I want to buy GTA V: ONLINE. (going solo/singleplayer-online questions)

[3jack]

Hello.


I've been eying this game for ever 3 years now and I always wanted to buy it. I have played the game already using my friend's PS3 few years ago but after that I have always wanted to try it on PC.

Now that I have a desktop built for this game
i5-6600k @4.3ghz
GTX 1060 6GB OC
16 GB RAM
120 GB ADATA SSD

I'd like to try online mode but I have a few concerns about it.
Yes, I have read all that I could and researched about the online feature of this game.
Plenty of cons true, but this is mostly due to player to player interaction.

The reason why I'd like to play GTA V again but this time "online" is because I want to try the DLC's and the new features that SP didn't have. Mind you, Ive played SP and finished it 3 times already. I am truly tired and sick of it.

I want to play online but....alone? if that makes sense. I just want to build my character and make money at my own pace. But these are the things I am not sure of if I could do "alone" in GTA V:online which is where I need your help.


These are the things I wanted to clear up before buying the game....

1. Can I actually make money going solo? (i don't mind the grind)
2. Can I enjoy buying houses and apartments?
3. Can I have a business etc? (not sure if I saw correctly in the DLC that you can have your own business)
4. How much of the whole online content can I enjoy if I just play alone?
5. Are there new clothes and haircuts and styles to choose from compared to the SP game?
6. Once loaded into the game, will I have to deal with loadtimes through instances?
7. Can I install GTA V redux?



I don't mind playing with others if required but I prefer to just play alone and enjoy the online content.

[Big Boss]

Invite only sessions don't allow you to use the ceo and MC missions. You can surely grind missions for money alone if you wish. Heists do require multiple players in order to complete.

You can always use a lag switch in a public lobby to "fake time out" and everyone will leave but you can you can then do ceo and MC missions.

No mods online at all. If you don't play online with a completely clean client you will regret it.

Most of the obline stuff isn't avalable for sp unless you mod it in

[Licopolis]

1. yes
2. depends on your esthetic requirements
3. yes, a criminal sort of businesses
4. all except co-op storylines (heists and lowriders). You'll have to learn the trick of creating empty public sessions to run a business though.
5. I haven't compared them. Maybe there are some different haircuts, as for clothes and tattoos, there are.
6. Sometimes, yes. Each mission has its own instance, except business-related and club-related activities.
7. don't know. I play without any mods since the launch.

[[T]ooGeNg]

for startup , but a great white shark 3.5mil. Buy a maze bank office 1mil, buy del perdo apartment 400k , buy a medium warehouse best is old trainyard . do your first heist fleeca job, and buy kuruma, start farm as ceo buying crates and sell till you have buzzard, buy 3 crates at a time, U'll make like 500k for a full 42crates warehouse sale. depends on how hardcore u can farm, for me 5-6hrs aday = 111 crate = profit 1.5m .

[rqer]

It's a bit complicated with this game, lots of detail to explain.

1.The payout rewards system is very different from other games because it based on time spent and not performance so the players that struggled and had to do a restart will net a higher reward than the ones that blew through the mission in 2 minutes. It also nets higher rewards with more players so you are not going to get any bonuses for crushing a task alone. Most people wait out the clock until around the 4 minute mark for efficiency.
Yes can make money solo but it is extremely slow. The grind in GTA O is just as bad if not worst than many free to play titles out there.
The grind is real.

2.This depends on what you find "fun". Houses have small role play elements to them and they allow you to set up heist missions. Nothing else to them.

3.Yes you can and it mostly serves as a PVP game mode.

4.Not much. pretty much all of the DLC is focused on players playing with other players.Races work solo but you cannot get the rewards. The overwhelming majority Coop type missions will not allow you to start without a full group and stuff like the CEO update has restrictions if you are not in a public lobbiy.. You can Block ports in your firewall settings and activate the rule after joining online to get around a few of the restrictions.

5.There is new Clothes and hair.

6.This depends. If you stay in free roam the load screens are minimum.
If you want to do missions ten the game is littered with a ridiculous amounts of load screens.
The match making system has been broken since day one and during heist it doesn't keep the groups together so you will be looking into the clouds a lot.
You accepted a mission invite you are sent up to the clouds, if it fails to connect you are looking at the clouds again. It is pure hell playing alone with randoms.

7. Not sure, maybe not.

[3jack]

Thank you all for your replies.

The core reason I want to play online is to sort of...extend my "gameplay" from the single player game. What I mean is I'd like to just buy houses, make business and just roam around the city in peace. Maybe join a public lobby time to time but very rarely.

I like the idea of having new clothes and haircuts to choose from and all the new DLC items I could get.


What businesses can I actually make use of when just going solo?

[Skiptro]

Originally posted by 3jackDaw:

Thank you all for your replies.

The core reason I want to play online is to sort of...extend my "gameplay" from the single player game. What I mean is I'd like to just buy houses, make business and just roam around the city in peace. Maybe join a public lobby time to time but very rarely.

I like the idea of having new clothes and haircuts to choose from and all the new DLC items I could get.


What businesses can I actually make use of when just going solo?

none

[Jerome]

Originally posted by 3jackDaw:

What I mean is I'd like to just buy houses, make business and just roam around the city in peace.

You can only have up to three houses, if you want to hop from apartment to apartment just to explore and view the interior, you'll be spending a lot.

Originally posted by 3jackDaw:

What businesses can I actually make use of when just going solo?

Document Forgery,Weed Farm,Counterfeit Cash Factory,Methamphetamine Lab,Cocaine Lockup.

[umar48]

Originally posted by KuPeZ:

for startup , but a great white shark 3.5mil. Buy a maze bank office 1mil, buy del perdo apartment 400k , buy a medium warehouse best is old trainyard . do your first heist fleeca job, and buy kuruma, start farm as ceo buying crates and sell till you have buzzard, buy 3 crates at a time, U'll make like 500k for a full 42crates warehouse sale. depends on how hardcore u can farm, for me 5-6hrs aday = 111 crate = profit 1.5m .

You're saying that OP should pay about £35 just to start playing GTA Online? That's stupid.

[3jack]

Originally posted by Jerome:

Originally posted by 3jackDaw:

What I mean is I'd like to just buy houses, make business and just roam around the city in peace.

You can only have up to three houses, if you want to hop from apartment to apartment just to explore and view the interior, you'll be spending a lot.

Originally posted by 3jackDaw:

What businesses can I actually make use of when just going solo?

Document Forgery,Weed Farm,Counterfeit Cash Factory,Methamphetamine Lab,Cocaine Lockup.

This actually sounds promising, not really that interested yet on the heists anyway.