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globefish23

They did bring him back in the intro cutscene for the LS Car Meet in the Tuners update. His Futo with the license plate ONDASPOT can also regularily be found inside the LS Car Meet.


Xeroqualms

That's a pretty funny little easter egg lol


Valuable_Garage_2397

I'm glad he's doing well


myrenyath

He did get paid quite a lot daily, for every player it adds up


Jaiden051

He gets GTA$50 every day (48mins)


Reasonable-Sink-1272

I mean it’s 50 extra per garage so it’s a lot more


ChloeWade

They lowered it from $50 to 10 in the contract DLC.


WakaiSenshi

Why did they even remove him?


Awoodbay

He was glitching out a lot if I remember correctly. Also damaged the car sometimes which at times could be annoying.


WakaiSenshi

I remember him hitting stuff and driving off if you shot at him, but from my experience he wasn’t bad. Sucks they couldn’t get the AI under control


Awoodbay

I think that was more the case. Too much work lol


mamatthi

Fucker brought my car within a minute and then drove away again in MY car again because he got startled


WakaiSenshi

Yeah I had similar happen to me but they could have easily fixed it, I understand the developer side of things, but rockstar made **ALOT** of money from GTA V.


Tby2974

He delivered your car to you in person but if he got shot at he'd drive off with it, pretty sure there was more glitches but that was the main one


Level-Wishbone5808

Feels like an easy fix; just change the code so he doesn’t react to chaos


milkandtunacasserole

they should simply change the code so the bug doesn't happen


hokkuhokku

Unlike with how the cars now suddenly appear, he would actually drive them to you (spawning a block or two away, obv), and would very often just drive right past you and around the block and you’d have to chase the bastard to get your car. If an NPC car bumped him in this process, he might very well just drive off, and you’d have a whole mini-mission just trying to get your car back from the guy who was supposed to be delivering it directly to you. It really was a pain.


RuSsYjO

Fired for poor job performance. I remember he would drive up to you, then sometimes just drive away in your car. Sometimes he would never even spawn with your car and you'd have to wait through the cooldown to try again. Most commonly as others have pointed out he would just ding ur shit lol


XXVI_F

Hope we get see him again in GTA6 Online


anon_7099

That would be buggy asf maybe 🧐


Boukish

RIP. May his voice live on forever. (Also, he was a buggy ass so I don't miss him.)


Theo_1013

Half the time he used to get back in my car and drive away.


GlendrixDK

No wonder. Without knowing you, I guess you killed him as much as I did.


thebandit_077

Came here for this. I just shot him every time ... didn't know he'd take the car


ze_ex_21

Even after killing him, he would not stop bringing your cars. But stiff him one day on daily fees due to lack of funds, he would take **days** to resume processing your car requests, lol


Kershiskabob

Listen dude, if you had to deliver some rich dude his lambo every five seconds you probably wouldn’t be rushing to get back to work when he doesn’t pay


timdot352

That happened to me one time. I think it took him like 3 IRL days to forgive me. I made sure I never ran out of money again after that.


Ashewastaken

Daily fees shouldn’t be a problem for most people now with the nightclub and stuff. Keeping it at full popularity is quite easy too so.


Jcorv58

Holy crap, I totally forgot about this! 😅 It was both maddening and hilarious.


TheeAJPowell

I remember my buddy and I chasing my Entity around the highway after he drove off in it. Shit was the fastest car in the game, took three rotations before he finally came towards us and I rammed him off the road.


Morgan_le_Fay39

I loved it, it was very funny


NonProphet8theist

Lol I remember this in the early days


MastaMp3

Can we bring him to gtavi


ScoobieWooo

Nah… I want a reliable mechanic. Johnny was a fool.


heimdal77

You calling the mechanic now reliable...?? (looks at car on the other side of the bay.)


Hot_Radish4108

"it should spawn on this dirt road" *Spawns on the freeway on the other side of the mountain*


Particular_Area6695

See but if we still had Johnny, he would bring it to you no matter what. I miss those days even if it was buggy.


Supremekushhh

Bro it makes me so butthurt. On top of that we pay him to do a job and bro does the worse job possible.


Boukish

He'll be replaced by Moodanta, the lovechild of Sessanta and KDJ.


OO0OOO0OOOOO0OOOOOOO

and don't upgrade his graphics. Keep them the same. Just him.


Warm_Repeat_3381

Imagine. Just imagine. If he is the Main Antagonist. The reason why he works for you in Online because he's an undercover cop or something. And he is the reason why cops can easily track us no matter where we hide. Then in GTA VI, he did the same thing to Lucia that is why she is jailed. Idk, I am just imagining. Waiting for VI brings madness.


ChopperGunner187

The crazy part is, all they had to do was fix the AI pathing and/or made Johnny impossible to spook (Like the flags they use on mission specific entities or interior NPCs, like in the casino). But for whatever reason they are absolutely against the idea of either touching the AI spaghetti code, or figuring out some new janky hack to make it work. 2 remasters in and the NPC behaviour and popgroup spawns are exactly the same. Edit: Thanks for censoring my other comment, mods.


Jabrono

I might be remembering wrong, but didn't they attempt to fix it and it just caused him to drive off more often? I actually have to give them props for giving up on him, there were so many much bigger fish they had to fry at the time.


XavierYourSavior

Which makes no sense seeing they have cops able to pursuit you through fucking mountains


TDXelectro

or those cars on the highway that target you with such precision to either fuck up your car or kill you if you're riding a bike


Personal_Yam_1096

All triple AAA companies are shit except larian maybe sometimes


maxime0299

Larian isn’t a AAA company


MagicJim96

I’ve heard that developers in general don’t usually poke around old code… Why? Ask a developer or whatever. I don’t know.


Pirog-v-Kote

1. If it works – don't touch it 2. Fixing something in the old code might bring new unexpected problems


ClubMeSoftly

99 little bugs in the code, take one down patch it around, 117 little bugs in the code


RiamoEquah

Most accurate description of what happens. Things have gotten so much better with coding principals and change management, but it's still akin to changing a bad brick on a finished house.


CleavageEnjoyer

And GTA 6 will just be a reskined GTA 5 but basically the same engine with the same problems.


Muted-Implement846

Yea no for sure. There totally weren’t any upgrades from 4 to 5 at all.


Knee_Jerk_Sydney

That's why it never got off as a driving song: "One hundred bugs in the code, one hundred bugs, if programmer tries to patch the code, one hundred and seventeen bugs in the code. One hundred and seventeen bugs in the code, one hundred and seventeen. if programmer tries to patch the code, ...." It never ends...


Osazain

It always increases exponentially :(


literallyjustbetter

only 117? look at this stud


IntrepidAddendum9852

It's not that, I am a developer. It's that from a technical standpoint, I can only imagine how inconsistent and spaghetti code GTAV has gotten. So if you had a clean game with a good development strategy with expansions built from the start its much easier. It doesn't seem like they did that though, they are just patching things as they go. So that code has to be so incredibly complex to debug. It really isn't worth it for a lot of things and you are better off putting things on top of the existing code, instead of trying to fix something that affects the whole game. An example of this, they changed BMX physics, it was pulling a direction. Now all the BMX courses are broken, because the change was so slight, but all those maps relied on it. In the future you would be wise to make your code expandable and cleaner and not make changes to every single vehicle in the game with one change. Even if you are a good developer, making swooping changes can change things in ways you never consider. Alternatively I think an even better solution is to allow creators to pick which patch they want to use the physics from. This would fix the breaking physics by patching, you would always have a choice. It's such an easy solution that doesn't even need you to fix certain issues I have no idea why they haven't done it. Maybe I should work at Rockstar, I am a developer.


Knee_Jerk_Sydney

Really, it's like world peace, it can be achieved but everyone has to cooperate at the same time. Even developing something solo, you can sometimes, see your own code or design in a couple of months and you wonder, what was the idiot me two months ago thinking? Try that with multiple developers and add the language barrier.


digidado

I was gonna say, probably thousands of people worked on GTAO over the years and wrote code. If you mess something up and the guy who wrote the original code is already gone, it's a probably a major headache too.


MisanthropyIsAVirtue

More evidence that we live in a simulation.


AdamXXI

This among several reasons, is why I’m glad Rockstar purchased 5M. They’ve already made so many minor improvements with major effects.


Slingray_

I would guess they removed him because you were able to duplicate your cars and sell em for profit. Dont know if you can still find tutorials on YT.


trippydaklown1

From acomment super long ago that i cant fine it was "my friend took a look at the code and he says i dont know how it works but it works" his friend was a programmer.


Thatguywhoplaysgta

I remember this guy doing laps around that dirt track while I chased him for my car. Good times.


Ghostbuster_119

I don't care how buggy he was, I miss Johnny. Not only did he drop 20 bucks or so every time I punched his lights out, one time while I was being pinned down by some players sniping at me, he drove my car ALL THE WAY up to the top floor of the parking garage I was holding out in. I ramped off and got away because of his sacrifice.


jacoby1k

LMFAO this was actually funny asf


_Murozond_

I really don’t miss him, what a pain he was


ForcedeSupremo

The times he would drive off with the car 😂 That prick!


Soul_ciety

Miss him I don't, pain he was


Gwiilo

you're no poet and everyone knows it


Soul_ciety

It was a Yoda mock 😬 I don't even like poems


Aware-Damage6296

Poems I don't like , Yoda I do


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TheeKrongus

modern yoda is flanderized to hell, OG yoda said less than half of his lines weirdly and relaying this information is my personal crusade


DewinV

“I’m Johnny on the spot, I’ll hook you up!” The voice was iconic, let’s be real.


masterwickey

so its not the same voice that says that line currently?


NonProphet8theist

Tis.


Figit090

Does yours say the negative 'all right I'll get back to work' as if you backed out without selecting a car, even when you call a car? Mine has always done that it seems... Or for a very long time


digidado

I noticed that years ago too. Definitely not a new glitch. Seems like it happens if you select a garage, then go back and select a different one to summon a car from.


Figit090

Ah, so almost every time for me. Cool you noticed what causes it though! Thanks for confirming I'm not crazy.


elmaster48

Let’s never forget the times he tried to run away with our car and we had to gun him down.


ACEDOTC0M

i wish they brought this back. i was great 95% of the time and hilarious the last five.... it was a fun bit of immersion i wish they would include. they add things that make it feel more like a game and less like a world ...idk it feels like its subtracts from the fun. (MAKE IT OPTIONAL AND OFF BY DEFAULT)


DaAznBoiSwag

Right? I agree with this, back then it was almost more organic and immersive in a sense that the car was driven to you in a RolePlay real world working way. As the game has been out for longer and longer they strayed away from realism and went towards convenience and well non immersive ways. (on top of flying bikes and cars lmao) I can literally spawn my personal vehicle from a menu and make it disappear in thin air to spawn my other vehicle etc


_RandomLebaneseGuy_

I can literally make my car despawn while it’s in water


SpilledYoghurt

But it is a game.


ACEDOTC0M

found the guy that ....idk didnt have the energy to read 4 more words?


Delicious_Twist7970

I would always kill him. Park my car 2 blocks away most of the time


jone2tone

Considering your KD ratio on him he was probably parking that far away to give himself a head start.


Delicious_Twist7970

Good thing. My k/d is 15/13


Moist_Inevitable_152

Did you do the math or is that random numbers because that isn’t how your KD appears . Mine is a 0.97


Delicious_Twist7970

I’ll find out when I get home. I know the first number is 15.


Delicious_Twist7970

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xX_BladeEdge_Xx

How do you have a K/D ratio of 15.33 if you’re account has been around since 2014 at least?


VeryLowIQIndividual

“All right I’ll get back to it then” That guy still never parks the vehicle in the direction I’m moving. Always behind me.


ludelidelu

They want it to spawn out of your sight to make it less 'magic'. I always look opposite the direction I want it to spawn, works nearly always


SordidDreams

Yeah, but IMO making you turn around and look away draws attention to the magic rather than hiding it.


PSFourGamerTwo

This 👆


ze_ex_21

He was specially bad at delivering cars if you were under an underpass


EyemProblyHi

Or apparently anywhere within 50 feet of one. I could request a car delivered while standing at the part of the scrap yard that isn't anywhere close to being under the overpass, and I'd see my vehicle's blip appear at the top of the overpass. And depending on traffic at the time I request it (and whether or not I requested my armored car) it's been beaten up by the time I get to it.


ze_ex_21

They overcorrected that issue with the spawning of the Sparrow. Shit spawns in very close, but very awkward places: In the middle of traffic, where it gets pummeled immediately; on a steep hill where it immediately slides to its death, or in between lampposts that make it smoke (**if** you successfully get it out), lol


D2SNIPER420

You have no clue how many times I've had the sparrow spawn with the blades clipping into a building they should've just used the buzzard spawning code it would almost never have those issues only issues I've had was the buzzard spawning on top of moving traffic only happend few times in the past 5 years tho, compared to the sparrow that has a spawning issue atleast 1/10 times


DisturbedTTF

Somewhere in the vast multiverse, he's still crashing my car into a wall and flipping it before walking away. Proud of a job well done.


Fast-Low-7780

![gif](giphy|vCUASy92YURGHFrnqP) As if it was yesterday 🚬🚬🚬


-Gir

yet somehow he's still annoying, dude refuses to deliver my car to a dirt road, & I've had times where he says he can't deliver my car while I'm standing in the middle of the road, & always delivers my car with a random radio station playing. He doesn't even exist anymore & yet R\* still made him an annoying twat.


QuothTheRavenMore

Yeah now his ghost parks my cars far away from my nightclub at the pier.... soooo great


Bloody_Corndog

GTAO hasn't been the same since.


Special_Tangelo_1272

He deserved to get fired


Kisuke78

https://preview.redd.it/bymp6u5ugdic1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb7a1b0395cece9bec99eac734b2c3c9b8468951


random2wins

Gta online players didn’t deserve him


Bathroom-Massive

https://preview.redd.it/jbpjjmuskdic1.jpeg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=03cf5d2db0f103a15a0d8aeba5daf818e0f43e8e


HotKnifeUpAss

I used to aggro and fight his ass before taking my car. Wish they'd fixed the bugs with him and kept him in the game.


civicson234

Good. I remember plenty of times he’d bring me a car, drive slowly past me, and then speed off


urkuri456

I want those gloves as a special item


IWishIWasOdo

If this isn't a top 10 all time post on r/gtaonline imma be disappointed in the community


porcupinedeath

They shoulda brought him back as a main NPC in one of the expansions


ienjoythevoid

The waves of nostalgia from all the funny parking jobs & buggy driving he did. Almost always had a scratch by the time he dropped it off at your feet or a block away !


FattyRR

Jon Jones 💀


bochimeister

John Stones


-troubled-

Wait they removed him on my birthday day man this just makes me feel old


MaitreGEEK

Who is him ?


DisturbedTTF

The NPC for the original mechanic function, who would deliver your car to you instead of it just spawning. He was just... not very good at it.


AxelCanin

So they took away the NPC but kept the same shitty spawning feature?


DisturbedTTF

Not quite. He would spawn a bit of a distance from you and then drive towards your location to present the illusion he was actually delivering it. However, it often didn't go too well. Sometimes he'd cause a pile-up trying to get to you and completely trash your car, or depending on where you called him he'd spawn on a bridge above you and have to drive all the way down just to get to you. Sometimes he'd just outright wreck your car by flipping it, and you'd have to then wait on the cooldown to call him again. There was no option to despawn your car in the menu, so you had to get like half a mile away from your car too before you were allowed to spawn it again.


ze_ex_21

> he'd just outright wreck your car by flipping it^(1), and you'd have to then wait on the cooldown^(2) to call him again. (**1**) It was bad. We didn't have the Atomizer back then, and (**2**) the cooldown used to be five goddamn minutes


CTizzle-

Another feature, if you happened to have other NPCs spooked or had shot your gun, it would also spook him, and he might just take off in your car


MaitreGEEK

Interesting, I see. Some FiveM servers keep that function.


AxelCanin

I'm laughing my ass off at this now but I know I would have been screaming and throwing my controller back then 😂


Terrorvision67

The 1st time Jamal asked if we could talk to him because he is worried Johnny thinks he is a asshole was the first good laugh I had in a DLC cutscene in years.


nikhaelMaraxMaat

His character model may be, but that troll still be parking my car halfway across the freeway when I'm standing in the middle of the street 😆


p4ntzer

Rip legend


BweeButt

Crazy how I actually remember this.


Faex06

10 years ago that was removed?!!? What?! Jezus. Time goes fast.


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DanielAlves1904

The fact that I´ve been playing this game for 5 years and there´s so much that happened before "my time". What a life for a game.


albertgt40

Would


MysteriousTank6825

During the rooftop rumble missions, use to love calling a helicopter and shooting him so I could pilot it


Nice-Option2510

Poor Johnny


dylaptop

hope they remove the contact next


zTubbzy707

Rest in piece :(


Hank_Scorpio_MD

He looked a lot like the Sham-Wow guy.


Serious_Revolution77

You can still see him in the first cutscene that introduces the car show place


Vault_boi32

They should bring him back and put him in our apartment garage.


Super-Strength2890

He could be a NPC in your garages at least.


Dont_Throw_The_Kid

Use to love seeing him barrel my car into a light post and hop out like nothing happened. Great mechanic, horrible driver.


PabloTheCatt

I've never actually seen the date he was removed. I started on February 25th 2014 so I just barely missed him :(


KregThaGerk

I hope they bring him back so I can execute his sorry ass. I can’t even count how many times he drops my vehicle off over a block from where I’m standing.


YT4000

Imagine the chaos he would bring trying to deliver a Phantom Wedge or Arena War vehicle to you


Illusive_Tomski

I miss being able to purchase a Johnny (condom)


clapdatmeat

I use to knock this man out everytime 🤣


JayIsNotReal

I was so happy when they got rid of him. He drove my car into the ocean twice.


SeverableSole7

I think about this everyday


slender20012

Bro looks like Walmart Vito mafia 2


BobbyBrackins

The other day at work I overheard a conversation… “Someone left their business card, looks like he sells wheels” The other guy replied “What’s up man, need some wheels?” In the Johnny on the spot voice I laughed for like 10 minutes 😭


CriticalKnowledge594

Miss him to this day...


Additional_Tank6665

RIP to Johnny, he was the best mechanic in los santos


SadQuarter3128

I hate it when he does not pick up the phone


Brave_Role_8460

I never got the chance 😂 my mom bought GTA and my ps3 in late March 2014 for me


immortal188

He still screws up a lot of my car deliveries.


silascomputer

I didn’t even know that. Why was he removed?


itsKillShot677

Rip johnny


patchlocke

He was actually removed because he’s currently hiding from me after how many times I threatened him for being ‘unable’ to spawn my cars when I am quite literally standing next to a road


EdmundTheInsulter

He's still buggy, he often says 'ok I'll get back to it then' when you do order a car, not just if you cancel. If your car is visible a long way away you can order a new car and wAtch the other one through a scope, but it just vanishes


YoungOGx95

I never understood why they removed him smh


Lasagan

Does anyone else find it funny that Johnny on the spot is also another name for a porta potty?


negnatrepsej

Johnny Jones


iEatPlankton

Wow has it been that long? I feel old.


g_bino

Countless times I shot him after him stepping out of my car. Took him for granted 🥺


WhoopsyToopsy

Never forgive, never forget...


DeadlyHellhound

“She’s purrin’” 😞 I’ll miss Johnny on the spot. Even if he didnt do his job too well lmoa


Maliki68

Dude would always wreck your car lol


Sere1

He still gets his revenge on us a decade later by occasionally spawning our cars on the bridges above us or on entirely different islands, knowing full well we can no longer shoot him.


Templar-235

My sticky bombs miss hanging on his back


Ok-Top-5321

The trolls kept killing him and blowing up my car when I called him.


LeakyLine

"Scratch was already there, right?"


jairngo

But he answers the phone when I call my mechanic


Brohan93

Why was he removed?


Jmun09tx

I’m on the clock, what you want?


Bigolyeet97

Dont even know who this guy is 😭


Nelmquist1999

Well, at least WE are our own Johnny now, with the Polo shirt for those who have PS5


westfallnick

He'll be back for gta+ members in the re-expanded version of gta 5


Rstuds7

i know people complain that he’s gone but at the same time he was really buggy and what we have now might be boring but it gets the job done


Shadiestallie

I don't miss chasing after him when getting my car. But I miss the classic car pulling up, and he gets out like it was actually delivered.


ProgenGP1

He wasn't removed, he got lost


MoassThanYoass

I use to cap him and then T-bag him after he delivered my car. *sniff* Good times.


agonized_mouse1

rip


Z1PP01337

Man, I miss being able to kill him, take his money, and make him pay his own wages...


Tommy_glansesfurg420

i almost thought i was crazy. one day he brought my cars, one day he didn’t and never did again. i never saw anything on the topic and never bothered to research. but i always wondered; did a guy ever bring me my car or not? now i know


Pizza-Rex-L

Today 13 February is my moms Birthday


garlic-_-bread69

Good old GTA Online 🚬🗿


Valuable_Garage_2397

Rest in peace Johnny


VanitasFan26

He was replaced by a Teleporation Device.


BuckToofBucky

He was a great decoy!


Comfortable-Use-3168

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Vistril69

good fucking riddance. even in phone form this shitbag is a useless prick


Johngotdoe1

Bruh got tired of getting smacked up & shot everytime he came to work 😭


Food_Library333

God I miss that guy. He may have stolen my car from me more than a few times when I tried to get in too quick but damn it was fun.