Damn, I've been trying to get everything but there is some stuff I'm really behind on like taunting gang members, car surfing, tanks destroyed, etc. I don't even know how to get the "stoppie" where you stop a motorcycle on the front tire only, like the opposite of a wheelie.
I finally got the woodpecker (airplane) to the chop shop this morning, that was a real pain in the ass. I would either dive into the ocean or break up on the docs. I finally just did a dive straight down to the blue marker and that worked.
Also, I find the hard activities to be frustrating so I bought a neighborhood with the "City Takeover" ability to get the central island (where Saints HQ is) but it appears you can only use it once so it looks like I'm screwed if I want to take over 100% of the city.
Anyway, here are a few new screenshots. The first is me with leading my army of Professor Genkis, the second if Throbble showing off her mad hand-to-hand combat skills, and the last one, well, sort of speaks for itself.
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I have some advice about some of those. If you still have STAG in your game, make sure you do ALL of the chop shop missions BEFORE completing the game entirely, otherwise, you will most likely have to join someone elses game to obtain a stag vehicle. Also, CAR TORPEDO is bugged, and I believe GANG TAUNTING is also.
CAR TORPEDO: To get your CAR TORPEDO challenge, you are supposed to jump out of a vehicle at high speed and hit pedestrians and other vehicles causing massive damage. Doing this will show the little car torpedo thing on the left and show the respect earned from it and it otherwise seems to function correctly. However, when you look in your saints book your total damage under the car torpedo challenge will have gone up very little if at all when it should have gone up much more. For some reason certain places seem to help to achieve it. I took a vehicle to the airport and drove it at a building and jumped out just before hitting the building. This caused there to be no car torpedo thing on the right, which makes sense, however, under the car torpedo challenge in the saints book the damage actually went up quite a bit. It's weird and doesn't function right, but at least it's possible to obtain. I figured this out because I thought it would be a good idea to hit a plane, well, when I missed I was surprised, lol. Using a bigger vehicle that's modded, like a titan, or a peterliner is best, as you can do more damage to it before needing to retrieve another one. Once you have a good vehicle, just go to the airport drive at the wall of a building, and jump out just before hitting it. Your car torpedo challenge should increase each time.
GANG TAUNTING: Now this one *IS* a pain in the ass. First of all, make sure you DO NOT take over the entire city BEFORE doing this challenge first, it is possible still if you do, but even more difficult as the gangs are far more scarce. You can't just run out and taunt a gang member and keep taunting other gang members. You *have* to do it with 0 notoriety, and it *has* to be a new gang member every time, and if you don't get close enough and don't see the little ring to the right that says gang taunting or whatever, then you didn't get it, whether it pissed them off or not. The first thing you want to do is to go to a gang territory and find a gang member, preferably two or three of them walking together as it is possible for you to taunt more than one at once which saves you a lot of trouble, then beat the shit out of them. Don't use guns. For some reason beating them increases your notoriety with them more than shooting them does.... huh. It should net you about three stars for one gang member and when more show up blow them up or kill them in some way or another until you get about 4 stars and then just lure them to your building of choice. The best thing to do is to go to a place you own, such as a Image as Designed, Friendly Fire, or Rim Jobs. I will recommend
not using Image as Designed simply because you have an extra doorway to run through, but it still works if you use it regardless. When you get there try to blow up some of their vehicles so that they can't run away as easily. Run into your building to lose your notoriety and then run back out and taunt a gang member. Make sure you kill him after you do because you need more of the gang to show up and you can't taunt the same gang member twice. After making sure you've got more gang members to taunt run back inside and run back out again and do the same thing. You need to make sure you have no notoriety when you taunt otherwise it doesn't count in the saints book, and like I said before, if you see two or three of them together in a group definitely take advantage of that, you can net multiple taunts at once and that saves you time.
I am hoping they patch this shit in the future.
TANKS DESTROYED: This is extremely simple, just get enough notoriety that the army shows up, when they bring a tank, jack it like any other vehicle and obliterate any other tanks that arrive.
STOPPIE DISTANCE: Like wheelie distance this is extremely simple, perhaps even simpler. All you need to do is grab a bike, drive real fast, and then use the brake/reverse button to stop abruptly putting you up on your front tire as you skid. This is a stoppie. Best thing to do for both wheelies and stoppies, do them at the same time, grab a kenshin or a kaneda, go to the airport where you've got plenty of space, and work on them both there. It's a pain in the ass running into other vehicles and shit otherwise.
I personally didn't buy the city takeover upgrade until last. I got to level 50 ages before I beat the game, did every upgrade and everything, except for city takeover, completed everything I could except for one gang op on every island, as gang ops are easy as shit. Then I bought my city takeover and used it on a single gang op. I did it that way, just because I wanted to beat everything else myself. Because I did it that way, I am not sure if you unlock the stuff you can unlock by doing certain activities if you use a city takeover on it or not, but I know that some activities unlock things when completed, so they might be worth doing after using the city takeover if you are supposed to get something unlocked but don't. Also, you can technically obtain one other city takeover from the plotline, you get a choice between it and something else. In my opinion, the something else is better because everything else can be completed without city takeover and you'll still have your "something else" but to each his own. lol.
Yeah, I used Genki homies myself for awhile, along with a johnny gat and saints drink mascots and then for the last homie I used the swat team cop because he looks sweet. I used that for awhile and then I switched them all to strippers. LOL.
If you get your hands on a bootlegger, it's a great car to pimp out for snatch missions. Also the Hammerhead, is the other muscle car, which can be beautiful when pimped.
EDIT: I went over my explanations of car torpedo and gang taunting and made them easier to understand. I have an issue with putting in way too many commas and making run-on sentences, which makes things I type difficult to read.
