Getting Around

Once the game starts for the first time, you are asked to do a tutorial level. Playing as a photographer means ignoring, circumventing and sometimes resisting what the game wants us to do and follow our photographic project instead. For starters, we are going to skip the compulsory game introduction, avoid the missions and neglect the narrative plot of the game. We are going to install a file which allows us to travel to Los Santos with no restriction of any kind, so that we can focus on photographic activities To do this we use a completed game save file.

• Download the file and extract its content, then copy both files SGTAXXXXX and SGTAXXXXX.bak in Documents/GTA V/Profiles/YYYYYYYY/.

• Once the files are there, you will be able to load the game state by running GTA V and navigating on the pause menu to GAME > Load Game and select the 100% game file.

With the game save file loaded the player is free from the constraint of the main game missions and locked map areas, but the game will still at times resist the photographic project in different ways. The player can be attacked and killed by mountain lions, or beaten up and sent to the hospital by Non-Playable Characters (NPCs). The player's character can drown, fall to their death and get run over by cars. Walk around, explore a bit. Jump in a car and drive around Los Santos. But try to be nice.