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Rockstar botched that system, I can attest as I used numerous different mod menus on GTA V Online, most well developed menus will let you alter yours (and others) in-game reputation by spamming the commend/report functions.
Spawning in UFO’s an such was the highlight of GTA V Online for me, haven’t touched the game since I moved to Linux, I hear it’s broken due to the new anti-cheat.
They made it much easier to setup private lobbies for friends and crew. Haven't played in public lobbies in years.
While private lobbies certainly help weed out the bullshit, if a modder was determined enough they could copy your Rockstar ID and use that to follow you from lobby to lobby regardless of its privacy restrictions.
Logging someones Rockstar ID might as well make them your friend, depending on the mod menu they could receive notifications on when you’re online/offline.
Here is a common mod menu that was popular prior to the anti-cheat update, I think they have shutdown now.
From what you're saying, it sounds like you have to be in a public lobby first, then hop into private for them to get your id. Can they get your id without ever being in the lobby or any contact at all? Currently you can just go into single player and start a private lobby. Idk how the enhanced edition does, I'm assuming it's the same. I haven't played in a couple years, so getting into a private lobby might have changed.
This is not true, if you knew a persons social-club username you could search for the ID associated with it. I can’t find many tools online except for this one no idea of this works or not, I’m sure there are guides to obtain R*ID’s elsewhere.
That's very concerning. It's wild it even exist.
I'm glad I wouldn't play GTA anyway, even older games, for different reasons.
What reasons wouldn't you play older ones?
GTA is a disgusting franchise, and the content in the games is just awful. Maybe the stories are good, but do you really need to insert heavy esex and substance use into a game like that? That's called desensitization, and I'm sensitive to quite a few things (not this fake sensitivity that's floating around... legit sensitivity).
Because of this nobody noticed how woke GTA:SA was. If you depicted the CIA smuggling cocaine and weapons into black communities while the justice system imprisons young black men with wildly disparate sentencing 2025, the game would be canceled, by the kind of chuds who just see "cool violence!"
San Andreas was the wokest of them all, but GTA V is pretty woke too. Your main enemies are three letter agencies, the in-universe equivalent of Blackwater/Academi/XE (legit their GTA name has been consistent for longer than their real names at this point, might as well call them real life Merriweather) and you pull a hit on an asshole tech CEO, a tobacco company CEO, etc. But then, GTA V has also been out for over a decade now.
I hope they keep the theme going with the next one. Show it all as a bunch of "cool violence" while beneath the surface it's critique of consumerism, government overreach and society in general.
It’s escapism. If it’s not for you, that’s fine.
Did you just self-censor the word "sex"?
Bruh.
I pulled an Am I The Genius? here, which explains it. I might have to modify that a bit, since I don't remember how they did it.
So that's why you don't play GTA. I don't agree, but you do you.
To get back on topic, why don't you play older games as you said. That's specifically what the other user asked.
Maybe I should've clarified something, as the older games were included due to the fact that GTA's writing, content and mechanics were just disgusting. On top of that, I wouldn't do any of that stuff in real life, let alone in something like GTA.
So you wouldn't do anything in a video game that you wouldn't do in real life?
I think you need to see a therapist if you have that much trouble differentiating fact from fiction
I do, in fact, have the ability to separate art from the artist. GTA, however, has desensitized gang culture and crime for everyone who's played it.
There are so many studies disproving that assertion that I can't take you seriously
AFAIK why not add a mod that removes these things
That stuff is hard-coded into the game, and would potentially be impossible to remove.