1.18 Update Released

[hotrats773]

I logged in for a 20 minute session.

Was disconnected immediately. Retried and got in. My camp spawns in Lagras so of course there should be alligators. There were none. Rode around for a bit, shot a bird and helped a stranger. Went back to Lagras. No wildlife at all.

 

I really wish I was making this sh*t up but I'm not. I really want this to work but right now it's not. Hopefully they come up with something soon that actually works.

[Shadowfennekin]

Still no animals.

What a f*cking joke

[Pocket Fox]

It's almost like there needs to be some kind of lobby option... like... private... solo... or something to allow people to actually play the game.

 

At the very least R* needs to give up on the pipe dream of 20+ player lobbies being viable.

[LostReacher]

Getting disconnected a lot. Infinite load screens too.

[AStiffBreeze]

45 minutes ago, LostReacher said:

Getting disconnected a lot. Infinite load screens too.

I haven’t had any disconnections, but every single time I try to load into a second lobby I get the infinite loading bug now. Basically, if I want to switch lobbies I need to quit the game and relaunch it. 

[kcole4001]

2 minutes ago, AStiffBreeze said:

I haven’t had any disconnections, but every single time I try to load into a second lobby I get the infinite loading bug now. Basically, if I want to switch lobbies I need to quit the game and relaunch it. 

It may be faster to quick join a showdown then exit back to freeroam.

That's the only way I've got it to work without actually closing the game, change sessions has always been a black screen freeze for me.

[AStiffBreeze]

25 minutes ago, kcole4001 said:

It may be faster to quick join a showdown then exit back to freeroam.

That's the only way I've got it to work without actually closing the game, change sessions has always been a black screen freeze for me.

I’ve had the infinite loading bug quite frequently trying to join showdowns too unfortunately

[Leftover Pizza]

I have to admit that I am experiencing better animal spawns. Not good yet, but better for sure. Where 18-20 player sessions would put me in a barren land before, I now see animals regularly in 20-22 player sessions. Not groups of deer every where, but sufficient to keep Cripps happy. 

22+ sessions no worky. Not an animal in sight in those sessions.

[1898]

My first time in since the updates and spawns were pretty good. No herds but they were out there if you went looking, just how I like it.

 

Also my the horse seemed to bring the wagon much closer than before. 

[darkmaster234]

1 hour ago, Leftover Pizza said:

I have to admit that I am experiencing better animal spawns. Not good yet, but better for sure. Where 18-20 player sessions would put me in a barren land before, I now see animals regularly in 20-22 player sessions. Not groups of deer every where, but sufficient to keep Cripps happy. 

22+ sessions no worky. Not an animal in sight in those sessions.

Crisp ? That doggie hater can go f*ck himself, its the daylies that matter lol. In general terms i feel it wasnt worth it: 6 gb lost, and a buggier game, when they could have just reduce  the server population to max 15 players with better overall results.

Edited February 16, 2020 by darkmaster234

[Talisman_83]

Also been finding that camp spawns seem quite stable

[Leftover Pizza]

42 minutes ago, Talisman_83 said:

Also been finding that camp spawns seem quite stable

 

Yeah. I've seen it packed up once this weekend and not loading in with the "Camp" option always spawns my camp in the area I left it. 

[ALifeOfMisery]

1 hour ago, Leftover Pizza said:

I have to admit that I am experiencing better animal spawns. Not good yet, but better for sure. Where 18-20 player sessions would put me in a barren land before, I now see animals regularly in 20-22 player sessions. Not groups of deer every where, but sufficient to keep Cripps happy. 

22+ sessions no worky. Not an animal in sight in those sessions.

I've had a similar experience today. 

 

Cripps is definitely burning through materials faster now, but not producing any quicker than usual.

 

I was in a 27 player lobby for a while and the game near enough sh*t itself. Nothing worked.

[RaigeGames]

1 hour ago, darkmaster234 said:

Crisp ?

Ah yes. Our Lord and Savior, Crisp.

[ShadowlessDevil]

7 minutes ago, ALifeOfMisery said:

I've had a similar experience today. 

 

Cripps is definitely burning through materials faster now, but not producing any quicker than usual.

 

I was in a 27 player lobby for a while and the game near enough sh*t itself. Nothing worked.

I had to change lobbies...28 players and no animals!! 

[Leftover Pizza]

8 minutes ago, RaigeGames said:

Ah yes. Our Lord and Savior, Crisp.

 

Krant?

 

I call Maggie from the moonshine shack Crispy. She's teaming up with Cripps to order us around. Cripps & Crispy.

[crybaby17h16]

welp sorry for the low quality lol..

 

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[Direwrath]

 

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Omg that is great!!  Thank you!

 

 

I played on the Xbox last night, and there were 22 players on the server. The animal spawns were good so far, not as great as they used to be but just seeing some animals was a good start. It was pretty cool riding the plains and having the groups of deer running with you, or in front of you as they tend to do, and all of the players were out there taking advantage of it for sure. Made me take care of where I was riding so as not to alert or scare the animals away from some poor hunter just trying to get what they could while the pickings were ripe. I had one disconnect, and the load into the game did take a bit longer but my camp had spawned and remained during the entire duration I had been playing. The bounties were working right, the strangers were handing out missions without fail, the only thing I was missing were the random encounters. Those seem to be rarer and rarer to find lately. Another thing I didn't do was deliver my moonshine, but I have been waiting on that one until it was working a little better. 

Edited February 16, 2020 by Direwrath

[Leftover Pizza]

31 minutes ago, ALifeOfMisery said:

I've had a similar experience today. 

 

Cripps is definitely burning through materials faster now, but not producing any quicker than usual.

 

I was in a 27 player lobby for a while and the game near enough sh*t itself. Nothing worked.

 

Oh yes, he is a lot more demanding than a few days ago. With better animal spawns, we might not even be better off now. Rockstar compensates with a higher need...  

[ventogt]

Saw 2 - TWO deer and 2 ravens the entire time I played this afternoon.  2 hours, 2 deer.  I tried to do the change appearance thing but the game froze in the loading screen for that so I didn't even get to try.  Went on call for a story mission just to change it up and these numbnuts sub 15 rankers couldn't figure out how to hogtie and not kill the escapees when you bring them to the train track.  The second restart I even hogtied the last remaining person for the guy and somehow he killed him.  I logged off.  Whatever Rockstar did had nothing to do with animal spawns that's for sure.

 

I have not had issues with delivering shine for a while now though, so it seems that is fixed

Edited February 16, 2020 by ventogt

[Lonely-Martin]

My camp got packed away about 20 minutes in, otherwise I had a pleasant little session today, maybe there is hope, lol. Naturally I want it fixed but it saves me a buck or two when packed up and as I don't use it, it doesn't hurt my gaming, but still, we're not out of the woods yet unfortunately.

 

Hit rank 80 on the pass though, sold a grand's worth of crap to the loopy one as she's in town (I do enjoy St. Denis-Rhodes and surrounding areas, plus it saves remembering when and where she's at to just sell up when Madam Nazar is there). Noticed it kept saying 'processing transaction' for a good 20-30 seconds per item I sold, which took a while, another classic, lol. I saw animals but I was more after refilling in bird bits and fishing which was all good so we're getting there, hopefully.

[Foxwolfe]

8 hours ago, Talisman_83 said:

Also been finding that camp spawns seem quite stable

 

It's definitely been worse for me since 1.18. Before the patch I had little issues with the camp, now it'll sometimes be up when I load in but it'll despawn if I visit it then leave and if I return there will be the blue camp icon but no camp.

[Leftover Pizza]

13 hours ago, AStiffBreeze said:

I’ve had the infinite loading bug quite frequently trying to join showdowns too unfortunately

I've had it a few times, fresh loading in the game. The loading screen gets stuck @90% and  stays there for ever. Close app and restart does not necessarily fix it....

[StandardDonkey]

  Is it possible that they're actually bumping down the player count abit?  My count usually sits at about 22,  but the last 2 days it's been hovering around 18. Animals have been better I must say. The pens at Emerald Ranch were even full today! 

   Camp is as buggy as ever though. Bounty boards too

[kcole4001]

No, I've seen up to 24-25 every day at some points before and after the updates.

The player count fluctuates often, but never stays at 18-19 for long.

21-22 seems like the most constant number so far in PC sessions, and it's not a regional thing, I've seen plenty of Chinese players and US in the same sessions.

[CosmicBuffalo]

Had to go to a legendary bounty to get 2 geese...animal spawns are bad not completely barren, but still broken.  Camp issues are worse than ever.   I had 4 bounties in a wagon...less than a minute away, your posse abandoned the job...I never had this bug before this update...I have had twice now on bounties once on a moonshine sale...the moonshine was there when I changed sessions.

[Nerfgoth]

On 2/16/2020 at 4:20 AM, ShadowlessDevil said:

I have a feeling there will be another update this week..the animal spawn is better but not perfect

 

Hopefully there will be! I see animals in 22-24 lobbys but they are far and few between! Random encounters doesn´t even spawn! You need a lobby of <17 to find them.....

 

11 hours ago, Leftover Pizza said:

I have to admit that I am experiencing better animal spawns. Not good yet, but better for sure. Where 18-20 player sessions would put me in a barren land before, I now see animals regularly in 20-22 player sessions. Not groups of deer every where, but sufficient to keep Cripps happy. 

22+ sessions no worky. Not an animal in sight in those sessions.

Same here! If I´m alone in a an area some animals spawns but only if I move slowly!

 

38 minutes ago, kcole4001 said:

No, I've seen up to 24-25 every day at some points before and after the updates.

The player count fluctuates often, but never stays at 18-19 for long.

21-22 seems like the most constant number so far in PC sessions, and it's not a regional thing, I've seen plenty of Chinese players and US in the same sessions.

20-22 in my lobbies on PS4 and sometimes dipping to 18 or below.

 

 

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Remember when in Beta and before the FP random encounters was more common and that was fun!

[kcole4001]

21 minutes ago, Nerfgoth said:

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Same here! If I´m alone in a an area some animals spawns but only if I move slowly!

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Remember when in Beta and before the FP random encounters was more common and that was fun!

I find that if I'm charging over a hill or around a corner, there will be 3 or 4 deer there looking surprised, and then they bugger off before I can get a shot at them, since every time that happens and I hit '8' for my rifle, the game decides it's time to swap to the next weapon on the wheel: shotgun.

quick fire and...BOOOFFF....that didn't sound right, yep shotgun again, which did absolutely nothing since the deer's out of range.

If I go slow with the appropriate rifle equiped and ready, nothing.

Typically I'll be driving the supply wagon over the crest of a hill into the yellow area and there's 4 deer IN my camp staring at me, they turn and skedaddle...annnnnd end of mission cutscene!

I've had boar stand 6 feet from me and watch me skin his cousin until I'm almost done, then he takes off around some trees at full speed and I'm standing there holding a pelt.

R* knows how to troll us. 

Edited February 17, 2020 by kcole4001
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[DarkFlame588]

On 2/15/2020 at 11:34 PM, hotrats773 said:

helped a stranger

Hell those are rarer than animals these days.

[DontGetClose1990]

Did the solo session thing no problem,got 1 crane and the lobby start to populate again. Usually i can start another change appearance thing to get another solo. But i decided to start a moonshiners mission instead to get 1 more crane.

 

Option,progress,story mission,moonshiners. I chose the bitter end bitter something. Tried to start the mission by holding square button but nothing happened.

 

Ok R* you didnt want me to start a moonshiners mission for the crane daily? Thats fine,ill start the change appearance thing to get me another solo.

 

Change appearance thing loads up with revolver and percentage beside it. As soon as the loading done,the game spawned me to the bitter end bitter something mission. Like WTF?

 

As far as i know whenever we start a story mission we will get black screen and spinning revolver on the bottom screen. Not a slide show with spinning revolver.