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[quote name='seanr1221']Mayhem activities can get REALLY annoying :bomb:[/quote]

Mayhem is the easiest activity in the game outside of the Demo Derby.

Find some fences.
 
[quote name='Trakan']Find some fences.[/quote]

That's the key.

In chinatown, use the food/firework stands.. good stuff. And the gong!

I finished up the hitman, demolition derby, mayhem and helicopter missions today.. fun stuff. I love this game.
 
[quote name='n00bie']
Make sure you're far away enough from the truck; ie out of the ring. Then the detonator should appear in your inventory. I made the same mistake at first, thought it was a bug, too.
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Thank you. I guess I never got far enough outside of it. Well, at least I should have enough respect points to complete the missions for the rest of the game without having to do anymore activities.

It just that I have been having weird things happen all through out the game like it has froze on me like five times since Thursday. So, I have plenty of respect points Level 39 now because I just started to go around and buy up all the cribs and own all the liquor stores, food, and shops that are available to me at the moment. Also, I completed Fight Club and Fuzz since there are only two sets of these activities in the game.

For those that are worried about how much money you can have in your safe I have had up to $156,000 in it at one time. So, you don't actually have to go get money if you don't won't to.
 
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[quote name='seanr1221']Mayhem activities can get REALLY annoying :bomb:[/QUOTE]
Find spots within the area that have fences.

Shoot for the fences!
 
Oh it wasn't the points that was getting me angry, it was all the bullshit ways I kept dying ;)

A cop opened her door and knocked me off a cliff...a cop drove into a gas station behind me and blew me up...I turned to shoot my RPG and there was a homie right behind me and we both died...shit like that.

Luckily I flew threw level 5 and 6 on my first try then.
 
The only activity that has infuriated me, thus far, is Insurance Fraud.
 
Do the insurance fraud stuff by yourself as it is much harder in co-op and try to find a hot spot that is on a freeway so you can keep hitting the same semi truck in adrenaline mode. My best combo is $110,000 using that method. Also search on Youtube as there is a car surfing method where you block all the traffic and just slide around the cars.
 
[quote name='Brak']The only activity that has infuriated me, thus far, is Insurance Fraud.[/quote]Wait until you try the Tow Truck diversion (that is, if you go for the diversion achievement).
 
I hate insurance fraud. I suck at it so badly.

But I do love the Fuzz Diversion!

Edit: OK WTF? I Think either A: Im an idiot or B: This is a STUPID Glitch

I Finished the Ronin and Samedei Missions. Now I just went to do the brotherhood Missions. I finished the first mission. NOW there are no strongholds OR Missions on my map any where. What is the deal? And I have 29 Respect. Anybody else?

Edit Edit: Had to reload my game just to have the mission pop up. On a side not, has anybody hooked up the new Camaro in the game? IF so What the hell is with the spikes coming out of the wheels?
 
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I've only finished off the Fight Club and Celebrity Security activities. It was retarded amounts of fun throwing angry fans off of a hotel balcony. It is really too easy to earn respect in this game if you ask me. If you complete one set of challenges you could go through an entire storyline without stopping. I'm already something around x34 respect, so I could technically finish out the entire story mode without touching another challenge.
 
[quote name='Vulcan2422']I hate insurance fraud. I suck at it so badly.

But I do love the Fuzz Diversion!

Edit: OK WTF? I Think either A: Im an idiot or B: This is a STUPID Glitch

I Finished the Ronin and Samedei Missions. Now I just went to do the brotherhood Missions. I finished the first mission. NOW there are no strongholds OR Missions on my map any where. What is the deal? And I have 29 Respect. Anybody else?

Edit Edit: Had to reload my game just to have the mission pop up. On a side not, has anybody hooked up the new Camaro in the game? IF so What the hell is with the spikes coming out of the wheels?[/QUOTE]

You can do the "Spikes" with almost any car. In a car customization shop buy the option " Knee Cappers".
 
[quote name='pimpinc333']You can do the "Spikes" with almost any car. In a car customization shop buy the option " Knee Cappers".[/quote]


AHH! Thanks! I didn't like them at all on the Camaro in the game. Which i must admit, is probably the only car i use lol
 
I had a HOLY SHIT moment the other day when i was doing the activity where you blow shit up. I was blowing cars up and i hit the am train and it fell off the track and almost on my head. I was like DAAAAAMN!!!!

So i beat the game, and it was an okay game. The story is nothing compared to GTA IV. But it did have its moments. Brotherhood is the best story i would say. Then probably the Ronin.
 
co-op achievements are bugged (but not unobtainable). some missions dont register when you replay them in co-op mode. infuriating, i dont want to start all over just for them.
 
I think I found a glitch.

I saved an outfit (a suit/tie combo) with custom hair. I switched to another outfit. When I switched back to the suit/tie combo suit, the haircut was shaved and remained that way. When I went back to customization and tried to choose a hat then hit B to cancel, the custom hair would pop back up.

Weird.
 
[quote name='Scorch']I think I found a glitch.

I saved an outfit (a suit/tie combo) with custom hair. I switched to another outfit. When I switched back to the suit/tie combo suit, the haircut was shaved and remained that way. When I went back to customization and tried to choose a hat then hit B to cancel, the custom hair would pop back up.

Weird.[/quote]

My guy wears a hat, and sometimes when i try on clothes, even shirts, i will end up leaving the shop with no hat on, even if i didnt try any on.
 
[quote name='Scorch']I think I found a glitch.

I saved an outfit (a suit/tie combo) with custom hair. I switched to another outfit. When I switched back to the suit/tie combo suit, the haircut was shaved and remained that way. When I went back to customization and tried to choose a hat then hit B to cancel, the custom hair would pop back up.

Weird.[/QUOTE]

Yea that happens with me when I try on Hats. I put the hat on and dislike it so I go back to none and my guy will be weirdly bald like a monk until I hit B and cancel out and leave the store.
 
Played Saints Row 2 a bit this weekend. I'm enjoying it so far, the challange where you spray crap on things from the septic trunk was good times.

I find this a lot more fun to play then GTA4, doesn't look quite as good, but I tihnk I prefer it overall.
 
[quote name='Trakan']Mayhem is the easiest activity in the game outside of the Demo Derby.

Find some fences.[/quote]


Fight Club is the easiest, IMHO. I managed to clear it in about 20-30 minutes, dying only once.

BTW - I'm back. (On a limited basis)
 
I thought Fuzz was the easiest so far outside of Demo Derby. The Paramedic diversion is also easy and funny
you get shock paddles, and if you kill someone you can bring them back to life with the paddles.

I wish I didn't do some of the diversions so quickly since you get some powerful rewards that make the missions even easier.
 
I'm enjoying the game; like others have said, it's not as polished as GTA but there's much more customization in the game. I busted out laughing when I saw some pimp talking to his ho and then started smacking her around. I grabbed him, threw him into a wall, then when he got up I grabbed him again and executed him ... nobody slaps women on my watch unless it's me.
 
[quote name='CrimsonPaw']I'm enjoying the game; like others have said, it's not as polished as GTA but there's much more customization in the game. I busted out laughing when I saw some pimp talking to his ho and then started smacking her around. I grabbed him, threw him into a wall, then when he got up I grabbed him again and executed him ... nobody slaps women on my watch unless it's me.[/quote]

Have you had a pedestrian whip out their camera phone and take a pic while you're beating the hell out of someone? Good stuff there.

I'm really enjoying this game much more than GTA4.
 
[quote name='sp00ge']Have you had a pedestrian whip out their camera phone and take a pic while you're beating the hell out of someone? Good stuff there.

I'm really enjoying this game much more than GTA4.[/QUOTE]

I had one do that while I was streaking :) Someone watching me play kept telling me someone was shooting at me because they thought the cell phone flash was muzzle flash.
 
Co-op seems really broken as far as getting achievements. I played through all the Ronin missions last night with a friend with about an hour break in there when we each logged off and even though we both got the single player achievement for passing the Ronin stuff when we look at the newspaper clippings in the crib I am missing some co-op check marks for 2 missions and he is missing them for a few different missions then the one I do not have checked. When we tried to replay the missions from the newspaper clip no matter if I am hosting or if he is hosting, I still do not get the co-op check to appear for my 2 missing missions and he was not able to get his to get checked off either.

It gets really annoying playing a mission over and over again 4 or more times in every conceivable way to try to get the co-op check mark and still not get it. If you look at the official Saints Row forum, you will see that this seems to be a common issue and no one has found a solution yet.
 
I love that one of the secret achievements is to throw someone a far distance which you can easily get during Crowd Control.

I'm wondering once you own all the stores and shops & buy up all the items what will be the purpose of keeping money?
 
[quote name='cdeener']I love that one of the secret achievements is to throw someone a far distance which you can easily get during Crowd Control.

I'm wondering once you own all the stores and shops & buy up all the items what will be the purpose of keeping money?[/quote]

Customizing cars, buying everything in the clothing stores(that wouldnt take long).... i dunno really.

My favorite ride is my pimped out 4 wheeler that i got from the mall security. I got some spinners on that with hydrolics. LOL. I love it i drive it everywhere.
 
Hey, what is the number you call to get the zombie carlos homie??? I think the place is called eye for an eye, I found it on gamefaqs but it didn't list a #
 
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i've played this game more in the past few days more than i played gta iv in a month's period. this game is just so damn fun and it doesn't take itself so serious like gta iv does.
 
I just got done playing for 4-5 hours in co-op and its really fun. But sometimes the screen goes black and i had to reset my system, or quit and rejoin.

One thing i saw that was weird is i got a different cut scene during an important mission. It was the part where
you go to the funeral and that japanese guys son shows up, you end up chasing him on a bike. I forget how it went when i played. But tonight in the co-op they showed him leave on his bike, like normal. But the screen went black and then all of a sudden there was a video of gat and the main character burring him alive. I really dont remember that at all.
 
[quote name='Owen']Co-op seems really broken as far as getting achievements. I played through all the Ronin missions last night with a friend with about an hour break in there when we each logged off and even though we both got the single player achievement for passing the Ronin stuff when we look at the newspaper clippings in the crib I am missing some co-op check marks for 2 missions and he is missing them for a few different missions then the one I do not have checked. When we tried to replay the missions from the newspaper clip no matter if I am hosting or if he is hosting, I still do not get the co-op check to appear for my 2 missing missions and he was not able to get his to get checked off either.

It gets really annoying playing a mission over and over again 4 or more times in every conceivable way to try to get the co-op check mark and still not get it. If you look at the official Saints Row forum, you will see that this seems to be a common issue and no one has found a solution yet.[/quote]

Yep, a friend and I did some Co-op and that happened to me. We both did the Samedi missions and both got the co-op achievements (neither of us had done those at that point...but I had already done Ronin and Brotherhood on SP), but when we went to get him the Ronin missions, it gave him the co-op achievement but not on mine. Oh well, still fun, but I hate when companies ship glitchy-as-hell games like this out. Seems I can't go more than fifteen minutes without raising an eyebrow at something screwing up.
 
[quote name='whiptcracker']yukafls - you should probably put that question under a spoiler and
555-5966
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my bad, and thanks for the #. It has an awesome answering message
 
I love this game so far (6 hours in), but I have 2 major complaints:

1) The hideout, at least the underground one, is very confusing, and you can't set waypoints to get yourself out. It takes me 5, sometimes 10 minutes if I'm deep in, to find my way out. Very frustrating.

2) I mentioned this before, but the game looks to be really, really short. I'm pretty sure that if I hadn't been out of town Friday-Sunday and unable to play more than 30 minutes each on Monday and last Thursday, I'd have the game beaten 100%.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']I just got done playing for 4-5 hours in co-op and its really fun. But sometimes the screen goes black and i had to reset my system, or quit and rejoin.

One thing i saw that was weird is i got a different cut scene during an important mission. It was the part where
you go to the funeral and that japanese guys son shows up, you end up chasing him on a bike. I forget how it went when i played. But tonight in the co-op they showed him leave on his bike, like normal. But the screen went black and then all of a sudden there was a video of gat and the main character burring him alive. I really dont remember that at all.
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I haven't done co-op, but that is how the mission goes normally.
You chase him on the bike, take down his health bar, and then the cut scene plays where he gets buried alive.
 
[quote name='Matt Young']I love this game so far (6 hours in), but I have 2 major complaints:

1) The hideout, at least the underground one, is very confusing, and you can't set waypoints to get yourself out. It takes me 5, sometimes 10 minutes if I'm deep in, to find my way out. Very frustrating.

2) I mentioned this before, but the game looks to be really, really short. I'm pretty sure that if I hadn't been out of town Friday-Sunday and unable to play more than 30 minutes each on Monday and last Thursday, I'd have the game beaten 100%.[/quote]


Its actually a good length...if you don't do the activities first then its short. I remember the last one had secret guns if you do the activities, so I did those and it helped. The hideout gets better. Later down the line you will get an elevator that you can take down, as for the inside, it is confusing
 
So far I've completed the Brotherhood storyline and three sets of activities and I'm 38% complete. I have something like 17 hours playtime, granted I have spent a good amount of time in the various clothing stores and just changing my character in general, along with the obvious sandbox dicking around. So I'd say at my current pace it would take me around 60 hours to 100% complete it.

I managed to 100% complete the first Saint's Row, and I can definitely see myself doing this one up too.
 
I'm 89% with 35 hours. I have done all the activities and missions. I don't see myself getting 100%. Finding all the tags, cd's, and jumps will be a pain just like it was in SR1.
 
[quote name='Matt Young']I haven't done co-op, but that is how the mission goes normally.
You chase him on the bike, take down his health bar, and then the cut scene plays where he gets buried alive.
[/quote]

Really? Maybe i just forgot. I just dont remember that part of the story. Seems like a part i wouldnt forget either.


I hate insurance fraud. In both of the activities im on level 6. But its annoying when you are standing around and no cars are coming for you to get hit. Or when you press LT+RT to fall in front only for it not to count and you get hit and bounce around scoring no money. Im also in the last level of Hemi-Assault on the top island and i cant beat that. Too many cars and helicopters at the same time. Plus the tall buildings dont help. Last but not least, im having trouble with Crowd Control. In the levels 5 and 6 there are just too many people to throw.
 
I suppose I will share my tricks.

I hate insurance fraud. In both of the activities im on level 6. But its annoying when you are standing around and no cars are coming for you to get hit. Or when you press LT+RT to fall in front only for it not to count and you get hit and bounce around scoring no money.
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As a car approaches you, jump and hit the LT+RT right when you predict the car will clip your knees. This will send you up high. Play ping pong between the cars. If you manage to hit five or six, it usually gets $80,000+. I hit the $600,000 mark in two minutes doing this technique.

Last but not least, im having trouble with Crowd Control. In the levels 5 and 6 there are just too many people to throw.
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Use the baseball bat and just keep swingin'. That's it. No need to throw. Granted, you only get $250 for each person you hit, but if you hit them fast enough, you should finish with more than required and just a smidge of time to spare.
 
[quote name='Matt Young']I haven't done co-op, but that is how the mission goes normally.
You chase him on the bike, take down his health bar, and then the cut scene plays where he gets buried alive.
[/quote]

Remember that time you were having this lame podcast with some other kid, but then you guys got in a fight and broke up? It was awesome!
 
[quote name='lilboo']Don't have this yet. Does this game have local co-op also, or just live? Sorry for being out of the loop & retarded! :whee:[/QUOTE]

No local. Just system link and online co op.
 
this sounds cool. i got SR1 a while ago from CC for $10 new and am currently enjoying it. this may be worth picking up a bit later. i did have my fun with GTIV, but it has been boring. I enjoyed gta san andreas and don't like rockstar taking themselves seriously.
 
[quote name='The 7th Number']Last but not least, im having trouble with Crowd Control. In the levels 5 and 6 there are just too many people to throw.[/QUOTE]

Like Scorch said, just grab the first bat someone drops and start hitting people. I only did the throws for extra money in the early levels when it was just one or two at a time. Also, I loved the ones on the top of the hotel because you could throw people off the roof. This lead to my new favorite pastime, which is sticking a satchel charge to people, throwing them into traffic and detonating.
 
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