Grand Theft Auto IV Discussion

[Jack.Sparrow]

But, from what I gather, you've got a (much) faster connection than me I'm willing to try it out though, we'll see how it goes.

[dxj]

Online doesn't seem to be too bad for 360 atm, but there has been a few issues while i've been online with it.

Cops 'N' Crooks is my favourite game mode so far, good fun when you have two good teams. (only played that, deathmatch, and racing so far)

[beefers1]

sounds like you're having fun. How's the lag for online racing?

[dxj]

Well considering I've only done one race with 3 other people, no lag at all, so maybe i lucked out that time.
It only seems to lag on large Deathmatches.

[lilman4evur]

will spawning vehicles affect the game play in any way? And for like the full ammo, health, armor, will that affect the game play if you have already unlocked the achievements its saying it will not let you achieve if you use the cheat.

Should i make this a separate thread? or is it ok here?

[dxj]

I think it fine in this thread, all i know is that it affects achuevements and missions, so maybe make a different save file for your cheating, that way if anything goes wrong you always have the original file to go back too.

[lilman4evur]

how will it effect missions? the armour,health,ammo cheat will it effect anything if i ve already unlocked the achievements?

[Jack.Sparrow]

I don't think so. I usually don't use cheats until I've finished the game a couple of times. Cheating only increments your cheat counter as far as I know. The game keeps a record of how many times you've cheated but apart from that I can't see it affecting anything.

Like dxj said though, back up your save files and try what you want, if it stuffs up, you won't have lost much.

[beefers1]

2 of my friend's PC's actually crashed, and the thing in common was that they both recently cheated in GTA SA. Also: how do you back up save files on a PS3? One of the things I hate most about consoles is the inability to directly access your hard drive or memory card's files.

[dxj]

Originally Posted by lilman4evur

how will it effect missions? the armour,health,ammo cheat will it effect anything if i ve already unlocked the achievements?

I'm not sure maybe you can't access mission while cheating, I've only read that it affect mission and achveiments.

Back up have a play about, then you'll know for sure.

[lilman4evur]

for the most part i will just be using the vehicle cheats. there coool lol

[Jack.Sparrow]

Originally Posted by beefers1

Also: how do you back up save files on a PS3?

Very similar to a PS2, just plug in a flash drive or a portable hardrive and copy the save files over. I say files because there are two, one is the normal save, the other is the auto save (which is a new feature)

[beefers1]

but there's no Explorer-type window on consoles that lets you view the files (i actually didn't know how to do it on a PS2 either). All there is is the painstakingly hard-to-use menu screen which doesn't even give you the exact details about the file. Very limiting, I would say.

[Jack.Sparrow]

The menu system for the PS3 is fairly similar to the PSP. I would probably go as far as saying that backing up console save files is easier than PC's cause everything is clearly laid out and you can access the file using 3 'clicks' at most.

But, let's not hi-jack this thread and make it into a PC vs Console things I think there is already one around ... somewhere...

[beefers1]

yeah, i guess i'm just not used to simple things (like how i hate that macs don't let you access its hard drive's files without going through a complicated process).

for now, i'm still playing SA, hopefully it'll be released for PC soon. one of my classmates (a girl!) got GTAIV for her PS3 and said that it was an excellent game despite the above-average level of violence.

[Jack.Sparrow]

It is indeed a great game

Another little thing I've noticed, if you shoot someone while they're in the car and they fall onto the steering wheel, the horn get's activated

I also like the fact that *minor spoiler* the game now let's you choose, for some missions atleast, if you want to kill the target or let them go. Which is a step in the right direction, but then they've also introduced the execution aspect which brings it back to where it started at /spoiler

[beefers1]

nice. but can they fall sideways or backwards? or out of the car like in previous GTA games? also: what would you choose, to excecute them or spare them?