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Grand Theft Auto: Online |OT| The Stimulation Has Began!
- Thread starter DietRob
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The Albatross
Member
I miraculously had a pretty much seem less experienced tonight on 360 after restarting. But I know I'll probably just lose all of my legs tomorrow or something.
janky way of trolling if you ask me
guys, seriously, if you don't want to risk losing your progress, take a break and come back in a week or so; what's the big hurry to get to level 100?
you know the issues that are going on, if you choose to play and your character gets wiped or whatever, it is on you.
little by little we're hearing that psn is starting to work, progress is being made; be patient and take a couple days off gta; the game isn't going anywhere.
you know the issues that are going on, if you choose to play and your character gets wiped or whatever, it is on you.
little by little we're hearing that psn is starting to work, progress is being made; be patient and take a couple days off gta; the game isn't going anywhere.
unknownhero
Member
I'm going to wait til friday, maybe the cloud servers will be more responsive then?
insane lag since i parked on him
What was the last tutorial thing you did? I'm pretty sure at one point you have to accept the mission through a text.
SpasilliumX11
Member
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Sorry to hear about your trouble. A friend of mine had the same issue with losing created characters a few times. He's pretty bummed out and is now waiting until it's straightened out for sure.
I only started "getting lucky" yesterday evening (JST); finished the tutorial missions, robbed a few stores with/without other players; hosted/joined a couple of races/deathmatches; and thankfully my character and single player saves are still in tact.
I advise everyone still having trouble to only try loading Solo Online play through the pause menu (not going directly from the loading screen). That should give you the least busy/most stable environment for starting out as possible. It might dump you in a random server after you've finished the first race, where chances of dropping are still high, but from that point you have to be really unlucky to lose progress.
Maybe try going back to single player after the first race, then selecting "choose character" from the Online menu - this is what I did the first time and it's worked for me since.
As people have said, just be patient. Give the loading/overhead view screens some time, whether they show tips or a loading icon or not. And turn off auto save initially just in case.
I just
reposed 2 cars for Simeon through a text mission. Am I close I'm lvl 6 now lol.
Storm Chamber
Banned
I actually got to play some of it today
Got up to the mission where the team deathmatch is die once and its over
eh
Got up to the mission where the team deathmatch is die once and its over
eh
Spring-Loaded
Member
If dots only appeared when they moved or made noise, it'd turn into hide and seek.
I'm pretty sure the last tutorial thing is a Last Man Standing multiplayer match. You haven't done that yet?
Yeah I did and I won. Then I got all the blue icons around the map. But every time I try to join a friends game it says I need to finish the tutorial.
This is the only online game I've been apart of that manages to outright lose your character. I've lost progress before, but usually my character is there. Games saving your character on their server is nothing new. I can only imagine how many erroneous characters are sitting on Rockstar's servers.
You should be out of the tutorial by that point. It even says in the upper-left that you're on your own now. Maybe try restarting your Xbox or, if all else fails, make a new character.
Yeah. To clarify, what I meant by "get lucky" - I was just wondering if it's just people happening to get into a queue. It seems like some people aren't even having the same issues that people like me are having. I don't get why certain people are having issues, and others aren't.
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I mean, if it was just people not being able to connect, I would get it. Just like any online game everyone is trying to access it at once. But we are having much more specific and strange issues.
SomeOneInaHat
Member
So I'm able to get into free roam, but there aren't any missions, jobs, or play modes. I tried to join a friend's job and it did something really weird. When I joined The camera drops to my location but then freezes 10 feet from the ground but at a lateral camera view. I can't rotate the camera or walk around, but the game world continues.
Did I break it?
How do I fix it?
How do I acquire jobs?
Rockstar?
What are ya doin' man?
Did I break it?
How do I fix it?
How do I acquire jobs?
Rockstar?
What are ya doin' man?
tokyostomp
Banned
Works on PS3, Thanks!
Also on PS3, loading takes a lot longer.
*Edit* also dumped in in a server with actual people!
I don't see it that on my upper left side. I'm on ps3 btw
. >_> maybe it's the friend who's not out of the tutorial and not me.firehawk12
Subete no aware
What's the easiest way to make money right now?
Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
Did they dial down the amount of time the police spend chasing you, when you get stars? It feels like I have to hide out way longer in single player.
Some of the online additions really should have been in the campaign....
Some of the online additions really should have been in the campaign....
astronaughtE
Banned
You've not made it yet...try again?
I don't see it that on my upper left side. I'm on ps3 btw
I mean it said it right after you finished the Last Man Standing mission.
Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me. Last night at 4am EST I was trying and still got the same bullshit looping car cutscene to start the race. Surely the traffic was greatly lessened by that time, and I'm still having the same issue right now. I haven't gotten a single actual error message, I just get stuck in this purgatory constantly.
Ugh. Was able to play for a while today (PS3). Had a lot of fun, despite most of the Jobs not ever working. Got a couple DM's to work but never any races. While trying to connect to a friend's game, I got booted to single player. Reconnected and my character was gone, but money was still there. A bit demoralized, decided it was time for dinner. Now I'm back with a new character with money still there, try to start on online session which fails, and then when I try again, my new character is gone along with my money. Like I posted earlier, I've never had a game just outright lose my character data. Glad I never purchased GTA$.
Despite all the problems, I'm still desperately trying to play because when it works, its a fuckin blast.
Despite all the problems, I'm still desperately trying to play because when it works, its a fuckin blast.
SAme here. There isn't an error screen just the race never starts. Has R* said anything?
Yeah. I had the day off today. And like a damn fool, I spent all day trying to get on. I did get on earlier, but then the game crashed on me after i leveled up and beat the first mission. Then my character was gone.
Every character I create, just disappears. And then my friend gets off work, and is able to log on smoothly. His character from last night is there. And he's been playing all night (same system as me). It's like..REALLY. What's different between our systems.
JohnDoe8865
Member
Good Lord, I've spent 20 minutes atleast standing, waiting for the first racing thing to launch online (360), people just keep walking off. I assume it's people getting fed up and quitting. I quit out once, retried and I'm just standing here again. What is this crap?
Seems like a lot of people are having issues, but still..
Seems like a lot of people are having issues, but still..
cleveridea
Member
Hopefully some rock star server engineers get some progress tonight. I'm out.
Did you finish the tutorial? It tells you to return a drug package, get clothes, mod a car, rob a store, and compete in a Last Man Standing match. Just follow what they tell you to do.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
The money you get from some of these missions is a joke. I did one earlier where I got $9,000 for killing some Lost and stealing their drugs. Took about 3 minutes. I just did a mission where I have to blow up several police cars all around the map, took about 12 minutes, and was significantly harder than the other mission. Got $2,000.
And the timer was for 5 minutes too. Ehhhh.... No thanks.
tokyostomp
Banned
How to I mute people?
RealityPales
Member
HAHAHA this thing wasn't even close to being ready for public consumption. I made it to the segment where your character walks up to the first race marker, then he falls through the fucking floor.
Jesus, I wish I took a Vine of that - I've never laughed so hard in my entire life. Just when I thought I was getting somewhere after 30+ hours of waiting, Rockstar literally pulls the ground out from under my legs.
What a genuine piece of shite this is.
Jesus, I wish I took a Vine of that - I've never laughed so hard in my entire life. Just when I thought I was getting somewhere after 30+ hours of waiting, Rockstar literally pulls the ground out from under my legs.
What a genuine piece of shite this is.