Kifflom112 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 As we already know there are going to be planes in the game, meaning that there are airports. My current confusion is that we only know about one main one, there's the airstrip in the desert as seen in trailer two, but the only other one is R*'s equivalent of LAX (LSX?) Will there be another big airport? What's the point of taking off, if to only land at the same airport? Discuss. Really who's going to land at an airport if at all. Bail bail bail, watches fiery explosion from high up in the clouds. I'll land at airports. I like to do real take offs and landings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTAV2011 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 As we already know there are going to be planes in the game, meaning that there are airports. My current confusion is that we only know about one main one, there's the airstrip in the desert as seen in trailer two, but the only other one is R*'s equivalent of LAX (LSX?) Will there be another big airport? What's the point of taking off, if to only land at the same airport? Discuss. Really who's going to land at an airport if at all. Bail bail bail, watches fiery explosion from high up in the clouds. I'll land at airports. I like to do real take offs and landings. Good luck trying to land at an airport in multiplayer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kifflom112 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 As we already know there are going to be planes in the game, meaning that there are airports. My current confusion is that we only know about one main one, there's the airstrip in the desert as seen in trailer two, but the only other one is R*'s equivalent of LAX (LSX?) Will there be another big airport? What's the point of taking off, if to only land at the same airport? Discuss. Really who's going to land at an airport if at all. Bail bail bail, watches fiery explosion from high up in the clouds. I'll land at airports. I like to do real take offs and landings. Good luck trying to land at an airport in multiplayer lol I'd probably get shot down before I'd even get to an airport, or light up by a fire mod. Off topic: I miss the good times when the worst trolling in MP were helicopter trolls who always bombed the other heli's. At least we could blow them up eventually. Those were the times when MP was fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durden Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Even if LAX was the only airport in the game (which it isn't, as there are at least a few others in the countryside), I don't see how it would be useless. Most of you are saying how much it will suck to only have 1 airport and that you will be dissapointed with R*. Are you using your brains? Parachutes. That's the key factor that most of you are forgetting. Whenever you need to land, not only can you just be creative and makeshift the road into an airstrip, but you can just jump out and parachute to your destination. This means that you must drive to the airport whenever you need to get somewhere quickly, and the planes act as a 1-time disposable use. I mean even if there were multiple airstrips in the city, why would you want/need them? Just drive or take a taxi to the LAX airport. Now let's be fools here and say my point hasn't already been proven. On top of all that, remember the countryside airstrips. So now not only are you going to get these disposable transportations (planes) from LAX, but also numerous places throughout the desert in such a fashion that you are never too far from an airport. I think the problem here is that people are thinking of planes as re-usable vehicles, when in reality they are meant to be disposable. Why fly a plane from airport A to airport B, and then having to exit the plane and drive to destination C which is midway between the two airports? Either way you are losing your plane, so parachutes give you the oppertunities to get to places much quicker. /factual rant /thread I think parachutes is pretty much a given. The point is people like the play the game normally as if they were just another pedestrian sometimes and only commit crimes when it is appropriate. And sometimes they dont care and just jump out of the plane as it flys off into the distance and blows up while they parachute down safely. Of course parachutes are confirmed, if that's what you were inferencing from my post. As for players wanting to act like pedestrians, can't they do that with one airport? I mean you don't need an airport every few miles, one airport is really all you will need in GTAV to act like a normal pedestrian. You can use the runways to fly to different runways, and from there you can drive. I don't see the issue with that. No thats silly. Whats the point of flying a plane just to land in the same airport? There'll be multiple runways, of course, just one main airport is what I was meaning. I reckon there'll be a big airport in LS, and then maybe an airstrip in the hills on the opposite side of LS or something. Its granted that we'll get several other airstrips in the deep wilderness area as well. With these in mind, why do we need another airstrip in LS? The LAX should be for entering/exiting the city, then from there you can either drive to your destination or fly to another airstrip, respectively. Oh you mean in different places, yeah sure. That makes sense. But yeah I said the same thing. Having two airports in LS would be silly. Its one city all it needs is one airport with several airstrips in that one airport. But yeah a few dirt road airstrips in the country side should suffice. But at the same time it may be a little lacklustre. Flying from city to city is cool. Flying from city to some dirt road in the middle of nowhere is less interesting. But Rockstar said theres just one city so I guess we just got to deal with it. The countryside isn't glamorous, my friend! We'll have to go to LAX for the fancy airport. The dirt strips would just be for landing, and for flying to LAX assuming they spawn cropdusters and such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoungChrist Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 As we already know there are going to be planes in the game, meaning that there are airports. My current confusion is that we only know about one main one, there's the airstrip in the desert as seen in trailer two, but the only other one is R*'s equivalent of LAX (LSX?) Will there be another big airport? What's the point of taking off, if to only land at the same airport? Discuss. Really who's going to land at an airport if at all. Bail bail bail, watches fiery explosion from high up in the clouds. Really, who's going to stop at red lights? Lets remove them too! Yeah, I hate that type of thinking. If Rockstar wants to make the game believable, then there should be several airports or atleast airstrips so that the planes dont feel out of place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikobomber Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 wow just thinking about landing/flying planes gets me excited as f*ck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Soldier Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 I just hope the airport isn't a location to automatically spawn in, in multiplayer. f*cking hated those kids that always had to have a Deathmatch in the airport, and then run for the helicopters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supercrammer Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Here is another reason no one should care about airports or runways, other than the perfect point previously made about parachutes. In GTA IV, how many have you actually landed your helicopter on a helipad???? How about never? You either hopped out or just crashed in the middle of the streets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilko007 Posted January 29, 2013 Author Share Posted January 29, 2013 Here is another reason no one should care about airports or runways, other than the perfect point previously made about parachutes. In GTA IV, how many have you actually landed your helicopter on a helipad???? How about never? You either hopped out or just crashed in the middle of the streets. Erm, i did? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NGC BemaR Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Me 2 And to the guy who said good luck landing in MP...this is my fear...what are us pilots going to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTCCoco Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 i would guess at there being 2 commercial airports and 1 military and probably 2 or 3 private strips like the one in the dersert This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supercrammer Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Here is another reason no one should care about airports or runways, other than the perfect point previously made about parachutes. In GTA IV, how many have you actually landed your helicopter on a helipad???? How about never? You either hopped out or just crashed in the middle of the streets. Erm, i did? I don't know. Did you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upyoustolemylungs Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Here is another reason no one should care about airports or runways, other than the perfect point previously made about parachutes. In GTA IV, how many have you actually landed your helicopter on a helipad???? How about never? You either hopped out or just crashed in the middle of the streets. Erm, i did? I don't know. Did you? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKDogg Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Just to add my own salt & pepper to it ... its amazing to think of the fact that the map must be so huge that really fast fighter jets are flyable. Look at the speed of the jet in the first trailer. This is big. Real big. I imagine 1 huge public airport in los santos ... and several scattered landstrips .... and I hope a military base. Perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Militant Llama Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Just to add my own salt & pepper to it ... its amazing to think of the fact that the map must be so huge that really fast fighter jets are flyable. Look at the speed of the jet in the first trailer. This is big. Real big. I imagine 1 huge public airport in los santos ... and several scattered landstrips .... and I hope a military base. Perfect. Yea I wonder if they will really surprise us with the size of the countryside when they show the next trailer or the map itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoungChrist Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Me 2 And to the guy who said good luck landing in MP...this is my fear...what are us pilots going to do? Its a pretty big map. I dont think people are going to be waiting at every single airstrip for you land. Secondly, the main point was landing at airstrips in singleplayer, not multiplayer. In multiplayer I think its more likely people will just parachute down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoungChrist Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Here is another reason no one should care about airports or runways, other than the perfect point previously made about parachutes. In GTA IV, how many have you actually landed your helicopter on a helipad???? How about never? You either hopped out or just crashed in the middle of the streets. Yeah, you're right. They should just take out helipads, traffic lights and the subway system while they're at it because nobody uses those anyways either. I swear to God its like you guys want Rockstar to make a less believable game. People want more airstrips because its cool to land a plane normally and act like you're actually in the game as opposed to jumping out in the middle of the sky every single time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chukkles Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Seriously I think there will be more than 1 airport. LA has 3-4 IRL so I'm sure there'll be at least 2 in the city and then another 2 small ones out in the countryside. But I'm still gonna land in the f*ckin street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTAV2011 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 As we already know there are going to be planes in the game, meaning that there are airports. My current confusion is that we only know about one main one, there's the airstrip in the desert as seen in trailer two, but the only other one is R*'s equivalent of LAX (LSX?) Will there be another big airport? What's the point of taking off, if to only land at the same airport? Discuss. Really who's going to land at an airport if at all. Bail bail bail, watches fiery explosion from high up in the clouds. I'll land at airports. I like to do real take offs and landings. Good luck trying to land at an airport in multiplayer lol I'd probably get shot down before I'd even get to an airport, or light up by a fire mod. Off topic: I miss the good times when the worst trolling in MP were helicopter trolls who always bombed the other heli's. At least we could blow them up eventually. Those were the times when MP was fun. Early in GTA V's life there shouldn't be many mods...hopefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NGC BemaR Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Me 2 And to the guy who said good luck landing in MP...this is my fear...what are us pilots going to do? Its a pretty big map. I dont think people are going to be waiting at every single airstrip for you land. Secondly, the main point was landing at airstrips in singleplayer, not multiplayer. In multiplayer I think its more likely people will just parachute down. Well my point is about flying on MP seeing as this is where I flew planes alot on San andreas MP! On IV i did not touch SP! So thats who I was addressing, my fellow MP pilots who enjoy flying on free mode! Probably not you...however I do agree with your point about r* making a believable game...traffic lights etc things that people seem useless ( like other airports ) or disregard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRN4L Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Commercial; Commuter; Private; Military. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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