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R* when?

I just realized something. The script that handles the freemode preps for VIP Contract is called "fm_content_vip_contract_1". It's kinda obvious, but it does seem like the next update may likely expand on the Agency with the second VIP Contract.

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It's like a Hertz parking lot.

So much for it never raining in southern California

Trying to get back into editor stuff, decided to give the Stallion some love.

here's mine.. simple build

(lol.. this angle reminds me of Evoque convertible)

The update felt like more an advertisement for Dre’s new album than anything. I don’t mind a heavy music focus, on occasion, but the last three updates have had strong music-oriented content. And either rap or nightclub music at that. Imagine if they had made a rock-oriented update, focusing on Los Angeles’ underground rock scene and the music history of the Sunset Strip and all that. Culminating in bringing back Love Fist as a fully-fledged music act. If Brendan Small can make Deathklok into a real band, then R* could’ve done the same for Love Fist.

When music becomes more important in a game than the game itself, that is already a big problem. Although GTA Online makes a lot of money, the content is poor in quality and very small throughout the year, IMO.

I was digging through the SCM source file and, well... I've found out where "Life's a Beach" was originally supposed to occur! //m1_beach_party_x = 2872.26 //m1_beach_party_y = -2157.87 //m1_beach_party_z = 1.76 m1_beach_party_x = 526.84 m1_beach_party_y = -1885.19 m1_beach_party_z = 2.4 As you can see, the commented-out copy of the actually used variables contain a different set of coordinates. Let's put CJ there in-game and see where we go: Looks like the party was originally headed for the unnamed beach by Playa Del Seville rather than Verona Beach. The location was probably changed to make the mission easier for a number of reasons: 1. The drive from CJ's house to OG Loc's workplace is already long and tedious enough (unless you get enough cash early on to buy the Verona Beach safehouse near OG Loc's mission marker). 2. Playa Del Seville is much farther from OG Loc's marker than CJ's house, so it's even more tedious to get over there from OG Loc's. 3. The dancing part of the mission is fairly difficult in itself. Beginners can fail easily and have to restart all over again. 4. In fact, the target score for dancing differs between platforms. (2500 on PC is nothing... It's 4000 on PS2!) 5. Some people just overall suck at driving and playing the game on a controller probably makes everything a lot more tedious. Apparently, there are three unused subtitles in the GXT files that actually support this find (but they lack voice lines though): LOC1_CT - ~z~Seville always throw a good gig. LOC1_CU - ~z~Seville Families watching over us... LOC1_CV - ~z~Seville Boulevard throw the best parties, man. Since the said mission does additional manipulation to these base coords to spawn cars, peds, objects and particles, I decided to move the party back to it's BETA location and see how things roll: There! Not so bad, eh? WDYT? (Yeah, that drainpipe tho, WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE PARTY IN SEWAGE AND DOCKLAND WATER) Party music's audio zone (string name "BEACH") didn't move along because it's coords need manual change in "audiozon.ipl" and some static values in the mission code that are not dependent on the base variables still use the final location. Everything(?) completely works as R* intended because all the coords for the rest of the stuff are calculated from the base coords above. But this pile of wood begs to differ, however... Digging further reveals there were once going to be three Quad bikes spawning in the party, sure does make a helluva sense to have these!: //REQUEST_MODEL QUAD //OR NOT HAS_MODEL_LOADED QUAD // m1_index = 0 // WHILE m1_index < 3 // CREATE_CAR QUAD 0.0 0.0 -100.0 m1_perimeter_quads[m1_index] // m1_index++ // ENDWHILE There's also this at the start of the mission's code, cars that spawn in the final version use a similar type of these variables: //LVAR_INT m1_perimeter_quads[3] //LVAR_FLOAT m1_perimeter_quad_x[3] m1_perimeter_quad_y[3] m1_perimeter_quad_heading[3] Spawn coord calculations for the cut Quads: //m1_perimeter_quad_x[0] = m1_beach_party_x + 2.5 //m1_perimeter_quad_y[0] = m1_beach_party_y - 11.0 //m1_perimeter_quad_x[1] = m1_beach_party_x + 5.5 //m1_perimeter_quad_y[1] = m1_beach_party_y - 12.0 //m1_perimeter_quad_x[2] = m1_beach_party_x + 3.0 //m1_perimeter_quad_y[2] = m1_beach_party_y - 15.0 Developer comments cementing the proof of scrapped idea, note how one comment says four quads whereas variables allow for only three: // clear dancing area of mission quads and cars // m1_index = 0 // WHILE m1_index < 3 // IF NOT IS_CAR_DEAD m1_perimeter_quads[m1_index] // IF LOCATE_CAR_3D m1_perimeter_quads[m1_index] 533.81 -1891.64 2.27 10.0 10.0 10.0 FALSE // DELETE_CAR m1_perimeter_quads[m1_index] // ENDIF // ELSE // DELETE_CAR m1_perimeter_quads[m1_index] // ENDIF // m1_index++ // ENDWHILE // ************************************************************ // Create beach party with circle of parked cars, // four quads, sound van, beach party peds and DJ // ************************************************************ // // create quads // m1_index = 0 // WHILE m1_index < 3 // CREATE_CAR QUAD m1_perimeter_quad_x[m1_index] m1_perimeter_quad_y[m1_index] -100.0 m1_perimeter_quads[m1_index] // SET_CAR_HEADING m1_perimeter_quads[m1_index] m1_perimeter_quad_heading[m1_index] // m1_index++ // ENDWHILE // MARK_MODEL_AS_NO_LONGER_NEEDED QUAD The vehicles were going to have their engines and lights on: //FORCE_CAR_LIGHTS m1_perimeter_cars[m1_index] FORCE_CAR_LIGHTS_ON //SET_CAR_ENGINE_ON m1_perimeter_cars[m1_index] TRUE MOAR Quad creation (these guys just got too much of these lol), just copy-pasted code perhaps?: // // create quads // m1_index = 0 // WHILE m1_index < 3 // CREATE_CAR QUAD m1_perimeter_quad_x[m1_index] m1_perimeter_quad_y[m1_index] -100.0 m1_perimeter_quads[m1_index] // SET_CAR_HEADING m1_perimeter_quads[m1_index] m1_perimeter_quad_heading[m1_index] // m1_index++ // ENDWHILE You were originally meant to get paid for your hysterical button-mashing hard work, this was found under the "mission_passed" label: //ADD_SCORE player1 100 From the mission cleanup list: //MARK_MODEL_AS_NO_LONGER_NEEDED QUAD Bonus fact: A gameplay video of SA PS2 reveals Harlem Underground Band - "Smokin' Cheeba Cheeba" was originally supposed to play in the party instead of L7 - "Pretend We're Dead". Not to mention it feels weird to see people dancing somewhat "slow"-ish to upbeat rock music, and besides, why the ghetto girl that party DJ is would want to listen to modern rock?

Usually you can't have more than one "Service" big vehicle active at a given time, such as the Avenger or the Terrorbyte. The Kosatska is able to stay active while you have another special Service vehicle is use. While your Kosatska is active, you are forbidden to call another service, however grabbing one from it's place of origin (like the MOC from a Bunker), will not make the Kosatska desapear. This is useful for missions (imagine having access to your Kosatska and Avenger during a Piracy prevention), for PvP and PvE, and even for more trivial things like taking screenshots. So yeah you can land your Avenger on your Kosatska and do Cayo Perico preps with it.

When doing Rescue Operation and you land on the roof next to the safehouse, do NOT get the funyn idea of jumping off the roof and using the balcony midpoint to soften your fall (where the ladder is). Your client will do the same. And die.

This is just for the launch week. Rockstar included lines from DJ Pooh called post launch. The old WCC should be back by tomorrow. EDIT: Just noticed that, for some reason, the post launch lines are already enabled.

Recently I was rediscovering the pleasure of driving the Massacro, Exemplar and Rapid GT. The idea of having a garage full of Dewbauchee vehicles is quite nice and since this car was discounted, I just had to buy it. @El Cavilldo I tried to fit it with my Slamvan, but imo this thing is way to classy for that

This was perfect opportunity to sell patriot as a lot more would buy it to have fun in the snow, but R* don't care. Gonna get that baller, not much cash will be lost on it, around 400k on modifications. Releasing super car such as zeno in the snow week event doesn't make much sense, but R* logic...

Talking about that cutscene. Looks like we were supposed to see him getting hit with the golf club. Bc he has unique bloody textures and there are even particle effects which you never see bc if the final camera angle. Looks to me like a last minute change.

I had the funnest time today - I randomly texted the entire lobby "bring your best 4x4 to the bottom of Chiliad and let's go off roading in the snow" 10 minutes later we had 12 players riding the trail to the top of Chiliad in a single file line and I saw some really neat 4x4 options. Then we proceeded to have a massive snow ball fight at the top of the mountain. Been playing this game for what, 7-8 years now and that was a top 10 moment for me

I mean... I'll take a free car for my poor man's fleet.

Rockstar adjusted the payout for Specialist+ Contracts. It's now capped at 70k. Used to go up to 75k. In case you're wondering how the payout is determined. It's RNG between 60k to 70k.

"Hi! We're Rockstar! Have 5 proximity mines!" Yeah, well, I HAD 15 of them...

Geez, no Patriot for the christmas gift. Missed opportunity for them to release one of the most (if not the most) anticipated dripfeed vehicles in the entire game during this period. It would've been fun to test this offroader in the snow. Oh well.

Great spawn, C*.

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I love the snow, I just hate the f*cking minging cloudy miserable dull sky. Why can't the sun shine on snowy days, like in reality with bright sapphire blue sky?

Just think, we could have gotten the Patriot to drive in the snow. Between the Baller, this hunk of sh*t, and the three ugly free masks as gifts, I have zero reason to play over the next week.

I did just receive the Comet S2 Cabrio Christmas livery, so maybe the car will be the Christmas Day gift? Casino podium: Mamba Prize ride: Clique (with Christmas livery); Top 4 in 8 races

Not too bad when you can get it at a five finger discount.

I 100 % stand behind this. Ever since R* started with dripfed vehicles, whenever that was, I just think the whole thing became an absolute drag. You get hyped and ready for the update to drop only to realize half or more of your most anticipated vehicles aren't even part of the launch. Instead you get major disappointment, then tedious waiting, then some more of it, until eventually everything has been released months later by which time the update has already aged, and is possibly even "done" for you (collectable trophies, awards, and so on). One anticipated car drop every few weeks or so is not enough to drag me back full-time. I wanted this and that car on day one when I actually engaged in that particular dlc gameplay. It's a real bummer. That's all there really is to it and quite frankly, I personally think that is a real crap system R* has implemented. This particular update barely offered anything in terms of material items (cars/clothing) that appealed to me to begin with, so holding on to whatever dripfeed vehicles they store atm just made this update even weaker to me as well. I needed every little piece I could enjoy on day one. Wise words. This is indeed a big problem. I remember when After Hours dropped and despite people begging for night clubs for a long time prior to it, most people seemed disappointed and just shat on that update. But in retrospect it really isn't a big question as to why that was. The bulk of its focus was put upon the DJ:s, music content, which isn't gameplay content. The music in turn only appealed to so many people, which is why I find it a bit odd that R* kept going with this design choice by releasing The Music Locker and then the Moodyman-centered crap. Now we have Dr. Dre who I believe appeals to a lot more players, but it's still too much music with limited appeal and almost like a secondary focus on actual gameplay. The FUN is just not there. At this point it seems R* is becoming more interested in pushing for some kind of music party simulator than a criminal one. Overall it's becoming a poorer experience with the way R* does these music-themed updates. Just look at the player night clubs or especially the Music Locker, they've been dead places pretty much ever since R* added them to the game. R* needs to rethink their future dlc designs if they're gonna stick with these music themes. We don't play GTA to partake in boring dancing "mini-games" at clubs or to watch cutscenes of Dr. Dre in the recording studio (as cool as I find it, being in the music/recording biz myself). I don't mind these features being in the game but it's minor side-content, not something more "major" like R* has pushed 'em as so far. It's kind of like R* trying to pull us into RDO by offering a can of free beans. Do they honestly believe those things are quality content and attractions?

Some more details on those E&E finds. This is Chameleon paint/coating, would be perfect to show off improved reflections or even hypothetical ray traced reflections or something of the sort, as it's even Gen9 exclusive:

The Armenian mob cannot drive even if their lives depended on it. They crash into literally everything. Who’s coding the AI over there are Dumbstar?

You can call your mechanic and request your car while still inside the Agency

Vice City updated (WIP) Finnished the wetlands (still unnamed) and added a small camping site in the middle of the swamps, for anybody with a camper to camp there.

Praying for Patriot tomorrow!

1. Vapid Dominator GTT - 37 2. Dinka Jester RR - 16 3. Annis Remus - 38 (+1) 4. Annis ZR350 - 33 (-2) 5. Vapid Dominator ASP - 35

It caps at 250k. But, keep in mind, some people experienced a bug with collecting 250k from the nightclub safe. They would pick it up and it won't be added to their bank/wallet.

That also confirms snow for tomorrow.

My favourite car from the update. Enjoy a few screens of this big dick ride

I just thought I'd drop in to say this is my 1,000th post in this god forsaken thread. Maybe GTA VI will be announced before I make my 69,000th post here...