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@Dnutz90 @R* fix your game sometime soon? Seriously, I can't imagine in my wildest dreams how MP3 multiplayer passed QAA. The game was c;early released unfinished and broken. I presume these days developers hurry products out, see how popular they are, then spend money on polishing them.
Max Payne 3's problems I've experienced include:
- Broken matchmaking
- Sync problems (being kicked at round 5 of Gang Wars; nice.)
- Connection hang
- Spawn hang
- Hard locking console
- Broken grenades
- Broken melee
- Wildly unbalanced connections making the difference in weapon powers void.
The MP is absolutely in pieces. It's not even fit for purpose unless players hack it for an unfair advantage. I expect a few glitches with R* games but this is an absolutely disgusting job, R*; you really should be ashamed of this one. I've finished with R* games after this experience and waste of time & money.

@R* Y Ok, thanks for your reply :)

@darksvampire Aww it happened to me too.

@DeafAtheist I hear yah! I'm at 44. You'll find there's some stiff competition to rob the dead!

@ChicagoEnigma Indeed there is. 46 is as high as I could get... played all day yesterday. Between constantly getting killed trying to loot and too many other players also looting I can't get any higher.

@DeafAtheist I hit 66 loots finally after some trial and error. You have to hustle.. but you can do it. :)

@THEBLACKTIGER007 That would seem like a fine example of a crew large enough to plan a match of killing everyone but the looter!

@ChicagoEnigma Even if that's what they're doing 280 loots in a 10 minute match is just not likely. That's 28 loots a minute. That's approximately 1 loot every 2 seconds throughout the entire match. Just not possible even with fast fingers. Every body you loot would have to be in the exact same spot. You'd have no time to move to another body elsewhere on the map. I call BS here.

@DeafAtheist That's what I thought too. I originally thought that if you organized a large Deathmatch, and had victims running to you for the slaughter, or a team mate standing by to kill them for you... I can see large loot counts with light fingers from something like that... It would have to be organized really well and on a small map. But it does really defy the odds. Especially 280. I could see over a 100.. But yeah, your right. 280 seems really impossible.

I did manage to get 44 loots in aprox 7 minutes. That was tough as hell. I had to avoid death and eat Payne pills like candy all while on the run! I'm still trying for 50, but there's so much competition going on. I end up running across so many empty corpses.. X_x

@DeafAtheist Thresholds can't be boosted in a private match. I got 7 legit melee kills earlier while playing with friends and I didn't get anything for my troubles (I should've got a bronze and 1000 XP). Shame I had to lose out on the XP but it's a lesson learned I guess :/

@Mack_The_Don Yup, private matches are just that.. Private. No publicly obtained XP or achievements in them. It makes sense thou. It prevents cheaters from going for grinds and achievements by having longer timed matches and set goals without public interference. But you still can't stop a large crew from organizing publicly to be deviants. It's a shame the lengths that some players will go to obtain something virtual..

Notably some crews seem to be doing that.. They have seemingly strange abilities to use grenades in large doses, (SPAMMED) and know where you are on a large map without having a vendetta against you. Then there's the whole shooting rubber bullets at some players in every match for months. But they can shoot and kill you in a as many as 3 shots. Where as completely different players take the same bullets from you and die without issue. The funny thing is, there's usually no armor on these players that have magical bullet deflection powers. I find that even unloading a clip into them is futile. They take damage, but usually less than half that would kill an ordinary every day player. By that point they notice me and shoot and kill me with no effort. ?. It seems a bit foul to me!

It would be nice if you could have a separate pool of private XP. Then at least you could play against your friends in private with personal/private leaderboards. This way the public pool would be untainted.

-Rant end!

@ChicagoEnigma Dude i agree with you , since the tresholds release ive been shooting rubber bullets , some enemies dont even wear a vest and they are die harders !! Full clip doesnt seem to kill them at all , im getting lame scores like 23-35 because ppl is not dying at all , some of them dont even have the life bar sometimes , some just lay down , u turn around as if u think u killed them , and baam ... ur dead , hes still alive there and killed you , whats up with that ????? The teletransport issue seems to be gone , also the falling thru map issue , but the game is freezing more than usual now , and to many ppl getting kicked from the games , last night we had the entire enemy team getting kicked , so sad !!!!!!

Please rockstar give some attention to the multiplayer !! Stop nerfing guns , fix the game itself ...

@OldstyleHxC What NAT level are you? Open is best! If you have more than one firewall in place, that can cause sync issues. I have a suspicion your errors are either from your NAT, or a group of people with NAT higher than yours. But you know the best way you can try to help with this is to make a constructive note and open a support ticket to Rockstar about your issues. It helps us all when they can see common issues. :)

@DeafAtheist yeah boosting is a no-go really. the HARD-KNUCKLED title is the only one I got so far. if you go for it, Branco Headquarters is the map you wanna play on. the looting threshold should be relatively easy to get i think. especially now that i have the "light fingers" item. not sure about the point capturing though. i need to level up some more so i can purchase the multi-tool and spray can again. gang wars without those items feels sluggish. with the can you can get the points much faster. damn, i need to lvl up

@noclue_42 I feel for ya. I'm ranked at 40-something right now so I've got everything I need, but I'm afraid to pass into Legend again after hitting 50 for that exact reason. Even if I complete all of these Payne Thresholds by the time I hit 50, what if next week's brings something that I'll need a higher rank for?

@R* K Why they are no avatars of Rockstar Games in Hong Kong,why ROCKSAR?

@DeafAtheist it's a gamble i guess (:

i think a week ago i traded all my stuff, again, and became legend lvl 2, trustworthy. and now i'm at rank 18, close to 19, almost 20. so yeah, if you're unfortunate the next week's set of thresholds is easier to achieve with lvl 20+ or lv 40+ equipment. but also, a challenge is always welcome.

that "struggle" (again) in the beginning is what makes it fun. but you got that badge so you rack up more money to buy guns. i finished almost all weapon grinds for singlehanded guns/pistols. ranking up some different guns, finishing weapon, burst and action grinds that have been rarely touched, it's rly fun to do i think. this time i chose the 38. revolver. just using one of it, having a light loadout. it's rly awesome. i have unlimited stamina, and with 2 shots i can kill. i have 6 shots in the chamber so i can take out 3 before reloading. though reloading takes a while without the gun holster, so i mostly just melee when i'm out of bullets. i am rly fast with only one pistol ;D

going legend again and again is worth it imo. you can re-invent your whole style of playing

@noclue_42 Oh I agree. I have no problem with leveling up and restarting. I wish it went up higher than 5 Legends but I wish ranking up had more of an advantage like in Red Dead Redemption each Legend earned you a better mount. The Max Payne heads isn't really much of an incentive really... too many people use them and it looks like a bunch of Max clones playing. I'm 3rd Legend Rank 45 right now I think.

@B_E_N_1992 *level

@DutchStoner Why don't you make some best of videos of your crew , mixed with some heavy dub or sweet sweet reggae ? I will pay to see some Max Payne footage with this kind of music .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHKdJMYtqaY

Please Rockstar Please , make a video editor ! At least for Pc ...the animations in this game is sooo good imagine how it will be with cinematic 's camera angles , some fx and without HUD .

@BadrAli_7866 Thanks Rockstar for the payne thresholds!

@R* Y thx rockstar btw sorry for being off topic.