Biggest Problems going on right now:
* THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO FOR YOURSELF IS TO NOT MAKE ANY MORE CHARACTERS IN THE SAME SLOT AS YOUR OLD CHARACTER THAT MAY BE LOST OR CORRUPT.
1) People getting past the tutorial and then losing their character through timing out, crashes, freezes, etc. - The best thing to do when this happens is to NOT MAKE A NEW CHARACTER IN THE SAME SLOT (ie character 1 / character 2). We have no idea if this deletes characters if you have lost one
2) Launching session / Waiting for other players at the tutorial race start. - If you experience this you can either wait around, restart to the dashboard, or hope IT MAY (no real way to find out what determines this) put you at Lamar by yourself BUT MAY FREEZE AFTER THE RACE. (I waited 45 minutes yesterday and it did put me through to the lamar race).
3) Trying to walk to the blue race trigger and it doesn’t appear. - Restart to the dashboard as the game will not produce a race trigger if you don’t already see one after the intro cutscene
4) Still being able to see your money / crew but not see your character. - This is more than likely a problem with the cloud server, which as of 5:51 PM 10/3/13 is currently DOWN. Your character is probably (not confirmed) to be saved somewhere on the server with rockstar. It will probably reappear after the server comes back online.
5) Character cannot be loaded from the rockstar servers / character data for character 1 is corrupt – Probably the same as #4, we don’t have any official word on how progress is saved through Rockstar’s social club / cloud server
6) Playing to rank 1-100 and losing your character. – More than likely your character is saved, sometimes during play there will be a small pop up in the bottom left corner saying “The Connection to the rockstar cloud server is back online” this is a good indicator that after the Title update you will be able to resume play with that character.
At this point we have no clue if the Title Update is going to wipe everyones characters as rockstar has not given us any information on the update besides that it fixes some of the problems with GTA:O.
Feel free to use this however if need be.