dancegrenade
Member
I have been thinking the same thing.
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Grand Theft Auto: Online |OT| The Stimulation Has Began!
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I have been thinking the same thing.
King Tubby
Member
You pay $100 in-game to be safe from others, but you can't do anything in this mode. No weapon equipping so you can't mess with NPCs. And it seems ripe for abuse. Like I mentioned earlier in the thread I was able to disable it at a moment's notice and cap an unsuspecting player.
nowheretorun
Member
:-00000000000000000 LMFAO.
Sorry man but that was funny as fuck and at least lightens the mood with your wit.
On a more serious note though, I feel a touch of your pain.
Chance Hale
Member
Oh good, now the game is getting into an endless "session closing" loop after failing to work.
Beermeister
Banned
Yes, it's ridiculous.
It won't, because you can play GTA without an Internet connection. You couldn't with SimCity.
NullPointer
Member
Can you have private lobbies? Say, just me and my friends like I used to do in GTA4?
That is just bizarre.
IAmRandom31
Banned
Well just got done with a pretty long 3-4 hour session. The jobs and such did not ever work up until the past hour. Finally was able to get into some jobs and earn some real money and reputation. Until then I was just causing trouble and losing the cops over and over, robbing stores. Up to Rank 7 atm. Game session is down for the day.
Some dude was trying to grief me by killing me when I spawn so I jumped into a car real fast, spun a 360 and popped him in the face with my pistol. Continued to then blow up his nice personal vehicle. Thats what you get for being a prick. 9K down the tubes.
I did a mission with a fellow crew member in the NGAF crew which was pretty cool. Got into a session with another NGAF member. Will be fun!
Once everything sorts out and things are more reliable, it should be an enjoyable experience online. I actually was able to steal a helicopter too! lol. That was cool. Started robbing stores and then jumping into my Helicopter to get away
Some dude was trying to grief me by killing me when I spawn so I jumped into a car real fast, spun a 360 and popped him in the face with my pistol. Continued to then blow up his nice personal vehicle. Thats what you get for being a prick. 9K down the tubes.
I did a mission with a fellow crew member in the NGAF crew which was pretty cool. Got into a session with another NGAF member. Will be fun!
Once everything sorts out and things are more reliable, it should be an enjoyable experience online. I actually was able to steal a helicopter too! lol. That was cool. Started robbing stores and then jumping into my Helicopter to get away
LMAO
jediyoshi
Member
Have we come to a point where shooting has become the crux of GTA and everything else has been mitigated to 'nothing'.
Metalmurphy
Member
Well duh. What did you expect? Your save is now in the new version. This isn't a DLC.
Chance Hale
Member
So is my character actually gone for good or are Rockstar's cloud servers just being awful?
unknownhero
Member
fuck the cloud. sucks too because I see people on my friends list playing online. ps3 btw.
dancegrenade
Member
Cloud is unreliable at this point haha.
jediyoshi
Member
Yes, there are coop missions that involve people from the campaign. Though for the most part I've just seen you and dudes go from point A to B, kill dudes at location, collect vehicle/item, go to drop off.
astronaughtE
Banned
Yes there's missions on your phone but it puts you into a private room.
Not my gif, from reddit.
Temp. Just as long as you don't save a new character on the same slot as the old.
The Living Tribunal
Member
Had the same problem a while ago, but it's fixed now.
King Tubby
Member
Well, you can't rob stores or cause mayhem or do anything that could earn you money or reputation points unless you just want to be able to go do a mission or activity in peace, which you can do easily enough from the map menu, or just wander around. It has its function, but a friendly fire setting would be welcome.
Yep. I can't find anyone to do a mission after the first few "story" ones.
Psychoward
Banned
Considering there's still an offline mode (that's fantastic as well), it will never beat it out.
astronaughtE
Banned
Worst thing is the other players. Why can't we work together?! I can't wait for heists to be added, hopefully we don't have to wait a year!
Yes you can, you can have it set to be Crew-only lobby or a Friends Only lobby.
Gouda Jouji
Member
I've re-made my character a few times today, got to the first race and have been stuck at "Launching session". Oh well, it's better than "Failure to host session". Progress!
Psychoward
Banned
That sucks, that's what I did though to get it to work earlier, ended up finding and playing with another gaffer for a bit before the lobbies separated us.
Yes.
Pretty much this is sounding like how RDR's online started out as, except with passive mode added (which is inherently worse than just a separate free roam option that turns friendly fire off).
In RDR at launch, everyone could use whatever aim mode they wanted in the free roam. At the time, there were no separate free roam modes or even separate deathmatch aim types. So you could be using free aim (no autoaim or aim assist at all) while another player would choose the easy as hell Casual autoaim BS and always stay locked onto you and get free kills. This wasn't addressed with separate free roams and deathmatch types for each aim variant until at least six months later, maybe a little longer.
And I think with those changes also came a separate free roam that had friendly fire off. You could still fuck with NPCs and stuff but not other players. HOWEVER, you could still shoot at people, it would just do zero damage.
It seems like Rockstar is taking one step forward and two steps back with this multiplayer and it's really freaking strange. You'd think they would implement what they did with RDR day 1 for GTA Online. :S
Maybe they don't want to splinter the playerbase and that's why they came up with passive mode and needing to pay $100 in-game cash to use it?
tokyostomp
Banned
I made it in. Just me and 1 other person...
Psychoward
Banned
You can still work with other people in free roam (ha, as if), and there are still missions and jobs that can be done with other players.
The Living Tribunal
Member
Pushing those transgender boundaries in gaming...
Moondragon sure looks strange these days.
NullPointer
Member
Well that sounds good at least.
Maybe I'll jump in with the rest of the world if there's ever any decent reason to. But deathmatch was never my thing. Not for GTA or Red Dead.
Love the co-op, free roam progression and everybody-out-for-themselves objective modes with friends.
Hope they can sort the stability issues out before the weekend hits.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
God damn. I'm so tired of waiting the 2 minutes it takes to boot this game each time and then wait for online to load and then wait to see that any characters I created are gone and then wait to go through the intro and then wait to see if the first race will start and then wait to get kicked back to SP and then wait to see if R* will ever let me play. Hurry up and wait Rob, hurry up and wait mother fucker.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Pushing those transgender boundaries in gaming...
happened to my character, their servers are terrible and theres really no excuse
NEOPARADIGM
Banned
So just how long should I sit here for this "Launching session" screen before giving up and force-quitting this shit? Is five minutes long enough?
dancegrenade
Member
Cloud is unreliable at this point haha.
GrumpyOutlander
Member
Me too. At first it was funny, but I want my old face back lol
Autoaim likely still works, yes, from what it sounds like from other posters. It's based on what you set it as in the SP, just like RDR started out with.