Grand Theft Auto V - The Bear and Badger

digi

Heists are the best money maker.

regmcfly

Elm and I are gonna hopefully dip into heists this afternoon. If you're around on bone come join

equinox_code

If davie is around on bone lol

digi

equinox_code wrote:

If davie is around on bone lol

I'm level 36 on Bone gta v.
(I borrowed one a couple of times)

Dinostar77

Unfounded rumours that gta6 will be released q3 this year.

Wookienopants

I’m calling bullshit on that one. It’ll be a next generation release for sure

Bob

For sure they wouldn’t want to follow the rather successful model of releasing it twice,

Dinostar77

Wookienopants wrote:

I’m calling bullshit on that one. It’ll be a next generation release for sure

With the giagantic userbase for this gen, its will be on both generations of consoles. I will try to find the story link. I cant see cyberpunk and gta6 launching in the same period, seems abit silly. I reckon gta6 will be 2021 release.

Edit: https://gamerant.com/grand-theft-auto-6-release-date-leak-2020/

Dinostar77

Wheres the gta6 thread?

acemuzzy

I heard this is a PlayStation exclusive (PS4 + PS5)

hylian_elf

Dinostar77 wrote:

Wheres the gta6 thread?

What GTA6 thread? You’ve just posted about an unfounded rumour about it, why would there be a thread already?!

Gremill

You'll have to use either the GTA8 or The Last Guardian 3 thread as a placeholder.

Dinostar77

hylian_elf wrote:

Dinostar77 wrote:

Wheres the gta6 thread?

What GTA6 thread? You’ve just posted about an unfounded rumour about it, why would there be a thread already?!

In anticipation so we can salivate and speculate with wildy inaccurate theories, rumours and the like.

You've inspired me. Thread created.

TheBoyRoberts

Is anyone still playing the multiplayer on the xBox?

Been plying a bit of this with one of my mates and we’d love to get some heists done without having to get total randoms involved.

Anyone interested?

acemuzzy

Conceivably. It's on gamepass right? I'm kinda miss other things and haven't done any SP on bone though, so I'd probably want to do that first to remind myself of the characters, and unclear when I'd manage it!

Wookienopants

I'd be up for it

TheBoyRoberts

It most certainly is on GamesPass. If i remember correctly, you get $500,000 in game $$ if you log into the MP in April too.

@Wookie - My memory is a little faded on this. Am I correct in thinking that there's no match making for the heists and that we'll need a group of four to get started?

LivDiv

There is definitely matchmaking for heists but you have to be very lucky to find someone useful. Which isn't even a slight on randoms being shit, they require some communication or for a random to be well versed in the mission at hand so that they can follow your lead.

To start a heist someone has to own property that supports them though, you cant start them from the cheaper properties.

TheBoyRoberts

I had a chat with my bestie about this last night and he explained why he reached out to me to in turn reach out to the forum; randoms are shit!

He's got mega GTA bucks in the bank and I believe his house is above the casino, so I'm assuming that he can get the ball rolling on the heists from there.

Other than Wookie, any other takers?

Wookienopants

I think Elm might be up for this

digi

Shame it's not cross play as I have 3 high end apartments a place in the casino.
And enough to buy the bumper that let's you do more diffrent heists.

Haven't tried the bunker stuff though as randoms are indeed shit and no one else really plays heists.

SpaceGazelle

The Captcha on Rockstar Games Social club is a disgrace.

Kow

Click the squares that contain beaten up prostitutes?

yourfavouriteuncle

SpaceGazelle wrote:

The Captcha on Rockstar Games Social club is a disgrace.

Yup. It’s kicked me off twice this past week without letting me get to the games that I actually fucking own. Idgi.

GurtTractor

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/03/hacker-reduces-gta-online-load-times-by-over-70-percent/?comments=1

With these two fixes combined, T0st says GTA Online's load time went down from six minutes to just under two minutes on the test machine. Those interested in replicating the results can build a similar DLL from T0st's source code. Players should only do so at their own risk, though, since this kind of modification could easily (and erroneously) set off the game's anti-cheat checks.

https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/

Results

Well, did it work then?

1. Original online mode load time: ~6m flat
2. Time with only duplication check patch: 4m 30s
3. Time with only JSON parser patch: 2m 50s
4. Time with both issues patched: 1m 50s

(6*60 - (1*60+50)) / (6*60) = 69.4% load time improvement (nice!)

Hell yes, it did! )

Most likely, this won’t solve everyone’s load times - there might be other bottlenecks on different systems, but it’s such a gaping hole that I have no idea how R* has missed it all these years.
tl;dr

There’s a single thread CPU bottleneck while starting up GTA Online
It turns out GTA struggles to parse a 10MB JSON file
The JSON parser itself is poorly built / naive and
After parsing there’s a slow item de-duplication routine

Bob

Apparently we don't have a GTA thread before V??

Anyway Excited for the re-masters on switch.

Spend hours on 3, VC and SA back in the day... I really hope they've fucking put some checkpoints in though.. the frustration of dying over and over again and having to reload not to lose all your money and weapons every time is probably not going to sit with me as well now as it did then..

And this list of the most frustrating missions brought it all back.

Fuck that forklift in SA

https://kotaku.com/the-10-worst-missions-from-the-classic-gta-trilogy-1846992324

digi

With copies of the GTA Trilogy leaking all over YouTube and Twitch, series creator Rockstar has finally come out and revealed a few more details about its compilation. One of the big questions fans had pertained to the soundtracks, and we can now confirm that they’re identical to any post-2014 re-releases, meaning there are a number of songs missing from the PlayStation 2 originals.

Here’s what the publisher says: “With more than 200 songs across 29 pioneering radio stations the series has become known for, the GTA Trilogy’s iconic listings match the most recent release of the original versions (from 2014) – with no new changes.” The key piece of information is in parenthesis: “From 2014.”

This means that the soundtracks are identical to the PS2 re-releases that launched on the PS4 and were subsequently removed from the PS Store last month. As a result, there’ll be no Billie Jean on Flash FM or Rockit on Wildstyle. Rockstar does stress, however, that all of the songs will play at a higher bitrate than in the originals, and that the entire soundscape has been remastered in 5.1 surround sound.

Not only that but a new gameplay feature will allow you to change radio stations using a Grand Theft Auto 5-style selection wheel, as opposed to the fiddly toggle from the original titles.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2021/11/gta-trilogys-ps5-ps4-soundtracks-missing-songs-from-ps2-originals

Bob

No one cares about the radio

Have they put check points in?

Wookienopants

Bob wrote:

No one cares about the radio

Have they put check points in?

I care! The soundtrack was crucial to my enjoyment of Vice City

Bob

It’s like Spotify wasn’t available when VC launched

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