Tips, Tricks and Walkthroughs

[blackwings]

i propose this topic to be pinned, and that whatever tips/tricks are found in the dedicated threads (which shouldnt be neglected, imo) be copied over to here

[GTA3Rockstar]

I think I found the last two, which were my first two... Ok, so you know where the hospital and police station is??? Go behind the hospital and walk toward the trees(heading toward the police station but behind it) walk around in there and you will get one of the two... Next walk out the trees but up that hill(that is behind the police station) 'til you see a ramp... Go to the side of the ramp and you will see a ledge and across the ledge(heading toward the hosital) is another hidden package... There you have 40

[Kippers]

I'm stuck on Salvatore's mission 'Shoot the messanger' Whenever i start chasing the boat and i go into drive by mode the boat always seems miles ahead of me and as he keeps changing direction i can never get in and out of drive by mode fast enough to stay with him. Also i always end up getting the 'Welcome to Shoreside Vale' sign which is very annoying. Is there any quicker way of doing this mission?

[blackwings]

 

I'm stuck on Salvatore's mission 'Shoot the messanger' Whenever i start chasing the boat and i go into drive by mode the boat always seems miles ahead of me and as he keeps changing direction i can never get in and out of drive by mode fast enough to stay with him. Also i always end up getting the 'Welcome to Shoreside Vale' sign which is very annoying. Is there any quicker way of doing this mission?

this mission took me two tries, i thought it would take alot more for the exact reasons you said - basically i just waited til i was slightly ahead of him to go into drive-by, it blew up pretty easily, just two bursts of driveby fire

 

edit:

 

here is a sweet map posted in the weapons topic - any chance the people that love making maps can start making maps lol?

 

 

Ok, I scanned a map in 6 peices and photshoped it back together. You guys can use it for anything you need.

 

 

edit 2 - here is the most recent update to the weapons thread - everything posted should be there:

 

 

ak-47 - on top of the sex club

hatchet - behind fire station by car dealership

hockey stick - behind apartment building in hepburn heights

micro smg - in between two construction trailers, at the bridge end of the orange wall, near the unfinished bridges

molotovs - on top of casino/gentlemens club you blow up VERY early in the game

armor - on top of the train tracks near the radio stration

armor - on top of the radio station

butcher knife - market in chinatown

shotgun - on top of grocery store

mini submachine gun (i get them confused) - st marks, there is an alley that goes perpendicular to the main roads, and next to it it a section of walls, the gun is at the very bottom of the wall, next to the alley

 

theres another bludgeoing weapon im forgetting - health pickups are everywhere, and there is armor on the dock you run away from portland on in III

 

 

mac-10 - at construction site on north end of portland near the ferry port

sniper rifle - on top of building in construction site in hepbun heights

armor - dock under callahan bridge

armor - under ferry tower at ferry port in harwood

 

 

There's a chainsaw by the sawmill in Trenton. Also, brass knuckles are in an allyway near the mean street taxis in that area.

 

 

some weapons on staunton:

 

shotgun - in divit-alley near DL building

armor - at construction site near ferry/hospital

spaz shotgun (?) - on top of building near callahan bridge - it is shaped like an 8 on your map

mini-machine gun - back alley that the 'hello again' sign is in

sniper rifle - top of tall building with 3 flights of stairs, near the internet cafe (under construction)

 

spaz shotgun (?) - portland, fish factory up on beam

 

theres a bunch more, but im pretty full on weapons so i havent been looking for anything else - i know theres an M4 somewhere near the police station or down by the boat docks

 

 

I started a topic like this on GTAWH and here are somr weapon locations:

 

AK-47 -If you go up the stairs behind JD's club, there is a ramp to your sight go up it and go off the ledge straight ahead, now jump onto the blue building and go along it. There is your AK-47 (very powerful, only 2 bullets to kill a ped)

 

Meat Clever -In china town, in the middle of the chinese market place

 

Shotgun -get in a Police car

 

tec 9 -

 

axe -behind firestation

 

brass knuckles -they're near the police station in that place where the road goes around in a square. i cant really describe it very well but its inbetween one two of the buildings there.

 

UZI -At the base of the of the (under construction) Stanton Bridge is a one of the construction worker trailer/buldings right on the water front, on the water side of it is an UZI

 

Molotov cocktails - found motolov cocktails at Ray's GTA3 hideout in the park on Staunton Island

 

Sniper rifle - in Shoresides Vale under the old broken bridge by the shore of the river that can be used as a jump to go over the river

 

Sniper rifle - above the western entrance to the tunnel in shoreside vale (right by the dam)

 

Colt Python -  you have to go to the airport on shoreside vale and there is a road in front of the airport any ways on the ledge above the road there are 2 signs and behind one is the really good pistol

 

another one is the psgi-1 sniper rifle i think its called (also from vc) i havnet found out how to get it but i know where it is.on staunton island if you die you go to the hospital there and when you spawn turn left and head towards the parking lot, if you keep going you will cross the raod and there is some stairs that go up to a restaurant and on a belcony there is the psgi-1 sniper rifle. if you find a way to get it please tell me!!

 

 

theres a sawed off shotgun in the storage area at Callahan Point (Portland), you have to carefully walk up the red beams to get it (its available after the mission you do there is finished). hint: you cant get in through the gate, check the walls for a way in. If you get it early in the game then it makes shooting missions a breeze

 

is there an MP5 anywhere in Staunton or Portland?

 

SSV locations:

 

armor: behind fire station

armor: behind old safehouse in 3

mp5: behind old safehouse in 3

molotovs: in park where patriot side mission was in 3

python pistol: on top of airport

mo5: inside fence area in building, downtown SSV, toward top left of hillside

remote detonators: on top of dam building, available at the end of dam road via stairs

Edited November 1, 2005 by blackwings

[jc steel]

thanks you just helped me get to 89,4% of the game thanks (i was only on 69%) sorry wrong forum

[Rob.]

thanks you just helped me get to 89,4% of the game thanks (i was only on 69%) sorry wrong forum

......Thanks for the bump, i guess although it didn't really need it, Whilst i'm here im going to put all the hidden packages locations from the pinned topic here. Just so it's in 2 places now

[juan_salad]

Dont know if this has been posted but as in the other games you can store more than one vehicle in a one car garage by parking the vehicles close to the garage door, then insert the first vehicle, then insert the second. The trick is getting both cars as close to the garage door as possible.

 

This trick only works with a motorcycle and car or two motorcycles. I dont think you can fit two cars in those small garages.

[Black7]

Not sure if anyone posted this yet. But there's a way to get 70+ packages before opening up SSV:

 

 

In the Shooting the Messenger mission, head straight north after getting into the boat, do not approach the messenger to the south and do not go west into SSV before crossing under the bridge. Once past the bridge start heading NW towards the easternmost shoreline and ride along the shoreline until you see a package behind a billboard. Jump out and get it then back in the boat. Keep following the shoreline North and you'll see another package but you'll have to jump out a little before you get to it since the shoreline here is too steep. Then head due west. and follow the base of the grey ridgeline. You'll soon see a 3rd package. If you go any further inland the game will fail the mission and you'll be back on the Staunton side on the docks.

 

End result if you have all 69 packages that can be gotten before this point, you now have a laserscope sniper rifle spawning at your safehouse. I know it's only 2-3 missions before you unlock SSV anyway, but hey, it was fun to find you can do it.

[Extremecheese]

Just reading through the 'Side missions' bit, and I notice that under 'car salesman' it says that in order for the garage to start generating money, Level 5 needs to be completed - this is incorrect - it's Level 6

 

PS the upgraded dirt bike is called a 'Manchez'

[-Phoenix-]

 

This is about a Unique Jump:

 

In Portland, under Callahan Bridge, there's a ramp thing that you can use a vehicle to try to do a unique jump there, and I can't seem to complete the jump successfully, and most of the time I try to jump by the ramp, I keep landing on the train rails that goes around portland (the jump location is at South-West of Portland)

 

I'm at 96% right now, I need to do 1 more unique jump (the one above), 3 more hidden packages to find, I need to do the mission "PCJ Playground" in Staunton Island, but I can't find the parked PCJ 600 that triggers the mission. Does anyone knows where it is?

[Kippers]

On Slash TV do you only have to go up to level 5 for anything to be unlocked? Coz that's as far as you go on your cash reward thing on the front page. Or is it just one of those things you can just keep doing again and again and again without anything being unlocked?

[_-NaTe-_]

nvm i figured it out

Edited November 18, 2005 by _-NaTe-_