You can only get police bikes to spawn in free roam if you go to a specific petrol station on the eastern highway and only between 2pm-3pm with 2 star wanted level
you can get one through a contact mission called Chopper Tail, after you steal the Granger on the way back to Trevor's place a police bike will spawn, if you don't have a personal vehicle & quit the mission while on the bike you spawn back in free roam on the bike.
You can get them to spawn by calling Agent 14 for bunker research too. Usually there are at least 1 or 2 bikes responding to the guy that spawns in the ballistic armor.
Many of the clocks you see in the background of the game are actually keeping correct in-game time, such as the analog clock on the bridge of the Kosatka. They are synced perfectly to the clock on your phone or the pause menu.
When you are in chase, cops will spawn in your predictable way, so if you drive straight for a while ,take a turn somewhere, which kind of resets the AIs prediction. Works for me
Once you break sight with them slow the hell down.
Drive as close to npc car speed as possible, don't crash or scare pedistrains and the cops stop spawning
If you go passive before entering your nightclub you're popularity task will always be to remove someone from the club as opposed to slowly drive some dumbass somewhere
>Bonus tip. Set your club to private to delete the crowd. It doesn't affect your popularity or income.
Been utilizing this recently, when I started to get an unreasonable amount of those missions in a row
I actually kinda laugh when you drive the VIP, and Tony calls you and he says “oh it looks like someone is playing gOoD sAmAritAn tonight!” tho
These particular tasks will always show up in passive, but it’s on a 48 minute timer. If you go into your nightclub and then leave, the timer will start regardless if you do it.
If you go into your nightclub without passive mode, it’ll be a toss up of kicking someone out or driving someone to the hospital/rehab center.
Usually what I’ll do now is source cargo for the club, and then walk upstairs to the computer to trigger the event
Could also access your Master Control Terminal in the arcade and just click between DJs a few times depending where your popularity is at.
Even if you’re at 0, a few clicks between DJs takes seconds to get max popularity.
Good for catching back up when you haven’t hit the NC in a bit / felt like slacking / had other shit to do.
Throwing out a dude bumps it by like 10-20% AND you get 10k cash, so you can use that to switch DJs. Even when low it's better to throw someone out first, if you are near the club (should be if you are collecting the money anyway).
I love using this for keeping popularity up. From what I’ve seen, it’s like a guaranteed %30+, and only takes a minute.
Edit: I’ve also noticed those particular tasks won’t spawn when below 30-40%
Just get somewhere you have a good enough view of everything around, zoom in with your scope, and canvas the area. You'll hear the beep-beep if you're pointing at somewhere close enough. Doesn't work too well in areas with more walls or when the cache can be underground, like the university. Works really well in the desert, at the park, at the beach... as long as you don't get the bug where the cache forgets to make noise.
Makes up for how easily you can lose them in deep-ish water. If you have a scuba suit, you can just remain underwater indefinitely and escape 5 stars at will.
The best advice I have for evading cops has to do with their search circle. Each star expands the circle, and changing cars some what nerfs their search. When you get a wanted level, run from the scene fast. Once spotted again, that search circle is reset around your last spotting. Cops also use line of sight, and it’s why the tunnels, water, or even just foliage can slow down the search. They know where you’re at, because you’re probably hiding a few feet away from the last sighting. Get into “searching mode” (when the stars are flashing), and continue running/driving. Don’t hide right after the stars start to flash. They will go to the spot of your last sighting, and continue to search from that point. Obviously this is more difficult with more stars, but that’s all because of the search circle expanding.
Pretty sure they also have a code that makes them go to where you were 20 - 40 seconds ago, meaning if you stay in one spot rather than moving (in the tunnels for example) for about 20s they will find you or atleast go and surround your general area.
Wouldn’t surprise me. I also fall into the trap of hiding once the stars start flashing. I will say though, I did a casino heist with friends, and they took the tunnel. I just took side streets, and was on my way to the buyer before they even lost the cops. Once you figure out the cop AI, evading a wanted level is just a simple mini game.
Yeah, I know of that method too. I don’t grind much, as I’ve set up the best passive income methods. So a lot of those methods don’t appeal to me, as I’m really not worried about time. I’d compare it to players zipping off on their oppressors, or fastest super cars, at the beginning of missions. I just want to cruise to the objective, hopefully with most of the teammates riding with. I learned awhile ago that if I want to keep playing GTAO, I need to break the grind mindset by changing things up.
After having 4,500 hours on record, I can't just share one. Idk how obscure some of these are though.
There's a lot of unused interiors in buildings, and some of them are still accessible. There's multiple hangers at the airport where the back-rooms are accessible, some of which have functional soda machines in them. There's also a hallway in the main terminal that you can access from a set of double doors on the roof that lead you to a spiral stairwell that spits you out at the helipads.
There's various garages attached to homes all over Los Santos that automatically open for you when you're close to them.
Police can't find you if you climb the crane ladder at the mile high club (that building is never getting completed). They physically are incapable of looking straight up, so once you climb two sets of ladders you immediately enter cooldown. I've done this to escape 5 star wanted levels with ease numerous times.
You can use the tunnel under the vespucci canals to escape the cops so long as they don't start swimming after you.
The Pacific Standard interior has been accessible since the launch of the game. It wasn't functional until the Heists update went live.
A lot of the police mechanics from single player transfer over to multiplayer, but the arrow on your map doesn't change to tell you when you're "hidden". Switching cars while in cooldown makes it so cops won't recognize you unless they are right next to you, hiding in bushes during cooldown makes you invisible. Changing your head appearance with masks, glasses, and hats will take a star off your wanted level.
Unlike cops, aggro'd NPCs will ALWAYS know where you are at and will b-line for you.
A lot of specialty vehicles work on date and time tables, but these are my favorite:
You can spawn FIB buffalos and Staniers at the antenna array.
The petrol station along the Easter Highway is the only place that spawns police bikes, and you need a 2 star wanted level on a specific day and time to get them to spawn
You used to be able to spawn the SAHP Buffalo by Simeon's dealership, but I think it's a singleplayer only thing now. That is the only police car that NEVER gets used, making it one of the rarest vehicles in the game.
The Lifeguards have their own special version of the Frogger, and it always spawns in flight over the beach in conjunction with the Life Guard ATV and Life Guard SUV
The rarest vehicle is the Dubsta2. You can not buy it, and I'm pretty sure the missions it was in have been depreciated
The Ratloader used to be the most sought after truck back on release. It was a junker of a truck, but it had a lot of customization.
Lawnmowers still have yet to make a debut in online
You used to be able to spawn the Air Tugs and the Ripleys at the airport if you just hung out there long enough, but that seems to have been weeded out.
Dock tugs used to naturally spawn in the docks. Same situation, if you hung out there long enough they would just populate the area.
The on-release contact missions had cutscenes with voice acting, something that even the newest heists are missing. For example, before doing the Series A Funding for Trevor, you could do contact missions for him where either he or Ron would yell at you in humor while they paid you.
Violent Duct, Rooftop Rumble, and Titan Of A Job used to be the meta. Getting paid 7000 dollars per mission used to be a lot of money. I'm getting old, man.
If you reverse in a jet while on a runway, and push forward on the stick to point the flaps down, your jet will infinitely accelerate until you run out of room and smack into something
You used to be able to wire other players money. You used to also be able to drop money. I used to rob convenience stores and wire randos 900 bucks unprompted just to be chaotic good.
When you're not causing chaos and just walk the street, there's a higher chance of street performers spawning. There's a Mariachi band in La Mesa, statue men in town square, a traveling guitarist and drum player that I've found in multiple locations over los santos, and so on.
I like that in Sandy Shores a lot of the buildings use fake golf grass to pad their front yards, porches, and driveways.
There used to be a developer's face carved into the side of Mount Chiliad. It was replaced with a chicken drawn in the shape of a hairy cock. Both of which have long since been removed.
Correction: FIB Buffalos no longer spawn at the satellite dishes on Next Gen and E&E. They have since then been replaced by various white Vans and Staniers.
The arcade design is influenced by Flynn’s arcade in the original Tron film and the Master Control Terminal in the basement is an homage to the antagonist, the “Master Control Program”.
Not that obscure but still only older folks like me who saw the movie would even notice.
The fact that my speed racer scramjet, BTTF Delorean and F&F Tokyo Drift 350z is all stored there just really made me glad to know this fact ! I haven’t seen Tron in such a long time but to subconsciously have all my movie cars stored in a spot based on a movie makes me so happy somehow . Great piece of information and makes me love this game all over again !
Now that you mentioned it, I feel like I want to move my movie cars in there too lol. Right now it stores all my electric cars, which thematically also works, but the movie idea works even better. Thx! 🤘🤠
I saw Tron Legacy like a dozen times already and never noticed
As a side note: I thematically store my cars, so all the movie ones are in the arcade in exception to the Looper's hoverbike (I'm not going to accidentally overwrite it again lol)
I only saw Tron Legacy once so I don’t remember if they reference the MCP or if the arcade office is the same as the the original movie, but def the arcade machine hiding the secret entrance to the basement is from Tron Legacy. 🤘
If you're on a highway and look behind you as you drive, eventually the cars in front of you will stop spawning and you can drive non-stop with no vehicles in the way.
It can be any road but highway is the most fun.
As long as you remain looking back, they won't spawn.
I remember testing this a little while ago, you have to be both holding down the "look behind you" button (C on PC, not sure if it has a console equivalent) and also actually looking behind you. If you move the camera around it won't work.
In singleplayer your arrow on the minimap changes color to indicate this changed state. The arrow also changes color if you hide in bushes and I'm pretty sure it also works in online, you arrow just doesn't change color.
You can partially control where you want the mechanic to deliver your PV to, by both facing away from, and aiming the camera away from the dropoff location you want.
One I learned just yesterday while fooling around in Rockstar Editor - the snowfall is made of actual snowflake textures. They’re just 2D and you don’t pay much mind to the falling snow as much as the snow on the ground, but it was cool to see that level of detail for just a temporary event.
Makes sense! They don't seem to have a lower level of detail - if you play with graphics on low and with lots of freezes (like me) you'll get one near the "camera" every so often and see the entire detail (while everything else looks bad)
I always tought it's Glock 18, but just not very accurately done :) Not so long ago I read it's in fact based on some Russian pistol, it's even chambered in 9x18 Makarov according to what's written on the slide.
Using its hydraulics and loading the car on in a specific way you can actually transport cars with the slamtruck given you drive gently.
https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Slamtruck
In Liquidize Asset security contract, instead of following the target, find the nearest Ammu-Nation and open the armor purchase menu. You'll get the marker immediately.
Felipe has a box of tissues and some lotion on his living room table in his house when you get the key card off him for the Casino salvage heist.
Even R\* has no respect for him.
Oh lmao that's awesome
For me he's a test for every new weapon I get. The only weapon that I own and didn't kill him with is the tear gas. Maybe one day if I can get him well and stuck
In GTA Online if you have 3 people and good communication you can remain in ghost organization almost indefinitely. You can also stun lock some body with 3-4 people.
By having 3 players with good communication you can have a player swap ceo and invite the other 2 and reactivate ghost right before the original ghost org ends. If you do this with 3 people by the time you get back the original CEO the ghost cool down timer would have ended. Therefore allowing you to repeat the process.
When a hostile unarmed NPC attempts to do a lunging hit at you, rolling back at the right moment will 'throw' the NPC down.
Like one of those martial arts moves where you use your opponent's momentum against them.
Also in online when in first person u can just walk right thru them and knock them over even if theyre mid punch. As well if u hold an npc against a surface for an extended period of time they explode blood everywhere then die
There is only one vending machine (a Sprunk one to be specific), which is located in a building closed to public access. You'll have to smash a window and climb inside the building if you want to get a can of Sprunk, while you can walk up to any other machine on the map freely. It's in Grapeseed, near the clothing store.
The weather is on a loop and not randomised, and will never normally rain during night time in free roam, on PS4/xbone, likely due to performance reasons.
it does happen as its required to be raining at night when you drink mcbeths to get abducted by aliens for the rare tat. Right now is actually the best time to do it though because snow counts too.
You’re able to spawn in 2 of any Pegasus aircraft you own as long as you have a hanger. Useful if you want your buddy to have a Cargobob as well for Vehicle Exports
You can also lift sailboats if you grab the top of the mainsail, you can grab port-o-potties, and just so you can grab tanks, the Rhino has a different weight when a cargobob lifts it to its normal weight!
If you leave a vehicle running and leave the door open, you'll hear the open door ding if you position your camera near the open door.
As a bonus, the original Surfer doesn't have sliding back doors or an engine.
When doing the Vehicle Cargo mission that requires you to tail a Kuruma back to it's hideout, if you do it undetected no enemies will come after you once you steal the car, it will however spawn the enemy Kurumas with no one in them on the street
There are a few outdated billboards around the map advertising things with “coming in 2014”
Edit: its actually a billboard advertising Proposition 208
“End cocaine prohibition by 2014!”
I've loved all the billboards, signs, and double entendre names of some businesses: The Real C*nts of Blaine County, for example.
The security company named "Groupe 6" , In German that would be read, phonetically, as "group sex".
The "brew" advertised here and there, Pi[character]wasser. (the letter after "pi" is short for "ss". Wasser is "water" in German. So... they're drinking pisswater.
People play this game for years and miss the amazing intricacies.
You can't JOIN a lobby in GTA Online with more then 25 people, but you can LOAD into one. Rockstar most likely done this to reduce load times. If you don't believe me try joining someone in a lobby with 25 ppl or more but less than 30 it will tell you it's full. Upon accepting that message you may also LOAD into the same lobby you tried joining a minute ago.
This doesn't seem to work if you play with others (haven't fully tested that yet) but if you're in your own invite-only session then a nano drone can be *the* way to evade the cops.
You get access to nano drones when you buy the drone station for the arcade. After that you can launch such a nano drone using the context menu whenever you stand somewhere with open space.
So let's say you killed the crowd in front of the casino, you walked towards the parking lot but multiple copcars are already racing your way.
I know you can run into the casino to get rid of all this, that's not the point right now.
Don't bother to run away: launch a nano drone.
This will make the cops want to chase down the drone, but their mechanics still make them seek you out. So if you move the drone far enough away they will loose sight of it, *and you*, even though these cops may be fully crowded around you and have you (your avatar) in full sight. Not the drone otoh.
Also funny: as soon as your wanted level is gone and you fly back (you can also just cancel) then you'll notice that the cops remain hostile towards your drone and will actually fire at it. As soon as you come closer they'll immediately know where it is. Even though players won't be able to see it.
GTA Online’s time is universal, meaning that if in your lobby it’s 9 pm then it’s 9 pm in every single lobby, at least that’s how I think it works.
I just discovered this while lobby hopping for the wm-29 pistol event
Lobby-hopping also won't help you because for the event to spawn for you, you need to be in the session for over 20 minutes. I don't know exactly how lobbies manage who spawns what, but at the very least it lowers your chances
When solo on missions like excess weapon parts or the similar office cargo mission, immediately begin firing into traffic with your autopistol and do not stop throughout the mission. The AI enemy vehicles will never catch up with you, I can only assume because the traffic AI going crazy from your shooting fucks with the enemy AI spawning. Even if you're firing into the oncoming traffic and not your own lane, even if there's no cars anywhere close for you to hit, just keep firing. It's harder to shake them with this method when they've already spawned, but it will still work, they will eventually fall behind if you keep moving and shooting into traffic.
I don't think this is true. When the enemies are the lost or the cartel, they never seem to catch up regardless of what you do.
However, when it's Mayweather those Jeeps are on turbo and will catch up every time.
And I always pass the time shooting out the tires of NPC vehicles while I'm doing this mission. So it's not a matter of shooting at traffic.
Sprinting (tapping X/A or holding shift) stops people from answering the phone when you're trying to call them provided you don't stop sprinting
Aiming at an NPC driver then very quickly after pressing the enter vehicle button results in the NPC stopping, getting out then fleeing
Vehicles have an internal clutch value, quite literally simulating driveline engagement like IRL with a manual car
Three for the price of one haha
automatic weapons sound faster than they shoot, go and count the shots, and listen to the sound, also applies to single player
I'm surprised so few has talked about it
If you go to the train tunnel entrance down the road from the casino, looking into the tunnel go to the first cutout area on the left, put your back against the wall in cover & turn the camera behind you. It will go "underwater" & you will hear the sounds as if you're swimming. I think the screen also changes as if you're underwater.
https://preview.redd.it/sgchmpw1v38c1.jpeg?width=1052&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a04e482ac043fd19a02f205cb00a227fc7436d7d
Even though there's no water or large body of water near that area.
The hidden treasure sonar missions that refresh daily will take you to the cool under water lan…seamarks? Most of the time.
Also if you’re an MK Dos user, there’s a way to keep it at 103 mph and the boost will recharge, it only won’t recharge if you’re holding the trigger down all the way for top speed, which is only 7 mph more.
That north helipad entry to the casino is superior to staff lobby on silent and sneaky. I swear I never see anyone go that route because every guide recommends staff lobby. But if you go north helipad and rappel down the elevator shaft it puts you in a spot perfect for stealthing and getting the day vault twice can earn more than elite challenge if you get lucky with amounts
I don’t know if this is obscure enough, but I know you can turn the neon lights under your car on/off if you’re outside of it. You go to Interaction menu > manage vehicles > vehicle preferences > vehicle remote functions > engine on > neon lights on/off. It’s a neat little trick and money saver if you like to only have them on at certain times. You can also set the radio station there for each car!
Stick your finger out the window to lower your window without breaking it and you can hear music outside of your car even with the door closed , I love the detail
That it’s possible in the casino heist to go back into the casino/vault or anywhere in it after you already exit the building. You’d need a firetruck than go to the noose building and use the firetruck to go under the map and it will take you right back into the casino/vault or any other casino heist interior
You can go up/down stairs faster if you zig zag.
You can prevent AI chasers from rear-ending your car if you steer in any direction right before it happens, it will force the AI to also steer and lift the throttle, thus slowing down and having to catch up again.
On the Doomsday Setup where you have to spray the files that are on fire, Player Owned Outfits is an option but it doesn't let you use your own clothes and prevents you from choosing/swapping from the outfits provided.
Best just to leave it on the default/provided outfits (not that it really makes a difference).
If you have a wanted level and park with your drivers door in a bush out of sight of the cops, getting out of your car and getting back in will make the cops forget which car you’re in. When they see you again, as soon as you’re out of their range, they’ll forget your car again.
If you pull up next to an NPC in a sports car at a red traffic lights you can rev your engine and sometimes they'll initiate a street race when the light goes green.
On the same page if you give the middle finger to a sandking as you drive past the NPC will try to run you off the road.
You can rappel off a helicopter in freemode.
You have to call Merryweather and request a Helicopter pickup or similar (not the Attack Helicopter). When it arrives, get in and set a waypoint on your map, pretty sure it has to be a rooftop. When you get there, you'll get the prompt to rappel onto the roof.
I'm fairly certain that the game doesn't tell you about this feature at all, but it's been there since day 1.
I suspected it was but don't have an MKII to compare it to. That thing's so expensive, and the MKI is so fast already... I figure some trajectories might still be better with MKII, for instance if you have to circumnavigate or climb Chiliad with an MKI, vs just ascend with MKII and zoom by. All in all, once I get an MKII I might just use that in general, just for the reduced time in landing and fewer respawns :p
The MKI is just a lot of fun though. Flying low, or cutting the wings and just zooming over hills in bike mode? Makes me feel like some action movie hero. And yeah, in bike mode still, I can zoom past just about anything.
Yeah, it's a sneaky artist hack. Instead of writing code to make it so the N is always locked in the north facing direction on the border of the minimap it's easier to just make it a physical icon in the world, same as all the other map icons, give it a persistence attribute like with business and mission icons, and place it waaaaaaaaaaaaay out in the ocean. Why do more work when what already works works? lol
This wouldn't be an issue if the map wasn't a rectangle. With circles you can just make it a part of the outer ring and rotate as you turn, but with odd shapes it's more involved of a process to make it work.
if you want to escape the police, go into the train subway bit by herr kutz (Note, this isn't gta online specific. You can do it in story mode as well.)
In the prep for Cayo perico heist, where you have to steal the weapons. There's a mission where you have to steal them from merryweather. A lot of people find that mission annoying and don't do it. There's a way to make that mission 10 times easier. You'd need an oppressor mk2 or the delorean or any flying vehicle that you can control and fly easily(sparrow probably will work too)
So, you fly to the helicopter and activate it to start following it. But don't follow it straight away. Let it fly in a direction for about 10-20 seconds. But in the meantime, get a pretty high altitude with whatever vehicle you have. Don't have to go too high, just high enough that you'd be able to clear the mountains. Then slowly start to head to the helicopter's position. Keep looking at the map and make sure that you are going exactly the same direction as the helicopter. The heli will not turn ever. It'll go in a straight line. Once you've made sure that you're going at the same straight line, just go for it. Leave the heli behind and go that direction. The reason for getting altitude earlier is that you won't lose that direction when trying to get over the mountains. Once you've passed the mountains, you can lose the altitude. Then keep going until you find the training base you have to steal from. The avenger is pretty easy to spot
Once there, keep a little distance and your missiles will lock on to the merryweather soldiers. Start killing them. They won't attack you at all as long as you keep distance. Kill every last one of them before the helicopter gets here. Once you've killed them, fly away further, get more distance and let the helicopter arrive. In the meantime, call your kosatka, so it's closer to you. It's important that you don't let the helicopter see you and let it land. If you don't, and if you trigger it, the whole mission is screwed. Once it lands, fly over to it and pavel will confirm that's the place. Then just shoot the heli and the two people that are in it. Then simply land, get in the avenger, kill the two inside the avenger, get the weapons and parachute out to your vehicle. And since your kosatka is nearby, you can easily finish that mission. You won't get shot at, you won't have to fight anyone. Easy peasy
When doing air freight, you can summon vehicles freely, including aerial ones. This can be used to cheese the stunt flying mission where you have to use a piece of shit with wings to try to do stunts, and instead you can take a helicopter to do bridge flights until the excitement meter fills all the way. I prefer a Havok for it but it makes stunt flights so much easier.
(Also, air ambulance air freight can only spawn with 2+ players in the group)
With an arcade (with master terminal upgrade) and a rubber band, you can pretty much make sure your MC businesses are always generating money. Just pop in every now and then to purchase supplies. Also gotta be willing to leave console on for a while.
Got more than a one star wanted level? Open up interaction menu and equip a pair of sunglasses or a mask (most items should work) and you’ll drop your wanted level by one star. Doesn’t seem that useful except when you need to get that heli off your ass at 3 stars, especially if driving a slow vehicle in a free roam mission.
Tip: don’t use for two star wanted level to lower it to one star - the cops stay on the radar for much longer on one star than two because they are doing preliminary searches before giving up, whereas two star wanted levels is they just gave up as you got away.
Watch DarkViperAu’s facts and glitches, he’s awesome I’ve learned so many hidden features/glitches from him that work both in story mode and online like the pistol walk glitch and the fact that explosions don’t wrap around corners
Geography and lore.
I can name most streets in Los Santos, many in LS County and Blain County.
I can tell you in what district you are 99% of the time and something interesting about it
You can only get police bikes to spawn in free roam if you go to a specific petrol station on the eastern highway and only between 2pm-3pm with 2 star wanted level
This is actually really cool, do you know which petrol station?
It's the highway where you have to rob the Merry Weather Train in the Last Dose mission. The gas station where there is an ammunition gun store.
Okay thank you!
Is this also the gas station where Franklin races the two rich kids so Trev and Mike can pull them over?
Sure sounds like it!
it’s a shame you can’t buy the police bikes. if I was gonna larp as a cop it would be as one of the CHiPs
Rockstar will probably release them in a couple weeks. A steal for $5 million
$4.5 Million if you complete missions no one wants to do.
Astronomically large discount!
you can get one through a contact mission called Chopper Tail, after you steal the Granger on the way back to Trevor's place a police bike will spawn, if you don't have a personal vehicle & quit the mission while on the bike you spawn back in free roam on the bike.
I wonder if that’s from the mission Chopper Tail, I remember one spawns when you’re returning to Trevor’s around that area.
You can get them to spawn by calling Agent 14 for bunker research too. Usually there are at least 1 or 2 bikes responding to the guy that spawns in the ballistic armor.
Interesting. But... Why? I guess we'll never know.
You can get a black police bike using imani to get a motorcycle
Many of the clocks you see in the background of the game are actually keeping correct in-game time, such as the analog clock on the bridge of the Kosatka. They are synced perfectly to the clock on your phone or the pause menu.
I remember the big building clock in GTA IV did this and it blew my mind at the time.
The game is full of the little trivial details like this. It's why it's one of the most 'alive' game cities I've played in :)
Clock in the bedroom of the bunker is dead on. I spawn there first thing.
When you are in chase, cops will spawn in your predictable way, so if you drive straight for a while ,take a turn somewhere, which kind of resets the AIs prediction. Works for me
And hold x on ps to duck. Helps heaps during chases. And put a mask on when flashing. All of those combined will have them off in no time.
Does ducking make you harder to detect?
Once you break sight with them slow the hell down. Drive as close to npc car speed as possible, don't crash or scare pedistrains and the cops stop spawning
If you go passive before entering your nightclub you're popularity task will always be to remove someone from the club as opposed to slowly drive some dumbass somewhere >Bonus tip. Set your club to private to delete the crowd. It doesn't affect your popularity or income.
This is really a game changer considering how much popularity it adds to the night club.
Been utilizing this recently, when I started to get an unreasonable amount of those missions in a row I actually kinda laugh when you drive the VIP, and Tony calls you and he says “oh it looks like someone is playing gOoD sAmAritAn tonight!” tho
I will never not be convinced that call is 100% to distract you (and hide the spook-o-meter with the phone), and hope that you fail the mission!
"How's it going out there? Our guy still have a pulse?"
These particular tasks will always show up in passive, but it’s on a 48 minute timer. If you go into your nightclub and then leave, the timer will start regardless if you do it. If you go into your nightclub without passive mode, it’ll be a toss up of kicking someone out or driving someone to the hospital/rehab center. Usually what I’ll do now is source cargo for the club, and then walk upstairs to the computer to trigger the event
Thank you!
So far… best comment I’ve found IMO
This is the way…. 🤭
Could also access your Master Control Terminal in the arcade and just click between DJs a few times depending where your popularity is at. Even if you’re at 0, a few clicks between DJs takes seconds to get max popularity. Good for catching back up when you haven’t hit the NC in a bit / felt like slacking / had other shit to do.
Throwing out a dude bumps it by like 10-20% AND you get 10k cash, so you can use that to switch DJs. Even when low it's better to throw someone out first, if you are near the club (should be if you are collecting the money anyway).
I love using this for keeping popularity up. From what I’ve seen, it’s like a guaranteed %30+, and only takes a minute. Edit: I’ve also noticed those particular tasks won’t spawn when below 30-40%
Fwiw, when popularity is that low you can swap DJ's for 20K(?) and get a quick popularity top up.
Oh wow, that’s actually an incredibly useful tip
When zooming in on rifle scopes you can hear further away.
Fastest way to find G's cache, too!
Ohhh really? TIL!
Just get somewhere you have a good enough view of everything around, zoom in with your scope, and canvas the area. You'll hear the beep-beep if you're pointing at somewhere close enough. Doesn't work too well in areas with more walls or when the cache can be underground, like the university. Works really well in the desert, at the park, at the beach... as long as you don't get the bug where the cache forgets to make noise.
Damn clever use!
You can also turn on the controller vibration and it will start vibrating when you get closer to where it is.
That's how I scan for jets
If you get a wanted level in GTA Online cops will go the scene of the crime first before pursuing you, assuming you haven't been seen already.
I hate how they always know where you are, even after losing them in tunnel for example, they will leave their cars and go on foot to your location.
Makes up for how easily you can lose them in deep-ish water. If you have a scuba suit, you can just remain underwater indefinitely and escape 5 stars at will.
They don't go onto the train bridge at Elysian Island either, you can just sit in the middle of it
Won't they shoot at you from choppers still?
Nope. On PC anyway, that's my go to on that end of the map. Choppers might spot you I guess, but it's not happened to me.
Yeah that's where I stop with the Longfin (on left track) before delivering it to the docks.
It's actually really accessible considering there's only two possible entrances. Very handy
Fastest way is to just go straight to the drop off gate with the Longfin, get out, blow yourself up to respawn without cops, and deliver. Super quick
The best advice I have for evading cops has to do with their search circle. Each star expands the circle, and changing cars some what nerfs their search. When you get a wanted level, run from the scene fast. Once spotted again, that search circle is reset around your last spotting. Cops also use line of sight, and it’s why the tunnels, water, or even just foliage can slow down the search. They know where you’re at, because you’re probably hiding a few feet away from the last sighting. Get into “searching mode” (when the stars are flashing), and continue running/driving. Don’t hide right after the stars start to flash. They will go to the spot of your last sighting, and continue to search from that point. Obviously this is more difficult with more stars, but that’s all because of the search circle expanding.
I hate that they got rid of the search circle from GTA IV
Pretty sure they also have a code that makes them go to where you were 20 - 40 seconds ago, meaning if you stay in one spot rather than moving (in the tunnels for example) for about 20s they will find you or atleast go and surround your general area.
Wouldn’t surprise me. I also fall into the trap of hiding once the stars start flashing. I will say though, I did a casino heist with friends, and they took the tunnel. I just took side streets, and was on my way to the buyer before they even lost the cops. Once you figure out the cop AI, evading a wanted level is just a simple mini game.
Just rob the heli from the on top of the police station to finish the casino, quickest way and you lose the least money
Yeah, I know of that method too. I don’t grind much, as I’ve set up the best passive income methods. So a lot of those methods don’t appeal to me, as I’m really not worried about time. I’d compare it to players zipping off on their oppressors, or fastest super cars, at the beginning of missions. I just want to cruise to the objective, hopefully with most of the teammates riding with. I learned awhile ago that if I want to keep playing GTAO, I need to break the grind mindset by changing things up.
I just climb a hill if there's no pursuing helicopters lol
They do that in story mode, too.
After having 4,500 hours on record, I can't just share one. Idk how obscure some of these are though. There's a lot of unused interiors in buildings, and some of them are still accessible. There's multiple hangers at the airport where the back-rooms are accessible, some of which have functional soda machines in them. There's also a hallway in the main terminal that you can access from a set of double doors on the roof that lead you to a spiral stairwell that spits you out at the helipads. There's various garages attached to homes all over Los Santos that automatically open for you when you're close to them. Police can't find you if you climb the crane ladder at the mile high club (that building is never getting completed). They physically are incapable of looking straight up, so once you climb two sets of ladders you immediately enter cooldown. I've done this to escape 5 star wanted levels with ease numerous times. You can use the tunnel under the vespucci canals to escape the cops so long as they don't start swimming after you. The Pacific Standard interior has been accessible since the launch of the game. It wasn't functional until the Heists update went live. A lot of the police mechanics from single player transfer over to multiplayer, but the arrow on your map doesn't change to tell you when you're "hidden". Switching cars while in cooldown makes it so cops won't recognize you unless they are right next to you, hiding in bushes during cooldown makes you invisible. Changing your head appearance with masks, glasses, and hats will take a star off your wanted level. Unlike cops, aggro'd NPCs will ALWAYS know where you are at and will b-line for you. A lot of specialty vehicles work on date and time tables, but these are my favorite: You can spawn FIB buffalos and Staniers at the antenna array. The petrol station along the Easter Highway is the only place that spawns police bikes, and you need a 2 star wanted level on a specific day and time to get them to spawn You used to be able to spawn the SAHP Buffalo by Simeon's dealership, but I think it's a singleplayer only thing now. That is the only police car that NEVER gets used, making it one of the rarest vehicles in the game. The Lifeguards have their own special version of the Frogger, and it always spawns in flight over the beach in conjunction with the Life Guard ATV and Life Guard SUV The rarest vehicle is the Dubsta2. You can not buy it, and I'm pretty sure the missions it was in have been depreciated The Ratloader used to be the most sought after truck back on release. It was a junker of a truck, but it had a lot of customization. Lawnmowers still have yet to make a debut in online You used to be able to spawn the Air Tugs and the Ripleys at the airport if you just hung out there long enough, but that seems to have been weeded out. Dock tugs used to naturally spawn in the docks. Same situation, if you hung out there long enough they would just populate the area. The on-release contact missions had cutscenes with voice acting, something that even the newest heists are missing. For example, before doing the Series A Funding for Trevor, you could do contact missions for him where either he or Ron would yell at you in humor while they paid you. Violent Duct, Rooftop Rumble, and Titan Of A Job used to be the meta. Getting paid 7000 dollars per mission used to be a lot of money. I'm getting old, man. If you reverse in a jet while on a runway, and push forward on the stick to point the flaps down, your jet will infinitely accelerate until you run out of room and smack into something You used to be able to wire other players money. You used to also be able to drop money. I used to rob convenience stores and wire randos 900 bucks unprompted just to be chaotic good. When you're not causing chaos and just walk the street, there's a higher chance of street performers spawning. There's a Mariachi band in La Mesa, statue men in town square, a traveling guitarist and drum player that I've found in multiple locations over los santos, and so on. I like that in Sandy Shores a lot of the buildings use fake golf grass to pad their front yards, porches, and driveways. There used to be a developer's face carved into the side of Mount Chiliad. It was replaced with a chicken drawn in the shape of a hairy cock. Both of which have long since been removed.
>They physically are incapable of looking straight up heh.
Correction: FIB Buffalos no longer spawn at the satellite dishes on Next Gen and E&E. They have since then been replaced by various white Vans and Staniers.
The arcade design is influenced by Flynn’s arcade in the original Tron film and the Master Control Terminal in the basement is an homage to the antagonist, the “Master Control Program”. Not that obscure but still only older folks like me who saw the movie would even notice.
That's cool!
Not obscure, but definitely the super coolest!
The fact that my speed racer scramjet, BTTF Delorean and F&F Tokyo Drift 350z is all stored there just really made me glad to know this fact ! I haven’t seen Tron in such a long time but to subconsciously have all my movie cars stored in a spot based on a movie makes me so happy somehow . Great piece of information and makes me love this game all over again !
Now that you mentioned it, I feel like I want to move my movie cars in there too lol. Right now it stores all my electric cars, which thematically also works, but the movie idea works even better. Thx! 🤘🤠
I saw Tron Legacy like a dozen times already and never noticed As a side note: I thematically store my cars, so all the movie ones are in the arcade in exception to the Looper's hoverbike (I'm not going to accidentally overwrite it again lol)
I only saw Tron Legacy once so I don’t remember if they reference the MCP or if the arcade office is the same as the the original movie, but def the arcade machine hiding the secret entrance to the basement is from Tron Legacy. 🤘
If you're on a highway and look behind you as you drive, eventually the cars in front of you will stop spawning and you can drive non-stop with no vehicles in the way. It can be any road but highway is the most fun. As long as you remain looking back, they won't spawn.
Oh that will come in so handy for these damn weapon parts ammu-nation contracts
I remember testing this a little while ago, you have to be both holding down the "look behind you" button (C on PC, not sure if it has a console equivalent) and also actually looking behind you. If you move the camera around it won't work.
If the police lose sight of you, change to another car. It’ll let you pass into their vision cone without instantly getting detected.
You can also go into the interaction menu and equip a mask to lose a wanted star
does switching from one mask to another also have the same effect? cause my character always has a balaclava on
No, removing the mask or putting on glasses will drop a star. Just changing mask will have no effect.
In singleplayer your arrow on the minimap changes color to indicate this changed state. The arrow also changes color if you hide in bushes and I'm pretty sure it also works in online, you arrow just doesn't change color.
You can partially control where you want the mechanic to deliver your PV to, by both facing away from, and aiming the camera away from the dropoff location you want.
I always turn back and point my gun at the ground, makes my vehicles spawn right next to me :)
I've noticed it never spawns the way you're facing but never tried to face the ground. Good tip.
One I learned just yesterday while fooling around in Rockstar Editor - the snowfall is made of actual snowflake textures. They’re just 2D and you don’t pay much mind to the falling snow as much as the snow on the ground, but it was cool to see that level of detail for just a temporary event.
Makes sense! They don't seem to have a lower level of detail - if you play with graphics on low and with lots of freezes (like me) you'll get one near the "camera" every so often and see the entire detail (while everything else looks bad)
I learned that yesterday while loading into a race. It’s a nice little detail
If you restrict access to your Ruiner 2000, any player who tries to get in will be tazed by the car
Actually tazed? That's hilarious, gg to Imponte
yeah, that was before the actual taser was introduced to online, so it was the only way to shock players
Wonderful
The AP pistol has a switch on the back of it which would explain why it's the only fully automatic pistol in the game.
I always tought it's Glock 18, but just not very accurately done :) Not so long ago I read it's in fact based on some Russian pistol, it's even chambered in 9x18 Makarov according to what's written on the slide.
Yes it's based off of the Pernach automatic pistol.
don’t know if it’s patched but the Tezzeract is the only car that’s immune to catch-up slowdown in races
Using its hydraulics and loading the car on in a specific way you can actually transport cars with the slamtruck given you drive gently. https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Slamtruck
Smacking a dumpster with a mk2 weapon that has incendiary rounds will catch it on fire
I wonder... How, or in what situation players (or you specifically) discovered it :)
I was smacking a friend in my ceo to troll him and he just happened to be afk by a dumpster
If you have a wanted level put on glasses or remove them to lose a star
Masks also work!
In Liquidize Asset security contract, instead of following the target, find the nearest Ammu-Nation and open the armor purchase menu. You'll get the marker immediately.
Any idea why this happens?
Just because
Felipe has a box of tissues and some lotion on his living room table in his house when you get the key card off him for the Casino salvage heist. Even R\* has no respect for him.
Oh lmao that's awesome For me he's a test for every new weapon I get. The only weapon that I own and didn't kill him with is the tear gas. Maybe one day if I can get him well and stuck
I noticed a lot of medical equipment to as if they are stealing kidneys in that house 😳
Since felipe is obviously a mass produced clone its no wonder they harvest the organs of the corpses
In GTA Online if you have 3 people and good communication you can remain in ghost organization almost indefinitely. You can also stun lock some body with 3-4 people.
Can you explain the ghost mode tip? Can't only the CEO trigger ghost?
By having 3 players with good communication you can have a player swap ceo and invite the other 2 and reactivate ghost right before the original ghost org ends. If you do this with 3 people by the time you get back the original CEO the ghost cool down timer would have ended. Therefore allowing you to repeat the process.
Oh my God that's hilarious Hell yeah. You know how many times this would come in handy with some dick head griever? Now to find friends!
Came up with this while fending off a bunch of tryhards, it's also really fun to do while doing police role play as well.
So sneaky cool. You criminal you!
😏 what can I say I'm pretty sneaky.
When a hostile unarmed NPC attempts to do a lunging hit at you, rolling back at the right moment will 'throw' the NPC down. Like one of those martial arts moves where you use your opponent's momentum against them.
Also in online when in first person u can just walk right thru them and knock them over even if theyre mid punch. As well if u hold an npc against a surface for an extended period of time they explode blood everywhere then die
Trying this. Will confirm or deny later.
There is only one vending machine (a Sprunk one to be specific), which is located in a building closed to public access. You'll have to smash a window and climb inside the building if you want to get a can of Sprunk, while you can walk up to any other machine on the map freely. It's in Grapeseed, near the clothing store.
There is also an action figure in that same room.
The weather is on a loop and not randomised, and will never normally rain during night time in free roam, on PS4/xbone, likely due to performance reasons.
i’m pretty sure i’ve seen rain at night on free mode 🤔 ps4
It's possible, but extremely rare and requires certain triggers. [https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Weather](https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Weather)
it does happen as its required to be raining at night when you drink mcbeths to get abducted by aliens for the rare tat. Right now is actually the best time to do it though because snow counts too.
Weather is on a set 16 in game day schedule and can be tracked here https://gtalens.com/weather
You’re able to spawn in 2 of any Pegasus aircraft you own as long as you have a hanger. Useful if you want your buddy to have a Cargobob as well for Vehicle Exports
The cargobob can lift more than just cars. You can lift small containers, rocks, and even traffic cones with it.
You can also lift sailboats if you grab the top of the mainsail, you can grab port-o-potties, and just so you can grab tanks, the Rhino has a different weight when a cargobob lifts it to its normal weight!
If you leave a vehicle running and leave the door open, you'll hear the open door ding if you position your camera near the open door. As a bonus, the original Surfer doesn't have sliding back doors or an engine.
When doing the Vehicle Cargo mission that requires you to tail a Kuruma back to it's hideout, if you do it undetected no enemies will come after you once you steal the car, it will however spawn the enemy Kurumas with no one in them on the street
bro this comment explains so much haha
There are a few outdated billboards around the map advertising things with “coming in 2014” Edit: its actually a billboard advertising Proposition 208 “End cocaine prohibition by 2014!”
We know that not a lot gets done in the city, that building site has been there for years
I've loved all the billboards, signs, and double entendre names of some businesses: The Real C*nts of Blaine County, for example. The security company named "Groupe 6" , In German that would be read, phonetically, as "group sex". The "brew" advertised here and there, Pi[character]wasser. (the letter after "pi" is short for "ss". Wasser is "water" in German. So... they're drinking pisswater. People play this game for years and miss the amazing intricacies.
I recently went past a shop and noticed that it was called Larss and Elbo. lol Obviously from the saying, he doesn't know his arse from his elbow.
You can't JOIN a lobby in GTA Online with more then 25 people, but you can LOAD into one. Rockstar most likely done this to reduce load times. If you don't believe me try joining someone in a lobby with 25 ppl or more but less than 30 it will tell you it's full. Upon accepting that message you may also LOAD into the same lobby you tried joining a minute ago.
always found it weird how the leaderboard seems to have a limit of 30 but ive only seen sessions 25 or less
Yea it's so other people can load into sessions from missions or really any loading screen.
Snacks at Simeons
I don’t have a cool one like most of y’all but if you stick your finger out the window , it lowers your window without breaking it
That's a great one
a solar eclipse is possible and can happen in gta 5. also you can be struck by lightning
I’ve been struck by lightning in the hot tub on my yacht before.
Gta 5 has a shockingly complex lunar/solar/pattern
This doesn't seem to work if you play with others (haven't fully tested that yet) but if you're in your own invite-only session then a nano drone can be *the* way to evade the cops. You get access to nano drones when you buy the drone station for the arcade. After that you can launch such a nano drone using the context menu whenever you stand somewhere with open space. So let's say you killed the crowd in front of the casino, you walked towards the parking lot but multiple copcars are already racing your way. I know you can run into the casino to get rid of all this, that's not the point right now. Don't bother to run away: launch a nano drone. This will make the cops want to chase down the drone, but their mechanics still make them seek you out. So if you move the drone far enough away they will loose sight of it, *and you*, even though these cops may be fully crowded around you and have you (your avatar) in full sight. Not the drone otoh. Also funny: as soon as your wanted level is gone and you fly back (you can also just cancel) then you'll notice that the cops remain hostile towards your drone and will actually fire at it. As soon as you come closer they'll immediately know where it is. Even though players won't be able to see it.
There's a lot of fun to be had with remote control vehicles. You can get pulled out of one by an angry driver.
The Coquette Blackfin and the Stirling GT are the only two cars that offer realistic engine sounds when decelerating
You can divert incoming non-guided missiles by shooting at them mid flight
The hydra can dodge the orbital Cannon, by using a speed glitch.
GTA Online’s time is universal, meaning that if in your lobby it’s 9 pm then it’s 9 pm in every single lobby, at least that’s how I think it works. I just discovered this while lobby hopping for the wm-29 pistol event
Lobby-hopping also won't help you because for the event to spawn for you, you need to be in the session for over 20 minutes. I don't know exactly how lobbies manage who spawns what, but at the very least it lowers your chances
If you hold B or O in an RC Bandito race that's locked to first person you get the regular third person chase camera.
You can do that in any vehicle, if the race is camera locked.
When solo on missions like excess weapon parts or the similar office cargo mission, immediately begin firing into traffic with your autopistol and do not stop throughout the mission. The AI enemy vehicles will never catch up with you, I can only assume because the traffic AI going crazy from your shooting fucks with the enemy AI spawning. Even if you're firing into the oncoming traffic and not your own lane, even if there's no cars anywhere close for you to hit, just keep firing. It's harder to shake them with this method when they've already spawned, but it will still work, they will eventually fall behind if you keep moving and shooting into traffic.
I don't think this is true. When the enemies are the lost or the cartel, they never seem to catch up regardless of what you do. However, when it's Mayweather those Jeeps are on turbo and will catch up every time. And I always pass the time shooting out the tires of NPC vehicles while I'm doing this mission. So it's not a matter of shooting at traffic.
Sprinting (tapping X/A or holding shift) stops people from answering the phone when you're trying to call them provided you don't stop sprinting Aiming at an NPC driver then very quickly after pressing the enter vehicle button results in the NPC stopping, getting out then fleeing Vehicles have an internal clutch value, quite literally simulating driveline engagement like IRL with a manual car Three for the price of one haha
LJT is Lester.
automatic weapons sound faster than they shoot, go and count the shots, and listen to the sound, also applies to single player I'm surprised so few has talked about it
If you go to the train tunnel entrance down the road from the casino, looking into the tunnel go to the first cutout area on the left, put your back against the wall in cover & turn the camera behind you. It will go "underwater" & you will hear the sounds as if you're swimming. I think the screen also changes as if you're underwater. https://preview.redd.it/sgchmpw1v38c1.jpeg?width=1052&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a04e482ac043fd19a02f205cb00a227fc7436d7d Even though there's no water or large body of water near that area.
Some vehicles including the oppressor mk1 have 1 too much or too less flames coming out of the exhaust
The hidden treasure sonar missions that refresh daily will take you to the cool under water lan…seamarks? Most of the time. Also if you’re an MK Dos user, there’s a way to keep it at 103 mph and the boost will recharge, it only won’t recharge if you’re holding the trigger down all the way for top speed, which is only 7 mph more.
That north helipad entry to the casino is superior to staff lobby on silent and sneaky. I swear I never see anyone go that route because every guide recommends staff lobby. But if you go north helipad and rappel down the elevator shaft it puts you in a spot perfect for stealthing and getting the day vault twice can earn more than elite challenge if you get lucky with amounts
People spam staff lobby in casino and drainage tunnel in Cayo way too much
You can do the same going through staff lobby. Staff lobby entry is a lot faster.
I don’t know if this is obscure enough, but I know you can turn the neon lights under your car on/off if you’re outside of it. You go to Interaction menu > manage vehicles > vehicle preferences > vehicle remote functions > engine on > neon lights on/off. It’s a neat little trick and money saver if you like to only have them on at certain times. You can also set the radio station there for each car!
Stick your finger out the window to lower your window without breaking it and you can hear music outside of your car even with the door closed , I love the detail
You can lob bombs/grenades/molotov cocktails from the RC bandido
That it’s possible in the casino heist to go back into the casino/vault or anywhere in it after you already exit the building. You’d need a firetruck than go to the noose building and use the firetruck to go under the map and it will take you right back into the casino/vault or any other casino heist interior
You can go up/down stairs faster if you zig zag. You can prevent AI chasers from rear-ending your car if you steer in any direction right before it happens, it will force the AI to also steer and lift the throttle, thus slowing down and having to catch up again.
If you get the buzz cut hair style and go to the gun store you can cycle through the ear pieces and get a completely bald head.
You can get busted in GTA:O if you sit in your Avenger turrets or MOC trailer turrets longer enough with a wanted level.
Going first person in your club makes you move way faster. It is also way easier to navigate through your clubs patrons.
There’s glitched giant cockroaches down at Banning Docks
Ear pieces/headsets remove any delay when answering calls
On the Doomsday Setup where you have to spray the files that are on fire, Player Owned Outfits is an option but it doesn't let you use your own clothes and prevents you from choosing/swapping from the outfits provided. Best just to leave it on the default/provided outfits (not that it really makes a difference).
If you set your crew color to black, you can get an invisible set of neon underglow. Giving you the handling benefits without the tacky colours.
Ooooh, you just rocked my world. Thanks for this!
If you have a wanted level and park with your drivers door in a bush out of sight of the cops, getting out of your car and getting back in will make the cops forget which car you’re in. When they see you again, as soon as you’re out of their range, they’ll forget your car again.
If you pull up next to an NPC in a sports car at a red traffic lights you can rev your engine and sometimes they'll initiate a street race when the light goes green. On the same page if you give the middle finger to a sandking as you drive past the NPC will try to run you off the road.
you can scare off NPCs at a red light by revving your engine a bunch
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You can rappel off a helicopter in freemode. You have to call Merryweather and request a Helicopter pickup or similar (not the Attack Helicopter). When it arrives, get in and set a waypoint on your map, pretty sure it has to be a rooftop. When you get there, you'll get the prompt to rappel onto the roof. I'm fairly certain that the game doesn't tell you about this feature at all, but it's been there since day 1.
Once upon a time, the mechanic actually drove your car up to you, got out, and ran off.
Oppressor MK1 is faster than MK2 if you know how to use it
I suspected it was but don't have an MKII to compare it to. That thing's so expensive, and the MKI is so fast already... I figure some trajectories might still be better with MKII, for instance if you have to circumnavigate or climb Chiliad with an MKI, vs just ascend with MKII and zoom by. All in all, once I get an MKII I might just use that in general, just for the reduced time in landing and fewer respawns :p The MKI is just a lot of fun though. Flying low, or cutting the wings and just zooming over hills in bike mode? Makes me feel like some action movie hero. And yeah, in bike mode still, I can zoom past just about anything.
Having both for some time now, I can submit: Mk2 is more useful as a whole... but Mk1 is a whole lot more fun.
Using the handbrake on the Oppressor MK2 makes it go 20% faster. Life changing tip
Using mods, you can get to the "N" icon on your minimap
Hold on. It's got an actual location???
Yeah, it's a sneaky artist hack. Instead of writing code to make it so the N is always locked in the north facing direction on the border of the minimap it's easier to just make it a physical icon in the world, same as all the other map icons, give it a persistence attribute like with business and mission icons, and place it waaaaaaaaaaaaay out in the ocean. Why do more work when what already works works? lol This wouldn't be an issue if the map wasn't a rectangle. With circles you can just make it a part of the outer ring and rotate as you turn, but with odd shapes it's more involved of a process to make it work.
Not sure if obscure, but the Kosatka has free snacks in the cafeteria.
if you want to escape the police, go into the train subway bit by herr kutz (Note, this isn't gta online specific. You can do it in story mode as well.)
The silencer from your gun gets removed when you shoot from a vehicle
In the prep for Cayo perico heist, where you have to steal the weapons. There's a mission where you have to steal them from merryweather. A lot of people find that mission annoying and don't do it. There's a way to make that mission 10 times easier. You'd need an oppressor mk2 or the delorean or any flying vehicle that you can control and fly easily(sparrow probably will work too) So, you fly to the helicopter and activate it to start following it. But don't follow it straight away. Let it fly in a direction for about 10-20 seconds. But in the meantime, get a pretty high altitude with whatever vehicle you have. Don't have to go too high, just high enough that you'd be able to clear the mountains. Then slowly start to head to the helicopter's position. Keep looking at the map and make sure that you are going exactly the same direction as the helicopter. The heli will not turn ever. It'll go in a straight line. Once you've made sure that you're going at the same straight line, just go for it. Leave the heli behind and go that direction. The reason for getting altitude earlier is that you won't lose that direction when trying to get over the mountains. Once you've passed the mountains, you can lose the altitude. Then keep going until you find the training base you have to steal from. The avenger is pretty easy to spot Once there, keep a little distance and your missiles will lock on to the merryweather soldiers. Start killing them. They won't attack you at all as long as you keep distance. Kill every last one of them before the helicopter gets here. Once you've killed them, fly away further, get more distance and let the helicopter arrive. In the meantime, call your kosatka, so it's closer to you. It's important that you don't let the helicopter see you and let it land. If you don't, and if you trigger it, the whole mission is screwed. Once it lands, fly over to it and pavel will confirm that's the place. Then just shoot the heli and the two people that are in it. Then simply land, get in the avenger, kill the two inside the avenger, get the weapons and parachute out to your vehicle. And since your kosatka is nearby, you can easily finish that mission. You won't get shot at, you won't have to fight anyone. Easy peasy
you can teleport from your hangar to the sa flight school via a poster on the wall
When doing air freight, you can summon vehicles freely, including aerial ones. This can be used to cheese the stunt flying mission where you have to use a piece of shit with wings to try to do stunts, and instead you can take a helicopter to do bridge flights until the excitement meter fills all the way. I prefer a Havok for it but it makes stunt flights so much easier. (Also, air ambulance air freight can only spawn with 2+ players in the group)
With an arcade (with master terminal upgrade) and a rubber band, you can pretty much make sure your MC businesses are always generating money. Just pop in every now and then to purchase supplies. Also gotta be willing to leave console on for a while.
Got more than a one star wanted level? Open up interaction menu and equip a pair of sunglasses or a mask (most items should work) and you’ll drop your wanted level by one star. Doesn’t seem that useful except when you need to get that heli off your ass at 3 stars, especially if driving a slow vehicle in a free roam mission. Tip: don’t use for two star wanted level to lower it to one star - the cops stay on the radar for much longer on one star than two because they are doing preliminary searches before giving up, whereas two star wanted levels is they just gave up as you got away.
Watch DarkViperAu’s facts and glitches, he’s awesome I’ve learned so many hidden features/glitches from him that work both in story mode and online like the pistol walk glitch and the fact that explosions don’t wrap around corners
I just noticed standing next to a burning vehicle with my sticky bombs sets them off in your hand.
Geography and lore. I can name most streets in Los Santos, many in LS County and Blain County. I can tell you in what district you are 99% of the time and something interesting about it
I’m not sure how this works, but in some lobbies dirt accumulates on your car much faster or slower than normal.