Patch Notes: Title Update 1.29 Notes

[Squirrel 5,180]

King of the castle is fun when its a mix of crew and randoms. We can take over the objective easily enough and fight off the randumbs. Passive mode settings are definitely a bit strange with some of the events.

With a lot of the challenges expect to be attacked especially if you're in an obvious open area like the airport (sorry ninja) it does add an extra dimension to the games when you're also under attack while flying low or upside down. If you can fly low and destroy the opposition at the same time then it becomes part of the game.

Racking up a large score and going on the offensive to protect it is part of the game. As is helping crew members with their challenges by taking out their competition.

One thing we may need to look at though are the crew polices when it comes to killing each other. For which challenges is it acceptable to kill each other and which ones do we maintain our integrity and hold back on killing each other. (Sorry again Ninja)

I think when it is crew vs randoms then we should always back each other up and take on the randoms, when its in a crew only session then its a little more vague.

Obviously King of the Castle and Hot Property are offensive challenges where killing each other is part of the game.

Penned in is the same. Every man for themselves and no holding back.

Hunt the Beast, should really be everyone vs the beast. We shouldn't attack each other while in pursuit of the beast.

Now the tricky ones to decide are the flying low/upside down/wheely/under bridges etc style challenges.

Is racking up a large score then going on the offensive to protect it acceptable when in a crew only session?

Just trolling people by killing them when you're not attempting to win the challenge yourself should definitely be outlawed in a crew session. You're not being competitive then, you're just being a twat.

Edited September 28, 2015 by Squirrel_Army

[Jaggy 2,811]

If so we should hear something soon. They usually have a year long marketing campaign.

 

I remember awhile back, someone found coding in the game with horses and assumed Rockstar was going to let us ride horses in GTA.  I've heard in the past that game publishers will throw coding for one game into another game.  If true, maybe Rockstar threw some of their RDR 2 codes into GTA.  They found that info last year sometime.  All I know, I'll be pre-ordering RDR 2 the second I am able to do so. 

 

King of the castle is fun when its a mix of crew and randoms. We can take over the objective easily enough and fight off the randumbs. Passive mode settings are definitely a bit strange with some of the events.

With a lot of the challenges expect to be attacked especially if you're in an obvious open area like the airport (sorry ninja) it does add an extra dimension to the games when you're also under attack while flying low or upside down. If you can fly low and destroy the opposition at the same time then it becomes part of the game.

Racking up a large score and going on the offensive to protect it is part of the game. As it helping crew members with their challenges by taking out their competition.

One thing we may need to look at though are the crew polices when it corms to killing each other. For which challenges is it acceptable to kill each other and which ones do we maintain our integrity and hold back on killing each other. (Sorry again Ninja)

I think when it is crew vs randoms then we should always back each other up and take on the randoms, when its in a crew only session then its a little more vague.

Obviously King of the Castle and Hot Property are offensive challenges where killing each other is part of the game.

Penned in is the same. Every man for themselves and no holding back.

Hunt the Beast, should really be every vs the beast. We shouldn't attack each other while in pursuit of the beast.

Now the tricky ones to decide are the flying low/upside down/wheely/under bridges etc style challenges.

Is racking up a large score then going on the offensive to protect it acceptable when in a crew only session?

Just trolling people by killing them when you're not attempting to win the challenge yourself should definitely be outlawed in a crew session. You're not being competitive then, you're just being a twat.

 

When it comes to crew killing, I look at the free roam events much like our combat jobs in playlists.  I have no problem working as a team if we're all in a public lobby, but if these events are taking place in a crew lobby, I look at it as an "to each their own" type of thing.  We did Hunt the Beast in a public lobby last Sunday.  I was the beast and everyone in the crew helped me evade all of the randoms.  It pissed the randoms off so much because I had about eight crew members fighting them off and a couple of others driving me to my checkpoints. 

[Sinister 2,583]

If we are in a crew lobby and King of the Castle pops up, I feel it is every man/woman for themselves.

Hunt the Beast, is just that, Hunt THE Beast.

Protecting a high score for the other stuff is not something I would ever do to either Crew or Randoms.

As for public lobbies we should join up against the randoms and help the crew.

[LN-MLB 2,583]

Now the tricky ones to decide are the flying low/upside down/wheely/under bridges etc style challenges.

Is racking up a large score then going on the offensive to protect it acceptable when in a crew only session?

Just trolling people by killing them when you're not attempting to win the challenge yourself should definitely be outlawed in a crew session. You're not being competitive then, you're just being a twat.

 

I agree and I would say we should refrain from killing one another during these sort of events in crew lobbies.  It serves no purpose and is not warranted in any way.  I think pretty much anything goes when it's a lobby full of randoms, but we should probably not target fellow crew members in those instances.

 

I think most of this boils down to using good judgement.  Obviously, as stated, some of the new game modes do employ some sort of combat style objective and I don't see a problem with shooting each other in those instances, but again, perhaps use your best judgement.  Hanging around and sniping crew members as they respawn, not actually working towards the objective but instead just killing anything that moves for the sake of increasing your K/D, etc. are probably not the best routes to take (in my opinion).

[grjkie 727]

I like some of the new events and I agree with Squirrel and Jag on this, randoms yeah I don't mind working together to get a crew member to win but on crew lobbys it's different IMO, some of these new events are like combat jobs and I'll always attempt to get a win, I don't think anyone was pissed at me on these events so far because they are combat objectives, we are expected to be competitive and kill each other. I see them as a PL DM or similar

[ScottyB 2,086]

Good points squirrel. I think this topic almost deserves its own thread to provide a bit of clarity for everyone. As LN said though, just use your best judgement.

Killing crew members in a public lobby doesn't really look good though in any context, and especially not to defend your score. For me, whatever crew member got there first (in a public lobby and for combat type jobs), I would protect and help them. That would be far more enjoyable and satisfying for me to work as a team and help them out.

As far as ones like penned in, I would also avoid and even help crew members until we were the last ones standing and then go free for all.

If we are in a crew lobby then obviously we will be there to challenge each other so anything goes. Griefing and being a dick by ruining the challenge for other crew members won't be tolerated (like killing people and not going for the objective or defending your score etc). It also depends on who you are with and how comfortable you are with them. The people I play with everyday, I know I can joke and muck around with them and know how they won't be offended, but for members I don't know very well, I would act more cautiously and respectful towards them.