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Ok first a short explanation of what I'm referring to here, this is primarily concerning free mode. The masses of people out there who's only objective ever is to cause maximum discomfort for every other player out there in Liberty City, no matter what you do their need to kill is beyond help. I mean these guys are so desperate, they will do whatever it takes to hunt you down and kill you in cold blood.
So the first way to combat this is to set weapons to melee, you'd think this would stop many people from trying to kill you, but of course they just resort to smashing up your car if you seek the safety of the metal armor. Beating your car, shunting it, grabbing a helicopter and blading it, shooting it with anhilator miniguns.
The really strange thing? with weapons set to melee, once they work out you can get shotguns and RPG from cop cars and choppers respectively, they again continue to hunt you down and I normally take refuge in a hiding spot which they can't work out the entrance to. The strange thing being that these people will unite in their need to destroy you once you become a difficult target by defending yourself or being innaccessible. They ignore each other and entire rooms will come to hunt the one or two clever people, waiting like packs of wolves around cornered hares they fly around in their choppers, blow up the surrounding area, anything to show force.
How do you think this comes about? I mean sure GTA is good for an old fashioned rampage but when the weapons are set to melee and the target is out of reach, they just won't give up, eventually they turn on each other of course but it's amazing the patience they show with killing, well me usually. Why are the GTA players just so outrageously determined on one persons death? Who knows, but it sure does make for some good stories.
I type to you all now from the safety of an underground car park, RPG, Shotgun, Pistol and Armor at the ready, after leaving to save my friend from an RPG wielding maniac, (weapons are set to melee) I returned to this favourite hide out to try and seek comfort. The helicopters circle above oblivious to the entrance, waiting, hovering around me like starved vultures. It's been roughly 30 minutes and still they wait, one guy tried the subway as it passes just beneath, clever but perhaps to clever as the entrance is a simple nearby alleyway. I feel like I'm in some kind of horror film, trapped, facing a much greater force then even the small pile of ammunition I sit on here in my black Sultan RS. These guys had been previously attacking anything until I intervened by serving some justice on them, now they've all formed an alliance to see my blood hit the cold pavement. It's like an entire new mode and is actually rather entertaining if a little strange, I'm sure if I really wanted to I could likely dispatch all 4 or 5 of them without much trouble by making a break for it and using my cunning to force them into difficult situations in order to slow them down and RPG them each and pick them off one by one, but this would compromise my safe zone for the rest of the game if I'm spotted exiting.
Well inevitably as I've been typing this, they've turned on each other after a staggering 40 minutes, and most have now left the game with only one remaining, the one who I blew into pieces for attacking my team-mate. Even he finally gave up, but it would appear he's now airborne in a new chopper and approaching me again. Such determination for such a shallow cause amazes me.
Observing them has taught me a few things about GTA.
1) People really like to cause misery for others
2) They really don't like being defeated and outsmarted.
3) They will do anything to get their revenge, even if it's not provoked.
Has anyone else experienced this kind of thing? Are you even someone who has done similar kind of things? and finally, why do you think people are just so determined, it's beyond logic. Other comments and the hordes strange behaviour (yes these people turn into creatures on this game rather then humans) would be appreciated, it's a strange and intriguing thing to watch. I feel like David Attenborough
Sit rep: The final vulture blew himself up above me trying to get in, and has now left
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So the first way to combat this is to set weapons to melee, you'd think this would stop many people from trying to kill you, but of course they just resort to smashing up your car if you seek the safety of the metal armor. Beating your car, shunting it, grabbing a helicopter and blading it, shooting it with anhilator miniguns.
The really strange thing? with weapons set to melee, once they work out you can get shotguns and RPG from cop cars and choppers respectively, they again continue to hunt you down and I normally take refuge in a hiding spot which they can't work out the entrance to. The strange thing being that these people will unite in their need to destroy you once you become a difficult target by defending yourself or being innaccessible. They ignore each other and entire rooms will come to hunt the one or two clever people, waiting like packs of wolves around cornered hares they fly around in their choppers, blow up the surrounding area, anything to show force.
How do you think this comes about? I mean sure GTA is good for an old fashioned rampage but when the weapons are set to melee and the target is out of reach, they just won't give up, eventually they turn on each other of course but it's amazing the patience they show with killing, well me usually. Why are the GTA players just so outrageously determined on one persons death? Who knows, but it sure does make for some good stories.
I type to you all now from the safety of an underground car park, RPG, Shotgun, Pistol and Armor at the ready, after leaving to save my friend from an RPG wielding maniac, (weapons are set to melee) I returned to this favourite hide out to try and seek comfort. The helicopters circle above oblivious to the entrance, waiting, hovering around me like starved vultures. It's been roughly 30 minutes and still they wait, one guy tried the subway as it passes just beneath, clever but perhaps to clever as the entrance is a simple nearby alleyway. I feel like I'm in some kind of horror film, trapped, facing a much greater force then even the small pile of ammunition I sit on here in my black Sultan RS. These guys had been previously attacking anything until I intervened by serving some justice on them, now they've all formed an alliance to see my blood hit the cold pavement. It's like an entire new mode and is actually rather entertaining if a little strange, I'm sure if I really wanted to I could likely dispatch all 4 or 5 of them without much trouble by making a break for it and using my cunning to force them into difficult situations in order to slow them down and RPG them each and pick them off one by one, but this would compromise my safe zone for the rest of the game if I'm spotted exiting.
Well inevitably as I've been typing this, they've turned on each other after a staggering 40 minutes, and most have now left the game with only one remaining, the one who I blew into pieces for attacking my team-mate. Even he finally gave up, but it would appear he's now airborne in a new chopper and approaching me again. Such determination for such a shallow cause amazes me.
Observing them has taught me a few things about GTA.
1) People really like to cause misery for others
2) They really don't like being defeated and outsmarted.
3) They will do anything to get their revenge, even if it's not provoked.
Has anyone else experienced this kind of thing? Are you even someone who has done similar kind of things? and finally, why do you think people are just so determined, it's beyond logic. Other comments and the hordes strange behaviour (yes these people turn into creatures on this game rather then humans) would be appreciated, it's a strange and intriguing thing to watch. I feel like David Attenborough
Sit rep: The final vulture blew himself up above me trying to get in, and has now left