GTA Online: After Hours Coming July 24

[Nutduster]

20 minutes ago, ddarko12 said:

And making it take them two more weeks to fix it? What would they have only 10 people working on the sh*t?

 

Look, game development isnt a walk through the park. But Rockstar is the most delaying ass company I have ever dealt with. Literally more than any other company ive dealt with. Maked me wonder what theyre really doing.

 

Their games are complicated as f*ck, that's why. I can guarantee that a game like GTA Online is basically a giant mess of spaghetti code. Everything they add touches a hundred other things and they all have to be tested and tweaked. And after 5 years and all these updates, Online is probably by orders of magnitude the biggest, messiest game they've ever made.

Edited July 18, 2018 by Nutduster

[Ice_cold2016]

59 minutes ago, Nutduster said:

 

Their games are complicated as f*ck, that's why. I can guarantee that a game like GTA Online is basically a giant mess of spaghetti code. Everything they add touches a hundred other things and they all have to be tested and tweaked.

Add that to the fact that Sony and Microsofts verification process takes a week. They have verify everything is working properly before it can be released.

 

 

[ddarko12]

Lmao inb4 31st delay. Somebody tell me now if thats the case... @Fun 2

[Jenkiiii]

4 minutes ago, Nutduster said:

 

Their games are complicated as f*ck, that's why. I can guarantee that a game like GTA Online is basically a giant mess of spaghetti code. Everything they add touches a hundred other things and they all have to be tested and tweaked. And after 5 years and all these updates, Online is probably by orders of magnitude the biggest, messiest game they've ever made.

 

The best example of this would be the Jester Classic. People have moaned and griped about it so much that Rockstar have pulled the temporary plug on it instead of making a few tweaks and adjustments and returning it to circulation. It's not as simple as that. All changes to code require strict change control procedures and subsequent QA, which seems to be the reason for its delay.

 

[VVIP]

1 minute ago, ddarko12 said:

Lmao inb4 31st delay. Somebody tell me now if thats the case... @Fun 2

[Jenkiiii]

4 minutes ago, ddarko12 said:

Lmao inb4 31st delay. Somebody tell me now if thats the case... @Fun 2

The words "coming this summer" are looking increasingly sketchy, I agree. Although August is still summer.

 

Edited July 18, 2018 by Jenkiiii

[senn]

1 minute ago, Jenkiiii said:

The words "coming this summer" are looking increasingly sketchy, I agree. Although August is still summer!

only in certain parts of the world. Our summer starts December LOL

[VVIP]

Can't believe anything till we see something tomorrow. 

Spoiler

ofc only if they post something tomo

 

[ddarko12]

Well if that happens I think my hype is killed until the actual announcement. So better to know now then later.

[PayneKiller75]

4 hours ago, Dr.Rosenthal said:

 

I’m really baffled that we haven’t gotten more drugs already. Being at the center of the whole criminal endeavour and the main source of income for most criminal organizations, also with GTA being an adult game with adult themes, I can’t see why they haven’t got a more central position already. We should be snorting, smoking, tripping our way through our criminal careers like any respectable thug would do. Not to mention all the cool effects/perks and drawback symtoms that would go along with it. But I’m starting to sound like a broken record on this topic.. It’s like making a game based on cooking and forgetting to add a kitchen. And no, the alcohol and bong isn’t enough. Any respectable junkie likes to do his own choice of drugs in any place of his own choosing. It might even breath new life into gang attacks - imagine shooting insane clowns or aliens instead of gang members because you’re trippin’ balls on LSD. That’d be something!

I really, really like the way you think! 

[VVIP]

Just now, ddarko12 said:

Well if that happens I think my hype is killed until the actual announcement. So better to know now then later.

Yeah after 17th my hype was gone too #RIPTeam17th

[ddarko12]

At this point, by the time the sh*t comes ill be nosedeep in coursework. Great summer dlc rockstar.

[PayneKiller75]

4 minutes ago, ddarko12 said:

At this point, by the time the sh*t comes ill be nosedeep in coursework. Great summer dlc rockstar.

July 24th is summer though

[ddarko12]

Just now, GunSlinger556 said:

July 24th is summer though

Ill hold on to team24th til monday but lol nothing surprises me at this point

[PayneKiller75]

28 minutes ago, Nutduster said:

 

Their games are complicated as f*ck, that's why. I can guarantee that a game like GTA Online is basically a giant mess of spaghetti code. Everything they add touches a hundred other things and they all have to be tested and tweaked. And after 5 years and all these updates, Online is probably by orders of magnitude the biggest, messiest game they've ever made.

It was also exasperated by going from one console gen to the next, too. As nice as that was for all of us, it was an absolute PAIN IN THE ASS from an engineering/programming perspective. 

Edited July 18, 2018 by GunSlinger556

[KingBen]

Ya’ll need to relax. The update is coming on the 24th.

[Mustangnismo1969]

Yea I think that it’s pretty clear that it’s coming 24th. Like at least 90% chance. But now that I think about it, I was saying that last tuesday about 17th too, so who knows

[TermedSaturn942]

7 minutes ago, KingBen said:

Ya’ll need to relax. The update is coming on the 24th.

we are relaxed. there is usually a 5 to 15 minute wait inbetween posts.

[PayneKiller75]

10 minutes ago, TermedSaturn942 said:

we are relaxed. there is usually a 5 to 15 minute wait inbetween posts.

Seriously... *yawn* if I was any more relaxed, I'd be asleep... ha.

Edited July 18, 2018 by GunSlinger556

[ddarko12]

27 minutes ago, KingBen said:

Ya’ll need to relax. The update is coming on the 24th.

Same was said this day a week ago about the 17th lmao. only good this time is the leakers arent saying sh*t.

[theNGclan]

1 hour ago, Nutduster said:

 

Their games are complicated as f*ck, that's why. I can guarantee that a game like GTA Online is basically a giant mess of spaghetti code. Everything they add touches a hundred other things and they all have to be tested and tweaked. And after 5 years and all these updates, Online is probably by orders of magnitude the biggest, messiest game they've ever made.

That's not true.. at all. The game isn't written in assembly where everything is interconnected.

 

their games are complicated but they're not some mess of intertwined code that's held together with duct tape.

[MostlyPonies]

1 hour ago, senn said:

only in certain parts of the world. Our summer starts December LOL

Found the kiwi.

[senn]

Just now, MostlyPonies said:

Found the kiwi.

Even though there's an Australian flag under my name, still got it wrong

[MostlyPonies]

No flags on mobile.

[DJ Insanity]

I'm glad that Rockstar is finally trying to stop these .json leaks, these leaks tear the community apart and make us argue with each other. I'm more than happy just waiting and Rockstar releasing information.

[Sentinel Driver]

All I can say is, this DLC better be worth the f*cking wait. I'm expecting tons of new USEFUL vehicles and the nightclubs being a very profitable and a fun business to run. Nothing like that air freight cargo crap EVER AGAIN

[RyuNova]

4 minutes ago, Sentinel Driver said:

All I can say is, this DLC better be worth the f*cking wait. I'm expecting tons of new USEFUL vehicles and the nightclubs being a very profitable and a fun business to run. Nothing like that air freight cargo crap EVER AGAIN

 

I just want to be able to sell my boring stuff through the club's while I grind I/E

[Piro]

1 hour ago, GunSlinger556 said:

It was also exasperated by going from one console gen to the next, too. As nice as that was for all of us, it was an absolute PAIN IN THE ASS from an engineering/programming perspective. 

Well not rly. They started with PC/next gen and later they downgraded it all so it can run on old gens.
 

22 minutes ago, theNGclan said:

That's not true.. at all. The game isn't written in assembly where everything is interconnected.

their games are complicated but they're not some mess of intertwined code that's held together with duct tape.

But it is true... Sounds like you don't know anything about coding. Even R*F* said that they "don't mess with the old code" or everything would fall apart. Thats why for example we don't have Pegasus Customs, we have to bring old Pegasus vehicles and turn them in to something new. In a way thats a workaround to avoid problems with the old Pegasus system. 

Every time you try to change something old it gives you new unexpected bugs. 

You know the old saying?

"99 little bugs in the code,
99 little bugs,
take one down, pass it around,
127 little bugs in the code!"

Spoiler

 

Edited July 18, 2018 by Piro

[Nutduster]

26 minutes ago, theNGclan said:

That's not true.. at all. The game isn't written in assembly where everything is interconnected.

 

 

Huh?  Almost any code can turn into a mess when it has a lot of disparate parts sharing and calling the same procedures.  Especially a game like GTA with tons of different features.  That's the nature of code written in MOST languages, it doesn't matter specifically which one. 

 

If GTA Online's code isn't a giant mess, I would love to know why we have found, and they have fixed, approximately eighty gajillion money and car dupe glitches to date. 

 

By the way, what I do for a living is work on a very old and complicated piece of software which has many of the same problems.  I don't really even say this as some damning indictment - it's just a description.  A project as ambitious and complex as GTA Online with many, many developers working on it over a period of a number of years is naturally going to become a mess, even if it didn't start out as one.  That's just unavoidable.  The best you can hope for is that the current crop of developers are smart enough not to mess too much with old, shared code when they're adding new features, and are able to generate competent Band-Aids for the problems that arise.

Edited July 18, 2018 by Nutduster

[ALifeOfMisery]

27 minutes ago, DJ Insanity said:

I'm glad that Rockstar is finally trying to stop these .json leaks, these leaks tear the community apart and make us argue with each other. I'm more than happy just waiting and Rockstar releasing information.

If R* were more communicative it wouldn't be an issue. As it stands currently Yan, Fun, Foxy (among others) and back in the day R*F*g and Dragoon are the reasons we've known anything at all about updates.

 

You've been around since 2013, so you know the hype and excitement that leaks bring.

 

I expect R* to try and tighten things up, I can't fault them for that. But I also expect those that are inclined to dig for information and leak to double down and find a way to get information out. 

 

I for one look forward to the next round of leaks. Starting with Foxy, WildBrick or whoever on DLC day showing all the vehicle models early.

Edited July 18, 2018 by ALifeOfMisery