Lonely-Martin Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 2 hours ago, Buddy Hightower said: I haven't played in a week... full lobby, solo lobby, small lobby - makes no difference to me - the game is just flat out boring, beautiful - but boring. Story mode, even at end-game, is just so much better - why even bother? For me, if I get the peace I've had recently with everything working, I love online. But if it's to go back to the farce it was, story mode is league's ahead. Though story mode is absolutely quality for me anytime of course, I'll never not want to dip into that like I still do with most all of R*'s stories. StyxTx, DentureDynamite and Direwrath 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non Funkable Token Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 2 hours ago, 4eyedcoupe said: I wonder if small lobbies were just to make their update work, IE Legendary Animals spawning. And now that the LA drip feed is pretty much over, R* is back to business as usual because the players will move on and forget about it with the next update Still 2 freeroam panthers to come. Man, that will be a pain..... Rev. Gnash, StyxTx and ALifeOfMisery 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev. Gnash Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 Tasty_Pasta, Leftover Pizza, kcole4001 and 8 others 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non Funkable Token Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 3 hours ago, Mirror Park Resident said: Today: -Animal spawns: same as before. Didn't notice a drop. -Random events: gone, minus moonshiner and a hideout. -Legendaries: saw no one, although I didn't look actively for any of them. I'll try Onyx wolf this night. And it spawned. Underground. Again. DentureDynamite, kcole4001, ALifeOfMisery and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StyxTx Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 1 hour ago, Mirror Park Resident said: And it spawned. Underground. Again. Underground? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non Funkable Token Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 1 minute ago, StyxTx said: Underground? I think so. The "?" prompted, I got there and only saw regular wolves, no yellow paw icon. Killed them all but was still hearing growls, as if the legendary wolf was invisible or underground. It has happened to more folks in here, exactly with this legendary wolf. ALifeOfMisery 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StyxTx Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 1 minute ago, Mirror Park Resident said: I think so. The "?" prompted, I got there and only saw regular wolves, no yellow paw icon. Killed them all but was still hearing growls, as if the legendary wolf was invisible or underground. It has happened to more folks in here, exactly with this legendary wolf. Hm. Weird. Hadn't heard about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excalibur Voltaire Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 Welp, it was fun while it lasted Back to the Story Lonely-Martin, DentureDynamite and Rev. Gnash 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyStone Posted October 20, 2020 Author Share Posted October 20, 2020 On 9/7/2020 at 6:06 PM, gtmike said: So now you have an inside contact at Rockstar is that it? Or just more trolling? Rhetorical of course. At this point it's clear that you and your little crony are just out to bother people. Haha classic sh*t post. Seriously, thanks for this one man, I had a good laugh. You can call it a lucky guess if you like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assblaster Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 They just had to go and break the game again. I'm fine with populated lobbies if they work right. Now I'm having disconnects again with a ethernet connection, and it hasn't happened AT ALL in the small sessions we were enjoying. Three so far this morning! Congrats, Rockstar morons, ruining a good thing as expected. Well there are other games back to those. ZombieBatman, Direwrath, darkmaster234 and 5 others 6 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BUT THE BENZ Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 I sincerely hope R* will revert/roll-back, or whatever, to small lobbies. it was the game at its best, hands down the most immersive month(s) I had with this game. /sad Lonely-Martin, DentureDynamite, Rev. Gnash and 8 others 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IamCourtney Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 Played about two hours last night, monitoring the session population which held steady in the 12-15 range. No noticeable shortage of animals or NPCs, encountered a legendary beaver and a variety of other free roam stuff. Posse'd up with a rando and had several benign and one aggressive player encounters. No issues with camp relocation or mission spawning etc. No disconnections that were R*'s fault either. Knock on wood it stays this way, and condolences to those who've preferred the last month or so, but this is the ideal RDO for me and I hope it sticks around. GrungeNinja, Rev. Gnash, AmyStone and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceHeartache Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 I know is an unpopular opinion, but i missed the populated lobbies, still I got random events and animal spawns works fine in lobbies with 16 players (in my experience) , so maybe they improve the stability a little Still, this whole low lobbies situation should take into account for R*, it made a good acceptance for some players and should be a game option darkmaster234, IamCourtney, AmyStone and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcole4001 Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 I had between 10 and 12 others in session, mostly the same all the way through, about 2 hours to get the dailies done, there were 3 random LAs, a hideout, a camp defend, and a wounded animal, though I saw no sign of random shine roadblocks at all (naturally, since that was one of the dailies). It took ages to find a train again to shoot birds from, MacFarlane's came through as usual. DentureDynamite, StyxTx and GrungeNinja 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkmaster234 Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 (edited) 5 hours ago, Assblaster said: They just had to go and break the game again. I'm fine with populated lobbies if they work right. Now I'm having disconnects again with a ethernet connection, and it hasn't happened AT ALL in the small sessions we were enjoying. Three so far this morning! Congrats, Rockstar morons, ruining a good thing as expected. Well there are other games back to those They need the kiddos back to buy their gold and of course are pretty aware of their preferences...screw the game!!! Monyyyyeee Edited October 20, 2020 by darkmaster234 Direwrath, Assblaster, StyxTx and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StyxTx Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Baltel said: I know is an unpopular opinion, but i missed the populated lobbies, still I got random events and animal spawns works fine in lobbies with 16 players (in my experience) , so maybe they improve the stability a little Still, this whole low lobbies situation should take into account for R*, it made a good acceptance for some players and should be a game option Oh I got random events yesterday in the 2 1/2 hours I played.......2 of them and no revenuer roadblocks as I did go out of my way to get to as many of those locations as possible. Animal spawns are erratic again. One time there were lots of gators in the bayou, the next time I went there (in the same session) none. Kinda like having none. I can take a lot of shortcuts. One of the main things that irks me, and probably not others, is every time a lobby switch occurs your gold cores and rings disappear. Then the issue with female horses becoming male is back again. A few times it took almost a minute to exit a stable. Guess I got lucky cuz I thought a disconnect was coming. I didn't try any moonshine deliveries so I don't know about those but they were always a problem in big lobbies. When trying to log into the game, disconnect, disconnect, disconnect. Didn't have 1 the entire time we had small lobbies. Trying to join the game in camp ... right area, no camp. All this was lobbies of 12-14 on PC. Basically, nothing is different then they were last time they had big lobbies. Not for me anyway. When the lobby size was around 10, things seemed to work right. That seems to be to pivot point. Edited October 20, 2020 by StyxTx Assblaster, Direwrath and kcole4001 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkmaster234 Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 1 hour ago, StyxTx said: Oh I got random events yesterday in the 2 1/2 hours I played.......2 of them and no revenuer roadblocks as I did go out of my way to get to as many of those locations as possible. Animal spawns are erratic again. One time there were lots of gators in the bayou, the next time I went there (in the same session) none. Kinda like having none. I can take a lot of shortcuts. One of the main things that irks me, and probably not others, is every time a lobby switch occurs your gold cores and rings disappear. Then the issue with female horses becoming male is back again. A few times it took almost a minute to exit a stable. Guess I got lucky cuz I thought a disconnect was coming. I didn't try any moonshine deliveries so I don't know about those but they were always a problem in big lobbies. When trying to log into the game, disconnect, disconnect, disconnect. Didn't have 1 the entire time we had small lobbies. Trying to join the game in camp ... right area, no camp. All this was lobbies of 12-14 on PC. Basically, nothing is different then they were last time they had big lobbies. Not for me anyway. When the lobby size was around 10, things seemed to work right. That seems to be to pivot point. In my case whenever the lobby reached 10 members the dynamic events were completely gone, of course that was the last time they did the same. Yesterday i just did a dayly and log off. kcole4001 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtmike Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 (edited) 11 hours ago, AmyStone said: You can call it a lucky guess if you like. Umm actually, it was my prediction/hope that the small lobbies would last until Halloween. You said a "fix" was imminent months ago. Which it wasn't. You couldn't have been more wrong, which makes this post all the more pathetic. And that's twice now you've responded to the same rhetorical question smh... To the current discussion: The small lobbies allowed me to enjoy the legendary animals and other content, even joined a crew meet up with 10 or so people...... but I haven't logged into the game for more than a few minutes in weeks. I might try and complete some of the legendary sample collections once they're all finally dripfed, but only if they manage to make them spawn again reliably in this trainwreck of an online service. 5 hours ago, IamCourtney said: Played about two hours last night, monitoring the session population which held steady in the 12-15 range. No noticeable shortage of animals or NPCs, encountered a legendary beaver and a variety of other free roam stuff. Posse'd up with a rando and had several benign and one aggressive player encounters. No issues with camp relocation or mission spawning etc. No disconnections that were R*'s fault either. Knock on wood it stays this way, and condolences to those who've preferred the last month or so, but this is the ideal RDO for me and I hope it sticks around. Sounds promising, but I have my doubts. Edited October 20, 2020 by gtmike Lonely-Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StyxTx Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 1 hour ago, darkmaster234 said: In my case whenever the lobby reached 10 members the dynamic events were completely gone, of course that was the last time they did the same. Yesterday i just did a dayly and log off. Maybe 10 is the flip of the coin spot. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostsoap01 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 (edited) R* would rather have us bickering over the state of the game, and which one is the best, when clearly the real solution is not to revert one way or the other, but to give us choice, that way we can all get the most of this game we all payed 60$ for (or 90$ in my case cause of goddamned Quebec taxes). Off-topic edit: seriously f*ck Quebec taxes. The only province where there is not only federal, but also provincial income tax. Roughly 40% income goes straight to the government. Edited October 21, 2020 by ghostsoap01 Lonely-Martin, jazzbone, kcole4001 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbone Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 I agree, an option for private lobbies is needed now and since the beginning RDO. Lobby choices work so well in GTAO so i am at a lose of why not also for RDO. hugh750, kcole4001, ALifeOfMisery and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcole4001 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, ghostsoap01 said: R* would rather have us bickering over the state of the game, and which one is the best, when clearly the real solution is not to revert one way or the other, but to give us choice, that way we can all get the most of this game we all payed 60$ for (or 90$ in my case cause of goddamned Quebec taxes). Off-topic edit: seriously f*ck Quebec taxes. The only province where there is not only federal, but also provincial income tax. Roughly 40% income goes straight to the government. Nova Scotia has both income taxes, too. Here it's around 35% in total give or take (mostly take). Edited October 21, 2020 by kcole4001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan390 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 32 minutes ago, kcole4001 said: Nova Scotia has both income taxes, too. Here it's around 35% in total give or take (mostly take). so does B.C. kcole4001 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkmaster234 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 Well tonight i played 4 hours in a 12 players session and as expected no dynamic event spawn. First night in more than a month that no legendary animal spawn too... basically a wasteland again!!! Lonely-Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocket Fox Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 1 month of the old lobby system (low pop.), 1 disconnect & 2 black screens 1 day of the new lobby system (populated), 3 disconnects & 1 black screen Pity, was having such a blast. I'll probably only log in now to do a daily to keep the streak going and not bother with anything else. Lonely-Martin, kcole4001 and BUT THE BENZ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assblaster Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 (edited) At night I'm getting between 4-7 player sessions, and everything is working. Earlier in the day I had around 14 players in my sessions, with no random encounters or moonshiners and a few disconnects. No disconnects at night in my smaller sessions! Looks like playing at night is the way to go. UPDATE: Nope, I merged back into populated sessions. Oh well, at least the lobbies won't be as big once players get bored of the Halloween event and pass. Edited October 21, 2020 by Assblaster Lonely-Martin, darkmaster234 and Rev. Gnash 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyStone Posted October 21, 2020 Author Share Posted October 21, 2020 11 hours ago, gtmike said: Umm actually, it was my prediction/hope that the small lobbies would last until Halloween. You said a "fix" was imminent months ago. Which it wasn't. All I knew was they were actively working on a fix (months ago) that was not at all simple to resolve. If you want to claim some kind of victory then go ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonely-Martin Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 1 hour ago, AmyStone said: All I knew was they were actively working on a fix (months ago) that was not at all simple to resolve. If you want to claim some kind of victory then go ahead. But it's not actually fixed, lol. Lobbies are still less than R* intend and events aren't spawning also like intended. They've literally just re-broken it again. It's just tragic to see praise for this farce is all. All it does is enable R* to persist with such nonsense that compromises the game. darkmaster234, jazzbone, ghostsoap01 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tez2 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Lonely-Martin said: But it's not actually fixed, lol. Lobbies are still less than R* intend and events aren't spawning also like intended. They've literally just re-broken it again. It's just tragic to see praise for this farce is all. All it does is enable R* to persist with such nonsense that compromises the game. I think the small lobbies were just a side effect of a persistent process attempting to fix something gone wrong with session merging. I think it dates back all the way to the disastrous patch 1.21. If I recall correctly, Rockstar reversed the state back to the previous patch before that, and shortly afterwards released a new patch that started the small lobbies phenomenon. Edited October 21, 2020 by Tez2 Rev. Gnash and kcole4001 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyStone Posted October 21, 2020 Author Share Posted October 21, 2020 2 hours ago, Lonely-Martin said: But it's not actually fixed, lol. Lobbies are still less than R* intend and events aren't spawning also like intended. They've literally just re-broken it again. It's just tragic to see praise for this farce is all. All it does is enable R* to persist with such nonsense that compromises the game. Well who know what their intention is now. It's possible they have decided to compromise and have lobbies half the size they were originally. Tragic? There's your favourite word again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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