Another day of things in GTA that’ll probably have you wondering, how the hell do these things happen more to Vic than to me?
Spawned into a lobby and a solo CEO doing Executive Search was in progress, but I noticed that his marker was visible AND moving in the search area, something normally that’s impossible so not one to look a gift horse in the mouth I set off over to try and score a easy pay check.
I noticed he had tendencies to EWO so I was rather wary of forcing the issue least he switch over to blowing himself up instead, But as he climbed a fence to getaway from me and the Stromberg, I managed to wound him with a sniper round, that’ll be more crucial than I expected because as I moved forward in the “Berg” I must’ve spooked him into an EWO which ended up benefiting me with 30k.
How you may ask?
Remember that sniper hit? Now remember that R* tweaked EWO so if a player uses EWO after taking damage from a player, that player is credited with the kill.
So in summary, I “killed” him without having to put a bullet in his dome and got paid for it.
Afterwards I went out to the quarry for a Dead Drop pickup, on the way I noticed at the Farmhouse Bunker a supply tank just being delivered and a enemy Hydra that arrived too late to destroy it, so either out of annoyance or bloodlust he sets his sights on me.
Now this is probably a worse case for me, open part of the map, in a car that struggles against fast moving aircraft and missiles that aren’t quick enough to catch it.
But then I noticed he went in to hover mode to try and hit me with the dynamite lazer beam and well...
I swear that I genuinely do end up in these moments by sheer luck and even luckier to come out the other side feeling like a hero/badass.
After that, another guy grabbed the drop and tried to sneak away on the train before switching to an Oppressor which was promptly shot down by yours truly, he grabbed another and came after me down near the M.O.O.S.E data farm and after I realised he was gonna catch me, I threw a 180 and took him on again.
After another ‘Broomstick’ bit the dust, I carried on to the drop off, not even 15 mins in a lobby and I’m already 50k up and that’s before me and a buddy went on a VIP grind. 👍
I say just from an entertainment point of view, the Stromberg has already paid for itself in my eyes.