Grand Theft Auto V: 100% complete, with a QuadStick

[Fred Davison - QuadStick]

Matt Victor, who has been advising me about the QuadStick for over a year, called me the other day and said "I did it!", and I knew was "it" was:  He had finished GTA V at 100% complete.  He had been working on it, between playing Destiny and Madden 25 and several other games, for weeks.

In order to appreciate what an achievement this is, just consider that less than one-third of all players of GTA V have done this and he did it with a QuadStick.

I took this screen shot, with his PSN ID, as proof:

[Brad Remington]

Congratulations Matt! Excellent job mate, i tip my hat to you sir. Very inspirational and really really impressive. 

[Jeff Paradee]

I was looking through this forum (trying to see how I could make my aiming better )and looked at this post, so I'm curious. Matt doesn't look like he has much neck movement, what was his joystick settings and was this the same game file you can find in the QMP? GTA5 definitely looks daunting, Watchdogs is similar in a way and has been a toughie as well. This gives me inspiration and motivation to keep playing and hopefully get better at aiming!      

[Fred Davison]

You are right, Matt has no neck movement.  His settings are actually the "default" settings the quadstick is shipped with.

It was not easy and I think it took a couple of months to get to 100%.   He did it during the development of the quadstick and I would watch him playing over skype and when he'd run into a problem, we'd figure out what needed to be added to the quadstick next in order to get past some show stopper.

For the flying school, for instance, we used voice commands to program the sequence and timing of two of the maneuvers:

    knife edge right = CommandFcn(  "left_joy_down,1,100,500" ) Wait(500) CommandFcn(  "left_joy_right,1,100,700" ) Wait(1000) CommandFcn( "left_1,1,100,5000" );
    knife edge left= CommandFcn(  "left_joy_down,1,100,500" ) Wait(500) CommandFcn( "left_joy_left,1,100,700" ) Wait(1000) CommandFcn( "right_1,1,100,5000" );

We'd experiment with different time delay values until we got to the point that he'd fly to the beginning of the test, then say the command and the plane would fly the knife edge for a couple of seconds.  The rest of the flying stuff he did himself.  Pure tenacity and endless patience.

Later on, I added voice commands for all the cheat codes for somebody else who just wanted to have fun goofing around in game.

Some things have changed in the firmware since that config was done.  Now you can put mode specific preferences in for the driving or flying modes that are different than overall settings.  Back then he picked overall values for joystick sensitivity that were a compromise between driving and normal stuff.  Now, I would tune each mode's joystick sensitivity separately.

[Jeff Paradee]

It's quite the achievement, 100% completion. I've only been using the QS for a few months, so I'm still getting there. But, thank you for the suggestions. Tuning each mode is definitely the way to go.   

[Mark Lewis]

Congratulations Matt! Starting something and finishing it a great achievement no matter the realm. Equally important is to have fun doing it.