Were Vehicle Thefts Always This Hard?

[Kortanis]

I don't remember the Vehicle Theft side missions being this bad. Like, your payment gets determined by the condition in which the vehicle gets delivered. Kinda hard to deliver the vehicle in anything but a chewed up near-wreck when you get 3 stars just for taking it and you're eating gunfire the whole way from taking it to delivering it.

The street sweeper one I've found is just downright impossible. That thing is so slow/clumsy and there are so many cops on my ass that I can't get it to the destination alive because, again, it'll just get shot to pieces and explode before it even makes it halfway there. And this is with me trying to steal one near the edge of the zone where you have to find it in order to make it as short of a drive as possible.

So am I crazy or should we be chalking up the overzealous response to stolen vehicles as another bug in the "remastered" edition because, as I said, I don't remember struggling this bad in the original game. Not even close.

[Boboscus]

If it's such a problem just wait until you get the wipe police notority and do it then.

[Kortanis]

Originally posted by Boboscus:

If it's such a problem just wait until you get the wipe police notority and do it then.

Yeah but.... that's missing the point. I'm saying back when I first played this game I never struggled/required the wipe police notoriety ability. Plus I'm not sure that will work. I've tried driving to a store that is under my control, getting out, going inside to clear my wanted level, but the moment I get back in the car I'm a wanted man again.

[JE17]

As soon as you re-enter any vehicle that is the current target for a theft the notoriety will return. If you use the wipe notoriety call make sure to not leave the vehicle until it's been delivered, this includes being ejected via crashing/falling off a bike. Only one the wipe call won't work on is the tank, but you're in a tank so it's not a problem. Make sure you use it when you are away from any restricted areas or it will just come back straight away.

I do remember some of them being difficult when I first played the original, the slow ones may take be able to take a beating, but because they are so slow it's sometimes still not enough to survive the lengthy journey since for some reason they made the slow ones have to travel very long distances, and yet if you continue to take out the cops/gangs following you then it will just increase your notoriety and make it more difficult. I guess you could try to just kill the drivers of the cars chasing you since that will only slowly increase your notoriety while totally disabling the pursuers, and avoid ramming other cars since the slow vehicles have a tendency to make smaller/weaker cars explode upon hitting them and will deal significant damage to yours.

[Filthy Cur]

Is anyone else experiencing the "target destroyed" bug when searching for the target vehicle? Did some research, and that bug was present in the original version as well. So far, trying to find the Compensator for Grieves is doing this.

[Kortanis]

Originally posted by Filthy Cur:

Is anyone else experiencing the "target destroyed" bug when searching for the target vehicle? Did some research, and that bug was present in the original version as well. So far, trying to find the Compensator for Grieves is doing this.

Yeah I've had it happen to me a few times as well.