The timer in the vehicle delivery missions is poorly balanced, in my opinion. Thoughts?
The timer in the vehicle delivery missions is poorly balanced, in my opinion. Thoughts?
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As context, I was asked to delivery this vehicle from Dogtown to somewhere almost 3 km away. I did the capture just when the timer option appeared (I didn’t know I could have more than one optional). Obviously, I didn’t make it in time (I think I only made it in time once, and with only 7 secs to spend).
Does anybody else feels that those timers are EXTREME? I think to get most of them you’d have to have your foot down the entire trip, not taking into account turns, or other vehicles.
I haven’t had any trouble with the timers, my main problem is too often I grab a car from in Dogtown, and on the way out instead of getting attacked by some random gang, it will be the Bargest Guards that aggro me and it’s impossible to leave
I had the time condition on a MaiMai delivery a single time and it was literally impossible to achieve. The car was way too slow, especially on an incline. No way I was going to drive 3km in two minutes.
It’s fine for most of the other vehicles though, I usually finish them with ~30 seconds to spare.
The thing is my luck makes me find the timed missions with the slowest cars. Once it happened with a huge truck that took 15 full seconds to go full speed and full speed was slow af anyway
I find the timer extreme when the cars in front of me constantly slam on the brakes for no apparent reason
I wasn’t struggling with them until the last few I did. One I was late by about 5 seconds, another I had like 3km to go with only 2 ish minutes then got attacked on the way head on by 2 cars which slowed me down enough to be late.
Some of them seem pretty easy but others are near impossible to get there on time.
Use a cheat trainer to freeze the time.
Waiting for a mod to freeze the timer.
Yeah it’s poorly balanced. It’ll start a two minute timer when I’m 4 kilometres away which is impossible to do or make it more fair but put the spot for delivery up some mountain with windy roads and for some reason, a lot of traffic. So in my opinion it is poorly balanced.
For most it’s actually fine 👀 you can make it just in time with 10-20sec to spare, haven’t had the chnace to see how it works with aome of the slower cars
With missions where you have to stay close and hack the car I’ve noticed that sometimes it’s best to drag this out a bit. 99% of time the car is heading the direction delivery is supposed to be, and when timer appears you have way shorter distance to travel.
But I as well experienced 3.5km distance with like 1:30 timer that was simply impossible.
I had one earlier, in a Caliburn so I though I stood a chance to drive 2km in a single minute, then I was sent on the most bullshit zigzag right angle route in the game, didn’t stand a chance. The timer requirement needs to be dropped or flagged for only certain routes with long straights you can race on.
I haven’t really had an issue. Even my longest trips with it, while being chased by goons, still left me with 40ish seconds to spare.
Ya their fucking stupid literally almost every time I lose by 1-2 seconds
i think it works well
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if u have a mod that makes car actually go the speed theyre displaying lmao
I had like 7 or 8 timed deliveries so far and only one had a timer that was too low. All the others I managed with spare time (and almost none were super fast cars).
One time, the timer started before getting past the gate of dogtown, so obviously I failed lol.
Only really failed it once out of the 10ish times I’ve done it so.
I always get there 1-4 sec after the time
I’ve probably done like 30, and 3 or 4 were impossible. A few were extremely tight but could have gone either way. The impossible ones are annoying when you get them but it’s a fairly minor issue with it.
I just ignore the timer lmao
#they have to change that.
__Sometimes is ok but yesterday is had a very special one, where I had to do all 3 requirements at once:__
>loose tail
>bring the car in good condition
>80 seconds for 4 Kilometers and the weird part was that the timer started before the Dog town checkpoint where your car get scanned…
>Never had all 3 requirements before and never hat the timer started inside dogtown (except the delivery is in dogtown)
PSA: save before entering the heist target, conditions are randomized and set when you enter the car.
El Capitan prob thinks it’s balanced well (in his favor)
I only got it two times this far and managed to do it, but with less than 5 sec each. Anything slow or one wrong turn and it’s impossible
But I’d rather fail this than stop every meter to kill some guys
It’s tight but I haven’t seen a single one be impossible yet.
I found if you reload before the start and try again sometimes the parameters change, it may say don’t damage the car instead of the timer, or it may say both and this seems to be RNG.
Personally I think it’s fine. I’ve done probably 30+ vehicle deliveries and have only failed two timed missions, one was because I aggroed the Police right as I was pulling up to the drop-off location with like 15 seconds to spare, which wasn’t enough time to get rid of them, and the other was because when I found the target vehicle it was occupied by Six Street thugs and I started blasting them and accidentally blew out the rear tires before grabbing the car, thus making it impossible to complete the timer. I play on Very Hard as well, not sure if that effects these missions.
I’ve never completed one, they’re are crazy short!
But, simple solution for any platform.. Fast save before getting in the vehicle, if a timer pops up, reload and move on.
Most are OK but some are unrealistic, true. But also it doesn’t matter, Muamar bitches at you and you get slightly less money but that’s it. You’ll get another one.
That just means I’ve been saving before getting in the car tbh. I like the feature and the driving and shooting is great but the time limts can be impossible.. doesn’t make a ton of sense
Had one were it gave me 55 sec to travel 1.6m in a slow ass car and curvy roads just ended up calling it one of my own cars and pushing it slowly(1mph slow) and I guess I ended up passing the trigger and could just drive normally to the drop spot
I haven’t had a single issue with the timers, only had a failure one time where the game didn’t let me attack while driving and couldn’t outrun the enemies, so I failed the timer haha
Agreed some of the vehicles are just to slow to reach the destination in time.
Those missions are kind of annoying, I don’t like getting swarmed with NCPD every 3 seconds.
I made exactly two timers. One by memorizing where the heck the drop off point was and exiting vehicle while being chased which apparently completed it and a second time the timer glitched and I just didn’t get it.
muamar be expecting us to beat quarter mile world records in a vaz 2105 that was in 7 car accidents
4km in 1 minute 30 secs is completely un realistic. I’ve had a few like that. I still finish bc it’s an excuse to drive like a maniac and wreck shit for giggles.
I closed app during one of those timed missions and it switched to a preem condition challenge when i reopened the game. Dunno if that helps at all, but its atleast a way to cheese it
I honestly just ignore the timers when I get them.
To quote Mr. Incredible: We get there when we get there.
YES! My first one gave me 3 minutes to drive 5 kilometers! WHILE fighting enemies chasing. Was never ever going to happen.
That being said, most of the other’s have been better than that.
I beat the timer by a lot sometimes.
Hate that you have to be in a call with the fixer which hinders me from using my sandy to do quick kills while driving….
Most of them are doable, most ones I failed were due to human error.
so is how many you have to do to unlock everything
but yea. its either way too easy or impossible
The first timed one I got, I had to get this slow bike (don’t remember the name) out of Dog Town, THEN drive over 2km, but once I got out of the gate Reyes told me he needed it quick and a timer popped up with just barely over a minute to get to the destination. I should’ve recorded it.
This and how fucking rare cyberware shards are were the only two things that pissed me off about PT lol