get this

You do, it's the absolute most fun. Blowing each other's cars up never gets old.

I need to remember to actually play it.

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I still fondly remember the night we spent about 4 hours trying to drive a truck off the roof.

You have to steal a massive cargo helicopter and use it to winch a truck to the top of the tallest building. You all get in and then drive off, to much hilarity.

Especially when you spend hours blowing up the helicopter and truck before you achieve your goal. I took a different helicopter, flew to the roof and laced it with proximity mines. I recall with glee hearing APOD saying, "Wait, what are those flashing things?" As they landed on the roof

I normally approach that airfield from high because of the mountain range and always forgetting its closer than you think. That was a little higher than normal though.

That video is also missing the previous try where APoD attempted to barrel roll a cargo plane at approximately 150ft with predictable results.

The mission was a great success?

Also the previous try after the previous try that Cras is on about where I did a barrel roll at about the same altitude and speed bit with a bit more pitch, and came so close to crashing that it was scraping the white lines off the road.

They Gaywood confused me about my landing gear and I stuffed it on landing.

The real mission success was the laughs we shared along the way to our fiery deaths.