Beat The Cock/Minor Discovery

[Krawk]

Having searched the forum and found nothing I decided to post this discovery here;

 

The Beat The Cock challenges you can pretty much forget winning the swimming part of it but I discovered something today that changes this. I started the one near Fisher's Lagoon on Gametime Sunday Night about 10:30pm and as usual, before I entered the 2nd marker I was 8th place out of 9, the strangest thing happened though when Monday kicked in, all the contestants were frozen in place and I passed all of them, I got to the landfall point and was 1st place. I looked back and they were all quite a ways back. Amazing but not a big deal, anyone that's completed this challenge knows CJ bikes and runs faster than everyone else, but if you must win all 3 parts of it, this is a way to do it.

Perhaps this glitch in time has to do with the fact that this challenge is not played during the week, only Sat/Sun, so what happens when the clock switches to Monday?

 

Starting this challenge also appears to cancel bad weather, but unlike the schools trick how do you exactly end the challenge?

 

 

[Ryan]

Starting this challenge also appears to cancel bad weather, but unlike the schools trick how do you exactly end the challenge?

There is no real way to end it. When your supposed to get on the bike, if you get on, and then get off, you get the message saying you have 30 seconds to return to the bike or your disqualified. Other then that though, I don't think there is any real way to end it.

 

You could always just load up a new game as well.

[lil weasel]

There's no prize for each leg, so it shouldn't matter.

If you have gotten the Infinate Sprint (do burglary missions) you can beat each leg with no problem.

And leave them all behind on the final legs to Win easily.

[Krawk]

If you have gotten the Infinate Sprint you can beat each leg with no problem.

 

I am one of those that likes to finish everything before entering the first marker, I have infinite sprint usually second thing in the game (first thing would be buying a safehouse).

I have even tried putting the controller in turbo mode to tap sprint and that doesn't work either as far as winning the swimming leg.

[GTA_Loco]

 

Perhaps this glitch in time has to do with the fact that this challenge is not played during the week, only Sat/Sun, so what happens when the clock switches to Monday?

The challenge is supposed to proceed in its normal course until it is terminated one way or another.

 

Unless an activity is strictly timed, like most of the side missions, it shouldn't affect the whole game if the task extends over the succeeding time line.

[Pooka Mustard]

Might be a cool glitch.. But some people do it the skill way..

 

Doesn't matter, I have the infinite sprint, and this challenge is no harder than doing shooting (and a dogfight) missions...

 

I've completed the Santa Maria Triathlon, and I won this challenge in the first time I play it yesterday !

Edited January 7, 2010 by Diego "DM" Mendez