The B*tch & Moan Thread (Part 4)

[Hazzardtohimself]

I decided to give the Service Rifle hunt a go this evening - I know maps and guides exist, but I didn't use them and spent roughly four hours bumbling around: 

 

Found 1x Smuggler Plane. 

Found 10x Exotic Export vehicles. 
Found 3x Sleeping Guards. 
Found 1x Cayo Skeleton. 
Found 4x Drug Vehicles. 
Found 1x Lamar Organics pickup. 
Found 3x Service Rifle components. 

Found 1x Signal Flare... 

 

... which crashed my game when I was asked to investigate it. 

 

So a random crash, and a heck of a lot of frame-drops and chugging chunk pop-ins all around the map. 

 

If I've lost progress because Rockstar broke the graphics, well... I don't know yet. But obviously I won't be a happy panda. 

[AUScowboy]

2 hours ago, Gaffa said:

Sorry I have to mention this one... incredible to think this is how the game was designed... 

- You don't have the ability to join an Invite Only session from the main menu, so despite good load times, you're required to visit the cesspool of Public Lobbies before moving out. 
You can, however, join any session type from the Rockstar Creator - go figure with that logic and why they can't just put "the usual menu" in the game when you press pause after loading up to the main front page of the game before joining online eludes me. 
- When you do join an Invite Only session (or other session type), if for whatever reason you idle out of the session due to AFK, your internet goes down, or you enter or leave a mission or <something happens>, then when you click to find a new session, the game doesn't match the previous session type you were in, it just puts you in a Public Session. 
- Being in Invite Only or Close Friend sessions and inviting your friends to heist with you is great, but often leads to you being in different sessions from one another once a setup mission or heist finale has been completed.

Sigh, I need a breather from this game clearly. 

And since you can’t join IO from the menu or SP on 9th gen, you lose your explosive and Mk.II ammo every. single. time. you play. THE f*ckING GAME.

 

These STUPID crime scene have me heated..

Edited August 26 by AUScowboy

[DrEeveell]

13 hours ago, YNNEL said:

I’ve gave up trying to get the M16. At it for hours and it hasn’t spawned once. Just let me but the stupid thing for god sake.

 

If I run across one in my normal course of game play I'll snap it up, but I'm not going out of my way to look for them.

Now if I could just get Packy's stupid police van chase to quit spawning in the middle of my sell missions.

[Rammer2k]

For the hassle it was to get all the parts for the M16, you'd think Rockstar would have at least put on par with the Special Carbine. Nope..

[OnlineProtagonist]

The Service Rifle Crime Scene hunt was damned miserable. I found 2 parts last night; and spent hours searching for the remaining 3 today. I used invite only sessions, and I bolted to every blue dot I encountered.

After many exotic exports, skeletons, guards, & payphone hits, I found all 5. Since the game is so opaque about how these events work, I figured I should keep the RNG going, doing every activity I found. 

 

The Service Rifle itself is very fun to use: great sound and nicely modeled. It makes me nostalgic for the Assault Rifle in Goldeneye 64 .

However, I logged off after finishing this quest. I had no desire to play any more GTA after hours of flying across the map in loops. I loved every other collectible (figures, signal jammers, cards), but this one was not fun. 

[Arrows to Athens]

Why are Lamar's missions so miserable and boring? They're so 2013/2014, not to mention he only has like 6/7 missions. It's unfortunate that out of all the contacts R* could have made x4, it had to be this dude. 

Edited August 27 by Arrows to Athens

[Lupo-Akane]

I thought I would have better luck on the M16 with my 2nd toon, boy was I wrong.....

There are to many f*cking blue dots in this f*cking game. This is so stupid that they did it this way, I hope who ever made this is out of a job soon.

[Wastelander (Suzuki)]

58 minutes ago, Arrows to Athens said:

Why are Lamar's missions so miserable and boring? They're so 2013/2014, not to mention he only has like 6/7 missions. It's unfortunate that out of all the contacts R* could have made x4, it had to be this dude. 

The real crime is how painfully slow the stock truck cabs are with a trailer. The Hauler was in it's 2nd gear (auto box go brr apparently) at barely 40mph for most of the one mission I did. I made only 58k......I could make that by going into a public, going ceo and grabbing my actual truck cab, starting a haulage and chuckling at people that don't understand what the MOC even is all while doing this:

And with merely a few seconds I'm doing 101 down the highway with the trailer listing to the Hard Truck 2: King of the Road OST. And do that three times and make that same profit but more fun and at lot less painful.

[Snakeywakey389]

1 hour ago, Arrows to Athens said:

Why are Lamar's missions so miserable and boring? They're so 2013/2014, not to mention he only has like 6/7 missions. It's unfortunate that out of all the contacts R* could have made x4, it had to be this dude. 

It should have been ALL contact missions. Would have been nice to revisit them again.

[Arrows to Athens]

11 minutes ago, Snakeywakey389 said:

It should have been ALL contact missions. Would have been nice to revisit them again.

Sadly, they stopped doing bonuses on ALL contact missions some time ago. Now they only do them on one contact at a time. It's honestly pathetic. 

Edited August 27 by Arrows to Athens

[Wastelander (Suzuki)]

2 minutes ago, Arrows to Athens said:

Sadly, they stopped doing bonuses on ALL contact missions some time ago. Not they only do them on one contact at a time. It's honestly pathetic. 

The f*cked the voting screen for contract missions up as well and it's been getting worse. 90% it defaults to the Repo work or Dispatch stuffs. Or worse nothing that is related to a contract mission. It's been like this since the Dispatch and Repo missions were added.

[Arrows to Athens]

2 minutes ago, Wastelander (Suzuki) said:

The f*cked the voting screen for contract missions up as well and it's been getting worse. 90% it defaults to the Repo work or Dispatch stuffs. Or worse nothing that is related to a contract mission. It's been like this since the Dispatch and Repo missions were added.

Yeah, it's ridiculous. And you STILL can't replay missions. It's a joke. 

[DominusTaranis]

2 hours ago, Arrows to Athens said:

Why are Lamar's missions so miserable and boring? They're so 2013/2014, not to mention he only has like 6/7 missions. It's unfortunate that out of all the contacts R* could have made x4, it had to be this dude. 

They don't even pay well with a x4 multiplier. They pay adequately. That's about it. 

[AUScowboy]

2 hours ago, Lupo-Akane said:

I thought I would have better luck on the M16 with my 2nd toon, boy was I wrong.....

There are to many f*cking blue dots in this f*cking game. This is so stupid that they did it this way, I hope who ever made this is out of a job soon.

My second took nearly 10 hours. Truly a hatefilling experience, I began to wish monkey pox on whoever designed the timer element (regardless of when this was implemented for FR events).

[Lupo-Akane]

8 minutes ago, AUScowboy said:

My second took nearly 10 hours. Truly a hatefilling experience, I began to wish monkey pox on whoever designed the timer element (regardless of when this was implemented for FR events).

I'm about there with you on that...

They want us to flipping play there game but do everything they can just to piss us off and stop playing.

[Arrows to Athens]

15 minutes ago, AUScowboy said:

My second took nearly 10 hours. Truly a hatefilling experience, I began to wish monkey pox on whoever designed the timer element (regardless of when this was implemented for FR events).

Nearly 10 hours?!?!?!? Well, I've got one more part left. I hope it doesn't take too long. 

[Mexicola9302]

It "only" took me 4.5 hours to get the service rifle.

 

I restarted the game once, and switched session twice.

Edited August 27 by Mexicola9302

[DominusTaranis]

4 hours ago, Wastelander (Suzuki) said:

The real crime is how painfully slow the stock truck cabs are with a trailer. The Hauler was in it's 2nd gear (auto box go brr apparently) at barely 40mph for most of the one mission I did. I made only 58k......I could make that by going into a public, going ceo and grabbing my actual truck cab, starting a haulage and chuckling at people that don't understand what the MOC even is all while doing this:

And with merely a few seconds I'm doing 101 down the highway with the trailer listing to the Hard Truck 2: King of the Road OST. And do that three times and make that same profit but more fun and at lot less painful.

Off topic as f*ck, but I went back and watched that video and one of the comments was "Wow, he topped out at 7mph" and I lost my sh*t for so long I idled out of a session. 

[Jamwes]

It's hard for me to go back and play Contact Missions. Too many of them are long, slow, and boring. Especially for the peanuts payout. Many of them would make good freeroam missions or random events.

 

Finally got my first Signal Flare. Flew to it on my Mk2 and got the $25k. Then my Mk2 slid off the island into the ocean, costing me $10k insurance. D'oh! At least I'll never have to chase the flares again.

[ambi3nt]

5 minutes ago, Jamwes said:

It's hard for me to go back and play Contact Missions. Too many of them are long, slow, and boring. Especially for the peanuts payout. Many of them would make good freeroam missions or random events.

 

Finally got my first Signal Flare. Flew to it on my Mk2 and got the $25k. Then my Mk2 slid off the island into the ocean, costing me $10k insurance. D'oh! At least I'll never have to chase the flares again.

It's still nice to hop into some contact mission for the old times sake. But what I really f*cking hate is how R* ruined voting screens. 

[AUScowboy]

The Service Rifle loses its unique sound in the Rockstar Editor, it sounds like the Bullpup for some reason. Pretty annoying as I got a lot of good clips with it and edited them into a pretty decent video of the Braddock Farm Asset Protection contract.

[Wastelander (Suzuki)]

12 hours ago, DominusTaranis said:

Off topic as f*ck, but I went back and watched that video and one of the comments was "Wow, he topped out at 7mph" and I lost my sh*t for so long I idled out of a session. 

Joys have having a busted speedometer and just going "ah the hell with it, Free Bird is playing so the speed limit doesn't apply anyways"

Actually tho, he likely was doing about 55-60mph at one point, which is still 10 to 15mph or even 20mph FASTER than the Jobuilt Hauler goes with a trailer in a straight line on the highway, and even got there faster somehow.


On-topic: If this update has one core, it's that every other lobby I load into I'm missing all my ammo for at least one thing. Mainly my Homing Launcher and RPG ammo for no reason. Really starting to get annoyed with this. Oh and if you allow me to have the GTA version of McDonald's Sprite (if your American and know, you know) as a snack, quit making them all disappear every time I join another lobby ffs please R*.

[TheFroggmann]

For those of you that have had a hard time getting all the parts for the M16, try this:

 

During your "off time" (20 minutes) try doing some sort of work in the lobby, Bunker sale, club sale, phone mission, etc. If you just fly around or otherwise do nothing, the system will skip your chance. As far as drug cars, smuggler planes and the like, ignore them. I have a feeling they will affect your timer. 

 

These are just my observations over 2 characters, first char took 3 IRL days to find all the parts. My other (Main) char took maybe 4 hours to find all the parts by just doing some work and setting a 20 minute timer after each discovery. 

[DominusTaranis]

Doing client rescue
Rescue client with max health using strategic missile spam

Take client to safehouse

Land on roof next to ladder after verifying that ladder goes to ground

Client gets out and walks off the two story building to her death

 

 

Immediately after, I try again, and out of all the rescues I've done, this one had to be the smoothest, peanut brained retard of the bunch. Same deal as before. Strategic missile spam, and I land to pick him up. But unlike all the others, he comes sprinting towards the chopper instead of requiring me to go hold his hand. Only the chopper is landing parallel to the horizon at the moment, and he's coming down hill, managing to find the perfect spot for the main rotor to smack him right in the jaw, which jerked my chopper into a nearby tree, which then jerked my chopper harder, slamming it into the ground and applying death smoke. 

 

Edited August 28 by DominusTaranis

[eboyjohnkrasinski]

1 hour ago, DominusTaranis said:

Doing client rescue
Rescue client with max health using strategic missile spam

Take client to safehouse

Land on roof next to ladder after verifying that ladder goes to ground

Client gets out and walks off the two story building to her death

 

 

Immediately after, I try again, and out of all the rescues I've done, this one had to be the smoothest, peanut brained retard of the bunch. Same deal as before. Strategic missile spam, and I land to pick him up. But unlike all the others, he comes sprinting towards the chopper instead of requiring me to go hold his hand. Only the chopper is landing parallel to the horizon at the moment, and he's coming down hill, managing to find the perfect spot for the main rotor to smack him right in the jaw, which jerked my chopper into a nearby tree, which then jerked my chopper harder, slamming it into the ground and applying death smoke. 

 

personally I just use the stirling gt for client rescues, the safehouse is too hard to get to by chopper. 

 

also, anyone else noticed how incredibly stupid the junkyard client is? dude will literally just stop and let himself get shot if you don't literally push him through the shipping container or past the concrete bollards.

[DominusTaranis]

15 minutes ago, eboyjohnkrasinski said:

personally I just use the stirling gt for client rescues, the safehouse is too hard to get to by chopper. 

 

also, anyone else noticed how incredibly stupid the junkyard client is? dude will literally just stop and let himself get shot if you don't literally push him through the shipping container or past the concrete bollards.

You can land close enough with pretty much every chopper that the enemies won't spawn and/or will start retreating. I was just trying to smooth things over.



Also, can I f*cking catch a break today? Solo Cayo. Camera sees me through a wall. Restart. Make it into compound, pop guard. Guard two floors below me MAGICALLY knows I did it. Have to full restart because the suicide yeets over 100k from my bag.

[TheFroggmann]

Well, Turns out the potato version of GTA Online is now literally unplayable for me. 

 

Logged in with my alt account for the first time in a couple of months and logged into GTA. I wanted to try and get the M16 parts if they were available. 

 

Nope.

 

f*ckhead Gerald has me locked into going to a f*cking survival. I hate these. I eventually eques since I have no access to half of my properties until this bullsh*t is done. 

 

Go to the job marker accept and wait for the host to launch. They finally do and it's launch screen watch 2022. 

 

I show up an a field, the advertisement of the week is shown, I disappear then I'm in a public lobby. 

 

Rinse, repeat several times. Nope, this account is f*cked. 

[ambi3nt]

1 hour ago, TheFroggmann said:

Well, Turns out the potato version of GTA Online is now literally unplayable for me. 

 

Logged in with my alt account for the first time in a couple of months and logged into GTA. I wanted to try and get the M16 parts if they were available. 

 

Nope.

 

f*ckhead Gerald has me locked into going to a f*cking survival. I hate these. I eventually eques since I have no access to half of my properties until this bullsh*t is done. 

 

Go to the job marker accept and wait for the host to launch. They finally do and it's launch screen watch 2022. 

 

I show up an a field, the advertisement of the week is shown, I disappear then I'm in a public lobby. 

 

Rinse, repeat several times. Nope, this account is f*cked. 

Close matchmaking in options before joining or use solo lobby trick to clean other players from lobby so you become host yourself and then start alone.

[Gridl0k]

Spending 30k on refilling my ammo every couple hours is getting old. Especially as it's often 20 EMP grenades and I haven't used 20 since the gun came out.

 

Deciding to drop all the weapons I literally never use and then finding I can't which is why I still have them. The Precision Rifle seems to be on elastic. I have 2 antique revolvers that would be more effective if I could throw them at the enemy. The ceramic and perico pistols are both SPECIFICALLY designed to be undetectable but I can't drop them and can't take them to Perico or otherwise use their USPs.

 

Wanting to drop guns in the first place because they introduced a Custom Weapon Loadout and then.... disabled it in missions!

 

Playing some Lamar missions, ok, dude loves tankers, fair enough. But I still have ZERO vehicles I can call in the mission that could tow it ($2m wedge waves hello) so I have to drive the f*cking slowest cab in the game across the entire city.

 

Edited August 28 by Gridl0k

[Gridl0k]

 

Oh and here's yer f*cken velum