Getting Rhino in Arms Shortage
8 years ago
Russia

So I've recently found out that Evidence Dash can be instapassed with a tank. I'm not sure if it is known but there is pretty quick way to obtain it during Arms Shortage. The execution is awful in my video but a think optimal time would definitely be under a minute (maybe much less if tank is pushed while waiting for Colombians). Unfortunately there is a small problem because this particular tank is not explosion-proof, so it can start burning after a few collisions. Anyway, i hope this can be useful. The general idea is to block both doors. For some reason only during a mission (at least it didn't work for me after speaking to Phil) if you try to enter a tank, Claude gets in. PS: Not sure if it is important, but if the tank is stored in garage, it becomes explosion-proof.

dimiusko, Gaël and 3 others like this
South Georgia

Cool find. I guess the setup would be faster if you skip the pushing and block one door with your own car and the other with the barracks.

But even then i don't think it would be worth in any% or all missions. But this could be very useful in hundo.

Québec

dont even need the barracks to block it. drivers side with the car and then push the tank against the nearby pole for the passenger side. it was kinda awkward getting into the rhino, it required some mashing, but i managed to get into it after a bit lol

Russia

Yes, Jolzi, I just checked, it's enough to just block both doors by any means. I wonder why this works only during the mission.

Québec

Roughly timed this to be neither faster nor slower than "normal" strats with optimal RNG in both situations (any%)

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Germany

That's not the only factor though: what about the success rates?

I guess, you can't get out of the tank and let a replay extinguish the fire after the crash? Under what conditions does that trick work?

Québec

I wasn't talking about this being practical or anything; I was merely pointing out the time difference (or lack of).

But to answer your question, the successes are few and far between... There are several situations where you can lose your run/lose a ton of time. I'll make a quick list

-setup for entry -clip into the ground/oob just after entry -blow up your vehicle you used to block the drivers-side door, killing your Rhino afterwards -hitting too many traffic spawns, again, killing your rhino -bonking into walls -ed pattern not going north (towards the park) -getting wanted stars and having cop cars ram into you ¤avoidable obviously, but annoying¤

Honestly, the tank strat is for people who are ballsy. :3

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