It's been over four years since the release of Grand Theft Auto Online, a game which is, on paper, pretty much exactly what was promised to me as the ultimate video game when I was a child. Hundreds of players? Check. Persistent, changing, online world? Check. Go anywhere, do anything gameplay? Check. Fly a jet, jump out of it, hijack a motorcycle, go over a jump, set off some fireworks dressed as Evel Kniev꧟el in a monkey mask? Buddy, so many checks!
GTA Online got off to a pretty rocky start, I was there at the beginning, but all the bugs and dropped quests and people falling through the world into oblivion have made way for a stable, bizarrely honorable game that is always getting new content and new players. In fact, it's due to the constant stream of new, free con🀅tent updates that add huge new missions as well as vehicles, weapon🔴s, and ridiculous outfits and disguises.
Despite, or maybe because of, all those growing pains, the community and gameplay of GTA Online are stronger than ever. Whether you're a veteran player who has been knocking over corner stores since launch or a new pꦚlayer who picked the title up on a holiday sale, there is a deeply complicated system underneath what seems to be a relatively straightforward criminal simulator. Here are 20 easy mistakes that most players make, and some ways to adjust your gameplay to be💝 better and take advantage of those who don't!
20 𓃲 Don't Buy A Supercar
I know, I know, everyone wants a Ferrari (or Grotti, the hilarious name Rockstar has used to avoid being sued) but trust me on this, you don't want to rush headlong into blowing all your cash on the flashiest car around. There are actually few situations in the game where owning a supercar is worth the time, money, effort, and stress than driving around in a super expensive car entails. It m🐠akes you a huge target for those who don't follow the advice on this list. Fast cars are tough to handle and you're more often 🍸than not looking for a car with durability and versatility rather than something designed to set lap records in Monaco.
Always pick the right tool for the job and use the element of surprise, these are the best overall tips for GTA Online and they apply ver𓂃y much to purchasing a flashy car as soon as꧅ you're able.
19 B🍌e Smart When Tailing A Car 𝐆
Tailing cars is a cornerstone of an open world driving game, based as they are on crime and police dramas in films which always feature the tactic. Tailing cars in the single-player modes of most games is all about not ♕getting too close, but human players are smarter th♓an that and they'll know what to look for.
Don't do the obvious and stay in the same lane, change things up, try to obey traffic laws, and whatever you do don't go down an alleyway with them: they are most likely🎐 setting you up to be ambushed, or worse, the victim of a sticky bomb attack that you can't avoid. Pay attention to your map- there are plenty of ways to stay close to an enemy car without being right on top of them and most alleys can be followed form th🌳e street with a little creativity.
18 Underestimating Your Enemy 😼
GTA doesn't have easy visual cues to tell you how strong a player is. Compared to something like Destiny, where the more your opponents look like comic book villains from space wearing Egyptian artifacts the more likely they are to space magic your butt into oblivion, GTA Online players are𝐆 all wearing variations of norm🅰al looking clothes, and you can't see their weapons until they're using them on you.
That said, don't assume anyone is an easy mark. Obviously even a low-level player with some skill and take down anyone, you can very easily bite off way more than you can chew by being overconfident. Use traps, narrow fields of fire, alleyways, and gang up on every opponent, even in casual combat situations. Even on the mean strꦇeets, safety first!
17 Seeking En꧑dless Revenge
Revenge is a dish best served cold, so say the Klingons, but any meal gets old after a while if it's the only thing you eat. While GTA Online makes it easy to find who downed you and track them down, making them taste the sweet coppery tang of their blood as you gun them down in the street, but then, they get the same information about you.
This can lead to𒅌 the endless revenge scenario, where two players constantly circle each other in a never-ending spree of one-up-manship. I know it can be hard to let go of losing to some punk in a video game but sometimes you have to move be the bigger person and move on from a loss. There's a lot more to this game than just wasting the same gu🗹y over and over again.
16 🌞 Make A Plan
Despite its reputation as a crime spree simulator, even the simplest missions in GTA Online require more planning than just what guns to bring to the firefight. Knowing what you're getting into can make your jobs go much smoother, especialꦯly in the multi-level heist scenarios that are the be🎃st parts of the game.
Your individual skill as a player will only get you so far if you're just charging into battle with no regard for how you're going to get out of it, or what you're gonna 𒀰get into once you start a fight. This is especially important if you're playing with other people. Even something as simple as making sure everyone knows where the rest of their team is going to be, and what everyone's strengths are, can give you a huge advantage over those who aren't putting as much thought into their jobs.
15 ♏ Slow Down Or Fail
This was the top piece of advice in my article about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Battlefront II and I believe it applies to every online multiplayer game, from COD to Overwatch.🌄 So many players begin each round with the sprint button already down. They charge right to🌞 the heaviest fighting and are, most of the time, immediately cut down.
Players are fragile in GTA Online and one headshot can drop you very easily. The ease of acquiring automatic rifles and explosive weapons 𝓰makes you even squishier, so be very aware꧒ of where the fighting is and don't be in such a hurry to get there. Use your map and the icons to track players and, if you are taken down, be aware of where the shots came from and try to flank your enemy.
14 Use Pass𒀰ive Mode
What a godsend of a feature this is! Every free roaming game should give players the option to opt out of the constant warzone of violence that is the Los Santos of GTA Online. By setting yourself to passive mode ꦅyou can avoid the biggest and most annoying hazard of t🌟he game: spawn camping.
You know the feeling, as soon as you enter the game you can get blasted before you can even get your bearings. Setting passive mode right away can prevent this, allowing you t♒o at least get away from the danger zone and get your head straight. Then, if you're prepared and ready, you can go after the guys who have been griefing you. Just don't get hooked on revenge!
13 Communication Is Key 💧
Buy. A. Headset. If you're going to play any multiplayer games onli🅺ne, buy a headset. Don't even think about doing a heist without a microphone- you probably won't even get selected for the job or, once the team finds out you don't have one, you'll get kicked.
True story: when the heists first got released I tried to jump into one without much thought. I also hadn't played the game in a while so my knowledge of the controls had definitely lapsed. At the very beginning of the match, I couldn't remember how to get into a car without hijacking it, so I kept hauling the driver out, he would haul me out, and we would continue. If I'd had a headset, I coulda just asked.
12 🥀 ♚ Targeting Players' Cars
They seem like obvious targets when you first start the game: cars are flashy, they seem to be everywhere, they're much easier to shoot at than individual players, and the blow up so, so good. Here's the thing: those cars are expensive and they take a lot of time and effort to acquire. If you blow up too many player cars, you can get✨ labeled a🔥 "bad sport" and you don't want that.
Bad Sp💜orts are relegated to their own lobbies, where they're stuck playing with other Bad Sports. Sometim🎃es they're forced to wear dunce caps so they are more easily recognizable to other players in the open world. The rules about how, exactly, you are labeled a bad sport are kind of vague: dropping from games and jobs seems to be an easy one, and getting reported by other players works too.
11 Mugging
This is technically a valid tactic and is something you should be able to do successfully, you are, after all, a hardened criminal. When you first start out, ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚyou can only rob people for $100 but at level 50, th𒈔e 'robber' perk ups that number to whatever the player is carrying on them at the time. Level 50 is no joke and by that level, you probably won't be hard up for cash. Plus, it makes people really, really angry.
GTA Online has a strange honor system, as this article has hopefully made clear. There is, apparently, honor among thieves and players who deliberately grief others, blow up their stuff, and rob them are singled out and shamed. Mugging players is a one-way-ticket to having a bounty put on you and is generally seen as des😼picable. If you're into that, cool, but be prepared to face the consequences.