Today, December 3 from 5:00 to 8:00 PM Eastern Time, Rockstar Games will be playing Ballad of Gay Tony multiplayer on Xbox LIVE. You'll find us in Party Mode: Ranked Team Deathmatch, so join us there if you think you can take the heat.
SPECTATE AND CHAT
Can't get on Xbox LIVE? No worries. Join us at the upcoming Social Club Multiplayer Event page for a live streaming broadcast of the event. Or stop by just to peep some of the action straight from the screen of a Rockstar team member. We'll also be opening up a chatbox for those of you who need a doubles partner or just want to shoot the shhh...
HOW TO FIND US
Grab a friend and start up Ranked Team Deathmatch via Party Mode. We're playing doubles so make sure your team size is two. By starting up Team Deathmatch from Party Mode, you will be automatically placed in special lobbies together with us and other event participants. More info on using Party Mode is below.
NEED A PARTNER?
Hit up the chatbox during the event or just post your Gamertag in the Comments section here. Someone will pick ya up.
OFFICIAL ROCKSTAR GAMERTAGS
Participating Rockstar Gamertags for the event will be:
GwRockstar3
GwRockstar4
GwRockstar5
GwRockstar6
ABOUT PARTY MODE
Party Mode is an easy way to get your group together and find matches. To get started, fire up the in-game mobile phone and select Multiplayer > Party Mode. This will drop you into your very own multiplayer instance of Liberty City with you as the host. From here, open up your phone again and select the Friends option to invite your friends. As your friends join, they will land in your private Liberty City session, where you can all practice or mess around until everyone is ready.
Once your team is ready to roll, open up the in-game phone again and select any mode (you will want to use
Ranked > Team Deathmatch for this event). It will take your party into a special lobby where you will be matched against other parties of equal size, totaling up to 16 players per lobby. Be sure that you enter the lobby in a group of two if you plan to get matched up against us and other players for the event.
By the way, when are you doing another live rockstar game with the people of the world?....hope to play with you guys soon.
Its supposed to come 2010 I think, But look at all Rockstars other games like RDR was delayed, And Max Payne 3.
Smfh.....It's NEVER going to PS3!!!!! R* is giving you guys Agent in place of the GTA 4 DLC. Now get over it.
Also I need teh insider information, whats the armoured car routes? Where are they at? I searched like, half of liberty couldn't find any. Also, banks would be cool in GTA that you can hold up with safes and crap. :D
If you want to get away from someone in a helicopter that's trying to kill you while you're parachuting, just do the elevation trick and it'll piss them off. I laugh everytime. Someone voted to kick me days before I got RROD cause they couldn't reach me and kill me. That was flat out ignorant of them. If I don't want to be killed then I don't want to be killed you know???
It's going to PC cause it's Microsoft. PS3 is Sony and yeah, that trophy says it all. The DLC hitting that system is impossible.
Maybe get some different modes going on. I know towards the end of the night, we got a couple of rockstar dudes to get into a free mode for a lil, which was cool. Free mode is the most popular mode obviously, but include some TDM and other modes next time. GTA Race would be cool.
The system that you guys used to link people up with the rockstar guys was good. Obviously, its hard to work with it when the matchmaking system for GTA IV isn't that great to begin with, but the system you guys used tonight was ok. I don't think many people knew how to get into some of the modes though, which might have gotten people frustrated. You guys know what you need to do with the matchmaking for the next game.
Get some more friendly Rockstar dudes. Nah, just kidding. They were all cool and friendly. Willing to speak and talk about the game and other stuff.
For webmasters and other dudes that have websites, (from GTA Hood), and assuming you are going to use the stream again, maybe an embed code? I didn't get to see the stream because I was too busy playing, but if it is possible to have two or 3 different screens to look that, that'd be cool.
I know some of the Rockstar guys didn't know if there was going to be another event like this and they were saying that they were going to check out the attention of the session and go from there. I think it was a pretty big success and you guys should definitely keep doing this. People enjoy speaking to you guys and it just makes the experience cooler. (plus I'd imagine you guys would enjoy all of the compliments you guys would get if you do more often.)