GTA Online General Chat

[zPhoenix]

Why doesn't GTA default to your last game mode (story/online) and session type (public/invOnly/solo)?

 

Or even better... if the last time you played it was to join a player that is currently in-game... drop you in his/her session.

 

It would have been extremely easy for R* to provide such a simple QOL improvement so that the next time you sign-in you'd be doing the same thing as the last, which is what most of us want to do.

 

Does anybody have insight as to why R* never bothered to do this?

[Super Grunt 281]

It's useless extra data and the automatic join someone, there is some potential to do bad things and PC players may or may not have experience with unwanted guests.

 

Are you too lazy to press the one button ?

 

Even if R* had nothing better to do, mostly useless.

[arisfelbonilla]

People a serious question xD
and is it really gta online is to blame for everything that surrounds rockstar? and that's why he gets that hate
I mean if Rockstar doesn't give us as many games as before but nowadays making a game is not easy at all

for me it was a good multiplayer and thanks to the free dlcs it is what took R to the top
before it was the most anticipated gta but it seems that it is becoming the most hated
I don't hate it, it's one of my favorites xD

Edited August 23 by arisfelbonilla

[zPhoenix]

Sounds like we got griefers/hackers/modders that like to spawn attack those that end up in a public session without wanting to.

 

Sorry, but no, it is not pointless and it is extremely easy to do (I am a developer myself and can't imagine it taking more than a few hours of coding if you already know your codebase, which is something that any GTA developer should already be an expert at). 

 

Besides that it while it is only a couple clicks to do while mentally lifting the middle finger... it ends up meaning that you reload the game at least twice just to get to the kind of session you want.

 

And maybe we can get back to the point:  Does anybody have insight (besides lazyness) as to why they never did this, even on the initial version when they branched from Story to add Online and the multiple session types?

Edited August 23 by zPhoenix

[DrEeveell]

On PC you can pick whether to load to Story Mode or Online at least. Lately I've been starting into Story then using the menu to switch to a Friends Only online session.

 

As for why you can't just load directly into an Online Private session, my guess is that they are still trying to pretend that Online Public is a viable mode.

 

[Da Elite Ninjah]

21 hours ago, Arrows to Athens said:

Your XB1 character will get deleted, unfortunately. I don't think there's any way to prevent that. 

it is possible tho to play on both games from the same console? Or do I have to create a different live account? 

[zPhoenix]

1 hour ago, DrEeveell said:

On PC you can pick whether to load to Story Mode or Online at least. Lately I've been starting into Story then using the menu to switch to a Friends Only online session.

 

As for why you can't just load directly into an Online Private session, my guess is that they are still trying to pretend that Online Public is a viable mode.

 

 

The best I could find to avoid griefera is to (1) Loaf on story, then (2) go to online Invite Only, and only then can I (3) join a friend. 

 

But that means spending a very long time just to get to your desired session.

 

Frankly, it is an idiotic design.  All it achieves is to frustrate customers and create disdain for the developers and R*.   And they seriously think we might pay full price for GTA 6 after seeing how they handle things and how they choose to bury perfectly valid questions?   Yeah, no... I might still buy it, but only once it becomes available at deep discount after a couple years.  Mistreat your customers and you will lose their money.

Edited August 23 by zPhoenix

[CommanderBlack]

39 minutes ago, Da Elite Ninjah said:

it is possible tho to play on both games from the same console? Or do I have to create a different live account? 

You can play both gta Versions on the new xbox but you can not play the new gta version on the old xbox 

[Spider-Vice]

17 hours ago, Da Elite Ninjah said:

it is possible tho to play on both games from the same console? Or do I have to create a different live account? 

Once your Xbox One character is deleted I believe you can still play just fine on the Xbox One, you just need to create a new character because the old one will have been migrated to the Xbox Series.

[Cahill--EFC]

Is there any Team: Sprunk vs Team: Cola events

[Spider-Vice]

This one laughs their ass off at blowing themselves up as well I guess.

 

 

After that when I ran back to my bike someone else ran me over. Public sessions  

[Shiloh Comes]

3 hours ago, Spider-Vice said:

This one laughs their ass off at blowing themselves up as well I guess.

 

People do stupid stuff in GTA we all know that, but it's the message, the haha thing at the end, that is what kills me about people like that. They remind me of a line from some show or other - "uncool people are like animals, they should be kept in the basement and fed buckets of fishheads." Probably just a little kid and that is his cool I suppose.

 

My general chat point was -

 

A month into the Series X and the new version, terrible as I feel for the PC people who are still shut out at the moment from some things, I have to say, if they have had graphics as good as this or better for a long time, then they have been blessed.

 

Only downside is, a lot of the Snapmatic pictures look terrible, they pixelate. It doesn't like some of the textures. It particularly hates the light blue chameleon and wrecks the edges where light shines on it, and ten car garage shots look like something off the ZX Spectrum.

[Sluggz]

Does anyone else feel like they’ll merge the map for GTA 6 with the current GTAO map? Or will it be a entirely new game

altogether?

[Hazzardtohimself]

3 hours ago, Sluggz said:

Does anyone else feel like they’ll merge the map for GTA 6 with the current GTAO map? Or will it be a entirely new game altogether?

 

A merge is possible, but unlikely. 

If we consider that GTA6 will (probably) have a whole new engine (a significantly updated RAGE, or whatever if not new) then most of the hard programming wouldn't be compatible with the older GTA5 things. 

 

Obviously graphics and collision meshes for buildings / trees / terrain etc. could be ported and/or upgraded as required, but the hard programming of the complicated and time-consuming items, such as AI pathing (pedestrians, ground vehicles, water vehicles, air vehicles et al.), zoning (for spawning specific NPCs, vehicles, props etc.), and so on would have to be started fresh. 

 

I don't think Rockstar would think it worth their time... but that's just an opinion. 

[RyuNova]

13 minutes ago, Hazzardtohimself said:

If we consider that GTA6 will (probably) have a whole new engine (a significantly updated RAGE

 

GTAVI will likely work on the RDR2 engine. I wouldn't expect many major changes to what we saw in RDR2.

[EkaSwede]

SO I get a notification that my warehouse staff sourced a Rare Pocket Watch. Nice! I go over to check and find this.

 

 

This is everything EXCEPT the Pocket Watch! These morons can't do ANYTHING right.

Jokes aside apparently I did have the pocket watch and those 5 other "rare" items are actually not rare items.

[Sluggz]

6 hours ago, Hazzardtohimself said:

 

A merge is possible, but unlikely. 

If we consider that GTA6 will (probably) have a whole new engine (a significantly updated RAGE, or whatever if not new) then most of the hard programming wouldn't be compatible with the older GTA5 things. 

 

Obviously graphics and collision meshes for buildings / trees / terrain etc. could be ported and/or upgraded as required, but the hard programming of the complicated and time-consuming items, such as AI pathing (pedestrians, ground vehicles, water vehicles, air vehicles et al.), zoning (for spawning specific NPCs, vehicles, props etc.), and so on would have to be started fresh. 

 

I don't think Rockstar would think it worth their time... but that's just an opinion. 

So we would basically have to start from scratch on GTA6 then and leave V behind 

[Robin1996ify]

5 hours ago, EkaSwede said:

SO I get a notification that my warehouse staff sourced a Rare Pocket Watch. Nice! I go over to check and find this.

 

 

This is everything EXCEPT the Pocket Watch! These morons can't do ANYTHING right.

Jokes aside apparently I did have the pocket watch and those 5 other "rare" items are actually not rare items.

 

This must be Lupe's fault right? I knew that unwanted warehouse dweller can't be trusted.

[Cahill--EFC]

8 hours ago, EkaSwede said:

SO I get a notification that my warehouse staff sourced a Rare Pocket Watch. Nice! I go over to check and find this.

 

 

This is everything EXCEPT the Pocket Watch! These morons can't do ANYTHING right.

Jokes aside apparently I did have the pocket watch and those 5 other "rare" items are actually not rare items.

 

 

You will have to give him a bonus........ "employee of the month"   

Edited August 26 by Cahill--EFC

[EkaSwede]

9 minutes ago, Cahill--EFC said:

 

 

You will have to give him a bonus........ "employee of the month"   

The thing is that it was actually only 1 Rare item which still was the Rare Pocket watch. The other rare items are only visual. They're not real.

[Cahill--EFC]

3 minutes ago, EkaSwede said:

The thing is that it was actually only 1 Rare item which still was the Rare Pocket watch. The other rare items are only visual. They're not real.

 

 

Oh dear..... your staff have been mugged off  

[Arrows to Athens]

Has anybody got any tips for taking out the truck driver in the mission 'Ticket to Elysium'? I seem to always struggle with it. If I use a minigun like I usually do, I end up shooting up the truck itself too much, causing it to catch fire. If I use anything else, I tend to miss shots and the truck zooms past me, which ends up in me giving chase in an annoying game of cat and mouse. I like to use my Toreador in missions, and I can't use guns when inside it. 

 

Tips? Anyone? 

Edited August 27 by Arrows to Athens

[Snakeywakey389]

1 hour ago, Arrows to Athens said:

Has anybody got any tips for taking out the truck driver in the mission 'Ticket to Elysium'? I seem to always struggle with it. If I use a minigun like I usually do, I end up shooting up the truck itself too much, causing it to catch fire. If I use anything else, I tend to miss shots and the truck zooms past me, which ends up in me giving chase in an annoying game of cat and mouse. I like to use my Toreador in missions, and I can't use guns when inside it. 

 

Tips? Anyone? 

Could try driving ahead of him and then shooting him out with a sniper or something. Or get something heavy (Insurgent maybe) and just block him and then shoot him.

[Arrows to Athens]

6 minutes ago, Snakeywakey389 said:

Could try driving ahead of him and then shooting him out with a sniper or something. Or get something heavy (Insurgent maybe) and just block him and then shoot him.

Thing is, I'm not that great of a sniper and the windows on the cab are quite small, making it difficult to get a hit on the driver. 

Edited August 27 by Arrows to Athens

[Snakeywakey389]

1 minute ago, Arrows to Athens said:

Thing is, I'm not that great of a sniper and the windows on the cab are quite small, making it difficult to get a hit on the driver. 

You could also try using an EMP Arena War car mine to make it stop.

[Arrows to Athens]

Just now, Snakeywakey389 said:

You could also try using an EMP Arena War car mine to make it stop.

Maybe I could try using that EMP gun. 

[Snakeywakey389]

Just now, Arrows to Athens said:

Maybe I could try using that EMP gun. 

That may work. My strategy was to use the Half Track and use it to block the truck using its mass.

[Arrows to Athens]

1 minute ago, Snakeywakey389 said:

That may work. My strategy was to use the Half Track and use it to block the truck using its mass.

I like to use the Toreador during missions, and I don't want to be switching vehicles just to be able to complete specific missions, if you know what I mean. 

[Semaj 2JZ♢]

10 minutes ago, Arrows to Athens said:

I like to use the Toreador during missions, and I don't want to be switching vehicles just to be able to complete specific missions, if you know what I mean. 

How about just not using the damn Toreador!? Lol, but seriously. Idk what else you want for help...I guess: start mission, drive towards truck, when close, stop, and steal a street car, chase the truck, shoot the driver and then take the truck.

[Arrows to Athens]

17 minutes ago, Semaj 2JZ♢ said:

How about just not using the damn Toreador!? Lol, but seriously. Idk what else you want for help...I guess: start mission, drive towards truck, when close, stop, and steal a street car, chase the truck, shoot the driver and then take the truck.

Because then when I select another mission to play and I want to use the Toreador in that mission (especially if it's a mission where there's going to be a lot of enemies giving chase, which means an opportunity to rack up RP), I have to return the current one to storage, then call up the mechanic, scroll to the Toreador, then request, then wait 5 seconds. Not THAT time-consuming, but still something that I don't want to keep doing. And if I just steal a car off the street to chase the truck, chances are, it'll be slow as f*ck. Just yesterday, I was forced to steal a Landstalker to chase after the truck, and the truck was going faster than me! 

Edited August 27 by Arrows to Athens