The B*tch & Moan Thread (Part 3)

[ilovefreebird]

5 minutes ago, Big Molio said:

Why do the game notification banners stay up for so long?

 

Every time there is a "Stand Your Ground", "Haulage", "Business Battle" type in-game notification, it stays up for what feels like an eternity.

Not a lot bothers me in this game, and it seems trivial, but I LOATHE the stupid event banners. They're like 5 words, why the hell are they covering my screen for 30 seconds? Even the 12-year old braindead face paint kids don't need that much time to read it. It wouldn't be as frustrating if you were allowed to enlarge the mini-map, but you can't.

[Valiant ENT CEO]

I think it was the very first Franklin/Lamar mission but a "friend" goes AFK as soon as we get to Lamar organics and I actually managed to pass the mission. After clearing out the 10 or so Vagos around the building I was able to push him into the building (basically on the hood of his car). After clearing the few vagos inside I had to push him back out of the building. Now we're in the back of the Boxville and we manage to survive until it stops.. I kill another 15 vagos and recover the keys from the guy on a rooftop and mission passed.

 

Bitch! AFK players. LOL

[Arrows to Athens]

6 hours ago, Big Molio said:

Why do the game notification banners stay up for so long?

 

Every time there is a "Stand Your Ground", "Haulage", "Business Battle" type in-game notification, it stays up for what feels like an eternity.

Same with when you complete a free mode mission or a VIP Work. Can't see your interaction menu or anything. Annoying as f*ck. 

[TheFroggmann]

5 minutes ago, Arrows to Athens said:

Same with when you complete a free mode mission or a VIP Work. Can't see your interaction menu or anything. Annoying as f*ck. 

 

Much less where the f*ck you're going. It's not like anyone in the game drives fast or flys aircraft when they complete missions... 

[Shadowfennekin]

9 hours ago, Big Molio said:

Why do the game notification banners stay up for so long?

 

Every time there is a "Stand Your Ground", "Haulage", "Business Battle" type in-game notification, it stays up for what feels like an eternity.

Far too many Stand Your Ground lately.

I've been severely tempted to just drop a nuke on them and I probably will if I actually see somebody trying to take it from them

[partci]

5 hours ago, Valiant ENT CEO said:

I think it was the very first Franklin/Lamar mission but a "friend" goes AFK as soon as we get to Lamar organics and I actually managed to pass the mission. After clearing out the 10 or so Vagos around the building I was able to push him into the building (basically on the hood of his car). After clearing the few vagos inside I had to push him back out of the building. Now we're in the back of the Boxville and we manage to survive until it stops.. I kill another 15 vagos and recover the keys from the guy on a rooftop and mission passed.

 

Bitch! AFK players. LOL

My experience with this one is quite the same, but I attest it to only low level players joining those missions (R2 to R40). It is RARE for someone over R70 to join one of those. And R70 is still a low rank in my book. I had to clean 90% of the goons with some of those. I had to adjust my play style during those missions - can he drive or can he shoot? What if he can't do both (as was the case in the second mission on my first go)? And I am just a mediocre player, I just go by, but I've played this game enough to know what to expect from the AI (and the SLOW payer base we have at hand).

[Valiant ENT CEO]

2 hours ago, Shadowfennekin said:

Far too many Stand Your Ground lately.

I've been severely tempted to just drop a nuke on them and I probably will if I actually see somebody trying to take it from them

 

Please don't nuke anyone trying to END this pathetic excuse of a freemode mission! Crash that party yourself and make the MC president leave... But yeah though. Far too many Stand Your Ground (Clowns) in the game right now.

 

@partci Anything below rank... Uhhh 700 is a low rank! Heheh Today I was playing a game of Every Bullet Counts and the R40 says WoW I never played this with such high ranks! 180, 190, 215.. I'm thinkin HAH PFF nobody here has got RANK  

 

A little respect goes a long way

[dragosani00]

14 hours ago, Big Molio said:

Why do the game notification banners stay up for so long?

 

Every time there is a "Stand Your Ground", "Haulage", "Business Battle" type in-game notification, it stays up for what feels like an eternity.

Major pain is if you go into another menu while the banner is displaying the display timer resets once you come back out so often you essentially have to wait for the banner to time out before doing anything that requires in game menus.

[Sootyjared]

Another prize ride to skip, i really hate the "do X in X days the row" as i don't want to waste time doing them, especially on pc, but at least i have a chance at something like placing 3rd in a race. 

 

Placing first in pursuit races?  Nah, i think i pass, as much as i would like a comet S2 I don't have the time or the patience to deal with that, i hope next week is easier but i am not hopeful.  

[Big Molio]

11 hours ago, Arrows to Athens said:

Same with when you complete a free mode mission or a VIP Work. Can't see your interaction menu or anything. Annoying as f*ck. 

 

Yeah, this is my problem. I can't interact with player lists, menus, deploy countermeasures or anything until it disappears. 

[Need For Madness Auto]

[theEwing1979]

Finally finished the Dre sh*t last night. Hated every moment of it. I did bag $2.25m for my trouble though, so not all bad. 

[Need For Madness Auto]

 

It happens quite rare that you spawn next towards the griefer

Edited February 3, 2022 by Need For Madness Auto

[Arrows to Athens]

Does anybody else's game crash on the PS5? It's so f*cking annoying, holy sh*t. 

[nb2010]

Seem to have lost my Vigilante.

 

I chose to replace it with another vehicle when my garage was full but it has gone completely

[Need For Madness Auto]

 

 

[SideStunt]

On 2/2/2022 at 5:52 PM, Big Molio said:

Why do the game notification banners stay up for so long?

 

Every time there is a "Stand Your Ground", "Haulage", "Business Battle" type in-game notification, it stays up for what feels like an eternity.

Yeah it’s quite obnoxious indeed, imagine it happening in a full public lobby and you can’t do anything for a few seconds 

 

Also the unreleased liveries for Comet S2, Cypher and Vectre are still f*cking unreleased since July, why the f*ck?

[Shiloh Comes]

9 hours ago, Arrows to Athens said:

Does anybody else's game crash on the PS5? It's so f*cking annoying, holy sh*t. 

 

This is why I never buy a new console on day one. Just like I'd never buy the first production run of a car, bike or anything else rushed to market with testing dictated by a financial deadline rather than by a quality standard.

 

After all the red ring of death replacements on the Xbox, they finally released the Xbox One, which is what the original should have been in the first place, and would have been without pressure to get to market resulting in a faulty heatsink design getting waved through on the grounds that replacing the duds was cheaper than scrapping the producton run and doing it right.

 

I'm waiting to get my new Xbox right at the end of the character transfer period. I don't know if your issue is hardware or software related. Either way, I'm happy for others to guinea pig my consoles and get them right before I drop money on them.

Edited February 4, 2022 by Shiloh Comes

[Mexicola9302]

I learned to ignore the banner in a way, after delivering an I/E car to the destination, i somehow manage to resign as CEO and activate passive mode completly blind. I mean it's just a few buttons, the Securoserv menu is always top in the interaction menu, passive mode is at the end of interaction menu, both can be used blindly. Just push the few buttons, and feel safe from griefers, and much more important raids in CEO warehouses, nightclub and bunker.

 

The banner should be replaced by a simple small text in the center of the screen in the top or something. It just needs to get replaced with anything really, that doesn't block the sight of the whole screen.

Edited February 4, 2022 by Mexicola9302

[Need For Madness Auto]

 

Its me Mario 

[Sentinel Driver]

Holy sh*t if the difficulty feels inconsistent between updates

Last week I was grinding the Dr. Dre Contract and it's fun. The enemies don't feel op or anything, sometimes the spawns can get kinda out of hand but for the most part its ok

while now.. when playing the autoshop contracts it feels like peek out of cover once at the wrong time and an enemy can 1-burst kill you

[Kiethblacklion]

17 minutes ago, Sentinel Driver said:

Holy sh*t if the difficulty feels inconsistent between updates

Last week I was grinding the Dr. Dre Contract and it's fun. The enemies don't feel op or anything, sometimes the spawns can get kinda out of hand but for the most part its ok

while now.. when playing the autoshop contracts it feels like peek out of cover once at the wrong time and an enemy can 1-burst kill you

 

Almost renders body armor useless. Even with the highest body armor, it seems like newer update enemies can take the armor out with one or two shots.

[Battle Scars]

Still not gotten the Liberty State Coveralls for getting the trilogy on PS5, been waiting since November and R* say it's an issue but ffs just sort it out already!! 

[Jamwes]

2 hours ago, Kiethblacklion said:

Almost renders body armor useless.

 

Almost? For the cost, body armor is useless. Max body armor is only 50hp. Max character health is IIRC 220hp. Armor is less than a quarter of your total health and you heal back up to half for free. Not to mention the free snacks you can munch on for health. Unless I'm doing something like a Survival where resources are scarce I don't bother with Armor. Snacks are all you need.

[Malibu Club]

5 hours ago, Kiethblacklion said:

 

Almost renders body armor useless. Even with the highest body armor, it seems like newer update enemies can take the armor out with one or two shots.

I miss when body armor acted like an extended health bar like in the old games instead of just one extra hit.

[Arrows to Athens]

9 hours ago, Shiloh Comes said:

 

This is why I never buy a new console on day one. Just like I'd never buy the first production run of a car, bike or anything else rushed to market with testing dictated by a financial deadline rather than by a quality standard.

 

After all the red ring of death replacements on the Xbox, they finally released the Xbox One, which is what the original should have been in the first place, and would have been without pressure to get to market resulting in a faulty heatsink design getting waved through on the grounds that replacing the duds was cheaper than scrapping the producton run and doing it right.

 

I'm waiting to get my new Xbox right at the end of the character transfer period. I don't know if your issue is hardware or software related. Either way, I'm happy for others to guinea pig my consoles and get them right before I drop money on them.

I bought my PS5 3 weeks ago, though.  

Edited February 4, 2022 by Arrows to Athens

[blk95ta]

So R☆ makes a 1970 GTO exclusive for ps5/xbox series X? Bullsh*t. We need to mod it into xbox one/PS4

Edited February 4, 2022 by blk95ta

[TheFroggmann]

On 2/2/2022 at 8:21 AM, Super Gran Turismo said:

So many of the walls in there you can't take cover on for some reason. 25% of my frustration last night wouldn't have happened if I could have just taken cover on those brown extended decorations.

 

For me at least, it's not just the studio but cover taking in general. I'll be next to a nice box or car which will be perfect cover and my character will bolt into another room and present himself as a target for execution. THis happens mostly in the new "rooms" that came in the contract but it also happens a lot in Humane labs as well as in freeroam. 

On 2/4/2022 at 1:08 PM, blk95ta said:

So R☆ makes a 1970 GTO exclusive for ps5/xbox series X? Bullsh*t. We need to mod it into xbox one/PS4

 

No that car is the Vamos, essentially a 68-74 Chevy Nova that looks good but drives like dogsh*t in this game. 

 

 

Edit: Correction, it may be an early 70's GTO. I just noticed the front end is very GTOish in the photo of Hao. 

Edited February 5, 2022 by TheFroggmann

[ventogt]

9 hours ago, Need For Madness Auto said:

 

Its me Mario 

That is effing hilarious

[Arrows to Athens]

Really, game? Are you for f*cking real? Where is my car? And why did my character take out a pocket knife?