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Strudders said:
I would leave the hunter for now and buy a buzzard. It can be used as a VIP vehicle can get into smaller spot and is a great deal easier to fly. I really don’t like the hunter, I much prefer the Akula.
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I did actually go to buy the hunter yesterday but couldn't buy it because I didn't own a hanger.

I have had a go in the buzzard and really enjoyed flying it and didn't realise it was the only one that can be used as personal vehicle.

I have seen the akula out and about town the stealth on it is amazing but I didn't really like flying it on the doomsday mission.

I have never had a go in the hunter.

Thanks for advice when I log in today I will grab my self the buzzard. Looks a very helpful little chopper and I know I like flying it.

My favourite 2 vehicles right now are my Cyclone and my operations centre truck cab. Normally on round town work I get both in and let my workers take the cyclone and I take the truck. I love the truck cab it's so powerful I beat a tank a couple days back in a fight.
 
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Yep Buzzard is just so useful. You can use it a lot in contact missions which makes them a lot more enjoyable.
However of all the current aircraft that are available the Avenger is the most useful and pretty much my go to in open.
It is literally a flying tank and can easily escape a deluxo as it can soak up the missiles and if you have a mate inside on the guns, then it is hard to beat. Also you can carry a armed insurgent, all of the occupants can get in it whilst in flight then exit the avenger at height. and being a operations centre can be called up and destroyed at no cost.
 
Buzzard is very helpful when doing any CEO stuff as it will spawn extremely close and at no recurring cost if you have bought it.

Out of desperation I have emailed some of the PR guys and whoever I could find at Rockstar, doubt it will go anywhere but at least it makes me feel better. Not sure where to go next as I refuse to accept this.
 
+1 for the buzzard too. It'll spawn anywhere - even under bridges which can make it interesting. Great for CEO missions can generally just getting about a bit quicker.
 
Dudes, whats a really good looking visuals tweaker to use that is compatible with the current version of GTA V? I was using Reshade/SwettFX for a while there and hadn't played the game for months. Fired it up yesterday and it crashed a few mins after I clicked on 'Story Mode' while it was loading giving a 'GTA V has stopped working' error. I then faffed about with various things to no avail and eventually removed Reshade/SweetFX as well as my install of LSPDFR and all the associated stuff, plugins, mods that went with that. Voila - GTA V starts fine now. So I'm not sure which one of those was causing the issue.

But I'd like more realistic/nicer/improved visuals now so I'd like to try another graphics tweaker - any recommendations? What works best just now?

Ta.
 
What's the best way to race online?

I'm not so interested in doing co-op jobs, more racing (I used to play MTA:SA loads back in the day and got pretty good, so kind of want the same experience from GTA V).

On the online game map I can see races, but these are always vacant. Is there a lobby or something I need to seek out so I can get onto various servers etc? If so, how and where?

I know I sound completely noobish here, but I rarely game these days and haven't done any online gaming for ~8 years.

I created an online character and am an almighty level 4, so probably need to up my stats a bit as well, but that'll come with time.

Or, am I going about this wrong and are the console versions better for this?

Ta!
 
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Haven’t played this in about a year – how is it now? Sounds like there are some new heists etc.? The heists were great fun.

Is the online still ruined by cheaters and modders?
 
danza said:
What's the best way to race online?
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Go into the pause menu and go to Online > Jobs > Races and you can find races in there, you can join other people or host your own.

You can also keep your eye on your phone notifications you'll likely get a few invites through there also.

Once you are in a race lobby it will keep cycling through races so you can stay with it.
 
I'd be up for some races - I used to love them and could hold my own fairly well, though I stopped as every lobby had catchup enabled so no matter how well you raced, you could be beaten by some clown down a long straight.
 
V4NT0M said:
Go into the pause menu and go to Online > Jobs > Races and you can find races in there, you can join other people or host your own.

You can also keep your eye on your phone notifications you'll likely get a few invites through there also.

Once you are in a race lobby it will keep cycling through races so you can stay with it.
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Cheers, I tried that but for some reason the menu didn't show the correct options. I'll try again later, must've missed something glaringly obvious!
 
Managed to get it working last night.

Main thoughts:

Great fun, some stupidly OTT MTA:SA-esque moments.

People with modded cars do much better than mere noobs with not much cash like me. Need mo money!

I ended up mostly in the bottom 75% of the races I was in. I used to have a few WRs on MTA and usually placed in the top 10%. I need to practice the tracks.

The analogue stick sucks the big one for steering. I can be so much more precise with the D pad, but this doesn't work. I need to see if there's a way I can get a PlayStation controller of some sort working as the D pads are epic compared to the 360 controller I use.

I'll be doing this for a while I think.
 
danza said:
Managed to get it working last night.

Main thoughts:

Great fun, some stupidly OTT MTA:SA-esque moments.

People with modded cars do much better than mere noobs with not much cash like me. Need mo money!

I ended up mostly in the bottom 75% of the races I was in. I used to have a few WRs on MTA and usually placed in the top 10%. I need to practice the tracks.

The analogue stick sucks the big one for steering. I can be so much more precise with the D pad, but this doesn't work. I need to see if there's a way I can get a PlayStation controller of some sort working as the D pads are epic compared to the 360 controller I use.

I'll be doing this for a while I think.
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:)

Looking up PS controllers work fine on GTA

If you feel up to it you could host a race and select Custom cars to off and everybody will be on a level playing field so to speak as custom cars will not be allowed. However you will get some hate in the chat as most don't like it. However I have come 4th twice on Hotring races with catch up and slip steaming enabled. However it is not really racing

Also I would look up one of the racing crews out there are they would be a good start as they will race fair.
 
Well it seems R* are having another bash at ******* off the PC community by randomly banning people again or just perma banning people coming off bans from last time.

I dread everytime I log on as nobody knows if the ban hammer will fall. Whilst all that is going on we still have loads of modders in sessions.
 
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