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"Stephen!" <NO DeleteThis @spam.com> writes:

> Paul Heslop <paul.heslop DeleteThis @blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in
> news:44003AB5.97CB31A8@blueyonder.co.uk:
>
>> 4. Beat the Cock
>> These are two triathlon races located on Santa Maria Beach and
>> Fisher's Lagoon on weekends only.
>
>
> Thank you...

There are some ad posters for these triathlons in one of the gyms, I
think the SF one. Fairly funny.
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Rob White wrote:
> I'm very tempted to write a proper sequence list of things you can do
> before the opening missions, maybe up to 'Tagging The Turf'.

please do!

bob
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"Stephen!" <NO.DeleteThis@spam.com> writes:

> Strange stuff... I finally found the "Fisher's Lagoon" challenge and
> jet-pack'd over there. Dropped the jet pack, ran into the red circle and
> started the race. Grabbed the jet pack, skipped across the water
> finishing the swim in just about one minute. Jumped on the bike and
> TWENTY SECONDS LATER was being passed by the other racers...
>
> WTF, O??? There's *NO* way they were out of the water yet.

Doesn't that happen in all the races? It's just how the game works. In
the game world, there is this small bubble where your character is in
the middle. Cars, peds, bikes and suchlike exist only inside this
small bubble.

Now, if you're in a race and you leave your opposition so far behind
that they fall out of the bubble what happens is that the game
respawns them inside the bubble. In the triathlons, what you see is
the other triathloners magically teleporting ahead on the course.

In the longer car races you can often see other cars crash or go over
cliffs or something, but then they magically appear on your tail a
while later.
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In message <bElTf.860$n7.622@newsfe3-win.ntli.net>
"M" <spam.TakeThisOut@spamme.com> wrote:

> IRL this event has GOT to be one of the hardest known to man.........

I took part in quite a few pentathlons in middle and high school.
There's nothing to it really (The other two events were high and long
jump).

To the original poster: The "Beat The Cock" triathlon race available
from the Santa Maria Beach is only available after the mission "The
Green Sabre".

After this mission, the San Fierro, the Badlands and the countryside
north of Los Santos are all unlocked. As Paul stated, it's only
available on certain days - saturday and sunday.

On a side note, I'd really like a real-time GTA instalment. I know that
realism isn't exactly what Rockstar are aiming for, but after San
Andreas anything is possible.



Cheers,
Rob
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Rob White wrote:
> To the original poster: The "Beat The Cock" triathlon race available
> from the Santa Maria Beach is only available after the mission "The
> Green Sabre".
>
> After this mission, the San Fierro, the Badlands and the countryside
> north of Los Santos are all unlocked. As Paul stated, it's only
> available on certain days - saturday and sunday.

Strange. For me (PS2 'Greatest Hits' edition), all of Red County (the 4
towns, the Panopticon, Fern Ridge, Hilltop Farm, etc.) was unlocked from the
beginning of the game, except for the safe houses... [*I* define 'unlocked',
anyways, in GTA:SA terms as "you don't get a big-ass wanted level going
there"]

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In message <Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.1060320065629.17101B-100000.DeleteThis@halifax.chebucto.ns.ca>
Joseph William Dixon <aa343.DeleteThis@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:

> Strange. For me (PS2 'Greatest Hits' edition), all of Red County (the 4
> towns, the Panopticon, Fern Ridge, Hilltop Farm, etc.) was unlocked from the
> beginning of the game, except for the safe houses... [*I* define 'unlocked',
> anyways, in GTA:SA terms as "you don't get a big-ass wanted level going
> there"]

Sorry, I should have mentioned that. You can "legally" go there and not
acquire a wanted level, but you can't do any safehouse buying (The next
spread of missions covers a fair bit of ground for the countryside.
Catalinas, for example, take you all the way to Palomino Creek I
think).

Btw, does anybody else think it's strange that Helena doesn't spawn
until you unlock the country? Michelle, Barbara and Katie all spawn,
even though you can't date them properly. Helena's house is somewhere
you can't go, just like all the others. Weird.


Cheers,
Rob
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