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How to Skip Missions (Singleplayer)

By 1984

Guide tells you how to skip entire missions or parts of those missions whether because you do not want to play them or there is a bug stopping you from beating them or a specific point in the mission.

You can also use this to skip intro of the game without having to find and use someone's savefiles.

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Category: Gameplay Basics, Secrets, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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27 Oct, 2020 @ 9:58pm

30 Nov, 2020 @ 4:09am

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Press L to Win

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Press L to Win

So I do this sometimes when I encounter bugs in the game. I skipped stealth mission with Charles because I didn't care to go back out of the mission to my camp and pick up the bow from storage and then I had a crash bug at some point during a mission, and after playing Epilogue I had an unremovable cattleman so I loaded an older save and skipped 5 Epilogue missions.

Press "ESC" or Left Mouse Button and hold to skip cutscenes.

During gameplay press "L". Your mission will be at the top of the list, press Enter. Hold "SPACEBAR" to abandon.

Hold "ENTER" to retry checkpoint, do this twice and on the third time you will be able to press and hold Right "SHIFT" to skip 1 checkpoint.

Sometimes checkpoints are short, so there is no need to do this. But you have to know in advance.

You can also fail missions through other means, like killing your character with dynamite, alerting law, getting too far away from target, or doing one of many other things Rockstar doesn't want you to do during their railroaded missions. However, the method I describe here works for any situation, even when you can't move and/or kill your character.

Here is how it looks on a video:

Have fun skipping

Simply Art

I love this game, truly. I love robbing trains and robbing stores, and stealing horses, robbing banks, the story is great and there is just so much to do. Graphically it is really amazing. And it has so much hidden depth to it like being able to do things not intended by devs. And it doesn't force you to do things you don't like.

I hope you enjoy this game as much as I do! And have the bestest day!

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1984 [author] 7 hours ago

glad you liked it. ty!

mahone 24 Nov @ 5:08am

Thanks, this bug was a pain

1984 [author] 6 Aug @ 1:22pm

only by downloading someone's savefile. Try trouble shooting, verifying files. Lowering all ur graphic settings for that mission. Or install a game on a different pc beat it there and then return playing on ur main pc.

DarkWaterRebellion 6 Aug @ 6:14am

I'm stuck. I haven't acquired a mission at camp from Hosea, but it's the next mission to get, yet whenever I get close to him it CTD's before getting the mission so I'm not able to skip it.

Is there a way to skip it before acquiring it?

Ptero90 21 Mar @ 4:24am

Oh I can't do it I'm stuck at the first mission with Strauss and when I wanna put the money back it shows that I abandoned the mission even when I skip checkpoint it shows the same and I can't abandon it when I press the L button because it's mission close to free roam please help

Msooby 23 Jan @ 9:47pm

Thank you, this is the true way to play GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2, can finish it faster and move on with life

1984 [author] 22 Jan @ 2:26pm

@everyone who commented
Y'all welcome :) enjoy

Wolfie 22 Jan @ 11:09am

Haven't had the chance to try this, as I am not playing at the moment, but I am stuck at the Man of Honour mission where I first go to Angelo's estate to get Jack back. The game gets stuck just after the guards open the gate, and Dutch says "We just wanna talk . . . yada yada" We stand there like dummies with our hands in the air. Nothing else happens, and then the quest fails with "Guards were alerted"

I CAN'T wait to try this out. From what I have read this DOES work, and if so, THIS IS GOLDEN and I thank you for saving my sanity, AND my save game!

saltyking 13 Dec, 2023 @ 11:18am

you should be first thing ppl see on anybug! thanks man

1984 [author] 30 Mar, 2022 @ 6:32pm

haha

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