Recent reviews by The Chicagoan

Seems like a pretty solid game, I played the game when it came out on Xbox One. Hated how it was caped at 30, but now I can get a buttery smooth 60 on my PC and I faced only a couple issues when I first got the game. But recently, I haven't had any issues. No crashes, no stutters, no FPS drops. Game runs pretty well..

I've been playing this series ever since it originally was called "18 wheels of steel" back over a decade ago. I find it to be a great game with a lot more detail then the previous series. Just wish there were more states by now, and it sucks because those states are expensive as hell.

I really do like this game, but it's sad I HAVE to give this game a negative review.

Now the main reason why this is all negative is because of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ optimization. It's complete crap! It's worse then GTA IV for crying out loud!

I was in a match just a second ago, and I had 5 kills I was on a role. There was 20 people left, I was in cover waiting for someone. Then boom. The game freezes and crashes. My specs aren't even bad, I have an i3 4160 3.60 GHz, 16 GB DDR3 RAM 2000 MHz, and a GTX 1050... like seriously? It crashed... And I can bet you I didn't get any credit for that match at all, like it didn't even happen. That was actually my best match ever until it crashed...

Another thing I forgot to mention, the loading times are now horrid as hell, it usually hasn't taken me that long to get into any matches, but it took so long one time, I spawned in when there was only 60 people left... Yes I said 60, when it started at 100 players. My internet isn't even bad, I don't suffer from ping lag or teleporting in the game at all.

So I'll go over some pros and cons.

Pros:
- Great Graphics
- Pretty entertaining as a battle royale typed game


Cons:
- Horrible optimization
- Servers USUALLY aren't always working...
- Textures take for ever to load in
- Good amount of hackers


If anything I don't recommend getting this game at full price, only because of the reasons I've listed. It isn't worth 30 dollars unless they fix the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ optimization... That's my big issue that I honestly can't stand. I can run all new games in 2018 usually at 60 FPS maxed out, and it runs better then this game. smh

This is a very fun and entertaining game. But here are my pros and cons.


Pros:
- You will meet friendly players online.
- Very fun and addicting game.
- You will make more friends.



Cons:
- There are a lot of hackers.
- People can be very rude in comp.
- You will get rudly yelled at by others in comp if you do bad.
- You will get vote kicked if you do bad, sadly.

I've been playing GTA 5 since 2013 of december. I started playing Online in 2014, on xbox 360. Eventually I made my way to Xbox One. Then PC back in July of 2016. I took a lot of time, tons of money to get as far as I wanted too. Playing hours on end. I currently have 1,039.6 hours as of this post was typed. I was banned in June, of 2017 for an unknown reason. I'll explain everything that happened. Just to show how stupid rockstars ban system is.

I was playing with my friend, doing bunker missions in a invite only session. We were doing these missions for hours to gain money because I was saving up for something. I turned off my computer at around 2 A.M because that's usually when I went to bed. I woke up the next day, opened up GTA 5 and it tells me I'm banned for 1 month. For what exactly? To this day I don't know. And to be frank I don't think I'll ever know. I got unbanned in July of 2017.

In July of 2017, I was an idiot. A complete udder idiot. I didn't understand exactly how the ban system worked, and I went ahead and used a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mod menu, in a solo session, and only once I opened it up in a session with people and helped this noob out who was getting killed by other high ranks and I gave him weapons. I made a second account, on the same social club account that I modded on. I thought MY main account was safe. But because I was an idiot. I didn't know that I had to make a second social club account and then rebuy the game to mod without being banned on my main account.

A few hours later. I was banned. Perm banned. It's currently July of 2018. I've been banned for One year. And I'm so regretful for doing that. I had exactly 931 hours of the time of me being banned. I currently have 1039.6 hours as of me typing this. If I didn't get banned for no reason by rockstar in the first place. I know I would of learned and never did that again. I was a rank 133 at the time of my ban. I had so many cars, houses, bunkers, CEO offices, planes, choppers, and a Yacht, and so many damn weapons I was so overpowered. And it's all gone. All my time spent, wasted for what...?

Because I Modded.

This game is the best car crash simulator ever made.