MarauderShields
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Where is Cops N Crooks? And where are all the activities?
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Grand Theft Auto: Online |OT| The Stimulation Has Began!
- Thread starter DietRob
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nah. I just lost my character because the game froze and I've been having trouble creating another now since it won't even let me connect to that. That coupled with having to wait for the google earth thing, along with the little loading cutscene thing is making me hate this game.
I still love you Rockstar, but fuck, you should be ashamed.
The Albatross
Member
Agreed.
Although, I defend Rockstar in lieu of these issues because it's day one of the online mode of the biggest media release ever... special case. AND because, so far, this has not interfered with SP. This is also adding additional content to the game (to a game that has been great for 2 weeks).
The other two noteable cases of horrible launches:
- Diablo 3
- SimCity
The online fiasco disrupted the core single player experience from day 1. Also the functionality that was broken in both was generally an ... unpopular ... functionality that nobody really wanted. DRM servers for diablo 3 (IIRC, I never played it) and the integrated online stuff from SimCity.
I don't think that SimCity & Diablo 3 are analagous to GTA-Online. It's also still day one, barely ~7 hours after launch. Those games were fubar for weeks, and at least with SimCity, is still fucked up.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
Not surprised it's a mess, should've been expected, hell Rockstar said as much last week that it'd happen. As for save corruption, that's why you manually save (which is less of a hassle now that we can do quick saves) and do so frequently with back ups. Still sucks and shouldn't happen but umm... Yay for PS+ save uploads!
This morning with shit not working I decided to do some of the things I still have left for 100%, went and started the long triathlon got a fair ways into the cycling portion when I accidentally tapped right on the d-pad... Quit the triathlon immedifuckingly. Why the hell is that not something that either requires confirmation or at the very least hold the damn button down for a second or two?!
This morning with shit not working I decided to do some of the things I still have left for 100%, went and started the long triathlon got a fair ways into the cycling portion when I accidentally tapped right on the d-pad... Quit the triathlon immedifuckingly. Why the hell is that not something that either requires confirmation or at the very least hold the damn button down for a second or two?!
I was talking about impressions I read from people who were actually playing it though. I saw quite a few comments talking about lame missions and how they seem to force deathmatch and those other dull modes on you if you want to keep progressing.
I mean I'm definitely going to play it and find out for myself whenever they can get it stabilized but the early impressions have been rough, server performance aside.
FrostuTheNinja
Member
Was able to create and save my character, but getting a connection error.
educator
Member
With my first character, I actually made it to free roam and managed to do a few missions with everything working properly. It all just went wrong from when I took my first steps into the blue circle of hell. I'll just wait until tomorrow and hopefully it'll work then, because I really like the premise of it.
BobTheFork
Member
Look's like Ol' Boss Hogg has got those server stuck like a June bug in molasses
SarcasticD
Member
Yeah. Can't even get the race started
First impressions are most certainly not good.
The character creator is a slow piece of crap. It's just so cumbersome and clunky. And when you compare it to something like the Saints Row character creator it isn't even in the same league. I like the idea of making your character appearance by mixing and matching parent and grandparent appearance, it's original and quirky, but at the same time it just makes it that much more fiddly to get the character appearance you really want in the end.
Then when you finally fight your way through it, when you can't join a session your just thrown into the stealth loading screen for switching characters, then have to mess about in the pause menu to try and get back online again, only to be thrown back to the character switch screen when you can't get a session.
I'm also not willing to let Rockstar get away with the whole "too much demand for the servers" explanation either. They knew this was coming. Every high profile online launch in recent years has suffered this exact same problem yet the developers/publishers just refuse to learn from it and keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. It's not a valid explanation anymore, it's just a lazy default excuse for something they could and should have easily avoided.
Don't get me wrong, I love the game, it's second only to Saints Row IV for my Game of the Year, but Rockstar really need to learn some serious lessons when it comes to doing online gaming beyond a multiplayer shoot-em-up.
The character creator is a slow piece of crap. It's just so cumbersome and clunky. And when you compare it to something like the Saints Row character creator it isn't even in the same league. I like the idea of making your character appearance by mixing and matching parent and grandparent appearance, it's original and quirky, but at the same time it just makes it that much more fiddly to get the character appearance you really want in the end.
Then when you finally fight your way through it, when you can't join a session your just thrown into the stealth loading screen for switching characters, then have to mess about in the pause menu to try and get back online again, only to be thrown back to the character switch screen when you can't get a session.
I'm also not willing to let Rockstar get away with the whole "too much demand for the servers" explanation either. They knew this was coming. Every high profile online launch in recent years has suffered this exact same problem yet the developers/publishers just refuse to learn from it and keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. It's not a valid explanation anymore, it's just a lazy default excuse for something they could and should have easily avoided.
Don't get me wrong, I love the game, it's second only to Saints Row IV for my Game of the Year, but Rockstar really need to learn some serious lessons when it comes to doing online gaming beyond a multiplayer shoot-em-up.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
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Finally got this going. My character is the unholy spawn of Claude and Misty. Looks a lot like his dad which is fitting because he doesn't talk.
BlazeBreak
Member
While I certainly understand it from a gameplay experience point of view, from a design point of view the idea of forcing everyone trying to play into a single mission is pretty much the dumbest idea ever. They knew there were gonna be server issues, they delayed the launch of the online portion, etc etc.
I've been stuck on "Waiting for other players" approaching a dozen times now. Got to the car selection screen once, but never progressed beyond that.
I've been stuck on "Waiting for other players" approaching a dozen times now. Got to the car selection screen once, but never progressed beyond that.
Xbox 360 player, been playing for about 10 hours.
Loads of fun. I have a helicopter now. Earlier a bunch of us took the helicopter out to the tallest building, then base jumped off it. Other highlights - being able to spy on other plays via the TV in your apartment without them knowing (just watched some dude kill everybody in the subway...), and Weazel News operating as live FOX TV breaking news with players being the stories.
Loads of fun. I have a helicopter now. Earlier a bunch of us took the helicopter out to the tallest building, then base jumped off it. Other highlights - being able to spy on other plays via the TV in your apartment without them knowing (just watched some dude kill everybody in the subway...), and Weazel News operating as live FOX TV breaking news with players being the stories.
"Launching Session"
I've been standing in this car park since night-time and now the sun is rising.
At least I got to make my character. He kinda looks like me after a heavy night on the lash and a bout of severe dysentery.
Looks like I'm gonna have to crash out as it's not really doing anything now. I might as well finish off the single player and come back at a later date
I've been standing in this car park since night-time and now the sun is rising.
At least I got to make my character. He kinda looks like me after a heavy night on the lash and a bout of severe dysentery.
Looks like I'm gonna have to crash out as it's not really doing anything now. I might as well finish off the single player and come back at a later date
Thug Waffle
Member
it's definitely interfered with some aspects of the single player. so far, i've been unable to invest in the stock market or use Snapmatic on my phone. Not necessarily game-breaking, but still.
I do agree that one can give Rockstar a pass here. Just saying that it has affected the single player in some capacity.
CountAntonius
Member
So how active is the online world compared to single player? Same number of NPC/Cars? Random activities going? Is is pretty much the same in both and not gimped like RDR was in free roam?
It's basically the same. There's no random activities, but they've got things like darts and such added in once you reach level 6.
I would be happy if the circle was even there ;(
I still get stuck at a loading screen. The most progress I've made is my character getting past the initial loading screen and listening to the soothing tunes of Soulwax FM for days at a time while I wait for the game to load.
Visualante2
Member
This is no longer fashionably late. This launch blows.
dragonelite
Member
Some new glasses looks a lot better then the black circles around the eyes.
*insert joke about sim city and diablo 3 here*
You're assuming every game and every launch is the same. It's hard to figure out how any game is going to react to a full size audience. I'm highly doubting it's as simple as doing something like, "There are X amount of people that own the game, so we need X amount of servers." I'm sure there's much more to it than that. Who knows how a game is going to perform under full online load. There's no way they can test for it accurately.
RealityPales
Member
Baseball Bat, Golf Club and Hammer I think.
Maybe for you, matchmaking in CoD is usually screwy at launch.
SPACECADET
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Spring-Loaded
Member
How can I stop my character from walking into the street-race circle of death?
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
(Insert Connection Error Message Here)
RealityPales
Member
Me with my new ride.
Is that someone driving by in the EXACT same ride? lol