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Grand Theft Auto: Online |OT| The Stimulation Has Began!
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cleveridea
Member
What! Seriously? IDENTICAL?
actually thinking about it there were a lot more than I expected. I would imagine high end houses look unique
Well, at that point it'd be all about the location of the apartment. If the $400,000 one is resting on top of a mountain with a fantastic view, then that might be why it's $400,000 but doesn't have any other differences.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
What I can't believe is that R* didn't separate us based on aim preference.
Or that there's no way to play in a server without the white, player-dots on the radar during freeroam or red dots during missions. It's like they want people to be gankers.
There are a million things about online I can't understand.
My level has been reset. I was only level 3 so it's not to bad.
Does anyone know why the Hold Up job at the beginning isn't appearing for me? I had it before I turned my Xbox off, but now that I've gone back online it's doesn't allow me to do the job or any job for that matter.
Does anyone know why the Hold Up job at the beginning isn't appearing for me? I had it before I turned my Xbox off, but now that I've gone back online it's doesn't allow me to do the job or any job for that matter.
I have 2 on Sandy Shores, which one is it?
this is really gonna hurt the GTAO e-sports scene, i doubt MLG will pick it up now
It's not only what you get when you're paying for an apartment, it's also the location. That being said if they're both in that apartment complex that's all higher-end apartments then it's totally pointless to get the more expensive one.
well it makes the deathmatch and team deathmatch missions a waste of time.
its behind the tattoo parlor, its pretty good but i died while trying to take out the first chopper cause my assault rifles ran out and i couldnt hit him
but theres a health and armor that spawn 5 feet infront of you in that spot so its definetly great, just try to save the assault rifle ammo for the chopper, the rifle spawns right there too
but i only got like 400RP after reaching wave 4. not exactly worth it, atleast till you unlock better weapons maybe
you can make $2k and almost 1k of RP doing the Lost Van run for trevor in that same area
awesomebro
Member
As the days go by it's obvious this online mode wasn't beta tested at all.
hillsighed
Member
Your character isn't gone forever, when the cloud is down everything gets janky and it doesn't show most character information.
I waited a full day for my highest level character to return, it never came back, started on the second slot, that one got deleted and didn't come back. They might come back for some people, but at the moment as other people have experienced some of these characters don't seem to want to return, lol.
Surprise! This is beta mode!
All GTA V owners will also receive free access to the GTA Online Beta, launching Oct. 1st!
SpasilliumX11
Member
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I have lost 2 characters previously to this. I only create a new character when its clear the last has gone.
The deleting of characters for alot of us, is not temporary. The fact that Rockstar have acknowledged that its happening proves its not temporary
I think it's just for blowing up the car, which is even more ridiculous.
im no IT expert, but after the initial wave got smoothed out, alot of these remaining issues could also be on the users end. a crappy ISP(or paying for lower end-tier) or misconfigured home network setup is still gonna be crappy once the game itself gets sorted out.
Are the cloud servers down for everyone? My friend that lost his character, keeps getting that error. I've been in my solo session for 4 hours not, kind of wondering if none of this will be saved. I'm also wondering if I should quit, and test it out really quick, but am afraid if I quit and shut off my system and then get back on, I'll start getting the cloud server error.
So just wondering in general, if there is a cloud server outage for everyone.
So just wondering in general, if there is a cloud server outage for everyone.
Spring-Loaded
Member
Someone here put it best when they said that auto-aim "flattens" the multiplayer experience rather than even the playing field. It makes one method of play using automatic weapons and locking-on considerably more effective than any other tactic no matter the situation.
If someone's sniping at you from a rooftop across the street and you're out in the open, you should have to run for cover or try to get a vehicle to escape with. Locking-on from a far distance with your mini-SMG and firing as much as possible because you know your shots will all hit (and the sniper has to still aim) being a viable strategy leads to people not bothering with weapons that don't allow lock-on or with using vehicles. Even people who want to make use of varied tactics will eventually give-in to using the effective tactics because losing when game mechanics are imbalanced (free aim vs. lock-on) is generally not fun.
Having separate lobbies for free aim and lock-on further splits the online community and quickens its decay. Havign fewer people to play with/against is bad overall.
The precise landing thing (L1 + R1) was explained in SP when you first get a parachute..
The Last Wizard
Member
Should've been public tested but these devs/pubs don't want to spend the extra money. This is by far the worst online launch I've experienced, the servers being down I can understand but losing multiple characters is ridiculous. People will continue to defend them though.
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
So I log in today ....
My stats, level, money, guns car and clothes are all legit. No changes at all.
As soon as it loads it bumps me to a screen asking me to edit my character.. "This will be your last chance to do so.." ... i say yes cause why not... I can at least just not change anything. Loads up and it's the FIRST character i created. The character that was deleted and gone thus prompting me to make a new guy and name and everything. Even my name went back to what it was before.
Hilariously - it changed me back into starting clothes (white T and track pants ect..).
Fucking clown shoes. Finally ran into the time out when joining mission message. That was a good use of my time this morning before coming to work >.<
edit: Oh and I forgot ... My option to pick Marston as my father was back as well (My 2nd and third created characters i could only pick from the generics.) BUT - he was the ONLY father i could choose. I get it rockstar.. he's fuckin awesome. Why would i pick anyone else?
My stats, level, money, guns car and clothes are all legit. No changes at all.
As soon as it loads it bumps me to a screen asking me to edit my character.. "This will be your last chance to do so.." ... i say yes cause why not... I can at least just not change anything. Loads up and it's the FIRST character i created. The character that was deleted and gone thus prompting me to make a new guy and name and everything. Even my name went back to what it was before.
Hilariously - it changed me back into starting clothes (white T and track pants ect..).
Fucking clown shoes. Finally ran into the time out when joining mission message. That was a good use of my time this morning before coming to work >.<
edit: Oh and I forgot ... My option to pick Marston as my father was back as well (My 2nd and third created characters i could only pick from the generics.) BUT - he was the ONLY father i could choose. I get it rockstar.. he's fuckin awesome. Why would i pick anyone else?
NaturalHigh
Member
If you change your settings in Single Player to your preferred aiming method and then join online it should put you in online lobbies with only people using that aiming. This is speculative.
It has been mentioned in here before but I cannot confirm.
Meh, we don't really know that. I kept telling everyone the same thing. Because one of my characters that went missing showed up a day later when I wasn't getting the cloud server error. Then a day later, they went missing again. The next day the patch went up, and that character still never came back. AND my stats were wiped on the Social Club. I ended up creating another character after the patch, and it's been working perfectly after that.
I mean, maybe Rockstar MIGHT be able to bring back all the characters that were deleted this entire time, but we don't know that. For all we know, they might identify the problem, and find out they can't fix bring back character, but can fix it so it doesn't happen again.
I haven't had any problems with my single player save as of yet.
King Tubby
Member
Free Aim don't seem to mix with Assisted Aim. You get a prompt to switch aiming styles when joining a friend who has a different aiming mode.
Psychoward
Banned
A shitty internet connection has nothing to do with losing characters, that's all on Rockstar.
The Albatross
Member
Had some success playing on XBL this evening, from about 4 - 6. Didn't work for me for a while... But then it started working and had some good play sessions.
Updated to reflect current data.
I only played parachute online. It said RB/LB for air braking, but I didn't see landing.
And it either does nothing for me, or causes me to drop like a rock.
Revolutionary
Member
Fuck yeah! Got a headshot sniper kill on someone a few blocks away from the tallest building. Kinda felt bad though because I'm sure he was wondering "wtf was that?" Lol
Also, I'm really loving how failing to download a job resets my characters position. I love having to re-enter my home every time. /s
Also, I'm really loving how failing to download a job resets my characters position. I love having to re-enter my home every time. /s
So we are now moving to the phase where we blame the customers now?
I would have swore it separates people depending on aiming mode. I have a bunch of people on my friends list who use Auto, every time I try to play with them, it tells me I have to switch to play with them. It never puts me in a lobby with my AA friends but it usually dumps me into a lobby with my FA friends.
NaturalHigh
Member
No, but chances are high that there are people out there complaining that aren't doing something right or don't have correct ports open etc etc.
Static Jak
Member
Oh lovely, my level 12 character is gone.
It also makes the difference between shooting from cars (which uses free aim) and from outside a car vastly different in difficulty. It's better to get out of a car and kill someone than have a car v car shootout.
dancegrenade
Member
Watching police chases from your apartment is ridiculous.
Last night I had a lot of fun. Had like an 7 hour session with a bunch of my friends. What I noticed though is that a lot of missions are the same. Go kill a bunch enemies then collect the coke/meth/evidence/car or two teams where they compete to go collect the coke/meth/evidence/car
Caught my friend taking a selfie
Me
This jet was stuck like that for 5 minutes then it came down and crashed onto me.
Caught my friend taking a selfie
Me
This jet was stuck like that for 5 minutes then it came down and crashed onto me.
i just play the PVE stuff so it doesnt really matter to me, the free aim isnt exactly soemthing id want to do with this game's controls either with how the player movement varies.
if i wanted to play a shooter id just go back to Gears
Psychoward
Banned
I definitely should have researched the apartments more, as the one I bought didn't have any windows...You would think spending 137k would at least get you one window...
Live Free or Die
Banned
Just go this e-mail:
Absinthian
Neo Member
The cloud server is down... Any progress you made in the last hour probably won't save
Ive got my PS3 in DMZ and I still get a huge amount of connection errors and system lock ups. In my experience it worse than a lot of PS3 beta code I've tried. A lot of this is probably down to server load, i dunno. It sure does suck.
I feel like A LOT of people are having issues, that it can't just be on the users end. I have the best internet available in most of the United States, and have all my ports set up properly. I had 5 characters go missing prior to this last one.
Pretty sure it wasn't on my end.
My buddy also had no problems, and went the first 3 days being able to play, without his character going missing. He was one of those that had smooth sailing. Then randomly he got hit with the character deletion today.