Everything Proof Sabre

[Grae Kidd]

Hello everyone. There is a damage and health proof sabre on the mission Tanker Commander, you know. I tried to take it to my garage by pushing, but it won't move. I even tried to use the Tanker but the car doesnt move.

Is that a glitch in my game or a change in the PC version of the game? Like something, the special cars are staying in their position until the script tells them to move..?

[GodGell]

Like something, the special cars are staying in their position until the script tells them to move..?

there are no real "special" cars. the anythingproof things are simply flags set, and the script can't tell a car to move, it tells the driver to move. if the driver is still in the car he/it might be holding the brakes or something. try tearing him out of his car or if the doors are locked i suggest either unlock them with trainer or something (if the SA trainers are already capable of that, haven't tried them).

 

if you want to push it to a garage to unlock it that way, i suggest getting a tow truck or tractor, attach it and try to tow it. during my mt. chiliad journal i used a tractor to tow a police rancher up the mountain with the 2 cops inside the car (i had no wanted level). as soon as i started pulling them, the peds ai seemed to be "paralized" - they were just sitting there, letting me pull them away even though they could have still used the brakes. so i guess if it is the driver ped causing the problem, the towtruck/tractor way would automatically solve the problem.

 

 

note: sorry for any spelling/grammatical mistakes, i'm just back from playing SA nonstop for 29 and a half hours without caffeine or any other drug. so, i'm kinda tired.

[mindfaq]

Where did you see a bulletproof sabre in this mission ?

you mean the car the two guys from the gas station are chasing you with ?

actually that´s not proof of nothing, i got out of the truck and sent that thing to hell with a pistol.

[SalsaShark]

Yeah, so anyway, it does seem like R* took a note from the Cesar racing missions and had the car welded to the ground until you attach the tanker to the trailer and continue on with the mission. So, you'll have to just scratch that off the unique vehicles list, unless there's anything special with it after you get the trailer.

[spellbound]

i had the same problem and i found out that the only way to move it was with shotgun shots, it takes a lot of ammo and time, but if you really want the car that works

[humbaba]

Grae,

 

Like you, I found the everything-proof Sabre and was looking forward to finally getting this prize that was mentioned on Gamefaqs. Well, needless to say, I was pretty cheezed about not being able to move it a freakin' inch no matter what I tried. What's funny is that the Gamefaqs article on bulletproof cars talks about how easy it is to push the car to your garage, and I was thinking "What the hell? What's your idea of 'easy'?"

 

Realizing that nothing could push the Sabre, I wondered why R* would let the PS2 owners access it but disallow it for Xbox & PC owners.

 

That said, I guess I'll give Spellbound's solution a try. But man, it's going to take a hell of a lot of shotgun blasts!

Edited July 6, 2005 by humbaba

[murph_fan51]

Problem with the tow-truck is that you need one right there other wise the car will dissapear. Depending on how close it is to your garage, you could try blowing it up then see if it moves, or use a forklift to lift it onto its roof. Is there anyone inside? Try sniping the sh*t out of them, and they may open the ddor as they fall out! Also try using a flamethrower as this scares everyone (well it did in VC) and they run away leaving their car door open!

[humbaba]

Color me a happy camper and props to Spellbound!

 

The shotgun blasting did the trick! I now have the everything-proof Sabre - something I didn't think was possible on the Xbox.

 

As expected, it took a hell of a lot of shotgun blasts. I bought about twenty sawed-off shotguns at the Angel Pine Ammunation. The sawed-off shutgun seems to knock the Sabre a little further than the regular shotgun. Originally, I bought one sawed-off shotgun and used the "unlimited ammo" cheat; however, I found out that EVERY save thereafter will have that nagging "cheats active" message, so I decided to try it the non-cheat way.

 

Only real problem that I ran into while I was blasting the Sabre around was that occasionally a cop might start chasing me because of the gunfire, so rather than kill him and possibly raise my wanted level, I just ran around the Sabre until traffic got clogged up around it and he eventually got hit by some impatient driver (the cop always seemed to show up while I was pushing the Sabre through an intersection). Another method to get rid of him would be to fire at the clogged traffic and blow up the cop. No need to be concerned about damage to the Sabre, of course.

 

It felt great to get that Sabre after I had resigned myself to the fact that I wasn't going to attain it. Also, a reminder to everyone that during that same "Tanker Commander" mission, you can get an everything-proof Sadler MUCH, MUCH more easily than the Sabre. I don't feel like typing out how to get it so check Gamefaqs or this website to find out how.

 

 

[Cartoon Corpse]

so i guess you just start the mission and sit there in the tanker and let it blow you up? or you drive directly to your safe house, instead of mission desitnation, and let it blow your truck up? why would you have intersections to mess with? if you drive the tanker to your safehouse?

[humbaba]

so i guess you just start the mission and sit there in the tanker and let it blow you up? or you drive directly to your safe house, instead of mission desitnation, and let it blow your truck up? why would you have intersections to mess with? if you drive the tanker to your safehouse?

The car I was talking about was the everything-proof SABRE, which spawns in the gas station's parking lot right after you walk into the red circle that starts "Tanker Commander." I didn't bother getting the Tanker.

 

The Sabre cannot be unlocked and even the heaviest, strongest vehicle cannot budge it; however, Spellbound said that shotgun blasts move it little by little, and he's right. I merely shot at the Sabre and slowly moved it to my safehouse by repeatedly shooting at it. On the way, there are one or two intersections I had to cross.

[Cartoon Corpse]

oh so it's not the car that chases you? oh okay. oh well next time through the game i guess, for me. im way past that.

[humbaba]

Now that you mention it, Corpse, I guess the EP Sabre is supposed to be the car that chases you. The two store employees chase you in a Sabre, and it stands to reason that the Sabre that spawns after you walk into the circle is supposed to be the car they use to try and chase you down.

 

I did try pushing the Sabre into my safehouse after I destroyed it during the mission, but it simply stays in its destroyed state and doesn't get "restored" when you push it into your garage. It didn't occur to me that it would've been pointless to have it restored anyway since it was no longer damage-proof!