Things you didn't know about GTAO until now

[Standard Deluxe 59]

My character lost his hand in this picture

[ten-a-penny]

1. Many players don't know this: You can end calls by pausing the game. Even calls that you can't hang up on your own will be cancelled this way. No more annoying English Dave!

 

2. Dunno if this is common knowledge or not, but I'll list it anyway: On the PS4, while in a vehicle you can change the radio and "weapon wheel" thru the Interactive Button(??? The equivalent of the Select Button). Swiping right or left will change the weapons, up and down change the radio. The former also works on foot. Swiping down will pull or put whichever weapon you switched over last. Swiping up doesn't do anything unless you're aiming (uses whichever Thrown weapon you have equipped). Discovered this the hard way; my controller is apparently broken and the swipe/Interactive "button" half the time "swipes" on it's own either to the left or the right. Lost count of how many times I got killed because the sh*tty thing magically swapped my weapon on its own while I'm having a fight with somebody.

 

3. This is probably known, but I'll just spit it out: Changing sessions will prevent the game from making you "pay the bills". As soon as you see the notification for paying your Mechanic/housing bills/Bunker/whatever, change sessions. You will prevent the "taxes" this way.

Edited August 14, 2019 by ten-a-penny
Added more stuff

[kcole4001]

4 hours ago, ten-a-penny said:

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3. This is probably known, but I'll just spit it out: Changing sessions will prevent the game from making you "pay the bills". As soon as you see the notification for paying your Mechanic/housing bills/Bunker/whatever, change sessions. You will prevent the "taxes" this way.

You can also do a number of things to accomplish the same effect:

Running a Contact Mission or race works.

Also playing darts at the bar in Sandy Shores resets the daily fee timer, it was one of my daily objectives last night, so I found that out much to my surprise.

Anything that takes you out of freeroam and afterwards loads you back in will reset the session timer.

[ViktorKath]

When doing the Ms Baker's mission when you need to intimidate a judge, if you let him escape in his car the Ramp Buggy can't flip the judge's car, even a Phantom Wedge is useless

[suicidal_banana]

1 minute ago, ViktorKath said:

When doing the Ms Baker's mission when you need to intimidate a judge, if you let him escape in his car the Ramp Buggy can't flip the judge's car, even a Phantom Wedge is useless

This bothers me, up-n-atomizer also did nothing at all.

[ViktorKath]

6 hours ago, ten-a-penny said:

1. Many players don't know this: You can end calls by pausing the game. Even calls that you can't hang up on your own will be cancelled this way. No more annoying English Dave!

Ms Baker still talking despite pause menu

[Thehunteroftruth]

5 hours ago, ViktorKath said:

When doing the Ms Baker's mission when you need to intimidate a judge, if you let him escape in his car the Ramp Buggy can't flip the judge's car, even a Phantom Wedge is useless

That makes no f*cking sense! Free roam missions shouldn't be limited like that

[Gridl0k]

Don't suppose you can steal that car and bring it out and the magic ability persists?

[AcidRain7744]

They must have changed the sell cool downs. After I sold like 10 personal vehicles in a row I got the message they don't need anymore cars. Limit used to be 1 per game day.

[rollschuh2282]

50 minutes ago, AcidXRain73 said:

They must have changed the sell cool downs. After I sold like 10 personal vehicles in a row I got the message they don't need anymore cars. Limit used to be 1 per game day.

personal vehicles aren´t affected by that limit.

only street vehicles...

if you got that message trying to sell a personal vehicle, then you got maybe hit with the repeat offender...

[ViktorKath]

5 hours ago, Gridl0k said:

Don't suppose you can steal that car and bring it out and the magic ability persists?

At this moment I have not tested that point, will be great to know.

[HopalongCasidy]

I recently learned that in the Deluxo setup mission, while waiting on people to finish hacking the boats and then take the most mind-numbingly frustrating route to the airport, you can drive around the airport sidewalk running over pedestrians and you will not get a drop of blood on your car.  Useful, I know.  

[AcidRain7744]

3 hours ago, rollschuh2282 said:

personal vehicles aren´t affected by that limit.

only street vehicles...

if you got that message trying to sell a personal vehicle, then you got maybe hit with the repeat offender...

Took a while for that to sink in. You know what, there was one sand king in the group that I didn't buy. I bet that was the one that triggered the message.

Edited August 15, 2019 by AcidXRain73

[MaddenedGhost]

4 hours ago, rollschuh2282 said:

personal vehicles aren´t affected by that limit.

only street vehicles...

if you got that message trying to sell a personal vehicle, then you got maybe hit with the repeat offender...

Which is the stupidest thing that Rockstar has ever came up with, a system that doesn't differentiate between legit sellers and duplicators.

Yeah lets just treat everyone as a cheater.

[OzakiLeona]

34 minutes ago, Maddened_Ghost said:

Which is the stupidest thing that Rockstar has ever came up with, a system that doesn't differentiate between legit sellers and duplicators.

Yeah lets just treat everyone as a cheater.

Without even explaining the mechanism properly, any warning, or showing how you stand anywhere in the game.

[RaigeGames]

11 hours ago, Gridl0k said:

Don't suppose you can steal that car and bring it out and the magic ability persists?

Unfortunately the car is locked 

[Gridl0k]

In the Casino and Penthouse etc, but nowhere else, with the alternate control scheme instead of holding L3 (thumb) to run, you click it once.

 

Why rockstar why. Everywhere or nowhere.

 

eta - OK, facility too. So probably a few more. But why.

Edited August 16, 2019 by Gridl0k

[Verstappen]

If you're lucky you are able to throw your gas station eCola into one of the stocked shelves instead of on the ground.

[Taterman]

4 hours ago, Verstappen said:

If you're lucky you are able to throw your gas station eCola into one of the stocked shelves instead of on the ground.

I used to drink them standing right in front of the Assistant's desk. The empties usually roll off but sometimes you can leave a few on her desk.

[MistGoose]

When you're walking in the mud you're sinking in, and walking slower. There's even a different walking animation..

 

[MaddenedGhost]

6 hours ago, MistGoose said:

When you're walking in the mud you're sinking in, and walking slower. There's even a different walking animation..

 

Haha did you just discover that?

You sometimes get this in the sand on the beach.

[whywontyoulisten]

4 hours ago, Maddened_Ghost said:

Haha did you just discover that?

You sometimes get this in the sand on the beach.

Also in the desert, miles from any water.

[rollschuh2282]

12 minutes ago, whywontyoulisten said:

Also in the desert, miles from any water.

swamp like area south of fort zancudo.

and in north yankton

[Gridl0k]

1 hour ago, whywontyoulisten said:

Also in the desert, miles from any water.

This is the Los Santos desert though, which gets a good soaking every 2 or 3 days.

 

I mean technically yes deserts are literally defined as getting less than 10in a year but why let that stop your design team.

[MaddenedGhost]

2 hours ago, rollschuh2282 said:

swamp like area south of fort zancudo.

and in north yankton

Lmao north Yankton one are the best, one step you're stumbling around while doing the animation, next one you're falling through the non-solid texture

[Non Funkable Token]

Bought chips count as gambling earnings in Social Club.

 

Whatever.

[Verstappen]

^So that's why my betting in SC went from 5k to 1.7m.

[DentureDynamite]

While in the middle of a gang attack in Strawberry a few days ago, one of the gang members was wounded after stepping on one of the dead gang member's shotguns (which went off, hitting him). lol

 

Pretty funny to watch. Been playing for about five years, and until now, I wasn't sure if those dropped guns were just "all bark and no bite."

 

So although it's rare, yes, they can bite.

Edited August 19, 2019 by DentureDynamite

[FuturePastNow]

You can also be hurt by the dropped gun going off, though it's very rare. It can also alert enemies on a stealth mission.

[DentureDynamite]

^^ I have yet to verify whether it can aggro any passive LSPD in the area, but I suspect the answer is "yes."

 

...doesn't take much to aggro the LSPD--especially in recent days (seem to have been given a noticeable buff by R*).

Edited August 19, 2019 by DentureDynamite