Did Rockstar ruin Import/Export?

[justinlynch3]

9 hours ago, pez2k said:

I've also had issues with the hook disappearing from a PV Cargobob when landing it on the helipad and coming back out.

 

Don't go anywhere near the car - there's always somewhere nearby that you can snipe from, and at long range the car won't take any monetary damage even if you miss the driver. You'll know you've got him when you get 3 stars - lose them, then approach the car, let the cops drive off, pick it up, and call Lester to get rid of another 3 stars. It takes a minute or two longer than the easy missions, but can still be done trivially with no damage, even without a Cargobob.

 

There's only 3 locations for this one so they're easy to learn, and the heli will always be static over the car until you get near if you need a confirmation it's this mission.

That's good to know.

[hispls]

On 8/2/2018 at 2:23 PM, Gravity Cat said:

Yeah I just got it today. Had to go to Fort Zancodo to get a cargobob, only to realize there were about five aimbot NPCs shooting at me before I flew off. Then I had to get to the boat thing on the water to fight even more aimbotters only to hook the car and get killed multiple times by, what seemed to be, never ending waves of buzzards in groups of two.

 

Horrible mission, nearly on par with the one where you have to get a car from a joyrider whilst having two police cruisers and a heli chasing it down and crashing into it.

Both are terrible.  I managed to do the one where you have to hook up off the ship without taking any damage once (snipe the hostiles from shore then try to outrun the pursuing buzzards through the wind farm and city buildings where they will crash) just to prove to myself I could.  Now I just blow the car up or change sessions if I see either of them.  Not worth the time and frustration.  Oh, and it's only 4 waves of the aimbot buzzards, but the worst thing is if you try to stop to deal with them they don't just come at you, they appear right on top of you.  An added bonus is that often they'll hover over the car so when you shoot them down they'll land on it and catch it on fire. 

 

23 hours ago, pez2k said:

 

Don't go anywhere near the car - there's always somewhere nearby that you can snipe from, and at long range the car won't take any monetary damage even if you miss the driver.

So the car is just sitting still until you get near?   Worth a shot I suppose.

[hispls]

On 8/2/2018 at 8:34 AM, Mexicola9302 said:

All Pegasus vehicles explode randomly, it doesn't matter what CBob your using, use a Personal CBob to be on the safe side.

Can confirm, original Pegasus cargobob self destructed on me last night.

[pez2k]

On 8/3/2018 at 9:38 PM, hispls said:

So the car is just sitting still until you get near?   Worth a shot I suppose.

Yeah, it's not until you get close that it, the cop cars and the helicopter begin moving, roughly at the same time you get the text from your assistant telling you it's a car chase. If you've already killed the driver, he can't drive off, so the cop cars just cruise away by themselves.

 

The helicopter however seems to be scripted to simply follow the car until you get in it, as it's not a 'real' police helicopter. If you can hook the car with a Cargobob the fake police chopper will sometimes follow the car all the way back to your warehouse, but completely passively.