I regularly stream on weekends late on Friday and Saturday as well as a few times throughout the week. Lately it's been a lot of Grand Theft Auto 5 online. I finished the single player game a month ago so now I'm into building my online fortune in the game. I'm currently on my third apartment and have about 7 cars in the garage with the latest being a recent acquisition from Benny's Original Motorworks.
For GTA 5 there are milestones that only come from perseverance (if you don't cheat) Money is everything in this game and you don't get very far without it. You can have anything you want but it's going to come at a price.
Unfortunately, there's been a recent epidemic of modders who don't have the patience to grind their way through missions to claim their riches. It's made public GTA 5 sessions a very dangerous place with the bad guys doing everything from spawning windmills in player's garages thus destroying their cars to literally stealing player money via a mod commonly known as insurance fraud. Cheats and hacks can be annoying but in GTA 5 they've crossed over into criminal where a player's real money gets stolen. For example, when a modder pulls the insurance fraud hack on an unsuspecting player they drain their in-game bank account including any money obtained via the purchase of a "Shark Card" which allows players to purchase in-game funds with real world money.
So lots of people like me have decided to just play in invite only sessions and those few public missions we find interesting from the mission list on the in-game phone.
I always make sure to start out from my apartment and use the web app on the in-game cell phone to bank any money I've got on me instead of looking for an ATM. Doing otherwise can leave you dead and broke. It's literally too dangerous to walk the streets of Los Santos in a public Free Mode anymore.
I always make sure to start out from my apartment and use the web app on the in-game cell phone to bank any money I've got on me instead of looking for an ATM. Doing otherwise can leave you dead and broke. It's literally too dangerous to walk the streets of Los Santos in a public Free Mode anymore.
But that's ok. So long as you stay in private sessions and immediately leave any public sessions you end up in after completing a public session event you should be safe. Which is what Shotglass and I have been doing.
I'be been up to more than just virtual felonies, however...
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"
I thought I was done with RPG's for awhile, especially Path of Exile. I had spent 100;'s of hours in this game across a few characters. At some point, however, I kept hitting a steep leveling curve that made the experience an unsatisfying grind. Add to that insult the injury of risking your XP in more difficult game modes( the only way you can level up BTW) and overpowered opponents and I was done with it. There's also the crafting and marketplace elements that are so complex that I wouldn't be surprised to see some creative college professor create a class for it.
So why did I come back?
PVP.
I had been logging into the game periodically just to prevent my account from being deleted for inactivity should I have ever chosen to come back. On one particular Saturday when I was logged in at Shotglass' house I somehow ended up in a PVP match with him using my Marauder and Ranger characters.
The day after I decided to see what had really changed since I'd been gone (and the Ascendancy patch dropped) so I spent some time with a character that I'd largely ignored to that point, a Templar. Long story short after a dozen or so hours I was hooked again. He was new enough to easily fix any problems with his skill tree and balanced enough to embrace any fighting style I chose. I decided he'd be best suited as more of a battle mage with all the power of my old witch character but a lot more stamina to stand and fight.
30 hours later I've been pulled back in...
Check out the videos below to see what I mean...
I'be been up to more than just virtual felonies, however...
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"
I thought I was done with RPG's for awhile, especially Path of Exile. I had spent 100;'s of hours in this game across a few characters. At some point, however, I kept hitting a steep leveling curve that made the experience an unsatisfying grind. Add to that insult the injury of risking your XP in more difficult game modes( the only way you can level up BTW) and overpowered opponents and I was done with it. There's also the crafting and marketplace elements that are so complex that I wouldn't be surprised to see some creative college professor create a class for it.So why did I come back?
PVP.
I had been logging into the game periodically just to prevent my account from being deleted for inactivity should I have ever chosen to come back. On one particular Saturday when I was logged in at Shotglass' house I somehow ended up in a PVP match with him using my Marauder and Ranger characters.
The day after I decided to see what had really changed since I'd been gone (and the Ascendancy patch dropped) so I spent some time with a character that I'd largely ignored to that point, a Templar. Long story short after a dozen or so hours I was hooked again. He was new enough to easily fix any problems with his skill tree and balanced enough to embrace any fighting style I chose. I decided he'd be best suited as more of a battle mage with all the power of my old witch character but a lot more stamina to stand and fight.
30 hours later I've been pulled back in...
Check out the videos below to see what I mean...
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