'The most enjoyable part is having fun with the mod, and enjoying each battle's incidental moments,' suggests Vinicius. Last year, Renlou's All Gangs introduced lore-friendly San Andreas crews to this end, while other players have chipped in to help with joypad support or to stabilise things when base game updates throw things off track.Д¬rashes pose the biggest threat, but with this degree of community support unsolved issues never last long. It still receives daily support and frequent updates, and is now open source with Vinicius always keen to hear other players' suggestions. To date, Gang and Turf has been downloaded over 50,000 times on, and is one of the site's longest-serving active projects. You get a battle report once you leave the hospital, telling you what happened and who won the battle overall.'

'Dying as a protagonist will end the war instantly, but it won't necessarily be a defeat-if your gang was doing well against the enemy, they may still win on their own. It is always a good idea, when attacking, to employ more attackers than the number of defenders. 'The number and level of territories owned by the involved gangs also has a minor influence. 'The number of reinforcements when a war begins is defined by the scale of the attack, and the attacker can choose how many members will be used with attack prices rising accordingly,' Vinicius adds. Over time, the mod's updates have added new layers of strategy options and despite mirroring San Andreas for the most part, Vinicius says elements of personal favourite Mount & Blade have crept in along the way-not least when calling upon reinforcements. Likewise, each outfit's strength is identified by a number. Like the gang warfare system of GTA: San Andreas, Gang and Turf highlights neutral territory and gang-occupied areas with colour-coded map markers. Keep in mind, however, that the war will still end if the protagonist dies, even if you weren't controlling them at the time of death.' If the controlled member dies, the war won't end, unless there are no allied reinforcements left, making it less dangerous to take greater risks. 'A good way to start is to hide or stay away from the war zone as the protagonist Michael, Franklin or Trevor, and 'mind control' a friendly gang member (aim at the member with a weapon and follow a prompt) to deal with the enemy. 'Strategies should be made in order to increase the odds of winning the war,' explains Vinicius.

In turn, this encourages players to take more risks in battle. A well-executed plan of attack goes a long way towards success, however it's game over if Michael, Trevor and/or Franklin expires on the field.ДЄs such, the mod's 'mind control' feature allows players to temporarily fill the boots of friendly gang members in the same way the base game's trifecta of haphazard heroes are controlled. The results are suitably chaotic, particularly when multiple companies rough it out for the same stretches of land-or when another gang relocates their spawn point on the fly. Team vehicles are assigned for squad-based transportation, and backup can be patched in by land or parachute when things get heavy. Paying close deference to its source material, Gang and Turf charges players with heading up their own murder squads-within which members are registered, crew colours are sworn by, and patches are defended.

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