R* Asked & Answered: The R* Editor, GTAO Updates & More

May 8, 2015

Why are people so anal about no personal radio? Just get your f*cking iPod out.

Maybe because I play through my sound system and it's a pain in the ass to hook up my phone/ipod. Maybe because it's far, far more immersive to have your music stop when you exit the car. Maybe because bullsh*tting about whether or not it's possible to try and get the dumbass part of your fanbase to triple dip is a dick move.

May 8, 2015

For ps4, the lack of personal bgm is sorta rectified by the inclusion of the Spotify app. Seriously, give it a try. I use it all the time when playing GTA.

Edited May 8, 2015 by JeepXJFreak98

Social Club · May 8, 2015

For ps4, the lack of personal bgm is sorta rectified by the inclusion of the Spotify app. Seriously, give it a try. I use it all the time when playing GTA.

Not the same, at all. The Self Radio is cool because it is an actual radio station. I'm sure most users can figure out a way to play their own music while playing the game. That isn't the issue.

That said, I could care less about self radio.

Edited May 8, 2015 by Mach1bud

May 8, 2015

"The GTAV PC Self Radio experience that plays your personally curated playlist of mp3s in the game as a fully featured and properly integrated radio station just wouldnt technically be possible on the consoles as it requires more than the consoles allow at this time."

Bullsh*t...360's and hacked PS3's can play MP3's while running games just fine. There is no technical reason why ANY of the four consoles couldn't run self radio...

Or even the custom playlist of songs from all the game's radio stations. There's no technical reason consoles can't handle that either. DX

Yea, I also call bullsh*t on that. In Red Dead or Midnight Club LA you could just go to XMB and play your own mp3's.

Also in NFS Most Wanted you create a folder... say I Call Bullsh*t On That, you put mp3's there, start a game, options, and switch from game soundtrack to I Call Bullsh*t On That and voila.

f*cking R*

Bro, those games had far less stuff going on for them. I mean RAM wise.

And bullsh*t I had RDR and I don't recall being able to play music.

LOL people getting defensive over stuff that will never happen because a game developer obviously said that it's technically not possible. But oh wait, you're smarter then them aren't you? Where's your degree for game development from MIT? Oh yeah you don't have one. So please save your breath and stfu because it's not going to happen whether you like it or not.

Edited May 8, 2015 by nosmoking000

May 8, 2015

"The GTAV PC Self Radio experience that plays your personally curated playlist of mp3s in the game as a fully featured and properly integrated radio station just wouldnt technically be possible on the consoles as it requires more than the consoles allow at this time."

Bullsh*t...360's and hacked PS3's can play MP3's while running games just fine. There is no technical reason why ANY of the four consoles couldn't run self radio...

Or even the custom playlist of songs from all the game's radio stations. There's no technical reason consoles can't handle that either. DX

Yea, I also call bullsh*t on that. In Red Dead or Midnight Club LA you could just go to XMB and play your own mp3's.

Also in NFS Most Wanted you create a folder... say I Call Bullsh*t On That, you put mp3's there, start a game, options, and switch from game soundtrack to I Call Bullsh*t On That and voila.

f*cking R*

Bro, those games had far less stuff going on for them. I mean RAM wise.

And bullsh*t I had RDR and I don't recall being able to play music.

LOL people getting defensive over stuff that will never happen because a game developer obviously said that it's technically not possible. But oh wait, you're smarter then them aren't you? Where's you're degree for game development from MIT? Oh yeah you don't have one. So please save your breath and stfu because it's not going to happen whether you like it or not.

i like this guy.

May 8, 2015

I just want this place...

Future DLC?

Edited May 8, 2015 by Deadreaver

May 8, 2015

That car looks nice but let's hope they at least another car that's not a sports classic. I know I'll probably get flamed for this but it would be nice if R* added a

Porsche 918.

I'm with you, I'm over the sports classics and military vehicles. R* need move away from that sh*t.

May 8, 2015

I'll give it 5 months before Rockstar stops supporting PS3 & 360.

I hope it's sooner so we can get content that isn't held back by last gen limitations.

tell me more about held back content due to last gen?

I don't think anything has been held back because of last gen yet, but in the future it will if R* wants to bring in a new feature or new things that require more system resources than the last gen consoles can handle.

At wich point they will stop suporting last gen and just move on

Cant read well bro ?

May 8, 2015

I'll give it 5 months before Rockstar stops supporting PS3 & 360.

I hope it's sooner so we can get content that isn't held back by last gen limitations.

tell me more about held back content due to last gen?

I don't think anything has been held back because of last gen yet, but in the future it will if R* wants to bring in a new feature or new things that require more system resources than the last gen consoles can handle.

"Last gen limitations"

You honestly believe that crap? Aside from the first person view with all the extra animations there is nothing on Xbone or PS4 that could not have been added to 360/PS3. If anything, the game works better on 360 (probably the same for PS3). Trying to get in the same session as crew and friends is nigh impossible most the time!

Have to take issue with you here...all you need to do is scan Rockstar support and most of the people who bitch about problems on here to see that last gen has FAR more problems than current gen. I've had few to no problems on PS4, while PS3 was quite difficult to deal with on occasion. My worst day on PS4 is better than my best on PS3.

May 8, 2015

I'm thinking since the weapon wall is practically full, they are giving every weapon more skins until they can find a way of expanding it.

The gullwing Benefactor will be a day 1 purchase for me. Looking forward to this one.

they expanded the wall before, youere asumption isnt realy based on much it seems

I wasn't doubting that they couldn't expand the walI. We know they will find a way of adding future guns (XM25, Scar assault Rifle found in the files?) and a way of putting them in Ammu-nation. It might not necessarily be as easy as expanding the wall again.

Thinking about it; If more tints are introduced, more money will be spent. They could have introduced a gun for $12,000 and that's the end of it. But if you're buying tints for some of your existing guns, you could be spending maybe $500,000 (10 tints at $50,000 each) or more.

They know how much money we have after this update and they are trying to come up with ways of spending it.

Again expanding the wall is easy like f*ck

If there are hints of a tint i only see one being posible introduced and weapons themself cost money to so...

And they can price their guns like whatever they want....

Youre realy bad at bringing up arguments in this one imo

I'm fully aware that it's "easy like f*ck", as you said; they have done it before. I was just debating whether there could be a different solution.

I also think you misunderstood my point about multiple tints. When I said "10 tints" I mean 10 different guns having the same engraving tint.

Yeah, they could price a new gun at whatever price they wanted, that's pretty obvious, I was just using an example. But in this case it is the Pistol .50 with a different skin.

Like I said before, it looks like they are trying to come up with ways of getting us to spend money. Provided this engraved tint is available for every gun (Not counting Fireworks Launcher or Flare gun) the combined value would eclipse the price of the most expensive DLC gun (Homing Launcher is i'm not mistaken?) at just $5000. ($155,000 for 31 weapons)

Well...it makes sence they want to make more money lol

but indeed...a tint is easier to implement and coud indeed give more value for them if the tint can be used on any firearm...that being said...i think if its a tint i dont see why they woud not enable it to be used on the homing launcher to

I mean...it woud probably look stupid like f*ck but so do many customisation options on my car

That being said...if its not a tint but a new gun instead...i rather woud like a revolver

Edited May 8, 2015 by goldadderXD

May 8, 2015

they didn't answer the most important questions..

1. Will casino be enterable and are we going to able to gamble ?

2. When is the story dlc going to come out ?

3. Are we going to able to buy 4th property ?

...

Casino hasnt even been confirmed in any way...

good question on the story mode dlc though

The appartment thing....no reason for them to tell atm....because of cash cards....no joke

May 8, 2015

I am pretty surprised they've not even mentioned that loads of us are receiving the same "this person has not completed the tutorial" error.

Saying that, I cannot wait for that new Benefactor. Looks good, even if I don't like all the headlights, those doors look gorgeous even from that angle.

Everyone saying PC master race, I dont agree. The sh*t I've encountered trying to install the game from retail copy and updating via the Social Club lanuncher has done my head in. At least console is useable. I've never known a game EVER to f*ck up on so many levels but leave you wanting to play again.

Edited May 8, 2015 by emptyplayer

May 8, 2015

The gull wing doors look awesome, but that screenshot would be so much cooler if the player was holding a .44 magnum. "The most powerful handgun in the world." A revolver is the only pistol missing.

May 8, 2015

I am eager to know what will be the next "cool" update.

Because new content always adds new bugs, IMO the only "cool" update will be one that fixes a multi-page long list of long-standing bugs in ALL platforms; something like this:

https://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/201956787--4-8-14-GTAV-Title-Update-1-12-Notes

...if the player was holding a .44 magnum. "The most powerful handgun in the world." A revolver is the only pistol missing.

True, and a very good point.

Edited May 8, 2015 by DentureDynamite

May 8, 2015

So, is what "funmw2" said in that the Heists had been made in a style that would allow more to be added using the same architecture as it's a relatively simple setup, is either complete rubbish, or Rockstar are trying to buy time in the knowledge that all 5 current heists can be hosted and completed in a single day and should've extended the times between heists, or added more of them.

Could that be accurate?

And I too am excited about a gull-winged benefactor, but I would SO MUCH RATHER them focus on better servers (less lag and other issues), removing wall-break glitches, etc etc.

May 8, 2015

So, is what "funmw2" said in that the Heists had been made in a style that would allow more to be added using the same architecture as it's a relatively simple setup, is either complete rubbish, or Rockstar are trying to buy time in the knowledge that all 5 current heists can be hosted and completed in a single day and should've extended the times between heists, or added more of them.

What I meant is from the technology side they're same as contact missions but with special features.

They can make a heist with 3 setups and those setups can be same as contact missions (Without cutscenes, characters, "Get, Deliver" style)

And put all the effort to the heist finale (New cutscenes, interiors, props..etc).

Edited May 8, 2015 by funmw2

May 8, 2015

The gull wing doors look awesome, but that screenshot would be so much cooler if the player was holding a .44 magnum. "The most powerful handgun in the world." A revolver is the only pistol missing.

Id love a revolver, but i bet r* will find some way to botch it up with an extended mag, suppressor, and 20 round starting capacity

May 8, 2015

So, is what "funmw2" said in that the Heists had been made in a style that would allow more to be added using the same architecture as it's a relatively simple setup, is either complete rubbish, or Rockstar are trying to buy time in the knowledge that all 5 current heists can be hosted and completed in a single day and should've extended the times between heists, or added more of them.

What I meant is from the technology side they're same as contact missions but with special features.

They can make a heist with 3 setups and those setups can be same as contact missions (Without cutscenes, characters, "Get, Deliver" style)

And put all the effort to the heist finale (New cutscenes, interiors, props..etc).

Excellent response, thanks.

So would it be somewhat fair to say that if they really wanted to, they could come up with more heists, but in, let's say, twice the time it'd take to create a brand new contact mission?

May 8, 2015

Why are people so anal about no personal radio? Just get your f*cking iPod out.

It's not as much an issue, but rather a fact that R* is lying to us.

What the in the flying f*** happened to these guys? For me the last game from them that was truly amazing was Red Dead Redemption (never played Max Payne 3, but I'm sure it's good)

Edited May 8, 2015 by Adrian J.

May 8, 2015

"The GTAV PC Self Radio experience that plays your personally curated playlist of mp3s in the game as a fully featured and properly integrated radio station just wouldnt technically be possible on the consoles as it requires more than the consoles allow at this time."

Bullsh*t...360's and hacked PS3's can play MP3's while running games just fine. There is no technical reason why ANY of the four consoles couldn't run self radio...

Or even the custom playlist of songs from all the game's radio stations. There's no technical reason consoles can't handle that either. DX

Yea, I also call bullsh*t on that. In Red Dead or Midnight Club LA you could just go to XMB and play your own mp3's.
Also in NFS Most Wanted you create a folder... say I Call Bullsh*t On That, you put mp3's there, start a game, options, and switch from game soundtrack to I Call Bullsh*t On That and voila.

f*cking R*

Bro, those games had far less stuff going on for them. I mean RAM wise.

And bullsh*t I had RDR and I don't recall being able to play music.

LOL people getting defensive over stuff that will never happen because a game developer obviously said that it's technically not possible. But oh wait, you're smarter then them aren't you? Where's your degree for game development from MIT? Oh yeah you don't have one. So please save your breath and stfu because it's not going to happen whether you like it or not.

And I have still have RDR and you can play your own music.

Also people don't need degrees to tell someone is screwing with them, and R* is proven to screw us with GTA V since day 1 (well after Online launched)

And sorry for double posting.

May 8, 2015

I love those 'honest' q&a session where the first question always is "I love your game, how can I spend more money on it?"

May 8, 2015

And I too am excited about a gull-winged benefactor, but I would SO MUCH RATHER them focus on better servers (less lag and other issues), removing wall-break glitches, etc etc.

I can't believe it's 2015 and people still don't get how developers work. The people who design vehicles and other content are not the people who work on servers/glitches/etc. GTA V is worked on by thousands of people across multiple R* studios across the globe. For example, a friend of mine works at a comic shop in New Hampshire close to one of R*'s studios and two R* employees often go there and talk to him. He says one of the guys only did work on the foliage and vegetation for GTA V, that's it. They have people who literally work on one small aspect of the game, so just because some people are working on DLC doesn't mean that nobody is working on fixes/patches.

May 8, 2015

"The GTAV PC Self Radio experience that plays your personally curated playlist of mp3s in the game as a fully featured and properly integrated radio station just wouldnt technically be possible on the consoles as it requires more than the consoles allow at this time."

Bullsh*t...360's and hacked PS3's can play MP3's while running games just fine. There is no technical reason why ANY of the four consoles couldn't run self radio...

Or even the custom playlist of songs from all the game's radio stations. There's no technical reason consoles can't handle that either. DX

Yea, I also call bullsh*t on that. In Red Dead or Midnight Club LA you could just go to XMB and play your own mp3's.
Also in NFS Most Wanted you create a folder... say I Call Bullsh*t On That, you put mp3's there, start a game, options, and switch from game soundtrack to I Call Bullsh*t On That and voila.

f*cking R*

Bro, those games had far less stuff going on for them. I mean RAM wise.

And bullsh*t I had RDR and I don't recall being able to play music.

LOL people getting defensive over stuff that will never happen because a game developer obviously said that it's technically not possible. But oh wait, you're smarter then them aren't you? Where's your degree for game development from MIT? Oh yeah you don't have one. So please save your breath and stfu because it's not going to happen whether you like it or not.

And I have still have RDR and you can play your own music.

Also people don't need degrees to tell someone is screwing with them, and R* is proven to screw us with GTA V since day 1 (well after Online launched)

And sorry for double posting.

I didn't say that as a fact. I said, "I don't recall being able to play music." You're also missing my point and joke.

If they say it's technically impossible to implement a User-Radio Station it is probably true. I am pretty sure they would do it if they could. Especially, when they said they are planning on developing the Rockstar Editor for PS4/XBox One. This also makes the "exclusivity" argument less valid and credible. Additionally, PS4 users have Spotify and I'm sure XBox One users have something equivalent (correct me if I am wrong). Last Gen is definitely out of luck, seeing how MUCH is going on in the game and with the very little RAM the hardware has.

Now, with that being said, either you can read this post and REALLY think about it. It's not that hard to use your brain and realize that hardware does have restrictions/limits set by Sony/Microsoft and from the technology at the time of the console's development. In other words, Rockstar (and any game developer for that matter) is limited to the console's resources that Sony/Microsoft allows.

Also, that is great RDR was capable of playing music in the background. I wish I still had my PS3 to test it out. I never knew that. But that's a lot different then having a radio station in the car. The programming involved would most likely be very complex to implement. Especially, when this game has glitches all over the place when it comes to gameplay, UI and loading hiccups. Unless you have at least a little knowledge in computer programming, I can see why this concept is hard to grasp.

On the other hand, you can think I am a total ignorant moron that doesn't know what he is talking about and believe your "Rockstar is a greedy f*ck boy company that's f*cking with us" conspiracy. It's your opinion, just like how I am stating mine. But unlike yours, I am using logic and reasoning.

EDIT: For those of you who will go TL;DR:

The degree thing was a joke. But what was meant by that was that they probably know how these consoles work better then any of us. So with that being said, why do some people still think hardware limitation is bullsh*t? PS4/XBone are getting the Rockstar Editor, so the "exclusivity" argument is now less valid and credible.

Edited May 8, 2015 by nosmoking000

May 8, 2015

"The GTAV PC Self Radio experience that plays your personally curated playlist of mp3s in the game as a fully featured and properly integrated radio station just wouldnt technically be possible on the consoles as it requires more than the consoles allow at this time."

Bullsh*t...360's and hacked PS3's can play MP3's while running games just fine. There is no technical reason why ANY of the four consoles couldn't run self radio...

Or even the custom playlist of songs from all the game's radio stations. There's no technical reason consoles can't handle that either. DX

Yea, I also call bullsh*t on that. In Red Dead or Midnight Club LA you could just go to XMB and play your own mp3's.
Also in NFS Most Wanted you create a folder... say I Call Bullsh*t On That, you put mp3's there, start a game, options, and switch from game soundtrack to I Call Bullsh*t On That and voila.

f*cking R*

Bro, those games had far less stuff going on for them. I mean RAM wise.
And bullsh*t I had RDR and I don't recall being able to play music.

LOL people getting defensive over stuff that will never happen because a game developer obviously said that it's technically not possible. But oh wait, you're smarter then them aren't you? Where's your degree for game development from MIT? Oh yeah you don't have one. So please save your breath and stfu because it's not going to happen whether you like it or not.

And I have still have RDR and you can play your own music.

Also people don't need degrees to tell someone is screwing with them, and R* is proven to screw us with GTA V since day 1 (well after Online launched)

And sorry for double posting.

I didn't say that as a fact. I said, "I don't recall being able to play music." You're also missing my point and joke.

If they say it's technically impossible to implement a User-Radio Station it is probably true. I am pretty sure they would do it if they could. Especially, when they said they are planning on developing the Rockstar Editor for PS4/XBox One. This also makes the "exclusivity" argument less valid and credible. Additionally, PS4 users have Spotify and I'm sure XBox One users have something equivalent (correct me if I am wrong). Last Gen is definitely out of luck, seeing how MUCH is going on in the game and with the very little RAM the hardware has.

Now, with that being said, either you can read this post and REALLY think about it. It's not that hard to use your brain and realize that hardware does have restrictions/limits set by Sony/Microsoft and from the technology at the time of the console's development.

On the other hand, you can think I am a total ignorant moron that doesn't know what he is talking about and believe your "Rockstar is a greedy f*ck boy company that's f*cking with us" conspiracy. Whatever floats your boat.

Oh I know they are greedy. GTA Online had a "Replay" option after a mission, after R* realized people are getting a lot of money very fast "Legally"

they took out replay option from missions. Soon after, one of the info screens when you loaded Online or between job was started to appear very often. It was about spending and how a Shark Card can give a quick injection of liquid assets.

Also I know PS3 ain't a modern PC or next gen console, but it can handle custom music in more then one game.

Gran Turismo 6 is pushing PS3 limits from a memory and graphical standpoint, running at 1080p. And still can play custom music.

You see PS3 haz this trick with it's memory, because the entire system architecture is designed around high bus bandwidth and constant streaming of tiny data packets, it's not caching large data stores.

So please don't insult my brain k.

Edited May 8, 2015 by Adrian J.

May 8, 2015

What I meant is from the technology side they're same as contact missions but with special features.

They can make a heist with 3 setups and those setups can be same as contact missions (Without cutscenes, characters, "Get, Deliver" style)

And put all the effort to the heist finale (New cutscenes, interiors, props..etc).

Are they?

Isn't the amount of scripted behaviour in a Hist 100%? That is, every single ped, car, and sequence is hard coded to occur versus a Contact Mission which is only somewhat scripted, and thus events can happen out of sequence (triggering the wrong point) or will different cars/etc in the area?

While I see your standpoint, "you can just make created Contact Missions to suffice for the setups and then a fully scripted Hist Finale," it would seem to be counter to the work they've put in, and thus open to accusations of just phoning it in.

Any GTAO hist you see is going to be held to the same quality standards that the ones we've already done were.

That said, a dozen new Contact Missions the likes of Los Santos Connection or No Hay Bronca where you have multiple mission points to take care of in order would be fantastic.

May 8, 2015

Oh I know they are greedy. GTA Online had a "Replay" option after a mission, after R* realized people are getting a lot of money very fast "Legally" they took out replay option from missions. Soon after, one of the info screens when you loaded Online or between job was started to appear very often. It was about spending and how a Shark Card can give a quick injection of liquid assets.

Also I know PS3 ain't a modern PC or next gen console, but it can handle custom music in more then one game.

Gran Turismo 6 is pushing PS3 limits from a memory and graphical standpoint, running at 1080p. And still can play custom music.

You see PS3 haz this trick with it's memory, because the entire system architecture is designed around high bus bandwidth and constant streaming of tiny data packets, it's not caching large data stores.

So please don't insult my brain k.

This guy knows what the hell he's talking about. Frankly I find it insulting that Rockstar think we're dumb enough to buy their BS...but I find it genuinely worrying when people believe it. There are hardware limitations...but this isn't one. Edited May 8, 2015 by MeatSafeMurderer

May 8, 2015