Seeing other characters around city

[WhenBradCalls]

Don't think it's been cleary stated whether or not you will see the 2 other characters wondering around the city while you are in control of one in free roam. I know they've said that they continue their own lives, but could we actually run into them in the city? And perhaps interact with them?

[Josh410]

Possibly

[_L1pE_]

Chances are very good.

[WhenBradCalls]

It's be pretty cool, in my opinion. Imagine being in a cop chase using Trevor and going through the hood to see Franklin, and maybe even having him and some of his buddies shoot at the cops or something.

[AKalashnikov]

This is one of the things I really wanted to find out, chances are it's possible. Using all 3 in a confrontation with the cops would be awesome. Using just one protagonist in IV and running to different health/armour spawns you could keep a 6 star wanted level indefinitely. Easy to imagine how much carnage you could inflict with 3 guys with partially regenerating health.

[WhenBradCalls]

I agree. I also think it'd be really cool if you were just able to do activities together, similar to friend activites in GTA IV.

[Beardless]

The helping out during a cop chase/confrontation probably won't happen, I dimly recall that we won't be able to switch charachters when the cops are after us... Would've been nice though

[ZuParadox]

I have a feeling this wont happen - i reckon the character will just remain hidden when we're not controlling them and then when we switch they will spawn somewhere in the city doing an activity...

 

Otherwise the game is constantly going to have to track each character and their movement

[aaronimpact]

Remember in GTA San Andreas your other girlfriends would harass you if you were dating someone else?

[FredFive]

I was wondering about this in another thread http://www.gtaforums.com/index.php?showtopic=559693&hl=

 

If the different characters are making their way home, when we switch away from them. In theory it should be possible to accidentally run one of them over. But of course, this shouldn't be possible as it would prevent the storyline from progressing.

 

So I guess character's are just spawning to one of their random scripted routines when switching back to them.

[MrcTOtheJ]

The helping out during a cop chase/confrontation probably won't happen, I dimly recall that we won't be able to switch charachters when the cops are after us... Would've been nice though

I think that if the protags are/get involved in the same chase and are near by for it you should be able to swap like it's a mission.

 

There was another topic earlier today where I was theorizeing this could happen. They've loosely mentioned that we could find them out and about as when in an interview with one of the Devs (It wasn't one of the Housers, it was the other high up person I forget his name, Lesile something) said that if you're Trever you can say swap to Michael and see him with his Wife Shoping, and then you could swap back and go save him so to speak.

 

Also you should be able to call the others, so it'd be nice if during a chase you could call one of the others and then they show up and give you some back up and the ability to switch to them, or all three if you call both of the other two.

 

May not happen but I hope it does as all three of them at once could make for some awesome mayham.

[Fuzzknuckles]

I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be possible.

 

I've been really wondering whether or not you'll be able to call the other protags up and have them come meet you, so you could potentially have all three in the same car, etc, in free roam.

 

From what I've read so far about having to hire a crew for jobs, I'm assuming that there's some level of squad tactics, where you have a few people follow you around and do what you ask them to, kinda like an extension of the Grove hoods you could have follow you in SA, or the Lost members following you in TL&D.

 

If this isn't possible, that's a massive oversight.

[Rick88]

This was kind of talked about in USA Today's article of GTA V:

 

 

 

The scene, which occurs about a third of the way through and is just one of many heists players attempt to pull off, shows how players will get to control all three of the main characters, a first in a Rockstar game. And the characters won't be sitting idle when they aren't on screen, says Rockstar North president The Benz. "The player might switch to Michael as he's shopping with his wife, or to Trevor as he's being chased by the cops, or Franklin as he's chilling in front of the TV. The player might then take Franklin out to rescue Michael from the shops and go for a drink, or help Trevor deal with the cops."

 

source

 

If something like that truly is persistent in the game, then it will be amazing to see what kind of shenanigans this protags get into.

 

[Rjeev142]

I agree. I also think it'd be really cool if you were just able to do activities together, similar to friend activites in GTA IV.

You can. At least Michael can hang out with Franklin.

[Rios44]

I don't see why we wouldn't be able to

[meowstache]

i recall reading you cant harm the other two characters... If its true, then wont affect the storyline since you cant kill them on purpose like in RDR. Maybe its possible have them killed indirectly, and have them respawn at the nearest hospital. Either way wont have an effect on the stoyline.

 

But if you encounter another character there has to be a way to interact with him, otherwise it would be awkward to walk near other character and be like they dont know each other

[27ade]

Why don't you update this topic every 10 days. So the countdown will go from 100 to 90 to 80 to 70 to 60...... till 10 days left.

 

My fav moment of the wait was the gameinformer info in oct 2012. That kinda kicked off GTA V marketing campaign.

[gtamann123]

Disregard what i said.

[Zulu412]

Why don't you update this topic every 10 days. So the countdown will go from 100 to 90 to 80 to 70 to 60...... till 10 days left.

 

My fav moment of the wait was the gameinformer info in oct 2012. That kinda kicked off GTA V marketing campaign.

wrong topic man? you looking for the 100 Days Left topic? it's down the street on the left.

Have a juice box for your troubles.

[The Unknown Man]

Otherwise the game is constantly going to have to track each character and their movement

So? It's nothing more complicated than any other random AI people, they will just probably have some more scripted thing to do than normal AI. Like normal random people = walk, sit in bench, go to bus, walk etc. and they just script the other characters to do some of "their things", like for Trevor, drink beer, shoot random things, drive some motorcycle around etc.

[brucie_suckyou]

On a side note I'd love to bump into the support cast of npc's

While roaming. Traditionally in gta games these characters vanish when not

On a mission or in a cutscenes.

 

Imagine robbing a bank and mikes wife is standing in the queue,

Or mike sees his daughter in a shop blowing loads of cash, and you can tell her to

Go easy. Lol.

[SirJohnnyStark]

On a side note I'd love to bump into the support cast of npc's

While roaming. Traditionally in gta games these characters vanish when not

On a mission or in a cutscenes.

 

Imagine robbing a bank and mikes wife is standing in the queue,

Or mike sees his daughter in a shop blowing loads of cash, and you can tell her to

Go easy. Lol.

its already confirmed that you will see Michaels family hanging arount in their mansion outside of missions... you might be able to interact and do some activities, like hanging around with Jimmy, or playing tennis with Amanda... who knows...

but it would be definetely funnyer encounter them in different spots through out the city...