The GTA V Secrets and Mysteries Hunt

[auntjeff]

Would love to see all the red x-s that have been found, but I'm sure I've seen a LOT of them, far more than are on the mural...?

I'm trying to tag all of the X's using http://gta5map.glokon.org/

 

There are a ton of X's red, huge black ones that don't cross out anything..etc. If considering that we are literally supposed to find the right X's to progress further, I would expect that there would be an abundance of them, for the sake of screwing up an easy orientation of matching the mural. I think it would be too easy any other way....but if you really wanted them to be significant, difficult to decipher and regarded or dismissed as commonplace, throw a sh*tload of them around.

 

Would it be too much of a reach to expect to see X's, like the ones we are seeing, pop up places besides the city? Besides some logo type X's, I am having difficulty placing any that I can remember that are in areas like Paleto Bay, Sandy Shores..etc. I realize most if not all of the tags we see are in the city due to the gang activity...but something bothers me about not seeing much in the way of X's beyond the confines of the city area.

 

It is one of those tedious tasks and requires a significant amount of time to compile known and unknown X's. .....we know though, that to reach 100% the game requires us to complete very tedious, time consuming tasks. Spaceship parts/stunt jumps/under the bridge/knife flights..etc.

 

Some of my thinking, that revolves around the idea of putting something that can be dismissed as a common recurring visual, that actually could be significant, is that it is work in a certain respect. Before you're even halfway through collecting spaceship parts, I think that almost everyone has been in the position of feeling like they have moved beyond fun into tedious work. The 3rd time I collected parts and did knife flights etc...I was audibly cursing the game...more than the first time. If it was not for the 100%...I would not even bother collecting or completing some of these things. I would apply the same feeling to a thorough collection of all the X's. Why bother and who would even want to put forth the effort for it? Perfect.

 

So, I guess to put all my thoughts together and just spit it out...I would be of the mindset right now that, due to the effort involved in documenting all the instances of X's, the fact that you don't need to do this to complete any actual game requirement and that it can be something easily dismissed as immersion or common...suggests that maybe there is something more to consider when looking at X's.

 

Would it be accurate to also consider, that after putting so much time into collecting spaceship parts, only to get a space docker that you seemingly can't do anything with, that this would imprint a sort of attitude or expectation of letdown when considering documenting or collection of other things? I really expected something more from the Docker...but still, seems we can't really do anything with it. Maybe that's the point.

 

Also, consider how long this takes. There's probably only a few of us that would seriously consider scouring the entire game world documenting all of the instances of X's. If someone has done all of them, I haven't seen it yet. ...and why would anyone...they are so common. If there is a reward for anything or even just another easter egg to see...consider all the crap we had to do to get 100% in addition to the 3am rain, to see what we have seen so far. Would it not be fair to consider that there would possibly be more things that could be just as tedious if not more so in order to unlock or progress on solving the mural? Maybe...thanks for reading.

[WillyDope]

I hate to say it but starting to think the entire mystery just went unfinished...

[XMarqstheSpot]

Why would one mission with two ways to complete it also have X's(Red) in the layouts you find them on the Mural. One side for each way to complete, left or right, both have either the left or right side layout with Red X's.

 

If you guys are looking for X's then I would suggest replaying "The Merryweather Heist"

 

 

 

Sink the boat option you find the Right side of the mural laid out with X's by the ship underwater.

 

Ocean Floor option has an X with the Left side of the mural represented, including the line attached that disappears to the bottom left, unfinished seemingly.

 

Both layouts are right by the weapon you pick up. In fact when M finds the weapon and a cut scene happens the weapon actually moves location next to the hole in the boat, and right next to a Red X.

 

Looking for X's, i'm your man.

 

EDIT: this isn't metaphoric or symbolic either. anyone can go do this mission and see the Red X's, with or w/out 100%, etc, etc.

 

EDIT 2: IMHO, it would seem to suggest two different rewards for two different ways of completing the mission and then fulfilling the other steps that lead you from the bottom of the Mural to the top, and your reward/prize/gift, but who really knows.

 

I feel that if you see the UFO atop Chiliad and receive nothing from it and/or nothing triggers then you didn't meet the requirements(yet?) I mean, it tells you to come back after your story is complete, not to show up and start a mystery adventure.

Edited April 20, 2015 by XMarqstheSpot

[GTAMilik]

What if the secret weApon from the merryweather heist is the jetpack. Where DID we leave it?

[WillyDope]

What if the secret weApon from the merryweather heist is the jetpack. Where DID we leave it?

didnt Lestert set up for merryweather to take it back? so either that or Lester has it stored somewhere.... maybe check around his known lockups?

[MTBB47]

From the site Xmarks posted about the colour purple. Interesting to say the least....

 

Purple is the color of good judgment. It is the color of people seeking spiritual fulfillment. It is said if you surround yourself with purple you will have peace of mind. Purple is a good color to use in meditation.

Purple has been used to symbolize magic and mystery, as well as royalty. Being the combination of red and blue, the warmest and coolest colors, purple is believed to be the ideal color. Most children love the color purple. Purple is the color most favored by artists. Thursday's color is purple.

 

Auntj: I have always had that thought about it being a long tedious task, what ever we have to do. I took on the taxi missions (did about 75-100 one night hoping for Npc's to say something or trigger something but nothing) in the earlier days of the hunt for this reason. IMHO it seams like all GTA's have a tedious task or 5 to do to complete the game. Yes we had to walk 10 miles, we had to collect spaceship parts, letter scraps, waste in the sub but none of these, to me, seamed as tedious as the shoot all pigeons or rats in previous games. Good luck with the x's, after the mention of the merryweather heist i might reply that tonight just to refresh, and will have a hunt around paleto for x's and report back :-)

Edited April 20, 2015 by MTBB47

[auntjeff]

Yeah, I was looking a bit ago around different areas and found very little in regard to X's outside the city that would be considered graffiti.

 

I just don't feel the X thing has been beat to death yet or exhausted. The only way, to me, to ultimately be able to say yes or no, is to document them all until it makes me nuts and try every orientation. It's just one of those things for me, where I am going to wonder about it until I just do it. Only after that will I be satisfied that there is nothing, since I can't say truthfully or accurately that there isn't something until I test and fail at it.

 

That's where I get hung up though...and distracted by other things. All i'm focused on right now are the X's outside of missions that are available to document in free play. Once that is all done and returns no results, i'll move on to missions as suggested above. At the moment though I am using tunnel vision and not overwhelming myself with Xtra possibilities.

[XMarqstheSpot]

Apparently I posted this in the wrong thread earlier, oops. sorry file hunt guys.

 

Anyways I was wondering if it was possible to have all 3 protag's atop Chiliad to see the UFO at the same time W/OUT THE GAME FREEZING? Seems like a coding error that should have been fixed by now, but I wonder if it has been?

 

All I remember is that when people tried to do this everybody's game always froze. If someone has accomplished this w/out a freeze then I am not aware, so please let me know if it has been done.

 

 

I used to try and put a character on the platform to get the UFO to spawn, then have another in a helicopter off in the distance behind the UFO, slowly getting closer and closer while switching back and forth to judge distance form the UFO by the platform character... But it never worked as the game would always freeze when the helicopter got too close to the UFO, which is weird I think because you can get as close as you want to the other UFO's.

 

I don't know, just some random thoughts.

[Eram]

Weird video from spliffpanda, Hippies on top die when the silo's valve is shot:

 

 

Glitch, trigger?...

From http://www.reddit.com/r/chiliadmystery/comments/33gx8s/alien_silo_hippie_instant_deaths/

 

Regarding the Merryweather Heist's Xs that Xmarqs referred to, here they are:

 

Happy Hunt!

Edited April 22, 2015 by EramVerdes

[XMarqstheSpot]

Eram, you rock!

 

My PC keeps freezing on me so i'm nowhere close to the Heist mission yet, going to be a long, tedious grind of almost finishing missions and freezing right before I can save... ugh

 

 

FIRST: Just wanted to say that any of this idea is just purely coincidental at this time since that's all I can attribute it too currently.

 

Anyways, what I wanted to point out with that particular X is that when looking from the right angle it follows the path of the bottom left X on the Mural. Down, Left, Down, disappears. Except on the underwater X the line re-emerges from underneath the sand.

 

The other Heist option actually has THREE of those giant red X structures made of debris in the layout of the right side of the mural. No lines attaching them though.

 

So close of matches that it could be something, but at the same time so far away that it's seems coincidental ATM.

 

 

 

More of an explanation on the other X's... After the boat gets sunk you swim in with M and when he gets close to the weapon a cut scene happens. Cut scene moves the weapon from the ocean floor to right next to the hole in the boat, and right next to another X, pretty much on top of it.

 

The X by the weapon is the furthest right X on the mural and if you put the boat to your right side(as if you were looking at the Mural) then the other 2 X's won't be hard to find, They are both in the containers somewhere iirc, one a little more towards the front of the boat and one a little more towards the center, aligned straight to one another, slightly off to the left of the first X, just as the mural shows.

 

Hope that makes sense, just swim around and you should find them by the containers.

 

 

anyways, it seems like there could be something to it, but probably just coincidental, right?

 

 

EDIT: you know what, looking at those pics makes me think it doesn't match the Mural. Seems there is an extra kink in the line before it disappears and reappears to the other X than the Mural actually has.

 

Mural goes down, left, down, gone.

Underwater goes down, left, down, left, gone...?

 

Eram, thanks for taking the time, really appreciate it.

Edited April 23, 2015 by XMarqstheSpot

[XMarqstheSpot]

Something totally new to float around to your brains, no theory, just going to point out something and question what, if anything, it could mean...

 

 

The Beach Structure: Started as just the inner support structure when GTAV was first released on X360/PS3. The structure was changed in the first update to it's current self(iirc), and this was also after the UFO's had all been found. The structure was never changed back to the original inner support beam version when the next two versions were re-released, Current-Gen and PC respectively.

 

But, why would they change it back? the UFO's haven't been Unfound, so it wouldn't make sense. That structure, for all intents and purposes, is complete it would seem. Does that mean the UFO/Chiliad hunt is also complete?

 

 

The OTHER Beach Structure: The little "Sun Dial" looking one next to the giant structure mentioned above, it's not a Sun Dial because it's not aligned properly to be one and never will be used for that purpose in the game. What I see is another unfinished structure, the inner support beam of a smaller, more compact piece of work. It is unfinished, if we assume that it is apart of an "Art" display(or something like) and goes with the larger structure by it then we can also assume that there might be another smaller mystery somewhere to be found out still?

 

Is the Chiliad Mystery just a big distraction from another mystery/goal to be achieved, just as the Big structure distracts from the little one and casts it in it's very large shadow?

 

 

 

something I have been wanting to get off my chest since Current-Gen dropped and I saw the Structure didn't revert back.

 

 

 

EDIT: completely different, but didn't want to make another post... the chiliad Spider Web, it doesn't show up in the Video Editor Was trying to make a video for the code guys to see what I was asking about, but it just doesn't show up.

Edited April 23, 2015 by XMarqstheSpot

[Vertighost]

Something small I found, probably noted before...This is Online and most probably a glitch, the other textures like it on the tunnels nearby are round with no point at the top and do not glow in the dark, this one is shaped with a point at the top that could seem to be a sort of arrow.

[auntjeff]

I will be concentrating on chickens for a bit and the chains that use them. Noticed there are 3 cluckin bell spots and 2 bishops and since you can't do sh*t with restaurants, might as well map em. ....probably nothing but I have often wanted to be able to say something like this regarding a video game. ...gonna go focus on some chicken. peace.

[paulmgrath]

@xmarqs i think one of the beach constructs were changed due to copyright/legal reasons iirc

 

edit. was reading reddit link eram posted and there was a link back to a old gtaf thread there there was a link to what space docker means...... people actually do that lol wtf?! and wait for it to freeze crazy world man.

Edited April 24, 2015 by paulmgrath

[CanOdope]

2 Bishop's? Is there a chicken restaurant by that name IG? The only Bishop's I was aware of was Bishop's WTF! =/

 

I wonder if they're tied together somehow...

[auntjeff]

Yeah, there's two, only in gta v I guess.

 

Davis Avenue, Davis, Los Santos.

Tataviam Truckstop, Tataviam Mountains, Los Santos County.

[CanOdope]

Interesting... I wonder if those can somehow be tied to Bishop's WTF!

[auntjeff]

I don't really see any match up though w/ mural...but my thinking was along the lines of the cock on the mountain, egg..etc. Wondering if it was as simple as mapping all the chicken places...but they seem to spread out once you go beyond the city...kinda. I happened upon the little shack of Cluckin Bell....

 

 

...and was like, wtf! Why does it look like that? Then I just knew it was telling me to map all the chicken restaurants! lol. It is an odd choice for structure though, if you like to mess with people looking for red X's. That's what got me started on chicken today. Doesn't look as promising from this angle.

 

edit...hmm, seems I forgot about the two Lucky Plucker locations...gonna go sharpen the axe for a bit. Will update later with my failures.

Edited April 25, 2015 by auntjeff

[CanOdope]

Does that sign say "The Chop"???

 

Nvm, it says "The Coop"...

Edited April 25, 2015 by CanOdope

[auntjeff]

Here are the plots of Cluckin Bell, Bishop's and Lucky Plucker.

 

 

http://imgur.com/WprT2Pc

 

 

I don't see much at a glance. ...I see I left my marker for the V. Beach Sundial, sorry. I don't know though, that stupid Cluckin Bell hut with the toasty X crossbeams and trim. Maybe I should find things that seem unique and in common with the pictures on the mural. Find 2 unique areas with a theme somehow referencing egg and ufo. Find 3 unique areas with a theme somehow referencing egg and jetpack. Visit each location after this time? In this weather....no.

 

Maybe time for me to move away from chickens...i'll give it a few more tries, then on to the next thing, between tagging the x's.

[XMarqstheSpot]

@paulmgrath... Interesting about the copyright change. I'm going to look into that because that would lift a weight off my mind. Thanks for the information.

 

FIRST: what's this cluckin bell stuff, could someone explain please? I don't understand how they correlate to Red X'S, what am I missing?

 

SECOND: the UFO's, who has them?

 

ARMY:1

FIB : 2

IAA : 0

 

Hadn't see anyone break it down this way yet and it just popped into my head. If there is anything more to find I would think it's time to find what the IAA are hiding. That would be who I would look into.

[Vertighost]

The Top couple of floors of part of the Cluckin' Bell factory has enterable windows, rooms, some containing boxes and on multiple floors/tiers, Many windows, One half open, unable to get inside?

 

Sorry I can't look into it more in depth myself at the moment but since the comments on Cluckin' Bell it made me think of those windows as mural boxes, plus the multi-storey aspect of the interiors enterable through windows.

[Gavavva]

After seeing the new video of the damaged Observatory (Shoot for the stars), I had another look at the map... And low and behold, I saw this. It would place the UFO at the Prison (or possibly air field, but prison would make more sense as its not used really). It would have the jetpack at the army base, which would also make sense... But also, it would have the egg at the church... The church that's just there, detailed as hell, but never actually bothered with... The church. All about life... Would be where the egg is.

 

How would the red X's match up, well, I haven't got that far yet

 

Thoughts?

 

 

[XMarqstheSpot]

Video of Damaged Observatory? please do explain

[razmat]

what people been sayin looks like the all seeing eye on the top of the cable car mural, looks to me like that red blinking light on top of the cable car station. the mural has the blinking marks by it and is red and at night that blinking red light is visible from quite a ways.the way the mural is , it looks almost like in a couple spots there could be entrances into the mountain in some places.

Edited April 25, 2015 by razmat

[razmat]

did rockstar ever say there was actually something to the mystery? it could be that we're all reading far more into this than actually is and on a wild goose chase.

[Fran_Halen]

@auntjeff: I'm not sure if it fits in with your chicken study or not, but Maude wears a Bishop's Chicken shirt.

Edited April 25, 2015 by Fran_Halen

[xGeoThumbs]

I found this dog visiting a grave on Reddit:

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/33rvvw/playing_gta_v_and_get_hit_with_sudden_feels/

 

So I decided to check this out myself on console (X1) to see if this was not on PC with a trainer.

And it definately is legit. The dog spawns around 12 AM and always visits the same grave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rKzgB63MVQ

 

Since R* North is based in Edinburgh it is most likely a reference to this story:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby

 

 

Soon... http://i.imgur.com/Dnq2pLM.gifv

Edited April 25, 2015 by xGeoThumbs

[GTAMilik]

Does somebody know a site where i can add locations to a map, to check some things?

[xGeoThumbs]

Does somebody know a site where i can add locations to a map, to check some things?

 

This one maybe, although adding location has been disabled for the time being because of spammers.

http://gta-5-map.com/