Getting started online

GhostMjr · April 29, 2015, 02:00:25 PM

If you get the error about having to complete the online tutorial before joining friends ensure you complete the following and visit the first job afterwards (you can exit before the job starts just make sure you launch the job).

http://uk.ign.com/wikis/gta-5/Tutorial_%28GTA_Online%29

Galatoni · April 30, 2015, 09:26:24 AM

This is a pretty good idea to give people a bit of a heads-up on some things. Things like being able to use the internet on your phone to deposit money rather than using an ATM.

Galatoni · May 04, 2015, 07:26:54 AM

For those that don't know already.

Using the e key (pc master race doesn't need inferior control types

) you can activate a vehicle ability. In most cases this doesn't do anything. But in a GTA style race it will activate rockets and boosts. If your in some aircraft it'll open the doors.

Carr0t · May 04, 2015, 11:37:25 AM

Pff. Gamepad is superior for vehicle control, IMO. I have mouse + keyboard for on foot, switch to gamepad for vehicles, and switch back to mouse + keyboard when i'm driving a car and want to shoot

(other vehicles you generally aim the vehicle, not your arm while driving, so gamepad is still better I think).

Gone_Away · May 04, 2015, 03:50:23 PM

Quote from: Carr0t;398641Pff. Gamepad is superior for vehicle control, IMO. I have mouse + keyboard for on foot, switch to gamepad for vehicles, and switch back to mouse + keyboard when i'm driving a car and want to shoot (other vehicles you generally aim the vehicle, not your arm while driving, so gamepad is still better I think).

Ditto..

ReddFour · May 04, 2015, 05:11:33 PM

Gamepad only for me but that's the same for any game. With my PC in the living room I only use my wireless keyboard and mouse when a game doesn't support gamepad.

I guess I'm not a real member of the PC master race

BrotherTobious · May 04, 2015, 05:14:40 PM

Not yet mate but it will come, patience young padawan!

Galatoni · May 04, 2015, 08:09:57 PM

The control has its place certainly. But i've never really been able to get the hang of using them. Not since my mega drive controller anyway... that things was just my level. D pad, 3 buttons and start. Come to think of it, the buttons were A, B and C... I wonder if its a shape thing?

Carr0t · May 05, 2015, 01:53:24 PM

It also depends what your control system assist is set as. Default on consoles was to provide partial aim assist. Direction + target button to automatically lock to the chest of the next enemy in that direction. Then manual aiming from there if you wanted to get a headshot or whatever. They also had full aim assist (not sure how that worked differently), and total free aim. I seem to recall with the partial assist if you released the manual aim adjust button (for getting a headshot, hitting and arm or foot for a guy mostly behind cover etc) it would snap back to the chest. Or maybe that was the full aim assist difference.

Now on PC you'd expect most people to be using free aim (aim assist only works with gamepad anyway, and doesn't do anything in vehicles, only on foot), but the default is still partial aim assist. You get additional money/RP bonuses when on heists if you complete them with the controls set to free aim. Not sure about missions. But of course that benefits anyone who uses mouse and keyboard as it doesn't adversely affect them to set to free aim.

Now for the annoyance. Firstly, it's not a true per-user setting. Any time you try to join a job (mission, heist, whatever) that has a different aim setting to your own, it'll warn you and ask you if you want to drop back out to freemode or auto-change your setup to match the host and continue joining. In freemode you only get matched with other people using the same assist setting as you. This means a) you can't change your aim system in multiplayer; you have to drop back to single player, change it, then load back into multiplayer (which would still be an annoyance but not as much of one if it didn't take so long to load anything in this game), and b) if you set your control system to anything other than the default it can be hard to find instances full of other people to play with (this was a complaint also made about free aim on consoles. Some people wanted to play using it, to require more skill for the combat, but were finding that they were in very sparsely populated freemode instances only shortly after release because the majority just left it on default settings). The default is also 'infectious'. Unless you have a community of people who a) all set their aim system to free aim, and b) all never play *any* jobs or heists with anyone apart from each other, you'll keep finding yourself reset to default. All it takes is for one person to do a single mission hosted by a random who has their setting on default, then for that person to host a mission with 5 other guys from the community without changing their setting back to free, and bam, 6 guys in the community dumped back to the default setting. And unless *they* all drop to single player and change it back then they go on to host missions for other community members and it spreads further.

I've probably ranted far too much about this now...