After 80 hours of playing on PS5, I got my platinum trophy.
Cyberpunk 2077 is really good, albeit pretty buggy, throughout my playthrough on PS5, my game crashed probably 50+ times but I wasn't too mad as I manually saved frequently and any progress blocking bugs were fixed after a quick load of a checkpoint.
I played as a Male Street Kid V and I didn't mind his VO, there were times where he came off as kind of a try-hard tough guy but It honestly felt charmingly dorky because of the moments where V is just being himself and isn't being that dorky try-hard; And while the life-paths ultimately didn't impact anything major, I enjoyed the flavor dialog you get when the life-path exclusive options pop up, some even opened up different way of completing certain quests, which I thought was pretty neat.
The gameplay felt good to me after some tinkering around with the sensitivity options, I mainly just used power weapons and only really used Skippy as a Smart weapon and I really liked how punchy the sound of guns were; melee was fine for an fps game, though I didn't like how magnetized some of the enemies attacks were, so regardless if you dodged, you still risked a hit; parrying felt weird, I feel like it only worked half the time and when it did, it was when I was nowhere near for a good hit; kinda wish there was some kind of grappling to mix things up between light and heavy attacks.
Looting, I felt had issues, I always grabbed something that was way far off to the side of the thing I was actually trying to grab, it was even worse when it was a gun under a body where you had to find a sweet spot to grab it.
I rarely dabbled in crafting if only to get Comrade's Hammer and Overwatch to Legendary but there are things I hope they add in the future, mainly batch crafting for things like ammo and grenades rather than holding square for 10 minutes just to have a decent amount, also a counter to see how much of that item you already have would definitely be helpful for things like ammo crafting.
I REALLY wished this game had more to offer in terms of customization, there was no customization options for vehicles, for guns you only really get scopes and muzzles for things that appear on certain weapons along with mods which are purely for stats, there's so many decent options for outfits but you tend to be forced into having clothes that look bad but have better stats and mod slots and not something that's cool to you, hopefully transmog gets added along with barber shops and plastic surgeons. Also, a little nitpick of mine, but the lack of cloth physics on coats for V was kinda sad, its definitely possible as River and Takemura's coats have physics applied to them, maybe its just a PS4 version issue and it'll be something they might add with the next-gen version but I honestly doubt it.
Cars handled fine for me and I really liked the look and feel of some of the cars, even the more luxurious cars that I tend to avoid in most open world games. In the beginning, the driving felt like a more manageable, better handling version of GTA IV but as I got better with it, it clicked to me, its JUST Saint Row 2's driving which I really liked because I feel like SR2 has the best driving controls in any open world game.
Night City and the Badlands were really masterfully created, each area had their own style that really appealed to me and I look forward to how much better they can look in the next-gen version; I can't say I have any areas that I would consider my favorite as I really enjoyed the map as a whole but there was nothing that really grabbed me like the West End in Vampyr for example.
The story was REALLY FUCKING GOOD! All of the characters felt real and really fit with the character of V, I really liked how much V grows throughout the story from being a cocky street kid to someone who cares about the people close to him but is scared of his situation.
Johnny starts as an obnoxious asshole but you can definitely tell that V changes him to be a better person (at least in my game), and you start to sympathize with his actions and reasonings and he becomes a really likeable and funny character in most of the side missions; And his ending where he takes over V is just sad, loses the guy he was trying to save and Rouge, I interpreted that ending as Johnny getting a second chance at life he didn't want and while he probably doesn't want to ruin this second chance, he's more than likely mentally checked out and is just waiting for his time to come. Keanu did a really good job with Johnny and I honestly can't think of anyone who would have done a better job.
I really like Judy, she such a bittersweet character, she loses Evelyn, who she definitely had feelings for, tries to help the workers at Clouds but gets screwed over by someone with ulterior motives and as an end result decides to leave NC, looking for her happiness, and judging from her texts and ending message, she does. (except the Suicide ending, loses the girl she had feeling for and one of her closest friends both to suicide, even though I romanced Panam, Judy's message hit the hardest and was incredibly sad)
Panam, in my opinion, on top of being a great character in general, has the best romanceable storyline in a video game, with Jack from ME2 being a close 2nd; the whole relationship dynamic between Panam and V felt natural and made you feel invested in the character, from two people reluctantly paired together by Rouge due to similar objectives and keeping things strictly professional even when V awkwardly flirts with her, and you start to get closer and become friends when you help her with Aldecaldo problems, but then "With a little help from my friends" happens, the "follow your impulses" comment that V makes that Panam follows through with later on was an interesting way of V giving her hints on his feelings, the biggest moment that completely sells the relationship, happens during the campfire; early in the mission, V can talk about Jackie to which Panam will say "I'll remember that" AND BOY DOES SHE REMEMBER THAT, during the campfire, you can toast to Scorpion, an Aldecaldo who died earlier in the questline, everyone, including V toast to Scorpion... except Panam who says "to Jackie", that moment sold me on Panam as a love interest, she cares about V so much that she toasted to a guy she never met just off of the basis that V told her how close he and Jackie were and that he missed him, everything before that was nice but that was just the cherry on top, after that everything is just heart warming and cute as they both completely go all in on their relationship, and the Nomad ending reinforces this but I'll touch on that later.
River was really cool, I dug his character and questline (which is insanely fucked up, but really cool), I laughed when his sister was flirting with V and Rivers like "Nope, bro-code", he's also got a SICK coat.
I didn't like Kerry at first, he seemed like a complete douche, gets you to hijack and burn an band equipment van because someone was covering his song, then drags us into helping him intimidate Us Cracks who where just trying to pay homage and respect to him, after the moment where he understood and accepted that, he became a much better character; trashing the yacht was a pretty fun moment too.
Vik was basically the Uncle character, he cares about V but isn't afraid to hit him with reality, I immediately payed my tab as he deserved it IMO, the fact he also gives V a tip during the final Beat the Brat fight was cool given his history in boxing.
Misty is an absolute sweet heart, you bond with her over Jackie's death and you can tell how important she meant to him and vice-versa, getting her to bond with Mama Wells was neat too, her telling you stories about Jackie while your trying to find something for his memorial was really cool.
Takamura was cool, I dug the moments you can tell V's attitude rubbed off on him, even though you can tell that he's 100% Arasaka, I felt that he would accept you as a friend even if you have different opinions on Arasaka than him (he doesn't, tells you to burn in hell). That parade mission was really cool and the selfie he sends you, 10/10.
I wish we had more time with Jackie, he seemed like a really cool character and experiencing those moments of growth between Jackie and V and meeting Misty and Mama Wells would have been great and really would have made that moment with Panam feel even better had we had more time with Jackie in the beginning as the bond between Jackie and V would have meant more when he does unfortunately die.
The endings vary from absolutely depressing all the way to heartwarming and hopeful.
The suicide ending fucking sucks in the best way, V believing that killing himself is the best way of keeping those he cares about safe and ending his situation with Johnny, but the messages speak otherwise; Misty telling Vik to send a message as a way of coping, Mama Wells praying for you as she probably felt like she just lost two sons in V and Jackie, Judy... fucking hell man, couldn't imagine what was going through her head during that message, Panam's rage at realizing that the man she loved killed himself even though she offered to help him with his situation, River understanding as his previous partner suffered the same fate but also knows its incredibly sad that there's one less good person in NC, Kerry being pissed that V felt that suicide was the right choice as he probably understood as Kerry was in a similar situation and was disappointed V didn't know better and Misty being mournful.
I already touched on the Johnny ending, but I honestly feel bad for Johnny because he didn't ask for a second chance and now he has to live with V and Rogue's deaths on his conscience, on top of probably burning any and all bridges with V's friends and loved ones.
The Arasaka ending is some borderline horror shit, being trapped in space with a corp who's researching your condition with probable ulterior motives, having nightmares because of the repetitive testing, calling your friends who tell you they miss you and to come back home (though, Panam was pissed when I called her) and in the end you have two choices, sell your soul and become an engram for an unknown amount time to Arasaka who probably wont give a shit about you after that or go back to earth and wait out the remaining time you have left.
Become a legend of Night City but ultimately feel you have nothing to lose as you'll die soon anyway and take an offer from Mr. Blue Eyes (Who's incredibly sketchy) to rob a space casino for info he wants.
Nomad Ending is the best ending IMO, not only because I romanced Panam which made the ending even better (and I know that if Female V romances Judy, she joins the Aldecaldo's as well and is also a really good, feel good ending) but also because it left more opportunity for a DLC Expansion than the other endings as well as a satisfying ending to V's story as a whole; the night before the raid was really nice, testing out the new systems on the basilisk with Mitch and the bottle challenge with Cassidy were cool but that's all I could do as the rest of the activities during this were glitched, cuddling with Panam on the overlook was nice, her getting some stress off her chest and V reassuring Panam that he cares about her and will be there for her no matter what was really sweet; the raid was cool, I was hoping Mitch didn't die when he went back to pilot the basilisk solo and I'm glad he didn't die as I grew to like him as basically a Nomad Vik, Saul dying kinda sucked as he seemed to be cooling down his ego and wanting to work things out with Panam for the betterment of the Aldecaldos but Adam stomping his head in was funny, at least Rouge got to blow him up before she dies in Johnny's ending; the moment at the Dam between V and Panam was nice, V saying that he's glad he met Panam and the Aldecaldos and that he has nothing left in Night City, and the moment with them on top of the basilisk was cute; the messages were nice during this ending, though I was kinda disappointed Judy has the same message for all of the non-suicide endings, Misty's Tarot reading message is incredibly important as to why I think Nomad is the best ending, there's already a bunch of threads that touch on that but it definitely says a lot when its the only ending that gives V a shred of a chance that he might cure his disease and survive.
Overall, I really enjoyed my time with Cyberpunk 2077, I'd probably place it as my second game of the year (with Tony Hawk's Pro-Skater 1+2 being my personal GOTY) due to bugs but I know In due time that the game will be something really great by the end of its life span and i hope that if a Cyberpunk 2 does happen, it'll be even better than Cyberpunk 2077; I haven't been able to get this game out of my head since I started playing it and I cannot wait to do this all over again when the PS5 version and all the DLC's come out.

Hello everyone, happy new year!
With recent release of Cayo Perico but not much else I wanted to touch base with the community holding out for GTA Online in Liberty City or Vice City, and debrief from the Cayo Perico DLC.
Even though Cayo Perico came out unexpectedly (to us), it is a small but welcome addition to the GTA Online world.
I believe that we still have reason to cling onto hope that that Liberty City will sooner rather than later, and Cayo Perico is a stepping stone to that demonstrating the map expansions are possible.
While I no longer think that we will see a remastered city come this generation of console, but we still have GTA V "Expanded and Enhanced" coming in 2021 which may have much more than just GTA V itself.

Reasons why I think that GTA V "Expanded and Enhanced" is more than just GTA V with updated graphics

GTA V XB1 & PS4 versions already work fine in XBSX/XBSS/PS5. It looks and runs great, similar to a PC level of detail/performance. Why would a significant update be needed if it will be much the same if they didn't have big plans on top of that?
Cayo Perico proves that Rockstar's idea of "Expanded" can mean land expansion
Cayo Perico sounds like it was more a like a side project during COVID-19 WFH than something in the works for a long time. It is not unreasonable to think that Rockstar, with all their global studios now merged together, haven't been working on something big since the bulk of RDR2 was finished.

Source: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/gta-online-cayo-perico-heist

Why are they being so vague about the details, even to go as far as using a PS3 trailer for it... are they doing this because they are hiding something? Even being so far to be anticlimactic to take off the pressure from fans, and surprise us later.

What Cyberpunk 2077 has taught the overall gaming community lately is what happens when you overpromise and underdeliver. However Rockstar already learnt this lesson back in 2015 when they promised Heists in GTA Online, which kept being reworked and delayed until near the end of the PS3/360 generation and copped a lot of criticism for it.
Basically every social media comment was "Where are the Heists", fans were frustrated. From that time onwards they never released details until about 2 weeks out from launch for a DLC. RDR2 was a bit longer, but only because they had other partners to consider. For this they originally gave it 1 year from announcement to release date, but it was delayed to 2 years, with PC one more year after that (which also wasn't even announced until one month before that).
Here is a quote about what went wrong with Heists:

We aren’t ready to give an official release date yet, but we are confident they will be ready early in 2015. As you may have read on IGN, Heists were a much bigger challenge to create than we had originally anticipated. Early versions were simply not good enough and had to be scrapped more than once as we honed in on how we thought they should work. We’re happy to say that the pack we are now finalizing is something we are excited by and eager to release as soon as it is ready. We, as a company, have always been about trying to make something that is good rather than hitting a date. We apologize when this gets frustrating but firmly believe that rushing out second-rate content does not do anyone any favors. Hopefully you agree that yesterday’s new Trailer is a sign that Heists are shaping up nicely, but we still need some time to fine tune them. Because we need a little time to get Heists right, we are going to give you a small Christmas gift to keep you entertained until we are done with them.

Sources:
https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/52366/asked-answered-gtav-first-person-experience-online
https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/12/16/grand-theft-auto-5-online-heists-finally-revealed

Reasons why I think something related to Liberty City is most likely to be the next major GTA Online expansion to come

GTA IV & EFLC is highly regarded as a masterpiece, it's fanbase is still strong - many still prefer it to GTA V for a variety reasons, so it is a good candidate for a remaster. They can always make the GTA IV car physics, ragdoll, etc. come back again, perhaps as a user configurable option. Having the map there is the gateway to bringing these highly valued games back to a new generation.

Their games always start with the map, source: https://www.mcvuk.com/development-news/inside-rockstar-north-part-1-the-vision/

The availability of GTA IV is terrible. It is only a Backwards Compatibility title on Xbox One (non Enhanced), runs like rubbish on PC - performance wise (and multiplayer is now removed), and the PS4 & PS5 doesn't have it at all. Most other GTAs are available for purchase, at least on Mobile.
GTA V is now 7 years old and the GTA fanbase is now bigger than ever thanks to GTA V & Online. A lot of new fans haven't had the opportunity to experience GTA IV because of the above availability issue. The new fans are desperate for a new (to them) GTA game, especially since it doesn't look like GTA6 is coming any time soon. Or maybe I'm wrong and 6 is coming soon as well?
GTA Online is progressively getting new content referencing to Liberty City or content ported from Liberty City (i.e The Tugboat, QUB3D), so they are not above re-using GTA IV assets or dropping hints.
It is clear that they have been taking the "lazy" route as far as making new content for GTA Online DLCs by re-using existing assets. Don't get me wrong there is still a lot of work involved, but still it is less work than starting from scratch.

But it would make sense that they will continue their more recent M.O. to re-use existing assets rather than start from scratch to save time, effort and cost.

Porting the Liberty City map to GTA V engine can't be that difficult, given that even PC Modders have already been able to do it unofficially (FiveM/OpenIV), so just imagine what Rockstar can do when doing it properly.
There were only about 10 multiplayer modes in GTA IV Multiplayer, it wouldn't be hard to bring those back to GTA Online game modes to recreate that missing experience.

With high profile departures of the writers such as Leslie Benzies, Dan Houser & Lazlow there is no doubt going to be a brain drain. I'm sure they were working on stuff before their departures, and I'm sure that RockstaTake-Two with all their billions of dollars will be able to find other top talent to bring GTA into a new era, but this will take time, and they can get things out in the meantime. The story of GTA IV, Map & other assets are already made, so this gives them a head start to put out games while they rediscover their Mojo to make GTA6 using new talent.
GTA Online is a Big Money Maker, it will make the GTA IV & ELFC remaster worth it because the remastered map will be used for both GTA IV & Online: LC (maybe slight map differences according to time period).
Why did they put so much effort into issuing cease and desists to OpenIV team for OpenIV's LCinV project (even though it used original game files, no piracy) if they weren't planning on doing something in this space themselves.
Cayo Perico aside (which is still quite small), Los Santos as the primary setting of GTA Online is still a bit stale after 7 years. They can't use 2013 Los Santos forever, surely. Not to mention that a new GTA release is already well overdue.

GTA IV Music Licensing speculation/hints

A little while back, a lot of music track licenses expired and they were pulled from the PC version, most notably Vladivostok FM was most affected with most songs removed.
They put in some new tracks to replace it, which wasn't quite as good but it seemed like that was as good as it's going to get.
But then they went ahead and relicensed the original tracks anyway so all the music is now restored again (about 16 months after being originally cut).
Why go though all that expense of relicensing all that music if they aren't planning to capitalise on it in a big way?

Cayo Perico speculation/hints

Not much here directly, but I have played with it a little bit.
The way that it's programmed is interesting. As far as I can tell, travel to the island is sharing a session with Free Mode rather than being a different game mode, which you can tell by seeing the player list stay the same as whoever is in the Freemode session you were in. There is no loading of a different game mode, it is just a cut scene. On PC you can even chat to people who are still in Los Santos.
When you look at the map, you are located South-East of LS (just past USS Luxington), and if you move the mouse you can get locations of LS show up, it's just the map itself which is hidden.
There is a glitch you can do to "free roam" the whole Island, or just go to the Beach Party standalone, it is clear that you are in Free Mode of an existing Los Santos based lobby.
When I was glitched, I was able to take a Dinghy back to LS, LS was visible. about halfway there, the whole Cayo Perico just de-spawned similar to how the USS Luxington does, and also the weathenight cycle changed instantly too.
When I was glitched but still on the Island, a whole bunch of functions were disabled like spawning cars, calling contacts, etc.
What this shows me is that perhaps they are experimenting with how integration with Future GTA Maps will look like.
Instead of loading a whole different game, or loading a different game mode, it could be one big Free Mode made up of all locations, the locations can not be directly accessed without triggering a cut scene, and the properties of how a Free Mode works can change depending on what location on the broader map you are in.
One challenge I anticipate is that they wouldn't want GTA$ earned in LS to be transferred to a totally new GTA Online area. It is well known that a lot of it glitched and they'd want us to start getting rich again. They have also been experimented with holding separate currencies such as Arena Points or Casino Chips. I could imagine that they come up with a storyline where all your GTA$ Cash gets deposited into Maze Bank but then can't be withdrawn to cash or moved to another bank, and in LC you are forced to use a competing bank like the Bank of Liberty. Basically LS = only get Maze Bank, LC = only get Bank of Liberty.
Cars/Planes etc. Can be not widely transferable (i.e. You MKII or Babushka holding a car has engine failure mid flight and crashes, or maybe you need to go to the Airport marker on food), and maybe some planes (i.e. Luxor) can enter on a visiting basis via. Cutscene of that vehicle but can't be saved at the destination into a personal hangar.

Final words

I hope this gives some good for thought.
Keep speculating! At least until we get some solid info
Here's to 2021.

Last night, I got into my Kosatka for the first time. I immediately got a call from Tom Connors to do some work for a dj. Awesome! Do the whole mission, and at the end I deliver it into the yellow circle....and nothing happens. So then I find a new session, see a business battle and go after it. Fight for the cargo, get back to my nightclub...it won’t deliver. Got pissed off and went to sleep. Woke up Christmas morning a little early and hopped on gta. Did a casino heist prep, got what I needed, lost the cops...won’t fucking deliver. Find new session. Try a different prep. Still won’t fucking deliver. I know this has been happening with business battles a lot recently, but Jesus fucking Christ. Is the game effectively unplayable? You can still do missions but can’t get the reward??? I know Rockstar has a history of spending all their time on updating new stuff and no time fixing glitches (except for money exploits). But without fixing this problem the game has become not worth the time. I have been playing almost every single day for years now. It pisses me off that I can’t fucking complete missions anymore because of a terrible glitch that is now effecting new content, old content, everything. Micro transactions are highly based on a reward vs. time scheme within the game. But does Rockstar understand that when you can’t make anything because of bullshit glitches in the game, people aren’t going to cave and buy shark cards for a game where you can’t do the fucking missions in the game. They’re just not going to play your retarded shitty game. (It’s an incredible game, just an absolutely fucking retard of a greedy developer)

Edit: Work best on PC , on console you should close app instead of disconnecting the same thing you would do on bogdan or casino wheel
So basically, this glitch is the improved version of changing casino heist vault content without having to redo vault content mission over and over again and only spending 50k MAX (one to cancel the first time, the second when you want to actually confirm the target).
Most of you already know the first part of this method, but i'll still gonna write this glitch from the beginning .So here goes:
1.Set spawn location to your arcade or last location. 2. Start casino heist ($25k) , and do the vault content. 3.If the target is not to your liking, call lester INSIDE the casino to cancel the heist 4. Go back to your arcade, go to your heist board and be ready to start the heist again.

When the prompt to pay up another $25k appears, disconnect your internet , (you can unplug your ethernet cable, go to airplane mode if u r on laptop, etc) press ENTER and the vault content should appear immediately without doing vault mission.

6a. If the target is what you're after IMMEDIATELY reconnect the internet, you have around 5 to 10 seconds before you're kicked from gtao ,after that you can also change your outfit to force safe after confirming the vault content (just to be safe, not necessary)
6b. If it's not the content that you're after, keep your internet down until you're kicked to single player.

When single player loads up, reconnect internet and go back to gta online via INVITE ONLY (faster)

8.You will spawn back in arcade without losing $25k and the vault content will still appear immediately after starting up on the board.
Tested it myself on PC with multiple friends confirming , and yes the vault content does change after each disconnect so it's not pointless. Haven't found this method on yt or here so i thought i'd share

Last updated 2:00 EST, 27 July
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Release

As of 5:15 EST, the update has released on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

3.4GB on PS4
3.2GB on Xbox One
2.9GB on Steam
2.6GB on Social Club.

On the note of releases... Some countries will not be able to access certain content from this update due to gambling laws. Thankfully though, players from these countries will still be allowed to download the update in general.

Money for Diamond Casino

For ways to make money to afford the new DLC content, along with methods to make an empty lobby to do CEO/MC work, check the Mega Guide.
Tips

You only need $50,000 to register as a VIP! If you have at least that much, you can register as a VIP for 4 hours and get access to VIP missions (which can be done in an invite only session), giving you a lucrative way to save up.
If you own both a crate warehouse and vehicle warehouse, you could use them together to make more money overtime than you could by using either exclusively. Use your sourcing/exports between crate pickups and sales, and you'll be getting the best of both worlds, gaining from the postive money-making aspects of both.

Content and Prices

Content that has initially released with the update.

Southern San Andreas Super Autos

Weeny Issi Sport - $897,000
Vapid Caracara 4x4 - $875,000

Legendary Motorsport

Annis S80RR: $2.6million
Enus Paragon R: $905,000
Obey 8F Drafter: $718,000
Truffade Thrax: $2.3million

Penthouses

Cash Pad: $1.5million
Party Penthouse: $3.78million
High Roller: $6.5million
"Design Your Own": $1.5million

Penthouse Customizations

Colour options: $215,000 or $258,500
Pattern options: $92,000 - $210,000

Penthouse Addons

Lounge Area: $400,000
Media Room: $500,000
Spa: $800,000
Bar and Party Hub: $700,000
Private Dealer: $1.1million
Office: $200,000
Extra Bedroom: $200,000
Garage: $800,000

Gambling

As this is a Casino-centric update, there's plenty of ways to gamble away your hard-grinded money.
The gambling in this game centers around a new form of currency, called Chips. These chips are pretty much like real-world gambling chips, with a one-to-one dollar value, except you keep your chips when you leave the casino. Chips are an actual currency in GTA Online, as they can be used to purchase exclusive items from a shop inside the casino, along with being used to bet with when playing the Gambling Games, listed below

Slot Machines: There's plenty of options to choose from, but they all perform the same way. Spend some chips, and let the RNG decide whether or not you earn anything from it.
Blackjack: Casino style blackjack with up to four simultaneous players, all of which play against the dealer. Anyone who beats the dealer individually wins, anyone who the dealer beats individually loses, and if the dealer gets Blackjack (an Ace and 10/face-card), everyone immediately loses. Assuming your initial hand isn't a Blackjack, you have the option of doubling-down, which doubles your initial bet with the caveat of only being able to hit once.
Poker: Three-card poker. You make your bets, check your hand, and similar to Blackjack, each player wins if their hand is better than the dealer's, and the dealer beats whoever has a worse hand than him. While there is no option to double-down, how much you win does depend on how good of a hand you have. The better your hand, the more you win. Also, while you can fold your hand, you lose your initial bet anyway.
Horse Racing: Pretty much standard horse racing bettering. You choose a horse, you put your money down, and if you bet correctly, you get double the amount you bet in return. Otherwise, you just lose the amount you bet.

To gain more chips, there is a counter inside the casino where you can buy them, however you are limited in how many you can buy per day (real-world 24 hours). As standard, you can buy a maximum of 20,000 chips per day, but if you own a penthouse of any tier, you can buy up to 50,000 chips per day. Chips can also be traded in for money, but there does not appear to be a limit on this. No matter how many chips you win from gambling, it appears that you can trade them all in at once for the equivalent dollar value.
Lastly, there is the Wheel. It's a roulette wheel that you can only spin once per day, which costs $500 per spin. There are twenty reward slots, and since some rewards are in multiple slots, they have greater chances of being selected. The biggest note about this wheel however is that there is one slot in which you can win a free car! What makes this so significant is that since the car takes a 1/20 slot on the wheel, that means you still have a 5% chance of winning a free high-value vehicle! Compared to most online games, that's pretty much the most generous RNG you can get.

Business and Missions

coming soon

FAQ

Are there any differences between the penthouses
For once, yes! Well, technically... they're the same basic property layout, but each option gives you different addon options.

The Cash Pad: The basic Penthouse with no property addons available . You cannot purchase a garage, extra bedroom, lounge, etc. with the Cash Pad. You can, however, purchase penthouse customizations (colour and wall patterns).
The Party Penthouse: Gives you certain of the addon options: the main Penthouse, the Extra Bedroom, the Lounge Area, the Spa, and the Bar and Party Hub. You are locked to these options, no more, no less.
The High Roller: Gives you all of the property addons as standard, and the most expensive penthouse customization options... this means that you cannot choose your own colour and wall patterns with this version.
The "Design Your Own": ...What should be the standard option. It gives you the basic penthouse and allows you to choose which addons and customizations you want, with an extra cost for each one, of course. Just get this one. You can also renovate this option later, allowing you to purchase more addons and change your customizations later.

What do the Penthouse Addons do?

Lounge Area: Allows you to purchase the other Penthouse Addons (except for the Extra Bedroom and Garage, which are the only items addons that can be purchased without a Lounge).
Media Room: You know the cinemas around Los Santos? The ones that play a few 5 minute animated films on repeat? That, but in a Penthouse.
Spa: Gives you access to a hot tub and a Personal Stylist. The Stylist's services are the same as the ones spread around Los Santos (hair, contacts, and make up), but they're all free.
Bar and Party Hub: Allows you to consume drinks that instantly intoxicate your character, along with access to special arcade games that aren't available anywhere else in the game.
Private Dealer: Allows you to play gambling games in your penthouse.
Office: Adds a standard computer, a Gun Locker, and a money vault (don't get excited, it's just aesthetic).
Extra Bedroom: Bedrooms in owned properties in GTA Online are used as spawn points, so why can you pay to have an extra one? Because you can now allow a friend of yours to claim it! The Extra Bedroom allows a friend of yours to use your penthouse as a spawn apparently, though the exact implementation of this is not completely clear.
Garage: Access to the Penthouse's garage bay.

How do I get the armored car?

To recieve the Enus Paragon R (Armoured), you have to complete the Diamond Casino's mission series, which you must own a penthouse to access. Once of the missions are complete, you'll be given the vehicle for free! But remember, it's uninsured and you only get it once, so immediately go into passive mode and take it to the nearest Los Santos Customs to insure it, or else you could lose the vehicle permanently.

Passive Mode

Good news, passive mode has been fixed!

Passive Mode can now no longer be active when using a weaponized vehicle

A Passive Mode cooldown of 2 minutes is now in place for players who have just killed another player

Players now must wait 5 minutes before they can activate Passive Mode again after disabling it

Players now must wait 30 seconds before they can disable Passive Mode after activating it

These changes make is so that grievers can no longer abuse passive mode, or at least no where near as easily. If you start to get the upper-hand on a griefer and destroy whatever death-machine they're using to troll you, or if you confront them in a death-machine of your own, they can't abuse Passive Mode to try to get the upper-hand on you!

Solo Session

Check the Mega Guide for ways to push yourself into a public Online session with no one else in it. Keep in mind that some missions and abilities are unavailable if there's no one else with you though!

Bugs and Glitches

Apparently on PS4 and Xbox One, you must have full size of GTA V available to download the update, so if you have less than ~60GB free, you may have trouble downloading the update. This does not mean that the entire game is re-downloaded, it just means that the update may not download if you don't have that much space available.

Credits

Special Thanks: u/Rebored_Warrior - Sent me the official patch notes link!

u/LordMcze - Information on countries that restrict players from gambling functions.

Alright here goes nothing...
The reason I’m making it is because I’ve been seeing so many casino wheel “glitches” get posted lately that can be a bit misleading which has led to a lot of confusion about everything. So I’m hoping this can be helpful both to people already part of the community that have been looking for info on this and people new to here. I’ll try my best to keep checking in on this post and expand upon it to make it more useful time provided.
For the mods: I have flaired this as a PSA as although I go over the glitches/methods again, the main goal of this post is to provide more clarity regarding everything. I’ll be more than happy to change anything that needs changing.
So for everyone interested in winning the podium vehicle here’s everything you need to know:
——The unlimited spin “glitch” itself——

Restarting the game when you see you haven’t landed on the podium vehicle will let you spin again. You can do this as many times as you need to before you win the vehicle. If you have the penthouse make it your spawn location and if you don’t then when you go into the casino set your spawn location to last location and then change your outfit to force a save before you spin the wheel. Also when you restart the game load into single player > online > invite only, it’ll be faster than loading straight into online. This works 100% of the time across all platforms.
I don’t play on PC but a lot of people have alternatives involving messing with the internet connection that can shave a bit of time off the whole process. [I’ll put a link here for the PC players later when I get the chance; I’m sure there’ll also be plenty of PC players happy to help out in this regard in the comments in the meantime]
While not quite as quick as some of the PC methods regarding messing with the connection, on console you also have the option of using an Ethernet cable and unplugging it and plugging it back in. This should kick you out to single player and you can load back into online and repeat the process until you get the car. If you play in a set up where this is convenient enough it’s faster than restarting the game altogether.

—— Increasing your odds of winning the vehicle——

The biggest issue I have with wheel glitch posts is that often times they often times will lead people to believe they have cracked the code to guaranteeing a win. The truth is that there is no perfect timing that will make you win the vehicle every time. Every post I’ve seen about it has some different specific time claimed. People have tried to use macros to figure out a perfect timing and so far no proven time has been found, let alone from someone using a phone stopwatch. The wheel will always be a game of chance.

When it comes to timing methods all they’re going to do is provide a degree of boost to consistency but not to the level some people would have you believe. Also if you’re going to try this make sure you load into invite only sessions as you will always get a fresh wheel (i.e. the wheel is set to its natural starting position). The wheel is still inherently random but because using these methods causes the wheel to spin at a slower and more consistent pace it is always drawn to land in a smaller range around the podium vehicle. So while there’s still always going to be some level of toss up regarding where it lands, you are limiting the options of where the wheel can decide to land. I don’t know how the wheel is programmed so I can’t say for certain how much of a boost to your odds this provides - in essence I don’t know for certain if it just goes straight from 1 in 20 odds to something like 1 in 6 odds and from what I’ve experienced and seen it doesn’t seem to provide a boost as substantial as that. If anything the biggest boost it provides is a mental boost as you feel much closer to winning it with every spin since if you don’t hit it always lands near the vehicle so it reduces the feeling that you’re banging your head into the wall praying to rngesus it will land on the vehicle and not clothing on the other side of the wheel for the 15th time in a row. Feeling like there’s less chance involved makes it a lot less stressful. Anyways, the sweet spots are as follows:

Between 2.5 seconds and 3 seconds. Press S/move the thumbstick from 9 o’clock to 6 o’clock counterclockwise. The wheel will spin slower but make a full rotation before ending in a smaller range around the podium vehicle.
After ~4 seconds. Press S/move the thumbstick and the wheel will spin extremely slow, not even making a full rotation, and come to a stop in a smaller range around the podium vehicle.

At the end of the day a lot of people have different opinions on the wheel that they throw around as fact when much of it largely stems from bias. For example, earlier I saw someone claim 4.18s was the exact time you need to spin the wheel to win. It’s not. Not only does that contradict the fifty other posts I saw claiming a perfect time but also just because you spun the wheel 10 times after 4 seconds and it finally landed on the vehicle at 4.18s doesn’t mean it’s going to be the same for everyone else. If the wheel had a perfect time to spin then why would your perfect time suddenly be different the next week? They’re not changing how it works every week - if they were going to do anything to it they’d make it so that it does the full rapid spin no matter how long you wait before spinning. Hell for all we know the varying spin strength was intentional on rockstars part to mimic the people who get all cheeky like that at prize wheels in real life. I mean if there was actually a perfect time to spin the wheel stemming from the weaker wheel spins there’s no doubt rockstar would’ve removed that from the wheel. Outside of glitches involving restarting the game which they can do little about, rockstar makes glitches that would threaten shark card sales a top priority. Yes, the live team working on GTA online is smaller right now (with most assets diverted to the next update and GTA VI no doubt) and they’re operating remotely so they’re running a little bit slower than usual in that regard (ex. The vending machine dupe received no attempt at being patched last week) but this is something that’s been around for a long time and if there actually was a perfect time to spin the wheel that guaranteed the podium vehicle every time that would surely fall under the umbrella of a shark card threatening glitch.
Anyways, apologies for veering off into a bit of a rant there. It’s just frustrating to see the sub get spammed with clickbait posts regarding the podium vehicle every week and then seeing the amount of inevitably confused or disappointed people in the comments. Sometimes the comments themselves can add to the problem as people who try it and do win are more inclined to come back and say “hey thanks it worked for me” and then try to give the people commenting saying it didn’t work advice when it’s all just confirmation bias. Hope I was able to clear up a lot of the misinformation out there and also provide some decent instructions on what to do.
Tl;dr - There’s no perfect time to spin the wheel. You can spin as many times as you want. There are a couple times to spin that can boost consistency of wins. Biggest benefit is mental. Instructions above.
Edit: Unsurprisingly I’ve seen some comments come in saying “4 second method works for me every time” or “you just need a specific momentum” without substantial evidence to back up their claims. So a quick rebuttal:

There will always be outliers and people that go on winning streaks. Since the wheel came I’ve had a handful of times where I went on a winning streak for a few weeks and it’s easy to start thinking “hey maybe I’m onto something here”. But there’s 2 issues here

A) It’s physically impossible that I’m spinning the wheel down to the exact same hundredth of a second every week.
B) On both my accounts I’ve had 2 occasions where the winning streaks had no relation to using any timing methods. Like I said, the timing methods almost certainly do provide a boost to some degree to your odds of winning the vehicle so it’s no surprise that there will be more occasions where people enjoy a lucky streak. But based on available evidence it is safe to say the boost is not substantial enough to not make the people that enjoy this fall into the category of extreme outliers. Additionally, most of the people that comment this mysteriously go quiet or pop back up with a different claim after their luck runs out and they’re suddenly not winning it every time. If you ask later the more stubborn ones will say “oh something must’ve been changed or it was patched”.

In regards to claims that you “just need a specific momentum” this just isn’t feasible. Humans can train themselves to very precisely repeat tasks through muscle memory but there’s always going to be a level of human error and unless you’ve practiced moving the thumbstick from a specific position with a highly specific amount of force 10,000 times these claims really hold no weight and this idea can be best summed up to a placebo effect + confirmation bias. Also if this were a thing you couldn’t call it a “glitch” lmao. If anything it would be a skill. That’s like claiming to have a glitch to get the max score at the shooting range and then your instructions are “if you get the right momentum you can hit every single headshot”.

It’s great if you’re having good luck on the wheel, but leaving a comment claiming that your way of doing one of the timing methods is the actual sure fire way of doing it is only adding to the wealth of conflicting information out there given how many different posts there are already claiming some variation of the same thing while also proving what I was saying in my post. If you disagree and you’re sure that your method is actually the right way to do it then I would implore you to add evidence to your claim and bring some more substance to your argument. I honestly hope I’m proven wrong - it would be awesome to have a way to win the vehicle without ever having to restart the game - but so far I’m just seeing the same empty claims that have led to so much confusion about it all in the first place.
Now if you have a creative method that you think works and expands upon the timing method beyond just claiming a different specific time or force of movement for the thumbstick I’d love to hear it and test it out.

Guys if you are not following this guy already, then make sure you are following he is probably the most credible source out there: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqA4Bpg0OP9XZJGNp448Viw
Here is the youtube tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Sq5J--b4k

REQUIREMENTS:
-Make sure you have a couple million in chips (the more the better)
-A friend
TUTORIAL:
Step 1: Make your friend go over to story mode and make him go to GTA Online and make him start up a SOLO SESSION. Once he is in make him start up any stunt race and have him wait in it
Step 2: Now do the SP to MP glitch (here is the link to the other Reddit post so shout out to XDGyt) https://www.reddit.com/gtaglitches/comments/en6z64/sp_to_mp_glitch_2020_ps4_semisolo_possibly_works/
Step 3: Now that you have your story mode character in multiplayer, go over to where the casino would be. You will either see the Diamond Casino from multiplayer or the Original Casino from Single Player. If you see the Diamond Casino ignore the next 2 steps.
Step 4: Find a new session. You should spawn back as your normal Multiplayer character. Hold down on the D-pad and select the Singleplayer character that you managed to glitch into Multiplayer. For ObeseGiraffe it was Franklin so he selected Franklin.
Step 5: You will get a notification when you switch back to your Singleplayer character saying "Do you want to quit the session" and make sure you decline it by pressing CIRCLE or B. Now when you load back up you should see the Diamond Casino
Step 6: Now go over inside the Casino and go to the chip trader and trade in one chip to make sure your chips are frozen. So when you trade in the 1 chip your chips should not move but your money will increase by 1. If it does restart the glitch again
Step 7: Now select all of your chips and start spamming the button to trade them in. If you had $1,000,000 chips then you would be getting $1,000,000 in cash every time you press "Trade-In Chips"
Step 8: WHEN YOU ARE DONE, buy a free Elegy RH8 or any cheap car and wait for the orange save circle in the bottom right of your screen. Once you see the orange circle go away just restart the application to confirm the money is still there.

Obese Giraffe said that you can get up to $30,000,000 per second if you do it with $10,000,000 chips.
He is honestly such a good YouTuber and I am sure most of you are following him but if you aren't then you can check him out here:

I hope you guys make enough money to retire from Gta money glitches completely.

So my mate and I are fed up cause we maxed the new role and cant get the other legendary random spawns. You can't really go to the locations in a public lobby cause there are always players camping out there near the supposed spawn locations. Another posse mate suggested the poker lobby solo glitch but I have some questions.
Will doing this get you banned?? My mate is rank 701 and im rank 561....my mate is very much against doing glitches and also keeps mentioning if we do it he does not wanna get a ban because he has worked to hard on his account and character.
I cant access the poker table cause its banned for our gambling laws just like the casino in GTA for my country, but my mate can....so if we decide to do it can I still get the invite to the match if im locked out of the gambling feature?
We really wanna get the other legendaries and feel extremely locked out from this new content.
Ps4 btw

Some of the steps in the glitch may not even be required, but nobody wanted to try skipping them in fear of having to do them all over again. Either way, here are the steps that needed to be followed in order to do this glitch, and below them are my thoughts on why they work.

Create a testable capture job
Set spawn location to motorcycle clubhouse
Join crew with nobody else in it
Replay "Fresh Meat"
Quickly run to bed to make game save
Reload your game save
Wait for the black screen to pop up
Close the black screen by holding down on the d-pad and analog stick then declining the new screen that pops up.
Wait for Simeon to call you but do not answer or hang up.
Call the number to go to directors mode and accept the prompt.
Leave the director's trailer as Franklin then kill yourself.
Exit back to story mode
You should respawn back in Michael's house as Franklin, but it is alright if you don't.
Make a quicksave
Go to the creator mode
Start up your capture job
Select the "choose character" option in the menu
Quickly disconnect your internet connection after accepting the alert.
Accept the next alert that pops up
Answer the call from Simeon
Go to director's mode while in the call with Simeon
Change the time of day and change Franklin's look then exit the trailer
Fast travel to the theater
Enter the theater to watch a movie
Reconnect your internet connection
Go back to casting trailer
Wait for the loading symbol in the bottom right of the screen while loading into the casting trailer then immediately go to a recent activity in GTA (through the PlayStation recent activities feed)
Click play on the recent activity then decline the alert that pops up in GTA
Do the same thing as before, but accept the alert this time
Immediately disconnect your internet connection
Reconnect your internet connection
Go to creator mode
Disconnect your internet connection
Accept the alert in the game
Click "Exit to GTA Online"
As soon as you get the black screen you will need to reconnect your internet connection
Do not go back into the game, but rejoin a recent activity
Go back into the game and click square to retry loading into GTA Online
Wait through the extra long loading screen
Decline the alert when you spawn in
Start "A Titan of a Job"
As soon as it fully loads you into the job, try loading into an offline character and decline the alert.
Click "Join crew members" and accept all of the alerts (remember that you must be in a crew alone or in a crew where nobody is online)
Walk to the dartboard in your motorcycle club house
Click "Join crew members" then spam right on the d-pad and x to accept the alert.
Redo what you just did when you load into the session
As soon as it says loading at the bottom right corner, disconnect your internet and reconnect it.
Stay on the internet screen for 40 seconds.
Go back to the game
Accept the alert
Try to load in as Franklin and decline the alert
Try to load in as Michael and decline the alert
Go to the casino and start trading in your chips

Step 4: I can't explain why completing "Fresh Meat" creates a glitched game other than the fact that something is just wrong with the code. I don't like to explain things this way because pretty much every glitch or bug can be described this way, but that's all I've got.

Step 5: The reason you want to run to the bed as quickly as you can is because you want the glitched game to save. I assume you need to do this quickly because the code eventually rights itself and fixes the glitched save.

Step 6: If you do not reload the game save then you will not be able to continue with the rest of this glitch. This is because reloading the save is what gets the game to think that you are Franklin.

After reloading the save you will respawn as Franklin in Michael's house. This is because you mainly played as Franklin during the "Fresh Meat" mission. The glitched save you made tries to recognize this and respawns you as Franklin, but loads you into Michael's house because you made the game save with Michael.

Step 7: The screen will turn black because the glitched save you made for some reason triggers the GTA V logo screen to pop up. This is another one that I'm not sure if I can explain better.

Step 8: To leave this black screen then you will need to hold down on the directional pad and on the analog stick. The screen that pops up removes the previous screen, so now all you need to do is cancel your request to go to GTA Online (which is what down on the d-pad and analog stick does).

Step 9: Now you have to wait for simeon to call you and do not hang up or answer the call. I have no idea why this is a necessary step, but it could be something that trips up the code when it detects that you haven't answered a call.

Step 10-12: I think that this is just another way to trick the game into verifying that you are Franklin. By dying, it forces the game to reload but the director's mode keeps the game from fixing itself.

Step 13: The game is still glitched into thinking that you are both Michael and Franklin, so you are spawned back into Michaels house.

Step 14: This save is just so you do not have to redo all of the other steps. It is not a required step.

Step 15-19: This step is to get you partially online while still remaining in the offline mode. It makes that last step of SP to MP possible by allowing you to retry loading into online.

Step 20: I'm not sure why you have to answer the call, but maybe it's to keep Franklin performing an action while moving over to director's mode.

Step 21: You need to enter director's mode to enable the fast travel feature.

Step 22: I think changing the time of day makes it to where a specific movie is playing when you enter the theater and changing Franklin's clothing makes the game save him differently - removing his code from Michaels.

Step 23-31: You need to be in the movie theater because it creates a long enough buffer between steps 27 and 28 to be able to actually perform them. Going back to the casting trailer any other time generally goes by faster or doesn't provide the loading circle at the bottom of the screen.

Step 32-38: Going to creator mode will allow you to go into GTA online. You need to disconnect your internet when joining so that it will partially kick you out, but reconnect it so it brings you back in. Joining a recent activity is what tricks the game into allowing you completely in GTA online though, and what allows you to retry searching for a session when it says you can't join one.

Step 41: My guess is that "A Titan of a Job" is the only mission that glitches out enough to work with this or because it puts you in the correct spot on the map.

Step 42: Since the game is already pretty glitched out by now, and because the previous steps enabled SP to MP, declining the alerts to switch characters no longer work. It does, however, keep you from being brought back to offline mode.

Step 43: Doing this temporarily brings you out of the offline mode and back into it. It helps solidify the SP to MP glitch by allowing you to safely reload your game into another session without breaking the glitch.

Step 44-50: The dartboard allows you to be doing in action in the game while actively trying to leave it. For whatever reason this bugs the game out and keeps you able to continue the glitch.

Step 50-52: No idea why these are required steps

Step 53: Since the casino was not coded for offline characters, the tokens stay frozen for them. You can't get any more and you can't lose any more, but you can keep getting money from the ones you have.

I'm probably drastically wrong on some of these steps, but these are my thoughts on how this glitch works. Generally I'll probably stick to less complicated glitches, but this is the first one that came to mind. Longer glitches are also more complicated to understand, so it's interesting to try and see how and why they work.

Steps:

Download and install AutoHotKey.
Paste the script on Notepad and save the file as filename.ahk.
Run the script by double clicking the file you created or, if you experience problems, running it as administrator might help.
In the game settings, go to Graphics and change the Screen Type to Windowed and the resolution to 800x600.
Go to the horse track inside the casino, sit in one of the chairs, choose single event. This is the screen where you should start the script at.
Start the script by pressing Ctrl + Shift + x.
Sit back and enjoy.

Note: The script will always pick the first horse, bet 100 chips on it, use the glitch where you can get Max Prize by betting only 100 chips (yes, after the patch) and do the same thing indefinitely until you press Ctrl + Shift + p to stop it.
Note 2: For people having trouble with mouse clicking the wrong places, make sure that Mouse Input Method is set to Raw Input in the Keyboard/Mouse settings in GTA, also make sure that Enhance pointer precision (mouse acceleration) is ticked off in the mouse in the Control Panel. If that doesn't work also try setting your desktop resolution to 1080p and the scaling to 100% (same as mine).
Edit: Just realized that if you replace pause by reload in the script, you don't have to reload it via the system tray every time you stop it.
Edit 2: Updated the code, now you don't have to reload the script manually after pausing it. Also change a few of the delays, noticed that the Max Prize wasn't always working, now it should work 100% of the times.
Edit 3: Changed the script yet again (3rd time) and this time it should work for everyone that was having problems with the previous two.
Edit 4: Thanks for the silver! The script is still working right now at 9 AM (GMT-3). Just crossed 17M chips.
Edit 5: This version should work for people getting stuck with the transaction pending message.
Edit 6: Replaced the main link to download the script by a commented version of it. Download the new one if you're having problems and want to know what each line of the code does, it would make troubleshooting way easier.
Edit 7: Thanks for the 2 gold! A few people are saying the glitch is patched because they're only getting standard prizes (100~600). I can't personally confirm this because today, at 9 AM (GMT-3), I can't interact with any games in the casino anymore, I don't know if it's glitched, if it's a punishment from Rockstar (it probably isn't, they usually money wipe or perma ban, and I still have all my chips) or if my country (Brazil) just now decided to block the casino update. So, if you're Brazilian and you're having this problem, please let me know.
Update: Apparently (I'm mot sure), there's a limit to how many chips you can win in the casino, after making 36M chips the game won't let me play anymore, I don't know if this is temporary or not.
Final Update: The cooldown lasts exactly 7 days apparently as I'm now able to bet again. Also, the glitch still hasn't been patched and the script is still working flawlessly, getting max prize 100% of the times I win.

I'm probably the only one that thinks this because everybody else here probably has more than 10,000 hours of gameplay and can wipe any player out of existence just by farting on their controller (not an insult btw, kudos to you guys), but I wish I could go online and mind my own business without some little Timmy running me over with his new casino car with money wheels he just wheel glitched for 10 hours for, or some high level no-life blowing my car up as I drive by because he has nothing better to do in the game. And the Oppressors... We all know about those already.
Obviously PVP is inevitable, and is even encouraged by the game with bounties, king of the hill, the lobby messages telling the entire fucking world about how you're transporting goods and actually playing their game, all that stuff. But aside from that, I can't wrap my head around why I personally would want to kill some random player that's doing nothing but driving somewhere, or trying to make progress.
I acknowledge the fact that I'm probably completely wrong. I sound like a wimpy bitch and I seem like I'm insisting that a game that literally has a crime as the title should be a virtual world of utopia that we should all just get along within. Truth is, it's motherfucking GTA. Obviously Rockstar expected and motivates kids and adults alike to play like this, and they should! It would be a cardinal sin if players could only circle jerk and compliment each other's penises in a GTA game. But sometimes I feel like way too many players take way too much of an advantage of the PVP function. Like the people that fly all the way across the map just to shoot a giant turbo dildo at you right after you spawn, or the people that camp outside of Los Santos Customs just to blow your car up the moment you leave, as if there's some reward afterwards for them. As if them going out of their way to chase a player across the map to kill them makes their cumshots a foot longer. On top of that, it doesn't do anything catastrophic to the player they're killing. So why would anyone find it satisfying? That player can just respawn, call Mors if they need to, and go back to whatever they were doing. That is, if he isn't getting killed over and over again by some braindead loser that impulsively just jerked off to the loading screen before jerking off again to Princess Robot Bubblegum.
That leads on to one of five arguments that I'm sure will be brought up in response to this hefty block of text that could be used to build a castle.
1: "Well, you fucking idiot, if getting killed doesn't affect you, why bitch and complain about it on Reddit?"
While that is a valid argument, getting killed every single time you're within a 3 mile radius of a player gets annoying. Getting killed once? Fine. Whatever. But it's getting killed again, and again, and again, for as long as you're online that gets annoying. It keeps me from actually playing, which is kind of counter intuitive for a video game.
2: "Just go in passive mode if you really can't put up a fight."
What if I wanna do CEO missions? What if players use a work-around to kill me? I don't wanna have to turn on a special setting because some retard is smacking their balls on my face constantly. Not only that, but I HAVE to get killed in order to even turn that on in the first place.
3: "Looks like someone hasn't heard of creating a private lobby with DNS settings."
I have. And I've done it multiple times. It feels disgusting and it's a tedious wait, but it was the only way I could play the game when I first started. But I'm not gonna make a private lobby just to go to the casino and collect my daily prize, and the fact that I have to make a private lobby every single time I wanna progress shows how corrupt these braindead players are. Or maybe it shows how much of a pussy I am. I'm not sure!
4: "Stop crying and fight back instead you fucking noob."
You see, sometimes I can if they're respectable about their weapon choice and their play style. But every time I try, they either pull out a bigger, OP weapon like an indestructible titanium brick of a tank, go in passive mode after I kill them once, or run away. Which shows that they're not looking for a fight. They're just looking for easy kills. They're fucking pathetic. I'm not gonna waste my time getting revenge on people that play like that. If I wanted to kill players, I'd play Call of Duty. I don't log on to GTA to fight players, let alone players that don't have the decency to give you the slightest chance to fight back. Bigger guns equals bigger dicks in GTA, I guess.
"You know you can vote to kick, right?"
It takes a number of players to actually get a player kicked unless he's killing EVERYONE and is collectively hated by each one of them. It's not worth kicking instead of finding a new lobby, which is also annoying, but less time consuming most of the time.
Now I've seen arguments here and there about how grievers make the game less fun, and I see a lot of people agree with it. What I find weird is how so many GTA players hate grievers when, in majority, GTA players ARE grievers. I think there might've been two or three times out of my hundreds of login days that I ran into another player that didn't immediately shove bullets up my ass. Where are all of the grievers that would disagree about grievers ruining the game? Are they still too young to use the internet without their parent's permission? Am I just not looking for them?
I know there's probably been plenty of rants about this topic here on this subreddit, and while my account may have been made 5 years ago, I only really started using this site last month, and I'm not in on the loop. You guys are probably sick of seeing people here complain about the same old shit, and to that I am genuinely sorry. But I've always wanted answers to this question because I think about it everytime I log on, alongside the thought of whether I'm gonna spawn right under an Oppressor or not.
With that being said, does anyone agree with me? Am I the odd one out? Am I just blowing this way out of proportion? Am I just sensitive? Does anyone else just leave people alone with no interest in killing and wish they could have the favor returned? Even if you don't, I wanna hear from non grievers about their thoughts on the topic.
And to all of you grievers that might be reading this (assuming you have the attention span to read a couple hundred words) I have a genuine question. What makes grieving fun? What fun is there in killing random players that aren't even acknowledging your existence or doing anything harmful to other players? Do you just want attention? Does it make you feel good at the game? Does it fill that deep hole in your chest that other grievers dug? I'm genuinely curious to see if there's an answer that doesn't involve a K/D ratio, because stats don't matter in this game.
Sorry for the long read. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

I hadnt played since last summer on my PS4. At the time, I knew about the flying bikes shooting rockets and the futuristic shit, and while I was dissapointed I still had fun. I was a level 250, mostly played deathmatches and sold drugs, weapons, and exporting cars. Never glitched for any money, never had more than 30 millions. Eventually I stopped playing when I started playing on my Xbox one more often, sold my ps4 (will get a PS5 though) and recently I decided I missed Gta so I bought it. Played the campaign all over again, no problem. Then I wanted to make a new character online and start from scratch. Like do everything from the beginning in a way that makes sense, starting with missions from Gerald and Simeon, then Lester, Trevor, and finally Martin. During this time, I wanted to complete the lowriders missions for Lamar. Then do the heists with Lester, then buy a drug business and work my way up to a nightclub and weapons trafficking, then doomsday heist and the Casinos.
So, I do the tutorial. After I get in free roam, I don't ever get missions. Lamar's lowriders only, but no missions from Gerald, and Simeon only called me to meet him which i'll do soon. I got up to level 6-8 and still nothing. Biggest problem however, is the disgusting amount of phonecalls, emails and texts i'm getting. What the fuck. Tony, Lester, paige, it never stops. I also get a SHITLOAD of emails and texts, and lobbies are WAY TOO BIG. Like, someone dies every second and it tells you. Clothes are way too expensive too, but that's whatever.
What I wanna know is,
Firstly, is there a way to play in a empty lobby by yourself when you're in freeroam?
Secondly, how do I get missions from Gerald and Simeon? Like the ones back in 2013 that we all remember. I wanna do all of them. I'm not getting them at all.
Thirdly, can I disable phone calls and emails I don't need so soon? I'm thinking that might be in the phone's settings but I didnt check. If you can, does it affect anything?
That's it. I'd appreciate a little help here. I just wanna play the game in the chronological order, from Gerald's missions up until the nightclub update and casinos.
EDIT: So, I finally get a mission to go to a clothes store and buy clothes...ok. Isnt that supposed to happen right after your race with Lamar? So I go to the store, with only 10k, and I intend to buy cheap clothes. I start with a 500$ leather jacket...says I don't have enough money and the game then advertises buying shark cards lmao. Then i'm stuck on that mission, and can't buy any clothes despite having enough money. This is the last straw. This is not in any way my fault, this game is bugged as hell. I should have kept my PS4, cuz this game is only playable when you've done everything possible already. New players will be confused as shit if they start playing now. Red dead online is kinda boring but Jesus at least it's consistent and new players will have a chance.

Hello everybody!

The new Casino Heist has been out for over 2 weeks now and there is probably already plenty of guides about it on YT, but I've wanted to make my own guide for a while now and finally think that I have enough experience to make one. I have played the Casino Heist about 30 times now (lost count at 10) and played all the 3 different approaches with a friend, so anything I say about the finale in this guide will be doable with just 2 guys, unless I specifically say so.
Keep in mind this is not a completely flawless guide, I will keep improving and editing it whenever I learn something new. I hope this guide can help you fly through the Preps and have no problems doing the Finale.

1: The Basics
2: Vault contents
3: Approaches
4: Crew
5: General Prep Work
6: Approach specific prep

Silent approach
Big Con approach
Aggressive approach

7: Silent Finale
8: Big Con Finale
9: Aggressive Finale
10: Tips and tricks

1: The Basics

First of all, do the Preps in a solo public lobby. Theres no reason not to do them in a solo public lobby since others can only affect your experience in a bad way, unlike selling MC stock where you will get a bonus for every player in the lobby. (Guide for making solo public lobbies here)
Of course you can do the prep missions with a friend, that way you can avoid having to go to a certain place twice in some prep missions, but it's not neccesary. If you and a friend both do your prep missions simultaneously, you will be able to do 2 Finales in 2 hours if you are experienced in doing the missions. If you don't have any friends to do the preps with, don't worry, they're all doable completely alone and shouldn't be a problem to a decent player.
Now for Arcade locations. Of course I have to talk about Pixel Pete's in Paleto Bay. If you plan on doing the Casino Heist multiple times for a good income of large amounts of money, invest the cash from your first couple of runs from Paleto Bay into a proper arcade. I own the Videogeddon arcade in La mesa (~1,8 million), which is the cheapest in LS, but imo the 8-bit arcade (~2,6 million) is the best since its basically on the same road as the Casino and its garage is way more accesible than the La Mesa one since over there you have to drive around to the back to get into the Garage (Always enter your arcade through the garage entrance, it saves a lot of time compared to going through the front door, into the management office and through the secret tunnel) Either way they are both viable choices, but you should forget about the other ones in LS.
Vehicle choice. Obviously the Oppressor Mk II is your best friend for most of the prep missions, but there are plenty other viable alternatives. The Buzzard can be spawned in directly in front of you via CEO vehicles (if you own one it's free, otherwise it costs 25k per spawn) The issue with the Buzzard is its armor. After taking a couple shots, and trust me, you will, your Buzzard will start to smoke and will then stop working within ~5 minutes. The Akula is another very viable choice, especially when looking at the fact that you will have to lose the cops a lot (the memes are true). It also has fast firing homing rockets (don't use the rocket barrage, it's useless for grinding purposes) which will also help (it has infinite (?) rockets so running out of them won't be an issue, unlike the Oppressor, which only has 20) The Hydra is another hidden gem for the prep missions, if you can fly it well that is. Keep in mind that when using bulky vehicles like Helicopters or jets, the La Mesa arcade will be even worse since you have to land on the road and walk around the back of the arcade, whilst with the oppressor you can just fly straight into the back alley.
Hard finales. After doing a certain approach, that approach will be locked for the next heist. After doing another heist with a different approach, the approach first used will become available again with a red skull signalizing it will be on hard. Choose your 2 favourite approaches (information about the approaches below) and do them back to back, as playing the heist on hard will of course result in the loot being worth more. Don't worry about the heist being to difficult on hard, the only differences for the 2 sneaky approaches is the amount of fingerprints during hacks and for the loud approach the improved armor will be more than enough to make the heisdt a cakewalk.
I recommend purchasing the keypad at the prep board and training your fingerprint hacking skills on there. Trust me, you'll want to be fast when it comes to hacking the keypads. I get the hacks done in about 15 seconds and that is usually fast enough to get all the loot I want.

2: Vault contents

Alright, now for the interesting part, the vault contents. You probably know by now that Cash is the worst option. The best option in terms of money is Gold, while artwork takes significantly less time to loot. If you plan on doing the heist as a 2-man team, aim for artwork, if you are more than 2, go for gold. Forget about Cash.
So how do you influence what loot the vault contains? When doing the scoping out the vault mission, you will be able to see what the vault contains. If it's what you want, then good for you, you may leave the casino and move on to selecting the approach and crew. If however the vault contains cash or whatever loot you don't want, you can "change" the vault contents like this:

Leave the camera
Call Lester WHILST STILL IN THE CASINO
Cancel the Casino Heist
Leave the Casino and go back to your arcade
Pay another 25k to start the heist again

The vault content will already be revealed. If it however still contains the unwanted loot, leave your arcade, call Lester to cancel the heist again, re-enter your arcade, start the heist for 25k again. You will then have to do the vault content mission again and if it still isn't the wanted loot, you may repeat the tactic above.
Don't worry about the 25k that you'll pay each time you restart the heist, good compared to artwork is worth about 200k more so you will have plenty of chances before losing money.
The following describes a controversial glitch that may be used to gain more loot than you're meant to, if you don't want to do this glitch, then you don't have to, but some people will obviously want to do this.
For the glitch, you need the vault to contain Gold. I would usually write this in the finale section but this may influence your decision on what loot to pick so I see this as a more fitting place to write it.
When inside the vault, the gold will be stored on several carts across the vault.

Go up to one and press E to start collecting the gold.
Collect every bar but stop at the last one
Press right click to stop the looting whilst there is still loot on the cart
Wait 2-3 seconds infront of the cart
Press E to start looting again

Voila, the cart will be full with gold again and you may now collect all the bars. This can only be done once for each cart, so after "filling up the cart" once you can collect all the loot off of it without losing anything. This way you can get up to ~3,7 million worth of gold. You will be able to collect more but the rest won't be added to your total, so you might aswell stop at that amount and leave the vault.

3: Different Approaches

1: Silent and sneaky
This approach involves you sneakily going into the casino with silenced weapons, sneaking your way to the vault and then getting out undetected again. I recommend playing this with people that are willing to communicate. I'm not saying you shouldn't pick this if you have to play with randoms, just make sure they are capable of cooperating before you start the heist.
The pros of this approach are that you will have ~3:25 minutes inside the vault and that you wont get shot (hopefully) so you wont lose any loot. This approach also lets you casually empty out the secondary vault opened via the security center (more about that in the finale section)
The obvious cons are that you need to have teammates capable of cooperating so they wont rush in, alert the guards and make you lose your sanity. The detection system is also very inconsistent and things that you might think wont alert the guards will turn out to do so, sometimes.
For this approach I recommend getting the artwork loot if you are just 2 players and gold (w/o glitch) if you are more than 2
The prep missions that may be skipped for this approach are:

Power drills, since the lockboxes inside the vault don't pay that much and it takes time to drill them open that can be used to loot the main contents

2: Big Con
You enter the casino in disguise and get out in disguise, making you lose no loot from being shot like in the silent approach.
First of all, USE THE GRUPPE SECHS UNIFORMS. For the gruppe sechs uniforms to becaome available, you have to photograph the security tunnel of the casino (see image below) By using the gruppe sechs outfit, you can walk straight into the vault without needing to kill anyone.

Service tunnel location
This is in my opinion the best approach since you can easily stay undetected the whole time and it leaves very little chance of failure by stupidity and gives you the full 3:25 minutes inside the vault for looting.
Recommended loot is once again Artwork for 2 people, Gold for 3-4 people.
The prep missions that may be skipped are:

Patrol Routes. You will only have to kill a maximum of 2 guards and they will be near enough to pop up on your radar anyway
Duggan shipments. You will kill the 2 security guards with melee since your weapons don't have stabilizers and their armor doesn't save them from melee attacks.
Power drills, again, since the effort of drilling the lockboxes is not worth it most of the time

3: Aggressive
The most barebones approach involves you shooting your way through the casino and blowing the vault open. This is the easiest approach to do with randoms and can even be done with level 10s who just got their first million.
I recommend photographing the sewer entrance to shorten the way that you have to fight your way through (see image below)

Sewer location
The recommended loot is always artwork since you won't have as mcuh time in the vualt, so the faster you get all the loot the better.
The prep missions that may be skipped for this approach are:

Power drills, obviously since you have less time inside the vault.

4: Crew

Crew choice, seems like a hard decision, really isn't. You basically want to pick the cheapest crewmembers who give you the best hardware.
1: Gunman
Karl Abolaji. For every approach. This might seems like a stupid decision seeing as he only gives you a sawed-off shotgun or heavy revolver for the loud approach, but you will actually get an SMG aswell, which is very usuable for the loud approach. If you don't feel comfortable with just an SMG, Pick either Patrick McReary or Gustavo Mota. Packie will of course be very hard to unlock (Guide to unlocking Packie here) but he will give you a combat MG for only 8% of the cut, whilst Gustavo Mota will give you a Carbine OR Assault shotgun (with the SMG) for 9%
For Silent and Big Con, Karl will give you Micro-MPs, which are more than capable of doing their job, that being killing guards in the silent approach. For Big Con, you could actually play completely without weapons since you only need to melee 2 guards.
2: Driver
Probably the least important crewmember. Some people don't even use the getaway cars provided. So of course, pick Karim Denz. He will be able to source oyu the Sentinel Classic, which is a more than capable Car for getting to the needed places (more information about getaway in the finale section) for the smallest cut.
Of course you may choose other drivers if you want to unlock the trade price for any of the vehicles.
3: Hacker
The most important crewman. Really the only viable choice is Avi Schwartzman, who can be unlocked by destroying the 50 signal jammers spread around San Andreas (Guide for 50 jammers here) He will give you the most time in the vault (Paige is an "expert" hacker aswell but she will give you ~15 seconds less inside the vault) Don't even think about all the other hackers, the hacker is no place to cheap out.

Ideal crew layout

5: General Prep Work

Alright, in this section I'll go over all the prep missions and give some tips and hints on what to do and what not to do and what vehicles work best. First of all, don't buy any of these preps for 70k, they're all somewhat easy to do and shouldn't be a problem for a solo player.
1: Untraceable weapons
This mission is be annoying but also easy. There are lumtiple types of this mission, and whilst none of them are a true challenge, they can be annoying to do since you have to either fly/drive a slow vehicle or collect 2 crates.

Noose Vans: There will be 4 Noose vans around the map and you have to blow the back door off to check for the weapons. You cannot lock onto the vans with homing missiles, so you either have to have good aim or use stickybombs in a ground vehicle. After finding the right one, you have to take it back to your arcade, after losing a wanted level. The annoying thing is, you cannot call Lester to lose that wanted level and the Van is very slow, I recommend driving through a tunnel where the cops cannot go to lose them.
I/E crew: You have to fly to the shore and find A couple of guys exporting the weapons, just blow them up or murder them any way, get in the Tula and fly to Sandy Shores airfield. When taking off in the Tula, switch to VTOL mode and gain some forward speed and altitude before switching to normal flying.
Lost MC/Vagos: You have to go to the clubhouse of the Vagos or Lost, clear the hostiles, find the weapons inside the clubhouse and bring them to your arcade. You will probably die the first couple times you try this mission, but you'll get the hang of it eventually. If you get the Lost MC mission and you have an arcade in LS, I recommend just finding a new session if you're alone since flying to Paleto Bay twice can be very time consuming.

A weapons case inside the Lost MC clubhouse
2: Getaway cars
This mission is somewhat easy for all types, but of course it's much faster done with a friend since you will have to get 2 cars most of the time.

Police warehouse: You have to go to a vehicle warehouse of the police and get the 2 cars out of there, don't worry about the sounds of the engines when in the warehouse, the cops inside seem to be deaf. When driving outside, be careful not to alert the cops standing outside or you'll have to lose your wanted level first.
Valet: You go to a hotel, scare away some valets, dress up as one and wait for the cars to arrive. Nothing much can go wrong here. The only things you shouldn't do is shoot or knock out the valets and bump into somebody infront of the hotel. Just simply bring the cars to your arcade and you're done.
I/E crew: You have to take the cars off a crew who just imported them. Just go to the location, kill the goons and take the cars. Watch out however, the enemies have extremely good aim and even a single enemy can kill you in a couple of seconds. Just use your homing rockets (don't worry, the getaway cars can't be blown up) to kill them, get the cars and bring them to your arcade.

3: Hacking Device
Seems like a simple mission, and it is. There are only two types of this mission, and they are both somewhat easy.

FIB: Collect a security pass off an FIB agent by brutally slaughtering him and his fellows, go to the FIB office, find the briefcase with the hacking devise, get out, lose the cops and bring it to your arcade. When killing the FIB agent, an exploded vehicle may block the agent's corpse. Just get another car to push anything away. There is also a bug where the corpse will either always be considered as blocked or ont even appear, if that happens you have to find a new session and restart the mission.
Noose: The early part is pretty similar to the FIB type, you collect a keycard off of an agent, enter the Noose building and use your phone to find the hacking device. When you get out of the Noose building, the alarm will always automatically go off, just fly away with your OppressoAkula etc. and lose the cops before bringing the hack device to your arcade. You can also assassinate the agent silently when collecting the keycard by approaching him, waiting for him to go away from the other 2 agents and then bopping him in the head with a gun, but form my experience its faster to just blow him up since you'll most likely lose the cops on the way to the Noose building anyway.

The briefcase you're looking for
4: Vault Keycards
This one has 2 mission types. In one you just go to two guards who have the keycards, eliminate them silently by smacking them in the head with a weapon and then looting their keycards.
The other mission is a bit more complicated. It involves you getting a prison bus and entering the bolingbroke prison in that disguise tho then silently murder a guard there who has the keycards. You actually don't have to collect or even blow up the bus, you can fly straight to the prison, kill the guard and get the keycard. Keep in mind thatr you wil get 4 stars doing it this way and there are snipers on the 2 adjacent towers to where the keycard guard is, so you'll wnat to kill those first before looting the guard.
The recommended vehicle is the Oppressor Mk II just to get around faster, but the Akula is a very viable choice aswell to lose the cops more easily after flying to the prison.
5: Guard Patrols
Pretty straight-forward mission. You go to a Duggan security meeting, kill all the guards, find the correct car, photograph the plan and then get out.
This mission can be done stealthy, but it's basically impossible, you're better off juzst shooting them straight away.
The correct car will always be a Felon GT and there will always be 3 of them in the same positions, so you get the hang of where to go after doing it a couple of times.
Once again the Oppressor and Akula are your go-to vehicles for this mission, but DO NOT use the rockets to blow up the guards, the chance of accidentaly blowing up the car with the plans is not worth the risk, and I suggest you also dont use a Minigun since that can also bvlow up the car pretty quick.
6: Duggan Shipments
This is the most stressful prep. You need to destroy 10 of Duggans shipments in 10 minutes to weaken the guards inside the casino. The easiest way to do them is with any chopper with rockets (Akula, Hunter, Savage etc.) or the Oppressor Mk II (you may need to fly an optimal route so you have enough time to destroy all of them.
It is actually no neccesary to destroy all of them, for the silent approach destroying 2-4 is sufficient to make the guards not have helmets (you don't want to bodyshot them anyway, that might make them sound the alarm) but for the loud approach, it's best to destroy all 10 of them so that the guards only have Pistols and Micro SMGs.
If you fail to destroy all 10 in time, you can quickly leave the session before the time runs out and retry the mission.
7: Security Intel
This prep is unlocked after completing the 6 Casino missions unlocked by buying a Casino Penthouse. It can only be done once, so you won't have to replay it every heist.
The mission is simple, you go to a mall, meet Vincent, get the stolen car back for him (use a vehicle with drive-by weapons, helicopters and the Oppressor aren't good for this mission) and done, you can now see all the cameras inside the casino.
8: Power Drills
This mission also has 2 types, but the van one is much rarer. The common one involves going to a construction site and getting 2 power drills.
When you get to the cunstruction site, there will be a white icon on the map. Go there and equip the helmet (your character may remove the helmet shortly after equipping it but the disguise will still work) then just go and check the boxes for the power drills
YOU CAN CARRY BOTH DRILLS AT ONCE! That way you don't have to fly all the way to your arcade and back to collect the other drill.
The second type involves stealing a van with the drills inside and taking ti to your arcade. Simply use a vehicle with drive-by weapons (Once again no chopper or Oppressor), kill the driver AND passenger (he will get on the driver seat after the driver dies), collect the van and take it to your arcade.
9: Security Pass
First of all, ALWAYS get the level 2 security pass (the one showing a valet and croupier on the mission picture) The level 1 pass will only get you through the outside doors whilst the level 2 pass will open all doors except the level 3 ones inside the vault.
Once again, two types of this mission may occur. The first involves you stealing a hearse from a church parking lot. You will then have to lose a 2-star wanted level and drive to a hospital where you then have to find the corpse of a valet and get his security pass. When entering the hospital, your character may automatically have a weapon drawn, so pay attention to that before running through to the corpse.
The other type has you going to the party of a croupier, waiting until lester found the right guy and then take the security pass off him. When you get to the party, there will be a pavillon with people dancing, just go there and start dancing until lester has found the right guy. When you then search the croupier for the pass and it's not on him, just search for a small purple keycard (it can be somewhat hard to find but it will always be in the same locations) and collect it.
As for vehicles, anything goes. The Oppressor will probably get you where you want to go the fastest.

The pavillon that you can dance under

6: Approach Specific Preps

Silent approach:
1: Drones
You have to destroy 5 drones spread around LS and collect their parts. Pretty simple mission, use something with rockets (Oppressor will have better rockets than Helicopters) and blow up the drones. You can of course carry all 5 drone parts at once.
It can be tricky to lock on to the drones as you will also lock onto the cops if you have a wanted level, just swap from non-homing to homing rockets if you locked onto the wrong target.
2: Laser drills
This can be a difficult mission. You will either have to take the two drills off the military, which may be hard since they are very accurate and theres a lot of them, but you can use you Oppressor or Akula rockets without worrying about blowing up the drills, just be sure to stay far enough away, their aim is surprisingly good. Be careful when collecting the first laser drill, if the cops kill you your Oppressor may be impounded and you have to use a different one.
The second type will be to take the drills from a bunch of Cliffford soldiers (apparently they're still around) which is way harder than the military since the cliffford soldiers are EXTREMELY accurate and there will even be a juggernaut and snipers. I don't recommend using the Oppressor for this as you are very vulnerable when standing still, go with an Akula instead. Just kill all the soldiers, enter the warehouse, kill some more soldiers, take the drills and get to oyur arcade.
3: EMP
Another pretty easy and simple mission, you will have to collect a cargobob (with an extra long cable) from the airport, fly to the LS University and steal their EMP. Then just fly to the drop-off, lose a 3-star wanted level by evading the helicopters and drop off the EMP.
Some people skip this mission and the next one, but I use the EMP during the finale to casually do the last hard part so theres no risk of screwing anything up. If you are however coordinated enough to not need the EMP, then you may skip this and the next prep
4: Stealth Uniforms
I highly recommend paying for this mission, it can be very annoying and you get the 70k back from the finale anyway.
This mission involves you going to humane labs and assasinating guards silently (very similar to the infamous deliver EMP mission) and getting the uniforms from the garage where you would park the insurgent in the Humane Labs Heist. This mission can be done quickly if you have a buddy, if you don't, it's better to just skip it and pay the 70k (If you don't plan on using the EMP you don't need to do this mission anyway, it's only for the night-vision equipment)
Big Con approach:
For this one, I'll only talk about the group sechs uniforms, since this is the easiest method of doing the Casino Heist by far. If you want to use a different uniform to unlock it, go ahead, but do be warned that it will be significantly harder to fully stealth.
1: Group Sechs, part 1:
Simple mission, go to a mechanics repair shop, kill the mechanic after realizing the Stockade is locked, get the keys and drive away. You will get a wanted level, but you can call Lester to easily lose them.
2: Group Sechs, part 2:
A bit harder, but still pretty easy. This mission is similar to the Patrol routes mission, you have to go to a group sechs meeting, kill everyone (this can also be done stealthy, but its again almost impossible), photograph the license plate of the black stockade, send it to Lester and then get the equipment and bring it to your arcade. Again as with the Patrol routes mission, do not use explosives to kill the guards as you might accidentaly blow up the equipment. You can call Lester to get rid off your wanted level.
3: Vault drills
Yet another simple mission with two types

Fleeca: A crew of bankrobbers will be robbing a Fleeca-bank with the needed drills. Go there, kill em, get their drill, lose the cops, bring the drills to your arcade. Pretty simple, but you cant call Lester, so using an Oppressor or Akula is beneficial.
Heist crew: A bunch of heisting dudes are being arrested by the police. Go there, kill em, get their drills, lose the cops, bring the drills to oyur arcade. Pretty simple, but you can't call Lester, so using an Oppressor or Akula is beneficial....hm, I'm having quite the Déjà vu.

4: Escape Outfits (Noose)
I'm choosing Noose outfits because they look better (and I'm sure they are in some way better than the Firefighter uniforms, I just don't know how, you seem to get spotted in the Noose uniforms aswell)
Simple (yet somewhat difficult) mission. Go to the mission row police station, kill all the cops there, find the Noose equipment, loose the cops and bring them back to your arcade. You can't call Lester to lose the cops so an Akula would be helpful. When collecting the second uniforms doing it solo, you will once again get 4 stars, so be ready to evade the cops again. Also, when you die at the police station, the cops will most likely impound your vehicle, so a careful approach would be better.
Aggressive approach
1: Thermal explosives
Loud has some pretty annoying mission, this being the first one. Once again, there are 2 types of this mission

You have to go to some rednecks and get the explsovies off of them. Just kill them all (once again no need to worry about blowing anything importnat up) and collect the boxes. They have a pretty big pickup distance so collecting them in a Helicopter should be no problem
SecuroServ Warehouse: Go to a warehouse, kill some people outside, kill some people inside, find the explosives, bring them to your arcade, no cops, pretty easy.

2: Vault explosives
This may be the most annoying mission of the entire heist. You have to go to a crash site of a plane, dive to the wreck and collect the explsovies. If you own one, put on a diving suit BEFORE starting the mision, you can't access the outfits during the mission.
When arriving at the crash site, you can dive straight to the plane if you have a scuba suit equipped, that saves you the killing and you won't get shot at instantly. Otherwise you have to kill some goons and equip a scuba suit nearby marked on your radar. When you collect the explosives, 3 helicopters will spawn. When you get out of the water, kill the gunners inside the helicopters, not the pilots. The helicopters would respawn and by only killing the gunners they will just follow you without shooting you.
3: Improved armor
You'll probably want to buy this prep, since this mission can also be very annoying. Two types of this mission, both are very unpleasant.

Humane Labs: Go to the beach at humane labs, get into a scuba suit, dive through the cooling tunnel into the facility, find the armor and bring it to your arcade. This mission may not be that hard, but the long swim and indoor fighting stretch out the mission and it quickly becomes repetetive and boring. There will atleast be a buzzard when you get out of the facility.
Merryweather bunker: Enter a bunker, kill the merryweather goons, find the armor and bring it to the arcade. Simple mission on paper, but the enemies will probably kill you atleast once and the armor sometimes can be tricky to find, I once spent 15 minutes searching the armor.

4: Drill
Simple mission and only needed if you plan on entering the casino through the sewers. Just go collect a truck with the drill loaded onto it, drive it through the water channel and into the sewers.The time you save by going into the casino through the sewers is probably negated by the time it takes for this mission, but having a more relaxed finale is certainly worth doing one more short prep mission.

7: Silent Finale

Alright, it's finally time for the big moneys, the finale. For this approach, you'll want to go in through either the garbage disposal or personnel room and go out through the personnel room. ALWAYS choose the high end buyer, he will give you the most money.
The finale starts very simple, you drive to the casino and enter through the door you chose. Careful, there will be a camera that you need to zap using your stun gun. When inside, there will be metal detectors that you need to disable by shooting the current box with the stun gun. Sometimes there will be guards watching the metal detectors, in that case you need to take them out before you go through.
When taking out guards, it's better for player guy to kill 2 guards facing eachother, as internet issues may cause in the alarm being raised even if the guards are killed simultaneously. You have more than enough time between shooting the first guard and the second guard raising the alarm that it shouldn't be a problem, just make sure your teammates stay back and don't interfere with the player killing the guards.
After clearing the first area (see picture below), you enter the security room through one of four doors (most of the time 2 of them are locked, can be seen by a red display on the keypad instead of the blue diamond) and then wait for the guard in the hallway to move out of the cameras sightline (Do not worry about the glass at the security room, for some reason guards can't see through it. The y can however see through the glass of the doors) Then you follow him (watch out for the camera) and shoot him in the head. Feel free to then clear the secondary vault by one play opening it for another player to loot (theres another button to open the vault inside, the player pressing the button only has to let him in) and then USE THE STAIRS to get to the vault floor.
When going down the stairs, a guard will walk up the stairs, shoot him in the head, disable the camera in the stairway and make your way all the way down.

Getting to the stairs undetected
On the vault floor, go out of the stairway and take out the 2 guards to the left. Then set off your EMP (this will also obviously disable the cameras) by having the host open their phone and using the securoserv-hack. The lights will then go out and you can rush into the main lobby and take out the 4 guards there. You can ignore the last guard inside the security room, just go to the keypads, swipe both at once and enter the mantrap.

Getting to the mantrap undetected
When at the vault door, 2 guys get out their laser drills and start drilling. The drilling is very simple, you just keep the drill as hot as possible whilst not overheating it. When inside the vault, take as much loot as you can but make sure to leave the vault before the time runs out (I recommend stopping the looting with 20-25 seconds remaining to ensure you have enough time to get out).
When getting back into the vault lobby, there will be 2 guards walking past the stairway, you can ignore those, just use the stairs to go up again (and don't forget to disable the camera in the stairway)
When back in the main floor, follow the route shown in the picture below whilst taking out any guards in the way (2 will be in the security room, you can ignore those) and leave the casino through the personnel door. Don't worry about the metal detectors whilst going out, they dont seem to alert the guards.

Getting out of the Casino undetected
When outside, again follow the route shown on the picture below to get to the getaway cars (locations may vary with different drivers) and drive into the sewers. Then spend some time in the sewers by either waiting or driving to another exit (I personally like to drive to the exit right at the highway so that the drive to the buyer is as fast as possible) Make sure not to drive too close to the Casino, as that will get you 5 wanted stars. I recommend avoiding the freeway next to the casino, you may however use the road to the north-west of the freeway.

Escape route with getaway car locations in pink (when choosing the 5% driver)
Then just casually drive to the buyer after you've lost the cops and there you go, fat loot.

8: Big Con Finale

This is the easiest finale by far. Choose the group Sechs entry uniform, noose escape uniform, the personnel rooms as the exit and of course the high end buyer.
Take the Group Sechs truck to the Casino and through the service tunnel, wait until the guard lets you through, park it on the yellow marker and use the elevator or stairs to get to the vault floor.
On the vault floor, just run to the keypads for the mantrap. The guards don't care if you're running or even jumping, just don't bump into anybody and don't draw your weapons.
The just casually loot the vault and again, make sure to get out before the time runs out (stop looting with about 25 seconds left to have enough time to get out safely.
Then just walk through the mantrap and the vault lobby again but USE THE STAIRS to get to the main floor (the camera will not raise the alarm, don't worry about it). Make sure you are all past the camera before going to the main floor, as anyone who didn't go past the camera will get detected due to the guards being alerted and a wanted level appearing. When at the main floor, use the route in the picture below to get to the Noose outfits and switch into them to walk past the last few guards without any problem.

Getting out of the Casino with the Noose uniforms
When outside, follow the same route as in the silent approach to get to the getaway cars. Drive into the sewers, lose the cops in there and then again casually drive to the buyer whilst avoiding driving to close to the casino.

Getting to the getaway cars and into the sewers undetected

9: Aggresive Finale

There really isn't any major explanation needed for this approach, as you won't have to worry about getting detected.
If you chose to enter through the sewers, drive there, enter the tunnel that was dug with the giant drill and plant explosives at the wall to gain entrance to the vault floor directly.
Then just shoot your way to the mantrap keypads and have the others protect the people opening the mantrap if you are playing with 3 or 4 players.
When looting the vault, you won't have to worry about getting out in time, and the nerve agent does very little damage, so don't be scared to take longer than the timer says.
Whilst shooting your way out of the casino, you may use either the elevator or the stairs to get to the main floor. Going through the security room allows you to evade any guards that may be in the south corridor.
When you get out of the casino, you may follow the same route as in the undetected approaches or run directly to the getaway vehicles, although you will probably get shot more doing that and therefor loose more money.
Get to your cars, drive into the sewers and lose the cops. Then you're just one casual drive away from making another bunch of cash. I highly recommend getting bulletproof tires for your getaway cars on this approach, and whilst you are spending that 10k per car, why not go big and get the 15k upgrade that laos makes the cars go much faster.

10: Tips and tricks

So in this section (which I will probably expand with additional tips, feel free to leave some in the comments) I'll go over some of the things I didn't mention that may save some effort or time when doing this heist.

You can lose the cops by going into the back of your Terrorbyte if you aren't carrying any equipment (useful during the untraceable weapon mission with the Noose van)

That about covers it for this heist. This has unexpectedly been quite the project for me, it took me 3 days of writing here and there and getting screenshots, so leaving a smol updoot would be appreciated. If you have any questions, of course feel free to leave a comment, I'll try my best to read every single one of them :)
Happy heisting! (and may your sessions be free of griefers!)

Hello fellow redditors, i have been playing this game non stop since Epic Games gifted it. so, i will talk in every point i saw in this game that let me or my friends wanted to stop playing, dont take this as a harrass, but mostly as things rockstar could have made to improve the game.

Lets start from the basic.

Load Times: we timed how much time it takes to load from starting main menu to online, it tooks an average of 4-6 minutes if u go Single Player then Online, 6-8 if you go directly to online. like, this game bugs a lot and you HAVE to restart it or do tricky things like joing from social club in order to fix it. and this takes me to the second point.
Bugs: this game seems like a indie company made a fan made rockstar game in Bugs quality, like, freezes in lobbys, cant join friends, cant join heist, disconnects, game makes you load GTA V Single player a lot of times, cant quit a bugged lobby, and mother of god, heist like casino has A LOT of bugs, freezes picking up gold, freezes in the start that makes you restart your game, glitches in the vault. This game is so broken that if u stop picking up loot and re do it, it bugs and refill the thing like WTF?, how is this a thing?, and do you want to know how they solved it?, if you have 160k+ in loot it doesnt let you re-grab a loot.
Hackers: its not a surprise, hackers are everywhere, droping money, exploding people, god mode, changin weather, spawning vehicles, spawning things, disconnecting people, crashing the game, and the worst thing?, sometimes you have to RESTART your game in order to fix wath the hacker put in the map. (pd: and there are a few DANGEROUS hacks, one that makes your game change weather constantly from day to night with brigthness incrased, someone with epilepsy can have an attack from this. like mother of god.)
Heists: look, i am not a pro player, i like to tryhard games mostly in pve content, but this game has like less than 1 week worth of heist and "interesting" missions to do, and it was released 6 YEARS AGO. 5 normal heists, 3 final worlds and casino. thats all, and the better part, why i will re do any of them if casino gives you 1kk and the others gives like a maximum of 250k.
Grinding Money: Hey, do you want money?, okay, if you play with friends you can farm a lot of casino, and casino, and casino again, if not, prepare to deliver cars. and every passive money income is a waste of time except for bunker fully upgraded and buying supplies ever and of course you need 3 people to do them.
Difficulty: as i said, this game is NOT challenging at all, heist are SUPER easy, mostly if u already have a good vest and hp from level, the only one i had to restart was the last one of final world because it takes so long that you dont expect to run out of vests.
Stealth: stealth works so bad in this game, like you can be in front of a guy with 0 cover and if u are not in the vision cone you are ok, you can kill someone behind him and nothing happens, you can shoot a window and nothing happens, but its so clunky that sometimes your character moves horrendus, security cams works awfull too, you can run past them and everything is ok... sometimes. idk why GTA V doesnt learn from games like payday 2, why i will want to do a stealth mission in an awfull made stealth. there is a reason why everyone hates stealth casino, and it is because, why do that?, why waste your time with some stupid things like this.
Minigames the game: Wanna hack?, do this mini game that has 3-4 maximum patrons with every same answer. like, is not hard, is no something you learn to do, is something you learn from memory, thats not skill, thats simply stupid.
Rockstar Social club: when i started playing i thought it was because of the big wave of new people like me who were playing, 1 month after this service works horrendus still, at the moment i am writing this it is down.
PVP: i dont like pvp in this type of games, they are not made to be balanced and not has skill at all, but one thing is not being balanced, other is being stupidly broken, MK2 in a nutshell, forces you to buy things to counter it.
Player Base: who would think the average player base of this game is gonna be 8-18 years old kids, its stupid how horrendus the player base is, i know is a "chaotic" game, but like, one thing is being chaotic for a reason, other is being dumb, people killing some lvl 10 and shit talking like, oh yeah, is not like he installed the game today and you are lvl 150 with fully upgradeds weapons, vests, mk2, hydra, spamming ghost. you are clearly better than that guy.
Races: who would think a player base of kids would want to have a good race?, none, so neither do i expect it, joined a race, people crashing other purposely at the first corner because "wow its so funny to crash, it does boom XD" and lag doesnt help this a lot, the few people who knowed how to play properly lagged a lot and crashed because of it.
Arena War: hey do you know that kiddos like to crash cars, lets do a mode for them, okey but lets do they pay 4-5 millon worth of upgrades and car cost first in order to play fairly with people expended the same amount of money, and lets do the most boring mini games ever like a capture the flag where everyone spams bikes because crashing one with the lag the game has is impossible.
A reason to grind: and this is my last statement in this game, why do i ever want to play this?, i want to grind money for what?, a mk2 to kill kids?, a house that i will NEVER use, a car that i neither will use because i have a mk2 and stromberg to counter my same mk2.

My TL;DR: if u want a heist-stealth game, go play payday 2, if you want a race game, you have a lot of games like dirt, if you want a pvp shooting game go play CSGO or if you want a more arcade expirience go play Fortnite or PUBG.
This game is not worth playing more than a few days, i played it because of problem with my network that doesnt let me play a lot of other games and this one was a waste of time, i cant belive rockstar does things so bad.

Thanks to u/Kaimeera for posting all of the voice lines
Here is every Madam Nazar voice line and my own/generally accepted interpretation of each one. With so many easter eggs packed into one cabinet, I believe this is Rockstar's biggest "hint dump" yet, and a clear indication they haven't given up on us mystery hunters.
If I am wrong on anything or you know one I missed please let me know in the comments.

0x00408006 = ~z~Have you seen... Gavin? -Reference to the infamous NPC searching for Gavin across the world of RDR2.

0x01682558 = ~z~I see many shadowy figures, sent to kill you... -Could be a number of things. Many things come to kill you in both GTAV and RDR2, but I don't know what could be considered "shadowy", outside of the disappearing aliens in the Gunrunning easter egg.

0x02455C87 = ~z~I see a three-legged man. And a long-legged woman. And they are happy. -Lester and Georgina after the Casino Heist. The "third leg" is Lester's cane.

0x04026A1E = ~z~I see a... strange man in a tall hat. He frightens me. -The Strange Man that appears in both RDR and RDR2.

0x0BC2CA7C = ~z~I smell lupins. So many lupins, they fill the valley floor... -Lupins are flowering plants. There are many valleys and plains filled with them in RDR2.

0x0C906264 = ~z~Good, I have been waiting for you. -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x0F60D1BE = ~z~I see a man. His name is... Johnny. He sits at home, but he longs to be on the spot again. -Reference to the GTA Online mechanic, who frequently refers to himself as "Johnny on the spot" when called.

0x1B98B32A = ~z~I see bitterness, and ambition, and madness. They shall all come to this city... -Reference to Michael, Franklin, and Trevor respectively.

0x1DA394D2 = ~z~I see the heavens opening, and the rain. -Both GTAV and RDR2 have post-rain sunshine as a weather effect. Some easter eggs are also rain-sensitive.

0x1E00F616 = ~z~I see a vengeful figure from your past, and a reward for your death... -Arthur has a bounty on his head for most of RDR2. The vengeful figure could refer to Dutch or Micah.

0x2B1ABB8E = ~z~I see mists and fog. -Either a generic fortune teller voice line, or refers to the intense fog in the forested regions of RDR2.

0x3AF43DBB = ~z~I see palm trees high in the sky, and shimmering pools of warm water, and people in, oh, oh dear... -I'm not too sure on this one, but it could potentially be a reference to the tendency for cars to end up in pools around Vinewood Hills after big stunt jumps.

0x3D56B345 = ~z~You were looking for Nazar, I think. -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x4A17A267 = ~z~I see danger in your future. You must take care crossing the road... -Getting hit by cars is a common problem in GTAV, as is running over people with your horse in towns in RDR2.

0x4CE892E1 = ~z~Kifflom... -The signature saying of the Epsilon Program.

0x4D535F3B = ~z~Ah yes, the mists clear... -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x4F2D953F = ~z~I see numbers... one, two three. -One third of the phone number easter egg.

0x4F9C57D0 = ~z~Nazar, teller of fortunes, finder of lost things... -Madam Nazar offers the Collector role in Red Dead Online, hence "finder of lost things".

0x5AD8779F = ~z~I see a rooftop, and a briefcase, and death. No, no, no, no, no, it is not... not a rooftop... -Reference to the GTA Online mission Rooftop Rumble, which was extremely popular for money grinding in the first year of release. Despite the name, this mission does not actually take place on a rooftop.

0x5C41619D = ~z~Yes, all is clear... -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x5D6EF371 = ~z~You were looking for me, yes? -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x5EDCDFD8 = ~z~Hmm, interesting... -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x5F900619 = ~z~I see you in high spirits. -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x6FE9F6D6 = ~z~Too soon, too soon have you come back... -Possible reference to the player repeatedly using the machine to hear many voice lines.

0x7B74C501 = ~z~I see a web, still tangled after years of unravelling. Will you be the one, I wonder? -Reference to either the spider web easter egg, or the Chiliad mystery in general. I believe this remark is a clue that there is more to solve, and a challenge of who will be the first to do so.

0x7EC016A1 = ~z~I see a beautiful diamond. The largest in the world. Ah, it is cracked... -The grand Diamond Casino and Resort being broken into and robbed.

0x7FEBF1E1 = ~z~Nazar bids you farewell. -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x8D17F800 = ~z~I see, I see... -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x8F6A344E = ~z~I see a lazy river, flowing by a scorched town... -There is a town burnt to a crisp in RDR2.

0x26F2F1F2 = ~z~I see a ridge in the land, and a falconer, and the black smoke rising to the east... -This has to be an RDR2 reference, though I don't remember any falconers. It is possible I missed a detail, it is a very long game.

0x37C69C95 = ~z~I see the sky covered by clouds. -A cloudy sky is the loading/respawning screen in RDR2. GTA loading screens are also often cloudy.

0x40EB3A6A = ~z~I think you were meant to stop by here, yes? -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x71B9557C = ~z~Madam will be here when you return. -Generic fortune teller voice line. She indeed is confined to her glass cabinet.

0x76C62201 = ~z~I hear birds, beautiful birds singing in a cage... -???

0x78CEE40F = ~z~See you soon, I think. -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x80B3DB7F = ~z~I see great and furious judgement descending from the clouds to strike you down... -God? Lighting strikes? The Thor hammer easter egg in RDR2? The orbital cannon in GTA Online?

0x86A7C5E6 = ~z~Come closer, Nazar wishes to speak to you. -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x87B9130C = ~z~Safe travels. -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x93CA7E4A = ~z~You were looking for me, yes? -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x94ABA9D8 = ~z~I see the meaning of a song upon a stone. One is done, two was fun... -The rhyme written on the rocks in Blaine County for the Infinite 8 killer easter egg.

0x95D1F984 = ~z~I see trees. Such tall trees. -The Tall Trees region of RDR2.

0x97B943D7 = ~z~I hear a voice calling again and again, forlorn. A relative. He wants to do something. -Reference to Roman excessively calling Niko to go bowling in GTA IV.

0x178ED0A8 = ~z~I see the ruins of a battle fought long ago... -There is a Civil War battlefield point of interest in RDR2.

0x181E4BBE = ~z~I see a man in a white shirt, and a red vest. He is afraid to go to work... -The Diamond Casino valet Felipe, who players routinely murder for fun.

0x203F9619 = ~z~Madam Nazar has a beautiful collection. And she is generous. Go, see what trophy she gives you. -Madam Nazar buys valuable collectibles from the player in Red Dead Online. Could she also unlock a trophy in the arcade trophy shelf, like the one for owning all arcade games?

0x234DC9AD = ~z~Beware, not all love is kind. Just climb the mountain, and ask my poor Jolene. -The ghost girl easter egg of the late Jolene.

0x516A5CC8 = ~z~Welcome, wanderer, would you like to know the future? -Generic fortune teller easter egg.

0x532DDEEF = ~z~Come, come... magpie. -???

0x645D35FE = ~z~I see wet ground, and figures in the dark, and the spirit of a lonely girl... -Probably the Agnes Dowd ghost easter egg in RDR2.

0x746E2173 = ~z~Ah, you have found me. Come, come, hear your fortune. -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x811A2BFA = ~z~You seek some purpose, some meaning in the chaos of this life... -Many theorize the answer to the Chiliad Mystery is some underlying karmatic "true ending" to the game. Part of Story Mode's main conflict is Michael dealing with some existential quandaries about morality and death.

0x5895B9F1 = ~z~I see thunder, and lightning. -Thunderstorm weather is present in many easter eggs across both games.

0x6233DB6A = ~z~No, no, no, no, no... You must be patient, my love... -We need to wait for more updates to further the mystery?

0x8887A74F = ~z~I see... a bright sun in a clear sky. -Another weather line, but there usually isn't anything special associated with sunny weather.

0x9276E6BB = ~z~Remember, Madam Nazar is always listening. Ask and you may receive. -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x10124A92 = ~z~At the stroke of twelve, when the moon is fat, the beast will awaken within you. -The Beast, a werewolf the player can turn into in some Freemode Events and Adversary Modes in GTA Online, as well as a secret Director Mode actor for beating him in his secret fight against Bigfoot.

0x33199ECB = ~z~Welcome to Nazar's cabinet of wonders. -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x71588BAE = ~z~I see a scorched land. A river along a border that cannot be crossed... -The border of Mexico is visible in RDR2, but cannot be crossed.

0x77702F37 = ~z~I see a secluded isle, and upon it I see, ah... it is gone. -???

0x96949B4F = ~z~Your line is tangled, but I see it now... -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0x813078CC = ~z~I see numbers... seven, six, four. -One third of the phone number easter egg.

0x5085380D = ~z~I have revealed your path. Now... you must walk it... -Potentially a hint that Nazar's sayings are a clue toward something.

0x34880013 = ~z~The future cannot be changed. Return when it has become the past... -Francis Sinclair's appearance in RDR2 introduces an aspect of time travel into the mystery. Some parts of GTAV story mode occur before online, maybe there is something to be found by going back to the beginning?

0xA0CBFA2E = ~z~Madam Nazar sees your future, shall I tell you? -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0xA76B6838 = ~z~Remember, the stars favor those who leave no stone unturned. -Much like "he was wrong to start his hunt on a Tuesday," this is as blatant as Rockstar can get at telling us there is still mystery to uncover. The unsolved Panoramic Map in RDR2 does portray star positions.

0xA84C88A8 = ~z~Your every move is watched. Be careful... avoid even the smallest misdemeanor... -Minor crimes can get you wanted in both games. Could also be another suggestion at the karmatic/pacifist playthrough theory.

0xA370B8EA = ~z~Safe travels. -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0xA507B91E = ~z~The future is open to me... -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0xA3075AF7 = ~z~I see beautiful trees in an arid land... -Another line talking about trees. Could refer to trees in the desert in both games. Los Santos/California has trees grow despite desert climate because of irrigation systems.

0xA3408FC2 = ~z~Come closer, let me see you. -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0xAC37F487 = ~z~I see a door in the shape of a circle, and behind it endless opportunities opening to you, if you are able to adapt. -The circular vault door of the Diamond Casino, protecting cash, gold, artwork, and diamonds. "Able to adapt" refers to the random spawns and different approaches of the heist.

0xAC710EE1 = ~z~Let me see... -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0xB05CDEAD = ~z~Ahh, of course... -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0xB4DECB38 = ~z~I see a face beneath the ice. Yet, not the face of a man, or a woman... -The alien under the ice in North Yankton in Prologue.

0xB6FA4AA9 = ~z~I see many people bowing down before a yellow statue of a... no, no that cannot be right. -???

0xB7BEACD4 = ~z~I see an emerald covered in filth, lying on a beautiful plain... -Likely refers to Emerald Ranch in RDR2. It is a farming community, so manure and livestock are everywhere (filth) and it is indeed located in a plain.

0xB8C7E398 = ~z~Come back soon. -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0xB1172B6F = ~z~Ah, it is you. I'm glad you have come. -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0xC5BC5495 = ~z~The spirits draw close... -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0xCBF36971 = ~z~I see grizzled mountains, and hungry eyes... -Could refer to the Grizzlies region of RDR2. Hungry eyes might be that of bears or wolves.

0xCC31A50E = ~z~I see numbers... five, one, one, two. -One third of the phone number easter egg.

0xDAF70F50 = ~z~I see a man with red hair, and a red mark upon his face. He does not belong here. -Francis Sinclair. He really doesn't belong here, as he presumably time traveled outside of his own reality.

0xE08ED444 = ~z~I see many cars in a white room. No, no, no... they are all the same car. And I see great wealth. And great boredom. This is a strange vision... -Reference to car duplication glitches, a popular way to make money in GTA Online.

0xE113C9F4 = ~z~The future is open to me... -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0xED3B9610 = ~z~I see true love in your future, but only if you act quickly! -???

0xEF1DAB95 = ~z~Take care... Your next drink will go to your head... -The Online Protagonist will pass out and wake up elsewhere after enough alcohol, which is necessary for the UFO tattoo easter egg. There are some moments in RDR2 where drinks have similar effects, such as the Witch's Brew, or the drink offered at Aberdeen Pig Farm.

0xEF6F7672 = ~z~I see... snow! -Both games feature snowy weather online for the holiday season.

0xF0CA2115 = ~z~Mine is the all-seeing eye. -All seeing eyes are a common visual in GTAV, especially on the SecuroServ app and the Chiliad Mural. They've even been featured in official artwork on Rockstar's website.

0xF8E39799 = ~z~Nazar sees all... -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0xF84EB9E1 = ~z~Welcome. -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0xF9577296 = ~z~I see... a man with evil intentions. He comes to take what is yours... -Could be any number of antagonists, Micah, Dutch, the Pinkertons, Devin Weston, Steve Haines, Avon Hertz, etc.

0xFC3052B7 = ~z~I see a great stone window, looking down upon a cold river... -???

0xFCDA6BA2 = ~z~I see cliffs in a silent desert. -???

0xFDB09265 = ~z~No, no, no, no, no, the mists do not clear... You must give me time... -Generic fortune teller voice line.

0xFEA2C689 = ~z~Look into my eyes.- Generic fortune teller voice line.

Don't forget this isn't the first fortune teller in GTAV, as Michael, Trevor and Franklin can use the Psychic Shoutout website in story mode.

Made a Friend

So, a while ago I took a chance and hired some low level, like 20 or smthng. Let him fly my buzzard, and avenger, and took him on a gunnery tour of downtown Los Santos in the back of my Technical Custom.
Had a blast, and knocked out a shitload of missions!
But eventually I got sick and fucking tired of grinding because it's a shitty fucking nightmare and this game sucks dick (because you have to be grinding all the time to buy all the stupid overpriced bullshit so they can sell their microtransactions [this community really needs to take a good hard look at what the Battlefront fans accomplished with BFII and pull their heads out of their asses and do the same here]). So, I quit playing for like a month or two, dude kept messaging me but I was just so sick of grinding so I never jumped in. I even missed the casino update money exploits which could have saved me from needing to grind anymore but honestly fuck that shit. I was so sick of grinding and that'd just be grinding something else more lucrative and the bottom line is I shouldn't fucking have to. You should be able to reasonably expect to unlock all this shit just by playing the game, a reasonable amount and unlocking everything by completing story based missions. So the dude told me about that and I was like, "Nah, fuck it, I'm tired of GTA."
Honestly, if it didn't have the name GTA on it I would've thrown any game like this in barbeque a long ass timed ago. The only reason I don't is cause the name and that GTA is one of my favorite franchises up unti that abomination IV and this griefgrind shitshow. But because of that I keep coming back and trying to enjoy myself here.

Got Trolled by a Low Level?

So I'm finally back for a little bit. And I've been trying to glow up some other low levels but every goddamn time I offer jobs they get rejected even by fucking level 5 and 10s! It's fucking insane, dumb asses.
Well I finally got a guy to accept the offer today, a level 20 or something and I tried to do some missions with him. Sent him a text from my bunker to meet at Paleto Bay. My stock isn't topped off quite yet so I leave the bunker after stocking up weapons and call in my Savage. Check the map and the dudes not on his way. He's sitting still. Ok fine he's in the little town by the lake so right over the hill from me. I'll just go and pick him up.
By time I'm in the air, dude has left the area and is headed South on the freeway along the East side of the map toward the city. Fuck that, I don't wanna get shot down by every asshole out there. So I have to catch up to this dude and land in front of him on the freeway and he ignores me. I think he got killed somehow, maybe cops. But he respawns on the other side of the fwy, I fly over there and try to land again, he's still ignoring me, steals a car and takes off so I fucking killed him to force him to stop then landed where he spawned again. This time I hop out and run around. The dick runs and jumps in the pilor seat before me, fuck. Ok whatever I'll fly copilor and run missiles, maybe he'll be ok at flying for a headhunter mission.
I don't know if it was a glitch or bug or what but my character jumps out as soon as he takes off and he doesn't come back for me! Fucking fucks off with the chopper. Ok so what, maybe he'll go get the targets anyway. I'll steal a car and go the other way, as long as the mission gets done I don't care. He fucking crashes the goddamn chopper. UGh!
So I get another, try to go get him but hes downtown LS now so fuck that, I ignore him kill the targets save the day. He's dead weight. I go back to try to pick him up later. Seems like every time I get this asshole in the fucking bird theres a session wide activity, or a cooldown from someone else's VIP work blocking me from launching my own. All of which is turbo bullshit by the way. Fuck you so much Rockstar, I don't give a fuck if someone else is doing VIP work, I get it if we can't both at the same time by why the fuck should I have to wait for a cooldown when their work is over??? People can ignore the VIP work if they want to and most do most of the time so it's not like I'm forcing constant work on anyone else. Fuck these guys this game is fucking constant bullshit.
So I can't get a mission going because there's constant bullshit going on in the session. And whenever there's not I can't get this prick in the fucking bird! I pick him up in a car and take him to the helipad. He starts a shootout with cops just to fuck my shit up, then he doesn't even get in! Takes the car and fucks off after I take off. So I kill him again. He was in my Technical so I have to pay for that shit. Land again, he's not getting in. I finally get him in but he's started a shootout with cops again. I try to kill them as I'm taking off blow us both up. Get him back to the bird again, he's started a shootout again, so I take off and just fly away to evade the stars before launching the mission but there's two fucking yachts in the water and I get shot down by AI??? You fucking name it. The amount of time I'm dicking around with this guy I could've made 200k just on VIP work! Not to mention I only needed to kill like 10-15 minutes to do a bunker sale which all this has distracted me from.
The whole time I've been texting him. Like I said before "Meet at paleto bay for mission.", "Coming to you.", "Get in the chopper", "How many times do I have to tell you to get in?", "STOP shooting! So we can lauch this mission without the cops fucking up the bird just taking off!!!", after we got shot down by the yacht I texted him "I NEED you to stop messing everything up for 5 minutes!". Finally he says, "Ok." Finally! JFC!!! I get him in the chopper, he doesn't fuck around, I land on a rooftop, tell him we have to wait 3 minutes to start the mission cause of some other bullshit, he waits patiently like a big boy. I tell him to get out of the door gun position and get in the cockpit so he can shoot rockets and get kills, he does it, we start head hunter take off and just as we're getting to the first target he goes offline!
I guess he must've just been trolling me the whole time and I was stupid for even trying to actually get him in on missions. Should've just ignored him altogther as soon as he wasn't convenient. But goddamn. Whenver you're not getting griefed by OPs, you apparently get trolled by obnoxious little shit low levels you're trying to help out???
Mayber he just didn't feel like doing missions. Ok. Then don't accept a job offer! That's what they're for!
Fuck all that shit dude. I was so done.

But Then...

I tried one last time. Ground out a sale and some VIP work on my own for a while. Then I checked the leaderboard and saw a lot of new low levels in the session. Offered jobs, one accepted. Ignored her and did Hostile Takeover first. Then I got a Hold the Wheel vehicle after that was over and she showed up randomly in a buzzard to cover me which was cool. Although nothing happened. I was heading North up the PCH and when the time was winding down she flew ahead to my bunker and went inside. I met her there, launched a sale misssion. One of few I've done with a partner, I aways sell low with just one shipment. So I'm planning to fly the Savage, or have her do it for Close Air Support. But then we got slapped with some bullshit and the game split it into two shipments even though it's such a low amount it always does one, just because there were two of us! God damn I fucking HATE THIS GAME. So there went support. It was that mission where you get a signal jammer if the Insurgents stay close. So of course she takes the fuck off, leaves me behind and sends out the global signal so we're fucked now. God damnit! I was pissed.
What I noticed was that her truck was way faster than mine even though they're both the same truck. I kept wondering how the fuck she was shooting ahead of me and I couldn't keep up even with my pedal to the medal and then I realized the game was fucking cheating! Just magically buffing one of the car's speed for no reason just to fuck us up. And of course the associate's truck is the one with the buffed speed. Because if it was the CEOs obviously they would automatically slow down for the associate to protect their sale. Associate's not gonna give a fuck, they're just going to take off if you give them a magically faster truck. WHich she does.
There is never any end to rockstars jerk off bulshit it is fucking sickening!
We wind up getting attacked by a fucking lazer or hydra or something. I get killed but she makes it. So I've lost half my sale! Then when she delivers the truck, it gives us that stupid fucking bullshit, "You have to leave the area" shit for no reason except to fuck us up a little bit more. And the dumb asshole isn't leaving the fucking area! They're just staying there, shooting it out with the cops! I had to go down there and KILL her myself just to get her out of the area!!!
So I text her what the fuck that was and she says she doesn't speak english. Ok maybe she doesn't and she's using google or smthing and she just didn't do it for the mission brief, I don't know. Whatever. Ok so I call in the Savage, and launch head hunter she actually plays ball and we make some money. After I'm heading back to the bunker to do missions up North, away from the other players. She bails over PCH, and then I land and see what's up. We went swimming together? And showed eachother all out outfits??? It was a nice chill time that killed time till the cooldown was up. Then I called in the Avenger, lauched head hunter again, because it's a cool assed vehicle to do missions with but you need a crew and I never have one. She wasn't getting to go in the cargo hold and get on the gun so I landed, she hopped out and started shooting it out with MerryWeather on foot, I dropped some cluster bombs on 'em, we got inside the shack and killed the VIP. Then she jumped in the pilot seat of the Avenger and I said fuck it, let her fly and got on the gun myself. It's really fucking obnoxios that you don't get objective markers in the Avenger's hold but as long as she points the bird at the bad guys I can pick em out visually on my own. She was dropping bombs, did pretty good, actually took out a vehicle with them though I still had to get the target with the gun.
Actually she probably would've gotten him with the bombs if I hadn't. Took me a while to find him on the gun cam and by time I did she was straffing him with bombs, just my direct fire got to him first.
Then we actually did Hostile Takeover on the ground with just a Dubsta 6x6 which was supprisingly fun. Kinda dumb that when you attack from the air it takes out all the badguys that usually spawn at the altruist camp except the five with the briefcase. So I was supprised by how much more resistence there was. We drove through 'em all the way to the back, I parked with my side facing away from the biker gang so I think she got wasted as soon as she got out. But I had cover, took out the bikers but wound up getting killed by Altruists coming up behind me. She spawned at the gate of the camp and I spawned outside the wall on the opposite side. So she got in first, got the briefcase, and got in the truck. Then she actually waited at the gate for me as I ran halfway around and hopped the fence where I could escaping the cops. We took off in the truck accomplished the mission.
Then a level 700 showed up in one of the weaponized heavy remote turreted armored trucks right near the last objective marker at the vinyard. We had crashed a limo in a river bead and were stuck under the bridge she was parked on top so we had cover. I figured we were about to get griefed so I got my MKII marksman rifle out and took a peak and she was just flipping us off haha!
I guess I'm dumb as shit so I decided to start some shit with her and killed her anyway. I was actually kinda kicking her ass with the marksman rifle, definitely got some good kills. Then she got a Oppressor MKII, motherfucker, and killed me. Then I blasted her off it with the Atomizer! I got it to stop getting griefed and I have been griefed several times since and haven't been able to hit shit with it, at least not those fucking OPs so this was a first for me. Killed her again with the rifle when she respawned, then took off with a stolen car. Made it almost all the way to the airstrip (I was going to talke a chopper to Mount Gordo Facility to escape), before she caught up and took me out with... a Buzzard???? With lockon missiles, what the whole fuck!?!?!? I can never kill anyone with the buzzards lock on missiles! Even an NP fucking C walking at brisk pace and those missiles miss every time! But somehow whe she shoots them they can nail me in a cop car at top speed!
Whatever, I respawn and start knocking her around with the Atomizer which is hilarious, but doesn't cause her to crash. Eventually she kills me again. I respawn and knock her out with an RPG. Jump in a helo nearby and take off for Paleto Bay bunker, skydive out over the bunker, halo land on it and I'm gone! With a healthy handful of kills against the lvl 700 that I started shit with.
All in all one of very few days I've ever played this game and not wanted to fling my X-box out a window. My associate took off around the time the griefing started, but added me on XBox Live, as did the lvl 700 who also texted me gg. Good day. Glad I didn't give up after that low level troll put me through the ringer.
Although the game is pretty much desinged to suck, its bascially Bullying! The Game! Every day you play any game should be a good fun time like this was at the end. But should be like that the WHOLE time. The fact that this was an exceptionally good day when it should be standard means this game still sucks dick.

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