What's the best way to hangout?

[Flymystical-DJ]

Hello,

 

Title. I'm trying to hear as much dialogue as possible in my current playthrough. I was excited to slowly fill the friendship guage over 10's of hangouts... until getting addicted to cab driving, car theft and drug deals...

 

Now, it seems my "friends" barely call me. And now I'm missing out on cool details like how condescending Niko acts in the beginning. And how cute Roman is. 

 

So I'm here to ask the experts: what's the trick? It seems like I'm limited to one "conversation" per hangout, can I increase that? Maybe complete a hangout without doing an activity? At the very least let me in on the best times to hangout so I don't miss put on some good quips!

 

Any help would be appreciated. Much love. At the very least, thanks for taking the time to read.

 

 

[Dr Busta]

27 minutes ago, Flymystical-DJ said:

Now, it seems my "friends" barely call me. And now I'm missing out on cool details like how condescending Niko acts in the beginning. And how cute Roman is. 

Are you sure that you're playing GTA 4?

[Flymystical-DJ]

42 minutes ago, DR:BUSTA said:

Are you sure that you're playing GTA 4?

Roman is adorable. I've been doing a lot of jobs non stop though could that cancel it?

[AIcatraz]

10 minutes ago, Flymystical-DJ said:

Roman is adorable. I've been doing a lot of jobs non stop though could that cancel it?

i'd highly reccomend completing the main story before hanging out... it helps out alot since you dont have anything to do aside from f*ck around and shoot rats

[Cheatz/Trickz]

I fit all the dialogues in during my story play throughs as it makes zero sense contextually hearing them after the main story. 
 

You can get two dialogues per hangout with the friends, the second one plays after completing a third activity. You can also get a drunken dialogue on top of those if you drink as the fourth activity. 

[billiejoearmstrong8]

Yeah do multiple activties per hangout and make the last one drinking. You'll hear a lot that way.

 

If you're not aware, each friend (and girlfriend) sleeps at different times of the day/night and if you call them when they're asleep they'll be annoyed and you might not be able to hang out soon afterwards. So if you're planning on doing lots of hanging out might want to make a note of when each one is awake. Slight spoiler since it reveals who you can become friends with later in the game so click at your own risk:

Spoiler

 

Roman - awake all the time

Little Jacob - awake 1:00pm-4:00am

Brucie - awake 7:00am-1:00am

Dwayne - awake 12:00pm-1:00am

Packie - awake 4:00pm-6:00am

 

 

Also try not to invite the same friend to the same activity twice in a row or keep inviting out the same friend over and over or they might say no and keep saying no for a while. It's actually required that you invite out each friend for each activity at least once to get 100%, so again might want to note it down and take it in turns inviting each one to each thing if you want to do that.

 

The way the dialogues work is very straightforward, each friend just has a set number of them that will play in order over the times you hang out (plus the separate drunk ones where it's the same thing, you'll hear one each time you get drunk with them) and once you've heard them all that friend just won't talk any more. The exact number varies but they each have around 13 dialogues and 5 drunk dialogues. They don't change depending on the time in the story or anything like that the way they do in V, you can just listen to them all any time during or after it. So it's not difficult to hear them all. Same applies to girlfriends. And the jobs have no effect on it. 

Edited February 20, 2021 by billiejoearmstrong8

[reeversky]

18 hours ago, AIcatraz said:

i'd highly reccomend completing the main story before hanging out... it helps out alot since you dont have anything to do aside from f*ck around and shoot rats

I'd say it's better to hang out with them as soon as possible in order to obtain their special abilities, because some of those are quite useful in some missions. But I know what you mean about the lack of stuff to do post-story. I guess most players should complete most of the side content after finishing the game's narrative (like jobs, vigilante missions, stealing cars for Brucie, etc).

[Dr Busta]

12 hours ago, billiejoearmstrong8 said:

Roman - awake all the time

The hammer of justice doesn't sleep.

[Flymystical-DJ]

On 2/19/2021 at 10:24 PM, Cheatz/Trickz said:

I fit all the dialogues in during my story play throughs as it makes zero sense contextually hearing them after the main story. 
 

You can get two dialogues per hangout with the friends, the second one plays after completing a third activity. You can also get a drunken dialogue on top of those if you drink as the fourth activity. 

ahhhh yeeessss, the deets, thank you~ this is great news. now i can savor my hangouts and maybe get some pigeon hunting down during them =D

On 2/20/2021 at 11:01 AM, billiejoearmstrong8 said:

Yeah do multiple activties per hangout and make the last one drinking. You'll hear a lot that way.

 

If you're not aware, each friend (and girlfriend) sleeps at different times of the day/night and if you call them when they're asleep they'll be annoyed and you might not be able to hang out soon afterwards. So if you're planning on doing lots of hanging out might want to make a note of when each one is awake. Slight spoiler since it reveals who you can become friends with later in the game so click at your own risk:

  Reveal hidden contents

 

Roman - awake all the time

Little Jacob - awake 1:00pm-4:00am

Brucie - awake 7:00am-1:00am

Dwayne - awake 12:00pm-1:00am

Packie - awake 4:00pm-6:00am

 

 

Also try not to invite the same friend to the same activity twice in a row or keep inviting out the same friend over and over or they might say no and keep saying no for a while. It's actually required that you invite out each friend for each activity at least once to get 100%, so again might want to note it down and take it in turns inviting each one to each thing if you want to do that.

 

The way the dialogues work is very straightforward, each friend just has a set number of them that will play in order over the times you hang out (plus the separate drunk ones where it's the same thing, you'll hear one each time you get drunk with them) and once you've heard them all that friend just won't talk any more. The exact number varies but they each have around 13 dialogues and 5 drunk dialogues. They don't change depending on the time in the story or anything like that the way they do in V, you can just listen to them all any time during or after it. So it's not difficult to hear them all. Same applies to girlfriends. And the jobs have no effect on it. 

The story does not effect what they have to say? You can exhaust all of someone dialogue the second friendship options open up? That's a little disappointing but great in that I can self pace them now. I kinda wanna start over and Do a little RP with that actually.

[billiejoearmstrong8]

2 hours ago, Flymystical-DJ said:

 

The story does not effect what they have to say? You can exhaust all of someone dialogue the second friendship options open up? That's a little disappointing but great in that I can self pace them now. I kinda wanna start over and Do a little RP with that actually.

 

That's right, once you have a friend you can listen to all their dialogues regardless of the story. They're written in such a way that this works though, rather than relating to the story they're more of an insight into the friends' and Niko's characters. I'd say they're best heard before finishing the story just because then you have that extra insight while playing it, but yeah it can all be done any time. 

 

Btw I also like to pace them but if you're still cab driving you're pretty early on in the story, you have plenty of time. 

Edited February 21, 2021 by billiejoearmstrong8

[billiejoearmstrong8]

Another discussion just reminded me of something. If anyone ever wants to just hear all the hangout conversations with a friend as quickly as possible I found a way to do it:

 

Invite a friend out, listen to a conversation and commit murder-suicide (holding a grenade out the window too long or driving into gas pumps is the easiest way). Get in a car and start driving away from the hospital (best to do this on the first island so that you can just drive up and down Dukes Boulevard between the two hospitals). Soon they'll call and ask to be picked up from the hospital (if you're on the first island it'll be one of the two that are very close together and connected by that road so it's easy). Pick them up, and you'll get another conversation. And repeat. Just keep killing yourselves and picking them up from the hospital and killing yourselves again etc and you can listen to every conversation rather quickly. 

Edited February 23, 2021 by billiejoearmstrong8