Has this happened to anyone else?

[mikeswi]

I was playing the Catalina missions and had just robbed the bank in Palomino Creek. I was walking toward the save icon, thought I had touched it when the phone rings. It's Cesar talking about a courier.

 

This wasn't the later courier missions where you can say "yes" or "no". I wasn't given a choice at all. It was just a cut scene of CJ on the phone and when it was over, my save icon was gone. I didn't agree to do another mission, I didn't walk into any marker to trigger a mission. I didn't do anything at all except try to save my game.

 

Suddenly I was stuck doing a mission I didn't want to do with almost no health left (because I got shot up robbing the bank) and no way to cancel the mission or save my game. I got killed doing the stupid courier mission and had to start over with the bank again. The second time, I parked the car right next to the save icon so that the phone didn't have time to ring before I was in the save icon.

 

Has this happened to anyone else? Is this a bug or did Rockstar deliberately create a mission you can't put off for later that triggers out of nowhere and doesn't let you save?

[Wolfmight]

Yea, it's part of the storyline.

[Abadede]

Gamefaqs.com didn't mention anything about that call being part of the mission. Could it have been possible that you coincidentally press the tab key the same to the call came through? Also, couldn't you have went to get something to eat to build up your health before doing the second mission?

[mikeswi]

I didn't press anything. I was just walking to the save icon, the phone rang and it picked up automatically. I guess I could have eaten something first but the game made the mission sound sooooo urgent it didn't occur to me. Still the game should not automatically start a mission without my input.

[Chunky Lee Chong]

Well, this never happened to me, though I have recieved his calls dozens of times. But, whenever I got the call I was given the option to accept or deny. Are you sure you didn't get this but pressed a button by mistake, perhaps in an attempt to skip the phone call and save?

[mikeswi]

Unless the "W" walking button triggered it somehow, I'm sure that I didn't trigger this mission or answer the phone. Like I said, I was just walking to the save icon. It was a different call than the optional courier missions, different dialog, etc. There was no prompt at all.

 

Next time I play through from the beginning, if it happens again I'll try to catch it with FRAPS so you can see. That might not be for a while though. I've just gone through it for the third time in two weeks, so I'm going to give it a rest.

[Chunky Lee Chong]

If you say it's different dialogue, then what is it exactly that he said to you. And if it was an actual mission, then what was required of you to do?

[DigitallyInsane^]

That's exactly what happened to me on the Xbox version, but I don't remember it happening on the PS2 version, which is strange, I'm not quite up to that mission on the PC version yet.... I was confused aswell when it happened to me, because I was used to the yes or no answer, and I couldn't even see the blip on my radar, I ended up dying somewhere half-way through and the next time i got the call normally with the option of a 'Yes' or 'No'

 

DigitallyInsane^

[mikeswi]

Ok, it happened again while going through the game again and this time I caught it on FRAPS. http://www.mikehealan.com/gta/courier.wmv

 

 

I did NOT press TAB to answer that phone call, didn't have the option of saying "yes" or "no". It just happened all on its own and wouldn't let me save or do anything else. See the new red blip on the radar? That's the courier.

 

At least this time I managed to get to a save icon just before it happened. I'm going to see what I can do to skip the mission because I do NOT want to do it.

Edited July 2, 2005 by mikeswi

[mikeswi]

Ok, this is just weird. It doesn't let me save the game but I can walk over to the red mission trigger to start a new mission and it cancels the courier mission.

 

This has got to be a PC or maybe a PC/Xbox bug. Why would it start a mission entirely on its own, disable the save icon but allow me to trigger a different mission to cancel it?

[murph_fan51]

II'm doing the San Fierro Missions now, and I got that all but can't really remember the exact place or time, or if it was after a mission. But after that call is finsihed, is there a little icon appear on the radar?

[Fluffyinsanity]

Are you sure you had to actually do a mission? Did a message appear on screen with a little marker on the radar? When I got that call, it was just Caesar giving me a heads up, and I didn't have to do anything. If I wanted to take up the first courier mission, I would have to go to the red marker at the Doherty garage where I would get a cutscene of Caesar calling CJ. Then it would tell me to meet him in Red County or something, and there would be a little marker of where he was out in the country,

[mikeswi]

You're talking about Photo Opportunity, where you meet Cesar and drive to Angel Pine to take pictures. That mission was just finished when it happened this time. The time before that, it happened much earlier.

 

The phone rang and CJ answered it, without input from me. Then a radar blip appears where this courier is supposed to be and it expects me to chase it down. This was between missions, without me walking into any markers to trigger it. That is the problem, that a mission was started completely without my doing anything to provoke it and it did this completely on its own, forcing me to do a mission before I could save again. It should not EVER do that.

[Quasar]

Maybe if you leave it it'll say something like "you lost the courier" and you can carry on as normal? If not, then simply go buy some guns, grab a ride, and do the mission. End of problem.