GTA V PC

EveAlex

anyone know who has cheapest price ?

thanks in advance! :cool:

wotzgoingon

http://www.game-mart.com/grand-theft-auto-v-steam-cd-key/?ad=banner

This is the cheapest.

d31b0y

Both options to buy on that site are out of stock (how does that happen with electronic download ). I also heard before that you should try to avoid steam gift purchases where possible.
Here's a breakdown of all prices available op;
http://www.allkeyshop.com/blog/buy-gta-5-cd-key-compare-prices/

Has anyone pre-ordered this for PC? I ordered it back in Feb and I am dieing to play it now, if only for the first person. Already completed it on the PS3.

CruelCoin

d31b0y wrote: »

Both options to buy on that site are out of stock (how does that happen with electronic download ). I also heard before that you should try to avoid steam gift purchases where possible.
Here's a breakdown of all prices available op;
http://www.allkeyshop.com/blog/buy-gta-5-cd-key-compare-prices/

Has anyone pre-ordered this for PC? I ordered it back in Feb and I am dieing to play it now, if only for the first person. Already completed it on the PS3.

I've it pre-ordered on Steam.

Can't wait for it.

The_Valeyard

Are those links reliable?

Are they going to block that game from your account after a few weeks on your account?

Dave_The_Sheep

I promised myself I'd say "**** it, I'll wait til it's on sale, serves them right for making us wait to get it on PC".

The I realised I can get around that by having my girlfriend buy it for me for my birthday.

Happy days.

jumbobreakfast

Pre-load started on Steam. 59GB

degrassinoel

jumbobreakfast wrote: »

Pre-load started on Steam. 59GB

hehe, that's a whopping 1 euro per gig on steam too

ftse100

jumbobreakfast wrote: »

Pre-load started on Steam. 59GB

Good Job I have a week to download it.

xtal191

Is Nuuvem the cheapest place to pick this up?

Shiminay

Folks, there's an entire GTA Forum here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=828

The_Valeyard

Shiminay wrote: »

Folks, there's an entire GTA Forum here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=828

I think this is so us master race PC heads can discuss the game in all its true glory and soon the gpu fans to the max


.....I caved and bought it. Pre loaded today.

degrassinoel

Yeah i'd use that forum only i've been really careful about reading any GTA V threads at all, i dont wanna be spoiled - not that it matters a whole lot in GTA anyway but yeah, will wait til i own it before heading over

wotzgoingon

degrassinoel wrote: »

Yeah i'd use that forum only i've been really careful about reading any GTA V threads at all, i dont wanna be spoiled - not that it matters a whole lot in GTA anyway but yeah, will wait til i own it before heading over

You won't be disappointed it is a very good game. Trevor is the best. Nut job. I don't know if I will bother playing the single player again or just play it online.

I have been downloading since this time last night and I am only at 13GB. But it did stop itself 3 times and once during the night and I got up late so I don't know how much I missed out.

EoinHef

Playing it on PS4 and ill be waiting till its a bit cheaper on PC before i pick it up.

Enjoyed the SP and ive put a good few hours into the online. My main problem with online is it can be too grindy for cash(pushing people towards microtransactions imo),and can become very repetitive. Load times are also shocking,like really bad. PC version load times should be better but they will still be long.

Also the heists are a great idea,having to do them with randomers not so much. The extra rewards when one is completed is welcome as the normal jobs pay very little for the time they require to complete. Although with heists there is nothing worse than waiting 5 minutes for a player to join,launch the mission only to find he jumps out and the game kicks all players to servers and the heist has to be set up again. Its quite painful to setup again with the load times.

In saying all that the game is great fun when playing with friends and its all working. Other than the above few critiques i look forward to trying it on PC.

omerin

xtal191 wrote: »

Is Nuuvem the cheapest place to pick this up?

Seems to be. I've just gone against my no pre-order, let's wait for the price to be lower rule,but I can't see it being as cheap anytime soon elsewhere. That said, it is a bit of a risk as it's not known if it will be region locked and if it is, I don't fancy immigrating to Brazil to play it :pac:

Taylor365

HAD this pre-ordered but cancelled it after the 2nd delay.

I'll pick it up for €30 at some stage..

Lu Tze

Bit the bullet, bought and downloaded last night. Don't think I have ever payed that much for a game, but likely won't be buying anything else this year, and plenty in the backlog.

Wanted the steam version to stream to the living room occasionally to play on the telly

Duggy747

Your sig just reminded me of trying this out on my Oculus

Lu Tze

Duggy747 wrote: »

Your sig just reminded me of trying this out on my Oculus

Is it supported?

Kiith

We'll get a few boards heists going once its launched, to avoid having to run with total randomers. They can really kill the experience sometimes.

jumbobreakfast

Lu Tze wrote: »

Is it supported?

No, but 3D is supported so I guess there is a chance it will be supported in the future:

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/what-new-things-should-you-expect-in-gta-v-pc/1100-6426472/

Standard 3D support requires 120 FPS i think? If so, the game engine can support the 75FPS that the DK2 requires for low persistence

I'm sure that one of those 3rd party VR wrapper applications like Vorpx or vireio perception might make it possible.

ScumLord

omerin wrote: »

Seems to be. I've just gone against my no pre-order,

Yes, I am weak too, I would have bought it the other day but I have to wait until tomorrow now. Price has gone up more than €10 on g2play.

Duggy747

Lu Tze wrote: »

Is it supported?

It's PC, somebody will make it support it :pac:

Rebel Rebel

Really torn about buying this pre-order, i have such a back log but it is GTA. Could be Buggy as hell for a few weeks, might wait for the summer sales, but I really want it. is it worth €60 for a game that is 18 months old?

ScumLord

Rebel Rebel wrote: »

is it worth €60 for a game that is 18 months old?

No PC game is worth €60. Shop around.

Robert ninja

So when asked, "Modding took off for GTA IV PC. What are you doing to support modding for V? Is there anything within the game that supports it?"

R* replies with

Since GTA Online has such a massive and vibrant community, our primary focus is making sure that nothing detracts from that experience or has a negative impact on the overall community of players

So in other words, DRM up the ass, no modding support, no fun allowed. Because if people are making private servers and custom game modes they're not falling into their new business model where you get punished for killing other players and being a 'bad sport' (in a GTA game) and have to pay money on your car insurance and pay other people's car insurance if you damage it (again, in a GTA game). I feel like this is all trying to get you to buy GTA DLC money. I remember on the PS3 it wasn't very long until they nerfed the heck out of almost all the game modes to give you barely any money and disabled online stock exchange where I lost millions of dollars that they wouldn't allow me to access and sell anymore.

This is definitely not a day 1 purchase or even a month-1 purchase. I'll have to see how this plays out and if people manage to get their own servers up or mods where we can actually have fun ffs. Oh, and breaking the player limit is a must for a game of this map size.

My dream is that someone manages to get all map markers of players turned off (except for your friends of course), heists and activities don't load into their own entire world but are instead seamless into the free roam. That way you won't get griefed by players tracking you on the map 24/7 but can hide in plain sight like an NPC in a regular looking (but buffed up under the hood) car. With skill, you might be able to ID players, stalk them, sabotage their heist and steal their loot that they got from the heist. Epic battles between two groups with police thrown in. Plus things like races speeding by you while you're going for a stroll would be immersive and highly entertaining. All that in a 50ish player lobby would be just be the best thing ever.

Kiith

With GTA Online quite heavily integrated into it, there was never going to be mod tools released for this. Better for it to be locked down than totally ruined with cheaters and hacks.

ScumLord

I wouldn't expect a console port to have any modding in it. That's not to say it won't be modded.


They don't want third parties making content for their game that might compete with their own DLC.

Robert ninja

GTA on console what full of cheaters and hackers. I don't see why the PC version is going to be any different. It's gonna happen.

Kiith wrote: »

Better for it to be locked down than totally ruined with cheaters and hacks.

This is an incredibly lame attitude that R* share with you and is the reason for a lot of anti-consumer postures towards modding. There's going to be hacking and cheating. You either let people have their own servers where they call the shots (and in turn ban undesirable kinds of hacking rather than the fun kind) or you allow it on the base game (not always a good idea). They're not allowing either and so we get the console GTA online experience as it is to day... which is garbage to me and always will be because it's at the mercy of R*.

ScumLord wrote: »

They don't want third parties making content for their game that might compete with their own DLC.

Exactly. But unlike some other companies they haven't adapted to understand this is a good thing and they should roll with it and possibly even monetize or take ideas from it. Fighting it tooth and nail only hurts the actual gamers.

ScumLord

Robert ninja wrote: »

Exactly. But unlike some other companies they haven't adapted to understand this is a good thing and they should roll with it and possibly even monetize or take ideas from it. Fighting it tooth and nail only hurts the actual gamers.

It can be a good thing, but the fact is Rockstar are in this to make money. GTA is their product and they can restrict it as they see fit. They seem to want to make an online experience and as such they need to know their game is stable across many machines.

I play race sims that allow modding and every time there's an update the mods stop working, sometimes you can't take part because you didn't realise your version of the mod is out of date. Poorly made mods break games.

Modding introduces a lot of problems, they don't matter so much in a single player experience but online mods can cause a lot of headaches.

Robert ninja

Fair points, I'm not directly arguing against any one of them. I'm just saying as a consumer, R*'s attitude is crap and others have made money being mod-friendly to the consumer like Killing Floor which also works very well even with lots of mods installed and is made by a team with a budget that would be loose change to R*.

Anyway I hope the PC version runs great for everyone. It'd be nice enough driving around San Andreas with max draw distance, 60fps etc. VR might take that to another level of fun. But I'll still not be buying this until I know there's some kind of fun-allowed server, cool mods n' such. Let me know how it goes lads ^_^.

ScumLord

Robert ninja wrote: »

Fair points, I'm not directly arguing against any one of them. I'm just saying as a consumer, R*'s attitude is crap and others have made money being mod-friendly to the consumer like Killing Floor which also works very well even with lots of mods installed and is made by a team with a budget that would be loose change to R*.

I think the company has to make the decision from the beginning that it's going to be a moddable game. I just never really expect a console port to even consider modding their games. they're basically charging for skins on consoles which goes to shows their intention to monetize everything and everything they can.

I don't really hold it against them, especially when they don't have much experience in making moddable games and want to keep things stable. When you look at PC games that are modifiable, there are issues, issues that PC users are willing to accept.

I'm sure we'll get mods though. It's only a matter of time really.

dreamers75

15,665 files available, with a total of 76,308,111 downloads

http://www.gta4-mods.com/

Fairly sure there will be mods.

omerin

d/l'ing this through Social Club and it really is poor, sometimes lower then 100kb, sometimes it loses connection with the server! Top speed so far after 32gb is around 3mb on a 240mb connection

wotzgoingon

omerin wrote: »

d/l'ing this through Social Club and it really is poor, sometimes lower then 100kb, sometimes it loses connection with the server! Top speed so far after 32gb is around 3mb on a 240mb connection

I know how you feel as well but I am on a slow connection anyway. I have 22GB so far and it keeps disconnecting on me as well. It disconnected on me the past two nights so I do not know how long it was disconnected for probably all night.

Shiminay

I'm torn. I really do want to see mod support, it's what makes a good game become great. However, I also want a guaranteed fair competitive online experience and the introduction of the microtransaction supported in-game currency makes that an increasingly difficult issue to square away.

There are MMO's that get this right though, so it's not completely hopeless

Robert ninja

Shiminay wrote: »

I also want a guaranteed fair competitive online experience

It's not a competitive game and if you look at it that way you're gonna find a million and one holes in it. Not to mention, not having mod support does not in any way guarantee a fair online competitive experience, ever. I played the PS3 version when it first came out. Hackers everywhere... and last time I checked PS3 doesn't support modding.

EoinHef

I really dont think they have the right balance for the online portion of the game regarding cash earned for jobs. It definitely feels like they are pushing the micro transactions which was a real disappointment for me. You really would have to spend a lot of time with the game to get a good selection of the high end items/vehicles/apartments and the upgrades for them. The casual player would never get to this point without micro transactions from what ive seen which is a shame as to have all that gear and not to be able to play with it without putting in a lot of hours is sad.

Heists have definitely helped,the end payoffs being a decent amount of cash. Good to see the PC version will have them from the off. If you can get 4 friends together consistently it will help a lot with the money,doing it with randomers is just too much hard work and with the loading times can suck the fun out of the game.

Being in a crew and doing jobs with friends boosts xp and cash earned,definitely worth doing as well.

I reckon i may just bite the bullet and get this(was going to wait till it was cheaper),be handy having it preloaded. As much as the above elements disappointed me i do enjoy the game and is the best GTA since Vice City imo

Shiminay

I guess competitive is the wrong word for what I mean. I think there's still a bit of work to get the balance of how the world should work properly. But let's look at one of the most popular multi-title mods lately: Battle Royale. GTA Online would be perfect for that. I'd like to see the core online game left alone and mods be kept as a separate thing that would have them side by side rather than on top of and adding to the "standard" or "official" servers.

I haven't, to my knowledge, run into a hacked game, that's based on 360, PS3 and PS4 play. Not trying to suggest it isn't a problem (and a big one), but that I've not encountered it after all this time, suggests they've been working on cutting it out.

The match-making probably has a lot of room for improvement I'd say. I'd like to see a few more 2 or maybe even 3 man heists.

dreamers75

I just want my real cars and my custom radio station. I will be happy with that, not too bothered about being IronMan atm

Shiminay

Y'see I'd hate real cars. GTA has its own pedigree vehicles and you do have to earn them. I want an Entity, not a Koeniggseg (sp?) or an Adder, not a Veyron. It'd take me out of the experience to not see those cars on the streets. Give me a cops and robbers mod ala Need For Speed Hot Pursuit and have cop race cars.

wotzgoingon

I never modded a game, so I am not bothered about modding being aloud or not.

I'm not that long PC gaming though, so never really had the opportunity.

The_Valeyard

Did anyone ever play that zombie mod for San Andreas? Was great fun back in the day!!

Shiminay

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I never modded a game, so I am not bothered about modding being aloud or not.

I'm not that long PC gaming though, so never really had the opportunity.

One word: Bethesda.

Next Steam sale, do yourself a wonderful favour and spend €10 on the Skyrim and Fallout New Vegas super duper "includes all the DLC and patches and all the rest" editions of the games. You will get them for a fiver each and with mods, you just 300 hours of open world games.

You'll either bless me or curse me for this knowledge...

Kiith

I'm cursing Skyrim myself right now. Finally got it working a few weeks ago with a **** ton of mods, and it completely changes the game. Have 2 characters on the go, and i think i might finally get through the main campaigns.

As for GTA, i might just download the previous GTA soundtracks (ads included) and put it on shuffle in Spotify. I don't remember the music being great this time around, though they have added new tracks from what i remember.

d31b0y

Mods add longevity to a game. There is enough in GTA V to keep you playing for about a year on and off I reckon. If they were smart, they'd release modding support a year or two down the line and drum up a load more interest and money. I'd be very happy with that.
Especially when you consider it was 6 years between GTA IV and GTA V.

Cravez

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Did anyone ever play that zombie mod for San Andreas? Was great fun back in the day!!

The DayZ mod for San Andreas? It's still going with regular servers and players. Just download Multi Theft Auto and search for the servers you want.

Venom

Shiminay wrote: »

Y'see I'd hate real cars. GTA has its own pedigree vehicles and you do have to earn them. I want an Entity, not a Koeniggseg (sp?) or an Adder, not a Veyron. It'd take me out of the experience to not see those cars on the streets. Give me a cops and robbers mod ala Need For Speed Hot Pursuit and have cop race cars.

The main reason for me to mod the GTA vehicles was more due to how much better looking the modded version of the car/plane/boat was over the original.

Glebee

Will probally wait a few week for it to drop in price a bit. As long as it ported better than GTAIV ill be happy.

Star Lord

My favourite ever GTA mod was in Vice City, and was just for fun:

http://www.castlerain.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Batmobile-Vice-City.jpg

It was fast, and had tank-like strength, so you'd be tearing down the streets with any cars that hit you exploding...

I had the DeLorean too, but it didn't handle well at all once it left ground, but made for some hilarious deaths!