GTA:Starter Guide

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Getting Started

Read the rules!

It is highly recommended that you read the rules of the server before playing, this is a serious RP server and our rules are most likely different than what you're used to. We want to see your long-term progression in the community and rule breaks can cut that short! Read the rules!.

Create Your Character

Now that you’ve installed FiveM and have connected to the server, setup your first character! If you haven't got this far yet, take a look at the Installing FiveM Guide first and then come back here.

You can have multiple characters, all with different backstories, jobs and bank accounts. We encourage you to try different things, your minds creativity is the limit!

Initial Interactions

You will initially complete a tutorial in Sandy Shores, where you will find yourself waking up in a trailer home. You're given a car, a key for it and a repair kit at this point to help you get going into the city.

How do you repair the car? Go to the car and press F3 to open your inventory and then double click the repair kit, you will now see a large circle with a number in middle and the goal is to press the number in the middle on your numpad when the small circle is in the highlighted area.

There are locals at most job sites around the city that can give you useful information if you're unsure at what to do. Look for a whiteboard or a person standing about, if you can't then try and flag down another player for assistance. You can call a taxi (using your phone by pressing قالب:Key) or use one of the many Boris Bikes marked on the map. Players are spread across the map doing various activities, a large hub of activity is centered around Legion Square in the city.

Mission Row Police Station is worth making a note of as its where you'll have the best chance of finding a police officer to report a crime or just ask a question. Pillbox Hospital is also worth remembering for when you or a friend require some medical assistance. If plasters are all you need then you can pop into one of the Pharmacies.

It's also worth creating a Tweedle account in the قالب:Key phone so you can interact with other players in-character to ask questions or just chat. You can also ask people for their phone numbers and build up your contacts.

Make Some Money

Loading up a taco truck

You have a couple of options starting off. You can try get yourself a car and do some Food Deliveries, located next to Vespucci Station. Alternatively you can head off to the mineshaft and get mining, quite hard labour but pays well.

If you’re not one for labour-intensive jobs you can buy a mechanic, taxi or commercial delivery license at the City Hall. With one of those licenses in your wallet you can start earning some real money.

Find more jobs at the bottom of the GTA Wiki homepage.

What's Next?

Police responding with lights & siren

So you now know your way around and you’ve made some money. What now? There is a long list of opportunities available to you on San Andreas with some of them being:

• Join the LS Police
• Join the LS NHS
• Join the LS FS
• Join a Gang or Business
• Become a Solicitor or Judge
• Play at the Casino

Setting up Evidence Capture

For the most part, you will have a positive experience playing on the RPUK server. Unfortunately, there are rare occasions where you may have your progress impacted by a game bug or you may become victim to someone breaking the server rules. RPUK staff can consider compensation in the right circumstances for any loss due to a bug or when victim to a rule breaker. To ensure fairness, staff request evidence when submitting these reports so there is a transparent view of the situation. This is best being a video of the incident and, especially with regards to player reports, a few minutes leading up to the incident so context of the overall situation is clearer for staff to review.

It maybe worth becoming familiar with the process when it comes to reporting players or seeking compensation;

• Compensation Request

• Reporting a Player

It should be noted that any compensation request as a result of someone breaking server rules must be completed AFTER the player report has been reviewed and processed by RPUK staff.

Video Capture Solutions

You do not need to record continuously as this would likely fill your hard drive up pretty quickly, however there are solutions to have a 'buffer'; that is a period of time where you are recording but only when you press a hotkey does that clip save, otherwise it is not saved. This allows you to 'clip' incidents that you may require as evidence and can then trim (if required) and upload to a video host (such as YouTube).

Nvidia ShadowPlay

If you have a Nvidia GPU then you may already have the software installed through the GeForce Experience. This captures the video through your graphics card and may have less of a performance impact compared to other solutions. You will need to setup a hotkey and enable "Instant Replay". You will want to go into the settings (Default key to open the window is قالب:Key + قالب:Key) and ensure that the length Instant Replay records is at least 5 minutes.

One point to note also is that you need to enable 'Desktop Capture' within the Privacy Control settings to record FiveM. Be aware that audio from outside of the game will also be recorded as a result and if you minimize the game some

OBS Studio / StreamLabs

Both of these are programs used to manage dynamic scenes for streaming and recording; taking inputs from games, displays, cameras, audio devices etc. Streamlabs OBS being slightly easier to use for the average streamer where as OBS Studio has some more complex features and a busier UI, generally. Both of these have the ability to record as well as stream. This requires a bit of setup to create a 'Scene' with a Game Capture or Display Capture option.

What you will also need to setup Instant Replay or Replay Buffer within the software settings and assign a hotkey so that you can save the recording going back so many minutes. Information on how to set this up is available for OBS Studio and Streamlabs.

Medal

A free desktop recording and clipping studio. Very user friendly with the ability to edit and upload clips directly to medals platform with a unique link and share them immediately. If you do not already use shadow play or have no interest in streaming this is a easy to use less intensive program to be able to clip or record full sessions, depending on your preferences you can change in the settings.

Remember, test that both video and audio (that is the game and your voice) are recording correctly to avoid any frustration when the clip you wanted to record hasn't worked correctly.

Help and Support

Game Issues

Many game issues can usually be fixed by a quick Game Restart, You may face issues from disconnecting without quitting from the game.

Clear Game Cache

If you are still having issues you can try removing FiveM Cache. To do this:

1) Close FiveM

2) Browse to C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\FiveM\FiveM.app

3) Delete the folder called cache

4) Start FiveM & let it update

Alternatively / If that fails Google can be a lot of help or popping a message in Discord #gta-fivem-roleplay to see if a member of the community are able to assist.

Configure Voice Chat

In order to hear people you need to ensure that Voice Chat is set up properly. ESC > Settings > Voice Chat

Make sure 'Voice Chat' and 'Microphone' is Enabled, the Output and Input Device is correct and the Volume's are High enough. (If your game crashes on setting changes, try in SinglePlayer)

Key-binds:

• Press G to Change Voice Range (Displayed in Top Left). (Whisper, Normal, Shouting).
• Press N for Push to Talk (Can be changed in ESC > Settings > Key Bindings > GTA Online)

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