To quote Jean-Paul Satre, "Hell is other people", and nowhere is this more true than in the murky cut-throat world of GTA V Online. From the players you'll pass in the street, right the way up to the crew you'll perform your big jobs with, you'll constantly find yourself cursing out people you don't even know. Completing the heists requires co-ordination and a degree of teamwork, and having some teenager on the other side of the world go charging into a heavily defended industrial complex while three more sensible players attempt to sneak around the back is going to bring up a mission failed screen pretty quickly. If you're fortunate enough to have a group of dependable real-life chums who'll be willing to don ski-masks for you and point guns in the faces of the elderly, then great. If not, you're best bet is to go out into the game and try and make some. Take up as many random missions as you can, and if you happen upon some folk who seem both skilled and dependable then take steps to ingratiate yourself towards them. Send them a text message through your in-game phone, as to join their crew or add them as a friend, just make sure you can find them again when you need them. If nothing else, this sort of thing will stop you working for a heist leader who sees fit to take a huge chunk of the cut. Leaving you and the rest of the team with a few scant dollars to show for your work.
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