Grand Theft Auto V (warning, spoilers)

2014-05-25 09:05:45 am

I think a Any% run sounds like a lot of fun, and I'm willing to give it a go...
(I believe you can cut down mission times by completing the short tasks during heists and then that progresses the story without to much player input...)

Another thing, for an Any% run, has anyone considered using save and load to speed up mission starts showing up? I was playing one of the heists (The Jewel Store Job) finished up and then experienced a console freeze... (360 :/) When I loaded back into the game I was greeted with the next story mission... Cheesy

While speaking to a friend I was told that he waited for about 10 min as he drove around and encountered a strangers and freaks event...

I will be looking at ways to use the save and load to move across the map quickly and initiate missions as soon as you load...

ToriksLV

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ToriksLV: 2014-05-27 11:40:24 am

2014-05-27 11:36:28 am

Its jsut that nobody runs it and it sounds more challenging, atleast for me. In Classic% you are pretty limited, atleast i think so. Anyways i quite didnt udnerstand your save and load strategy, you mean while waiting for the mission you quicksave and then load that save? I havent though about it. Not sure if it would help.

snipey123654

2014-05-28 01:02:14 pm

In GTA V you can find yourself in a cutscene (From either a auto save or a dedicated save once a mission is complete) to make the experience more fun (one of the three doing some outlandish activity{TREVOR}) however this means you are spawned to specific locations... (unless its trevor)

At the end of a mission, or Heist when you're either been told to wait to be contacted or are left with a wanted level, it is possible to speed this process up (and lose your stars) by saving and loading [Note: Results have varied between reloading a save in the game, and doing a exit of the game and then reloading everything (and we all know how long it takes to load GTA V)].

Its is also likely that when you load into the game you're met with ether with less of a distance to travel (and your personal vehicle beside you) or by a short cutscene... (Cutscenes appear to happen only when the character is spawned at their house or if you're trevor and you're getting dumped at the side of the road...)

[SPOILER]
A quick note about travel in the game:

(Michael) It appears to be faster to max out a car once your starting car is stolen as you spend most of the game with limited contact with your family (Therefore, no starting car) and by the time your family gets back you can rely on swapping to a faster character to get to story missions... (As most missions at that stage involve all the characters)

(Trevor) Trevor is a d1ck. The consistent use of cutscenes when swapping to him and the random event that surround him are really quite useless.... (There is a but here!) He is useful however, as he tends to spawn relatively close to his properties (Airfields) or in the middle of nowhere if you're unlucky. The airfields have relatively fast aircraft around and it may be worth looking into the death mechanic where you spawn after death at the nearest clinic... (Get in the zone then jump out without a parachute?)
It is important to note however, once he is in possession of the Strip Club he spawns when saving loading (Load to a different character and then change to him) Most, if not all of the time...
Another note about trevor is that he maintains the use of one vehicle throughout the whole story so there is no need to wait around to upgrade it (After buying airfields + strip club).

(Franklin) Franklin is useful as he tends to spawn out in the center of LS, on a coast road to the west or at his house {When living with his aunt this is a rare occurrence but it becomes more common when he lives up in the hills}. His bike is the most annoying piece of rubbish that is available to drive however I have consistently not been able to get rid of it. This suggests it is here to stay...
A alternative is that you can hail a cab however the wait times for me have varied and it seems that general theft of a vehicle that looks "Sporty" is probably the best alternative (And be reduced to using the bike for convenience when traffic fails to load... :| )

A quick note about combat:
It would appear that most of Trevors missions can be accomplished with a Assault rifle and a sniper rifle only...
Michaels weapons of choice tend to be a SMG as these carry a big punch when dealing with large groups and a shot gun is useful for one on one engagements...
And Franklin trends towards the use of a LMG for Heist missions and Small arms (Eg. pistols and SMGs) due to the missions involving close quarters Gang shooting and car chases...

GRENADES AND C4 are a must have, as a correctly thrown C4 charge can end a mission very quickly as enemies tend to park in the same place.... (You would think that the burning car wrecks were a give away... :/ )
and most of the major long firefights are actually very predictable and easy to clean out if you preposition C4 and have grenades on standby...

I'm going to stop writing now and give my fingers a rest (This is the 3rd time i had to write this as Chrome decided to crash on me twice... so sorry if there are any spelling or logical errors... Smiley

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In GTA V you can find yourself in a cutscene (From either a auto save or a dedicated save once a mission is complete) to make the experience more fun (one of the three doing some outlandish activity{TREVOR}) however this means you are spawned to specific locations... (unless its trevor)

At the end of a mission, or Heist when you're either been told to wait to be contacted or are left with a wanted level, it is possible to speed this process up (and lose your stars) by saving and loading [Note: Results have varied between reloading a save in the game, and doing a exit of the game and then reloading everything (and we all know how long it takes to load GTA V)].

Its is also likely that when you load into the game you're met with ether with less of a distance to travel (and your personal vehicle beside you) or by a short cutscene... (Cutscenes appear to happen only when the character is spawned at their house or if you're trevor and you're getting dumped at the side of the road...)

[SPOILER]
A quick note about travel in the game:

(Michael) It appears to be faster to max out a car once your starting car is stolen as you spend most of the game with limited contact with your family (Therefore, no starting car) and by the time your family gets back you can rely on swapping to a faster character to get to story missions... (As most missions at that stage involve all the characters)

(Trevor) Trevor is a d1ck. The consistent use of cutscenes when swapping to him and the random event that surround him are really quite useless.... (There is a but here!) He is useful however, as he tends to spawn relatively close to his properties (Airfields) or in the middle of nowhere if you're unlucky. The airfields have relatively fast aircraft around and it may be worth looking into the death mechanic where you spawn after death at the nearest clinic... (Get in the zone then jump out without a parachute?)
It is important to note however, once he is in possession of the Strip Club he spawns when saving loading (Load to a different character and then change to him) Most, if not all of the time...
Another note about trevor is that he maintains the use of one vehicle throughout the whole story so there is no need to wait around to upgrade it (After buying airfields + strip club).

(Franklin) Franklin is useful as he tends to spawn out in the center of LS, on a coast road to the west or at his house {When living with his aunt this is a rare occurrence but it becomes more common when he lives up in the hills}. His bike is the most annoying piece of rubbish that is available to drive however I have consistently not been able to get rid of it. This suggests it is here to stay...
A alternative is that you can hail a cab however the wait times for me have varied and it seems that general theft of a vehicle that looks "Sporty" is probably the best alternative (And be reduced to using the bike for convenience when traffic fails to load... :| )

A quick note about combat:
It would appear that most of Trevors missions can be accomplished with a Assault rifle and a sniper rifle only...
Michaels weapons of choice tend to be a SMG as these carry a big punch when dealing with large groups and a shot gun is useful for one on one engagements...
And Franklin trends towards the use of a LMG for Heist missions and Small arms (Eg. pistols and SMGs) due to the missions involving close quarters Gang shooting and car chases...

GRENADES AND C4 are a must have, as a correctly thrown C4 charge can end a mission very quickly as enemies tend to park in the same place.... (You would think that the burning car wrecks were a give away... :/ )
and most of the major long firefights are actually very predictable and easy to clean out if you preposition C4 and have grenades on standby...

I'm going to stop writing now and give my fingers a rest (This is the 3rd time i had to write this as Chrome decided to crash on me twice... so sorry if there are any spelling or logical errors... :) )

ToriksLV

2014-05-29 01:02:03 am

Woah what a post :D:D, time to process.

fan

2014-06-08 05:41:17 am

Maybe its time to make a speedrun already?

snipey123654

2014-06-08 08:58:24 am

Once I have finished my exams I will be perfecting a route through the main 69 missions (So a any% run)... I will not have access to a capture card however I might be able to get my hands on one soon...
I'm probably going to segment the missions for perfecting the in mission strats however when I've got a day to myself I will complete a full run and post the splits and total...
(Its just such a dam long game!!!)

ToriksLV

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2014-06-08 10:47:16 am

Well i will buy one in couple of days and for now i am retesting second time with timer, found couple places i mised, 50 missions to go ;D. Glad i wont be the only one who will start doing this. Actually dekaps clasic% strats and mission order is quiote optimized and works for any% too. Its jsut you can travel faster, thats all. I havent played much so i dont know a lot of routs + practice. Yeea know its kidna painfull and time consmuning process but when its done i will concentrate on other strats.

I noticed its not worth buying c4 for Micahel because in couple of missions (I fought the law and one other) it dissapears and not worth to visit ammunation one more time, i have no idea why. Also i am making a DOC file with timings

I usually buy only couple c4 and you can buy them in missions without wasting extra time outside them. Grenade launcher is a good option too.

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Maybe its time to make a speedrun already?

I am kinda bussy too and dont have a capture yet so be patient Sad

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Well i will buy one in couple of days and for now i am retesting second time with timer, found couple places i mised, 50 missions to go ;D. Glad i wont be the only one who will start doing this. Actually dekaps clasic% strats and mission order is quiote optimized and works for any% too. Its jsut you can travel faster, thats all. I havent played much so i dont know a lot of routs + practice. Yeea know its kidna painfull and time consmuning process but when its done i will concentrate on other strats.

I noticed its not worth buying c4 for Micahel because in couple of missions (I fought the law and one other) it dissapears and not worth to visit ammunation one more time, i have no idea why. Also i am making a DOC file with timings

I usually buy only couple c4 and you can buy them in missions without wasting extra time outside them. Grenade launcher is a good option too.

[quote]Maybe its time to make a speedrun already?[/quote]

I am kinda bussy too and dont have a capture yet so be patient :( .

snipey123654

2014-06-09 02:23:23 am

I think that it might be worth looking into faster routes for traveling up to the top of blaine county... Within a certain area it must be faster to go to the airport and pick up a luxor...? Please post your splits for the run when you get a chance... Smiley

(Also, quick sidenote... I just completed one of the spec-ops missions in COD:MW3 in 25.8 seconds... Really buzzing for that... Cheesy

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I'll try to work these improvements into a route... Out of interest, what are you running on? PS3/Xbox?

ToriksLV

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2014-06-09 10:42:48 pm

PS3 and no i dont have ssd because it doesnt give you that much time safe as somebody say. offcourse there are improvements to be made, but i will do a run with current strats and splits jsut to see how fast it can be done. Ordered my capture card. I should be able to do a run after a week.

Sure heres my notes for any% i have finished the mission skips, now i will change some notes, sorry for bad grammar and english, i will fix those notes later, just writing as fast as i can to get it done faster - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T0YzLgKhANSlqg_qxRlXlMffuCBo_zvJzI6IEUIrQE8/edit#gid=1259807085 and splits - https://www.dropbox.com/s/txidjdd9udzh74m/GTAV%20ANY%25%20speedrun%20splits Total time save by using only mission skips is 1hour and 20min, give or take soem seconds or couple of minutes. Add taxis and you will get even more.

I dont have a file for splits yet, that i will do before the run.

GTA V is now confirmed on PC, so when it comes out i am gonna sell my ps3 and move to PC version :).

PS3 and no i dont have ssd because it doesnt give you that much time safe as somebody say. offcourse there are improvements to be made, but i will do a run with current strats and splits jsut to see how fast it can be done. Ordered my capture card. I should be able to do a run after a week.

Sure heres my notes for any% i have finished the mission skips, now i will change some notes, sorry for bad grammar and english, i will fix those notes later, just writing as fast as i can to get it done faster - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T0YzLgKhANSlqg_qxRlXlMffuCBo_zvJzI6IEUIrQE8/edit#gid=1259807085 and splits - https://www.dropbox.com/s/txidjdd9udzh74m/GTAV%20ANY%25%20speedrun%20splits  Total time save by using only mission skips is 1hour and 20min, give or take soem seconds or couple of minutes. Add taxis and you will get even more.

I dont have a file for splits yet, that i will do before the run.

GTA V is now confirmed on PC, so when it comes out i am gonna sell my ps3 and move to PC version :).

snipey123654

2014-06-17 11:25:33 am

This File is extremely helpful...
I'll be interested to see your progress and will look forward to seeing your time decrease rapidly...

ToriksLV

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2014-06-20 11:58:21 pm

Offcourse time save will change a bit in time because speedruns will get better and so it will shrink. I would like to find bugs and glitches, that saves time, myself but its kinda luck. I hope on pc version you will be able to egt that extra speedboost when rapidly pressing W, liek in sanandreas and VC. Cheesy

Looks like you cant despawn traffic with moving camera away like in other GTAs on PC.

Update: i need couple Sata data cabvles for my hdds and iam ready, only i will struggle to setting everything up since i havent done it before.

Update2: Now i have set it up everything but next problem is HDCP and i cant bypass even with OBS streamign software, shows red or black screen in preview and when recording. So sadly i think i will wait for pc version and will sell my ps3 after i buy ps4 in august, i will do offstream runs for myself and post times in this post. Sorry snipey. I am just so tired of these bs hdcp n stuff.

SakkoTheTaco

2014-09-23 01:50:19 am

I'm just wondering. Does anyone know what missions saves you the most time (from when you're playing the game casually) and that uses speedruns strats in GTA 5?
Thank you!