I went back to my favorite farm in Grapeseed (the one I used for stealth and stamina) and beat up cows for a long time. So from each cow you can get 4 punches, and no police! Sounds great. Punch (or kick) a cow and it goes down, and you can hit it three more times until it stops mooing (any punches after that don’t do you any good you’re just beating a dead… cow). And playing a round of tennis or golf takes a loooong time, and though some people have reported seeing great gains in strength, I got only very small bumps from playing a lot of these sports.īut someone online found that punching cows counts just as well as punching a person. Trying to land a lot of punches on a lot of people is very tough, slow work. And like all the other activities that involve hurting pedestrians, after you punch one person the others all run away and usually call the police, and now you’re driving around for a minute or two to lose the police. Beating people up is slow – you need to land 20 punches to get a measly 1% of increase. Strength: A total mess, because they want you to do this by either beating up people or by playing sports. I used the same farm that I used for stealth.
Your character will stop running if he bumps into an obstacle, so pick some clear land and let him run in circles for an hour or two. I used the same rubber-band trick as for stealth, only instead of entering stealth mode, I made sure the rubber band pressed down the A button to make him run. Note that your character can pull out his phone and do a quick save when your head is out of the water. If you can get to the surface before then, stay there for a short while until your health recharges itself, so if you slip again later on it doesn’t necessarily mean death. If you stay down too long your health will drain very fast, and you can die. Just keep a tiny bit of attention on that oxygen bar and your fingers will get into the rhythm, and it becomes a kind of Zen thing.
A good way to go is to mute the TV and put on music, or put the game into picture-in-picture in the corner of your screen while you’re watching something else. Swim fast the to the surface, and your character will gulp some air. An hour or two later I came back and his stealth was at 100%. I entered stealth mode, and put a rubber band around the left thumbstick, pulling it down and to the right, so my character stealth-creeped in the tightest circle he could. So I found a nice open piece of famland in Grapeseed (highlighted in red). The says you can also level up stealth by walking around in stealth mode. Just to get one (or two) stealth attacks! I tried to do this one by the books, I really did, but I play games for fun and this wasn’t any fun to me at all. Second, the cops are often alerted, so then you have to spend a few minutes driving around to lose your wanted level. First, it’s incredibly slow because people run away, so you spend more time chasing down victims than whomping them for points. Stealth: The game advises doing stealth attacks on pedestrians to raise this skill, but that’s ridiculous for several reasons. There are lots of online guides for leveling up, so I’ll focus on the ones that gave me the most trouble. So my goal was to get all my characters up to 100% on all their skills as fast as I could. Then I never have to stop the flow of the game just to go work on those skills. But I like to get “ahead” of games, in the sense that if gathering up skills will help me play, then I want those skills right away. Warming: SPOILERS AHEAD! I’m not giving away anything about the story or the plot – heck, I’m only a short way into it myself. OK, with that out of the way, here are some ways I’ve found to quickly level up each character to 100% in all skills.
It’s an exaggerated world to visit, not a realistic guide for how to live life. I’m fine with that – it’s a fantasy for adults, and I take it the same way I take Scarface, Boardwalk Empire, or even The Sopranos. Sure, it’s a violent and sexist story about some bad people and their criminal activities. I’m playing Grand Theft Auto V right now on my Xbox 360.