Grand Theft Auto V

Originally posted by KingD19
To make up to the fans for what Rockstar acknowledges was a major ****up, they've decided to drop 500,000 in game cash to people who play the game this month(no idea who they're choosing and if it's everyone),

Everyone pretty much. Anybody who logs in, or at least created a character in October, gets the money.

Its decent amount, though not enough to get the best stuff, but it can get you up and running.

I'm one of the lucky ones who got to play pretty much from the start and not get my character deleted, though it was a pain in the ass getting in, and those constant "Cloud unavailable" messages were too frequent, and they still show up.

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Originally posted by Impediment
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That lady squealing like a pig was very grating.

Just sad how people are acting over the purchases for this game

go back to that midnight launch and people were robbing people.

It's not like it's a collectors item.

But it could be the case that they were waiting hours to get this game and the store didn't let anybody know how many copies of the game they had.

But it's still stupid.

Originally posted by Impediment
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'MURICA!

I think i've run to a bug/glitch in this game

with those 'Grass Roots' missions where you go somewhere on the map to find a vehicle with a weed stash , With the second one...Not the one for the truck the one with the car

When i go to do that one, I get Franklin to hop in expecting to drive off with it then he hops out and it seems like a bug/glitch where he just stands there.

Yeah, it happened to me as well.

I just restarted the game and it work the second time.

there is some kind of problem online right now it doesnt save the progress, hope it will be fixed soon.

also i have noticed rockstar is somewhat of promoting interracial mixture, like when you create a character its like they force you to try and mix it up with interracial parents and all.

overall great game.

I loved GTAO, I saw myself playing way after unlocking everything (rank 120) and eagerly awaiting new content (heists, DLC, Liberty City...) but now I'm beginning to loathe it.

R* had a great reputation, but it's been entirely tarnished in the eyes of many with the current state of the Online portion.

It's hard to patch a glitch or problem, especially with a sorta persistent world they're trying to create, usually fixing some line of code generates a problem elsewhere. That is understandable. But in lieu of fixing problems such as missing characters, money, progress and such which they haven't fixed at all yet, they completely nerfed the pay out in all jobs making it at least twice as hard and time consuming to get what you want to buy.

Fixing the replay option (by eliminating it) in "story" mission is completely acceptable, they finally got around to fix the $2k penalty for dying ... but now give you half as much money as you used when doing missions (only get full pay the first time you played it).
Early missions now pay a quarter of what they used to. Their excuse to this is so that the player tries new missions but in reality all players prefer not to do Simeon, Lamar or Gerald missions as they are not worth the time nor effort anymore, completely negating their reasoning for nerfing pay outs.
Robberies (trucks, stores) have also been nerfed, making it incredibly hard to get money for people just starting to play the online portion.

They also redesign Survivals maps to the extend of kicking you out of the mission, getting you a bad sport reputation for standing in designated areas you could get cover in (like the rooftop in the middle of Boneyard map that happens to be in the middle of the map, the map they themselves designed for that particular mission 🤨 )

And the bad sport systems that punish you for blowing up cars people use to ran you over with even though you pay gta$100 so that they cant kill you which they totally can using a car. A game with Jets and Helicopters with lock on missiles and a tank that you can't use to fight people because you get kick to another session and can't play with your friends or anyone else who isn't a "bad sport" for a couple of days.

All this "hotfixes" they're introducing seen to point out to how desperately they want you to buy their cash cards, which they say are not meant to unbalance the game. Sure it could be said they are not forcing you to buy them, but they sure as hell are trying anything to twist your arm that way... it's a shame really

and now of all things their recent patch meant to do away with disappearing characters, money and cars actually prevents you to gain any money or experience because almost nothing gets save to DA CLOUD once you leave, making whatever time you spend in your last session completely wasted.

I'm getting to rank 100 boosting the Criminal Records race by myself if I have to, only to get my rank 100 trophy then I'm out... at least until they get their shit together...if they ever do

/rant over

Originally posted by wolverinos
there is some kind of problem online right now it doesnt save the progress, hope it will be fixed soon.

Don't think that effects everyone, My progress for GTA online has been saving

Originally posted by Kazenji
Don't think that effects everyone, My progress for GTA online has been saving

whatever progress I made yesterday was lost. Gained two levels and a little over 70k and all did not save. in game awards did save as well as my last location, but any purchase i did in the day also didn't save.

Once I notice it wasn't saving I tried to check by leaving and entering multiple times (leaving session, logging out, turn ps3 off and on, about 4 times) and it did not save. I checked the social club and it wasn't showing there at all, only in-game award progress showed. got the "can't save, cloud unavailable" message once, then after a while a message saying "save successful" and nothing.

I heard people saying their characters have disappeared again though I can't confirm this. I checked social club just now and my RP and ranks were restored, but my money wasn't. Even took the $13500 I was holding as cash before the patch (that money always showed up when retrying to save my progress) it now shows my cash as 0

Haven't logged in today at all out of fear of losing my character.

Again, as any other problems it doesn't affect everybody, but it does happen. This is the first time I had something like losing stuff happen to me in the 19 days of playing Online.

How are you leaving the online part

there's a certain way to do it

Note: When exiting GTA Online, please pause the game and choose to return to Single Player. This will trigger a save and ensure that progress since the last auto-save is recorded. If you purchase items and immediately power the console off or exit through console system menus, those items may not be saved.

Originally posted by Kazenji
How are you leaving the online part

there's a certain way to do it

It doesnt matter how I leave the game, it never saved. But yes, I always use the pause menu to force a save and never use the character wheel.

I wouldn't have notice it wasn't saving if the game itself hadn't kicked me out when I was starting a deathmatch, it took me back to Singleplayer and then I joined a new session and I noticed none of my progress saved. I tried different methods of forcing a save (purchasing, changing appearance, coming in and out of a garage with a different car) I got the "saved successful" message twice. I even changed sessions by choosing a new one, exiting out to the xmb, logging in and out of PSN, turning my router on and off. I always logged into any session, but it never saved.

just a few comments of people with much worst problems than mine

was rank 71 with $600,000 in the bank.
all of us timed out during a race do to shit cloud servers.
came back online and im rank 42 with $345,000 in my bank.
was pissed and turned my shit off.

came back on today and im rank 66 (almost 67) and ive got $442,000+ in the bank and a couple grand on my character. so I exit online and go back in to online again im still rank 66 (but a bit closer than 5 minutes ago) and now ive got $9K on me.

Well as mentiond I lost all my 65 ranks. In the beginning I only lost around 10 ranks, mainly because of the cloud servers. However when I went offline after losing all my ranks, i saw it said 54 on social club. It still does. So I suppose I am 54 in the game, but I don't think I should go back and look...

It seems the cloud takes you back to some random previous saved you made, and then works its way up, it's... a bit ridiculous

someone posted this, a somewhat fix for the problem

Im not sure if this will work for everyone, but it worked for me, and yes I have waited for the save successful pop up, and yes, I have saved in single player. So try it if you want to, if you don't, well, I tried to help.

Step 1 - Load up character
Step 2 - Do whatever you want to do to test if it saves your data (buy some ammo, clothing, whatever)
Step 3- Join a different session
Step 3 - Go to "swap character" under the online option
Step 4 - Select current character
Step 5 - Exit multiplayer from the online menu
Step 6 - Load up character from the ONLINE menu, check if it saved, so far it has worked for me, and until there is 100 percent confirmation that this is fixed, I am doing this every time I log off.

Been posting this for half an hour now, not going to post it again. So if you want to try it, it worked for me, without doing this, I still cant save progress, just tested it.

gonna try it out later to see if it works

In an article a while back I read that they had begun voice casting, so it stands to reason that things were on their way

well, the above method works... though I have to say choosing to swap characters is enough to make it save... it's still weird. I died a bunch of times and lost my car as well while messing around trying to take a jet, and none of that saved, I kept my money and only had to call for my car once. I heard people buying apartments, only for the game to give you back your money and keep the apartment, while others lost cars upgrades but no money lost

It wasn't smooth for me though, is still ended up losing two ranks because the saved reverted and I also lost my arms,

but from there on, it saved doing character swapping

Just come out for pc already ..

I'm fiendishly itching to get this game.

I predict Spring '14. Luckily they'll be a lot of great games to get in to in between now and then to satisfy the crave somewhat..

Originally posted by Kazenji
I think i've run to a bug/glitch in this game

with those 'Grass Roots' missions where you go somewhere on the map to find a vehicle with a weed stash , With the second one...Not the one for the truck the one with the car

When i go to do that one, I get Franklin to hop in expecting to drive off with it then he hops out and it seems like a bug/glitch where he just stands there.

I had a problem where he wouldn't get into the car a couple times. I had to kill myself and re start.

This game is something else.

Started this last weekend, just did the mission where Trevor, Franklin, and Lamar go to the drug deal. Still getting stuff together for the second heist I think.

Loving every minute. Trevor is amazing.