It's kinda ridiculous that GTA V can still humble people who've played it for years, and that's part of why clips keep going viral. Even if you're just hopping on to mess around or grind GTA 5 Money for your next big purchase, the game's got this habit of turning a "normal" moment into something you've never seen before, like it's saving weird little surprises for later.

Two Hours In, One Tiny Mistake

I was watching a DarkViperAU run the other day, deep into the kind of attempt where your hands start to feel stiff and your brain's doing math in the background. He's on "Minor Turbulence," flying that Cuban 800 low so radar won't pick him up. Normally it's clean: stay close to the water, keep your line, don't do anything flashy. And then he tries to thread under a bridge to shave time. It's the sort of move you've seen a hundred times. Until it isn't.

The Plane Doesn't Explode, It "Turns"

He clips something—water, support, who knows—and you expect the usual GTA outcome. Smoke, fire, restart. Instead the plane keeps going, but it's wrong. Not "engine's dying" wrong. The controls still respond, yet the aircraft behaves like it's got a mind of its own. He's pushing forward and the nose just won't dip. It keeps pitching up like an invisible hand is pulling it skyward. You can hear him realise what's happening in real time: he's not fighting a scripted fail state, he's fighting the airframe.

When Damage Becomes Physics

This is the scary bit for speedrunners: the game's damage isn't just cosmetic. If you hit the wing or tail in a certain way, the shape changes enough that the lift balance changes too. So now you've got this "zombie plane" that technically flies, but only in one direction. He tries to fix it the only way you can in the moment—loop it, bleed speed, force the nose down, anything. The horizon spins, the plane stalls mid-loop, and that's it. Dirt. "Mission Failed," with the brutal little note that the plane was too badly damaged.

Why It Hurts, and Why People Still Watch

That "run's dead" feeling lands because it's not just a reset, it's nearly two hours wiped by a physics quirk you can't reliably predict. That's GTA V speedrunning in a nutshell: you're not only learning routes, you're learning how the simulation breaks when it's half-working. It's maddening, but it's also why the game still feels alive, and why players still look for ways to stay prepared—whether that's practice, backups, or even using services like RSVSR to grab in-game currency or items faster so the rebuild after a bad night doesn't feel like starting from zero again.