Newbie needs some help please

[ProfessorSpanky]

Hi,
Just got the game - pretty good so far for an old game.
Couple of questions please that i haven't found answers to:
1. I am free roam in Paris - there are some big machine guns on top of towers; I have set charges on them at the bottom but they don't blow up like the other ones; killed the guys on top but of course they come back - I went up and down the ladder/s but there's nowhere else to lay the charges - do I need to do something else?
2. When I take cars back to the garages: I thought you had to park them, which I have done but they all but one say 'not collected'; the garage guys don't have any option to 'collect', so what am I doing wrong?
3. Since there is quicksave available I have been using it but the game doesn't seem to load back there if I say fall off a roof.
Also when I come back into the game next day I always start out at the bedroom and not where I made an actual save - is that normal?
Thanks in advance!

[Narcissistic Cannibal]

1. If you mean the AA guns on platforms, you have to set the charge either near the gun itself (on the top of the platform) or, if you have upgraded the dynamite blast radius, you can climb the support pillar and set the charge from below. If you place it at the bottom of the pillar, it won't blow up, unlike the sniper towers.

2. Yes, you have to park a car to collect it (there will be a message at the top of the screen).

3. This is how saves work here - in case of death or game restart you spawn in the HQ nearest to the place where you stopped playing. Quick save is virtually useless.

[ProfessorSpanky]

Hey, thanks for your help; I may not be upgraded enough yet then for the blast thing.
That's a nuisance when you think you've quicksaved *sigh* (old game, I'll forgive it)
Maybe I should park the cars at the slaughterhouse, the other garages still say not collected.
Appreciate your time! :)

[harken23]

As mentioned, blow up the guns on top (but shoot stuff first).

When you park the car in a garage (with a wrench icon) and get out of it, then you've collected it. Took me a minute to figure that out, too.

You can't save during missions, once you've accepted them (well, you CAN, but...), so if you die you'll go back to the most recent checkpoint. If you exit the game, you'll have to go to the mission-giver and re-start the whole thing, regardless of where you saved it.

[DallasRM1]

Collecting cars is tied one of the first missions for Santos, the black market dealer. If you are free roaming before completing the first Slaughterhouse missions then you'll be missing a couple of mechanics until you complete them.