Badlands bridge barricade

[GTA_Loco]

Just wanna share this small thing if it isn't old news already. So if you do the mission Green Sabre til the point you save Sweet from a Balla ambush in Mulholland intersection by stepping on the marker, the bridge barricades leading to SF would be removed already. If you fail the mission then saved the game, the barricades would still be gone. You're still restricted from going there though, as you'll still earn 4 stars if you do so. Only question is, what benefit would this be if you can already access San Fierro by land but you're still restricted? Well this is just a curiousity for me.

[Mainland Marauder]

I didn't know the barricades remove normally when you do the mission.

 

If you swim over to Flint County or Las Venturas during the "Reuniting the Families" mission (see the link to pdescobar's guide in my sig) you won't get wanted stars. But the barricades will still be there.

 

For me on the PS2 v1.0 doing the *unlock everything* trick (doing the jetpack cheat during the final segment of the opening cutscenes, then letting it play out in entirety) removes the barricades, but you still get four stars for wandering across. You can do another cheat to freeze your wanted level if you like, or exploit one of the missions - your choice. This apparently doesn't remove the barriers on other versions, but it does for me...I swear it.

[pdescobar]

 

I didn't know the barricades remove normally when you do the mission.

It makes sense as the completion of that mission opens up the second island; it sounds like they simply removed them a little too early and/or forgot to put them back in the event of mission failure. I don't much see this as exploitable though. The barricades being gone helps you escape back to safety if you trespass on the second island since you can speed back to LS and ditch your wanted level at the Santa Maria safehouse or Pay & Spray instead of being forced to use the Jetmax. However, since you must already have done every other LS storyline mission to unlock Green Sabre, it's not really useful and is instead just a curiosity. Anything I need from SF at that point can wait one more mission until I'm free to go there.

[Mainland Marauder]

Nope, since you still get wanted stars it's not exploitable anyway. Loco is just saying that the barriers get lifted when you get to Sweet, not necessarily upon completion of the mission.

 

I guess you could use this to go and steal the Monster truck in the trailer park just across the Flint County bridge, respray it to clear the stars, then stash it in your Santa Maria garage. Of course this is a waste of time if you've passed 8-Track as a Monster truck will then spawn at the Los Santos Forum. Other than that it's not too useful as completing the mission will free up Flint County, Whetstone and San Fierro in every respect.