GTA V Tips and Tricks

[PZ]

I like your new avatar, Clarence  :-X

[Art Blade]

Hehe, thanks :) It's a selfie of Franklin using b/w filter. I try to use 60s/70s style on him as far as it is possible. ^-^

[fragger]

Yep, nice avi :-X

lol @ CW the III Question: Did that guy ever crack a smile on that show? ????

That reminded me... Back in the day, another Mod Squad actor, Michael Cole, was invited to be a guest presenter at the Aussie TV "Logie" awards (sort of our equivalent of the Emmys, only less flashy and more ludicrous). The Mod Squad was a big deal at the time and it was felt that Cole's presence might lend an international flavour to the ceremonies.

He agreed to do this and so he attended the event. While awaiting his turn at presenting he apparently helped himself to just a tad too much of the freely available grog at his table, so that when he was finally called forth to do his bit he stumbled dazedly up onto the stage (once he'd ascertained where it was located) where, having apparently forgotten what in the heck he was supposed to be doing up there, he stared dumbly out at the audience for a moment, muttered a couple of drunken false starts, then gave up on the exercise altogether and said simply, "Aw, s#!t..."

This was live in the early seventies, when one simply didn't say words like that on TV... 8-X

[PZ]

 ???  wow, that certainly does not put actors in a positive light.  Reminds me of that football player who had a $40M contract - was sentenced to life in prison.  Just goes to show everyone (again) that celebrities are not worthy of being idolized as so many people tend to do.

I'm not sure I ever saw Clarence smile, except once when mention was made of his lack of humor, and he forced out a smile.  :-()

[Art Blade]

 :)

[Art Blade]

A tip

If you are about to cash out your stock market profits (particularly nasty after a Lester assassination investment) make sure that you switch to Trevor LAST (unless you are already playing as Trevor and are not in trouble)

The reason: Sometimes, when you switch to Trevor, he's in the middle of a situation that involves security or cops and then it is just very likely that you're about to see yourself being chased with wanted stars on your head or being shot at, beaten up.. stuff that may cause you to end up in hospital.. and that causes the game to advance time (as far as I heard, never checked the time myself, getting into and out of a hospital takes 10 hours) which may cause the share value to be a lot less than it would have without that incident. Now if all three characters are affected by that because you would still have to switch to the other two, all three of them would suffer a financial loss.

I'm telling you because just now I switched to Trevor and he was on a highway surrounded by four cop cars, two in front of him and two behind him.. and of course I ended up in a police chase. Thanks, Trevor.. lol -- I also found myself in front of two bouncers of a casino with Trevor already provoking them.. stuff like that..  :)

[PZ]

 :-X

[Binnatics]

I love Trevor :-()

[Art Blade]

A TIP regarding stock market brokering

- Works with story-related and non-story related brokering.

1) Save manually before you invest.
2) In case you can't make a profit, reload from step 1 and don't try this stock again for a while
3) Save manually after you sold all (made a profit)
4) Reinvest your money (same stock)
5) in case you made another profit, go back to step 3
6) In case you can't make a profit, reload from step 3 and don't try this stock again for a while

The trick is, as long as you keep going without using a savegame that was created after investing money, the game will give you a steady and continuous stock market graph of the companies you're interested in, making it possible to predict a trend.

Once you reload your savegame, the stock market history will have changed totally.

Only after certain mission-related events when companies were mentioned by name, those companies' stocks will continue steadily for a while so reloading your savegame won't influence their trends.

[Art Blade]

Tip how to get the best out of a story-related stock market "deal"

I did it the way described above in the previous tip.

example -- the hotel assassination

I'll show you the bank account of Franklin after his mandatory first assassination job assigned by Lester. You will see his initial payment of $9,000 after he assassinated the head of a company and you'll notice that before said payment (more precisely, before the assassination) all of Franklin's money had gone -- into the competing company's (Betta Pharmaceutical, BET) shares.

I then cashed out with a 50% return percentage (those $2.740.148) which was directly story-related and didn't get higher; also, it stayed like that for a while.

After that comes a new investment: I bought shares of exactly the opposite company (Bilkinton, BIL) whose boss I had assassinated as Franklin. Hoping that those shares would recover from the massive contraction caused by the death of that poor sod, I decided to wait a little until I got a new all-time low and then buy.

I had heard that one should sell at a return percentage of around 80, and, knowing that greed may be one's downfall, I sold at around 80% indeed. That's in the first pic those $4.940.000.

Normally you'd be done and gone.. continuing with the story.

Not if you wanted the best.

Alright, so I continued as described in the previous post. I saved and reinvested. Again and again. Look at what I ended up with. I roughly made another $1.7M just by reinvesting all over again, riding on the expansion :-D

The following two pics show that I sold all (and saved the game) and then reinvested quite a couple of times, just making sure I could continue to ride on the wave of this massive expansion without really losing money.

Because transactions start from the bottom in those following two pics, I have to first show this..
[smg id=7863 type=preview align=center caption="HA 001"]

..and then this as it continues.
[smg id=7864 type=preview align=center caption="HA 002"]

Look at the all-time low, I'm buying..
[smg id=7865 type=preview align=center caption="ha 003"]

..having waited a bit, the assassination took place on Thursday and the contraction continued for a while. Can't wait forever, however  :-()
[smg id=7866 type=preview align=center caption="ha 004"]

..and this is about the absolute max (oops, this time it's Michael's view, see top right, different amount of money, I had him invest, too) let's get out of here..
[smg id=7867 type=preview align=center caption="HA 005"]

..and enjoy the riches  :-()
[smg id=7868 type=preview align=center caption="HA 006"]

edit:

HERE you find tips for all of Lester's missions.

[PZ]

Very nice  :-X  This is an amazing game

[Art Blade]

Thanks :)

When the game was released back in 2013 I couldn't do anything but watch (on YouTube) other people playing it. I was surprised at how few people tried out the stock market and ever since I wanted to experiment with it.

Now that I can, I do :-D

If you are interested more in detail how that stock market stuff works, click HERE to jump right at it. Some of you might have read it already but hey.. if YOU haven't, there you go.  :-()

[OWGKID]

http://gta.wikia.com/Lester's_Assassinations

The GTA Wiki's guide on Lester's Assassinations >:D >:D

[Art Blade]

I just checked the Hotel Assassination in that wiki. Nice tips there but one thing is no longer correct:

They say that the garage at aunt D is no longer accessible to the player once M moves house. I checked before I knew about that article, right after M moved out because I was missing one car. It was still in that garage and it was accessible. The old house however no longer was.

[OWGKID]

 ???? Is it still accessible after you have moved the vehicle stored there?

[Art Blade]

not tried that yet.. no room for that car except the impound lot and I didn't want to make use of that too extensively.  :-D

[Binnatics]

Hmm interesting. In GTA IV all he parking spaces remained accessible, even when the safehouse burnt to the ground. So it may still be accessible indeed. Fits in the GTA tradition. I remember how I was moving cars from parking space to parking space in order to kep as much unique vehicles as possible even back in GTA III 8)

[Art Blade]

1)

One minor tip regarding the mission "I fought the law.."

I've watched that mission five times already. Every time a different player. Every time one traffic accident at the same spot. Maybe you can avoid it :)

Spoiler

it's the mission that involves a high speed race on a highway; Franklin is chasing two sports cars while Michael and Trevor are playing cops who are waiting for the three cars to pass in order to pursue them for speeding and subsequently steal the two leading cars. Before Franklin calls Michael and Trevor to inform them that they're about to pass their location, that accident has always happened.

So.. I found a milestone that will help you determine when it's going to happen to you. After you started the race, about three minutes into the race you will see: at night -- to your right hand side way ahead of you a lot of street lamp lights close to one another, like a string of pearls, that belong to some kind of refinery -- at daytime and night time: there are also a lot of huge tall silos probably 30ft or taller, lined up alongside the highway, well visible IF you know what you're looking for.

Usually the orange car is in the lead, the second blue car is in front of you and before you reach those silos (they will be very close already, tall, well visible to your right, the blue car will brake hard and you will bump into it. It is almost unavoidable.

Just try NOT to be closely behind the blue car when you see the silos, try the left lane or slow down a little, just try to avoid the braking blue car ahead of you.

Would be fun to trick the game by not colliding with it  :)

watch 10:20 onwards, after passing the white-lit truck on the left, you'll see those lamps and then the silos and then BANG...  :)
Grand Theft Auto V (GTA 5) Walkthrough - Part 55 "I Fought The Law" Gameplay Playthrough PC XBOX

OK, finally it was my turn  :-()

re: 1) I avoided it :) I virtually saw it coming but changed lanes. So I stayed behind the orange Overflod Entity XF Super..
[smg id=7873 type=preview align=center caption="avoided blue car braking"]

2)

Apparently only your tuned cars go into the impound lot, looks as if they were the respectively last two cars per playable character. I guess so because I found a vid about getting mission cars; also, if you follow the link at the end of the vid for the updated vid, "2 cars", you'll see it backs it up even more. During the mission go to Los Santos Customs ("chop shop") and buy the cheapest upgrade you can find, finish the mission and drive straight to the impound lot, pay $250 and get your tuned mission car. :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9hxsQgOSw0

re 2) I really wanted to try that so I did! I had it resprayed during the mission so I might recognise it better and so it might end up in the impound lot.. which it did. It now sits in my garage. :-D
[smg id=7874 type=preview align=center caption="reclaimed mission car"]

Yay.  ^-^

[Art Blade]

Just generally speaking, if you want a really rare (as in mission) car, make sure you have a free slot in one of your garages.

My first attempt was a bit frustrating because usually when you drive up to a full garage and enter it on foot so inside the garage you may choose a car which to replace, you'll drive out the garage and find the car you arrived in sitting there parked (at least it has been like that with Franklin) -- this time my mission car was just gone. It wasn't even in the impound lot (there was no impound lot marked on the map meaning no cars there) so I had to reload the savegame from after the mission.

I then called a cab to my garage just not to cause any meaningless impounded cars which might replace more valuable ones.. such as the mission car for whatever reason.. Once arrived, I chose a car to free up one slot and drove with it to the impound lot where I retrieved the mission car which I was then able to save in my garage.

[Art Blade]

???? Is it still accessible after you have moved the vehicle stored there?

yes

and fire trucks can "shoot" water strong enough to tip pedestrians over  :-D

[smg id=7875 type=preview align=center caption="garage still works"]

[PZ]

Nice  :-X +1 for all your open world exploration

[Art Blade]

Thank you, PZ :)

[OWGKID]

 1+ :-X :-D

[Art Blade]

and thank you, too, GKID.  :-D

[Art Blade]

Vehicle Impound

We find most of our recent last two abandoned rides there. Apparently sometimes your vehicles don't show up. Sometimes special cars such as racing cars don't show up there. Some other rare cars however, do.

I don't quite get the concept of that..  ????

I had one of those nice racing cars, a Turismo R, and changed it for a motor bike. I dropped the bike and went on walking. I took a cab to the impound lot and there was one vehicle you get for free when you purchased a garage for $30k, an Annis Elegy RH8 Sports and another car. Both of which I don't even remember when I last drove those.

Weird.. ????

So I recommend to save your game as soon as you got a car you want to keep and store it in one of your garages, perhaps save again.