GTA SA Special Vehicle Guide [2018]

[Ghost Pulaski 68]

8 hours ago, ChasingCoyote said:

probably seems obvious, but what are the chances that Tenpenny's cruiser is proofed in the missions Green Sabre or High Noon? just curious about that. but I don't have the means or know-how to check it.

Are these even vehicles? They might actually be cutscene models.

[ChasingCoyote 1,814]

AP-EC2 Admiral [You've Had Your Chips]

I had had a hard time switching from detonator to suitable gun and killing the driver in time to keep the AP properties, til I found this trick. do NOT detonate as soon as you exit the warehouse, instead go all the way to the freight containers where the AP-EC2 admiral will spawn. stay a bit to the right at the container. when you detonate here the admiral will spawn empty, and just sit there. you can get in and drive but it will lose its properties, instead, stand in front, aim at where the drivers head will be, and walk backward until the driver and passengers spawn inside and begins driving toward you. shoot the driver, then passengers, get in, drive to garage, suicide, and its yours.

On 7/25/2018 at 6:57 AM, Ghost Pulaski said:

Are these even vehicles? They might actually be cutscene models.

I'd have thought that until I began seeing vehicles like the AP infernus [Beat down on B-Dup] and EC Washington [You've had your Chips] not to mention the AP Sentinel [St Marks Bistro] all special vehicles only seen  in Cutscenes. 

[Ghost Pulaski 68]

17 hours ago, ChasingCoyote said:

I'd have thought that until I began seeing vehicles like the AP infernus [Beat down on B-Dup] and EC Washington [You've had your Chips] not to mention the AP Sentinel [St Marks Bistro] all special vehicles only seen  in Cutscenes. 

 

Yeah, but these vehicles are all used as a vehicle during the cutscenes (they drive away and don't have fancy door animations). The Police during The Green Sabre has fancy door animations and does not move.

[ChasingCoyote 1,814]

Two-Timing Scripts-Denise:

When Denise wants to do go for a drive, and does drie-by,is that a special date? I need to know before I inadvertantly disable the script by saving it...Logic tells me no, because there IS time for a jealous girlfriend to show up before you get home unlike She-Drive and Gimp dates...but I need to be sure, because R* logic is so often scewered. I couldn't find a clear answer by searching, so I asked here.

hope this is the proper place to ask.

 

edit:

interesting side notice: after dancing, don't take the time when it prompts for a kiss, the date is over soon as the dance is over, Michelle was already on me as I exited the club, no time to even get in my vehicle!  CAUGHT!

Edited August 3, 2018 by ChasingCoyote

[OrionSR 2,569]

Yes, the drive-by date is "special," but it doesn't necessarily end at her home sphere so a two-timing date can occur. The gimp suit and She-Drives dates don't allow any time for the jealousy date, which triggers 7 seconds into the return home phase of the date. Note that the 2 second fade in after exiting counts towards this timer.

[Ghost Pulaski 68]

8 hours ago, OrionSR said:

The gimp suit and She-Drives dates don't allow any time for the jealousy date.

These also do not disable the two-timing dates.

[Lennart - 372]

This RC Goblin looks really cool, thanks to Rhans for the no deaths method  which is longer but better for the stats than my old method. 
Some things that you might find helpful: 
When you want to get the timer going, you don't have to restart trucking after getting into the timed level's truck. Also, it is recommended to run over a few pedestrians to get a wanted level so the phone call will not interrupt the guy who shows you where the lowrider bet and dance takes place. If you kill him out of curiosity, this will softlock the cutscene, luckily only until you have killed one of the dancers .
When you pick up a plank, you can move forwards while holding the descend button. Moving sideways is not recommend but this should cut the time taken by a lot.

Edited August 4, 2018 by Lennart -

[rhans 439]

Good one Lennart! Yeah, holding an object is a good idea because its harder to spot a magnet than a magnet + object, but I didnt know if attected its movement, this is very interesting, does it descend faster? Also the controls are very different when CJ is on a vehicle and when he is not. When on vehicle the controls are as most know, just like a normal helicopter. If on foot however, walking forward with cj makes the Goblin move forward, and going backwards makes also go it backwards. Space ascend and LSHIFT descends just like a jetpack would. Q and E still can be used to rotate it like a normal helicopter.

 

Yeah, as Lennart said, the second trucking isnt needed. I start it twice because I can use any vehicle to go to the Lowrider minigame and will not be bound to a truck with a trailer. And I also use the wanted level trick to not get a call while talking to the man that start lowrider minigame, or I cancel the call by exiting my vehicle and entering it again, not to far and not to close to the guy (just a bit further enough than the distance needed for him to spawn), and quikcly start the minigame before the phone rings again. This is easier if to do if you use a faster vehicle, thats why I ditch the truck + trailer.

[Lennart - 372]

A way to get to Driving school after you have skipped the flight: I am talking about the keys that you have to press when you (not CJ) are facing north with the screen. Of course, you can't do that with the RC Goblin so you have to adjust the camera and use W. But this route works: You hold A for one minute and 35 seconds. You will be in a corner at the end of this walk. Then you press S for 43 or longer until you see the camera pick up. Go there and then press W for 3 seconds, A for 37 seconds. Now you walk north with W for a little longer than a minute and then you walk up the hill to hit the wall of the driving school yard with A for 10 seconds. Now you walk north-east with W and A until CJ doesn't walk into a wall anymore. Now you have to make him walk backwards with s until he hits a wall again. Now you only use A to hit the marker that leads into the Driving School interior.

Everything from here should be straight forward: you simply walk to VM, and then skip the cutscene. Now you only have to get to a safehouse (with empty garage) on foot and fly the Goblin there. The sound will tell you where it is. Fly it into your garage and close the garage. When you can change weapons again, and the Goblin hasn't been blown up, you have done all this successfully, congratulations.
The objects don't change the speed of the Goblin I'd say but the plank gives it a bigger surface which makes it almost impossible to hit the floor with the blades when you only press W. Sometimes, the Goblin still moves for a little bit so you better find a good location for the Goblin.

[Ghost Pulaski 68]

Any luck on the Sentinel yet?

[Lennart - 372]

I haven't obtained it yet

 

Have this video instead. In total, it took me 40 minutes & only two tries!

Edited August 5, 2018 by Lennart -

[rtyuijhggff 176]

 

[rtyuijhggff 176]

 

[Lennart - 372]

Nice videos, you were quicker than me I can't wait for the RC Tiger video though. 

[rtyuijhggff 176]

9 hours ago, Lennart - said:

I can't wait for the RC Tiger video though. 

rc tiger and uc2 sentinel i don't know when, 'cause they will be in my second save, so maybe someone else will record videos.

[AddictionToGaming 3]

Not sure if I'm colorblind but I can swear the Voodoo's colour (in Drive-Thru at least, haven't checked the one in the first mission) is different from the one (I tried them all) you usually obtain at a tuning shop. It has a slightly lighter shade (right side). Am I missing something?

 

[Lennart - 372]

The primary color can be obtained from the mod shops, but the secondary can't (without the conversions, of course) You most likely picked color 21, instead of 22. Color 22 is the Voodoo's color in Big Smoke and Drive-Thru.

Edited August 14, 2018 by Lennart -

[AddictionToGaming 3]

I did pic 22 though. 

(Drive-Thru vehicle on the left, Transfender Voodoo on the right)

It's not a lighting/angle issue.

Can the secondary colour (supposedly invisible/unavailable in this case) affect the whole car? Just like when applying unique vinyls on lowriders or sports cars (Sultan, Elegy, etc.) then changing the shade with a secondary colour.

Edited August 14, 2018 by AddictionToGaming

[Namaloom 3]

On 7/20/2018 at 9:54 PM, rtyuijhggff said:

 

i have done the same steps but no van falls from the sky for me.

I have done the same but there is no van falls from sky for me...

1. Setting up OM0 using bloodbowl ring

2. Activating the dialogue in gym

3. holding down call and travelling to LV

4. Pressing The Y for the Gym Dialogue to get off the flight.

5.Go to the zero's shop and activating the mission again

6. Mission is cancelled two times like in the video.

7. but no van fell from the sky.

 

What am i doing wrong?

[rtyuijhggff 176]

1 hour ago, Namaloom said:

7. but no van fell from the sky.

sometimes van falls on the roof or behind zero rc shop. you must hear an explosion.

[Namaloom 3]

13 hours ago, rtyuijhggff said:

sometimes van falls on the roof or behind zero rc shop. you must hear an explosion.

Still i dont hear any explosion waited long, and examined the whole block using rocketman but there is no van neither on roof or behind RC Shop. i bet i m doing exactly what is shown in video, maybe day and time matters?

[rtyuijhggff 176]

2 hours ago, Namaloom said:

Still i dont hear any explosion waited long, and examined the whole block using rocketman but there is no van neither on roof or behind RC Shop. i bet i m doing exactly what is shown in video, maybe day and time matters?

i think if you don't hear any explosion then the van has not exploded (sometimes it happens and then you can just sit and drive to the garage). how many attempts you do? i only once or twice have not seen topfun. maybe the van vanish, 'cause you look in the other direction. day and time doesn't matter.

[Namaloom 3]

20 minutes ago, rtyuijhggff said:

i think if you don't hear any explosion then the van has not exploded (sometimes it happens and then you can just sit and drive to the garage). how many attempts you do? i only once or twice have not seen topfun. maybe the van vanish, 'cause you look in the other direction. day and time doesn't matter.

i tried three times but not seen any van, and i look in the direction that is shown in the video, is pause buffering necessary? 

[rtyuijhggff 176]

20 minutes ago, Namaloom said:

i tried three times but not seen any van, and i look in the direction that is shown in the video, is pause buffering necessary? 

try more. i think you just unlucky. pause buffering is unnecessary. i used pause buffering, 'cause i thought it could help the van fall on the wheels.

[Namaloom 3]

5 hours ago, rtyuijhggff said:

try more. i think you just unlucky. pause buffering is unnecessary. i used pause buffering, 'cause i thought it could help the van fall on the wheels.

no man, it looks like i m missing something in the procedure, maybe those yellow and red blips on map in video have some role, i have tried 5 times in a row but still no luck with the van.

[rtyuijhggff 176]

2 hours ago, Namaloom said:

no man, it looks like i m missing something in the procedure, maybe those yellow and red blips on map in video have some role, i have tried 5 times in a row but still no luck with the van.

this blips on the map from another missions. i just used the save that i had at that moment. they have nothing to do with the van. can you record a video? i don't know what the problem you have with this.

[Namaloom 3]

11 hours ago, rtyuijhggff said:

this blips on the map from another missions. i just used the save that i had at that moment. they have nothing to do with the van. can you record a video? i don't know what the problem you have with this.

Here is my video 

 I noticed the difference, in your video the target van passes behind the RC Baron when you are approaching the Zero Shop after teleportation and a dialogue activates but in my video that van takes the other turn and not follows the same route like yours.

[rtyuijhggff 176]

try looking in the direction like in this video:

if it doesn't help load your save somewhere I will try.

[Namaloom 3]

4 hours ago, rtyuijhggff said:

try looking in the direction like in this video:

if it doesn't help load your save somewhere I will try.

looking in that direction also didnt help, heres my savefile, try it 

(google drive link deleted by me)

https://gtasnp.com/57XK4O

Edited August 16, 2018 by Namaloom
Proper channel for Savefile provided

[rtyuijhggff 176]

7 hours ago, Namaloom said:

heres my savefile, try it