GTA 5 to look way better on PC.

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escrow4

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Can you take photos from a vehicle? I suppose you should be able to seeing as how you can use the phone in one. That never occurred to me...

You can find all the animals close to the caravan. I got Gold in Hunting in less than 20min. Full screen pause menu?
 

HeXen

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I wouldn't even consider you a gamer if you think that...15 hours in a WEEK is nothing.

As if I care what I'm considered as but I would consider it as myself enjoying a myriad of other hobbies and activities in my free time. There is a whole world of enjoyable things out there but consider what 60+ hrs a week doing only 1 hobby is. That's like someone doing 60+ hrs caring for their lawn or 60+ hrs building model airplanes.
So yes, for me 15 hrs of gaming is a fair amount when I have a lot of other things I typically enjoy doing as well. Believe it or not some people enjoy going outside when it's nice out.
 

destrekor

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Found my first peyote. Flew as a crow for a bit. Pretty cool experience.

There's peyote in the game, just, growing wild?

Awesome. I never got that far in the game on my PS3, I really have to dig through everything now and play the entire game.
 

HeXen

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I never found any peyote, too small and too much ground to cover looking for it. But I watched all the YT videos showing all the animals you can be, looks kinda boring but I'm not into just wandering around as an animal unless there is something I can achieve.
 
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Found my first peyote. Flew as a crow for a bit. Pretty cool experience.

I found the one under Del Perro Pier. Turned into a trout. Swam around, very, very, very slowly for a bit and decided it was stupid. I wanted to be a shark or an orca or a dolphin or something. A trout? Lame.

The birds seem like they'd be fun. You can poop on things.
 

mnewsham

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I found the one under Del Perro Pier. Turned into a trout. Swam around, very, very, very slowly for a bit and decided it was stupid. I wanted to be a shark or an orca or a dolphin or something. A trout? Lame.

The birds seem like they'd be fun. You can poop on things.

The crux of RNG, sometimes you're stuck with shit.
 

Grooveriding

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Lots of hackers in the game currently. Some guy was spawning millions of cash on everybody in the game earlier. Also there is some hack that lets people take a car from your garage for themselves you lose it, haha :p
 

cmdrdredd

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Doesn't surprise me people are hacking and all that online in this game. From what I hear there isn't really enough to do online to begin with and it takes forever to make any real money for high end stuff.
 

escrow4

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Doesn't surprise me people are hacking and all that online in this game. From what I hear there isn't really enough to do online to begin with and it takes forever to make any real money for high end stuff.

Hence why Rockstar should have focussed on the campaign. Coming up on just under 40hrs and the end of the single player here with a bit over 70% completion. IV took 35hrs and I barely hit 50% completion. 18 months for this and its just disappointing. GTA VI should roll Vice City + Liberty City + San Andreas + Carcer City to make up for it. Ship it on 4 50GB BD-DL and stuff in 400 missions. That will let 3 protagonists breathe. Mmmmm.
 

finbarqs

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flying the helicopter is the worst... I can't get control of it, so i couldn't complete my flight school.
 

Childs

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flying the helicopter is the worst... I can't get control of it, so i couldn't complete my flight school.

Just move on. When mission calls for flying a helicopter, once you fail it 3 times it gives you the option to skip it. I havent had to skip any yet, but I'd rather fail a mission a few times then try to complete that timed course in flight school. I must have failed it like 20 times, half of time by less than 5 secs.
 

sxr7171

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Is anyone seeing bad aliasing on shadows even with TXAA or 8x MSAA. No setting gets rid of this aliasing. Also a lot of aliasing on guard rails or any small vertical objects. I'm running 1080p and I noticed that only higher DSR settings can help.

This reminds me of Crysis 3 where even at the highest AA settings the stairs in the game are badly aliased and shimmer and flicker like crazy. It really kills immersion.
 

Fox5

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Is anyone seeing bad aliasing on shadows even with TXAA or 8x MSAA. No setting gets rid of this aliasing. Also a lot of aliasing on guard rails or any small vertical objects. I'm running 1080p and I noticed that only higher DSR settings can help.

This reminds me of Crysis 3 where even at the highest AA settings the stairs in the game are badly aliased and shimmer and flicker like crazy. It really kills immersion.

Yeah DSR is the only thing I've found that helps. I run on 2x DSR with 50% blur and don't bother with MSAA or TXAA since they don't really work when the post processing effects are turned on.
 

escrow4

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Finished the campaign today, just under 40hrs and 75% complete. There were some odd missions shoehorned in right towards the end - Michael's family suddenly show up and then there is a random hostage mission - which make it seem as if there are a lot more missions but Rockstar just cut them out (paid DLC?). There is also a bug in the Big Score, use RPGs to blow the vault if you take the front door option as well as a bug in one of the other heists where I had to delete the config files to reset everything.

Also the ending was pretty good
- you get to control all three protagonists as they murder all the loose ends which Option C. Don't know who would take the other options were you can kill either Michael or Trevor, that is just slack.

Anyway, off to read the Witcher books in preparation.
 

skipsneeky2

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Looking forward to trying some DSR at 4k with this title,ordered a Dell S2340m IPS to replace my 26'' 720 t.v.Hope the 970 can deliver for moderate settings at such a resolution.:)Will be fun to try,not expecting much in the way of playability.

Anyone try 4k DSR yet on a 1080p panel in this title?Hows it working out for you?
 

Fox5

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Looking forward to trying some DSR at 4k with this title,ordered a Dell S2340m IPS to replace my 26'' 720 t.v.Hope the 970 can deliver for moderate settings at such a resolution.:)Will be fun to try,not expecting much in the way of playability.

Anyone try 4k DSR yet on a 1080p panel in this title?Hows it working out for you?

I went down to 2k DSR for playability and settings.
It doesn't really run well at any settings at 4k, but I can do high settings at 2k.
 

skipsneeky2

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I went down to 2k DSR for playability and settings.
It doesn't really run well at any settings at 4k, but I can do high settings at 2k.

4k is a bit extreme,i was more curious then anything how 4k looked.My t.v pretty much gave me close to a 1600p experience at 26'' with 4x DSR and it was rather small and meh in GTA5 .:\

Got other titles i could try it with like Bioshock i guess. 1080p with my 970 in that game pulls so many frames without AA my mouse has this odd acceleration thing that only goes away with a frame cap.Pretty much overkill with like 65-85% gpu usage and well over 200+ frames lol.