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Nothing much going on my side at the moment, I have a pet cat now and we've been back and forth at the vets to get her chipped, spayed, etc. But I have been focusing on weapon textures mainly (and some vehicles here and there), main priority being upping the quality to, erm, non-dreadful levels that some VCS exclusive weapons have (lovely 32x32), so luckily Manhunt and AI scalers have allowed for this to become an easier task, just a lot of mix and matching, colour correction, etc, but the results are impressive (though does highlight some badly mapped areas on the original models):

Taken from Reddit

yeah my sink is broken, can you fix it

Improved VCS Equalizer https://drive.google.com/file/d/15-O8gvZ6_72KRoa-yCy_kZq-mCme6oT8/view?usp=sharing

Stolen from San Andreas Posting on facebook

Again...

I can’t see GTA set before the 1970s

One thing I am quite enjoying is the amount of requests for PC news that gets commented on pretty much all twitter posts R* make Their silence is almost impressive

The worst time in American history. | SEE YA ONE DAY | | PART ONE - THE ITALIAN MAFIA | | PART TWO - THE RUSSIAN MOB | | PART THREE - CRIME SYNDICATES | | PART FOUR - STREET GANGS | | PART FOUR½ - MAFIA FARM TEAMS | | PART FIVE - THE LAW | The sounds of the city, monotony and all. | FULL RADIO LIST | Because this forum is hell and I don’t want to risk embedding problems, the radio list is available here. Will be updated. With this selection comes a wide array of talk radio: WSOS 2000 News Bulletins Alongside its own station comes regular news bulletins replacing the Weazel News updates in prior games. Reporters Mike Whitely, Susan Gevorkian, Sergio Carballal, Wint Kupferberg, and Hannah Zoss bring you regular news about bloodshed, basketball and balmy weather on the streets of Liberty City with an anxiety-triggering jingle and a lot of human interest stories. Enough to make you forget they actually broadcast at 1096. LIBERTY CITY FREE RADIO Talk Radio The Martin Serious Show Liberty’s number one talk radio show since 1988, starring premiere shock jock Martin Serious. Crazed jokes, stunts, and scandals - alongside crazy characters like Goomba Rocco, Rick the Stunt Boy, and Lisa Lynn (who they’re always ready to slur out). They cross the line, win awards, and speak into a foghorn a lot while just skirting the FCC guidelines. He won’t sell out. Never. Anyway, buy his new book: it’s got a censored swear in the title! Entertaining America Nationally syndicated entertainment show. Lazlow Jones takes the stage and interviews Vinewood talent - musicians, actors, a Walk of Fame mascot who dresses as the Parasite. After an interview goes awry with popstar Anita Mendoza, new host and bubbly former intern Andee takes over and brings a more flaccid, boot-licker interview style that won't irritate any talent agents. Pat ‘Mr. Zoo’ Flannerdy, Wayne Tearson, Jack Howitzer live from Bolingbroke. A headline grabbing interview with partnered Los Santos rappers Madd Dogg and OG Loc, their domineering manager ‘CJ’ Johnson representing the West Coast's premier hip hop label. All the hits, flicks, gossip and slander to start your morning strong. Lazlow, meanwhile... Chatterbox Moving back to the LC area, Lazlow jumpstarts his own attempt at shock jock radio: Chatterbox. Call-in humor and interviews with self-help authors and whoever catches his eye on the news. Lazlow also has a short stint attempting Serious-style street pranks; usually resulting in his daddy issues and insecurities running wild or being escorted off the premises of his ex-wife’s condominium complex by security. Eventually starts taking meds and chills out a bit. The Wild Traveler Syndicated from WCTR, James Pedeaston gives you a very special episode of his hit radio show. Broadcasting from the palace of deposed Nigerian prince Sodiq Ughiadughe in the Congo, the listener slowly learns much about the Prince’s past: from his fortress to his child soldiers to the eventual revelation the man was never Nigerian royalty at all. But Pedeaston seems much more interested in the foot massages given by seven-year-old servants than the hot button politics. The Fat Lady Sings Morgan Merryweather, part-time Liberty Tree columnist in both opinion and music review, hosts his own radio show in the dead of night nobody listens to about classical opera he hasn’t seen, occasionally discussing politics he’s severely uninformed about. Empty call lines and special guests - like his Korean landlord or his neighbor who wants to just f*cking sleep. PUBLIC LIBERTY RADIO Talk Radio Intelligent Agenda Famed Mike Riley holds a panel discussion between himself, Boykin presidential representative and full time wonk Curtis Colgate, and card-carrying socialist Owen Flement. Mike fields calls from people barely listening, repeatedly talks over Flement, and eventually decides to exclude him from the conversation altogether. Partisan hackery and compromising to the right wing sound a lot more easy, fun, and ‘realistic’ than any actual positive change to the status quo - so get voting, folks! Modern Intellectualism Your host Marcel Boer brings you today’s daily dose of science news from the fields of biology, anthropology, and phrenology. Alongside him are very special guests, all great friends: genetics researcher Gabriel Jade, cognitive psychologist Val Dippold, and their best buddy bankroller - Algonquin financier Norman Mauskopf. Expect lengthy discussion often interrupted by Norman shouting “What’s that gotta do with pussy?!” Rational Voice Host and esteemed contrarian Flint Vaughan is vaguely-liberal-vaguely-libertarian-vaguely something. Doesn’t matter exactly - he leans vaguely left and it makes dough. A proud supporter of US interventionism, hater of religion (especially the one the browns like); Vaughan brings on political commentators and pretends to know a lot more than them even when it’s glaringly clear that’s untrue. And no - he’s not racist. He f*cked a black girl once. WKTT Talk Radio The Clay Kohler Show Veteran broadcaster Clay Kohler brings old school conservatism with a healthy dose of old school bigotry. Since the 60’s he’s been putting a voice for the voiceful on the national airwaves with condemnations of liberal pussycats like boxer Malik Evander - now campaigning for Marlon Faraldo and the reelection of George Lawton. A heart attack during an especially impassioned rant midgame cuts his show short. The Richard Bastion Show Replacing Kohler’s slot comes Rich Bastion, young blood conservative with no patience for bleeding hearts. With Clay in the hospital on heavy medication unable to give screeching, insane rants spoken near-totally in tongues, the next best thing is a balding fat prick from Florida with a love of facial toner and benzodiazepines. Come one, come all, Bastion’s Buddies, and here’s to the future. Behind the Headlines Investigative reporter and vertically challenged journalist Chad Pickett is onto a big scoop - even if he made that scoop up. Near-slander smear campaigns as Pickett hires small time con-artists to lie about Lynette Boykin and spins ridiculous yarns about her past. Sneaks into her Middle Park East apartment and finds himself in prison by the end of the game. Gather Round The Tree Broadcast from Pastor Richards’ Hawaii superpalace, at the foot of his solid gold, 150 foot tall radiation-proof statue of himself. After being disgraced from the mainstream pentacostal scene for numerous prostitution scandals, the evangelical pastor has given up the ‘big megachurches’ altogether. But to survive the impending apocalypse deemed a necessary sacrifice by the servants of the Almighty, you need to send money. And lots of it. Very quickly. Now. Now now now. Now. What’re you gonna do? Take the subway? While Felix has free reign over a personal vehicle, at the start of the game Adrian is only able to access his grandmother’s car on the weekends or after work. Otherwise: yellow cabs, piss-stained train seats. However, the player can purchase a variety of replacement personal vehicles for both protagonists that can appear in cutscenes - buying Age a little independence and Felix a cute new set of wheels. A number of cars can also be purchased for storage in garages. FELIX’S REPLACEMENT VEHICLES Canis Mesa $11,250 Brute Franger $18,000 Vapid Riata $20,500 Gallivanter Baller $38,000 Benefactor Dubsta $115,000 ADRIAN’S REPLACEMENT VEHICLES Zirconium Zodiac $4,500 Bravado Primm $16,975 Chariot Europa $30,500 Emperor Magnate $46,000 Ubermacht Oracle $82,750 | FULL CAR LIST COMING AT SOME POINT MAYBE |

Rockstar tend to hold their cards close to their chest until a fairly short time before releases (a few months, perhaps). As for the announcement, there's a wide variety of possibilities. Like: Take-Two want their income from initial sales of RDR2 for PC on the balance sheet for the next fiscal year, perhaps because they're planning to make some new investments or they want to pay investors. The current fiscal year for Take-Two ends on March 31, 2020. On a related note, they might believe that the speculation over an imminent announcement of RDR2 for PC will help their share prices more than the announcement itself, or conversely, that such an announcement would make share prices rise, which would interfere with their stock buyback plans. Rockstar Games or Take-Two believe that in order to have a more sustained/long-term microtransaction income from Online on PC, they need to improve the state of Online in order to retain PC players once they're given access to it. There are already many console players who say they've been soured on the Online part; they don't want a similar reaction among PC players. Similarly, they might be looking to make more far-reaching optimizations/improvements to the graphics and gameplay of RDR2 for the PC and next-gen console versions the way they did for GTA V (which is vastly improved on current-gen consoles and PC compared to previous-gen consoles). In that case, they're going to have a lot of extra development time on their hands, and at the end of it they might choose to delay it even further to release it on the next-gen consoles alongside the PC. They believe there are other AAA titles coming in the fourth quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020, and in order to maximize the impact of RDR2 for PC they're holding back in order to maximize their own sales after those other titles have been cleared from the charts by the second quarter of 2020. There are specific issues with the PC port. While I can't comment on RDR, since it never came to PC, the GTA series has had a mixed track record when it comes to PC ports. GTA IV, for instance, had an bad PC port (bad controls, poorly optimized even on top-of-the-line rigs, et cetera), while GTA V was a good PC port (good controls, very well-optimized), which no doubt helped its sales. When faced with a low quality port, they might decide to delay the release by another few months to hammer out the worst issues. The console sales are still going strong. It's estimated that RDR2 on Playstation and Xbox made them $1.4bn in a matter of just a few months after its release. If they've sold even half of that number in the three-quarters of a year that have passed since then, they won't exactly be wanting for money from that particular product, so there's no urgency to push out a PC port. I could go on, but I won't, because I'm boring myself here.

When you mad and give the silent treatment. Finally rank 100!

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WINNER OF BEST CONCEPT 2019 SLIMEBALL SUPREME & CEBRA theme. companion piece. special thanks to Money Over Bullsh*t Markyevansy The Deadite On the streets of the country’s worst city lie many a body. Crack in its heyday, corpses lining the streets in Hove Beach, wiseguys on the wrong foot for the first time in the mafia’s history as indictments sweep. What is it? In Red Line, you play as two protagonists from two burgeoning sides of the underworld, under threat from all angles as the walls close in. Liberty City is expanded: only featuring the two-and-a-half boroughs of Broker, Lennox Island, and Mid-to-South Algonquin. Felix Godovsky immigrated to the US five years ago after a youth on the streets of Odessa boosting cars and breaking skulls. A short stint working as a textile cutter lead him into the open arms of local drug dealers - now a leading enforcer for a gang referring to itself as the People’s Court. In America, there are winners and losers. Felix doesn’t intend to lose. Residing in a red-brick in the heart of Hove Beach, Felix drives an ‘87 Karin Gogetter and has around $1500 under his mattress. Originally from Italian Bantonvale, Adrian Tessa moved to Lennox Island with his nonna after falling in with the wrong crowd. Didn’t work. Crossing the bridge up to Broker on a regular basis, ‘Age’ dropped out in the 10th grade to work closely with up-and-comer Roy Zito and his Gambetti-associated clique of small time thugs. They intend to go big. Living upstairs in a two-family house, Adrian commutes from Cairndow to Bantonvale by subway or his grandmother’s ‘81 Vulcar Motrock, holding $120 in pocket money at the game’s beginning. - NADYA GODOVSKAYA It was her idea to come over here: friends and opportunity. The Bronshteins went in the 80’s, sent postcards back painted technicolor. They came. Nadya hasn't found a great job yet, Felix has - he knows America may not be the best for the legitimate, but for those willing to bend the rules, many-a buck awaits. - IZYA BRONSHTEIN An old friend of Felix's from Odessa, settled down Hove years back before his arrival. A dreamer ever hopeful, ever optimistic of an American Dream gone and let him down, let his wife and his little girl down. Trust: his most fatal, fatal flaw. - GENNADY & GERMAN ROITMAN The Roitman Brothers were Belarusian wrestlers, steroid salesmen given new life as chief enforcers of the People's Court. German the mad mute and Gennady the brains, relatively speaking: extortionists and usurers now extending meaty fists to the heroin market. - KUZMA 'KENNY' PETROVICH In the upstairs of Gulag Garden, Hove Beach's king resides. A gifted speaker, he hosts the People's Court; an adjudication body where disagreements of his constituents are debated and settled. He'll take a piece of the action, sure, but as feudal lords come he's mighty benevolent. - LAZAR SARAVAISKY Kenny's right hand, always open, always thinking. In the 80's considered the obvious successor to the iron fist of Emil Agrov, yet ceded power to his protege when the man passed away. Lazar was never one for the spotlight, preferred to smoke benzos and whisper in the shade. - LEV GEFTER As ostentatious as ostentatious comes, invited Kenny and a few Pavanos to a party in Vice City last summer: yachts, blow, President masks. The on-the-books manager of Gulag Garden is more businessman than triggerman, a bad draw when the barbarians bang at the gates. - SYLVESTER GANZFRIED The man with a million jobs - Jewish outreach advisor to President Biff Cochrane, police chaplain, top dog lawyer and rabbi without a pulpit. Least notably, government stoolie and mob fixer. The IAA, Mossad; they love the f*cker to death, and they'll let him do whatever if they get a piece of the pie. - DOLPH BECKLER The insurmountable Sgt. Dolph Beckler - bridge and tunnel Kraut and veteran crimefighter with connections to some of the city's finest: from Purgatory Sergeant Francis McReary to mayoral candidate Faraldo himself, Beckler commands his own eponymous team of rogue cops from the 70th Precinct. He'll tell you: Beechwood is Broker's stomach. The Beckler Boys are its antacid. - MORI GREEN In District Park you'll find Ol' Mori - fence, jeweler, kosher wiseguy. Made friends with Bohan Moe in the 70's and met Ganzfried a while later, now buddy-buddy with half the dagos in Broker. Mori puts up with them. Recommends jobbers for the right jobs, guns for the right hits. No matter how brash the client. - MATVEY 'MOTYA' SHVEDIK Motya is a man with a philosophy. You have a warm spot. You keep your warm spot. You kill those that try to take it. His warm spot is being Hove Beach's number one killer, number one heroin dealer, number one gangster with ties overseas. Many people will try to take it. Many will die. - KITAYCHIK Yaroslav Pogodin is a showman and a sinner, bare-knuckle boxer called 'Chinaman' for squinty eyes. The name stuck. Sent by the men back in Moscow to take Hove Beach, remove a testy old guard of Jews and the Americanized. He will do so with obscurity: intentions unknown, diplomacy damned. - MARKI ASHVILLI Looks are deceiving. You think 'art-collector' and 'entrepreneur' and you think Doug Hatchet, turtlenecks and trimmed facial hair. He acts the part as best he can, despite habit and ever-closed doors. Marki plays Kitaychik's point man, money launderer and extortionist with ties to many-a professional hockey player. Perhaps he'll own a team one day. - VIKENTIY RABINOVICH The boss of all bosses? They call him Smartass, exiled to a fortress in Budapest with guards and anti-aircraft guns. He is, by all means, Europe's kingpin. He wants more. He wants the oceans and the skies and the clothes off every man's back, and no. He doesn't take well to denial. - GRIMWALDO WINOGRODZKI Where the f*ck is this guy from? Don't ask. Says he's Polish, says he's Italian, says he's Swiss. Only thing for sure... he has blow. Blow, heroin, TV sets, gourmet chocolates; if there's one thing the DOA and AFT don't expect, it's Thai dope on a Polish airliner. - YERALDIN ‘YIYO’ MONSALVE Flashy, confident, ruthless: the Cázar Cartel's stateside boss doubles as Liberty's cocaine kingpin. And he knows it. Dials up Winogrodzki at 2 AM for coca-powered conversations about sports, plays golf with Kenny Petrovich in chore coats and sweatpants. But above all, a passion... the malparido loves submarines. - RAMI YALON Lupisellas usually hire in the family, longtime hitman Sonny 'the Saint' Honorato dutifully doing hits since the 50's. But he's Bohan. Dom don't like Bohan. In his place comes 'the Yid’, former Mossad and consummate professional. High fees and low tolerance for guido bullsh*t - maybe that's why he clicks with Kuzma so much. - THE COOPERATIVE When you do business in Liberty, you cut the Families in. Or else. A committee of three who collect, discuss, and intimidate the gangsters of Hove Beach; wearily meeting at the Piazza Plaza Restaurant in Rotterdam Hill. Lupisella consigliere Gene Pittaluga, ad hoc boss of a teetotal clique. Says little for a confidant, you can see why Puleo sees more blood than silver. Pavano captain Giosuè 'Joshie' Gervasi, assisted by geezer aide-de-camp Juliano 'Julie Schnozz’ Ciommo. Greedy fool. Talks big game, often without playing. Gambetti capo Sal 'Salvo' Salzano of Lennox Island. Peacekeeper. Line straight to big man Gravelli - eager for Russian cash despite disdain for their methods. - MOE SCHWARTZ Moe never took a side in the whole Broker-Bohan thing, maybe on account of his mixed heritage he thought himself exempt. The Lupisellas' numbers guy, the guy who first came across the Russians on account of campaigning for ZAP with Eshel Schochet, the go-to guy for Ganzfried or the Pavanos or God himself. Consigliere by any other name. - LEO PULEO There's a problem brewing in the Lupisella family. Huge Henry Rotondi, guy couldn't fit in the goddamn FIB plane, starts talking about ratting on every boss on the Commission. Not good. Puleo, on the run out of state, gets busted in Pennsylvania at a shopping mall. Double not good. Half the family on trial: a mess and a half to clean up. Only one man to do it. - DOMINIC 'THE WRENCH' SEPE They call him The Wrench for many-a reason, he's the wrench in the works, Mr. Fixit. Or perhaps he'll smash the sh*t out of you with one. Acting boss with big man Puleo in the joint, getting info from the bigger man and organizing a breakout on his behalf. His thirst for blood now justified, vindication on his mind and tongue. - NONNA TESSA A crossroads: a grandson with a junkie father and a nowhere mother. What do you do? You take them out of Broker, try get them work, raise them like a son. Son drops out of school, starts acting a ruckus with neighborhood boys, police visit the house and then you're visiting the station. All you can do is pray. - ROY ZITO Roy and the Bantonvale Boys - hooligans and thugs wreaking havoc north, south and upwards. All over, the sixth family; no liquor store unrobbed and car unstolen, pretty boy in charge with sharp edges and a sharp tongue. The blunt force option, latent inadequacies and all. - ERIC LO IACONO Eraclide to his mother, to his friends the name dips. Clyde, Ricky, Eric - the North Lennox terror got no respect for his elders. Went down at 15 for Assault and plead "f*ck yourself" on the stand, spat in the public defender's face at the consequence. Still got it down to second degree. A zero sum game. - JON 'JUNIOR' GRAVELLI Junior clocked Roy years back when Roy still stole cars, two clicked instantly over blow and bad movies. Jon, rich kid from Meadow Hills never got his hands dirty. Roy, poor kid from Bantonvale never knew nothing but getting his hands dirty. Best friends ever since. - ROGER 'BUTCHIE' BOVE Butch lost his son a couple years back; an ill-fated drive and a broken neck. Roy did him a favor and killed the guy who did it. It's a bond holding harder than kevlar, scruffy Bantonvale capo with a thin neck known for sending thick wads on payday. A man after Jon's own heart: one willing to take chances on youngsters. - PETE REA Jon Gravelli picked Peter off the streets of Broker in the early Seventies: hard-scrabble braggart with a cross around the neck, hijacker and former boxer. He saw the potential right away. Today he's underboss; a loud underboss who swears at the judge and laughs at the reporters, the most surveilled gangster in the country bar his one superior. - ZURIEL ORZOFF The man likens himself to Martin Luther, ingenious orator and a diplomat like no other. Unlike King, however? A liar who represents the worst men in the country, bigots and racketeers and killers. His latest challenge is Pete Rea - an open and shut case and probable lifetime sentence. Zurry won't let that be. - JON GRAVELLI The man behind the Gambetti family has gone sixty-nine years with about two in prison: an excellent record that could very well be tarnished. A racketeering case that's gone far too long getting another crack with obstruction charges, a couple goons running up names on the jury. Doesn't look good. Coming down from the Carraway mansion is one thing, getting pricey cars and priceless art repossessed is a whole 'nother. - SAMMY 'SONNY' BOTTINO Shrewd, calculating; Sonny made a career out of sniffing out a deal and got drafted to the family by Gravelli himself. The next protege on the chopping block. Neck deep in Florida making movies or working with celebrities or something, vague on the detail and never quite willing to pay respects to a boss he never asked for. - MARLON FARALDO Former US Attorney; resigned and ran for mayor in '89, lost and hasn't gotten over it. Ambitious as can be and back on the campaign trail early, a lover of broken windows and loather of the poor. And while it's hot on the presses? The number one campaigner for the arrest of Jon Gravelli. - HARVEY NOTO They say he'd have been Gambetti if things went the right way: met Jon Gravelli sharking in Zephyr Hill and made pals ever since. A manslaughter charge gone awry, he's back on the streets - new Messina boss, friendships to the wind and eyes on the prize. - CALOGERO CAZZINI Son of Amerigo, scion of Sicilian bootleggers sending barley brew down the St. Lawrence. He's kingpin now. These days, they're saying, the Cazzinis are more a family than the Ancelottis - manpower and muscle, coke and cash. Messinas don’t think so. Big Cal does. Constantly shadowed by bodyguard Hugues Ouellette-du-Tranchemontagne, inexplicably letting the dumb f*cker talk in his favor. - OLLIE 'LULU' GLIUGLIU They call him Canuck, and for good reason - zip f*cker's in Quebec more than milk bags and inbreeding. Give the guy credit, he's got charisma, married six women going on seven now arraigning the marriage between Messina and Cazzini. It's not going well. - MELVIN SCHIAVONE He's a people guy; races pigeons with Dom Sepe and Tony Black, shoots the breeze with Wayne Coco. Never let a rivalry get in the way of good business. Six ways to Sunday and family ties to near every family on the Commission and more, if you want a deal brokered you go to Broker Mel. Just pray that don't go to his head. - MARK & FREDO VOLPE Fresh out the joint is Mark Anthony: off 10 years for manslaughter and back in business with flesh-and-blood Alfredo. After doing a favor for Hal Noto in '82, both brothers got their button - working the extortion patch in Dukes and North Broker, tears and broken glass. - OSWALDO QUIROGA If you've had a chick in AC, that chick was Ozzie's girl. Pimp, scag dealer, man of fine clothes and fine cigars. An empire spanning half a state and half a city, and a new connection in the ever-enterprising Roy Zito's web of friendly hoodlums. - JAYVON SIMSON Small timer this close to the big leagues - JJ knows people. Met Joey Corolla, 13 going on 30 with a cigarette and a forty ounce, mob kid with a crew. Met Dwayne Forge, Holland empresario neck-deep in the crack game, 'entertainment' magnate of dubious origin. Sparks fly in his head. The web extends. - JOE COROLLA Joe ‘the Cowboy’ was always a street kid, growing up in East Holland hung with gangbangers alike; Latino and Black. A neighborhood taboo. You don't talk to the eggplants. Late teens with a fire in his belly, the attention of the men in the social clubs, a mean streak with no end. Easy pickings for a player to play. - MARIA VALVONA When Louie Valvona 'mysteriously' died, the bosses came to an agreement: "Let the freak do how she pleases". The ostensible front boss of the Pavano crime family is possibly the Commission's longest long con: switching boss after boss after boss at the cost of respect but eyes on the wrong person. Eyes on the Oddmother, on wind chimes and vague prophecy. - ARTHUR ZAPULLA Not many people go to school at Ivy League, fewer mobsters: but that's what awaits the man who killed Louie Valvona. An open secret, the rat-faced kid with greasy hair, the kid all over Mary like butter on toast, groping and cloying and purring in her ear. It's a wonder charges haven't been made, for a variety of reasons. - VITO MENOTTI Veets bought a Lennox Island dog food cannery in the seventies, went from nothing to barely something. Barely something's enough. Enough to wash money and grind bones and kinda freak people out at the poker games. He knows what the little men don't, who really calls the shots and gives the kill orders. And they won't tolerate recent disrespect. Liberty is expanded in Red Line: denser, more square mileage. Only two-and-a-half boroughs are accessible in normal gameplay - the International Center of Exchange gleaming from the skyline. The boroughs: Liberty’s second city gets a bad rap; churches, art types, gangsters. It’s more than that. Not much more than that, but more than that. UPTOWN Redcape - Traditionally Polish, home of longshoremen and factory workers before they all moved to Alderney. Home to the Redcape Incinerator, the biggest, hottest dioxin and lead polluter in the borough. Hedgebury - Jews and Latinos, sure. But evil afoot. Bohemians. Yuppies in Algonquin have rent at gunpoint, now gentrifying the borders of borough number two. It’ll get worse. Schottler - The Messinas and Gambettis still run this part of town but not by much, modern day hotspot for Dominicans and Puerto Ricans. East Liberty & Suydam - They call it the killing fields. Formerly back in the heyday, the mob’s primary graveyard. They stopped demolishing houses on the Dukes border because they kept finding bodies, wasn’t worth the press. Today, the battles are fought not by wiseguys, but street hustlers and crack kingpins. The Bowels - Technically East Liberty, but worth a mention; a sunken little neighborhood on the Dukes border best traversed on horseback, ‘less you want your car flooded. Trust me: you don’t want that here. Vestiges of the Wild West run amok. WATERFRONT BOABO - Older residents still call it Feldspar Crossing, the developers… not so much. Ground Zero for a new wave of gentrification. East Hook & Navy Yard - Parts of town reckoning with obsolescence as the port moves to Tudor and the boat traffic slows to a crawl. Rotterdam Hill - A lot of churches, a lot of brownstones, a lot of social clubs. Great Thresh - The Great Thresh Canal is still plays a pivotal role in the waterfront’s ecosystem: a pathway for the movement of barges, and a great place for the mob to tie cement to a dead guy’s foot. Sunrise Park - Formerly dockland central, stevedore Swedes pushed out yonks ago in favour of Latinos and Cantonese. Now Broker’s Chinatown. CENTRAL South Slopes - Still recovering from the ‘91 riots, West Indian folks and Hasidic residents cross the street to avoid one another, dirty glares and confrontation. Fights still ensue, instigated regularly by neighborhood Shomrim. Cork Villa - The land of the stroller. Gentrification personified in brownstone and wrought iron, young families and the odd yuppie priced out of Algonquin hanging their gold-embroidered address plaques while the working class scatters. Outlook Park - Broker’s very own Middle Park, subject to millions upon millions in funds allocated to revitalizing its image since the decade’s turn. The carousel’s back, art deco horses and all. We’ll get there yet. Beechwood & Beechwood City - Mostly West Indian, low-income projects and baseheads copping copper wire. Junkyards, former factories, decades of history… now ground zero for Broker’s crack epidemic. Farnham-Slechtenhorst - ‘Far Sleck’: picturesque Victorians perched behind tree-lined streets mask a history of unfettered racial tensions and blockbusting - Gerry Quigley left in his wake a restoration project that saw itself through the 70s and 80s, the gangs and the cops doing their part to tear it asunder. District Park - Home of the Hasidim. Good delis, lots of hats - get used to wearing one and pick up on some Yiddish while you’re at it. Vlackwood & Fulham - Boring suburb. Houses, 8 by 8 grass patches masquerading as a yard, the occasional pink flamingo. Thrilling. Pierrepont Cemetery - Block after block after block of gravestones. Where Broker’s dead are buried. Before Outlook, this was Broker’s park. SWAMPLAND Maschapi - Italians and Blacks on the shore of Wampum Bay, with the former overtaking the latter in spades. Lupisella turf, the Broker crew holding on tight despite obvious disdain. Hansen Basin - Laugh in the face of the historians so adamant that the area was once a rural bastion for oyster fishing: tell it to the 8-figure mansions built by the dozen and the private roads twice as maintained as its thoroughfares. Stoothoff - Old. Old buildings, old people, old smells. Twenty years behind the urban planning curve leaves Stoothoff a little piece of antiquity for the cultured fellow yearning for the rural abandonment you’d typically only find in Lennox. Thalassus Meadow - Despite Outlook’s fame, Broker’s largest park is on the shores of the Wampum. Salt marshes used by the indigenous for crab fishing, now a makeshift landfill with trash, burnt out cars, and the occasional corpse. Mayor Llewelyn ‘Lewie’ Laster leads the charge for its cleanup. Byrd Aerodrome - Mixed use airfield now in the process of conversion into a state park. Nobody really cares. Barren, quiet; it’s local hearsay that unmarked air travel still lands and leaves. According to the government, those rumors are unfounded. Crownover Bay - Quaint, disconnected from public transport, nobody knows why the neighborhood always smells like rain. Has a beach that nobody goes to. Algonquin Beach - Must’ve forgot what borough they were in. Former resort town, the area’s become a second wave enclave to the higher-end Russian Jews from Hove. It’s earned its name again by attitude. SOUTH Hove Beach - Little Odessa. Introductions unnecessary. Firefly Island - Boardwalk attractions galore; the kind that peaked pre-World War II. Subjected time and again to development hell and rezoning court cases since the boom, Firefly Boardwalk is spotted with equal part shuttered, never-opened storefronts and amusement parks - but you’ll never find it empty. Kids and octogenarians love it, and that’s what counts. Goatherd - Former fishing town: home of yacht clubs, piers, bad seafood, aged stucco beach houses way too far away from the beach. Mostly Jewish but transitory: from Russians to Uzbekis, Greeks to Turks. Dartford - Developed in parallel with Firefly but overshadowed by a factor of about a dozen, Dartford has fallen into relative obscurity in the time since - your run of the mill working class neighborhood, dead-end streets, housing projects, the occasional bout of violence. Bantonvale - The city’s hotspot for Italian Americans, second only to Little Italy. Restaurants, social clubs, tracksuits, pudgy old men with itchy trigger fingers. Weir Ridge - Bantonvale’s little sister: the added bonus of beachfront property. Used to be a lot of Norwegians, but the mob probably forced them out like the real estate developers’ll do in a decade. Anger Bay - The local story is the place was called ‘Angler Bay’, devolved because of Dutch incompetence (like so much else). Working class, a lot of Italians, Albanians and Russians butting heads in the shadow of the golf course. Fort Harris - An installation for the US Army in the shadow of the Vespucci-Passage Bridge. Originally built for the Civil War, still holds a few cute toys. The forgotten borough. They purposefully leave it out of tourist advertisements, blur it out on the TV like guns in a music video. Suburban hellscape - might as well be ‘Derney. LIST UNDER CONSTRUCTION EAST SHORE Austral Bank - Seaside sand with a contradictory name making up most of Lennox’s eastern border. Has a boardwalk, the lethargic younger sister of Firefly Island. Cairndow - One of the many Italian neighborhoods sprinkling East Shore, home to protagonist Adrian and Gambetti capo Salvo Salzano’s ‘vending machine servicing company’ - or so he says. Verward Hill - Cute little Italian enclave on the east shore, site of a perpetual territory war with Holle Hill thanks to ill-defined boundaries. Both have hills. Wallonstop - It’s Dutch, nobody who lives here knows what the name means either. Griggstowne - Hit by a rather small tornado last year. Otherwise, nothing of interest. Hope it happens again. Kust Stadt - Italian capital of Eastern Lennox, prime territory for the Ancelotti crime family. Home to ancient mob social club ‘The Scrapes’ - owned by Gio Ancelotti himself. When you think Liberty, you think Liberty - skyscrapers, Statue of Happiness, pizza, number grid streets, rats. The urban jungle. Only part of the borough is available, terminating at Hematite Street, beyond that the screen fading to static and relocating you to a random switch scene nearby hours later. LIST UNDER CONSTRUCTION An Ancient Art - Adrian robs a poker game. Cliche. Loud. Status Quo - Felix makes a delivery to a prospective client, and enjoys a bagel. The Butcher of Bantonvale - The boys assist a store owner on behalf of Mr. Bove. Bathing in Filth - Felix delivers a package to Motya Shvedik as a way of solving a longtime dispute. A Great Big Pussy - Movie night at Bobby’s house turns into a visit to a local stash-house. Neither Down, Nor Feather - Felix discusses failure, is told to help the Colombians, and visits the carnival. Compromise Be Damned - With little information, the Bantonvale Boys visit a man with a distinctive face. Order - Kuzma Petrovich holds court with Motya Shvedik and his organizatsiya. A Web of Friendly Hoodlums - Doing a favor for a celebrity; Roy introduces you to some business partners. As you do missions for Butchie and the Gambettis, Adrian will occasionally be called over for a favor or two; resolving petty neighborhood squabbles. Monotony. The true face of the mafia. Human Resources - A dissatisfied customer of a Gambetti garbage contractor files a phone call. Adrian is tasked with returning his trash. Parent-Teacher Interview - A kid or two helps out at the Butch’s butcher. Didn’t get a great report. Roger’d really appreciate putting the screws to their principal. Art of War - Cousin’s landscaping company took a hit, now Weir Ridge terraces are being handled by some Ancelotti nephew’s numbskulls. Teach some gardeners a few lessons in pest control. Deconstructive Criticism - Whiny associate, Clarkie Contina, just made soldier. Won’t pay his dues to the capo but happy to flaunt a new house and a new Lampadati. Wreck the car. Do donuts in his pretty garden. Clean as a Whistle - Building contract, looks great. One problem: asbestos. Too expensive to dispose of legally… or at least, more expensive than they’d care to pay. Take the truck and dump it out in Wampum Bay. Pollution for a pretty penny. Owe Me a Couple - Foreman cut a few contracts and put a lot of no-shows out of work. Pay him a visit and convince him to rethink his decision. Weirdos, nobodies, egotists, degenerates. The best the city has to offer. - DB-P & P.G. Jackson Adrian’ll meet them through good ol’ Ozzie Quiroga: hip hop legend and head of Big Joox Records, DB-P, alongside his omnipresent protege Clayton. In halfway feuds with half the country’s rap scene, from Bohan’s Q-Whispers to Madd Dogg on the West Coast - sometimes brutality needs a little outsourcing. - Ephraim Pendergambit Investigative journalist; in deep sh*t, needs an underworld contact, willing to pay in cash. Felix finds him scoping out a Russian connected cafe in deep cover, decides to steer him in a different direction. - Toby de Vivo Guido dork from Adrian’s neighborhood, rap sheet full of petty assault and birdbrained B&Es and desperate to get in with the mafia. Piggybacking off Age’s connections, pulling him into a variety of rackets lacking in any kind of forethought or planning. - Helen Kafengauz Little old widower who sits outside the stoop with the other women in the neighborhood, gossiping with tanning reflectors. Taking a new kind of diet pill, Helen requests lifts to increasingly confusing locations, and Felix begins to question her sanity. - Gad & Tad Dierkes A pair of yokel Midwestern con artists, shaking down tourists and Floridians in bars and at pool games. Adrian accidentally gets thrown into a scheme, decides to tag along as they start screwing with the wrong people. - Officer Regis Frumpley Encountered via newspaper classified or simply hiding on street corner in Beechwood, the perpetually down-on-his-luck cop Frumpley puts the player in a series of harebrained, moronic schemes and obviously fake street crimes to boost his reputation. - Darcy Pembroke Absent-minded Australian tourist bumbling around Algonquin looking for the ‘real Liberty City’. If that means going into the ghetto and having his shoes stolen and camera smashed, so be it, and you bet he’ll be doing it with a smile on his face, mate. - Chester LaSala Mediocre stand-up comic and raging anti-semite with a poor sense of fashion and overactive sweat glands. Bombing at comedy clubs, he has a much quicker path to fame in mind - succeeding Casey Edwards as host of Late Night. By any means necessary. - Shane Tovar Itchy skinhead who did a few tours in the Gulf and Panama. Loopy as a racetrack, dull eyed and bored, he’s found himself a new hobby. Urban hunting; scouring ghettos for stray dogs and big game. - Taras the Fool Russian stick-up man, crack-addict, and lover of World War II memorabilia with questionable political views. Looking for accomplished thieves to help an accomplished thief rob accomplished thieves: bikers, gangsters, drug dealers. A lack of forethought and passion for his craft will find him in more trouble than expected.

Clouds in GTA V generally don't exist, I mean they are there but you will never reach them... Some clouds simply disappear as you lower altitude, it looks hilarious. That's just load of bullsh*t.

I just fixed my native character a bit: Gave him a slightly more youthful appereance and changed his hair... and boy can lighting be hard on him lmao: But overall im pretty happy how he turned out.

Path-tracing is not as accurate however. It's just a weird simulation of lighting instead of using the game's real deal and calculations.

That would be frustrating, waiting on Stadia version which 99% of players don't care about and it will most likely be dead in 2 years like many Google projects...

HOW THEY DARE TO DESECRATE THY NAME IN VAIN???!!!

No surrender

GG folks!

Rainbomizer: SA Randomizers for GTA San Andreas Rainbomizer is a mod for GTA San Andreas that randomizes many aspects of the game. It allows for a replay of the game in a new, fun way. The mod randomizes everything from traffic, car colours, handling, mission vehicles, weapons, cutscenes, colours and even the missions! The mod was designed to be played on the original game, and hence might conflict with any other mods installed. . List of Randomizers: Colour Randomizer Randomizes the colours of various in-game elements, including cars, the HUD, and fades. Timecycle Randomizer Randomizes the appearance and colours of the game world, such as the sky, water, lighting, and other time-based elements. Traffic Randomizer Randomizes cars that spawn in traffic including law enforcement vehicles. Script Vehicle Randomizer Randomizes the vehicles you are given in missions making sure they're usable for the mission. Parked Car Randomizer Randomizes cars which are found parked around the map including boats and airplanes at airports. Mission Randomizer Randomizes which mission is started by each mission marker. Weapon Randomizer Randomizes the weapons that are wielded by the player and other NPCs. Cutscene Randomizer Randomizes models used in motion-captured cutscenes. Pickup Randomizer Randomizes all pickups to other random weapons and pickups, including spawn locations, mission pickups, and drops. Ped Randomizer Randomizes the appearance of every single ped, including those on the street, cops, gang members, and mission characters. Cutscene Randomizer Randomizes the models used in motion-captured cutscenes, and the location in which they take place. Sounds Randomizer Randomizes mission dialogue, generic voice lines and various other sound effects. Language Randomizer Randomize the language of in-game text between other game languages. Riot Randomizer Activates a small chance for the game's riot mode to randomly activate upon entering new zones. Police Helicopter Randomizer Randomizes the helicopters that the police spawn in. Blip Randomizer Randomizes every radar blip on the map with a different icon. Wanted Level Randomizer Randomizes how you get wanted levels during and outside of missions. DYOM Randomizer Adds an option to download and play a random mission from the DYOM website. Cheat Randomizer Randomizes which cheat activates when you enter a cheat (disabled by default). Screenshots Playthrough by Hugo_One Playthrough by 123robot Installation Prerequisites GTA: San Andreas v1.0 US (Other versions are not supported) an ASI Loader (like Ultimate ASI Loader) Installation Download the Rainbomizer archive (see Downloads section) Extract the contents of the archive to the root folder of your GTA San Andreas installation directory After the installation, the directory should look something like: The config file will be auto-generated after launching the game with Rainbomizer the first time Configuration rainbomizer/config.toml contains the configuration options for Rainbomizer. The config file uses the TOML format and can be opened in any text editor (like Notepad) To enable/disable a certain randomizer, locate its section in the config file, and change the "Enabled" key to true or false Further configuration options are documented in the config file. Credits Lead Developers Parik Creation and implementation of the ASI. 123robot Development of new v3.0 features and assistance with creation of external files and testing. GTA_Madman Assistance with development of new features, fixes, feedback and testing. Additional Contributors iguana Assisted with looking through code and helped inspire the mission randomizer. SpeedyFolf Creating the tutorial video, beta testing, and feedback during development. SRewo Creating the Weapon Stats Randomizer. Thanks to Fryterp23, Hugo_One, Lordmau5, Riekelt, SpeedyFolf and Waris for beta-testing! Links Below are useful links related to the project GitHub links GitHub Repository GitHub Releases GitHub Issues Support this project Discord Patreon Release 3.0

@Piro, funny how you just posted since I was thinking yesterday about how I hadn't seen you around for a while. Ain't nothing wrong with taking a break - I've learned myself that this is the best way to keep any interest in the game as things become "more of the same". And, no, nothing much has happened since the opening of the Diamond. Things of relevance were the Gauntlet siblings, if you care about cars, the RC time trials, action figures to collect and the new survivals. We're still waiting on the Survival Creator, the King of the Hill mode plus its tools and the Peyote Plants. I figure that the best times to log in and play are when these additions are implemented, plus cash prizes and t-shirt freebies. Besides that, you're just better off letting your "batteries" and interest for the game recharge as the dripfeed closes on its end. As of now, we're passing by the mid-point. You have good chances of coming with your chin up by then. --- I must say, however, that I'm already gazing into the future and wondering what December/the next update brings us. Me and a friend have a theory that the overall "war/adversary/post-apocalyptic" theme of the game ended with Arena War and we're now up for another vision of updates, especially as Red Dead Online receives more roleplay-focused content. I have the feeling we're headed in the same direction and the coming months could be quite interesting...

Maybe these guys can fix this car.. It needs some genetic modification.

About time people outside this forum woke up.

1992 was picked for a variety of reasons - there's that end of the rugged liberty city theme going on with both the '92 election and the perpetually upcoming liberty mayoral election: dean boykin as bill clinton and his especially neoliberal policy, marlon faraldo as giuliani still sore after '89 and riling up people on this idea of a new liberty city. it's the very cusp of the ecstasy age, gotti's trial, the dirty thirty. almost everyone in the character list actually has a real life parallel that you can probably figure out by looking hard enough the rico stuff is also getting shined on here - 1992 was the year gotti got sentenced and the bloody amuso reign finally started to come to a close. same with the russian mafia stuff, much of the street warfare waged by people like yaponchik and monya elson are right here. san andreas'll get a few nods too. same general timeframe means we can make some deliberate stylistic departures and shine a different light on some of it's recurring themes; the crack epidemic, corruption of public services. it's a stylistic thing, we'll try to make things clearer. hopefully when the missions start coming out people get a better understanding of the who and the what basically think desynchronization in assassin's creed: vhs style static effects blurring until you cut to black, transition, back on the street. we wanted to include more of algonquin but we left the cutoff where brooklyn ends - it's a whole lot of city up there lol

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We've discussed this topic (past vs present GTA) already like 50-60 pages ago I think...anyway. I am a big fan of the 90's so obviously I'd like a GTA set in those times. We all have our preferences. That doesn't change the fact that all of us would probably enjoy the game even if it didn't include our favorite setting when gameplay/map/story/music etc. is good. For me GTA VI can be set today or in the past, I don't care that much. What I care about is good story, map and music. Also speaking of music... have you guys noticed how important music is in a GTA game? It's almost like it's a third character of the game. First being the main character, second is the city/map and third is the music. What you guys think?

Wow that's one hell of a list, Dayum you got me jealous there ... I don't want to spam but ... Ah f*ck it ! What do you think ?

gg all

I love games set in the past, I'd be down for GTA to go that route, don't think too many people would be bothered by it. Assassin's Creed games do it all the time, those games are amazing. The only people who would probably whine about it not being modern are kids.

...but why? MS now support PC day 1 with all their games, because the bigwigs finally realised that everyone games on Microsoft Windows. They've also actively pushed things like cross platform multiplayer, cross saving and have to my knowledge stopped doing any sort of timed exclusivity deal of any type, which is something Phil Spencer has gone on record saying he doesn't like. Sony have of course still persisted with timed exclusive deals but RDR2 PC is probably hundred million dollars+ in sales in just the first month quite comfortably. It'd be veeeeeery costly for Sony to convince them to not release it on PC day 1, especially when PC isn't their main competitor. The reason RDR2 isn't out on PC yet is entirely to do with Rockstar. Either they're incapable of developing a PC release for a game like RDR2 or GTA V alongside the console versions and releasing them simultaneously, or they want people to double dip. Nothing to do with Sony or MS.

Can't help but feel mad at R* blatant greedy antics regarding us trying to make an honest living. For example, they love having your almost or full bunker raided and the recovery missions will be gear towards you losing "ALL" or "HALF" of your bunker's products. It is basically R* robbing you of your time and investment.. thank god my grind method is air tight otherwise I'd quit this game to play Forthnite with my idiot brother a long time ago!

I guess this is relevant for this topic too so I may as well post it here too.

Despite GTAO’s numerous faults that made it into a mind-numbing mess, at least it took the decency to notify us when Rockstar’s Cloud service saved our progress with a spinning yellow circle in the corner. Even forcing the Cloud to save your progress was as simple as equipping and unequipping a pair of glasses. In RDO, you gotta wait for a good minute to be sure because there’s no indicator whatsoever.

My experience as well; some dev was either in a rush to meet a deadline, or had no clue what actually makes a Survival fun to play. Probably both.

This Garage eagerly awaits for a Dynasty!

Damn, now that I think about it Sony and Microsoft must love Rockstar... a 1 year exclusivity without spending a single $ lmao Also I like how it's Red Dead that got a full next gen sequel, RDR1 in 2010 and RDR2 in 2018, while GTA V only got a simple PS4 port with some tweaks. GTA will remain a franchise without a dedicated current gen only game on PS4 and Xbox One

Anybody noticed a part of the old map is underneath the Van Horn hotel room, above a fireplace. You can see the old Kamassa River river outline.

First 2 days it worked fairly well. Camp stayed up. Now, though......, total different story. Very hard to get your camp back and where's the wildlife?

Is this much of a surprise by a guy named "LCLegend"? I agree though. The 3D and HD Liberty Cities are boss.

Virginia Key update + some roads here and there.