Quote from DeKo :

OK you're right, because it has golf and tennis side missions, it isn't a massive crime simulator. The game is called Grand Theft Auto. It's not griefing at all, it's trying to steal your money which is stolen anyway. Obviously, if you like robbing Shops and cars but don't like people doing it back to you, this isn't a game for you. Is this your first ever GTA? How boring would Online be if everyone just gave each other a wave as they drove by, why not play Single Player?

I'm not one of those type of people, no. For a start, I've never played Eve or any MMORPGs really so your reference is lost on me. I'm not a griefer in games, I race clean enough in sims, I play fair in Cod and BF, and I wouldn't even think twice about killing you with my sawn off and stealing $15,000.

Well you come off quite bitter. I enjoy GTA multiplayer for co-op missions and heists with friends, if that thought never crossed your mind. That's right, a way to play GTA online with other people... without being a dick to everyone else! Marvelous concept really, perhaps give it a go. I do welcome you to try to rob me, many have tried and all have perished themself instead.

And no, this isn't my first GTA. The one released in 1997 was.

Quote from DeKo :

GTA is about absolutely free for all carnage, with as many crimes as possible. Your comparisons are well off.

Is that why it has golf, tennis, and other non-aggressive missions too? Please, there's shitloads of ways to play this game that don't involve being a dick.

Quote from DeKo :

Complaining about being robbed in GTA because you had money from robbing shops and cars is really funny. You're going to be raging the next time I blow you away from my fighter jet.

Difference is, I make my money off NPC's, not from other players by griefing. I guess you're one of those guys who sits at lowsec areas in EVE blasting ratting newbies on a Marauder with an alt.

Anyhow, my rant has clearly gone off rails quite a bit. I enjoy the online, but it needs more work to be thoroughly enjoyable.

You're talking out of your ass, plain and simple. With that mindset, Minecraft would be all about griefing, FPS games would be all about teamkilling. Playing with these kind of people gets pretty old when you have to confront them all the time, even the first moment you join online and spawn in the world.

Rockstar aren't grouping bad players together for no reason, it just sucks that they're thrown amongst nice players before getting the bad sport stamp and ditched with other ****s.

I've been making easy money by selling Ballers at the mod shop, 9K a pop. Sure it's slow as you can only do it once an hour, but it's efforthless money. No RP points though.

Quote from Shotglass :

so youre upset someone tried to rob you in a criminal behaviour simulator?

Upset? Read my post again. I'm disappointed at the level of parenting these days. The amount of 12 year old headset screamers in this game is mind boggling.

But I guess that's modern day parenting. Buy an 18+ rated game to do the baby sitting rather than do it the hard way and spend time with your offspring.

Quote from BlueFlame :

That's why you use passive mode mate

Quote from CoolColJ :

Pay the $100 for Passive mode - problem solved
You get it by holding down the select button on the PS3 - and I think "back" on Xbox

I know, however you can still get run over or car wrecked in passive.

Will try web bank next time, annoying game mechanic though.

Christ, there's so much children playing online. And generic console multiplayer retards.

I had robbed a couple liquor stores getting around 1,8K from each, finished a 3K mission and sold a stolen 7-series bimmer for 8K, was carrying almost 15K worth of cash with me after all that. So I started rushing towards the nearest ATM and just as I arrive there some kid starts following me around with guns blazing, so I had to get rid of him so I wouldn't lose all that money. As trying to drive and shoot from a car at the same time is nearly impossible with a gamepad, it took almost 10 minutes of driving throughout the city and mountain roads to get the dude off my back and my money safely in to the bank.

Can't really trust any other players out there because of these asshats, it's a shame. I hope the PC multiplayer will have more mature players...

Even 1TB SSDs (which I consider minimum for misc storage) are ~600€, not to mention filling an SSD with photos and videos is just a massive waste.

2TB standard HDD for 95€ instead? Yeah.

I did have it fitted using just three rubber dampers for a while and it did certainly remove the humming noise, however seeking could still be heard slightly. What I'm thinking about doing, is getting a 1TB 2.5" laptop HDD, put it in a 2.5"->3.5" sound damping enclosure and fit the enclosure to the Scythe dampers and in to the 5.25" bay.

For the best sound damping, this is the right way, however it can't be done in most modern cases with quick release optical bays. It's also ghetto as hell and the elastic does wear out and need to be replaced after some time.

Quote from sinbad :

I would have made sure that the next time I stop the car is at a police station, though.

He might have been on his way there, but got blocked by traffic.

I wouldn't take anything daily mail writes as reliable.

But yeah, I'm definitely more on the car drivers side in this case. One of the bikers rides right in front of him and slows right down, most likely hitting the car in his stupidity. I guess that's what sparked the whole thing and the mob effect begun.

Saw this a while back, I'd say there's fault on both sides. Those bikers were riding like proper, proper ****s there, then again driving over people on a car the first chance you get isn't my idea of preferrable traffic behaviour either.

If the bikers had busted the cars windows and attacked the passengers the first chance they got, then sure, floor it and get out of there. But immediately gunning it over them, possibly committing manslaughter? No. Better call the cops. And Saul.

I currently have my HDD "mounted" (sitting freely on rubber feet) on the bottom of my case as I've removed all the 3.5" bays for more airflow. The stabilizer would allow me to fit the HDD to one of the 5.25" bays properly with rubber damping. As I don't have a single optical drive anymore, that would atleast make some use of the 5.25" mounts.

Scythe HDD stabilizer... too bad the threads were machined wrong on one rubber bit and it snapped when I tried to force a screw in hoping it would catch on the correct threads. Time to RMA.

Got to play online for an hour or so until it timed out at the mandatory team deathmatch tutorial. Pretty fun so far, will play more once the servers are more stable.

Quote from Becky Rose :

DX does a lot more than OpenGL. You can wave goodbye to force feedback for a start. That means no more driving sims worth playing... Especially with Steam encouraging the use of game pad style controllers.

And what's stopping developers creating their own force feedback APIs, perhaps even more sophisticated ones than DirectX/DirectInput? As far as I know, sim devs are only using DirectInput because it's all there is really readily available for windows at the moment. This is something where I'd love to hear Scawens thoughts on the matter - FFB on Linux and other unix systems.

I haven't seen Valve encouraging game pads, they will support keyboard and mouse just as they always have. The gamepad is there for the console peasants moving over to PC space.

Apparently single player savegames are being corrupted by jumping in to GTA Online, so beware.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read ... pting-single-player-saves

It's a good thing we have a PC version with dedicated servers so we don't have to rely on the developers insufficient servers and P2P connections between players.

Oh wait.

European servers coming up at 12:00 GMT apparently, patch itself is already live though.

Quote from Becky Rose :

Linux based? No DirectX.

It won't support a lot of existing games so doesn't that defeat the purpose of a game based OS?

I can't see it taking hold in the market place.

Lack of DirectX is the best thing about this whole thing. Microsoft have left PC gamers alone in the dark woods ever since xbox happened. Valve has a chance to take us out of the woods and back in to the world where PC gaming can actually continue developing past closed source single platform API's.

At the same time, they can bridge the gap between console and PC gaming with a single blow, which benefits PC more than consoles as bringing games over on a common graphics API will be less of a pain in the bum. Sure they're not going to be selling millions of units like consoles do in the start, but the plan and idea seems solid.

As windows drifts more towards what Microsoft wants (W8, metro, ribbon) rather than what the users want, Linux with gaming support sounds fantastic and I would personally jump over in a second if developers are willing to start using OpenGL/Mantle and device manufacturers start making better Linux drivers.

Corsair Obsidian 750D, continuing ultra-quiet PC project.

I've been at 78% for quite a few days now, just messing around in the world without doing anything in particular. Might think about 100% on the PC version, can't stand the pad aiming for the necessary shooting range challenges.

Quote from ACCAkut :

I follow a Let's Play that has full 1440p resolution

The game still only renders at 720p30 no matter what screen you use.

Quote from Sueycide_FD :

I see the Crown Vics every now (unless theres a civie one and police one) but never bothered to try to steal one.

Black, unmarked, driven by four drug agents armed to the teeth?

There's always 2-3 different airplanes behind Mikes personal hangar and learjets scattered around the airfield.

Edit: Seriously, f**k this game. Saw a Crown Victoria lookalike again, went in prepared with assault shotty this time. Killed all the agents, was about to get in the car, was run over by a civilian and killed.

Last edited by Matrixi, Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:51.