passive mode is basically cheating

[Nutduster]

 

 

 

 

 

If you're going to keep playing a game that is clearly far too advanced for you, probably best you stop crying every time you see someone in passive. Might make it a bit more enjoyable for you. In the meantime, I'll keep using passive knowing how much it annoys you and your ilk and laughing my head off whilst I play. Peace!

 

 

I don't give one solitary f*ck about passive mode when people are using it correctly (that is, to be passive). I only get pissed when people slaughter half the lobby for ten minutes in a Lazer, crash or get shot down, and then go passive immediately. If this concept is too "advanced" for your tiny brain, maybe you should shut off your computer right now and stop talking to grown-ups who are capable of understanding ideas more complex than "PASSIVE MODE GOOD" or "PASSIVE MODE BAD." It can be both. It can be a decent feature that also has problems and needs improvements.

 

 

Go passive yourself and you won't be slaughtered or use some basic understanding of where players are to not put yourself in vunerable positions. It's hardly difficult to do in this extremely simple game. I'll use it how I see fit, I suggest you do the same as others clearly do or stick to private sessions.

 

 

I use passive myself when I want to be passive - when I want to sell cars or whatever and don't feel like fighting, or when I'm AFK. Or when a Lazer is going on strafing runs. I use passive mode and I have no problem with it in general. I DO have a problem with using it to win otherwise-fair fights or as a tool to protect griefers from consequences. If you don't see how using passive in this way is a huge pussy move, then you're an idiot, full stop. It needs to be fixed, it's easy to fix, and you have NO good argument against it.

[hugh750]

"Pussy mode"

 

Needs removing from the game entirely.

nope it needs to be fixed, and it's "passive mode not pussy mode".

[Charles_Lee_Raye]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We need a fleet of Wahmublances and a truck load of butt hurt cream quick stat!

 

Griefers crying about not being able to grief. Haha!

wut?

 

This thread is about griefers abusing passive mode, not griefers mad because they can't kill other players minding their own business. Reading comprehension, dude.

 

Is it? I thought it was about griefers crying that they can't grief anymore as are all the other cry baby threads about passive mode. Go play CoD with the other bottom feeders bro.

 

How about no? I'm gonna keep playing GTA because I bought it, because I feel like it, and because I don't care what you think for one second of my entire long life. You seem like a mouth-breather, "bro."

 

I don't grief players. I go out of my way not to, in fact - seldom kill any person more than once or twice in a row unless they keep coming after me. I still think passive mode has some problems, and the fact that you can turn it off one second after a massive tank or jet rampage is a big one.

 

If you're going to keep playing a game that is clearly far too advanced for you, probably best you stop crying every time you see someone in passive. Might make it a bit more enjoyable for you. In the meantime, I'll keep using passive knowing how much it annoys you and your ilk and laughing my head off whilst I play. Peace!

 

You'll do that because you're a troll. Just more proof how the passive system is truly the ultimate troll tool in the game.

 

It is obviously mostly used by players to enrage others, not be "passive". And the last line you wrote speaks volumes to that.

 

I still think rockstar knows how trolly it Is which is why they made it even worse on current gen. They constantly add troll tools like a lvl 1 heat seeking rpg more powerful than any other gun you unlock all the way to 120. They love to troll.

[rob602pa]

I have probably been killed by a tank like three times in a year and 300+ levels, you need to get better.

 

Just the other day a guy came at me in a tank so I went passive and I ran around him. He was killing people and decided he would kill me no matter what so I went up on a low ledge and behind a tree. Just enough where he thought he would be good enough to whack me with the barrel. But yea I am gonna brag, I am too good at moving for that and don't panic. He beat that barrel across that tree for at least 15 minutes. Tried jumping the tank up there, everything. I did not leave as I could feel his anger and wanting so bad to kill me but I would take one step on way or two the other. LMAO.

 

Someone else went passive and we both f'd with him until a third person blasted him with a launcher. Jazz hands or whatever that hand waving is work great to taunt.

[Neuling2000]

Passive mode is a tactic albiet a pussy tactic. I like passive mode because when im done having a freeroam war it means im done.

passive has a 1 mon cooldown and 10 seconds where u are vulnerable with no weapons.

You aren't vulnerable in the 10 seconds countdown since 1.16 or 1.17 on old gen. Deactivate passive, wait 10 seconds, kill you enemy. It's so annoying.

[Nutduster]

 

Passive mode is a tactic albiet a pussy tactic. I like passive mode because when im done having a freeroam war it means im done.

passive has a 1 mon cooldown and 10 seconds where u are vulnerable with no weapons.

You aren't vulnerable in the 10 seconds countdown since 1.16 or 1.17 on old gen. Deactivate passive, wait 10 seconds, kill you enemy. It's so annoying.

 

 

That's true on new gen as well. I wouldn't have a problem with it except that half the time the person in passive, who you don't know when they turned that off or when the 10 seconds will run out, was just killing you one minute ago. They flip it on as soon as you get them out of their jet or off that rooftop, and then flip it back off as soon as they think they can get another cheap kill because you got tired of aiming your gun at them.

[SnowCake]

 

I use passive mode everytime but i don't get out of it just to kill people, actually i use it because i don't want do kill people too.

http://1drv.ms/1BCrE9N

 

Fortunately i don't like to kill people, even if they killed me i prefer to get revenge in another way.

[CrysisAverted]

Griefing everyone in Jet, die, go passive, fly to Zancudo for another

or

die, join mission, leave, go steal another jet

or

about to get killed by another jet, go passive, wait till you get behind said jet, unpassive

 

 

Congratulations R* for giving bitches a way out

[bloatedsack]

At least you can see tanks now but srsly, R* needs to stop pandering to casuals

 

The worst thing about modern gaming is the concept of "casuals," in that if you're not a hardcore "gamer" you're not worthy.

[SeekingAsylum]

More of this passive mode is a problem thing, eh?

 

The main point is, passive mode will continue to be abused by players that use it as a combat tactic until tougher restrictions are put on it. I was just in a lobby yesterday and had someone hiding on top of one of the airport hangars set a bounty on me while I was just minding my own business in passive. I eventually managed to lure him off the roof, but he came down in a Buzzard... in passive mode.

 

Then stupid me thought it would be a good idea to run for a plane and get out of there as quickly as possible, but of course he got out of passive mode and caught me off guard. Yes, I wasn't happy, but this is more of a nuisance than a problem. That was the first player I've encountered that's ever used passive mode to get the upper hand.

[Furry_Monkey]

It needs to be fixed, it's easy to fix, and you have NO good argument against it.

 

 

There's a perfectly good argument against it. It's free roam. You're playing it competitively, but it's free roam.

 

Free.

 

Roam.

 

If this was happening in death-matches then I would personally fill in the support ticket for you and roast Rockstar by the nuts for that absolute travesty, but it's not. It's happening in the open sessions where people are free to do anything they like. Anything. Not "anything that you agree with" or "anything that you like". Anything.

 

Literally the only problem with it is that you don't like it, and that's no-one's problem but your own. Sorry, but that's the truth of it and you just have to accept it. Sh*t happens.

Edited January 16, 2015 by Furry_Monkey

[ugotsmoked]

Bitch and moan. Some players are better than you. Deal with it or get your skill level up.

[Misanthrope Z]

i love how passive mode seems to be a re-occuring issue on these forums though

 

it's like Ghandi came down from the heavens and started f*cking peoples' mothers

[alphaemperor9000]

LPT: If someone is using passive mode to gain an edge then put a bounty on them. If someone is coming up on your perch in passive mode go in passive yourself and wait them out. There is no advantage if you use the same tools.

Also soon as I see a tank icon I call Lester, go off the radar and take out the trash.

I love getting wall glitchers with passive mode, it's the best sh*t since sliced bread. Most of them are not smart enough to realize what I'm planning.

[Soran Is On]

passive mode cooldown should be 5 mins.

[Guest]

 

 

 

I use passive mode everytime but i don't get out of it just to kill people, actually i use it because i don't want do kill people too.

http://1drv.ms/1BCrE9N

 

Fortunately i don't like to kill people, even if they killed me i prefer to get revenge in another way.

Imagine the guy to your left is relatively ordinary looking guy, but to your right is a guy with an ironic moustache and leggings.

 

Imagine you saw them lying in rubble over to your left and right. Burnt, limbless, lifeless. They are equal in every way.

[FrugalDangerMan]

I only use passive mode when I want to do something quick like selling a car from my garage or travel someplace quick where exiting to single player and reloading a solo session then back again would be inconvenient.

 

I never use it to harass or gain an unfair advantage over other players. That's just dirty.

Edited January 16, 2015 by PNutterSammich

[8up local]

passive is not cheating it is a part of the game and sounds like someone knew how to use it and abuse it pissed you off is all. now wall breech glitches, glitch selling vehicles and god mode stuff and the like is cheating.

[hugh750]

passive is not cheating it is a part of the game and sounds like someone knew how to use it and abuse it pissed you off is all. now wall breech glitches, glitch selling vehicles and god mode stuff and the like is cheating.

wall breaching is cheating (i've been a victim more then once by wall breachers).

[gawel772]

 

It needs to be fixed, it's easy to fix, and you have NO good argument against it.

 

 

There's a perfectly good argument against it. It's free roam. You're playing it competitively, but it's free roam.

 

Free.

 

Roam.

 

If this was happening in death-matches then I would personally fill in the support ticket for you and roast Rockstar by the nuts for that absolute travesty, but it's not. It's happening in the open sessions where people are free to do anything they like. Anything. Not "anything that you agree with" or "anything that you like". Anything.

 

Literally the only problem with it is that you don't like it, and that's no-one's problem but your own. Sorry, but that's the truth of it and you just have to accept it. Sh*t happens.

 

I consider abusing passive mode as a cheating. If you call it Free Roam and you think that you can do anything in free roam, R should implement god mode, rapidfire RPG's etc.? You would answer me "because it is cheating". The same way I am answering to the fact of abusing passive mode "because it is a cheating".

Edited January 16, 2015 by gawel772

[ugotsmoked]

It is not cheating when EVERYONE can do it.

[Furry_Monkey]

 

 

It needs to be fixed, it's easy to fix, and you have NO good argument against it.

 

 

There's a perfectly good argument against it. It's free roam. You're playing it competitively, but it's free roam.

 

Free.

 

Roam.

 

If this was happening in death-matches then I would personally fill in the support ticket for you and roast Rockstar by the nuts for that absolute travesty, but it's not. It's happening in the open sessions where people are free to do anything they like. Anything. Not "anything that you agree with" or "anything that you like". Anything.

 

Literally the only problem with it is that you don't like it, and that's no-one's problem but your own. Sorry, but that's the truth of it and you just have to accept it. Sh*t happens.

 

I consider abusing passive mode as a cheating. If you call it Free Roam and you think that you can do anything in free roam, R should implement god mode, rapidfire RPG's etc.? You would answer me "because it is cheating". The same way I am answering to the fact of abusing passive mode "because it is a cheating".

 

 

I know you do - you've made that very clear. Just because you can do anything within the limits of free roam that does not mean god mode should be introduced. That is ridiculously flawed "logic". I have explained with clarity. Please try to do the same and not jump from one conclusion to another, otherwise it's obvious that you can't defend your way of thinking.

[gawel772]

 

 

 

It needs to be fixed, it's easy to fix, and you have NO good argument against it.

 

 

There's a perfectly good argument against it. It's free roam. You're playing it competitively, but it's free roam.

 

Free.

 

Roam.

 

If this was happening in death-matches then I would personally fill in the support ticket for you and roast Rockstar by the nuts for that absolute travesty, but it's not. It's happening in the open sessions where people are free to do anything they like. Anything. Not "anything that you agree with" or "anything that you like". Anything.

 

Literally the only problem with it is that you don't like it, and that's no-one's problem but your own. Sorry, but that's the truth of it and you just have to accept it. Sh*t happens.

 

I consider abusing passive mode as a cheating. If you call it Free Roam and you think that you can do anything in free roam, R should implement god mode, rapidfire RPG's etc.? You would answer me "because it is cheating". The same way I am answering to the fact of abusing passive mode "because it is a cheating".

 

 

I know you do - you've made that very clear. Just because you can do anything within the limits of free roam that does not mean god mode should be introduced. That is ridiculously flawed "logic". I have explained with clarity. Please try to do the same and not jump from one conclusion to another, otherwise it's obvious that you can't defend your way of thinking.

God mode shouldnt be implemented And also passive mode should have never been working the way it is, regardless everyone can use it. You should, as a thinking man, know what is within reason and what is not.

Edited January 16, 2015 by gawel772

[Furry_Monkey]

 

I know you do - you've made that very clear. Just because you can do anything within the limits of free roam that does not mean god mode should be introduced. That is ridiculously flawed "logic". I have explained with clarity. Please try to do the same and not jump from one conclusion to another, otherwise it's obvious that you can't defend your way of thinking.

And also passive mode should have never been working the way it is, regardless everyone can use it. You should, as a thinking man, know what is within a reason and what is not.

You're doing it again. Stop making assumption and pretending conclusions are fact.

 

I have explained over and over again why it is not wrong, and how it is simply some people not liking it. Your responses are "we should have god mode then" and "it should never have been like this".

 

You are not discussing this. You are ignoring my points and simply throwing flannel. Stop talking like a small child and explain something with the clarity that is required for others to understand you, as I have done.

Edited January 16, 2015 by Andreas
Removed quote train.

[Nutduster]

 

It needs to be fixed, it's easy to fix, and you have NO good argument against it.

 

 

There's a perfectly good argument against it. It's free roam. You're playing it competitively, but it's free roam.

 

Free.

 

Roam.

 

If this was happening in death-matches then I would personally fill in the support ticket for you and roast Rockstar by the nuts for that absolute travesty, but it's not. It's happening in the open sessions where people are free to do anything they like. Anything. Not "anything that you agree with" or "anything that you like". Anything.

 

Literally the only problem with it is that you don't like it, and that's no-one's problem but your own. Sorry, but that's the truth of it and you just have to accept it. Sh*t happens.

 

 

No, I don't have any obligation to accept it. It's perfectly within my rights to dislike it, talk about it here, and email Rockstar about it. Seems so obvious I can't believe I have to explain that fact - but this is what we're reduced to.

 

Now, do you see the problem with your argument? "Free" roam could be used to justify literally any broken-ass game mechanic or exploitable loophole there is. "Don't like wall breachers? Well who cares, it's free roam!" "Don't like the new infinite ammo nuclear bomb weapon? Well who cares, it's FREE ROAM!" This is a stupid and piss-poor response to legitimate problems in the game. Essentially you're saying that any and all balance problems, exploitable mechanics, and abusable game features are fine as they are, because hey... free roam. But the rest of the community and Rockstar take a different view. That's why the tank got nerfed, and thank god it did. And the new gen passive mode could benefit from a similar improvement.

 

I don't want them to take away passive or make free roam more like a deathmatch. I just want the game to offer cowards fewer escape hatches from their own actions. If you are the kind of player that is going to always turn free roam into a death match, then the game should have the decency to oblige you to play it like one. But if you want to just drive around and goof off, that's what passive mode should be for - and I believe that's what it was intended to be for. They just didn't fully think it through.

Edited January 16, 2015 by Nutduster

[Furry_Monkey]

No, I don't have any obligation to accept it. It's perfectly within my rights to dislike it, talk about it here, and email Rockstar about it. Seems so obvious I can't believe I have to explain that fact - but this is what we're reduced to.

 

Now, do you see the problem with your argument? "Free" roam could be used to justify literally any broken-ass game mechanic or exploitable loophole there is. "Don't like wall breachers? Well who cares, it's free roam!" "Don't like the new infinite ammo nuclear bomb weapon? Well who cares, it's FREE ROAM!" This is a stupid and piss-poor response to legitimate problems in the game.

 

I don't want them to take away passive or make free roam more like a deathmatch. I just want the game to offer cowards fewer escape hatches from their own actions. If you are the kind of player that going to turn free roam into a death match, then the game should have the decency to oblige you to play it like one. But if you want to just drive around and goof off, that's what passive mode should be for - and I believe that's what it was intended to be for. They just didn't fully think it through.

The part in bold is correct. I am glad you finally agree with me.

Edited January 16, 2015 by Andreas
Removed quote train.

[gawel772]

 

And also passive mode should have never been working the way it is, regardless everyone can use it. You should, as a thinking man, know what is within a reason and what is not.

You're doing it again. Stop making assumption and pretending conclusions are fact.

 

I have explained over and over again why it is not wrong, and how it is simply some people not liking it. Your responses are "we should have god mode then" and "it should never have been like this".

 

You are not discussing this. You are ignoring my points and simply throwing flannel. Stop talking like a small child and explain something with the clarity that is required for others to understand you, as I have done.

I was ironic about implementing god mode. Actually Nutduster explained everything. Hey it is free roam I can use God mode, accept it or leave a session!! - this is a style of your thinking Furry Monkey

Edited January 16, 2015 by Andreas
Removed quote train.

[Shootinalloveryourface]

I went AFK rolling a fatty and some guy killed my sexy girl character 5 times. I stickied him once in revenge and he text me saying "you're gonna die now" so I went passive

 

 

Dat ok wit you nut buster?

[Nutduster]

 

 

 

 

No, I don't have any obligation to accept it. It's perfectly within my rights to dislike it, talk about it here, and email Rockstar about it. Seems so obvious I can't believe I have to explain that fact - but this is what we're reduced to.

 

Now, do you see the problem with your argument? "Free" roam could be used to justify literally any broken-ass game mechanic or exploitable loophole there is. "Don't like wall breachers? Well who cares, it's free roam!" "Don't like the new infinite ammo nuclear bomb weapon? Well who cares, it's FREE ROAM!" This is a stupid and piss-poor response to legitimate problems in the game.

 

I don't want them to take away passive or make free roam more like a deathmatch. I just want the game to offer cowards fewer escape hatches from their own actions. If you are the kind of player that going to turn free roam into a death match, then the game should have the decency to oblige you to play it like one. But if you want to just drive around and goof off, that's what passive mode should be for - and I believe that's what it was intended to be for. They just didn't fully think it through.

 

 

The part in bold is correct. I am glad you finally agree with me.

 

 

Troll response, and wasn't worth my time to read.

 

It disappoints me greatly what a small portion of this community is willing to break down and really discuss issues with the game, and instead chooses to just troll and try to win rhetorical points so they can feel a little bit bigger. I don't care about winning the argument. I care about the game, and improving it.

Edited January 16, 2015 by Nutduster

[ugotsmoked]

Play your game. I will play mine.