Some of the Contrived Heist Storylines

[Curtis]

i don't get the deal with dlc cars. i mean in online you see merryweather using insurgents and all those new cars but then in story mode their only vehicle is a mesa and buzzard.

[SkynetOnlineID]

I pity a fool

[Shadowfennekin]

i don't get the deal with dlc cars. i mean in online you see merryweather using insurgents and all those new cars but then in story mode their only vehicle is a mesa and buzzard.

And the Lost with their Slamvans.

[DaltonWilliams123]

i don't get the deal with dlc cars. i mean in online you see merryweather using insurgents and all those new cars but then in story mode their only vehicle is a mesa and buzzard.

 

I am guessing with all the problems our characters caused with them, Merryweather decided to retire them. We also steal them when they are being tested, could mean that they weren't fully in service and Merryweather didnt think they were viable or something. With the Lost slaamvans, I think they just updated to the Gnag Burrito as the Slamvan was older and its performance was worse. These are my thoughts. I can't explain the Rat trucks/ Rat loaders though.

[FiVEOHFiVE]

Has anyone else noticed how some of the mission storylines make little to no sense. They just seem to be twisted in a way which makes you complete a mission using a specific method.

 

For example the prison break bus story. Apparently you have to get a real prison bus because buying any old bus and painting it would be too expensive. Much cheaper to hire 4 guys, arm them with guns and send them on a murderous rampage.

 

Also the bikes on Pacific Heist. According to Lester we can't use helicopters because they can't turn fast enough. So instead we use bike with the turning circle of a small ship and realistically no prospect of ever escaping a helicopter.

 

What other storylines bother you?

 

Just curious, did you see my thread about the prison break heist recently? I'm getting the feeling that that's where you got the idea for this thread.

[OBeef619]

Steal a Barracks

Hop in the back for 1 tiny briefcase you could of grabbed and all drove in the Insurgant safely

 

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[Niko the awesome]

Laughing my ass off.

[hotrats773]

 

 

You can't examine it. In the Pacific Standard heist, you have to steal a large, slow cumbersome vehicle and keep it safe... in order to get a little box out of it at the end. THREE TIMES.

The transponder is a high tech piece of equipement and it is too difficult for us to get it out ourselves, so we have to take the whole van and bring it to lester's warehouse. But on arrival the woman just cuts it out with a knife in just a second. Yeah, that's something we would never be able to do...

 

Haha. It's not even hidden, either.

 

If you're in the back of the van in first-person view when it's driving back to Lester's, you can clearly see it above the back door.

 

 

 

Also, this black box is an integral part of the heist. Decoding it can mean the difference between success or failure. This is why after cutting it down she tosses it at you like a used shop rag.

[Mangled Crow]

somethings bug me during the series a heist, why do The Lost MC use Lost Slamvans when in Story Mode they use Gang Burritos? i know that in the beta for GTA V, the Slamvan was already meant to be in the game, because police scanner audio files confirmed it before festive surprise and the heists update was even released, perhaps meant to be used by lost or they possibly changed plans to release it in heists, by the way, notice how the Vapid Lost Slamvan doesn't look completed judging by interior and other stuff.

[MatthewH]

Steal a Barracks

Hop in the back for 1 tiny briefcase you could of grabbed and all drove in the Insurgant safely

 

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The reason for that could be to cover your characters tracks. If you just took the thermal charges and left the truck and everything else by the roadside what would happen if merryweather found the truck, looked through the inventory and found the thermal charges were the only items missing? It would surely alert them that the convoy was attacked by more than just a gang of weapons runners.

Edited June 5, 2015 by MatthewH

[BlueSocks]

As if every other plot ever has made complete sense and didn't have another more sensible and consistent or easy approach to it. Yeah, how about we change it so that they just steal a bus and paint it and then pay a couple prison guards 20k (more than they're making anyway) and completely remove the heists to begin with, since those approaches are far more sensible and even cheaper than hiring some no name mutes who happen to be swimming in the money already to buy multi hundred thousand dollar apartments.

 

Heists would've been better if they did that, then we wouldn't have them, we wouldn't have to deal with such sh*t stories since they'd take the sensible approach and paint a school bus and pay off some prison guards to take care of it. Hell, they could probably just throw a couple hundred grand at the government, whether the organized one or just a corrupt sect, to make it go away anyway, much cheaper than hiring the mute sociopaths we are.

[BarryRiley]

 

Has anyone else noticed how some of the mission storylines make little to no sense. They just seem to be twisted in a way which makes you complete a mission using a specific method.

 

For example the prison break bus story. Apparently you have to get a real prison bus because buying any old bus and painting it would be too expensive. Much cheaper to hire 4 guys, arm them with guns and send them on a murderous rampage.

 

Also the bikes on Pacific Heist. According to Lester we can't use helicopters because they can't turn fast enough. So instead we use bike with the turning circle of a small ship and realistically no prospect of ever escaping a helicopter.

 

What other storylines bother you?

Just curious, did you see my thread about the prison break heist recently? I'm getting the feeling that that's where you got the idea for this thread.

No I didn't. Don't worry. No one has stolen your intellectual property

[GR Choke]

Life makes no sense, kid. Neither this game.

 

/thread

Life aint nothing but bitches and money

[TovarishTony]

I wonder how much the prison bus will actually cost at Los Santos Customs since the potential take on hard is 500k