10 Activities to Do When Bored

[Docfaustino]

Bolded is what I had the most fun doing. Thanks for all the suggestions.

 

1. Push people into the train tracks by locking on and walking into them. No stars are given.

 

2. Kill people by pushing them into corners. Lock onto a ped and push them into a corner. They will take damage, and eventually fall over and die.

 

3. Collect cars at your different safehouses. Make a theme for each safehouse, for example, luxury cars, sports cars, SUV's, muscle cars, bikes, and find one in the color you would like. Challenging and rewarding.

 

4. Get innocent peds arrested. Smash their windows with baseball bats and get them to punch you as a cop walks by. The cop will arrest them, or they will resist and die.

 

5. Fight at bars. In the Steinway Beer Garden, you can kill as many pedestrians as you want as long as you use melee weapons and don't let anyone escape.

 

6. Ride down the train tracks. If you have a fast enough vehicle and drive at top speed, the game will stop rendering certain parts of track, and it will turn to a blank gray sheet of color with no texture until you slow down. Also provides a way to drive as fast as you want.

 

7. Kill criminals. Hunt for any criminals the police are trying to track down, and execute them. This gives you 2 stars though.

 

8. Drive up the airport building. On certain parts of the airport building the walls curve inwards, making it possible to ride or flip up them on a light bike (ex. Sanchez) or fast bike (ex. PCJ). This is a great place to stunt.

 

9. Stunt onto cars. Use stairs, curbs, people, or whatever to land. You can practice control this way. Bonus points if you land inside a pickup truck.

 

10. Take on the bouncers at the strip club. You have to use a melee weapon as to not attract police. It's a challenge as they will outnumber you. For more fun (or frustration possibly) bring a friend with you and defend them as they try to take both of you on.

 

11. Find all the enterable buildings. This is a difficult task, but very fun. There are like 6 in

Schottler alone.

 

12. Find all swing glitch locations. There are at least three in the Firefly Island/Hove Beach Area, and more throughout every borough. thanks, Starlon

 

13.Explore Charge Island. Seriously. I found both assault rifles, tons of graffiti, armor, and a first aid kit inside one warehouse. It's a bit reminiscent of old GTA, or I think it is. Check it out.

 

14.Climb! Find a tall car, and set it against a wall if you need a boost to get started. From there you can leap onto signposts, hang from bars, or climb ladders. See how high you can make it. Once you're high up, you get a good view of the city, and can look for more spots to climb to.

 

15. Listen to phone conversations. Peds will often pull out a phone and talk to a friend, and their conversations can be interesting. You'll be surprised at what they might say sometimes, and actually see their personality. If you bump into them they'll drop their phone however.

 

16. Balance on top of cars. Hop on a car and crouch down, and watch the driver flip out to get you off. This will get you a star on a cop car however. See how long you can stay on. It's actually challenging.

 

17. Go car hopping. This is similar to number 16, but takes slightly more skill and good timing. Jump on car in a trafficked area. The car will back up and move forward repeatedly to try to knock you off. When they near another car, leap on. Repeat and count how many jumps you got.

 

18. Snipe tires. Heli or climb up to a tall building on a clear day (foggy days reduce draw distance). Snipe only tires, and see how much havoc you can create.

 

19. Legally kill cops. Grab a sturdy car and push other vehicles into the cops. You won't get any stars, and as far as I have tested, the driver of the vehicle being pushed won't either.

 

20. Hospital Rampage. Block the doors of the Schottler hospital with vehicles, eliminate everyone, and take cover behind a desk. The cops shouldn't be able to get in, so you can just keep shooting them while they can't move.

 

21. In Hove Beach, anger the peds, and you will probably get chased by any russian mafia, head to the beach, run around the hobo fires, and see if you can catch them on fire and steal their money. Thanks, TonyClifton

 

22. Get the Infernus (or possibly another low car) and find a Patriot. Drive into it head on, and you should be able to drive under it because of the difference in height. Thanks, duffman12

 

23. Grab a phantom near a warehouse or something similar. When you crash it, it will feel like knocking over regular pedestrians, it's so powerful. Try on a highway, and flip over cars and completely destroy them effortlessly. thanks, Hydro-PT

 

23: Go off-roading. Find an ideal car (Rancher, LandStalker, Patriot, possibly Cavalcade) and head over to an offroading spot. The edges of Broker, Charge Island, and any rocky or hilly area are ideal.

 

25. Subway rampage with assistance. Call dwayne for backup, and shootout a subway. With backup and plenty of places for cover, this should be easy, and there are first aid kits everywhere. Thanks, Timpo

 

26.* Car bomb traffic jams. Setup a car bomb in front of a choke point, and when there are many cars, detonate it. Eventually drivers will move up and light on fire one after another, and will cause a chain reaction. thanks, madman_mars.

 

27. Grab a friend or girlfriend. Take them to a shady area like a warehouse, or under a bridge in the slums. Throw them out of the car and shoot them dead.

 

28. Go 'nade jumping. To do this, first use the cheat to spawn health, armor, and weapons. If you need to jump vertically, drop a grenade, and stand back farther towards the roof you want to reach. If done right, you should fly upwards and back and land where you were aiming. If you need to jump horizontally, drop a 'nade near the edge of a building, wait a few seconds, and leap. If done right, the explosion should propel you farther so you can grab on.

 

29. Buoy sniping. Swim out to a buoy and climb up, or stand on a dock or harbor if you can't get to one. Wait for a boat to pass, and snipe the driver out. Occasionally if you miss the driver will jump out themselves. This is one of the best ways to practice sniping because it is so difficult.

 

30. One of the best ways to appreciate the Euphoria engine is through attacing benches. Seriously. Take a baseball bat and beat down a wooden bench, and see how many pieces you can break it into. Alternatively, take a bike and ram it. Surprisingly fun.

 

31. Bike sideways. Take a bike (Freeway or other choppers work best,) and drive it down a tunnel. The highway in North Bohan works best. If you accelerate fully and steer correctly you can ride the bike while sticking to the wall.

 

32. Grab a boat using the steps in number 29 or otherwise. A Dinghy or Jetmax works best. When you hit a wave, pull back, and push forward when you start to fall. If you can repeat this your boat will fall farther back each time and you will start to jump. If you can get your boat almost vertical when you pull back you can jump about 10 feet.

 

33. Subway Surfing. Car surfing may be gone for the most part, but subway surfing works much better. If you can run facing the direction the subway is moving when it starts to accelerate, you can actually run for a while. If you have good control, spawn a bike so on top of the train or in a way where you can land it on. Use the handbrake to stop the wheels, and whne the train starts, start riding slowly forwards. As the train gets faster, you get faster. If you have good control, you can keep this going for a long time.

 

34. Rob stores. In Broker you can rob the Russian Shop, [email protected] cafe, and laundromat. In Dukes you can rob the another laundromat, and in Algonquin you can rob the [email protected] cafe and Modo. Pick a good getaway vehicle, and map out your route. You may not make much money, but its tons of fun.

 

35. Enjoy the scenery. Liberty City is a beautiful place, although with everything you are forced to do, it is sometime hard to realize this. Find your favorite spots around the city and just chill and watch the people, or climb up on a small building and just look aroud.

 

36. Spawn Jetmaxes from your phone menu. They will fall from the sky unlike cars. They're fairly heavy, walk after cars and try to crush them this way.

 

37. BMX. Head over to the BMX ramps at the meat quarter. Spawn/get a bike (Sanchez or NRG/PCJ are probably best), and do some flips and stunts. Thanks, Bonesy

 

38. Whip Cars with your Heli. This is kind of obvious, but really never gets old. Spawn an Annihilator somewhere. Works best at a beach, specifically Firefly Island. The cops will probably start showing up. Something cool about this is that its a great way to practice control if you take out vehicles using just the rotor.

 

39. Explore the outskirts of the boroughs. These are the docks and industrial areas for the most part, but many of these are almost completely unexplored, and being very undeveloped, a lot of these areas are actually filled with grass. This is ideal for offroading, and sometimes there is some good stuff like armor around here. Because its so isolated around these areas, you can get away with shanking a bunch of hobos, and its hard for the cops to get to you.

 

 

*untested by me

 

Will edit more in later. How can I change the title by the way?

Edited March 29, 2009 by Pedochu

[Starion]

12. Swing Glitch.

[OverTheBelow]

13. push pedestrian into low chain railings and watch them trip over backwards XD (one of these railings near the swingset glitch in broker)

[Captain_Obvis456]

How about throw a molotov at the peds and watch them burn. See how many you can catch fire at once. Usually only 1 but I did 3 a few times. Still trying for more.

[TonyClifton]

...go down to Hove Beach and annoy the population there. You will easily get chased by several (probably Russian mafia) guys. Lead them on to the beach and run around the oil drum fire further along on the left hand side (which the hobos use to warm themselves). If you are nifty enough, your chasers will set themselves on fire and you can pick up their money. SICK!!

[duffman12]

Get an Infernus and drive around really fast, and when you find a Patriot around, go straight for it and because its so high / you're so low, you can drive underneath it and flick it in the air, great fun!

[vivo]

Get a chopper and fly on top of a skyscraper. When you're there stand on edge and spawn jetmax. Then get on the boat and it will fall down. Try to land on some vehicle(s). This procedure is known as skyboating

[Hullkaru5]

1.Go to the skateboard and BMX ramps found in the southeast of alqonguin. Jump off a skyscraper with your bike and perform as many tricks as you can.

 

2.Go to helitours and get 3-4 star wanted level. Steal the Maverick and wait for the police choppers to arrive. Ram them with your Maverick. You can also spawn an Annihiliator with code and shoot the choppers down.

 

3.Try to land on Statue of Happiness jumping out of the chopper. Very challengive indeed

[Hydro_PT]

1. Teletransport to Rotterdam Tower, spawn a car and then watch the funny look of the car after it hits the ground at full speed. You can be inside, you won't lose any health unless you hit with the front first.

 

2. Spawn a Phantom and then use the speed boost on the bridges to destroy a bunch of cars... it's amazing. The Phantom is a very heavy truck, and with that extra speed you can wreck everything on your way.

[AceMustDie]

Get in a taxi and enter the spawn jetmax cheat while he drives.

 

Spawn the boat continuously onto a car until your hearts extent

[Haze Bx]

Roll with Brucie and scope the bitches. Lmfao.

[reform]

Find peds that are sitting on the walls at the side of harbours/docks etc. (The Meat Quatwer is good)

 

Walking toward the peds that are sat there and repeatedly pressing push until they fall backwars into the sea.

 

I can do it aaaalll day.

[Samcharles]

Punch cars at stoplight to get the drivers to fist fight with you. For extra fun run around other peds to try to make the driver punch a ped. If this happens they will start fighting each other and you can watch. If the driver wins the fight they will start fighting you again after.

 

Bump into peds walking up a set of stairs and usually they will tumble down the stairs. Sometimes they will hang on the railing instead. This usually gets you in trouble if a cop is nearby especially if the ped dies. With really crowded stairs you can play "ped bowling".

Edited March 5, 2009 by Samcharles

[Timpo]

take some of Dwayne's backup with you, or don't, and start a big shootout in a subway station. there's everlasting health packages in every station, so you can last very long. also fun to shoot all the cops at the stair entrance, and when their bodies pile up to a big pile, light them with a molotov. they will keep on burning. when a burning body goes out, it gets lighted up again by another burning body. I had shootouts that lasted for hours. the north park station is perfect for it, since it has one entrance which is very easy to defend.

[Gomez]

where are the other swingset glitches? I only know of the one in dukes.

[madman_mars]

Get a car bomb from Packie. Park the bomb-equipped car at a choke point, blocking traffic until a large amount of cars back up. Hit Detonate! Eventually the drivers in the rear of the pack get impatient and move closer to the cars that were blown up by the initial blast. They soon catch fire, and explode. Had a chain reaction like this go on for 10 minutes.

 

There's no wanted level if you use Packie's bomb.

 

The best places are at the end of bridges, like the Northwood Heights Bridge on the Bohan side.

[Gomez]

Get a car bomb from Packie. Park the bomb-equipped car at a choke point, blocking traffic until a large amount of cars back up. Hit Detonate! Eventually the drivers in the rear of the pack get impatient and move closer to the cars that were blown up by the initial blast. They soon catch fire, and explode. Had a chain reaction like this go on for 10 minutes.

 

There's no wanted level if you use Packie's bomb.

 

The best places are at the end of bridges, like the Northwood Heights Bridge on the Bohan side.

will that give you the Chain Reaction Achievement? I got mine the old-fashioned way with an RPG.

[Docfaustino]

Updated a lot. Any new ideas?

[JasonThummel]

Blow up money trucks.

[El_Santo]

Try and turn your car blood red the hard way. then try and make it blow up by ONLY hitting the peds. its ok to use the cop cheat, thus u dont take bullet damage

[OabAli]

Blow up money trucks.

Yah, I like doin that.

 

Whenever I see a Gruppe Sechs van drive by, I instantly jack it, drive to an open, secluded area, like in the middle of Hove Beach, throw a grenade at it for it to blow up, and collect the moolah that comes out of it.

 

Expect a 2-star wanted level to appear though - that's why you should go to an open, secluded area.

 

I think there's over $2000 or something.

[fatlittlenick]

Have some fun in a chopper by whipping its blades across cars and watching them tumble and fly through the air. Doesn't really work on heavyer vehicles like vans & trucks, but getting taxis and other '2 and 4 door' cars airbore in a pinch.

Heaps of fun, escpecially if you manage to blow-up cars by doing this.

[SIKKS66]

Spawn an Annihilator (or hijack a chopper), fly it to the top of a flat topped skyscraper and then spawn a sanchez. You can do some crazy ass flips and spins while you're falling. Make sure you wear a helmet though! That drop kinda hurts...

 

I like taking Dwaynes boys into one of the enterable hospital and burning everyone inside with molotovs. When the cops show up you can have some fun gun battles.

[Docfaustino]

Updated a lot.

[Illousion]

This is a great list.

[The 7th Number]

Collecting cars would be nice if they didnt disappear. Really today i stored a car at one of my safehouses, and one hour later its gone. I also tried to set up like 6+ bikes in front of TLAD clubhouse and they all disappeared except for the usual 3. Rockstar really needs to fix that stuff from happening.

[Lethal Nizzle]

The building where you either kill/save Ivan is a great spot for free-running. Climb up to the crane and jump the gap and land on the apartments, and keep going forward. Pretty surprising!

[bonesy]

Great topic and here is something fun : go to the pier at Westminster/the Meat Quarter,Search for the BMX ramps,spawn a bike and try to do as many backflips:p.