I use this document mostly for notes to myself and people who are interested in helping me route. Scrolling down for the ‘Definition’ chapter might yield information that is interesting to others too though.

Map of collectibles and other crap:

Stream Plans / Test This:

Offroad events.
Children of the Mountain
Explore after Fame or Shame. This seems to be where shit opens up a bit.

Simeon Random Event before or after The Long Stretch?
Can Ursula be glitch called if you eat her? And does it store her number? - Supposedly if she is delivered last, her event is marked incomplete and can be done again.
Heist member skill progress. Can you farm it with replay mission?
Can killed Heist Members be reused in replays?
What happens if you fail The Good Husband after losing the popo?
Doing Jewel Store the bugstars way is apparently canon. It also yields 1 extra mission, and the bugstars outfit. Should it be required? Or does the outfit unlock regardless? However, doing it the loud way yields a different outfit? Check.
How many cars/copters/planes/boats can be bought?

Future notes:

Quick early money:

Animal Ark stock from Random Event (100k from instant cashout)
Some random event that gives 60k

None of these are big cashouts compared to the endgame, and abusing the stock market is needed regardless to get that darn golf course.

Random information:

Wanted level timeout times:

1 star - 30s ❋ 2 stars - 37.5s ❋ 3 stars - 45s ❋ 4 stars - 56.25s ❋ 5 stars - 82.5s

Random Events:

Spawn under conditions:

Speed less than 133 km/h (by code) / 82 mph
Sleep Mode off
Not in interior
Not in benchmark
Car is ‘driveable’ (whatever that means)
150 seconds since last random event
Obvious stuff like OM0, no wanted level, etc
40 seconds since story mission or saveload.

100% Notes Dump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsTUh4yLFWg

Gets Simeon USJ during Franklin & Lamar

Then sleeps once

Reposession gets that one USJ obvs.

Hao after Tonya. Phone open to prevent it from despawning

After race Security Van. Kills the carrier guy. Then Franklin

Chop takes the green ramp

Shooting range after Complications, where he buys grenades.

Runs during challenge after getting min score and during countdown. To farm stamina?

Gets the two offramp USJs during Boat chase. This will prevent gold medal? Cinematic camera resets car.

Letter after Daddys Girl

Then warps to Michael’s, hangs Franklin. Visiting a bar and the cinema, then goes for Bike Thief random event near Mirror Park.

Letter during Casing.

Porno dance after heist.

During Home Invasion, gets a suppressor for the pistol.

Also tear gas + grenades. Then the shotgun.

Doesnt do sewer USJ during Home Invasion drive back.

Streetrace just up the road. Uses TLS car for it. Doesnt visit Simeon but could.

Then uses a hooker from the parking lot, and then on white pavement across the street.

Then paparazzo 1.

He then calls Lamar on the way to Michael.

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Guess what USJ he does on the Trevor mission 1

Only gets the 5 most obvious bridges on the way back on Nervous Ron

Buys the Hangar. Then goes down the runway with his buggy to do a random event across the clothes store. THen he grabs the letter in the tarpy fields of Roseberry.

Friends Reunited: Motel jump, Vinewood stunt. Instant switch to Fame or Shame

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Fame or Shame straight to Dead Man Walking. No colelctibles or nothing.

After DMW, starts TPI from the replay mission menu, fails it by dying, and returns.Seems to be the same as QS warping.

Michael buys car scrapyard + letter + usj after 3s Company. Then switch to Franklin. Doesn’t put him with the shitty bagger but with the Buffalo. Franklin then does the Weed mission introduction. Then paparazzo 2. Then he does a weird deathwarp to Sandy Shores using the ‘cant go into online’ menu? Maybe also something to do with restarting TPI.

Then change to Trevor, not in Heli, to QS warp to his house.

Definition

The general idea is: If at the end of the entire playthrough, there will be evidence that you have done a thing, that thing is required. Otherwise, it's not. OR if you can load any save and somehow figure out whether that save has done a thing or not, that thing is required. Otherwise, it's not. Making people watch a 24 hour video just to prove to them: “Look I did it” should not be needed.

Game Version

New Gen (PC, Xbone, PS4) with returning player sans DLC. Version 1.27

To adjust to your own version: Simply exclude everything that isn't present in your version.

Category Name

I think 'true 100%' is not a good category name, because what does 'true' even mean? ‘100%+’ seems like a much less ambiguous term that isn’t unheard of already either. There could maybe be a varying amount of +'s depending on the game version, which affects content: Old gen, New gen, New gen w/ returning players reward.

Leaderboards

As far as leaderboards go, it's too early to even consider making those right now. If in the distant future one does end up being made, I think the use of variables and flags should be a necessity to differentiate between different game versions and possibly different definitions of 'the category that involves doing more than 100%'.

Requirements

1 - The Obvious

These should definitely be required, based on what previous GTAs were like, or because they’re some of the most obviously trackable things.

Everything on the social club checklist page.*

69 Missions
61 Hobbies and Pastimes
58 Strangers and Freaks (referred to as ‘Quests’ in this doc. (Short for ‘Question Mark Missions’))
60 Random Events
30 Misc

All USJ + Flights, not just half
All properties purchased
All epsilon tracts
27 peyote plants

*This page includes missable stuff, like Simeon's random event, and all of Michael/Trevor's S&F missions.

2 - The Reasonable

I think these should be required, but if you have a good reason I might be convinced for them not to. "It's dumb" is not a good reason and I don't fully agree with it. Paramedic in GTA3D era is dumb too, and that’s not even a 100% + thing.

Getting gold medals on all missions/races/shooting range/etc
Clearing the altruist camp
Michael's three family missions, triggered by phonecall
The last therapy session, where you can kill Dr. Friendlander
Talking to all the special characters which appear with a white blip on the map (these can be used in director mode after)
A 28th bonus peyote plant (does this exist?)
The Murder Mystery thing for returning players
Completing all the challenges for the hunting minigame.
The silly children of the mountain website minigame which gives a t-shirt
Completing the Rail Gun ammunation challenge

3 - The Dumb

I really don't want these to be required, because they're dumb (some more than others), but that's not a good reason, so they should be required. Please convince me otherwise:

Unlocking all the golf opponents. Involves playing golf 3 times. Beating them too, if this leaves any checkmarks or the likes.
Getting a checkmark next to all weapons in the shooting range. Involves starting the challenge with all of these then backing out immediately.
Max Stats. In GTAO these decrease over time, however they don't seem to in SP. Someone confirm/refute this, it would be a good reason to exclude this.
Purchase/collect all clothing
Unlock and keep alive all heist members
Keep all three protagonists alive, in other words Ending C. This one doesn’t matter, since you’d have to do all three missions using the replay menu anyway. Not to mention that Trevor has post-finale S&F missions so his ending is out of the question anyway.
Collect all the special outfits. Most notably: Triathlon outfits require completion of a triathlon with each character.
All of the category 1 and 2 stuff that are tracked and rewarded per character and therefore can be done three times (eg. Shooting Range & Flight School)

4 - The Problematic

Tracked, but there’s a good reason not to include them. Some of these will end up being required, some of them not:

Have all strippers like you enough that they are cool with double dances (this involves staring at polygon boobs for like half an hour). Not sure if Twitch/Youtube will like this. It also is just pressing a button repeatedly, very dull. Guess it can be avoided by putting some overlay on Twitch. - This can supposedly be lowered by killing a stripper in the club or during a booty call. Will their phone number be retained? This could be a good reason to not do this, or at least not the prude ones.
Acquiring all phone contacts. Other than the strippers, the only problematic ones are Liz and Ursula. Both can be acquired by glitch calling them for a booty. No missions needed.
Acquiring Ursula/Liz’s number three times. Being able to call them can be considered a glitch. If glitchgoals become required, that’d not be future proof once more complicated stuff gets discovered (like ACE lol)
Do a booty call with every bootycallable three times. Apparently this unlocks them doing blowjobs in the car?
Steam/R*SC achievements. However, there seems to be no real way of resetting these for a new game or reacquiring them for a loaded save.
Exploring the entire map so it all shows up in the map menu. A bit difficult to track due to the way the map fades. Some blank spots, particularly around the edges, may be hard to distinguish from unexplored spots.
Golden Peyote plants and unlocking Mr Beast. Is this even in 1.27?

5 - The Untracked And Therefore Not Required

At the end of the game there will be no evidence that these have or haven't been done. Unless I am wrong and there is some evidence to be found. Please point me to it if that's the case. Some of these are in this list because gta wikia (lol) deems them important enough to mention on the '100% requirements' page that these are NOT required. Most of these would go into categories 2 or 3 otherwise.

Acquiring all weapons. Getting busted removes your equipped weapon. It is possible to undo completion this way.

The first four (missable) therapy sessions
Beating every different tennis/golf opponent
Doing tennis/yoga on every possible location
Landing a helicopter on every roof
Purchasing every tattoo. They can be bought then 'unbought' leaving no trace that that specific one has been bought ever.
Watching all tv shows and cinema movies
Hidden packages (who named these even?)
Picking up all medkits (this item is here to show how dumb the above one is)
Taxi Driver (honking the horn while in a cab, no purchase of the company required.)
Property Management missions, including private taxi fares. These repeat.
Robbing all 19 stores (trevor's crack lab cannot be robbed)
Doing all ATM robbery hero rescue missions. They respawn.
Visiting any of the easter eggs.
All heist setups, because they’re mutually exclusive.
Max score in challenges. So long as a gold medal is achieved, there is no way of telling what the maximum score is for many challenges and this would only be doable by TAS.

6 - The Speedrun Rules

These are self imposed restrictions commonly applied in many speedruns of this game. Apply to your own liking.

Taxis: I don’t mind them much for long distance skipping, but they really dumb down routing for collectibles and short distance drives. I might go for not using them. Will decide later. Using these on missions often voids a particular Gold Medal requirement, so often these aren’t viable anyway, but they’re still useful for in-between missions. This stat is tracked by ‘Distance traveled as a taxi passenger’ in the stats and on Social Club.
Missions Skips: These are particularly dumb, but often they void many Gold Medal requirements, so their use would be limited. Still, it might be more fun to ‘ban’ these altogether for the few cases where they do come in useful. (That also saves me having to test shit).
OM0 Mission Skip Instapassing: I haven’t tested anything with this, but I imagine these too void many Gold Medal rules. They might be just plain not worth going for at all. Though more elaborate than missions skips, I might consider using these.
Director Mode Shenanigans: I think this breaks the entire game? And in bad ways too. I’m not sure the main speedrunning community even settled on this yet. Safer to not use these.
Other warps: Hangout warps/save warps/etc.: These are much more limited in possibilities so I will be using them.

7 - The Forgotten

I may have forgotten stuff, this game does have a fair share of content, most of which is hidden. Let me know if I did.

My approach

To come up with this definition, I took a list on GTA Wikia (things not required for 100%), added stuff to it that I know existed but wasn't on there, then proceeded to do those things in a casual playthrough to see if they were tracked somehow. If after I did them there was evidence that I've done them, I would mark them as required. If there was no evidence, I would mark them as not required. This seemed to me to be the most solid definition with the least amount of gray area, however it does also come with a lot of silly shit, like buying all the clothes. At first i considered 'what would R* have decided if this was GTA3?', but it left too much grey area. If you're interested in seeing my raw notes: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wd-jNw4xVd2vpln7vVlEx6T41qLg4VGUhv3Cl4smdLQ/edit#gid=222099081

Checklist

Missions

🟨Prologue

🟨Franklin and Lamar

🟨Repossession

🟨Chop

🟨Complications

🟨Father/Son

🟨Marriage Counseling

⬜Chaos?

🟨Friend Request

⬜The Good Husband

🟨Daddy’s Little Girl

🟨Casing the Jewel Store

🟨The Jewel Store Job Setups

🟨The Jewel Store Job

🟨The Long Stretch

🟨Mr. Philips

🟨Trevor Philips Industries

🟨Nervous Ron

🟨Crystal Maze

🟨Friends Reunited

🟨Fame or Shame

⬜Evil?

🟨Dead Man Walking

🟨Three’s Company

🟨By The Book

🟨Hood Safari

🟨Did somebody say yoga?

🟨Scouting the Port

🟨The Merryweather Heist Setups

🟨The Merryweather Heist

🟨Getaway Vehicle

🟨Trash Truck

🟨Boiler Suits

🟨Masks

🟨Tow Truck

🟨The Hotel Assassination

🟨Blitz Play

🟨I fought the law…

🟨Eye in the Sky

🟨Mr. Richards

⬜Negativity?

🟨Caida Libre

🟨Deep Inside

🟨Minor Turbulence

⬜Fucked Up?

🟨Paleto Score Setup

🟨Predator

🟨Military Hardware

🟨The Paleto Score

🟨Derailed

🟨Monkey Business

🟨Hang Ten

🟨Surveying the Score

🟨Bury the Hatchet

🟨Pack Man

🟨Fresh Meat

🟨The Ballad of Rocco

🟨Cleaning out the Bureau

🟨Architect’s Plans

🟨The Bureau Raid Finale

🟨The Wrap Up

🟨Reuniting the Family

⬜Doting Dad

⬜Abandonment Issues

🟨Legal Trouble

🟨Lamar Down

🟨Meltdown

⬜Parenting 101

🟨Planning the Score

🟨The Big Score Setup 1

🟨The Big Score Setup 2

🟨The Big Score

🟨The Third Way

⬜Something Sensible

⬜The Time’s Come

🟨The Multi-Target Assassination

🟨The Vice Assassination

🟨The Bus Assassination

🟨The Construction Assassination

Hobbies and Pastimes

🟩Stunt Plane Time Trials

🟪Shooting Range - Michael

🟪Shooting Range - Trevor

🟪Shooting Range - Franklin

🟩Shooting Range: Hand Guns

🟩Shooting Range: Submachine Guns

🟩Shooting Range: Assault Rifles

🟩Shooting Range: Shotguns

🟩Shooting Range: Light Machine Guns

🟩Shooting Range: Heavy

🟫Shooting Range: Special

🟩Street Race: South Los Santos

🟩Street Race: City Circuit

🟩Street Race: Airport

🟩Street Race: Freeway

🟩Street Race: Vespucci Canals

🟩Tennis (win)

🟩Golf (par)

🟩Darts (win)

🟩Private Dance

🟩Triathlon 1: Vespucci

🟩Triathlon 2: Alamo Sea

🟩Triathlon 3: Coyote Cross Country

🟩Offroad Race 1: Canyon Cliffs

🟩Offroad Race 2: Ridge Run

🟩Offroad Race 3: Mineward Spiral

🟩Offroad Race 4: Valley Trail

🟩Offroad Race 5: Lakeside Splash

🟩Offroad Race 6: Eco Friendly

🟩Bail Bonds - Quarry

🟩Bail Bonds - Farm

🟩Bail Bonds - Mountain

🟩Bail Bonds - Hobo

🟩Arms Traffic Air 1

🟩Arms Traffic Air 2

🟩Arms Traffic Air 3

🟩Arms Traffic Air 4

🟩Arms Traffic Air 5

🟩Arms Traffic Ground 1

🟩Arms Traffic Ground 2

🟩Arms Traffic Ground 3

🟩Arms Traffic Ground 4

🟩Arms Traffic Ground 5

🟩Hunting

🟪Flight School - Michael

🟪Flight School - Trevor

🟪Flight School - Franklin

🟩Flight School: Training Take Off

🟩Flight School: Runway Landing

🟩Flight School: Inverted Flight

🟩Flight School: Knife Flight

🟩Flight School: Flat Hatting

🟩Flight School: Touch Down

🟩Flight School: Loop the loop

🟩Flight School: Helicopter Course

🟩Flight School: Helicopter Speed Run

🟩Flight School: Skydiving

🟩Flight School: Drop Zone

🟩Flight School: Earn Your Wings

🟩Sea Race: East Coast

🟩Sea Race: North East Coast

🟩Sea Race: Raton Canyon

🟩Sea Race: Los Santos

🟩Yoga

🟩Parachuting: Base Jumps

🟩Parachuting: Heli Jumps

🟩Wildlife Photography

🟩Stock Car Races

Quests

🟦Pulling Favors

🟦Pulling Another Favor

🟦Pulling Favors Again

🟦Still Pulling Favors

🟦Pulling One Last Favor

🟦Shift Work

🟦Paparazzo - The Meltdown

🟦Paparazzo - The Sex Tape

🟦Paparazzo - The Partnership

🟦Paparazzo - Reality Check

🟦A Starlet in Vinewood

🟦Grass Roots - Michael

🟦Grass Roots - Trevor

🟦Grass Roots - Franklin

🟦Grass Roots - The Smoke-In

🟦Exercising Demons - Michael

🟦Exercising Demons - Trevor

🟦Exercising Demons - Franklin

🟦Seeking the Truth

🟦Accepting the Truth

🟦Assuming the Truth

🟦Chasing the Truth

🟦Bearing the Truth

🟦Delivering the Truth

🟦Exercising the Truth

🟦Unknowing the Truth

🟦Rampage One

🟦Rampage Two

🟦Rampage Three

🟦Rampage Four

🟦Rampage Five

🟦Target Practice

🟦Fair Game

🟦The Civil Border Patrol

🟦An American Welcome

🟦Minute Man Blues

🟦Special Bonds

🟦Death At Sea

🟦Nigel and Mrs. Thornhill

🟦Vinewood Souvenirs - Willie

🟦Vinewood Souvenirs - Tyler

🟦Vinewood Souvenirs - Kerry

🟦Vinewood Souvenirs - Mark

🟦Vinewood Souvenirs - Al Di Napoli

🟦Vinewood Souvenirs - The Last Act

🟦Extra Commission

🟦Closing the Deal

🟦Surreal Estate

🟦Breach of Contract

🟦Far Out

🟦The Final Frontier

🟦Risk Assessment

🟦Liquidity Risk

🟦Targeted Risk

🟦Uncalculated Risk

🟦Mrs. Philips

🟦Damaged Goods

🟦The Last One

⬜Private Fare - Clown Car

⬜Private Fare - Cut You In

⬜Private Fare - Deadline

⬜Private Fare - Take It Easy

⬜Private Fare - Fare Needs Excitement

⬜Private Fare - Follow Car

⬜Private Fare - Got You Now

⬜Private Fare - Got Your Back

⬜Private Fare - Take to the Best Tailor

Random Events

🟧ATM Robbery

🟧Bike Thief City 1

🟧Bike Thief City 2

🟧Bus Tour

🟧Construction Accident

🟧Escape Paparazzi

🟧Gang Intimidation

🟧Getaway Driver

🟧Mugging 1

🟧Mugging 2

🟧Mugging 3

🟧Security Van 1

🟧Security Van 2

🟧Security Van 3

🟧Security Van 4

🟧Security Van 5

🟧Security Van 6

🟧Security Van 7

🟧Security Van 8

🟧Security Van 9

🟧Security Van 10

🟧Shop Robbery 1

🟧Shop Robbery 2

🟧Snatched

🟧Sport Bike Thief

🟧Simeon Yetarian

🟧Abandoned Vehicle 1

🟧Abandoned Vehicle 2

🟧Arrests 1

🟧Arrests 2

🟧Border Patrol 1

🟧Border Patrol 2

🟧Border Patrol 3

🟧Burial

🟧Car Theft 1

🟧Car Theft 2

🟧Chase Thieves City 1

🟧Chase Thieves City 2

🟧Chase Thieves Country 1

🟧Chase Thieves Country 2

🟧Countryside Gang Fight

🟧Countryside Robbery

🟧Crash Rescue

🟧Deal Gone Wrong

🟧Domestic

🟧Drug Shootout

🟧Drunk Driver 1

🟧Drunk Driver 2

🟧Hitch Lift 1

🟧Hitch Lift 2

🟧Hitch Lift 3

🟧Hitch Lift 4

🟧Rogue Altruists

🟧Luring Girl into Alley

🟧Prisoner Lift 1

🟧Prisoner Lift 2

🟧Stag Do Running Man

🟧Duel

🟧Sea Plane

🟧Monkey Mosaic

🟫Altruist Cult Shootout

Misc

🟥Purchase Clothes

🟫Acquire All Clothes

🟥Purchase Car Mod

🟪Acquire All Upgrades - Tailgator?

🟪Acquire All Upgrades - Bodhi?

🟪Acquire All Upgrades - Buffalo S?

🟥Purchase Haircut

🟥Purchase Tattoo

🟥Purchase Weapon

🟥Purchase 5 Properties

🟫Purchase All Properties

🟥Purchase Vehicle

🟥Collect 50 Spaceship Parts

🟥Collect 50 Letter Scraps

🟥Collect 30 Submarine Pieces

🟥Collect 30 Nuclear Waste

🟫Collect 27 Peyote Plants

🟫Collect a Bonus Peyote Plant?

🟫Collect 10 Epsilon Tracts

🟫Destroy 15 Lenny Avery For Sale Signs

🟥Play fetch with Chop

🟥Booty Call

🟥Prostitute

🟥Watch TV

🟥Purchase Stocks

🟥Hold Up a Store

🟥Complete 25x Under The Bridge

🟫Complete 50x Under The Bridge

🟥Complete 8x Knife Flights

🟫Complete 15x Knife Flights

🟥Complete 25x Stunt Jumps

🟫Complete 50x Stunt Jumps

🟥Ride the Cable Car

🟥Use the Car Wash

🟥Use a Fairground ride

🟥Visit the Cinema

🟥Friend Activity: Bar

🟥Friend Activity: Cinema

🟥Friend Activity: Strip Club

🟥Friend Activity: Darts

🟥Friend Activity: Golf

🟥Friend Activity: Tennis

🟫Solve a Murder Mystery

🟫Meet all Humans of Los Santos

🟫Acquire All Phone Contacts

🟫Complete the C.o.M Process

🟫All Gold Medals

Gatherables

Clothes

⬛Trevor - SubUrban

20 Glasses

16 Shoes

3 Jeans

7 Pants (4 + 3)

8 Tops

26 Jackets (15 + 11)

9 Hoodies

16 Shirts (7 + 5 + 4)

⬛Michael - SubUrban

⬛Franklin - SubUrban

⬛Trevor - Binco

⬛Michael - Binco

⬛Franklin - Binco

⬛Trevor - Discount Store

⬛Michael - Discount Store

⬛Franklin - Discount Store

⬛Trevor - Ponsonbys

⬛Michael - Ponsonbys

⬛Franklin - Ponsonbys

Special outfits of concern:

⬛Franklin & Michael’s Exterminator outfit

⬛Trevor’s Golf outfit

⬛Michael’s Golf outfit

⬛Franklin’s Golf outfit

⬛Michael’s Janitor outfit

⬛Michael’s Jewel Heist Suit outfit

⬛Michael’s Moto X outfit

⬛Trevor’s Moto X outfit

⬛Franklin’s Moto X outfit

⬛Everyone’s Security outfit

⬛Franklin’s Skydiving outfit

⬛Michael’s Tennis outfit

⬛Trevor’s Tennis outfit

⬛Michael’s Triathlon outfit

⬛Trevor’s Triathlon outfit

⬛Franklin’s Triathlon outfit

⬛Michael’s Tuxedo outfit

⬛Trevor’s Tuxedo outfit

⬛Franklin’s Tuxedo outfit

Route

‘Trevor%’

🟡Mission: Prologue

Notes to self

You can get a quick line between the 3 aim targets. Spam phone button works.
FPS running faster to vault. Exit FPS on exit vault.
Jump out of cover and have Michael push you.

Prologue skip:

Make car leak fuel by shooting back tire gas tank ~3 times
Throw car into trigger zone by jumping out (@ large white patch after black stroke)
Light fuel trail on fire (from about one wheel’s diameter behind the car)
Enter car and hope it gets destroyed during the cutscene.

Gold Medal

No requirements.

Mission skips possible:

Shooting M instead of the guard to start of outdoors fight
Running away back inside skips to entering car cutscene

Skipping the drive is not faster than doing the fuel skip it seems

🟡Mission: Franklin & Lamar

Notes to self

Hauls all the way, but go slow upon entering the film studios and after.
Upon going down the ramp, Lamar should be on the perpendicular approach road (one turn left for him to catch up)
Going real slow ahead of Lamar. Upon entering tunnel, his dot needs to be vaguely visible.
Seems to be using the character switch menu to abort/prevent dialogue in Simeon's store while walking out
Run to Buffalo in FPS. Just get in asap.
Calls 911 to stop dialogue.

Gold Medal

No DMG
Ability for 7 seconds (which is 14 in real time?)
Dont hit the aliens
Beat Lamar to the race

Collectibles

MM #5: During initial race. Lord knows. Probably gives Lamar time to catch up if we don't 'lose' him first.
MM #29: During initial race. Lord knows. Probably gives Lamar time to catch up if we don't 'lose' him first.
USJ #7: Done in all USJs, but tight timing to win the race for Gold
MM #30: Probably gets swarmed with cops because you need to stand on a car iirc
USJ #16: While waiting for the cops to disappear
USJ #6: While waiting for the cops to disappear
MM #1: While waiting for the cops to disappear
MM #3: While waiting for the cops to disappear, but likely too far out of the way with better options available.

Grabbing the sticky bombs might be an idea if we need to wait for Lamar anyway, as it allows us to do securicar events sooner.

After

You can press F into the Buffalo as the door opens, it will block it, then tp you in. Probably want to sleep (twice?) so the time of day is right to do streetrace after Pulling Favors.

🟡Mission: Repossession

Notes to self

FPS run inside, punch at the end.
Park car backwards against the fence
Hug the fence, all the way left, and then you can first person push Lamar
Push him well enough it skips him punching the dude.
Can regain sprint by stepping back a bit.
Abandon Lamar by square hatch on floor?
Shoot first guy upon leaving the garage, climb the small brick wall on the left, seems to spawn all the enemies. Then:

Lower balcony
Upper balcony
Gas tank
Four guys left to right

Shooting the pistol after for tab running
Alley on right, quick Bagger steal.
Jump off bike at the end to skip something?

Gold Medal

6m30
70% accuracy
6 headshots
Shoot the gasoline trail

Collectibles

USJ #44: Even the any% route does this
MM #50: A bit out of the way, and it yields you with not enough speed to do the shortcut jump
Can you carwash during a mission? And on a bike? And upon delivering here?

🔵Quest: Pulling Favors

Notes to self

None

Gold Medal

5m00
Dont unhook in a way the game doesn't want you to

Collectibles

USJ #17: Shortest on the route, but an awkward 180 turn required after landing
USJ #25: out of the way, lines you up faster for end destination, but a bit far
MM #27: one block further than you're supposed to drive. All of these are awkward, but getting one might be doable. Definitely not two.

After

Drive to Hao’s quest. There are no good random events to do in between.

Packie’s is out of the way and ends next to Hao, despawning it.
ATM Robbery Ruiner could work, but it’s low prio & seems wanted level’y.
Mugging 3 is an option, but it’s out of the way and Hao despawns when you drive past Simeon.

MM #27 might still be interesting to grab after this, as well as USJ #17 and USJ #25, but a bit out of the way.

🔵Quest: Shift Work

Squishes 🟢South Los Santos street race

Gold Medal

1m20s lap
2m50s race
5 or fewer collisions

Collectibles

MM #27: A weird one in an alley up a ladder. Can you warp to CP if youre not in the car? Does it work with the gold req.?

After

Either do Chop straight away, or do one of the following random events and then go to Chop:

Security Van 1 → good because the next mission voids the wanted level
Mugging 1 → Spawns too close
Packie’s → Better elsewhere

🟠Random Event: Security Van 1

Notes to self

Shoot the people, grab the thing. Wanted level is cancelled by starting a mission.

After

Drive back to Chop

🟡Mission: Chop

Notes to self

Push a cart to block Lamar's door (a bit further back), stand in front of the door yourself and it teleports him and Chop inside.
You can enter as soon as Lamar starts talking.
Tab run to van
Goes one road further east on the way south for the chase
There’s some weird taxi company call strat you can do at legion square that skips half the chase????
Cut diagonal northeast over the train tracks. Climb between blue containers.
Chop can be pushed
Just cut diagonal and wait for the dude where he falls
Drive back: right immediately, past Legion Square's tunnel.

Gold Medal

No Van DMG
Chop POV 10 seconds
Ability 7 seconds

Collectibles

LS #16: Suboptimal because of the van's slow acceleration
LS #19: Suboptimal because of the van's slow acceleration
MM #16: Puts you on foot nearby. Tight timing to not lose the chasee
MM #23: Puts you on foot practically next to it, while Chop does his thing
USJ #16: On a route back, but not on the optimal route. Bottlenecked by dialogue.

After

Options are to go to Simeon straight away, or do some other stuff first:

PP #7 is needed to extend the timer: Reverse into the parking lot behind you to spawn it, then just a straight forward line to get to it. Quick even with the van.
There now is room for a random event: Mugging 1 seems to be too close. Packie’s is on the way’ish to Simeon, and works with the van’s parking after the PP too. Maybe squeeze in LS #8 before or during this random event. Security Van 1 is also an option, but the van spawns not ideal for it.
Franklin Shooting Range at the end, and go on foot thence into Simeon’s. Downside: Have to leave the place. Better if we could warp.

🟡Mission: Complications

Notes to self

You can clip the main gate by covering the car then sliding?
FPV for running and indoors
Sneak until out of the bathroom, then just jog in FPV. TPV jump in the little hallway to the garage
Enter/exit to immediately trigger Michael
9 righthanders, 1 kick?

Gold Medal

5m00s
No damage during Simeon fight
Knock out the gardener (stealthily (very lenient))

Collectibles

USJ #46: Somewhat en-route to Michael's.
MM #10: To go with the above USJ?
USJ #7: On the way back. Does this work with Michael in the back?
USJ #8: Very unlikely
USJ #44: Already done, likely.

After

Puts you on foot next to ammunation as Michael. Do the shooting range.

Quick save and load glitch to Michael's house. Alternatively squish a ? or Random Event before doing this.

Phone to complete the private mode tutorial, walk left to avoid a cutscene trigger.

Also, taxis exist.

Also, this is the time to do ammunation challenge with Michael. He spawns on foot pretty much next to it.

🟣Activity: Shooting Range - Michael

Worth 6/61 points of Hobbies and Pastimes:

🟢Hand Guns, 🟢Submachine Guns, 🟢Assault Rifles, 🟢Shotguns, 🟢Light Machine Guns, 🟢Heavy,🟤Special

Notes to self

Buy grenades?

Gold Medal

Too complicated to write down

After

Either QS warp to Father/Son
Or slowly walk out and go to the marijuana quest and then warp to F/S. A car is provided upon exit.
Mugging 3 seems to be too close. Could try it anyway with a minor detour?

🟡Mission: Father/Son

Notes to self

Franklin hops on the boat after entering the tunnel
Engine dies upon exit tunnel
Shoot a guy on the turn right? He can be shot early and will die as soon as trigger.
Slow down a LOT now
Jimmy gets poled before an underpass.
Caught Jimmy and shot a guy at intersection
The guy must be shot as soon as Jimmy’s trigger appears.
Franklin caught before offramp you can take
Dialogue is bottlenecking the garage

Gold Medal

Rescue Jimmy in 10s
No damage (when? This mission gives you fixed damage...)

Collectibles

MM #40: Out of the way
MM #44: On the way but access to the graveyard is awkward
LS #18: On the way but access to the graveyard is awkward
USJ #28: Likely not ideal with the boat spawn
USJ #9: Likely not ideal with the boat spawn
MM #46: Alternative route from any%
MM #43: Alternative route from any%
MM #29: Detour from alternative route, good for setup to USJ 9
MM #19: While waiting for dialogue to end. There's a PP nearby, so not ideal for om1
MM #50: Out of the way
USJ #46: Seems like a bigger detour than the previous mission
MM #10: See above

After

Leave and phone cover warp back.

Potentially get MM #17 and warp back from there. Or maybe even a side mission or random event, like Paparazzo, though it is much further away.

🟡Mission: Marriage Counseling

Notes to self

Up the ramp, a bit slower approach. Don’t haul.
Looking back and phone trick prevents enemies.

Gold Medal

No damage
5m30s
Kill 3 enemies from inside the car

Collectibles

MM #17: On the way? Not really

After

This drops you in a random park with no vehicle. Options are:

Follow the Highway to Lester's house ala any%
Along the way is MM #24
Maybe USJ #24 followed by Security Van 10, Luring Girl Into Alley (test spawn), or LS #13
LS #16 in the nearby construction site
LS #19 followed by Mugging 2
Humans of Los Santos - Mani
MM #2 but it's behind a wall I think
Gang Intimidations random event is right next to Lester's house. Small detour. No luck at spawning. → This spawns further north than the map indicates.
Murder Mystery Clue #3
Mugging #2 if we’re stalled enough for time. Does the timer start counting on mission passed, or when Lester hangs up the phone?
Getting to Lester without triggering Security van 10 is hard. Can we prevent it from appearing somehow? Otherwise, we need to look for alternatives. Perhaps Chase Thieves City 2, or an ATM Robbery.

It also unlocks Chaos, but that might not be tracked. If it is, it needs to be done before (effectively) Carbine Rifles.

🟡Mission: Friend Request

Notes to self

Phone: Up Enter Left Down Enter

Gold Medal

8m30s
32 seconds for the popups

Collectibles

Gold medal only allows for about 1 minute of detouring on this mission.

MM #2: But it’s behind a wall?
MM #19: On the way?
MM #21: On the way?
MM #48: On the way?
USJ #48: On the way pretty much
MM #46: A bit of a detour I think?

After

Stock market unlocked. Do we need to do something with it straight away?

Next mission is unlocked by simply running past the pool into the hedge.

This unlocks The Good Husband, a call will come in, it needs to be accepted and done before either Trevor or the heist.

🟡Mission: Daddy’s Little Girl

Notes to self

Push Jimmy a bit off the stairs
Then lure him into the car, enter passenger side
Push red bike out of the way if not doing bhop strats
Take grey BMX for bhop strat. If not, take yellow bike
Swim sideways underwater to guarantee straight line
No need to dive without the waves. Boat RNG if lucky.
Call taxi for lines skip as soon as Michael says “Calm down”.

Gold Medal

Top speed on seashark
Dont fall or get off bike
1m00 to swim to the boat

Collectibles

LS #11: Under the road, probably bad. Might wanna do it when you can deathwarp or something.
MM #45: Seems good
LS #9: Requires getting off the bike, voiding the gold medal

After

Any% Quicksave warps at this point, enters the suit manually, then hangoutwarps to Franklin to drive to Lester in sleep mode.

However, a couple side things are available at the pier:

Funfair rides
Human of Los Santos - Jesse
Chaos is nearby if it’s needed. Still should take a taxi for it though. Unless you take USJ #9 and maybe MM #39 and MM #5, but both a bit out of the way.

Collectibles:

LS #12 and #MM #18 are both on the pier
PP #23 seems not worth it, it spawns next to NW #24 which isn’t unlocked yet.

Lastly, this is the second-last and probably best opportunity for The Good Husband. This mission conveniently ends at Michael’s house, bypassing the need for a QS warp.

Any% wants the Martin text to come in before warping to Franklin

⚪Mission: The Good Husband

Notes to self

Upon starting, deathwarp to TP closer
Wanted level takes 45 seconds to disappear.
Is it faster to go to the pay n spray? Will need to not take the cop car.
Apparently the wanted level can be skipped by starting the barber tutorial right on the same street

Collectibles

USJ #47: Nearby
USJ #48: Nearby
MM #48: Nearby, requires climbin
MM #46: Nearby in the other direction
MM #43: Same
MM #29: Same

🟡Mission: Casing the Jewel Store

Notes to self

Run FPS to the store, hug the left wall. One hop then in TPS.
TPS out of the shop, FPS to the car.
Block car door upon exit
Ladders’re done TPS. Roof FPS, upper roof TPS too.
Vent FPS. Jump down TPS before the round building on right side
Way back goes highway drop into securicar tunnel, then the train tracks sewer.
Jump out into marker
Any% picks Eddie Toh, Gustavo Mota, Paige Harris (all defaults)

Gold Medal

8m00
All three things in one picture

Collectibles

LS #13: On the way, but maybe better opportunity later with faster car
USJ #46: This drive is done like a hundred times.
MM #10: This drive is done like a hundred times.
USJ #18: On the way back, parallel road to any% route. Awkward with bridge at the end to get to Lester’s.

🟡Mission: Carbine Rifles

Notes to self

Through the parking tunnel
Past Pay N Spray onto tracks
Grass hill on left
Keep left wall, camp by hole in barrier on the road
Lester’s text means go. There’s also some Franklin call? Don’t get fucked by Amanda or Rickie.
Park between 2 bridges near each other, then run back. Shoot floor for faster running.
Shoot floor in front of FBI car to spook them?
Let driver get out and shoot him last. Dont kill. Upon in car leaving, finish him off.
Same route back. Go go go!
Wait at end tunnel, hug right wall.

Gold Medal

2m00 to lose wanted level

Collectibles

Don’t seem to be any that are good for this

🟡Mission: The Jewel Store Job

Notes to self

Maybe worth taking Rickie instead of Paige, so we get more money. Could be useful for mid-run asset stuff. Same for taking Packie over Gustavo, though I’m not sure the mere 2% is worth anything.
Sanchez: Sharp left
Don’t go over the overpass. Keep left, big’ish road.
Drop down onto highway by that park, they will enter tunnels. Keep yoru sights on them with the camera button.
Drive blindly. At some point turn left and hop into the drain.
Hitting the trigger fails the mission. Is this ok for gold?
Truck: Keeps sticking left. Turns to right side after overpass with big pillar in water.
Ignore everything

Gold Medal

0m50s to leave store
Don’t die during the sewer chase
Steal EVERYTHING

Collectibles

This has the same drive that we’ve seen a dozen times now. But the van is poopy, so probably nothing.

There appears to be nothing in the tunnel (yet), unfortunately.

Truck’s slow. Probably not worth bothering.

USJ #24: Bit of a detour. But no traffic, but no view angle, and it ends in the sewers where we want to be. But it’s the wrong direction. Awkward, but suitable if nothing better.
MM #8: Detour, with slow ass truck. Probably not lol.

After

This drops you at the porn club. Exit in FPS. Cover on pillar outside for speed.

Might wanna do a random event, especially Simeon Yetarian. However the slow time to walk out of the club might be useful to get something else out of the way instead. Otherwise, Drive to Long Stretch. Maybe stop by the car wash on the way there.

🟠Random Event: Simeon Yetarian

Notes to self

Triggered by making Simeon speak, then just leaving

After

Drive to The Long Stretch

🟡Mission: The Long Stretch

Notes to self

Take Buffalo
Combat roll into Ammunation, then covers onto the counter
Only buys the shotgun
GPS Route. Smash fence.
FPS up stairs. Combat is done TPS. Pushing Lamar is done FPS.
Runs into fire room, dies for quick respawn. If not dying, wait for explosion before leaving fire room.
Helis must be killed.
Wait for NPCs to climb ladder before hopping fence.
Shoot the two approaching cop cars, and the third one too while waiting for NPCs to catch up.
Into the storm drain. Up grass below freeway. Onto the road and to Franklin’s driveway.

Gold Medal

60% accuracy
10 headshots
No damage
10m30s

Collectibles

USJ #30: Bit of a strange angle, but there is time
LS #8: Bit of a detour. Cop timer allows for this probably, but do the spawns?
USJ #2: Detour
USJ #45: Combined with #2. Might be even bigger detour.

After

Switch to Michael & QS Warp. Then change to Franklin and back.

The bike in the garage can be duplicated by switching as you get off of it.

But: We might wanna do paparazzo first?

Trevor’s Countryside Segment

🟡Mission: Mr. Philips

Notes to self

Van is unpushable. Use it as NFS guardrail upon sharp left turn.
You can get in front of it after the USJ but difficult
You can shoot gas tank by two bikers to blow up them and many others.
Deathwarp back with green propane tank upon finish.
Switch spam at end to prevent more lines

Gold Medal

Kill all bikers at the camp
12 headshots
12m00
Push Ortega’s trailer in all the way
Kill the two bikers during the chase

Collectibles

USJ #3: Even any% does this
LS #40: Can this be done without losing them? Really awkward too.
MM #11: In Cranberry, out of the way though.
MM #21: Slightly less out of the way in cranberry.
MM #26: Driven past. Probably good here unless some mission takes you there.
MM #36: Probably better to do this during the random event nearby
MM #33: Nearby.

After

Drive to Cheng

Maybe get MM #33 and maybe #22 if youré feeling the detour

Are there quests nearby?

There’s a random event near MM #33. But the timer…

Humans of Los Santos - Clinton is nearby.

🟡Mission: Trevor Philips Industries

Notes to self

Climb into Trevor’s car manually for quicker enter.
Driveto: Mostly down the path, then over smooth brown hill through smooth desert and another path
Onto paved road, no fancy shortcuts to the lab
Immediately go outside. Shoot people, or blow up cars with gas tank.
There’s armor. At some point leave and blow up the tanker to kill the last group on west.
Grenade on: Car from behind. Mesa pulling up.
Does a deathwarp after the shootout. Can’t do?
Refills grenade launcher to kill the last two phoenices with.

Gold Medal

32 Kills (how many total??)
No damage
6 Vehicles destroyed
4m30s

Collectibles

USJ #29 if you’re feeling the detour lol. Reaching here.

After

Takes a mesa to drive to Trevor.
Maybe meet Human: Clinton. Likely better before a triathlon or offroad, or Cletus?
Maybe do Drunk Driver 2 and get nearby MM #33. Puts you at the camp. Savewarp back doesnt work because no other characters. Deathwarp takes you to Palomino Creek. Could do the first off road race to get back.

🟡Mission: Nervous Ron

Notes to self

At Ammunation, also buy: Micro SMG + Ammo + Extended clip. 1 Tear Gas.
IDK How to do the ladder thing
Blows Ron up for a skip.
Only shoot the highest light
After Ron’s thing, shoot the other light.
Wait for the guy to step in front of the caravan, then shoot him
Van guy as he gets out. Immediately control tower guy. Then a guy left of caravan. Then tower again. Then Ron. Then two guys by the oil tank.
Sanchez guy appears behind van. Then helicopter.
Quad: Shoot someone on control tower. Then shoot the gas station.
Get them from behind. There’s many. Just practice and learn their spots.
Jump off into plane.
Tanker can be shot. Cars can be blown up.
Plane is immediately trashed to TP into the air.
Army Base matters not.

Gold Medal

5 Headshots. Does this need to be during the sniping, or ever?
12m30s
Beat Ron to the airfield
Fly under 6 bridges
Kill all bikers while on the plane wing

Collectibles

UTB #23
UTB #19
UTB #18
UTB #50 - Slight detour up the mountain. Hard but doable and very satisfying.
UTB #17 - Forced on stunt plane trial
UTB #9 - Formerly marked incorrectly, this can be gotten here instead of 16 and 31
UTB #31 - Forced on stunt plane trial
UTB #24
UTB #25 - What is this? Seems mutually exclusive with #24. Circle round? Mission time requirement?
UTB #20
UTB #21

After

Buy Asset. Gun Runner Missions.
Otherwise, take the buggy, and drive to C. Stop maybe for Arrests 1, or even Security Van 7 (if you have stickies). Hitch Lift 3 isn’t unlocked yet. Or maybe Drunk Driver 2.
Alternatively alternatively, take a plane for UTB #49 and UTB #22.
Offroad events unlock.

🟡Mission: Crystal Maze

Notes to self

Drive the same rout to get here in reverse.
Cut through the orange grove, then left of a low silo tank thing, approaching from the side.
Park it slightly away from the house, inside the turn.
Just run in, using power for god mode if needed.
Grab a can, then run out. Tear gas dropped at the bottom of the stairs.
Run out back door. Leave.

Gold Medal

10 headshots. Must be from the sniping point?
No damage
1 shot 2 kills
80% accuracy

Collectibles

Don’t appear to be any on the way.

After

Arrests 1 spawns too close and requires turn around.
Security Van 7, if a way to get back to Trevortown is found? Deathwarp? But loses the car. MM #14 further down that road.
Maude? Probably better here than previous.

🟡Mission: Friends Reunited

Notes to self

Shoot at the start before even getting in the car. Why?
Swoopy with the car.
Take a route. Very offroad towards the end.
Marker can be entered by going offroad and sticking left.
Smash the orangered fence. Takes the USJ.
Gets on the highway, then the offramp to put him onto the final road.
Use Trevor’s power to walk the stairs.

Gold Medal

5 headshots
No detection
No damage
Blow up all trailers at once

Collectibles

MM #26 - Good car for this
USJ #23 - On the way. Car isn’t very good with airtime?
LS #38 - Same
LS #35 - On the final drive? A bit awkward maybe.
USJ #11 - Even any% does this
MM #40 - If you make a sharp right after the stunt
LS #18 - The graveyard you drive past. Good car?
MM #44 - Same as above
MM #43 - Not on the route, but a parallel route.
MM #29 - Same
MM #39 - Along the anyu% route, but this one’s on a roof?
MM #49 - VERY parallel, too far probably.

After

LS #11 before switching to Michael?
But see what else there is to do nearby. There’s also a drunk couple, or Security Van #5

Blitz Play Segment

🟡Mission: Fame or Shame

Notes to self

For once we don’t make that left turn. Don’t enter the yellow marker. Just jump out into the stadium.
FPS push Michael.
Enter passenger side.
Just follow Lazlow, but not onto the train tracks. Stick to the road.
Don’t follow into the drain. Stick to the road. Jump in at the end, bailing out.

Gold Medal

Top speed in the truck
Stick close to Lazlow
Punch the man next to the parking spot (Does running over work?)
Don’t unhook the trailer

Collectibles

USJ #30 on the way to the stadium?
USJ #2 with a bit of a detour
USJ #45 with a bit of a detour

Doubt anything can be gotten during the chase, especially not with those medal requirements.

After

LS #17? → Probably best by calling a cab and stealing it and driving over. To get back on the road, either drive, or do something as Trevor to allow Michael to ‘unstuck’ himself.
Trevor gets put close to LS #19. There, do either Mugging 2, or Chase Thieves City 1. The latter puts you next to SubUrban. Loot it. This will provide a large chunk of the time required to reset the Random Events counter.
Back to Michael: MM #47 (to extend timer further) , Pamela Drake, then Escape Paparazzi. During Escape Paparazzi, get Murder Clue 4.
After that, PP #15, LS #24, MMC #2, MM #15. Start Dead Man Walking.
Alternatively, Bike Thief City 2 is near the end point. LS #17 could be used to stall its timer. The bike is a bicycle, so useless.
Available missions are: Dead Man Walking, Scouting the Port, & Assassination

🟡Mission: Dead Man Walking

Notes to self

Upon waking up, he just runs, knocking out a guy in the final room on the right to get a gun.
He shoots 4 guys on the way out the first area, then a 5th from the elevator.
Medkit before the stairwell.
Ignore the guy at the top of the first stairs, shoots the one coming down the second.
Then ignores the rest. Shoots the glass next to the door and runs through that and that shot also takes care of the window.
Left car, window shot makes stealing faster. Turn left and leave the opposite end, by the hospital.
B-Line for the sewers, through some grass into it.
Sewers can be left using a ramp that spits you out on the road that goes past the caryard. Then just go.

Gold Medal

70% accuracy
14 headshots
9m30s
4 kills with slowmo
No damage

Collectibles

USJ #25 is somewhat on the way. It takes you the right direction at least.
MM #27 is on the way, but it’s up a ladder and might give the cops too much opportunity to catch up
MM #34 kind’ish on the way. Same as above.
MM #2, different route, out of the way, but at least this one doesn’t require leaving the car.
LS #5 a stretch, but perhaps if the popo is being annoying.

After

Buy the car scrapyard, LS #6, MM #35, USJ #49, these are all pretty much where the mission ends.
Franklin spawns close to the edge of the city. If there is ever a time to drive to the spaceship mission from within the city, now would be the least worse. And it’s early! Fuck that, we can warp there. When warping to Yoga, warp by failing TPI replay.
Trevor’s doing random crap. Not useful?
Gang Intimidation is nearby and actually spawns now.
PP #5, but more out of the way.
Otherwise, QS home for the Yoga Mission.
Can you QS warp as Trevor to his cousin’s house?
Available missions are: Yoga, Three’s Company, Scouting the Port, & Assassination

🟡Mission: Did somebody say yoga?

Notes to self

Push Jimmy down the stairs. Then just run to get in the car ASAP.
Wow we’ve gone down this road before haven’t we. But this time we turn right :O
Calls Cab Co to skip dialogue. Then Amanda immediately. Then opens the phone, and later puts it on Dave’s name before the final turn through the flowers, then calls Dave when the cutscene starts.
Turns left sooner to end up at FaceBook, different route back. But then straightforward after that.
Just land on the nearest skyscraper.
Tab running to skip any animations lol. Random car from the street.

Gold Medal

15m00
First Yoga First Try
Second Yoga First Try
Third Yoga First Try

Collectibles

MM #49 near the burger shot. You can quickly enter this park. The quickest way to exit puts you by the next USJ.
USJ #15 if you take the right turn one later.
MM #29 Bit out of the way
MM #43 different route, but not bad out of the way
MM #46 Same. You cant get any on the way back.
MM #17 After the hallucination. If you can get there while drunk. Good because you’re already on foot, though this one doesn’t require to be so?

After

Youre at Michael’s house. Who knows what’s nearby. Hangout warp to Trevor? Bernie is just down the road then.
The hangout warp puts you close to Mugging 2, but we’ll need to stall time before it spawns. Stall by performing yoga?
Meeting Mani at a minor detour
Available missions are: Scouting the Port, Three’s Company, Assassination (in the any% route)
Really pay attention to side stuff that’s getting unlocked. Franklin? Trevor? Especially need to get those SSPs unlocked.

🟡Mission: Three’s Company

Notes to self

FPS run, go into TP before the meeting.
Cover run to the car and drive it to DAVEY.
Right Left Right onto the highway
A helicopter. Oh no!
Just fly into the trigger at full speed. Low to the roof.
6 snipers shots. Reload.
2 sniper shots Switch.
5 michael kills.
Franklin snipes heli coming from the right, then switch to Trevor.
Turns around and goes in between buildings to get opponents to crash.
Diagonal forward rights so Michael can shoot the remaining heli.
Drive off to the right.

Gold Medal

7m30
60% accuracy
10 headshots

Collectibles

UTB #16 UTB #15 UTB #14 UTB #13 - Near start
Then: UTB #33 UTB #32 UTB #43 UTB #44. This can then turn left to do UTB #42 UTB #41 UTB #40 UTB #39 UTB #38 UTB #37 UTB #36, or it can turn right to do the following sequence:
Or this can also be done if the previous is skipped: UTB #12 UTB #11 UTB #10 UTB #8. A left turn needs to be made at some point. Determine when, but can continue all the way if desired: UTB #7 UTB #6 UTB #5 UTB #4 UTB #2 UTB #1
MM #34 is on a roof and flown over/near. Is the roof big enough?
MM #27 also on a roof. Same thing.
LS #14 is on a crane of the high building. Probably not the best, especially with parachuting unlocked.

That’s the most obvious stuff. The rest is easily ground accessible, but maybe squish out of the way ones if there’s no better opportunity for them.

After

PP #5 is somewhat near the end point. Too near?
Switching to Trevor yields a helicopter.
That’s used to fly back to Floyd’s place in any%.
God knows what to do now. PP #16 is on a roof. So is PP #17. And LS #4 but it’s more out of the way. What the hell is LS #13?
Available missions: Hood Safari, By The Book (after 2.5h), Scouting the Port, Assassination.
UTB #48 UTB #47 UTB #46 UTB #45 are all options. As is UTB #26. This can be extended to UTB #27 UTB #28 UTB #29 if desired. All the storm drain ones could be done too.
PP #20 on an island. LS #10 on an island.
Further north: LS #28 on an island. LS #30 by the sea plane. But the latter should wait for spaceship parts.
Heli might spawn near PP #13
Any out of the way collectibles not collected elsewhere can fit here. We have a helicopter, though the question remains how it compares against bikes.
Any random events that are good with helis?
Possibilities are endless. We could even transfer the thing to someone else. Draw some lines. Where exactly does it spawn?
Do we perhaps even want to squish stuff in Trevortown with him, while we have the heli there? Perhaps LS #37 and LS #36.
Speaking of, what is Franklin up to? Franklin can do some quests.
Trevor can savewarp back to his house. He doesn’t need to fly there.

🟡Mission: Scouting the Port

Notes to self

Drive, then shortcut through the storm drain. Up the left ramp at the end, then train tracks shortcut.
Walks straight to the truck, using coverspeeding.
Push forward from whence you come. Then back. Then forwards.
Can warp into the handler by standing between the two hydraulic rods on the front.
Wiggling is faster.
Do speedy 2nd container grab without sl owing down.
Just fall into the crane marker.
Space instead of climb the ladder back up.
After pics, aiming weapon fails the mission to warp back. Gold?
Tab run out of Merryweather’s base. There’s probably a good car on the left.
Take the road bridge back, then into the drain and back.

Gold Medal

20m00
Don’t damage containers
Snap 3 pictures as instructed
Don’t fail the mission

Collectibles

SSP #10 (weird climb)
MM #50
USJ #30
LS #7 behind a wall
MM #8 - Somewhat on the route.
LS #3 - Awkward as shit with that boat
USJ #34 - Bit of a detour, but its direction puts you right. Also its accompaniments.
USJ #40 This cant be taken with the truck lol.
USJ #50 But truck, so probably not lmao
USJ #33 on the way back
USJ #31 right ater
LS #1 in ebtween those
MM #38 is there any mission that takes you here?
SSP #6 pretty en-route
MM #28 mostly on the way
USJ #43 big ramp, right direction
USJ #22 bit awkward path

After

Does the heist selection count towards the Random event time? If so, drunk driver could maybe go here? Or construction accident. Or security van 4, 2, or 6. Or security car 1. Or mugging 1. Otherwise, drive Trevor to Franklin. Loot Binco?

🟡Mission: Hood Safari

Notes to self

Shoot as trevor: 3 guys in the distance. Approaching car. 2 more guys across the street. Guys on your sidewalk. One to the left by house. Blow up new car.
Then run to the CP. This fails.
Take back scooter.
Blow up car on left. Blow up heli. Both with stickies.
Then pedal, all the way to the third island.

Gold Medal

7m00
70% accuracy
12 headshots

Collectibles

LS #8 requires weird turn
LS #7 behind a house
SSP #3
SSP #5 if you for some reason beach here.

After

Ending in the ocean puts you in a good approach for MiniSub. To do: Look at the old route before this (Friendly Baron’s videos?)

🟡Mission: Minisub

Notes to self

Suffer
No dolphining
Wiggle the truck. Tab run.

Gold Medal

8m30
Don’t board the big boat

Collectibles

SSP #2 but probably faster to just take this on foot from the land nearby.

Truck spawns you on that island with the many USJs. Worth to steal a Blista and return to the truck later for USJs?

SSP #4

After

Dials 3285550150 to warp to the next mission. This can be primed earlier and then hit star. Grab the tugboat letter while waiting for the switch to become available
Or by running away the mission ends earlier?

🟡Mission: By the Book

Notes to self

Drive goes straight into the drains, then it’s the same drive as Father Son
Wrench is quickest
Michael is TP’d, just head north bro
Guy in red
Then Trevor goes to the airport

Gold Medal

Don’t let the guy’s heart rate above 200 BPM
Use the zapper - 1st. Dont overdo it. If Haines speaks you’re too late letting go. Up to 120 BPM?
Use the grasper - 2nd
Use the wrench - 3rd. Not doing this all at once might help save BPM?
Use the towel - 4th. Give him room to breathe so the BPM doesnt go.

Collectibles

USJ #22 - Right next to it, just a bit too close. Need more runup.
USJ #26 - How does one get to this?
USJ #9 - This seems like the best spot tbh. No detour other than the fact that stunts are inefficient.
MM #39 - Where do we spawn exactly? Doesnt seem to cooperate with USJ 9
USJ #28 - Instead of 9. But the angle might be weird?
LS #20 - Awkward
MM #20 - Any route down this road can take this. Probably better to do this during towtruck?
MM #25
LS #2
LS #4
USJ #41
USJ #42
USJ #27 - All of these just whatever

After

Flight school? Abovementioned collectibles?
Any% drives off and takes a towtruck RNG’d at the stadium
PP #24

🟣Activity: Flight School - Trevor

Squishes 12 hobbies & pastimes: 🟢Training Take Off, 🟢Runway Landing, 🟢Inverted, Flight, 🟢Knife Flight, 🟢Flat Hatting, 🟢Touch Down, 🟢Loop the loop, 🟢Helicopter, Course, 🟢Helicopter Speed Run, 🟢Skydiving, 🟢Drop Zone, 🟢Earn Your Wings

Collectibles

Doing this once with each character means extra opportunity to get knife flights:

Inverted Flight:

T: KF #9 - Go slow on the approach, get it before leveling out at the end
M: KF #10 - Same
F: KF #8 - Same, or haul and get it at the start of the upside down

Knife Flight:

T: KF #13 + KF #12
M: KF #2
F: KF #6

Loop the loop

T: KF #14 + KF #15 + KF #11
M: KF #3 + KF #4 + KF #1
F: KF #5 + KF #7

Helicopter Course:

UTB #30 + UTB #12 + UTB #11 + UTB #10 - First one’s unavoidable. Rest is freebies

Helicopter Speed Run:

UTB #29

After

Any% drives off and takes a towtruck RNG’d at the stadium

⚪Mission: Blitz Play (part 1)

Notes to self

Cutscene

After

Applies to anything that ends here I guess?:

Just SSP #7, SSP #5, PP #5 nearby. Get before a switch? Also that random event near Leste’rs

🟡Mission: Tow Truck

Notes to self

Get this from Tonya I guess

Gold Medal

3m00
No damage - Wikia says this is finicky? Does damage taken prior to starting count?
Top speed - We’ll need to go in a circle I guess

After

Anything. Look for a garbo truck for example

🟡Mission: Trash Truck

Notes to self

Getting this from Mirror Park is fine if you want to satisfy that Gold Medal? But popo.

Gold Medal

5m00
No damage
Top speed - We’ll need to go in a circle I guess

After

Anything. Switch to Franklin for example, then do masks

🟡Mission: Masks

Notes to self

Can this be combined with looting the place?

Gold Medal

20s
3 white hockey masks\

After

Go to assassination.

Andy Moon is nearby

🟡Mission: The Hotel Assassination

Notes to self

Climb the window into the marker instead of driving
Ammunation:

Pistol max ammo + suppressor
AP Pistol max ammo + ext. Clip
Carbine Rifle max ammo + ext. Clip
Assault rifle ext Clip
Micro SMG max ammo + ext. Clip
Grenade Launcher
RPG
Special Carbine max ammo + ext. Clip
5 proxies
20 stickies

Max Armor
Get a better car and go back
Guy is wearing red
Shoot and drive off

Collectibles

MM #43 nearby
MM #29 slightly less nearby
LS #18 somewhat nearby
MM #44 somewhat nearby
MM #46 somewhat nearby
SSP #20 at the golf course, probably not feasible
MM #40 further away but it might be better to do far away shit if there’s no good alternative

Gold Medal

Use sniper

After

Drive off to central downtown Ammunation

MM #30 maybe, or USJ #7. Or USJ #18. Not much else on the way of that drive. Might be better to go as Trevor though if he needs the Ammunation Challenge still.

🟡Mission: Boiler Suits

Notes to self

Enter ammunation
Buy boiler suits
Leave

Gold Medal

30s
Different colors for each

After

Drive to Trevor for the heist.

We’ve done this drive before. There’s nothing, but maybe do a random event

🟡Mission: The Merryweather Heist

Notes to self

Upon reaching the bridge spot, pop up your phone and do sth?
Immediately shoot, then shoot the guy in front of you. Then a guy lower left on stairs.
Michael pistol, use the fancy button for bombs.
Hop down, one guy
One guy behind white concrete block by second b omb
Before third bomb, one guy on stairs, one guy above
Then someone’s coming down the ship s tairs
Franklin: Two guys on the boat near Michael
2 Cars
Helicopter, aim at left corner of red containers on blue
One guy following Michael, then one to the right next to bridge building
Then two guys far left
Two guys on the main deck, wait with killing the second one

Collectibles

None :)

Gold Medal

12 headshots
80% accuracy
12 stealth attacks
No alarms
60s to get to the container

After

Switches to Michael. Trevor isn’t anywhere useful except for maybe PP #24

Where is Franklin? → Random

Michael: Driving away over bridge across secondary shooting range ammunation. Towards special character: Jerome, and Bike Thief City 1

🟡Mission: Getaway Vehicle

Notes to self

Any car, parked in alley behind 2nd ammunation, by a green dumpster in front of a door.

Collectibles

Security Van 9 might be here

After

Any car, drive to mission start.

🟡Mission: Blitz Play

Notes to self

Sticky bomb just on the bottom of the truck between the wheels opens it and TPs Franklin.
Upon Franklin talking, blow up Michael and then Franklin himself (hospital warp?)
Prep the road with proxies
Run back, shoot.
Helicopter, missile
More people, shoot
Switch to Trevor, shoot people in the road
Franklin, snipe
Michael, shoot
Car, missile, keep shooting.
Another heli. Shoot
Run back to the road still Michael
Do a buffered ledge grab on the van
Drive to the getaway vehicle
Sticky the wall, do the ledgegrab, blow up the sticky with the garbotruck during the warp.

Collectibles

LS #5 – Maaaaybe on the way to the getaway car? Probably not.

Gold Medal

Destroy a helicopter - It says with Trevor, but not needed?
12 headshots
60% accuracy
10 switches - any% does 4

After

If hospital warped: Main hospital, drive straight through to D.

Otherwise:

SSP #27 to Hitch Lift 1 (which puts you at the Airport)

SSP #30 - PP #10 - SSP #31 - MM #7 - Stag Do Running Man + LS #34

Other nearbys: SSP #13, LS #26

Security Van 8 - PP #27 - MMC #5 (requires having gotten the previous 4, of which only #1 hasn’t been potentially routed)

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