Some Important Questions (Bugs, Modders, General)

[hilarioussam]

Hello everyone,

 

I'm quite an experienced GTA Online player, I do my research, I grind, I try to learn new things and be a nice player to the community. But it is not possible to know every single detail, therefore I got some stuff for you to be answered. I would be very appreciated if you spare some time to me.

 

1) I was playing normally, a modder teleported into me and start torturing me. I said some not really nice things to him because I can't stand egomaniac modders. So he started to follow me through sessions for the last couple days. I go into an invite-only, closed friend or solo public but some time later he shows up and harasses me. We don't have any friends or crews in mutual. Obviously, some RID stuff. I don't see him all the time but that started to annoy me. What kind of a strategy would work on that modder? (Without getting any illegal stuff). I know mod menus and IP leakages will exist until the time Rockstar decides to improve their security and also move onto a dedicated, cloud server instead of p2p. But they just don't do it. So looking for some protection in current situation.

 

2) What is the extent, magnitude and limit of the modders in 2022, like what damage they can give to our account, character, even to the computer, our info etc.? I know they can follow through sessions, torture, crash your game but that's it? Are there any dangerous stuff they still can do? I heard in the past they were able to do really really bad stuff. They probably can't harm the PC.

 

3) A friend plays on PS4 but he wants to transfer his account into PC. He said he missed the chance before. So similar to the last time transfers, couple years ago, is the community gonna be able to transfer their PS4 accounts to the PC in this expanded and enhanced situation?

 

4) 2 months ago, 2 players started to follow us in the lobby. They approach to us in a Future Shock or Apocalypse Scarab Tank, not sure which one was. Anytime I try to aim at the tank, I got instant stun. By stun, I mean literally think about someone shooting you with the stun gun. But instead, I aim at the tank and I get the stun. It happened over and over again, until the time I call my Sparrow and explode the tank. So, does any kind of Scarab Tank is able to stun the players who aim at the tank? Or were they just modders that using some kind of stun option in their menu?

 

5) To people who are on PC, do you prefer toggling ON the G-Sync/FreeSync/G-Sync compatible features? What do you think the best, ON or OFF?

 

6) As you know, PC version still has optimization issues, any lobby crowded than 15 players, the game start to stutter and doesn't provide a smooth experience. Also the modders are capable of making the game stutter. I know it's about GTA tends to work better on some single-core stuff. So is there any solutions to fix this huge stutter issue or we just play in secluded, small sessions to encounter it?

 

7) Sometimes the guards are not moving in Casino Heist. On some occasions, like Gruppe Sechs disguise, it doesn't matter. But with bugstars etc, it's impossible to sneak into the vault room. Why this bug still occurs? I'm aware that if the host or one of the crew members alt+tab their game, look for some other stuff in Windows and alt+tab back in to the game, the game tends to be bugged/broken, like cayo perico main target spawning outside the compound. But this guards not moving issue looks like something different.

 

8 ) The last but not least, a major issue. So when I play the Casino/Cayo Perico with my friends, or randoms, sometimes they are bugged/glitched while they try to interact. As an example, we are in the vault room, I'm able to hack the doors, collect the cash etc. but one or even two of the crew members are not able to do anything if they press E. Like you approach to the cash, press E, boom, your character is bugged. Not able to move, not able to cancel, not able to collect anything. Exact issue follows in Cayo Perico too. We found out that, if we wait for 5 or 10 minutes, their character fixes up and they are able to press E and interact. But that takes so much time. It's obvious that there is some kind of a delay between the crew, maybe an internet connection problem, or a firewall problem?

Edited March 14 by hilarioussam

[Rotorhead359]

1. You can use the firewall method to keep the modder out of your session: https://www.reddit.com/r/gtaonline/comments/4n8094/tip_if_you_are_on_pc_block_these_ports_using_your/
   As a side effect, your friends can't join you either, you'd need some tool to whitelist their IPs. There are some tools posted on this forum, I think in here: https://gtaforums.com/topic/980941-the-hell-is-goin-on-currently-pc-version/
2. I heard rumours that modders can add stuff to your character that gets you banned. As for messing up your PC, probably not. The interactions seem to be limited to the game so far.
3. I wouldn't bet on it. Rockstar wants their playerbase on console because that's where all the shark cards are sold. Best thing you can do is pray that I'm wrong.
4. The Scarab only has a regular .50 cal machine gun (and proxy mines). However, players can buy the Stun Gun nowadays, and the Scarab lets you use your hand guns for drive-bys.
5. If you play fullscreen, I see no reason not to use it, unless you play in Windowed Borderless mode, then it doesn't always work.
6. It might depend on the other players' connection and distance from you, but in general, more players means more CPU load on the main thread, sorry, no fix. (except disable Extended Distance Scaling in advanced graphics)
7. The issue of guards not moving seems to come from the host's game. If the heist was started from a public session, try Invite-Only. If it was Invite-Only, restart game.
8. Maybe someone used Alt Tab. Do you also randomly get thrown out of the Casino heist when you're in the man trap?

Edited March 15 by AirWolf359

[hilarioussam]

@AirWolf359

 

Thank you for your time and answers.

 

1. If the modder decides to come after me again and again, that would be the way to go. I heard about that method but didn't really dig it much before.

 

3. That makes sense, if the ones who buy more shark cards are the console players, then Rockstar would want to keep them on console.

 

4. The scarab situation also makes sense but I get instant stun, like I don't really remember he aims at me. Regardless of distance/place, he was able to stun me when I aim at the tank. And these guys were some level 30 players, maybe modders.

 

7. Yes, I was thinking the same. We all the time use invite-only for heists etc.. However, when I play a casino heist with randoms and if we get this guards not moving situation, it's not easy to tell them "oh the heist is bugged guys, just invite us again from a clean session", I mean yes, some of them would understand but some just don't.

 

8. But they say they don't alt tab out of the game. One of them told me that they fixed it, it was about their connection but I don't know the details. Yes I know the mantrap bug, happens mostly on PC and with 2 players. I read it somewhere that the game analyses that there is only 1 player in the mantrap and cancels the heist. Most of the time we use the walk and wait fix.

Edited March 16 by hilarioussam

[Rotorhead359]

5 hours ago, hilarioussam said:

However, when I play a casino heist with randoms and if we get this guards not moving situation, it's not easy to tell them "oh the heist is bugged guys, just invite us again from a clean session", I mean yes, some of them would understand but some just don't.

Don't feel bad about this. Even if they don't understand, it's just a game, and you don't have to hang around if you know they'll never pass.

Just tell them they didn't prep it good enough, and exit out at the next mission failed screen.

 

If you do Bugstars, and the guards are stuck, there is no way to get into the vault undetected, trust me, I tried. The only way in is going loud.

You can spot this as soon as you enter the staff lobby. Guards should be walking around. You can also tell if patrol routes was done, and most importantly Duggan Shipments.

Also, you can quickly walk to any security door, and see if you have keycards or not (press E to swipe card or hack)

Now, if the guards are stuck, but Duggan Shipments was actually done, give the heist a shot, otherwise, leave right there and then to save them the grief.

 

There is no point in fighting casino guards with helmets, unless you are doing Aggressive, and you are wearing Reinforced armor. (and on Aggressive, you get throwable explosives, that helps too)

Edited March 16 by AirWolf359

[hilarioussam]

22 minutes ago, AirWolf359 said:

Don't feel bad about this. Even if they don't understand, it's just a game, and you don't have to hang around if you know they'll never pass.

I agree, that's what I've been doing in the last week whenever I see a heist is bugged or couple crucial preps missing. It's interesting that some people still have no idea about the importance of a level 2 security pass prep, very easy and useful.

 

24 minutes ago, AirWolf359 said:

f you do Bugstars, and the guards are stuck, there is no way to get into the vault undetected, trust me, I tried. The only way in is going loud.

I've experienced that issue couple weeks ago, and found it out with a painful experience, agreed.

 

 

[Rotorhead359]

One thing I forgot to mention: you get reset to just a pistol if you have to quick restart on Big Con Bugstars or Maintenance.

I just joined one, picked up weapons bag at the very beginning, got detected, pushed through, looted the vault, died on the way out.

Respawned in man trap with just a pistol. Apparently, the game doesn't remember that you picked up the weapon bag.

I guess same thing will happen outside.

Edited March 16 by AirWolf359

[hilarioussam]

On 3/16/2022 at 5:07 PM, AirWolf359 said:

If you do Bugstars, and the guards are stuck, there is no way to get into the vault undetected

I was thinking the same until now. I joined a random player's heist with bugstars disguise, when we came to the vault, I try to explain him the issue however we just wanted to try. We managed to pass undetected. We ran to the guards and knocked them. A camera was seeing directly a guard, but somehow we managed to do it. Maybe the camera was looking to the other way and we were very fast with the keycards and managed to get inside the mantrap before the camera turns to the other side. Well, we needed to restart since the leader didn't know how to hack. And we restarted over and over again since the camera saw that guard again and again. But in the first one, we did it.

Edited March 18 by hilarioussam