Meaning of delayed starts

[zPhoenix]

The following scenario seems quite common:

• Start an activity like a supply run or bounty. (much more common with supply runs)
• Buttons grey out in response to being in the activity.
• The *invisible at this time* counter begins ticking.
• But... the destination and path do not light up.
• It is not rare for 2-5 minutes to pass and to be halfway to another activity (even on the opposite side of the map by this point) before the activity "wakes up" and you get instructions, destination and path.
• Obviously... many activities fail because half or more of the "available" time gets lost before being told what to do.

 

What causes this?

 

Is there a workaround / way to kick it in the butt so that it stops sleeping and gives you the instructions?

 

 

[BUT THE BENZ]

sounds like the "strangers missions" dilemma...sometimes they start right away, as expected as intended I'd say, other times the mission just doesn't load at all and you're in a loop of NOTHING happening. and then there's times when you wandered off doing something else, since the mission wouldn't start, and then BOOM there's the mission. not seen that in quite a while... guess there's nothing we can do about it, it's a problem on the developers' end

[Krommer]

I just had this happen to me at my camp, having a resupply mission. He says to get tanning supplies, but it never

loads what I'm guessing. It won't let me eat at my stew, nor will it let me use fast travel; finally I figured out

to go to the fast menu (left click on d pad, on xbox) then quick join a take over series. Then when I got in that,

went to free roam. Then I was able to fast travel go back to camp and try again.

 

Yeah, mainly Rockstar's end although some users have it happen more than others.

 

Rockstar will ALWAYS blame the user, saying it must be their router/net connection/not having

ports open/etc.

 

Either they "stealth" fixed the second part of the Blackwater Infamous bounty poster, that I could NEVER get to load (just sitting there at the bounty board,

with the gray "x" but the thing never loading, while I could not "fast travel" or anything because it said I was "on a mission") or I got lucky that after they fixed

some other stuff (like being able to fast travel from the Wilderness camp BEFORE you had level 97 in the Outlaw Pass), I could SUDDENLY do that bounty on the first try.

 

There is nothing YOU can do, though in various threads people will suggest "just standing there, not moving" and such.

 

My work around is to let it "simmer" for the time it takes me to get some food/use the restroom/freshen my coffee; if it isn't loaded

by the time I return, being an average healthy human, then I exit/go back to camp/or just back free roam so I'm near the area to try again.

If it craps out on a moonshine delivery, for example, I free roam and then nearly always can do it RIGHT AWAY when I try again, without

a "loading" screen at all!

Edited December 13, 2020 by Krommer