Is 1.16 a fail?

[Turkey Shenanigans]

Cons:

 

Two overpriced, useless planes. One of them is a jet with no weapons.

A Helicopter that comes in two variants. 'Flying Bravo' costs 100k more just for a different livery.

One suit costs 50k.

No guns.

No Hydra.

Flag parachutes that has tons of flags missing.

Nerfed mission payouts (Potshot, CCO, etc.)

Added feature (Flight School) that no one is going to use after 5 days.

 

Pros:

 

'Remove Wanted Level' now removes the wanted level for everyone inside of your vehicle.

Fixed God Mode.

Players in tanks now show the 'tank icon' on the map.

Coquette Classic

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The only things I actually like in this DLC are the Pilot Suit, Coquette Classic, 'Remove Wanted Level' feature fixed, God Mode fixed and the 'tank icon' thing. The rest... is just garbage. Sometimes I like the Bestra though. That CAN be fun.

Edited August 19, 2014 by TurkeyShenanigans

[sultangris]

 

ah right on, however id say they have about 10 billion far more important things to fix before they waste time on a meaningless stat going up without you "earning" it, and yea they have a habbit of marking things resolved and closing them when they cant fix it and dont have a f*cking clue why it happens in the first place, lol

 

Agreed.

 

The issues that I have are with the developers/testers not catching such a simple gameplay flaw during developing/testing, and the mishandling of the support ticket.

 

Shall I open another ticket about my support ticket?

 

That was rhetorical, as the obvious answer is "YES."

 

</facetiousness>

 

one of the main reasons they close the tickets is because tech support is outsourced and they have to maintain a certain standard level of resolving issues or they get in trouble/possibly lose their contract if they are too horrible. They dont have a fix for most of these and they are getting literally millions of tickets i would imagine so it wouldnt look good if they left them open, theyd have like a 2% solve rate probably, haha! contrary to popular belief tech support isnt anyone who actually works on the game coding or even works in the USA for rockstar directly, its outsourced to some company in singapore, possibly a few different companies in different countries. There might possibly even be a small group of people in the USA, as some companies like some in country tech support but the overseas guys they only pay a fraction of what they gotta pay americans. typically the people working tech support can be anyone off the street who goes through a 2 week training course teaching them how to do it and then they turn them loose on the phones or email in the case of every rockstar ticket ive had. I used to work as tech support for Gateway computers back in 1998-2000 so i know how it works kinda, haha!

The problem is that every update feels like wasted resources from heists.

 

PS3 is never getting heists, ever.

 

I started my PS3, downloaded the DLC. Got online, it frooze of course. rebooted the system. played for 30-40min then it frooze again. and i said fck it. the car looked nice, but im not getting rid of any other car for it. outfit was ok too. thats it. rest of it combined with freezing issue, makes me say nope and back to PS4 and BF4 instead. thinking about selling my copy of GTA. the last few DLC's have been so bad imo.

 

Save it and trade it in on the PS4 version when released, they will give you credit for it because they dont plan on supporting the PS3 version very long after the ps4 version is released. im not sure exactly how much but im guessing its better than the $3 gamestop will give you for it right now, haha

[DeucesR]

I like everything in the update, it just sucks there's no hydra. No gun, no military outfits.

[FourTwoZero]

Worst 1 yet. Only thing they did was fix sh*t that shouldnt have been broken in the first place.. new planes and helis are garbage with the exception of the besra which is "alright" i may use it as transport to zancudo, other than that the whole update sucks.. i even lost weapons(musket and firework launcher). Also i seen nothing in the patch notes regarding free aim lobbies so thats pretty much the nail in the coffin for me..

[aFIockOfSeagulls]

Cons:

 

Two overpriced, useless planes. One of them is a jet with no weapons.

A Helicopter that comes in two variants. 'Flying Bravo' costs 100k more just for a different livery.

One suit costs 50k.

No guns.

No Hydra.

Flag parachutes that has tons of flags missing.

Nerfed mission payouts (Potshot, CCO, etc.)

Added feature (Flight School) that no one is going to use after 5 days.

 

Pros:

 

'Remove Wanted Level' now removes the wanted level for everyone inside of your vehicle.

Fixed God Mode.

Players in tanks now show the 'tank icon' on the map.

Coquette Classic

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The only things I actually like in this DLC are the Pilot Suit, Coquette Classic, 'Remove Wanted Level' feature fixed, God Mode fixed and the 'tank icon' thing. The rest... is just garbage. Sometimes I like the Bestra though. That CAN be fun.

 

This DLC could be so much fun, Instead we get half cut items from the trailer. Sickens me.

 

So @RockstarSupport why can't we buy all the things in the trailer? Like outfits, caps, glasses and dogtags. Please explain #GTAOnline

 

Tweet and retweet people!

[sultangris]

Worst 1 yet. Only thing they did was fix sh*t that shouldnt have been broken in the first place.. new planes and helis are garbage with the exception of the besra which is "alright" i may use it as transport to zancudo, other than that the whole update sucks.. i even lost weapons(musket and firework launcher). Also i seen nothing in the patch notes regarding free aim lobbies so thats pretty much the nail in the coffin for me..

 

whats your problem with free aim lobbies? no people? I think most of the free aim players are finally figuring out that this game is not optimized for free aim and they are learning how to play autoaim and realize that they can still free aim there at a much longer range than autoaim works at and then they are able to get more easy kills faster cause most autoaim players can barely figure out how to get the headshot much less free aim. Ive been free aim slaughtering people there with the heavy sniper and carbine since release and havent encountered too many other people doing it anywhere near my skill level until recently, but i think thats mostly cause my skill level was artificially reduced with buggy patches that made me lag constantly and unable to switch weapons and have to shoot them 3 times in the head with the heavy sniper sometimes to get a kill which is very hard to do even against total noobs that only have to shoot you once since its so damn slow to reload and was even slower due to the lag. Fortunately this patch seemed to fix that lag or at least make it much less and now im back to pwning 2 people at a time really easily and depending on their skill/cooperation level even up to 4 pretty easily quite often when none of them understand or are good at the free aim out of auto aim range concept, haha! 2 guys that know what they are doing can wreck that fun pretty fast, but i only encounter that 25% of the time or so usually.

[Affalterbach]

Its a big fail imo.

[ELGBAiZ]

Mooaoaoaoaoaoaooooo!!! More stuff!!!!!!

[MrJoshua78]

WOW!!! I was a bit skeptical at first when I heard about the Flight School, but now that I've played it......THE UPDATE SUCKS WORSE THAN EXPECTED!!! How do these rockstar ball swinging fans like this sh*t...

 

Thanks Rockstar...before you came along, I had never seen a huge pile of sh*t fly. Awesome.

Edited August 19, 2014 by MrJoshua78

[LanaDelRey888]

Its a big fail imo.

Probably needed a 'cover' to fix all those glitches we've been seeing. So throw in some useless aircraft, one random car, put huge pricetags and let the fooled community think they recieved a great set of gifts when actually the purpose was to fix the game's flaws.

[MrJoshua78]

Rockstar wouldve made more money if they had just remade GTA San Andreas with better graphics, made it online compatible...how do you make a game with less sh*t to do 10 years later.

[VercettiGuy]

Yep it was a fail IMO.

 

Flight School is fun,well the missions where I don't have to fly with the Besra because tbh I'm to stupid to fly with it. I just don't like the Besra.

 

The Coquette...well the front is pretty nice but the rest of the car is just really ugly.

 

I like the Miljet.

 

I don't need the helicopter.

 

Clothing...my god this is the biggest sh*t ever. I was thinking of military uniforms and other stuff like that,maybe a stewardess uniform for my female character but all we got was a 50 K Jet-Suit...or whatever you want to call it.

 

I loved the Hipster Update but this is really disappointing.

 

Just my opinion.

[Affalterbach]

 

Its a big fail imo.

Probably needed a 'cover' to fix all those glitches we've been seeing. So throw in some useless aircraft, one random car, put huge pricetags and let the fooled community think they recieved a great set of gifts when actually the purpose was to fix the game's flaws.

Exactly what you said. Its just a useless update.

[Guest Billy Russo]

I'm quite enjoying it to be honest, I did expect more though. If they were going to release a trailer like that hyping it up, they really should have included everything they showed, otherwise people feel cheated like so. It's basically saying "we've made these things, but you can't have them"

 

I wouldn't say it's a fail as it brought some good things along.

-The Coquette Classic is a beauty.

- The Flight School isn't bad, albeit it may be low on lessons. 10 Seems pretty low, but the ones towards the end were quite challenging. It paid out well though. Also, people shouldn't forget they can always add new Lessons on to it, now it's a feature.

- Increased Mission Payouts, and nerfing ones that never shouldn't have had a high payout. Rooftop Rumble's payout has always seemed wrong. Even with all of the tweaks that happened to it.

- Along with the minor tweaks such as the 'Remove Wanted Level' tweak.

Edited August 19, 2014 by Billy Russo

[FourTwoZero]

 

 

Worst 1 yet. Only thing they did was fix sh*t that shouldnt have been broken in the first place.. new planes and helis are garbage with the exception of the besra which is "alright" i may use it as transport to zancudo, other than that the whole update sucks.. i even lost weapons(musket and firework launcher). Also i seen nothing in the patch notes regarding free aim lobbies so thats pretty much the nail in the coffin for me..

whats your problem with free aim lobbies? no people? I think most of the free aim players are finally figuring out that this game is not optimized for free aim and they are learning how to play autoaim and realize that they can still free aim there at a much longer range than autoaim works at and then they are able to get more easy kills faster cause most autoaim players can barely figure out how to get the headshot much less free aim. Ive been free aim slaughtering people there with the heavy sniper and carbine since release and havent encountered too many other people doing it anywhere near my skill level until recently, but i think thats mostly cause my skill level was artificially reduced with buggy patches that made me lag constantly and unable to switch weapons and have to shoot them 3 times in the head with the heavy sniper sometimes to get a kill which is very hard to do even against total noobs that only have to shoot you once since its so damn slow to reload and was even slower due to the lag. Fortunately this patch seemed to fix that lag or at least make it much less and now im back to pwning 2 people at a time really easily and depending on their skill/cooperation level even up to 4 pretty easily quite often when none of them understand or are good at the free aim out of auto aim range concept, haha! 2 guys that know what they are doing can wreck that fun pretty fast, but i only encounter that 25% of the time or so usually.

My problem with auto aim is the fact that its auto aim. Its fine for sp but for a multiplayer game its complete bs especially since people can lock on to you while your zooming by in a car or heli. Idc how easily i can rack up kills in auto aim its still lame. Also, its not that players realized auto aim is better bec free aim lobbies went from full to ghost towns right after beach bum and im sure alot players migrated over to auto bec its either that or play alone pretty much. I like more of a challenge, i play hc in fps no map or hud and free aim in this. I guess you could say i dont like playing with training wheels like the casuals, hence the reason auto aim is default for gta. When you feel like your ready to graduate and play with the big boys you change it to free aim.

[InactiveNew]

They fixed capture creator regarding the prob issue so I'm happy.

Edited March 30, 2018 by UniqueAsh

[Mears]

Perhaps the "Flight School DLC" isn't for everyone. But it's free. It's hard to believe that they still add " free content " . From what I've heard , R* did fix some of the glitches/exploits. They could have easily just said screw it, we're not fixing it (as most developers do say) . They could easily take the route of most of the other developers and start charging for this stuff. Imagine what the micro transactions could add up to in this game? But they choose not to go that route.

 

I think they nerf the payouts to encourage diversity in gameplay and to keep you busy trying to purchase things ( and not keep playing the same missions over and over again). I think cash cards were more of a donation type of deal ( If you want to show your support, buy a cash card) , or for people who have little to no time to put that kind of work into the game. So perhaps this " DLC " is a " fail " for those who expect everything for nothing.

 

Free DLC, plus a patch should equal " Win " (even if your not interested in the aviation aspects of this game) .

Edited August 19, 2014 by Mears

[Sean O'God]

The bug fixes that came with 1.16 are great. The bugs that came with 1.16 suck anus. Content wise, this update is pretty underwhelming. I'd say making a trailer for such a small update was unnecessary.

[donnits]

Yea, i think it is. The classic Coquette is pretty cool, though. The returning Swift is too, but it's incredibly overpriced in Online. The rest i don't really care about.

[sultangris]

 

Cons:

 

Two overpriced, useless planes. One of them is a jet with no weapons.

A Helicopter that comes in two variants. 'Flying Bravo' costs 100k more just for a different livery.

One suit costs 50k.

No guns.

No Hydra.

Flag parachutes that has tons of flags missing.

Nerfed mission payouts (Potshot, CCO, etc.)

Added feature (Flight School) that no one is going to use after 5 days.

 

Pros:

 

'Remove Wanted Level' now removes the wanted level for everyone inside of your vehicle.

Fixed God Mode.

Players in tanks now show the 'tank icon' on the map.

Coquette Classic

------------------------------------------------------------------------

The only things I actually like in this DLC are the Pilot Suit, Coquette Classic, 'Remove Wanted Level' feature fixed, God Mode fixed and the 'tank icon' thing. The rest... is just garbage. Sometimes I like the Bestra though. That CAN be fun.

 

This DLC could be so much fun, Instead we get half cut items from the trailer. Sickens me.

 

So @RockstarSupport why can't we buy all the things in the trailer? Like outfits, caps, glasses and dogtags. Please explain #GTAOnline

 

Tweet and retweet people!

 

ps3 hardware limitations. it barely runs single player adequately, go to an invite only session and sit still and notice how much more traffic there is than public sessions, then start driving 1/4 speed, notice how much disappears, then 1/2, then 3/4, then full speed and then understand 16 people doing that and thats why people are always leaving. the game splits lobbies in half to try and compensate, but it can only compensate so much and frankly in my opinion the singleplayer ability is subpar at best, the online with a few people totally sucks donkey dick. The ps4 looks to be pretty impressive and far closer to a good gaming rig than any console has ever been in the past and will be 100000 times better than ps3 with its 8 GIGABYTES(roughly 8000 megabytes) of ram and 1.6Ghz 8 core processor and good GPU compared to ps3s 256MEGABYTES crappy gpu and decent processor, and then sh*t wont spawn 2 feet in front of you when going full speed or disappear when you turn around which that alone will make this game way more fun. The computers potential is much greater with a possible 32gigabytes of ram pretty standard but possible 64 or even more if you wanna get crazy but youd never need that much and I doubt rockstar will spend much time optimizing it for pc to be able to use that much anyway but i hope they make it better than the crappy console version so it can reach its potential on that platform, it could be sahweeeeeeeet with a very large keep active area!

[Ai®a©ob®a]

Worst 1 yet. Only thing they did was fix sh*t that shouldnt have been broken in the first place.. new planes and helis are garbage with the exception of the besra which is "alright" i may use it as transport to zancudo, other than that the whole update sucks.. i even lost weapons(musket and firework launcher). Also i seen nothing in the patch notes regarding free aim lobbies so thats pretty much the nail in the coffin for me..

The removal of the musket was a mistake it will be back..

 

http://gtaforums.com/topic/732457-musket-missing-from-inventory-and-ammu-nation-after-patch-116/

[Daemian]

It's not bad, as some as said, it was free.

 

The new Besra is pretty fast and agile, but the price is not great. I tried the new Helicopter in Single Player and it looks good, but I don't like the price for a weaponless helicopter when you can have the buzzard.

 

So much things could be added but I guess they're saving them for bigger updates.

[sultangris]

 

My problem with auto aim is the fact that its auto aim. Its fine for sp but for a multiplayer game its complete bs especially since people can lock on to you while your zooming by in a car or heli. Idc how easily i can rack up kills in auto aim its still lame. Also, its not that players realized auto aim is better bec free aim lobbies went from full to ghost towns right after beach bum and im sure alot players migrated over to auto bec its either that or play alone pretty much. I like more of a challenge, i play hc in fps no map or hud and free aim in this. I guess you could say i dont like playing with training wheels like the casuals, hence the reason auto aim is default for gta. When you feel like your ready to graduate and play with the big boys you change it to free aim.

 

 

oops i didnt intend to post this, please reference my short story below, haha!

Edited August 19, 2014 by sultangris

[Alec Skorpio]

Rockstar nerfs RR, which should have been the first solution, but forgets to debuff it?

 

RR has become the worst mission from a design point in the whole game I swear

[threelions]

Good patch - Fixing a good amount of issues.

 

Meh DLC- It's free so not that bothered but it's the first patch that hasn't been fun for me.

 

Oh and the nerfed missions(again) is starting to take the mick.

[justinlynch3]

TOTAL FAIL

They raped the missions

only got $5100 for CCOIII

If I still get 10,500 a potshot which I got playlisted, then it's 10,500 every like 3 minutes. So who cares about CCO3.

[Kampioen]

Flight school was pretty fun, but none of the other stuff interests me. My country's flag isn't included on the parachutes either, the planes are too expensive and I'm not a very big fan of the car. It might grow on me though, and I still have 30 empty garage spaces so I might buy one.

 

For me the best thing is patch notes. Lots of good changes in there.

[Sw1ft562]

i havent even turned on the console to get the update yet (i dont see any reason to now).. and by reading everyones posts/looking at patch notes.. yup.

 

im probably gonna start using money glitches in the future. done with missions

Edited August 19, 2014 by Sw1ft562

[JoeBoneless]

Big fail. Nothing that was added changed the game any at all, simply very few new things. I was bored an hour after the update.

[Franceska]

no hydra, no hunter..... so yes, this update has been a total fail and a complete disappointment. but keep this in mind: its free. you didnt pay for it, and you cant be upset with free addition to the game - if you use it or not.

Actually, yes you can. You can have your opinion, and let your voice be heard by the company so they can learn from it. Whether they actually listen is a different story.