The new San Andreas thread

Finally started to find some more horseshoes in this game but the last 15 snapshots are elluding me.

Do you get any reward for buying all the clothes in each store?

I finally passed that son of a bitching "N.O.E." by taking the western ocean route both ways (duh), and the next few missions were my favorite in the game so far, especially "Stowaway". So I'm done at the airfield and have finished the first LV Woozie mission. Tomorrow I'll try "Explosive Situation" again. I still need to do the Wang Cars and Trucker missions as well.

I finally beat 'the cock' from Los Santos beach although the second mission that goes all the way around the island is a bitch, I just don't have the energy left for the final run down The Strip and everyone overtakes me.

A shame they couldn't have the 'litter' effect in San Andreas.

Yours,

Carl

I have a really, really, really dumb question. It's a question so dumb that none of the GTA:SA sites will answer it because it's apparently so dumb: How do you take snapshots in San Fierro?

Seriously, I walk up to the camera icons and they disappear. No snapshots recorded. I stand where the rotating cameras are and take a picture. No snapshots recorded. I take a picture of the rotating camera itself. No snapshots recorded. I'm about ready to spraypaint the damned fool things.

The icons only appear visible though a camera lense.

(I just asked the question "So the floating cameras are clues that you're near a purple icon?" on the internet. I need to go for a walk outside or something.)

P.S. Those Zero missions don't advance the story at all, so if you get too frustrated with them, just move on. Those missions are crap.

One of the missions explains this, I think.

-- Pleasant Plains

OTM

Hey, I heard that when you beat all of Toreno's missions the flamethrower/minigun/rpg/heatseaking RPG all spawn at his cabin. but, uh, I've checked a few times and have seen nothing??? Is this just a horrible, horrible rumor? :(

Steal a swat tank
Kill four floors worth of Ballas
Kill Big Smoke
Put fires out so you can leave a burning building
Chase Tenpenny all the way around Los Santos
Pull up to his bumper within about 15 seconds (a la the Cesar getting onto the tanker mission)
Re-enactment of the "Just Business" style of mission, except about fifteen times harder.
END

Have you noticed that when you get into Sweet's car to start the mission, no matter when you do it, the song on the radio is always "Today Was A Good Day"?

*maybe spoiler*

seeing Carl punch Zero in the face after the bank heist mission made me grin like a fool. Especially since I gave up on the very first Zero mission after about 60+ attempts.

Y'all, do your vigilantes in the tank! Forget about that harrier. The tank! THE TANK!

on my first visit to the game i finished this level seriously spawnly, i barely knew that there were other planes after me as they just crashed straight away into other buildings
but when i played again on xbox i chose to take the dogfight high in air above the Gant bridge, probly much to the delight of the San Fierro citizens.

Ah too late (xpost)! Show off Ste, one too many times watchin Battle of Britain that boy...

Know when you have to catch like seven or eight criminals, and they're all in a convoy? KA-BAM - KA-BAM - KA-BAM - KA-BAM!

Stealing the tank and getting away with it was so much fun.

"Faster, Carl, FASTER!"

It's terrible, my sister is finishing her thesis at my desk the past day or so so I can hardly stop her and kick her off! Or could I... I mean, 100% is so much more important than her Phd, isn't it?

get a fast car or bike, go to the no fly zone, drive through the fence (there is a weak spot in the fence somewhere, it's easy to notice), go to the hangers, get into one of the tanks, drive to your nearest safe house with LARGE garage, park up & save game.

and stop those tears soldier.

Can you store a tank in that hangar? That would make life peachy for the vigilante missions. How does one keep the stars down? Please don't say finding the bribes, I'm terrible at catching Perps how the hell am I meant to get to them!

keeping your stars down just involves you staying low for a bit, i find that being in a chopper though does not lower your stars no matter how long you fly for.

i have 2 fbi cars, 2 tanks and harrier. that's the max amount.

How does one keep the stars down?

just save the game and the wanted stars go. if you mean during game play, then find the bribes

Staying low fine, not much use during vigilante with time limit. Good advice though and shall be heeded.

I just stole them, dragging an FBI agent out of his car and having the rest them in it is cool. As for the ladies, I just shot them when they came out of the house, waste of time taking them out, they don’t appreciate it and it doesn’t get you anywhere.

As for the tank, it’s a shame I can’t e-mail you one.

Not even gmail can help me now I fear. I'll just have to do it the old fashioned way: Grand Larceny.

Playing a character called Carl when you’re called Carl is weird, especially the " learn to fly Carl" bits.

That would freak the best of us out. Thankfully my name (Kevin) is odd enough, it seems that whenever it's used it's always some fat or weird kid. I was the latter but never the former. Until recently that is.

Want to go home now but have to go for drinks. Blasted social life, why must you mock me!

Found all the oysters (even survived getting the two in Easter Basin) in under an hour. How I hear you say? There's a Seasparrow helicopter to the north near that beach you had to drop something off at for Toreno. It's near Verdant Meadows. It's tough as hell and meant ease of access to everywhere. At Easter Basin just stay next to the walls. Going into Sub Pen stick close to left wall and then on way out dive and curve around hugging the wall to under the Aircraft Carrier. The hard part is swimming ashore but there's a police bribe on the tracks behind Xoomer oil. Or you can high speed chase it which is how I managed it.

Took all the photos. I hate the camera and all the running around.

I'm 1 car (the Euros) off completing import/export. I was driving around the camel's toe for what felt like an age with no joy. Any help to offer lads?

Completed pimping. I can now say hit you upside the head to flatmates without fear.

Reached level 23 in vigilante in the tank. Ste, it was as good as can be hoped for. So many dead, so many... I don't think I'll ever see as lovely a sight again as all those FBI ranchers crashing out. Even shot down a couple of helicopters.

Only 89 tags and the races to go. Will this game ever end?!

Can't help you with the Euros, still waiting for a Comet to appear.

and I found an actual cave, it has a police bribe in it!

I like how you can take down choppers with the tank this time, tho it still doesn't beat wasting them with the mini-gun and a healthy amount of ammo.

Are you still determined not to use a guide? How about a FAQ? It's only kind of like a guide, more a mature and wiser friend...

haha you cannot lure me over to the dark side kevin, I will never use an FAQ. To be fair me and my house mate both play the game a lot and (before he started cheating) we would sort of watch each other play and therefore in that way I've already been playing with a helpful friend coz I've witnessed him picking up hidden items in places i've never been. But now he's peeked at maps I cannot bring myself to look him in the eye. the filthy rat.

Does my having helped you with the Comet count as a FAQ/Guide? It's a slippery slope Ste, be careful there's nothing worse than a self-hating gamer ;)

I've forgotten where you said already anyway ;)

Not to worry, if you do get stuck I will hint and not give answer. That is the best I can offer.

Now more importantly how far are you in the missions? I've managed to get past fish in a barrel (a few more past but I can't remember names and spoilers are t3h suck).

which one was fish in a barrel ?

I only found the missions with in the 4 Dragon's basement last night, I thought the symbol was for the gambling tables. A bit of a relief because repeating return to Los Santos and the Madd Dogg mission in his old house is a fecking killer. Bad enough it takes forever to get through but then you have to chase him down? Fuck that ;)

The last mission I completed for Caligula was the san marco's bistro one.

Anyone had any experience with that multiplayer mod on PC?

ah, i thought this was going to be on the games board. nonetheless

Three years after the fact, still nothing makes me laugh more than "Yo, this is MC Shithead"

anyway, i bought the game on Pc today and will try the multiplayer option this weekend. I'll let you know what it's like, if anyone cares.

early tests show that the multitheft client is nothing but a load of modded maps with gta graphics. I couldn't even leave my car.

but i could be wrong and i'll play more tonight.

i reckon this isn't quite what people think it is though.

San Andreas was pretty unplayable on the PC as it was.

i can't believe the control pad defaults, what were they thinking ?!

SA:MP sounds better than Multitheft

Actually Multitheft was more fun, even though it lacked any free-roam on foot action because it was all car based. The deathmatches are a great blast!

SA:MP was more free roam but to be honest the RPG style was a bit crap and I didn't get it at all. Might be fun with yer mates though.

Jim Patton, a producer at Bushleague.tv, is breaking the world's record for videogame playing right at this moment, live on the internet. He's been playing Grand Theft Auto IV since yesterday at 5PM.

what bullshit. some dude in a korean internet cafe has been playing StarCraft since 1998.

having completed GTAIV and its DLC last year - the first modern-era games i ever completed, iirc - and having owned GTA:SA as dlc since it came out on xbox 360 originals, am finally getting back into this. when i had it originally, for ps2, i didn't get too far - certainly never made it to las venturas, anyway. i aim to finish it this time around.

weirdly, it doesn't seem to have aged too madly, though i do wish for some of GTAIV's polish at times. and yes, the wardrobe sequences are bone-achingly slow.

it's the best gta game.

it's the big narrative swerves that impress me most - like when sweet gets arrested and you get exiled to the boondocks for a while. as much as i prefer the gtaiv engine, none of its stories really took such left-turns - there's an eccentricity, a weirdness, to san andreas that's compelling and funny, and which eluded GTAIV and its dlc (though gay tony was fantastic). i'd like to see some of that weird pulpy flavour back in GTAV.

Replaying this. Looking forward to that mission where you have to immolate a field of weed