Not to kill the spirit of competition, but when the doors open for the hauler you can get in the back of the truck before the doors close. Stay in there and you can get all the presents in an indestructible truck.
Even if they wanted a sense of randomness to it, they could of scripted a fail safe. Every 5 presents picked up is guaranteed to be a sweeter you don't have.
I’am a solo player, since I started gta online 3-4 years ago. I like being a solo grinder. But minimum requirement of 2 players in a session for a event is very disappointing and i’am very disappointed. Why R* why is everything more difficult than it already is?????
I've given up trying on the PC, cuz none of my friends play anymore and the public lobbies are full of script kiddies bombing, teleporting, giving max wanted level or just straight booting you out to singleplayer. A couple sweaters and an outfit aren't worth the hassle.
@@Casperthegatorik its his opinion but like this is the COCA COLA CHRISTMAS TRUCK that is just amazing this gotta be the best christmas event ever yeti coca cola Christmas truck etc. and for this guy to complain abt that is just so stupid.
@@ur_herioc_mouse5224he only complains when something simply DONT WORK cause if you watched he shows how sometimes you cant even get the gifts and its overall a time waster
To be honest, my first try never had issues. I travelled next to a friendly player and they followed my idea to call in Phantom Wedge with me. I didn't care for any loot, cash or ammo. I prefer friendly interactions in GTA Online. Anyways, I'm glad you got what you wanted from the holiday fun events. I love your videos. Happy Holidays man!
@@tony42898I used the 6x6 acid lab, it gives zero fucks about jet powered broomsticks. Still took me a couple of lobbies to get the Sprunk sweater but I had fun getting it.
It would be better if when it drops a present anyone can collect it within a certain time but even if someone else collects it another player can also collect it, kinda like the collectibles where anyone can get them regardless if someone else grabbed it
I agree with that cause then it would be fair for the like 2-10 people trying to get it, and especially if people couldn’t kill others while participating in the event
@@sethrohitheflo exactly i tried getting presents for a 6 hours one day and was able to get let a total of five cause half the people are using scramjets, oppressors, deluxos and you can’t participate in the event in passive mode so i would just get killed even when im being friendly and just trying to get presents when the rewards are barely worth it
It also doesn't even gift credit to all players in a vehicle, only the driver, it would be more fun with friends pilled into a vehicle for it to count for everyone
Occasionally I think it glitches and drops a present per each person following at random times. Other times its at the same time for every one and its whoever picks it up first. My only gripe about this event is sometimes gifts drop but don't show up yet leave a marker on the map, and other times get stuck midair and you cant reach them
I kind of understand your point. For me was waiting for The Gooch. On the first lobby I joined I waited like 1h for him to spawn and nothing, meanwhile I had to escape s grieffer and being careful because there was a modder in the lobby. I then changed to another lobby with 5 people and 3 of them logged out, luckily one person didn't and I could k*ll The Gooch around 10min after I joined.
Last year I didn't get the Gooch mask because of the horrible design of the event and because the one time I DID have the Gooch try to rob me, it effing glitched out. Hadn't had the Gooch spawn on me this year either, mostly because I do the salvage yard heists and other stuff during which the Gooch doesn't spawn. All in all it's just a pain in the a** for me lol.
@@LibtarDemonRat what system you play on? I play on xbox x|s we could take turns getting the whole outfit but it takes 48 minutes for it to spawn in and then another 48 to spawn in again
I definite feel your frustration on this, though I also found it fun to mess with the truck and watch what weird stuff might happen to it. In one caseit wigged out and kepet teleporting randomly, I was laughing too hard t ocare about the gifts.
I got the Ecola one in an invite lobby with a friend. When he got off, I joined a public lobby with the truck already spawned and noticed a guy following it. I messaged him, letting him know that I wouldn’t attack him, and that we could alternate the presents. He was completely ok with it, and we did just that. Then another guy came up to it, and I messaged him the same text, and he was ok with it too. For those of you having a hassle with the event, sometimes texting the other players letting them know you’re friendly is enough to have a higher chance of earning the sweaters. It was the most wholesome experience I’ve ever had in GTAO. I completely agree that the one hour spawn time and having another player in the lobby is bullshit though. No reason why we can’t enjoy these events playing solo.
I got both sweaters following it for like 5 total minutes, (Edit- yea I managed to get it on one truck I feel bad for people who suffer for this and yes its stupid how those presents can be flying and I have even had some be showing on the map but it I believe spawns under the map or not at all, but merry Christmas everyone!)
when the truck spawned in, me and my mate instantly tried to find ways to stop it, steal it, or force it into the ocean. that was the only fun we got from the christmas truck
There was a event during the PS3/Xbox360 days. Where u would have a circle appear on the map. An a timer counting down for the crate to be dropped. An by the time it had dropped, there was 6 players killing each other over it. Its what created mini wars back in the day. An they had MUCH more item's in that crate.
Those were the days. Everyone had to fight for it. This was before freemode events and business battles came along. I forgot what the shirts were when u won.
I got both sweaters back to back. The few trucks I chased, me and the other 4 or 5 people that chased it, we alternated and took turns getting the gifts. Added some cool people thanks to the truck.
I once had a glitch or game confusion happen the other day. were the hauler had its trailer disconnected when a player pushed the truck with a nightshark to where the trailer detached, and the truck stopped and then started driving around erratically without its trailer, and the trailer began spawning all over the place up and down the road for about a mile in matter of seconds by fort Zancudo trying to re-spawn in a favorable position creating small festive explosions when it spawns each time. The Truck eventually de-spawned along with the trailer then re-spawned connected together. it was funny watching it go down.
As a solo player, events like this are always a pain. None of my friends want to touch GTA Online's crusty-a** ever again, and it should be self-explanatory why public sessions are a no-go...
This reminds me of my struggles to make the Die Hard event spawn and get the WM29 pistol. Back in 2022 I wasn't around GTA during Christmas and I was pretty pissed when I lost the chance to get the gun. So basically I've waited a whole year for the event to come back, and a whole day just to make it appear in a lobby just to realize how useless it is... Lol
My friend did the same but couldn't get the event to spawn. He was frustrated by this until he got to the gun shop and realize that he could just buy it lol
I still can't believe I managed to get gooched in a full session. I did wait like 40 minutes just sitting around with cash but i still got insanely lucky
Pretty sure these "60min cooldown timer" and "It's all RNG based!" is just R* (and T2) trying to stretch the playtime statistics in order to say "Oh look! Everyone is enjoying our content so much that they're playing for hours!" to their shareholders, thus fool them into thinking that GTAO is still in a healthy state so that they'll happily bump up the stock prices. They're already greedier than the infamous EA in my eyes. Let's just hope for a Christmas miracle that they wont fill GTA6 and the new Online with dumb paywalls, subscriptions, days worth of cooldown timers and RNG...
Rockstar have spent so many years making GTA Online more tedious to pressure players into buying Shark Cards that they've forgotten how to make things that are just fun for it's own sake. I'm not joking. Their company culture has been moving slowly but steadily in this direction for a decade now.
I got one of the two sweaters after following the holidays hauler but sometimes some of the presents will be floating in the air or be glitching out when I try to pick it up
For those having problem with this i have a tip for this one. It works for pc but i dont know about the consoles. U just need to lobby hop until u find a lobby with a hauler already driving around. Than just use the solo open lobby glitch with the task manager to get disconnected from all the other players in the lobby but still being in the lobby. Now u are in a solo lobby with the hauler driving around and u just have to collect the presents without having to fight off anyone. I got my second sweater this way
Surprisingly, I got these pretty quick not just twice, but 4 times for my ps5 and Xbox character, the only thing I kinda stressed about today, was just getting my homie to chill with me in a private sesh for the gooch on ps5, but I got everything I wanted, jus need to play entourage for the weapon skins
I wish everything was made solo. Imagine if all businesses become solo with one vehicle especially the MC Businesses. The game would become much more fun.
No it wouldn't. That's the saddest thing I've ever heard. You might aswell cut out your time playing GTA for a job and buy shark cards with the money for more profit per hour.
Like I said, this event needs to be placed in Invite and Crew Sessions. Damn I hate being right. Because when I got both these shirts on day one. I was killed, blown up, and got many automatic wanted levels for absolutely no reason. This years Festive Holidays in GTA Online could of been peaceful and quiet. But Noooooooo!!!..... Rockstar doesn't want that.
I’m usually in invite only and I tried getting the pistol but it never spawned even though I hopped public lobbies and waited but I got shot at while waiting so I fought back and eventually said forget the pistol
You can do this event with a friend in private. Why suffer in public lobbies? Stop making it hard for yourself.🙄 The only time you can deal with pubs is business battles. Annoying tryhards stop you but if its for a event cargo, go crazy.
I got a sweater once after like 50 boxes. Half of them didn't even work. Apocalypse death bake was useful, you can just jump on top of the truck and wait.
The fact that they make you sit and wait around just to maybe get a Gooch spawn is such BS. Was hoping they would change it this year but nope. These things needs to spawn more often.
Instead of developing exciting and enjoyable gameplay the players actually want to play, they once again force us fools to spend hour after hour to get a lame cosmetic. The reason they're doing this is to artificially inflate year-end engagement statistics, so the same losers who coded this garbage get their ill-earned bonuses this year. They did the exact same thing with the Gooch last year, for the exact same reason.
Saw someone mentioned that you can land your deluxo on the truck. I verified that it works. You can basically just park there and you automatically pick up the gifts when they are dropped. I did have to tap forward every couple of minutes as the car slowly inches towards the back of the truck. Otherwise I could get up and get a drink or walk around while the truck circled the map. (Friend lobby obviously)
The gooch was the worst for me. Second had to be the yeti. After finding all the clues and waiting in the middle of the road for the yeti to spawn like an idiot, it finally spawns, i heavy snipe him like 3 times as he rushes towards me, and right as its about to die some random loser runs me over AND the yeti, taking my kill. Thankfully i joined a new session fast enough and managed to get it to spawn again but that was bs, some people in this game have serious problems.
I literally waited 4 hours with one of my friends in a private session for the gooch to spawn on me, the previous 3 times gooch just go and spawn on my friend 3 times back to back
Yeah i saw a war go on over that truck earlier. My issue was the gooch spawn, i was in a lobby for 2hrs and didn’t see it. Then a new ceo joins and it goes to him. That’s ass, but eventually i got him….. the next day
Managed to get lucky and get both within 2 trucks, but it was certainly not an easy process with how aggressive some players are about this, as well as the disappearing gifts.
Or instead of the truck for the twelve days for Christmas there is a present containing a unique reward that’s hidden and you get a picture through the email like the revolver one
I absolutely hated this event because I kept getting just money, but I kept my sanity because of the Christmas music and the snow. Eventually, I was finally able to get both sweaters. I can say RNG is a pain in the ass! I got the Gooch outfit no problem, yet when RNG gets involved, my luck is snapped out of existence! It's like someone at Rockstar sees me wanting the sweaters and they have the 6 infinity Stones and snap their fingers to rig the rng to not work in my favor!
I feel like Rockstar didn't fully think the Holiday Hauler through. About 90% of the time it spawned, several players would ram into it repeatedly until it glitched out and the truck drove away, leaving the trailer far behind, and no presents would drop. The other 10%, I was in a line of 2-3 players, and we all took turns getting a present. Get a present, move to the back of the line. It only got unruly a couple of times, but there was always at least one player following the trailer on a mk2 who would make short work of whoever tried to turn the peaceful little parade into a war.
I was lucky to get the ecola sweater but the amount of time it took me is ridiculous I just need the sprunk sweater also a cop car is probably best to do this to get the npc cars out the way
It would be a grief fest.. there’s already an abundance of oppressors and deluxo’s blowing players up for a present with 10k.. it’s Christmas supposed to be the holiday of gifts, but the griefers can’t resist blowing every up following the truck. If there was a $100k present no one would get any presents because it would be hogged by a level 7000+ who’s mastered the oppressor
I, personally, had zero issues getting the sweaters, got them both in the same lobby from my first/second presents from the hauler while I was doing the new Chop Shop robberies. My issue was the players, they all kept running to it and hogging the presents, and at one point glitched the hauler out by disconnecting the trailer somehow, causing the truck to have a seizure trying to spawn back in. The Yeti event was pretty cool, though, but having to wait for an hour after getting all the clues when it wasnt night for the Yeti to spawn was a nightmare.
thankfully i was in a 3 man lobby and the person that was collecting presents with me was nice enough not to shoot at me or blow me up so i let him get some when he got left behind. a rare sight in a lobby.
My solution was to follow the truck in my MOC cab. Thing takes like 60+ homing rockets and doesn’t budge easily so other players weren’t to much of a concern
Remember during the old days when there was cargo drops to get beer hats? You’d have to fight the whole lobby lol. I got 5/6 beer hats. Also, events like damage, king of the castle, etc will not let you pick up the presents
I got a problem with the gooch event. The other day I was waiting in a public lobby for 3 hours for a gooch visit just for some random to get it instead & he left right after he got it.
I completely agree. And you didnt even show the worst bugs when it comes to this event. For me it sometimes glitches out so much with many people around the truck, the blue icon keeps moving on the minimap but the truck itself gets stuck. Then the game fails to spawn it back in again, which just produces a lot of orange/green clouds on the map. might be some desync stuff, but for e this is unplayable
To me, it is hard to do this kind of event when you are a solo player and have no time left because you either have a job to do outside of gaming or just have something going on in your life outside of the game. right now I am working on the Gooch event and it is annoying if you are in a session that has already been Gooch or has not and on top of that you would have to wait 48 minutes just for it to spawn. to me, these event sounds cool but the process is not amazing. The only cool thing is the Yeti event and having a free snowball gun. Overall, I think these events sound cool but are not fun when doing them in a public lobby.
There's also a bug with the Weazel Plaza event. Once you kill all the bad guys you CAN'T LOOT THE GODDAMN PISTOL, fr. I tried the event like 6 times in a row AND I STILL DIDN'T GET THE PISTOL. I tried killing the guy with regular weapons, Oppressor MK2, fists, burning him alive, snow balls and even had to fight against other players FOR NOTHING because no one could loot the pistol.
Is it wrong that I feel warm and fuzzy when I see clouds of salty MK2's battling behind the Holiday Hauler' over some ugly sweaters they're never gonna wear? It's like Rockstar sent us 18 wheels of Christmas miracle.
Also with the Gooch, he spawned on me when I was AFK for a minute and then he got away. Took 7 hours of trying in different lobbies for him to finally spawn again. This event was hit or miss at times but overall I had a fun time, especially going for the Snowman and Yeti outfits. The Holiday Hauler for me wasn't too bad either. Took 2 game days to get the Die Hard event to spawn. I give the event an 8 out of ten.
i like it, i followed it around with a complete stranger in a nightshark killing people who try to kill others to take all the gifts for themselves, and called the ones constantly attacking the thing to ruin the event "grinches" and attacking them even after the hauler disappears. good fun, miss that jolly fellow.
I've found you can flip the truck with the wedge so I trapped it in the barriers between the roads and just waited there until I get one of the sweeter.
It took me 3 trucks to get both sweaters. Usually, about 5 people follow it. It’s fun to goof with the randoms and the truck. I agree though, it’s stupid
I got the e-cola sweater first present, and the sprunk sweater dropped for me when I was taking turns grabbing presents with a player. Every other time I tried to get presents I got blown up by oppressors and deluxo’s which makes me glad I got them when I did. After I got the sweaters there was no reason to follow the truck.
I had terrible, miserable luck last year. But had a definitive good year. I had a terrible, miserable year this year. But had definitive good luck getting those items. It's just life finds it's ways.
At least your truck didn't purposely get stuck so many times. Mine fell off the zancudo bridge, kept crashing on the gas station by paleto and more. Truck only dropped 2 collectable gifts. The other ones were floating or were invisible.
You know Ghillie you brought back a horrible memory. Back in BO3 days, I always WANTED the HG-40(MP-40) but of course as you said I NEVER got it. I tried for years after it came out and never got it. My other two buddies got it as their first gun from the black market crates. Me?........ nope never got it. R.I.P. RNG is terrible in games
Agreed, I had similar experience getting sweaters and the gooch outfit. The weapon skins force you to play jobs I wouldn’t otherwise do but I prefer explicit requirements to randomness.
Truck spawns too in invite. My bf was driving and me as passenger was getting all the drops. After 4 days trying, I finally got both sweaters almost in row. We had to split in 2 cars so he could get his gifts drops. We never had glitched drops. I also think that 60min is too long waiting. Gootch spawned just today, and we play every day at least 4h. From the pov of the overall festive events, I'm sad that the snowman hunt and the weazel didn't spawn anymore for us this year, cause we already have the items from last year. So what? Why R* didn't allow us to redo these events, as they did with the pumpkins?
I got the ecola sweater right away. It took me a few sessions and a lot of battling to get the sprunk sweater. I had one session where I followed the truck almost from start to finish, and no sweater. Strange thing is some of the glitched packages for me, my buddy was able to pick up no problem
My biggest problem with the holiday update was that it was just a lot of waiting. Wait for the truck. Wait for the Die Hard shootout. Wait for the Gooch. The Gooch alone took me over 4 hours to get because I think it bugged. I sat in 1 lobby for over 3 hours waiting for it to spawn and I'm pretty sure it just stopped spawning at one point. So I had to join a different lobby and wait another hour for it. The cherry on top was when I joined my friend and 5 minutes after joining the session the Gooch spawned on me again. Getting everything took me far longer than I was hoping and it was so boring.
I’d love to just do this in a public session but I’m on Xbox and I don’t feel like risking my account bc idk if that stupid permanent ban exploit is still going around
I was lucky to know someone who was afk'ing the LS Car Meet in a closed lobby. I went to theirs and waited for the event to spawn and followed the truck by myself. Got to Paleto Bay before I got the sweater but all the packages worked. Then shortly after got the Gooch to spawn also!
I got both of my sweaters and a bunch of dumb cash and ammo, so decided to have fun. I got out my Phantom Wedge and started knocking it off the road. after a while it just freaks out and the driver will go the wrong way or crash weirdly. So fun!
There is also a glitch. The truck once stopped and infinitely dropped gifts. I got a couple of warning screens of "too many transactions" by just standing behind the truck.
Trying to get the Grooch to attack is even worse as you have to be in a lobby with at least two people and you have to wait 48 minutes every time for it to spawn. If you are in a public lobby with about 20 other players, it's incredibly annoying and time consuming.
Not to kill the spirit of competition, but when the doors open for the hauler you can get in the back of the truck before the doors close. Stay in there and you can get all the presents in an indestructible truck.
They should just have the first 2 presents give you the sweaters and after that just give ammo and money
That would be nice
Even if they wanted a sense of randomness to it, they could of scripted a fail safe. Every 5 presents picked up is guaranteed to be a sweeter you don't have.
@@GhillieMasterhey Ghillie I would say this was very annoying at times
I got the sweaters right away from the same truck! 💪🎅🤘
it dose
I’am a solo player, since I started gta online 3-4 years ago. I like being a solo grinder. But minimum requirement of 2 players in a session for a event is very disappointing and i’am very disappointed. Why R* why is everything more difficult than it already is?????
If you're playing on PS5 hmu so we can private session.
I'm trying to get the Gooch.
@@lateshow4783 add me need the gooch ps5 Maguzo006
If you on Xbox x|s I can help you cause I’m also trying to get the gooch outfit
I've given up trying on the PC, cuz none of my friends play anymore and the public lobbies are full of script kiddies bombing, teleporting, giving max wanted level or just straight booting you out to singleplayer. A couple sweaters and an outfit aren't worth the hassle.
@@variantxiii you have Xbox x|s or nah?
Compalining about the christmas coca cola truck? This guy complains about everything
Let him because he can freely voice his opinion and you need to accept that people will rant about things they don't like.
Dont embarass yourself
@@Casperthegatorik its his opinion but like this is the COCA COLA CHRISTMAS TRUCK that is just amazing this gotta be the best christmas event ever yeti coca cola Christmas truck etc. and for this guy to complain abt that is just so stupid.
@@ur_herioc_mouse5224 "meh meh meh meh meh meh" That's what I'm hearing from you.
@@ur_herioc_mouse5224he only complains when something simply DONT WORK cause if you watched he shows how sometimes you cant even get the gifts and its overall a time waster
To be honest, my first try never had issues. I travelled next to a friendly player and they followed my idea to call in Phantom Wedge with me. I didn't care for any loot, cash or ammo. I prefer friendly interactions in GTA Online.
Anyways, I'm glad you got what you wanted from the holiday fun events. I love your videos. Happy Holidays man!
For me, I got assaulted by a Oppressor Mk II user and Toredor when I got near the truck. And then they attacked each other.
some guy rammed the truck off the road and we just stood behind it while it was stuck in trees
@@tony42898I used the 6x6 acid lab, it gives zero fucks about jet powered broomsticks. Still took me a couple of lobbies to get the Sprunk sweater but I had fun getting it.
@@tony42898 Sounds about right
Shit was so easy. I Never had a problem with the truck. At times I was the only one chasing the truck and getting all the gifts
It would be better if when it drops a present anyone can collect it within a certain time but even if someone else collects it another player can also collect it, kinda like the collectibles where anyone can get them regardless if someone else grabbed it
I agree with that cause then it would be fair for the like 2-10 people trying to get it, and especially if people couldn’t kill others while participating in the event
@@sethrohitheflo exactly i tried getting presents for a 6 hours one day and was able to get let a total of five cause half the people are using scramjets, oppressors, deluxos and you can’t participate in the event in passive mode so i would just get killed even when im being friendly and just trying to get presents when the rewards are barely worth it
It also doesn't even gift credit to all players in a vehicle, only the driver, it would be more fun with friends pilled into a vehicle for it to count for everyone
Occasionally I think it glitches and drops a present per each person following at random times. Other times its at the same time for every one and its whoever picks it up first. My only gripe about this event is sometimes gifts drop but don't show up yet leave a marker on the map, and other times get stuck midair and you cant reach them
I agree. After all, it's Christmas for cryse sake! 😡
I kind of understand your point. For me was waiting for The Gooch. On the first lobby I joined I waited like 1h for him to spawn and nothing, meanwhile I had to escape s grieffer and being careful because there was a modder in the lobby. I then changed to another lobby with 5 people and 3 of them logged out, luckily one person didn't and I could k*ll The Gooch around 10min after I joined.
I got the Gooch while I was going for the yeti so I got both at the same time lmao
I got the Gooch when I was on my way to sell my acid lol
I got behind it tryna get some shit and a fucking oppressor bitch boy blew me up , havent seen it since 😂
Last year I didn't get the Gooch mask because of the horrible design of the event and because the one time I DID have the Gooch try to rob me, it effing glitched out. Hadn't had the Gooch spawn on me this year either, mostly because I do the salvage yard heists and other stuff during which the Gooch doesn't spawn. All in all it's just a pain in the a** for me lol.
@@ListenToGlobal make sure you have money in your pocket or it won't spawn
Cant be any worse then sitting in a session for 5 hours just for the gooch to never come and completely glitch out
@@LibtarDemonRat I already got it but it's annoying when I waste time on something I want and don't get it
@@LibtarDemonRat what system you play on? I play on xbox x|s we could take turns getting the whole outfit but it takes 48 minutes for it to spawn in and then another 48 to spawn in again
@@99d1you tryna help me get the outfit?
@@xWRLD999x I'm on ps5 bro
@@99d1 damm
I definite feel your frustration on this, though I also found it fun to mess with the truck and watch what weird stuff might happen to it.
In one caseit wigged out and kepet teleporting randomly, I was laughing too hard t ocare about the gifts.
I got the Ecola one in an invite lobby with a friend. When he got off, I joined a public lobby with the truck already spawned and noticed a guy following it. I messaged him, letting him know that I wouldn’t attack him, and that we could alternate the presents. He was completely ok with it, and we did just that. Then another guy came up to it, and I messaged him the same text, and he was ok with it too. For those of you having a hassle with the event, sometimes texting the other players letting them know you’re friendly is enough to have a higher chance of earning the sweaters. It was the most wholesome experience I’ve ever had in GTAO. I completely agree that the one hour spawn time and having another player in the lobby is bullshit though. No reason why we can’t enjoy these events playing solo.
The Gooch event is pissing me off. Several hours already waiting on him
he came to me immediately. maybe you just suck
@heemdoctah ok???
I got both sweaters following it for like 5 total minutes, (Edit- yea I managed to get it on one truck I feel bad for people who suffer for this and yes its stupid how those presents can be flying and I have even had some be showing on the map but it I believe spawns under the map or not at all, but merry Christmas everyone!)
Took me 3-4 trucks to get the sprunk sweater. But both times it was the first gift dropped by the truck
same for me i both in the first 10 minutes
Took me a total of 30 minutes I saw my money go from 9k then up to 11k per drop I got the other jacket on the second truck
when the truck spawned in, me and my mate instantly tried to find ways to stop it, steal it, or force it into the ocean. that was the only fun we got from the christmas truck
There was a event during the PS3/Xbox360 days. Where u would have a circle appear on the map. An a timer counting down for the crate to be dropped. An by the time it had dropped, there was 6 players killing each other over it. Its what created mini wars back in the day. An they had MUCH more item's in that crate.
Those were the days. Everyone had to fight for it. This was before freemode events and business battles came along. I forgot what the shirts were when u won.
I got both sweaters back to back. The few trucks I chased, me and the other 4 or 5 people that chased it, we alternated and took turns getting the gifts. Added some cool people thanks to the truck.
I once had a glitch or game confusion happen the other day. were the hauler had its trailer disconnected when a player pushed the truck with a nightshark to where the trailer detached, and the truck stopped and then started driving around erratically without its trailer, and the trailer began spawning all over the place up and down the road for about a mile in matter of seconds by fort Zancudo trying to re-spawn in a favorable position creating small festive explosions when it spawns each time. The Truck eventually de-spawned along with the trailer then re-spawned connected together.
it was funny watching it go down.
As a solo player, events like this are always a pain. None of my friends want to touch GTA Online's crusty-a** ever again, and it should be self-explanatory why public sessions are a no-go...
This reminds me of my struggles to make the Die Hard event spawn and get the WM29 pistol. Back in 2022 I wasn't around GTA during Christmas and I was pretty pissed when I lost the chance to get the gun. So basically I've waited a whole year for the event to come back, and a whole day just to make it appear in a lobby just to realize how useless it is... Lol
My friend did the same but couldn't get the event to spawn. He was frustrated by this until he got to the gun shop and realize that he could just buy it lol
I still can't believe I managed to get gooched in a full session. I did wait like 40 minutes just sitting around with cash but i still got insanely lucky
The Gooch ruined Xmas for me last year. Sooooo many hours wasted. Lesson learnt.
I'm not actively looking for any long wait RNG events ever again...
Pretty sure these "60min cooldown timer" and "It's all RNG based!" is just R* (and T2) trying to stretch the playtime statistics in order to say "Oh look! Everyone is enjoying our content so much that they're playing for hours!" to their shareholders, thus fool them into thinking that GTAO is still in a healthy state so that they'll happily bump up the stock prices.
They're already greedier than the infamous EA in my eyes. Let's just hope for a Christmas miracle that they wont fill GTA6 and the new Online with dumb paywalls, subscriptions, days worth of cooldown timers and RNG...
Thank you I was actually going to attempt to get this I could see it's not worth the effort
Rockstar have spent so many years making GTA Online more tedious to pressure players into buying Shark Cards that they've forgotten how to make things that are just fun for it's own sake. I'm not joking. Their company culture has been moving slowly but steadily in this direction for a decade now.
I've got lucky with the two sweaters but I agree with you on that terms: RNG does ruin the vibes of the festive-theme event.
I got one of the two sweaters after following the holidays hauler but sometimes some of the presents will be floating in the air or be glitching out when I try to pick it up
For those having problem with this i have a tip for this one. It works for pc but i dont know about the consoles. U just need to lobby hop until u find a lobby with a hauler already driving around. Than just use the solo open lobby glitch with the task manager to get disconnected from all the other players in the lobby but still being in the lobby. Now u are in a solo lobby with the hauler driving around and u just have to collect the presents without having to fight off anyone. I got my second sweater this way
Surprisingly, I got these pretty quick not just twice, but 4 times for my ps5 and Xbox character, the only thing I kinda stressed about today, was just getting my homie to chill with me in a private sesh for the gooch on ps5, but I got everything I wanted, jus need to play entourage for the weapon skins
They’re only for MK1 weapons 🥲🥲
Who'd have thought that following an RNG truck at a slow pace while fighting other people for RNG scraps wouldn't be fun?
Truly a Rockstar moment
I finally got the gooch outfit and also I’ve got both of the exclusive sweaters.
I wish everything was made solo. Imagine if all businesses become solo with one vehicle especially the MC Businesses. The game would become much more fun.
No it wouldn't. That's the saddest thing I've ever heard. You might aswell cut out your time playing GTA for a job and buy shark cards with the money for more profit per hour.
@@KattalystFr HAHAHAHA! Cry more.
@@PurifiedShino What am I crying about. That is genuinely sad.
Like I said, this event needs to be placed in Invite and Crew Sessions. Damn I hate being right. Because when I got both these shirts on day one. I was killed, blown up, and got many automatic wanted levels for absolutely no reason. This years Festive Holidays in GTA Online could of been peaceful and quiet. But Noooooooo!!!..... Rockstar doesn't want that.
I’m usually in invite only and I tried getting the pistol but it never spawned even though I hopped public lobbies and waited but I got shot at while waiting so I fought back and eventually said forget the pistol
It is in private and friends only sessions 😂
It literally is in private sessions. You just need at least two people in the session for it to spawn in
Got it last night you can do it solo try watching a video for a few tips👍🏿
You can do this event with a friend in private. Why suffer in public lobbies? Stop making it hard for yourself.🙄
The only time you can deal with pubs is business battles. Annoying tryhards stop you but if its for a event cargo, go crazy.
On the first day it came out i just called merryweather on a random player following the truck and waited for chaos 😂😂
I waited around in a lobby with 3 people for 4 HOURS trying to get the Gooch to spawn in, but guess what happened?
I got a sweater once after like 50 boxes. Half of them didn't even work.
Apocalypse death bake was useful, you can just jump on top of the truck and wait.
Ive been throwing that truck everywhere with my Cerberus ☠️
I've only been able to get the ecola sweater and that took me 5 hours. Still can't get the gooch outfit even with only 2 players just won't spawn.
I loved the Black Ops 3 Loot Boxes. For that reason it's my most played CoD still to this day. It always kept me grinding for something.
The fact that they make you sit and wait around just to maybe get a Gooch spawn is such BS. Was hoping they would change it this year but nope. These things needs to spawn more often.
You don't have to sit and wait. You can play the game lol. My friend got the Gooch to spawn on him while he was searching for Yeti clues.
get a friend in a lobby and have him sit in a building and you outside make sure to have money on you and dont be in any vehicle
Instead of developing exciting and enjoyable gameplay the players actually want to play, they once again force us fools to spend hour after hour to get a lame cosmetic.
The reason they're doing this is to artificially inflate year-end engagement statistics, so the same losers who coded this garbage get their ill-earned bonuses this year.
They did the exact same thing with the Gooch last year, for the exact same reason.
Yep, its all about player retention. Its annoying.
Saw someone mentioned that you can land your deluxo on the truck. I verified that it works. You can basically just park there and you automatically pick up the gifts when they are dropped. I did have to tap forward every couple of minutes as the car slowly inches towards the back of the truck. Otherwise I could get up and get a drink or walk around while the truck circled the map. (Friend lobby obviously)
The gooch was the worst for me. Second had to be the yeti. After finding all the clues and waiting in the middle of the road for the yeti to spawn like an idiot, it finally spawns, i heavy snipe him like 3 times as he rushes towards me, and right as its about to die some random loser runs me over AND the yeti, taking my kill. Thankfully i joined a new session fast enough and managed to get it to spawn again but that was bs, some people in this game have serious problems.
Lot of the players have mental issues.
you should have been in an invite only session
@@griseldagrinders4022ahh yes love playing MMOs completely by myself
@@jakewright6074 read his comment he's talking about getting the yeti dig bummy
I literally waited 4 hours with one of my friends in a private session for the gooch to spawn on me, the previous 3 times gooch just go and spawn on my friend 3 times back to back
That was one of the most fun additions I can remember. Kept ramming it with the Acid Lab until it broke and disappeared
Yeah i saw a war go on over that truck earlier. My issue was the gooch spawn, i was in a lobby for 2hrs and didn’t see it. Then a new ceo joins and it goes to him. That’s ass, but eventually i got him….. the next day
The best way on how I survived these truck events is to use a Imani tech vehicle makes all the other players lock on to each other
Managed to get lucky and get both within 2 trucks, but it was certainly not an easy process with how aggressive some players are about this, as well as the disappearing gifts.
Fighting 5 players just for a chance at some unique clothing. Reminds me of 2013.
Or instead of the truck for the twelve days for Christmas there is a present containing a unique reward that’s hidden and you get a picture through the email like the revolver one
I absolutely hated this event because I kept getting just money, but I kept my sanity because of the Christmas music and the snow.
Eventually, I was finally able to get both sweaters. I can say RNG is a pain in the ass! I got the Gooch outfit no problem, yet when RNG gets involved, my luck is snapped out of existence!
It's like someone at Rockstar sees me wanting the sweaters and they have the 6 infinity Stones and snap their fingers to rig the rng to not work in my favor!
I like how you can actually push it around. Me and my friend pushed it In the water and glitched it out
This is the realistic tone I’ve wanted bang on
I somehow managed to get the ecola sweater first try lol
I feel like Rockstar didn't fully think the Holiday Hauler through. About 90% of the time it spawned, several players would ram into it repeatedly until it glitched out and the truck drove away, leaving the trailer far behind, and no presents would drop. The other 10%, I was in a line of 2-3 players, and we all took turns getting a present. Get a present, move to the back of the line. It only got unruly a couple of times, but there was always at least one player following the trailer on a mk2 who would make short work of whoever tried to turn the peaceful little parade into a war.
What has made it worst is griefers and new players, I only got the eCola sweater and a bunch of cash and ammo
I was lucky to get the ecola sweater but the amount of time it took me is ridiculous I just need the sprunk sweater also a cop car is probably best to do this to get the npc cars out the way
“And out of that, a new Holiday Event was formed… A Festivus for the rest of us!”
Was the Gooch event as tedious as the one from last year. I usually don’t try to win these because of how crazy the events are.
Its the same event. Last year I couldn't get it to appear for the life of me, this year it was easier. RNG be like.
Imagine how fun it would be if the present had 100k plus , the whole lobby would be chasing it and people would actually care 😂
It would be a grief fest.. there’s already an abundance of oppressors and deluxo’s blowing players up for a present with 10k.. it’s Christmas supposed to be the holiday of gifts, but the griefers can’t resist blowing every up following the truck. If there was a $100k present no one would get any presents because it would be hogged by a level 7000+ who’s mastered the oppressor
@@jpegjared it would be fun mate
I, personally, had zero issues getting the sweaters, got them both in the same lobby from my first/second presents from the hauler while I was doing the new Chop Shop robberies. My issue was the players, they all kept running to it and hogging the presents, and at one point glitched the hauler out by disconnecting the trailer somehow, causing the truck to have a seizure trying to spawn back in. The Yeti event was pretty cool, though, but having to wait for an hour after getting all the clues when it wasnt night for the Yeti to spawn was a nightmare.
I got a random sweater… I’m bad sports lobby… to many deluxos and OPPS… nothin my toreador cant solve…
thankfully i was in a 3 man lobby and the person that was collecting presents with me was nice enough not to shoot at me or blow me up so i let him get some when he got left behind. a rare sight in a lobby.
My solution was to follow the truck in my MOC cab. Thing takes like 60+ homing rockets and doesn’t budge easily so other players weren’t to much of a concern
A wise man once told me that it is better to be pissed off then pissed on (unless you are into that sort of thing).
Remember during the old days when there was cargo drops to get beer hats? You’d have to fight the whole lobby lol. I got 5/6 beer hats.
Also, events like damage, king of the castle, etc will not let you pick up the presents
i followed the truck around the whole map and didnt even get the sweater smh
I got a problem with the gooch event. The other day I was waiting in a public lobby for 3 hours for a gooch visit just for some random to get it instead & he left right after he got it.
I followed this truck for so long the music is burned into my head xD
I completely agree. And you didnt even show the worst bugs when it comes to this event. For me it sometimes glitches out so much with many people around the truck, the blue icon keeps moving on the minimap but the truck itself gets stuck. Then the game fails to spawn it back in again, which just produces a lot of orange/green clouds on the map. might be some desync stuff, but for e this is unplayable
Ngl. I thought it was guaranteed but damn 25% to get the other one...
That is stupid
I got the yeti outfit, attempted to get the truck to spawn then gave up after like 4 lobbies and an hour or two of waiting.
To me, it is hard to do this kind of event when you are a solo player and have no time left because you either have a job to do outside of gaming or just have something going on in your life outside of the game. right now I am working on the Gooch event and it is annoying if you are in a session that has already been Gooch or has not and on top of that you would have to wait 48 minutes just for it to spawn. to me, these event sounds cool but the process is not amazing. The only cool thing is the Yeti event and having a free snowball gun. Overall, I think these events sound cool but are not fun when doing them in a public lobby.
There's also a bug with the Weazel Plaza event. Once you kill all the bad guys you CAN'T LOOT THE GODDAMN PISTOL, fr. I tried the event like 6 times in a row AND I STILL DIDN'T GET THE PISTOL. I tried killing the guy with regular weapons, Oppressor MK2, fists, burning him alive, snow balls and even had to fight against other players FOR NOTHING because no one could loot the pistol.
Is it wrong that I feel warm and fuzzy when I see clouds of salty MK2's battling behind the Holiday Hauler' over some ugly sweaters they're never gonna wear? It's like Rockstar sent us 18 wheels of Christmas miracle.
I can kind of confirm that you can only get one sweater from one truck. My first time following it I got eCola, then in a new lobby I got Sprunk.
Also with the Gooch, he spawned on me when I was AFK for a minute and then he got away. Took 7 hours of trying in different lobbies for him to finally spawn again. This event was hit or miss at times but overall I had a fun time, especially going for the Snowman and Yeti outfits. The Holiday Hauler for me wasn't too bad either. Took 2 game days to get the Die Hard event to spawn. I give the event an 8 out of ten.
i like it, i followed it around with a complete stranger in a nightshark killing people who try to kill others to take all the gifts for themselves, and called the ones constantly attacking the thing to ruin the event "grinches" and attacking them even after the hauler disappears. good fun, miss that jolly fellow.
I've found you can flip the truck with the wedge so I trapped it in the barriers between the roads and just waited there until I get one of the sweeter.
6:13 Yes brother, you’re right, i have only 2 hours to play or sometimes 3, Also your fan here from Pakistan 🫡
While the presents suck, it's nice to drive along side the cute Christmas truck
I have discovered that sometimes, if you focus on one task too much it can become monotonous.
It took me 3 trucks to get both sweaters. Usually, about 5 people follow it. It’s fun to goof with the randoms and the truck. I agree though, it’s stupid
I got the e-cola sweater first present, and the sprunk sweater dropped for me when I was taking turns grabbing presents with a player. Every other time I tried to get presents I got blown up by oppressors and deluxo’s which makes me glad I got them when I did. After I got the sweaters there was no reason to follow the truck.
I had terrible, miserable luck last year. But had a definitive good year.
I had a terrible, miserable year this year. But had definitive good luck getting those items. It's just life finds it's ways.
At least your truck didn't purposely get stuck so many times. Mine fell off the zancudo bridge, kept crashing on the gas station by paleto and more. Truck only dropped 2 collectable gifts. The other ones were floating or were invisible.
You know Ghillie you brought back a horrible memory. Back in BO3 days, I always WANTED the HG-40(MP-40) but of course as you said I NEVER got it. I tried for years after it came out and never got it. My other two buddies got it as their first gun from the black market crates. Me?........ nope never got it. R.I.P. RNG is terrible in games
Agreed, I had similar experience getting sweaters and the gooch outfit. The weapon skins force you to play jobs I wouldn’t otherwise do but I prefer explicit requirements to randomness.
The fact that ppl just hog it and kill u when u get close is crazy
Truck spawns too in invite. My bf was driving and me as passenger was getting all the drops. After 4 days trying, I finally got both sweaters almost in row. We had to split in 2 cars so he could get his gifts drops. We never had glitched drops. I also think that 60min is too long waiting. Gootch spawned just today, and we play every day at least 4h. From the pov of the overall festive events, I'm sad that the snowman hunt and the weazel didn't spawn anymore for us this year, cause we already have the items from last year. So what? Why R* didn't allow us to redo these events, as they did with the pumpkins?
I got the ecola sweater right away. It took me a few sessions and a lot of battling to get the sprunk sweater. I had one session where I followed the truck almost from start to finish, and no sweater. Strange thing is some of the glitched packages for me, my buddy was able to pick up no problem
The Gooch is a pain in the ass to spawn. I couldn’t get it to spawn last year and this might be the case for this year. :(
I got both the Sprunk and Ecola Sweaters under an hour in 2 back to back sessions. Now I need the Gooch outfit
somebody knocked the truck off the trailer so it’s stuck in one spot dropping gifts
I went in a lobby it spawned and i grabbed my mk 2 there were 4 ghosted deluxos surrounding the truck!
My biggest problem with the holiday update was that it was just a lot of waiting. Wait for the truck. Wait for the Die Hard shootout. Wait for the Gooch. The Gooch alone took me over 4 hours to get because I think it bugged. I sat in 1 lobby for over 3 hours waiting for it to spawn and I'm pretty sure it just stopped spawning at one point. So I had to join a different lobby and wait another hour for it. The cherry on top was when I joined my friend and 5 minutes after joining the session the Gooch spawned on me again. Getting everything took me far longer than I was hoping and it was so boring.
I’d love to just do this in a public session but I’m on Xbox and I don’t feel like risking my account bc idk if that stupid permanent ban exploit is still going around
Ur good they fixed it
I was lucky to know someone who was afk'ing the LS Car Meet in a closed lobby. I went to theirs and waited for the event to spawn and followed the truck by myself. Got to Paleto Bay before I got the sweater but all the packages worked. Then shortly after got the Gooch to spawn also!
I got both of my sweaters and a bunch of dumb cash and ammo, so decided to have fun. I got out my Phantom Wedge and started knocking it off the road. after a while it just freaks out and the driver will go the wrong way or crash weirdly. So fun!
Problem similar to this is the gooch not not spawning.
And I cannot get the outfit.
There is also a glitch. The truck once stopped and infinitely dropped gifts. I got a couple of warning screens of "too many transactions" by just standing behind the truck.
Trying to get the Grooch to attack is even worse as you have to be in a lobby with at least two people and you have to wait 48 minutes every time for it to spawn. If you are in a public lobby with about 20 other players, it's incredibly annoying and time consuming.
The gooch event is pissing me off. I still cant get it