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  • VeldrinVeldrin Sham bam bamina Registered User regular
    So what's the online community like for this these days? I'm considering picking up the PS4 version some time soon.

  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    I dunno about PS4 but on Xbone it's constantly listed under the 'Most Played' list, so i'd say the population is probably healthy.

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  • E-gongaE-gonga Registered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    So what's the online community like for this these days? I'm considering picking up the PS4 version some time soon.

    Pretty healthy. Constantly finding myself in 22 player rooms in free roam, although people seem less willing to join jobs for some reason.

  • DiannaoChongDiannaoChong Registered User regular
    Veldrin wrote: »
    So what's the online community like for this these days? I'm considering picking up the PS4 version some time soon.

    I get full lobbies all the time, WANG on ps4 doesnt really get a lot of people on. I think I have seen 3 crew members. To be honest not seeing people on makes me not get on which perpetuates the problem I guess. I think its just time + platform switch. I'm betting on a heavy uptick on the PC, at least for a while.

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  • CampyCampy Registered User regular
    Yeah, I reckon there's a lot of folks waiting on the PC release. Which is exactly what I'm doing. Mods (if they work properly) will keep people coming back for a long time too.

    jdarksun
  • CapsaicinCapsaicin I asked my 2 y/o son to draw a pic of my German mom, and thats what we got. Registered User regular
    Campy wrote: »
    Yeah, I reckon there's a lot of folks waiting on the PC release. Which is exactly what I'm doing. Mods (if they work properly) will keep people coming back for a long time too.

    I'm waiting on PC version myself.

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  • CampyCampy Registered User regular
    Capsaicin wrote: »
    Campy wrote: »
    Yeah, I reckon there's a lot of folks waiting on the PC release. Which is exactly what I'm doing. Mods (if they work properly) will keep people coming back for a long time too.

    I'm waiting on PC version myself.

    All hail the glorious master race! /s
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  • ErlkönigErlkönig Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    While I'm not in the PA crew, I am playing on the XBone (sorry PS4 folks...my PS4's HDD was getting full) with the intent to export my character to PC.

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  • E-gongaE-gonga Registered User regular
    Erlkönig wrote: »
    While I'm not in the PA crew, I am playing on the XBone (sorry PS4 folks...my PS4's HDD was getting full) with the intent to export my character to PC.

    "My mother and my bride pleaded for GTA on PS4, but they are noobs with weak HDDs. So long as I am king, no Xbone shall go unplayed. Bring me the disc, Sir Payne."
    -Joffrey Baratheon, probably.

    Henceforth you shall be known as Sir Erlkonig the Betrayer.

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  • jdarksunjdarksun Struggler VARegistered User regular
    But he's eventually going to be playing on the PC, so he's going to get a pardon and a land grant for his loyalty to the true crown. Erlkonig the Onion Knight.

  • E-gongaE-gonga Registered User regular
    jdarksun wrote: »
    But he's eventually going to be playing on the PC, so he's going to get a pardon and a land grant for his loyalty to the true crown. Erlkonig the Onion Knight.

    Until then I propose we send him North to the Firewall to take up the hack. There he and the hack brothers shall defend the kingdom from worms and Trojans until such time as he is forgiven.

    Zilla360
  • Mego ThorMego Thor "I say thee...NAY!" Registered User regular
    E-gonga wrote: »
    jdarksun wrote: »
    But he's eventually going to be playing on the PC, so he's going to get a pardon and a land grant for his loyalty to the true crown. Erlkonig the Onion Knight.

    Until then I propose we send him North to the Firewall to take up the hack. There he and the hack brothers shall defend the kingdom from worms and Trojans until such time as he is forgiven.

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  • dav3ybdav3yb Registered User regular
    So does anyone know how big the download for this game will be? I know the requirements say 65Gigs, but the actual, hopefully compressed, download? That's a pretty sizable chunk of bandwidth, and with a cap to keep up with, I'll basically have to not download anything else the entire month probably.

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  • Sir CarcassSir Carcass I have been shown the end of my world Round Rock, TXRegistered User regular
    dav3yb wrote: »
    So does anyone know how big the download for this game will be? I know the requirements say 65Gigs, but the actual, hopefully compressed, download? That's a pretty sizable chunk of bandwidth, and with a cap to keep up with, I'll basically have to not download anything else the entire month probably.

    I would be surprised if it's under 60GB.

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  • NitsuaNitsua Gloucester, VARegistered User regular
    edited January 2015
    Seeing as how the current gen console versions used every bit of 50GB along with a hefty day one patch download and they don't even support 4k... I'm sure 65 GB is the compressed file.

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  • E-gongaE-gonga Registered User regular
    Two more videos from yours truly.

    Wanted to steal this car (wanted a rusty Emperor for a while now) so I tried to snipe the driver. Did not expect this:

    http://youtu.be/ae4auzLiYvA

    This next one is a long one. I discovered that the military base tower is enterable, so I challenged myself to climb to the top of the tower without any help from Lester. This was my 3rd attempt.

    http://youtu.be/LsbDI5fWIYQ

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  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    All I'm gonna do..is post this video

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGuyZIaNEag&x-yt-ts=1421914688&feature=player_embedded&x-yt-cl=84503534

    and remind you that its from Grand Theft Auto 4

    now I'm walking away.

    tastydonutsE-gongaBionicPenguindarleysammojojoeoStormwatcher
  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    I'm staring at you as you walk away, pondering your somewhat passive aggressive commentary on how modded PC games look compared standard packages/console games. Is this the statement that he's trying to make? I wonder in my attempt to dismiss the video and post on the basis of PC gamer mentality stereotypes.

    Maybe he just wanted to show the video? I simply don't know, I muse to myself as I end my oddly narrative post.

    edit: I return to my post, noticing some odd typos and word spurs. I fix them, hoping nobody else noticed them. But did I fix them enough?

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  • KadokenKadoken Giving Ends to my Friends and it Feels Stupendous Registered User regular
    Niko! There is a perfectly good middle hatch on that helicopter! Use it! Did they teach him to always break helicopter windows in the war? Was that Serbian tradition?

    BouwsT
  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    I'm staring at you as you walk away, pondering your somewhat passive aggressive commentary on how modded PC games look compared standard packages/console games. Is this the statement that he's trying to make? I wonder in my attempt to dismiss the video and post on the basis of PC gamer mentality stereotypes.

    Maybe he just wanted to show the video? I simply don't know, I muse to myself as I end my oddly narrative post.

    edit: I return to my post, noticing some odd typos and word spurs. I fix them, hoping nobody else noticed them. But did I fix them enough?

    I stood, amazed, that someone would think it a statement on the superiority of the PC platform and not for the obvious fact that someone has developed a way to make the older generation appear fresh and young, as if newly off the shelf.

    E-gonga
  • Mego ThorMego Thor "I say thee...NAY!" Registered User regular
    I sat at my desk, reading the Penny Arcade forums; fearing I was in for another round of the age old Consoles Vs. PC debate. My phone rang. Caller ID showed it was Roman Bellic.

    I don't answer.

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  • tastydonutstastydonuts Registered User regular
    edited January 2015
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    I'm staring at you as you walk away, pondering your somewhat passive aggressive commentary on how modded PC games look compared standard packages/console games. Is this the statement that he's trying to make? I wonder in my attempt to dismiss the video and post on the basis of PC gamer mentality stereotypes.

    Maybe he just wanted to show the video? I simply don't know, I muse to myself as I end my oddly narrative post.

    edit: I return to my post, noticing some odd typos and word spurs. I fix them, hoping nobody else noticed them. But did I fix them enough?

    I stood, amazed, that someone would think it a statement on the superiority of the PC platform and not for the obvious fact that someone has developed a way to make the older generation appear fresh and young, as if newly off the shelf.

    Alas, years of this had rendered me cynical toward mic drop-style posts. Reading your post, I notice something else amiss; how are you standing up if your previous post stated that you were walking away?

    "You're not doing this right!" I type, as if I said it out loud.

    tastydonuts on
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    E-gonga
  • E-gongaE-gonga Registered User regular
    I stood atop a lonely hill, surveying the discussion below me. My gaze wandered to the heavens, my face unreadable. What did I ponder, as I stared up at the sky? The mentality of console gamers versus that of the PC gamer? The fragile peace of a forum shattered as easily as a leaf is plucked from an autumn tree? The cyclical nature of gaming that freezes our art within it's own time while allowing future generations to imagine it anew?

    "That cloud looks like a butt." I whisper, answering the question once and for all.

    Zilla360Mego Thor
  • ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    I'm staring at you as you walk away, pondering your somewhat passive aggressive commentary on how modded PC games look compared standard packages/console games. Is this the statement that he's trying to make? I wonder in my attempt to dismiss the video and post on the basis of PC gamer mentality stereotypes.

    Maybe he just wanted to show the video? I simply don't know, I muse to myself as I end my oddly narrative post.

    edit: I return to my post, noticing some odd typos and word spurs. I fix them, hoping nobody else noticed them. But did I fix them enough?

    I stood, amazed, that someone would think it a statement on the superiority of the PC platform and not for the obvious fact that someone has developed a way to make the older generation appear fresh and young, as if newly off the shelf.

    Alas, years of this had rendered me cynical toward mic drop-style posts. Reading your post, I notice something else amiss; how are you standing up if your previous post stated that you were walking away?

    "You're not doing this right!" I type, as if I said it out loud.

    Oops, I did it again. I played with your heart, Got lost in the game. Oh baby, baby..

    tastydonutsZilla360E-gongaStormwatcher
  • E-gongaE-gonga Registered User regular
    So, just thought I'd share two bitty-bobs what I found on the Webternet:

    http://www.vg247.com/2015/02/03/gta-online-30-player-jobs/

    An opinion piece about GTA Online and how Rockstar are not doing enough to support 30-player activities (one of the major selling points of next gen).

    http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/gaming/555730/GTA-5-Online-Heists-release-date-leak-Metal-Gear-Rising-2-sequel

    Rumours on The Express (British tabloid) that Heists will be released 24/2.

  • Sir CarcassSir Carcass I have been shown the end of my world Round Rock, TXRegistered User regular
    I've heard the 2/24 rumor elsewhere.

    E-gonga
  • E-gongaE-gonga Registered User regular
    I agree with the article about the 30-player playlists. In the past Rockstar have been able to entice players into playlists with relatively simple incentives (Manhunt mask, double $ and RP). I've joined these playlists myself and it was pretty easy to get full lobbies. I don't see why every weekend cannot be dedicated to a specific game type (eg. LTS, Team DM, Racing etc) and provide extra bonuses for using them. I mean, you only get about 4k for winning a race - bumping that up to 8k is hardly going to ruin the economy, but it might just convince people to accept invites.

  • DiannaoChongDiannaoChong Registered User regular
    Yeah random events and planned events keep your community alive. While every weekend causes staleness, they could be doing them a hell of a lot more often.

    For example, air drops should ABSOLUTELY be just a regular random event. These go a long way to getting a lobby to pay attention to the same goal at the same time. Same with armored cars. Which seem to be bugged with how they spawn over and over or so rarely people dont understand what they are. If simeon announced on his wanted cars occasionally that there was a 3x payout, it would get people racing to the vehicles again.

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  • E-gongaE-gonga Registered User regular
    So there's a Double RP playlist this weekend. The key word missing from that, however, is cash. Might still give it a whirl.

  • E-gongaE-gonga Registered User regular
    E-gonga wrote: »
    So there's a Double RP playlist this weekend. The key word missing from that, however, is cash. Might still give it a whirl.

    Attempt one: Load screen. Load screen. Load screen. This is a LOT of load screen. We're sorry but we could not connect you to this session. Return to GTA Online and try again. Game crashes. Turn off PS4 and try again.

    Attempt two: Load screen. Load screen. Aha! It loads! 6 people! Host is inactive. Even though there are six people in the room, four more than the minimum required, the countdown did not begin. Waited. People started to leave. Gave up and loaded up Football Manager instead.

  • DiannaoChongDiannaoChong Registered User regular
    I had this occur on the previous bonus weekend, it sucks badly :(

    Wish I had known, I would have jumped on! I was looking for something to do this weekend too.

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    So I played this along with a few others from PA. Wish there was a way to just have a private friends only session. Would make it easier to find mates on the map.

  • DiannaoChongDiannaoChong Registered User regular
    edited February 2015
    Big Classy wrote: »
    So I played this along with a few others from PA. Wish there was a way to just have a private friends only session. Would make it easier to find mates on the map.

    Yeah they could have done better to make sure friends/clan mates play together. You can definitely do a friends only session though I thought? Just friends have to actively seek you out as the host to join though... But anyways I used to play with Nackmatholn all the time like that. Made it easier in the dark days to go back to a private shard so we could deposit cash without fear of being murdered and losing it.

    edit: What really bugs me, is friday or saturday I remembered I checked the playstation menu to see if an event was going on, because they advertised it there before. and it said nothing, so I threw in a bluray with commentary instead.

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  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    Is there a PC list yet?

    Cause i sold my 360 copy long ago with fevered anticipation of pc.

    It was fun as hell in an almost all pa group betting on who would win the races and such. You dont even have to be a good racer to enjoy that.....

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  • NosfNosf Registered User regular
    At 70 bucks for PC, double dipping is seriously not in my future. Looking forward to coming back on 360 for heists.

  • ErlkönigErlkönig Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    Nosf wrote: »
    At 70 bucks for PC, double dipping is seriously not in my future. Looking forward to coming back on 360 for heists.

    70? GMG routinely has voucher codes that knock the price down by anywhere between 20%-25%.

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  • jdarksunjdarksun Struggler VARegistered User regular
    Nosf wrote: »
    At 70 bucks for PC, double dipping is seriously not in my future. Looking forward to coming back on 360 for heists.
    $48 through GMG

  • mojojoeomojojoeo A block off the park, living the dream.Registered User regular
    edited February 2015
    Erlkönig wrote: »
    Nosf wrote: »
    At 70 bucks for PC, double dipping is seriously not in my future. Looking forward to coming back on 360 for heists.

    70? GMG routinely has voucher codes that knock the price down by anywhere between 20%-25%.

    they literally just had a 22% off prload one that i just yesterday used..... 46 for a new game is palatable

    People are passing them out on the gtav pc subreddit.....

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  • DiannaoChongDiannaoChong Registered User regular
    Erlkönig wrote: »
    Nosf wrote: »
    At 70 bucks for PC, double dipping is seriously not in my future. Looking forward to coming back on 360 for heists.

    70? GMG routinely has voucher codes that knock the price down by anywhere between 20%-25%.

    GMG isn't offering steam codes, just rockstar social club codes, and noone can figure out if that means eventually a steam code gets spit out, or if rockstar will have their own download client.

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