Grand Theft Auto Series Megathread V12 - GTA Online: We Have a Hacking Problem - Games

[QUOTE=IAreLegend;52581130]been playing RDR with my PSnow trial, its a fuckin good game despite being like 7 years old, aside from graphics I'd say it's barely aged. haven't even cracked into undead nightmare yet but that's something I've always wanted to play kind of wish I had got it when it came out, it would have been one of those games I played to death, like new vegas[/QUOTE] Rdr was sort of magical when it came out. I have to say there's a special feeling you get the first time you play a new Rockstar game. Going back to GtTA 3, I don't know what it is whether it's the way you're introduced to the world or that they're just really fucking good at building worlds, but no other game can replicate it for me. At the same time I feel a kind of sad nostalgia, to be able to go back and experience it again. A bit like when you go to a sick rave and feel sad for a while afterwards because you had such a nice time I can't wait for a new GTA, I feel I've seen everything in Los Santos and know it like the back of my hand. [editline]17th August 2017[/editline] It's probably more pining to be 13 again and not having a care in the world

fun reading about how car X has unlocked. I've been driving the XA-21 for weeks.. running a fivem server (locally, for me) and playing on that is nice. Got all the SP details that are missing in GTA:O, and can spawn whatever the hell i want and just drive, often apparently before it unlocks. I do miss the interactions with pubbies though. And the missions.

I was enjoying myself on red dead's undead nightmare up until I ran into a really bizarre glitch I rode into an overrun town and the zombies were replaced with normal citizen npcs, and no word of a lie, they were missing their skin textures so there was just a town of headless people running around I guess the AI messed up too because they all began shooting each other. this is genuinely a nightmare

[IMG]https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/844842639219026158/46D334A7713C4B1576A29E1FB92E2CF13899EC2C/?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside|1024:576&composite-to%3D%2A%2C%2A%7C1024%3A576&background-color=black[/IMG] why is it hard to make a character that doesn't look like a gormless mutant

[QUOTE=JerryAnderson;52581116]So if you're still reading after this, I want to know. Why DO people steal vehicle cargo?[/QUOTE] The game tells you to steal other cars, maybe someone thinks they can steal it from another player without damaging it too much, they might be looking for a quick $5,000(this value might be wrong, I haven't stolen cars from other players) by delivering it to the police, or they're just looking to piss off a person trying to work. Those are pretty much the only reasons I can think of. I don't think it's really viable to steal cars from other players when it comes to making money though, it just seems like it'd be much faster and easier to steal stuff the normal way.

[QUOTE=ElusiveBadger;52582613] why is it hard to make a character that doesn't look like a gormless mutant[/QUOTE] Parent system.

[QUOTE=Exploders;52583001]Parent system.[/QUOTE] That. Most of the parents are ridiculous caricatures that are of no use making someone who looks like a cool or attractive human being, which is what most people will want.

I managed to create a somewhat decent male character on the first try despite the eldritch abominations that could be accidentally created in the blink of an eye with the parent system, and I really want to know why they couldn't have made it anything normal like Fallout 3/NV, or Mass Effect 2/3's face creation system where you get full control over how your badass female warrior, or your neon-blue-bearded furry looks without having to sculpt a face out of what could easily be mistaken for the aftermath of generations of incest resulting in a horrifying blob of flesh that you have to salvage. Or, since people are so intent on using "dis b gta not sims fagot" to excuse their horrible behavior, why not make it EXACTLY like The Sims?

[QUOTE=JerryAnderson;52581116]Why DO people steal vehicle cargo?[/QUOTE] Everyone has a different perspective when playing the game, some people probably don't care enough to think about time/money/feelings, and others the inverse. There's no denying that a pretty sizable portion of the playerbase is out to give you a bad time purely for existing, but this is probably tied to some sort of power-fantasy delusion. GTA having a pretty wide audience gives it the pitfalls of all popular games; having to deal with parts of humanity we normally wouldn't choose to, the irrationality, the unpredictability and all the other bad feelings people online seem to exude in abundance for one reason or another. So yeah, differs from person to person, but it's part of a wider problem than specifically this game, although the way Rockstar have tailored it is exactly how it looks, and most just take that as a free licence to cause you grief without rhyme or reason.

[QUOTE=IAreLegend;52581705]I was enjoying myself on red dead's undead nightmare up until I ran into a really bizarre glitch I rode into an overrun town and the zombies were replaced with normal citizen npcs, and no word of a lie, they were missing their skin textures so there was just a town of headless people running around I guess the AI messed up too because they all began shooting each other. this is genuinely a nightmare[/QUOTE] Its a memory issue IIRC. Restarting fixes it.

I'm seriously hoping that mods aren't somehow finding their way onto XB1, but SOMETHING fishy is happening. So not even five minutes ago, I started playing Sumo, after getting kicked by one dickhead who can't work the fucking matchmaking despite having had probably ten minutes to set it to "matchmaking: OFF", I tried again, and got in with a level 32. I set it to Sports Classics like I normally do, and some really, REALLY weird shit started happening. At first he Wile. E Coyote's himself and flies off as he makes a full speed charge against me. Next round we're side to side together, and he somehow starts exceeding the vehicle's speed limit and somehow transfers all momentum towards me, sending me flying. At first I figured it was either some sort of disconnect on my screen, but then the next round, we were both side to side with eachother, and we BOTH start flying sideways at mach 5 and fall off the platform, with me of course dying first and losing the match, We were both touching door to door, and somehow we both went flying neither forward nor back, but sideways to where it would be physically impossible to do some sort of fancy momentum transfer by going forward or reversing and doing some weird shit with the steering wheel. Either Rockstar's peer to peer networking screwed the pooch so hard that it forgot how vehicles work, or he was cheating. I've seen some bad desync before in this game, but absolutely nothing like that.

[QUOTE=JerryAnderson;52585457]I'm seriously hoping that mods aren't somehow finding their way onto XB1, but SOMETHING fishy is happening. So not even five minutes ago, I started playing Sumo, after getting kicked by one dickhead who can't work the fucking matchmaking despite having had probably ten minutes to set it to "matchmaking: OFF", I tried again, and got in with a level 32. I set it to Sports Classics like I normally do, and some really, REALLY weird shit started happening. At first he Wile. E Coyote's himself and flies off as he makes a full speed charge against me. Next round we're side to side together, and he somehow starts exceeding the vehicle's speed limit and somehow transfers all momentum towards me, sending me flying. At first I figured it was either some sort of disconnect on my screen, but then the next round, we were both side to side with eachother, and we BOTH start flying sideways at mach 5 and fall off the platform, with me of course dying first and losing the match, We were both touching door to door, and somehow we both went flying neither forward nor back, but sideways to where it would be physically impossible to do some sort of fancy momentum transfer by going forward or reversing and doing some weird shit with the steering wheel. Either Rockstar's peer to peer networking screwed the pooch so hard that it forgot how vehicles work, or he was cheating. I've seen some bad desync before in this game, but absolutely nothing like that.[/QUOTE] It's typical side effects of a peer 2 peer network, either you/him have a REALLY bad connection or you're playing with someone from another country the only "modders" I've encountered on XB1 were modded accounts [editline]17th August 2017[/editline] I just remembered, A few days ago I came across somebody's APC with I think is one of the halloween horns: which possibility makes more sense, horn was available when he was modding his APC, or already owned a vehicle with the horn, and the horn was available?

I have access to all the horns, even the halloween ones.

Not really GTA related, but I've been playing Manhunt lately, and I think I have a newfound appreciation for that game. I like all the different factions of enemies, and the soundtrack is so good. [media]https://youtu.be/tzvnIYM_jiw[/media] [media]https://youtu.be/FYS5ABK7Ye8[/media]

Really wish they'd give us a Manhunt 3 but after all the shit with Manhunt 2 and the fact that it's [I]still[/I] barely sold anywhere I don't really have any hope for it.

[QUOTE=gk99;52589686]Really wish they'd give us a Manhunt 3 but after all the shit with Manhunt 2 and the fact that it's [I]still[/I] barely sold anywhere I don't really have any hope for it.[/QUOTE] Imagine the goretastic brutality that would be with modern graphics.

People have noticed that Rockstar Faggot(the accurate leaker from I/E) has posted something that might cause issues for a lot of solo players who port block to do shit peacefully. He replied to someone talking about port blocking with [url=https://boards.fireden.net/v/thread/386267268/#386274987]this[/url]. I'm not really sure how they would stop this as I don't really know that much about port blocking shit, but it would be pretty awful if they actually did find a way. I figure it's worth mentioning that we haven't really seen anything significant from the leaker since I/E so for all we know, he could just be fucking around with people. However, since people on GTAF and even some shitty GTA Youtubers have found the post, I think it's worth bringing it up in this thread.

[QUOTE=gk99;52589686]Really wish they'd give us a Manhunt 3 but after all the shit with Manhunt 2 and the fact that it's [I]still[/I] barely sold anywhere I don't really have any hope for it.[/QUOTE] I honestly don't understand Manhunt, I played them both for about an hour and found them to be pretty boring, like I heard loads of shit around those games and thought to try them out, dull, nothing special about them at all.

[QUOTE=GHOST!!!!;52590464]I honestly don't understand Manhunt, I played them both for about an hour and found them to be pretty boring, like I heard loads of shit around those games and thought to try them out, dull, nothing special about them at all.[/QUOTE] I always thought it was about the executions that you can do in the game [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PR2apfLBzw[/media]

[QUOTE=Gatekeeper828;52589898]People have noticed that Rockstar Faggot(the accurate leaker from I/E) has posted something that might cause issues for a lot of solo players who port block to do shit peacefully. He replied to someone talking about port blocking with [url=https://boards.fireden.net/v/thread/386267268/#386274987]this[/url]. I'm not really sure how they would stop this as I don't really know that much about port blocking shit, but it would be pretty awful if they actually did find a way. I figure it's worth mentioning that we haven't really seen anything significant from the leaker since I/E so for all we know, he could just be fucking around with people. However, since people on GTAF and even some shitty GTA Youtubers have found the post, I think it's worth bringing it up in this thread.[/QUOTE] Can't access the link, what's it say?

[QUOTE=Exploders;52590523]I always thought it was about the executions that you can do in the game [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PR2apfLBzw[/media][/QUOTE] God, that honestly looks more amusing that anything, the technical side of this game is what held it back in being more gruesome in it's executions, I understand that, but it looks amusing the way you stab someone in the chin and blood spews from the side of the neck.

[QUOTE=ulvemann43;52590719]Can't access the link, what's it say?[/QUOTE] [quote]This is being worked on to get it stopped.[/quote] Was the leaker's reply to someone talking about port blocking. As I said before, nothing significant has been leaked by him since I/E, but I think it's worth posting because it does seem like something R* would want to get rid of.

[QUOTE=Gatekeeper828;52590821]Was the leaker's reply to someone talking about port blocking. As I said before, nothing significant has been leaked by him since I/E, but I think it's worth posting because it does seem like something R* would want to get rid of.[/QUOTE] Doesn't he have countless people trying to impersonate him? How do we know it is actually him? That said i doubt rockstar will change anything for what is already in the game, not to mention that there are countless methods used to make private public sessions; i don't think there is much of a chance of rockstar completely fixing it, not even if they make it mandatory to have at least two people in a session, since many methods involve forcing a strict NAT.

[QUOTE=ulvemann43;52590827]Doesn't he have countless people trying to impersonate him? How do we know it is actually him?[/QUOTE] [url=https://boards.fireden.net/_/search/tripcode/%21CSmUrZluSg/]This archive[/url] has all of his posts on 4chan and the port block post is included. Unless there is something that allows people to post with the same exact code(I don't really spend that much time on 4chan to know about this shit), it's the same guy.

[QUOTE=Gatekeeper828;52590853][url=https://boards.fireden.net/_/search/tripcode/%21CSmUrZluSg/]This archive[/url] has all of his posts on 4chan and the port block post is included. Unless there is something that allows people to post with the same exact code(I don't really spend that much time on 4chan to know about this shit), it's the same guy.[/QUOTE] Uhuh, well, i'd reckon most ways of making private public sessions won't be stopped since port blocking is only really useful for solo play, which is dissadventageous anyways. I did hear rumours about him also saying that their "fix" is making it so that you cannot do "public only" stuff if you are alone in the session, which would fix very little, really.

They'll probably make it so you require at least 1 rival player to do CEO/MC stuff

Killing it entirely wouldn't make sense. R*/T2 has already included mechanics specifically to dick over solo players such as the T-800s driving Sultan RSs in solo public lobbies for I/E. If they truly wanted to snuff out selling in solo sessions, they'd have off the radar jets come after you 24/7 until you get blown up or somehow make it to the sell point. Wouldn't even be out of place considering Gunrunning has turned military hardware from a rarity to allowing everyone and their dog's puppy to have access to Tampas. Plus, considering Agent 14 is a fucking traitor, it wouldn't be out of place for him to say "UR BLAKLISTED LOL GET BURN NOTICD" before those jets come to bomb you about a quarter of the way to the sale. E: Come to think about it, I don't think they would even if they could. Everything they did to make it harder to find solo sessions was under the guise of "yeah we fixed some bugs and uhhhh YEAH WE FIXED THAT BUT WE FIXED SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT." They always had an excuse when it came to screwing non-griefers over. Here they won't have one. Either they'll stealth patch it (which has already fucking failed lol) or they'll flat out have to say "FUCK YOU ASSHOLE NO FUN ALLOWED" over a megaphone and get people so pissed off that the castle might just burn down, and Shart Card sales which everyone says is the only thing they care about will die in a fire because half the playerbase will be gone.

Seems like it would kill off the sensible part of the online userbase really or force them to join one of those strict as hell/than needed crews that host no griefing sessions. Quit playing GTAO a few months back since I wasn't finding any fun at the really end-game grinding while having really everything I would need like the Oppressor, fully upgraded weaponized Tampa, Hydra for cruising around the land faster than using the Buzzard. Nothing really worth grinding for at this point, unless you're a car enthusiast. I really liked the recent Ferraris. It's a shame they never returned back to making heists because that was the most fun I had with GTAO was doing silly dress-up heists with the FP group.

[QUOTE=JerryAnderson;52591048]Killing it entirely wouldn't make sense. R*/T2 has already included mechanics specifically to dick over solo players such as the T-800s driving Sultan RSs in solo public lobbies for I/E. If they truly wanted to snuff out selling in solo sessions, they'd have off the radar jets come after you 24/7 until you get blown up or somehow make it to the sell point. Wouldn't even be out of place considering Gunrunning has turned military hardware from a rarity to allowing everyone and their dog's puppy to have access to Tampas. Plus, considering Agent 14 is a fucking traitor, it wouldn't be out of place for him to say "UR BLAKLISTED LOL GET BURN NOTICD" before those jets come to bomb you about a quarter of the way to the sale. E: Come to think about it, I don't think they would even if they could. Everything they did to make it harder to find solo sessions was under the guise of "yeah we fixed some bugs and uhhhh YEAH WE FIXED THAT BUT WE FIXED SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT." They always had an excuse when it came to screwing non-griefers over. Here they won't have one. Either they'll stealth patch it (which has already fucking failed lol) or they'll flat out have to say "FUCK YOU ASSHOLE NO FUN ALLOWED" over a megaphone and get people so pissed off that the castle might just burn down, and Shart Card sales which everyone says is the only thing they care about will die in a fire because half the playerbase will be gone.[/QUOTE] Since rockstar has this "don't change anything already added into the game" mindset, i doubt we will see changes for anything that is already there. So biker businesses, I/E and bunker stuff will still be soloable i'd reckon. It is probably going to be for new updates. I/E so far is the only update i know that punishes solo people (and that doesen't even do it well since you can make the pursuing NPCs harmless by driving to a specific location near the garage, exit your vehicles and then kill the 3(or 4) waves that spawn, easy) Also i don't think rockstar give a rat's ass about if they will lose userbase over such a change.

[QUOTE=GHOST!!!!;52590464]I honestly don't understand Manhunt, I played them both for about an hour and found them to be pretty boring, like I heard loads of shit around those games and thought to try them out, dull, nothing special about them at all.[/QUOTE] Not your type of game then. [editline]a[/editline] Like, the main draw for me is the gameplay, which rewards you for stalking rather than just quickly and efficiently taking them out