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You can use them to shoot NPCs. They will call the cops, then go into a hiding spot.

The drawback of course is that you don't get the xp for conversation, and you'll skip out on the items they sometimes give you. But if you don't like using the guns on Michael, and you want a quick shortcut to have the NPCs do useful stuff, its an alternative.

Recently I came back from a three year hiatus to play during the free trial period. My goal was to play through the whole storyline, since the first time around I rushed through much of it. Unsurprisingly, I did not finish during the free period but did make it past Treasures. Still have the mini-expansions, Wings, Seekers, Rhapsodies, Voracious, and any mini-storylines like Voidwatch left to do during the next free trial.

The game is still fun, altho some of the missions (particularly CoP ones) can be a bit repetitive. I would love to come back full-time, but all the end-game content added in three years is a bit too daunting for my casual self. Particularly the stuff that requires a

FYI Valve/Steam is finally coming out with a new handheld device. The Steam Deck. It should also be able to unofficially emulate Switch games as well

https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-deck-price-release-date-specs/

I realize there are already handheld PCs, but none probably as mainstream as this will be.

Of course it will be connectable to your TV/monitor, and they have plans for a dock as well.

$399 for the 64GB version

$529 for the 256GB version

$649 for the 512GB version 

specs:

CPU: AMD Zen 2 4c/8t, 2.4-3.5GHz (up to 448 GFlops FP32)

GPU: 8 RDNA 2 CUs, 1.0-1.6GHz (up to 1.6 TFlops FP32)

RAM: 16 GB DDR5
Storage: 64GB, 256GB, 512GB versions; expand

(don't know if this applies to other consoles/PC, as I haven't played them since the end of servers)

More often than not I'll join a lobby with only one or two players in it. It's frustrating. This is due to an issue with matchmaking since Gun took dedicated servers down. What ends up happening is a ton of DOA lobbies. So, unless you have a reason to host and you just want to join a match, do this:

When you search for a match, if the search reads "Search cooldown", immediately cancel the search and start again. Keep doing this, cancelling any "search cooldown", until you join a lobby with multiple people in it.

"Search cooldown" will place you as the host.

Also, it seems the gam