Cloud server, not jobs etc.
If you dont have a character made and you DO get past the server message, does it take you to the tutorial?
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Grand Theft Auto: Online |OT| The Stimulation Has Began!
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Cloud server, not jobs etc.
If you dont have a character made and you DO get past the server message, does it take you to the tutorial?
giancarlo123x
Banned
I haven't tried logging on in a couple of days, I'm just watching Gaf to see when It's working. Thank you my guinea pigs. >
I'd like to play online with PS3 gaf. I dont have much free time these days.. weekends and about an hour or two on weekdays if I'm not exhausted.
Psn is the same as my username. Im not opposed to grinding since that seems like the easiest way to make good money but im still level 6 (assuming i kept my character).
Psn is the same as my username. Im not opposed to grinding since that seems like the easiest way to make good money but im still level 6 (assuming i kept my character).
Aenima
Member
That way they cold not sell the money cards... and for them thats all that matters.
Live Free or Die
Banned
Yep, I dont know why they didn't shut it down right away. It's not like they would be losing money since the micro transactions are disable.
Psychoward
Banned
That's dumb, hopefully it works with one of the Lost vans?
CloakedPuppet
Member
Still doesn't change the fact that they should be implimenting some sort of indicator to save people the trouble of waiting just to find out that it's down.
They're not shutting it down because only by running it can they iron out all these problems. This is an open beta whether we like it or not.
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They are not available until they have fixed the issue with money disappearing. In fact the money packs have not been available at all since launch.
i went to singleplayer via the character change (holding down on d-pad) before i turned off the system
Dongs Macabre
aka Daedalos42
Does time in GTA Online pass when I'm not playing?
Aenima
Member
I have been "hard saving" for last 2 days. but today i was making a mission in co-op and looks like the servers whent down during that time cuz when mission finished the game froze on the "clouds" view. I had to force quit to XMB, when i try to go online again in solo mode, it took me to character creation. The only way to avoid your carachter to not be deleted, is not playing the game.
I do not created a new chareter, i left the character creation screen but when i left i noticed the orange circle spining (saving) so my hopes of getting my lv20 chaters with my 391k appartment is now 1% as in social club it got erased too. the 1% left is because stats of single layer charecter are also wiped out in social club.
This
Revolutionary
Member
When I lost my lvl 37 yesterday, I just kept loading up the Character Select until she showed up again. It was clearly a cloud issue.
Doesn't work for bounties though.
Yes. If you sell a car just before you log off and come back an hour later, you can sell again immediately because 48 mins have passed.
Doesn't work for bounties though.
NullPointer
Member
They really should have marketed it as such.
They had to know in advance that they were going to run into some pretty big bugs and issues rolling this out.
There'd still be plenty of frustration, but by setting the right initial expectations they'd have given themselves more breathing room to make the fixes they need.
IAmRandom31
Banned
Yeah I do that everytime. I go back to SP and then exit the game from there.
If I go back to SP and then return to online, the character is there, but I dunno ... seems when I exit the game, quit for the night, go to work and then come home, character be gone.
Max character so far has been Rank 10 due to this. Created ...... 6 characters so far?
I can only play maybe an hour a day if that, so yeah this type of thing is annoying. I have no idea how they are losing all character data from their servers though. That is perplexing, and should be easily remedied.
I guess, but I doubt you can get the armor plating over the windows like the police van has.
So I join multiplayer and drive around a bit. I get a mission prompt from Simeon. 10 seconds into his cutscene I get kicked by the other players in the session. I didn't ignore or decline any invites. I didn't encounter another player in that time. I didn't have a mic turned on blasting static. I didn't ignore requests that I leave to make room for someone's friend.
Maybe they were typical online dicks. Maybe they just wanted a free spot for a friend. No idea. Unfortunately when I reconnected to a new session I was greeted with a warning that if I continued to leave in the middle of missions I'd be penalized. That's messed up and the system shouldn't let griefers reduce the reputation of people who do nothing wrong.
Maybe they were typical online dicks. Maybe they just wanted a free spot for a friend. No idea. Unfortunately when I reconnected to a new session I was greeted with a warning that if I continued to leave in the middle of missions I'd be penalized. That's messed up and the system shouldn't let griefers reduce the reputation of people who do nothing wrong.
Not really no. My character is always in the spot that I left her. It doesn't matter much anyway.
I was going to say the same thing. The money cards matter so much that they're not available for purchase at this time.
I've never played Virtua Tennis so I can't really say. The closest tennis games I can compare them to since I bought them are Sega Superstar Tennis and Rockstar Table Tennis. It's definitely more like the latter sans focus shots and with rackets. It seems that Rockstar''s past experience did help.
However, I will say that there is lag every now and then as my opponent was able to a score a point several times because it lagged so while it isn't buttery smooth, it performs pretty decently overall.
CloakedPuppet
Member
The one thing that I'll say in R*'s defense is that obviously they couldn't have ran some sort of large scale beta for this game since it would have inherently spoiled the single player portion before the game was released.
I do understand that there are growing pains as with any large online release. It does say something that I'm actually quite pissed that it's not reliable right now. Normally I don't care enough about online in games to even bother posting my opinion. I had so much fun yesterday that I was truly bummed when I couldn't get my leveled character back last night.
I do understand that there are growing pains as with any large online release. It does say something that I'm actually quite pissed that it's not reliable right now. Normally I don't care enough about online in games to even bother posting my opinion. I had so much fun yesterday that I was truly bummed when I couldn't get my leveled character back last night.
It's not a very deep mode. On ps3 square is backspin and circle is topspin but I honestly can't tell the difference between the two when I use them in this game. They don't appear to move any differently, it's just the way your character hits it that appears a bit different. It's pretty janky too, there's a lot of times where you'll swing and your character will wait until it's past him/her to swing (and miss obviously).
It's still fun for what it is though, it's not like this is a dedicated tennis game. I played my friend last night and we had some fun. I even managed to hit a drop shot right over his head when he was crowding the net which made him rage pretty hard :lol
Aenima
Member
Did it took you to the character creation when u tryed to join online? And then u just kept trying to enter by "Choose a Character" option?
If thats the case ill try that when things are up and running. If not, i guess i will just farm money by selling cars and robbying stores and leave it in the bank untill they patch this.
Metalmurphy
Member
Yeah it is pretty pathetic releasing a game like this, surprised you're not loosing your shit over it.
And somehow Rockstar isn't catching alot of flak from the media either.
José Mourinho
cocknose
How do you quit jobs?
Have to say, so far I'm not remotely enjoying this.
Have to say, so far I'm not remotely enjoying this.
pocketaces
Member
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Ardenyal
Member
Bring up your job list and delete (square on PS3) the active job.
Thanks guys - will definitely try playing it once I can actually get on. Or I might stop ignoring it in sp, lol.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
Yea I agree with having an indicator I was suggesting a way to make that happen on your own.
Metalmurphy
Member
Also some of the design choices in this really leave you scratching the head.
*Join Friends*
"Getting online session details"
*Are you sure you wish to Join, you'll leave the current session"´
*camera zooms out*
"Joining session"
"Sorry session is full"
*Huge load time back to the game*
Well then why the hell did the game the session details in the first place anyway?
*Join Friends*
"Getting online session details"
*Are you sure you wish to Join, you'll leave the current session"´
*camera zooms out*
"Joining session"
"Sorry session is full"
*Huge load time back to the game*
Well then why the hell did the game the session details in the first place anyway?
Revolutionary
Member
I never just jump in; I always go to choose character to ensure that the character is there before playing, so the game never had the chance to go straight to the creator.
José Mourinho
cocknose
Thanks.
edgefusion
Member
Just had my character deleted. Fuck it, I'll find something else to play. I've not the patience for nonsense like this.
Metalmurphy
Member
Don't recreate it. It could just be the characters are still not available, by recreating them you might be deleting them.
I hope.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
Stop recreating them. The reason they are being deleted is because once the cloud servers come back your new character is overwriting your old one.
Psychoward
Banned
So everyone says to not recreate lost characters, but has anyone here actually had a character reappear?
valkillmore
Member
I have. Lost first one third time when signing on, created a new one, lost connection, logged back in and my first character was back. That was all in one day. No problems since.
Jason Frost
Member
God damn it, I hope I did not lost my character again.
I already recreated it like 12 times since this week.
I already recreated it like 12 times since this week.
You just have to keep calling Gerald until he gives you the mission.