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Grand Theft Auto Online Heists Discouraging Random Social Interaction

After almost a year of uncertainty Rockstar Games only recently lifted the lid on the upcoming Heists update for Grand Theft Auto Online but the latest information sheds some doubt on certain decisions.

Snookies123403d ago (Edited 3403d ago )

The only random social interaction I got on GTA Online is my car being shot up whenever another player spots me.

Lord_Sloth3403d ago

Agreed. My cousin and I were just shopping and ended up in the middle of a 5 on 2 war that engulfed 4 city blocks and claimed countless lives.

SolidStoner3402d ago

GTA5 online feels awesome, looks good... but very unfinished and unfair.. people who randomly shoots other must be punished more somehow, Im tired that I cant get anywhere without a sick gunfight.. and also those Online Jobs, they work weird, sometimes lobby is full, but sometimes you cant find a single damn person to play with, for many hours.. very weird...

Dannycr3403d ago

Use Passive mode. When you are in passive mode, if you are in your car, they cannot destroy it.

TXIDarkAvenger3402d ago (Edited 3402d ago )

Yeah and then they will end up targeting you instead since your vulnerable to damage even in passive mode inside a car. It's fair since you can still run people over but annoying as sh*t when your just cruising.

Dannycr3402d ago (Edited 3402d ago )

Wait what? No. If you are in Passive mode, you are "ghostly". They cannot harm you and you cannot harm them.

I have had people throw rockets at me, C4, etc, and they have never ever killed me while I'm sitting in my (owned) car while in passive mode.

If you exit your car, the car can be destroyed, but you are still "unkillable" while in passive mode

Also I have my car set up so that only friends and crew members can use it.

SuperBlur3402d ago

Not sure why the disagree.. Passive mode now make you a ghost and the car you drive. I do remember on old gen it was easy to abuse passive mode users. I dont kmow if thats a new gen feature lol

Dannycr3402d ago

@Superblur

I'm sure its a couple of haters (i know almost for sure that one of them is a Nintendo Fanboy)

It basically hits the disagree button almost as soon as i post anything.

I don't care about the agrees or disagrees, I care about the conversation in the comments.

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Kivespussi3402d ago

I had an awesome, 6 player snowball fight at the top of the big mountain. Then the 7th player flew in with the attack chopper and decided it'd be fun to kill everone and get free kills.

Thank god for the new-ish mentality system so we knew he was coming. He shot first but we ended up killing him over and over, around 15 times until he left. Probably didn't learn his lesson but whatever, was fun.

Yes, the community in GTA Online is pretty bad but there's a lot of people that you can have fun with too

Lord_Sloth3403d ago

This site is giving me a malware warning.

Snookies123403d ago

Everything linking from N4G says it's got malware for some reason... Every site I've tried to go on at least, even ones I've been to before.

m1dday3402d ago

I remember when I accessed N4G on my computer and when clicking links it would open up a suspicious pop-up, which led me to think it was a problem with my computer.

Turns out when I used it on different computers the problem persists so I thought that's why this keeps on happening on several N4G links on Chrome recently.

IGiveHugs2NakedWomen3403d ago

Something is wrong with n4g's servers.

Ikki_Phoenix3403d ago

the online is not that great anw
+ the kids in this are the worst community i found in a game so far this gen

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Take on Freemode Challenges and Events to Get 2X GTA$ and RP - Rockstar Games

The street-level action is heating up, so dive headfirst into the chaos of Freemode Challenges and Events — all of which are paying out Double Rewards.

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Rockstar Games Is Conducting One-To-One Discussions Regarding GTA Online With Select Players

Rockstar Games will be conducting one-to-one discussions regarding its live service game, GTA Online, with a select number of players.

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phoenixwing26d ago

Thar she blows! That be a whale!! Let's talk to them mateys!

phoenixwing26d ago

@disagrees
Didn't have a good rebuttal did you? We all know the select players are whales who waste thousands or hundreds of thousands on the games currency. You expect them to make the same kinds of demands as everyone else? Keep dreaming.

Inverno25d ago

Well that and most likely streamers who have helped harpoon all those whales lolz.

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Rockstar Games Is Permanently Banning Players For Account Duplication Exploit In GTA Online

Rockstar Games is permanently banning players for using an account duplication exploit in GTA V's multiplayer component, GTA Online.

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GamingSinceForever33d ago

Why is this news? Is this supposed to be some sort of heads up to those involved?

Kombatologist32d ago

Why shouldn't this be news? If you play the game at all, you'd know this has been a problem for a while. Tell me, how is it fair for legit low-level players to be grieved by players using modded accounts with disposable amounts of cash? It's about time Rockstar did something about these losers.

BISHOP-BRASIL32d ago (Edited 32d ago )

Not that I really played it in forever, but the way I used to roll on online once I realize I had no interest in actually doing heists and micromanaging property and shit, the moment someone decided to pick a fight I'd just leave towards north, jump the fence of the army base, steal a jet and grief away... Pro tip: they can't really make you pay for other players cars when you have not one single penny to your name.

EDIT: Got carried away... Anyway, my point was, you can grief without money, this is not stopping it.

Kombatologist32d ago

@BISHOP-BRASIL

I get what you're trying to say, but it's a false equivalence. Anyone could jump the fence and grab a jet back in the day. The dynamic changed once R* started introducing militarized vehicles, such as flying motorcycles with homing rockets, a stealth helicopter, and most recently, a stealth jet. There's so many militarized vehicles now, you really have to keep up with the latest and greatest in order to defend yourself from that shit, which is really expensive to do. Sure, you could make the argument that Shark Cards give players the same advantage as a modded account. The thing is, they don't. Not even close. A modded account can have ANY amount of money, as well as ANY weapon and/or vehicle, even ones that aren't available in the game yet (as long as they're in the datafiles). Some of them even have glitched characters with invisible limbs/weapons. This is an unfair advantage to anyone who plays legitimately and nobody should have to risk getting their accounts permanently banned from stooping to the same level just to compete. Furthermore, making money is really easy to do now. Which begs the question: Why buy a modded account in the first place? I think the answer is obvious.

Petebloodyonion32d ago

So this is news because a Twitter guy says so :)

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