6 Unique and Easy GTA San Andreas Tips That Surprisingly Useful for You

Make your gameplay much efficient than before!

Andra Setiawan Weltofa
4 min readOct 18, 2022
The legendary GTA game that satisfy our childhood

Let’s be honest, GTA San Andreas fills most of gamers’ childhood. This game breaks the record as the most selling PlayStation 2 game.

It feels like this game has everything that we need, starting from a great storyline, amazing soundtrack, and arcade gameplay elements that fulfill our satisfaction.

As a GTA fan, I like GTA SA because this game has simple gameplay mechanics compared to other GTA. It’s easy to play and has many unique tips that are surprisingly useful for you to make your gameplay more fun and efficient.

So, what are those unique tips? Find that answer by reading it down below and be ready to apply it for yourself.

1. Switch your weapon to reload it instantly

One of the most popular tricks in GTA San Andreas is the instant reload.

If you still don’t know yet, you don’t need to waste your entire gun mags to reload a gun because it triggers reload animation which sometimes takes a couple of seconds.

This is an interesting glitch which can help you a lot during intense gunfight. Fortunately, this glitch is pretty simple to do.

When you shoot a gun, try to keep a track of your magazine. If its ammo is almost reached zero, switch to another weapon and switch back to a previous gun again.

Voila! Now, your magazine is fully loaded and ready to shoot!

2. Change your appearance to lose your wanted level.

This simple tip is still forgotten by lots of players. If you have a wanted level and need to lose it quickly, you don’t need to go into Pay N’ Spray and waste 100$.

Instead, find a nearby clothing, safe house, or barber shop and simply change your appearance, whether your clothes or haircut.

After that, your wanted level will start blinking. Just wait for a while and it completely disappears.

This method is very useful against police. It also exposes the police weaknesses, that is, their idiocy.

3. Hijack a car from the passenger seat while holding the jump button to kill a driver.

How to steal a car without making a driver try to get it back?

Just enter a car from the passenger seat while holding the jump button. This interesting glitch kills the driver. Also, CJ will not close the door and starts driving. This tip will save your time when hijacking a car.

In GTA San Andreas Mobile version, this technique is slightly changed. You don’t need to hold the jump button. Instead, you can do the technique while holding the gas button. It still has the same outcome.

4. Gang members will often spawn behind your POV during gang war.

One thing that I love in GTA San Andreas is the gang war mini game. You will capture every single gang territory in Los Santos.

But this mini game has a fatal flaw, that is, its enemy spawn system.

During gang war, your enemy will rarely spawn in front of your view. Usually, they will spawn behind your view so you can use this tip to set their spawn route and help you to get an easy headshot.

Here is my simple tactic that you can apply as your reference. During gang war, I always try to find one straight road or open intersection while keeping my camera view facing forward.

When the enemies have spawned, they simply lineup with each other and rarely scatter to do flanking. This makes my job much easier to do because I can simply take a position and kill all of them with a headshot.

5. Put your broken vehicles inside a safe house garage to fix it instantly.

Imagine this situation where your vehicle is almost destroyed. You don’t want to drop it because it is your favorite. Well, you don’t need to always go to Pay N’ Spray or a vehicle workshop to waste your money anymore.

Just find a safehouse that has a garage and simply put your vehicle inside it. Wait for a while and open it back.

Tadaa!! Now you will be surprised because your vehicle is 100% fixed and ready to go.

6. Complete Burglary mission to have infinite stamina.

Burglary is a side mission where you simply become a burglar who breaks a house and steals TV, DVD Player, or radio. The mission rewards are so lucrative, that is, getting money and infinite stamina ability!

If you are too lazy to go to the gym and destroy your button in the treadmill again for stamina, just simply finish the Burglary mission. You need to find a black colored Boxville van in a specific hidden location to start this mission.

You can do the Burglary mission in every city because all cities have this car in a hidden location.

After completing this, now you can do sprinting, cycling, or swimming without being tired.

Highly recommend doing this before joining a Triathlon competition or you are annoyed because you are easily tired when doing activities.

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Andra Setiawan Weltofa

Indonesian junior writer who has interest in Tech and Gaming | Business Inq: andrasweltofa@gmail.com