Packie Mcreary random event removed?

[UTKR]

I have been trying to find Packie in public lobbies near Sandy Shores, Zancudo and Vineyard but he doesn't seem to spawn. I've read at few places that Packie's random event has been removed. Is it true? If not, are there any other reliable spawn locations?

[Timsalabimbo]

 

 

It's true, yes. It has been disabled since February.

[Wastelander (Suzuki)]

5 hours ago, Timsalabimbo said:

 

 

It's true, yes. It has been disabled since February.

 

Would like to point out the reason it was. This is purely from first hand experience of the problems it caused more than once. Usually what happens it would spawn in. Alright so big deal right? Well it never really "Unspawns", either the van gets blown up and burns for the rest of time on the side of the road, or the van itself despawns but not the actors (Which never do in either case even if killed). The result is that it basically somehow breaks all Freemode Events entirely (No more Business Battles either) and often results in the Yellow Markers in missions failing entirely. Usually if you spawned into a random lobby and see "Press *insert button here* to join on going business battle" and you walked outside to find there was in fact never a Business Battle to start with. Chances are that van was somewhere on the map still, burning, on the side of the road.

Classic R* move here, rather than fix the issue they just remove entirely (if only they could do that to the MKII)

Edited May 4, 2021 by Wastelander (Suzuki)

[UTKR]

1 hour ago, Wastelander (Suzuki) said:

 

Would like to point out the reason it was. This is purely from first hand experience of the problems it caused more than once. Usually what happens it would spawn in. Alright so big deal right? Well it never really "Unspawns", either the van gets blown up and burns for the rest of time on the side of the road, or the van itself despawns but not the actors (Which never do in either case even if killed). The result is that it basically somehow breaks all Freemode Events entirely (No more Business Battles either) and often results in the Yellow Markers in missions failing entirely. Usually if you spawned into a random lobby and see "Press *insert button here* to join on going business battle" and you walked outside to find there was in fact never a Business Battle to start will. Chances are that van was somewhere on the map still, burning, on the side of the road.

Classic R* move here, rather than fix the issue they just remove entirely (if only they could do that to the MKII)

Thanks for responding! Dumb question but any idea when he'll be available again, if at all?

[Wastelander (Suzuki)]

1 minute ago, UTKR said:

Thanks for responding! Dumb question but any idea when he'll be available again, if at all?

No idea if they'll add it back fully. R* tends to only "fix" things that Take-Two gets mad about because it effects their Shark Card money flow. Ol Irishman is however the most costly gunman if I recall so there is a chance it will be fixed and the event readded. However this is the same R* who's solution to fixing the buggy CEO/MC Hire menu was to make the entire Interaction Menu bug out and reset as well instead of the issue being tied to just those submenus. 

[Rotorhead359]

Nope, Rockstar won't fix this. Patrick McReary was cheaper (8%) than Chester McCoy (10%) and Gustavo Mota (9%).

 

 

Edited May 5, 2021 by AirWolf359

[Gridl0k]

On 5/4/2021 at 3:44 AM, Wastelander (Suzuki) said:

 

Would like to point out the reason it was. This is purely from first hand experience of the problems it caused more than once. Usually what happens it would spawn in. Alright so big deal right? Well it never really "Unspawns", either the van gets blown up and burns for the rest of time on the side of the road, or the van itself despawns but not the actors (Which never do in either case even if killed). The result is that it basically somehow breaks all Freemode Events entirely (No more Business Battles either) and often results in the Yellow Markers in missions failing entirely. Usually if you spawned into a random lobby and see "Press *insert button here* to join on going business battle" and you walked outside to find there was in fact never a Business Battle to start with. Chances are that van was somewhere on the map still, burning, on the side of the road.

Classic R* move here, rather than fix the issue they just remove entirely (if only they could do that to the MKII)

 

Wait he was responsible for Corona Virus ™ @Halal Cyborg ?

 

It does seem better than ever. You could tell it was buggy AF because it reliably spawned in at YouTool... during the DCH finale.

Edited May 8, 2021 by Gridl0k

[Wastelander (Suzuki)]

10 minutes ago, Gridl0k said:

 

Wait he was responsible for Corona Virus ™ @Halal Cyborg ?

 

It does seem better than ever.

The event seems tied to the issue somehow. Spawning into "Press *button here* to join on going business battle" and walking outside to discover that literally nothing is going on? Expect that van to be a burnt out shell somewhere on the map (Usually down the road from the LSC outside Sandy Shores. Not sure why, but I often found it there). Also it's at that point you start to understand why so many people are leaving the lobby en mass. 

Honestly....I think R* pulled a Smooth Brain move here on the level of a certain Aliens game that shall not be named....and forgot to actually add all the proper despawn coding functions to the event. They had to have made that f*ck up as it's literally the only NPC car in the entire game that never despawns. In a game where if you look away from a car you want for more than two seconds the thing will despawn. (GTAIV MP players just got PTSD flashbacks to rare cars despawning right as you turn around to nab them)...so yeah, safe to say the issue is most likely a laughably simple one to fix. However it's R* and R*'s main solution to any problem is the Jeremy Clarkson method of Bash the sh*t out of it with a hammer. That is R*'s main problem solving method. This is one such case of this line of thinking from them.

Edited May 8, 2021 by Wastelander (Suzuki)

[Halal Cyborg]

The San Andreas Coronavirus is something I’m not missing I must say.

 

Sometimes it would have weird variations...the insurgents would deliver but no circle would fill in and you’d sell a full bunker for $0.

[No Homing]

The fake bb/no more freemode events bug is still happening and it's not uncommon.

[Aquamaniac]

I can't remember, was it a random event to unlock him for Casino Heist?

Edited May 14, 2021 by Aquamaniac

[Timsalabimbo]

3 hours ago, Aquamaniac said:

I can't remember, was it a random event to unlock him for Casino Heist?

Correct