GTA Online - Unfixed & Broken Stuff Thread

[Max96]

There're a lot of things that became broken after patches or even unfixed since any update release day, let's gather known ones and you've encountered yourself.

Incase there's a similar topic already (I haven't found it, but I feel like it does exist), then merge this one.

 

- Doomsday Heist rewards are still desynchronized:

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In game:

 

Social Club:

 

- Special Vehicle Work mission "Escape Escort" is bugged when clients try to reach getaway van (they get stuck in hallway and then just warp to the van):

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- Short Trips cutscenes are messed up, after first Short Trip mission you get a wrong cutscene and it looks like this:

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- Laptop got misplaced in Doomsday Heist Act 1 (trivial, but still):

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- For some reason door in FIB building gets duplicated when you blow it up (The Contract prep.):

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More to be added.

Edited February 23 by Max96

[Quinn_flower]

2013 me:  the clothing 

 

2023 :  eh

[HonkMeat]

A dumb but annoying one.

 

2013 - Call the mechanic and ask for a vehicle and he says he'll bring it.  Call the mechanic and cancel the request and he says "I guess I'll get back to it then".

2023 - Call the mechanic and ask for a vehicle and he says he'll bring it, and then says "I guess I'll get back to it then".

 

I irritates me that bugs like that just get completely ignored. I know it doesn't break the game but it does say that Rockstar don't care about our experience as long as "ShReK CaRDz".

[fsbkgb]

I think it could be useful to set up a public bug tracker for this stuff, on github or elsewhere, so we could list every bug, have it categorized by platform, type, reproducibility etc. and probably vote on which ones we want fixed the most. Maybe add requests for improvements as well. The ways Rockstar gathers their feedback is very opaque for us, but we could improve the process from our side and then reference it every time they ask for our opinion. Asking them to read the forums wouldn't cut it, but a neat tracker might do.

 

Some random bugs off the top of my head:

- calling the Sparrow while in a PV changes radio station

- in the UD Contract, 3 SWAT cops who go into the vault have broken pathing and AI

- joining a tuner contract on call often results in a black screen with UI on top, which wouldn't be that bad if the Ready button and text chat weren't disabled

- Red Skull t-shirt is listed in every Special tops category

- [PC] special tops category can't be scrolled by the mouse wheel

- phone keytone changes if a message is received while it's open

- [PC] changing phone send keybind from space to another key makes it impossible to send Cayo intel

[Spider-Vice]

There used to be a thread like this years ago that was active but I think OP kinda disappeared and it faded away. Could get something like this going again, but to be completely honest, there's a high chance R* knows about a lot of these, they're just not high priority enough to fix (or not enough time) because that's how game development works, especially when you're constantly working on content lol (they'll be working on next DLC stuff by now for a while).

 

They'll be fixing bugs related to new content they're developing for the future, while having to look into past stuff like this - they will probably, mostly be going for the more severe/big things and not stuff like "Mechanic has a duplicate line" unless they have time or it makes sense to fix that because of something else. Some of these more "cosmetic" ones have been there since like 2014, it's unlikely they'll be fixed as it's not like they're major bugs, although as R* shifts onto developing GTA VI full-time and putting more QoL changes in GTAO, maybe they'll get to some of those before slowing down on content for the current GTAO.

 

Still tho, anything can help if someone does stumble upon this and sees something that is unknown. Repro steps and platform would be good info to have for the more complicated bugs.

[fsbkgb]

They might know about the bugs, but they don't know that we care about them, and that's what we could change. I mean, surely they knew how the snacks work, but didn't change it until a youtuber with a million subs complained.

[fluffball]

1 hour ago, fsbkgb said:

- [PC] special tops category can't be scrolled by the mouse wheel

This works for me 

[TheGhostFromPast]

I've noticed that at least over the past couple months, this game has been nothing but a stuttering, freezing, stopping, and crashing festival. Specifically, at any random moment, the game begins to stutter and freeze. In the worst case, it even stops working completely and crashes without any error messages. I've updated everything I could think of, and yet this problem is still there.

 

 

I've investigated further my issue with the social club profile picture and came to the conclusion that the last update has broken the social club, at least for me. It's not just the profile picture I had before the update that it wants to change or delete. It wants to change or delete every profile picture I choose in the social club while I'm in-game.

I also noticed that when I loaded the game for the first time today, some of the default profile pictures in the social club were missing, but they were back when I loaded the game for the second time.

At this point, I'm not even sure it's a good idea to touch GTA Online right now.

 

 

[fsbkgb]

38 minutes ago, fluffball said:

This works for me 

Interesting. To clarify, when using a wardrobe in an owned property and trying to scroll between subcategories: from Arcade to Brands, DJs etc, the position highlight moves but pressing Enter still selects Arcade. Works fine in shops.

 

@TheGhostFromPast you should probably exclude the game and the SC from your antivirus to let them do their thing in peace, there wasn't any evidence so far that they can be exploited to hack into PCs and your AV is being paranoid.

[TheGhostFromPast]

1 hour ago, fsbkgb said:

 

@TheGhostFromPast you should probably exclude the game and the SC from your antivirus to let them do their thing in peace, there wasn't any evidence so far that they can be exploited to hack into PCs and your AV is being paranoid.

 

I'm not yet tossing out of the window the possibility that my AV could be paranoid in this case, but I have doubts about it.  All these years, AVG was silent every time the launcher was updated. Only after the recent update does AVG have objections, and the fact that specific default profile pictures were missing on Social Club and showed up only after I loaded the game for the second time makes this issue look even more suspicious.

 

 

 

 

Edited February 23 by TheGhostFromPast

[mrfonzius]

On 2/23/2023 at 6:15 PM, TheGhostFromPast said:

I've noticed that at least over the past couple months, this game has been nothing but a stuttering, freezing, stopping, and crashing festival. Specifically, at any random moment, the game begins to stutter and freeze. In the worst case, it even stops working completely and crashes without any error messages. I've updated everything I could think of, and yet this problem is still there.

 

 

I've investigated further my issue with the social club profile picture and came to the conclusion that the last update has broken the social club, at least for me. It's not just the profile picture I had before the update that it wants to change or delete. It wants to change or delete every profile picture I choose in the social club while I'm in-game.

I also noticed that when I loaded the game for the first time today, some of the default profile pictures in the social club were missing, but they were back when I loaded the game for the second time.

At this point, I'm not even sure it's a good idea to touch GTA Online right now.

 

 

I also got that issue with the profile picture. Ingame it seems to be broken no matter which one I select and they only show correctly when I go to my own profile or access the SC website.

I haven't found a solution to this yet, it suddenly occured this week.

Edited February 25 by mrfonzius

[Taterman]

I'd be happy if the took a week or two, heck, even a month off from updates and just fix the NUMEROUS bugs in this game.

[TheGhostFromPast]

17 hours ago, mrfonzius said:

I also got that issue with the profile picture. Ingame it seems to be broken no matter which one I select and they only show correctly when I go to my own profile or access the SC website.

I haven't found a solution to this yet, it suddenly occured this week.

 

The same is here. It's broken in-game, but at the same time it shows correctly when I go to my profile. I haven't accessed the SC website lately, but I'll dare to assume that there it also shows correctly.

 

 

Unfortunately, I haven't found a solution either. All I could do was a little investigation on my own, which led me to the conclusion that the recent update had broken it, yet I still won't touch GTA Online until this is fixed. The fact that AVG suddenly, after all these years, doesn't like that the launcher wants to make some changes looks suspicious. I'd rather have a week or even a month without GTA Online than play it when there's a possibility that something has gone so wrong that it could drown my years of progress in the sewer only because I showed up in GTA Online at the wrong time.

 

 

[Spadge]

On 2/23/2023 at 11:49 AM, HonkMeat said:

A dumb but annoying one.

 

2013 - Call the mechanic and ask for a vehicle and he says he'll bring it.  Call the mechanic and cancel the request and he says "I guess I'll get back to it then".

2023 - Call the mechanic and ask for a vehicle and he says he'll bring it, and then says "I guess I'll get back to it then".

 Absolutely agree. It's embarrassing they don't bother fixing issues like this. 

 

I have another one. If you do Headhunter with your associates and use a helicopter, once the mission is started, your associates in the heli with you get softlocked, then thrown out of the vehicle, same once the mission is done, shortly after the mission ends, passagers get kicked out of the vehicle, again. 

 

Very annoying, that bug appeared with the free roam update (where they added stuff like, longest wheelie challenge etc) and still hasn't been fixed since 

[Genoreno]

GTA Online keeps crashing (about once every 5 minutes) for me on PC. No warning, no frame drops, and no crash message, all in invite only sessions. It's been happening to me and my friends ever since the 2/23 event week. I wanna make sure everyone else is getting this, and that I'm not just getting targeted by dickhead modders

[Spider-Vice]

You can no longer be crashed in invite only by modders, but there has been a persistent (but very random) PC crashing issue since the maintenance update between Criminal Enterprises and Drug Wars I believe. I get them sometimes too unfortunately.

[44Orca]

It's way too often now for me since the update, I cannot play more than 40 minutes without the game crashing. I really wanted to get this week's awards but no time to just restart the game just so it won't crash.

Edited February 27 by 44Orca

[mrfonzius]

That issue with the 'broken' avatars on SC also seems to be related to crashes somehow, as long as I do not try to change the avatar it runs fine and when I change it it does not take long until it happens. Even if I do that in storymode before loading into online.

[DeathNyx]

Would take days to list all broken stuff in this game. Just still wonder how much will take to fix those random ammo disappearance, special cargo ghost raids (since Criminal Enterprises) and that broken Auto-invite in lobby plus not receive randoms invites to jobs anymore while in invite only session (which are related) (since April 2022 update)

 

The "friends" tab in pause menu also seems broken, at least on console. Sometimes gets stuck in infinite "download" plus usernames and gta characters can be messed up.

Edited February 27 by DeathNyx

[Spadge]

It's nice listing all the issues in this topic, but yeah, GTA has been a hot mess for a while. Over the years, a lot of bugs have accrued in the game, in the beginning, it was just a couple, but as we can see, they've remained unaddressed, some since 2015 or even earlier. Over time that adds up. 

 

More generally speaking now, it's a shame where things are going with Rockstar Games. I never gave a damn about the industry, first I was too young, and now it's not good enough anymore to give a damn about, but I always had regard for the formerly mentionned. However, their lack of quality control and their investment in GTA Online really worries me for the future of Grand Theft Auto games. 

 

Even the good names in the company, such as Leslie Benzies (who was fired in the most disgusting way) and Dan Houser left, and I'm pretty sure it's because of internal conflicts. If Rockstar stops making good games, and turns into ubisoft or EA, I'll think I'll just stop playing video games alltogether. There's nothing of value in the triple A industry anymore, no more creativity or artistic direction. It's all just shareholders speculating on profit, and it just disappoints and disgusts me. 

 

I never saw myself as a gamer, I believe out of all customer bases, they're the least economically literate and will just let the industry get away with murder. I don't want to have anything to do with this whole environment anymore. We'll see what VI will bring, but the more time progresses, the more my intuition confirms itself. 

 

I guess I'll just stick to my retro games and move on. Maybe I'll pick up skiing or collecting postcards or some sh*t . Game are becoming trash smh

Edited February 27 by Spadge

[TheGhostFromPast]

4 hours ago, DeathNyx said:

Would take days to list all broken stuff in this game. Just still wonder how much will take to fix those random ammo disappearance, special cargo ghost raids (since Criminal Enterprises) and that broken Auto-invite in lobby plus not receive randoms invites to jobs anymore while in invite only session (which are related) (since April 2022 update)

 

The "friends" tab in pause menu also seems broken, at least on console. Sometimes gets stuck in infinite "download" plus usernames and gta characters can be messed up.

 

Days? More like months, if not even a year, because the list of the current problems is long enough and there are also a lot of unaddressed problems from the very beginning.

[Spider-Vice]

5 hours ago, mrfonzius said:

That issue with the 'broken' avatars on SC also seems to be related to crashes somehow, as long as I do not try to change the avatar it runs fine and when I change it it does not take long until it happens. Even if I do that in storymode before loading into online.

The issue with broken avatars in the SC client was due to recent changes on the Social Club side. They've moved all the avatars to their CDN on Akamai (prod-avatars.akamaized.net), but this doesn't reflect in-game because it's still trying to query the old "a.rsg.sc" domain - it won't cause crashes, just a 404 for the avatar, if anything crashed it would be just the SC client, which wouldn't crash the game. They need to change the SCUI code for this.

 

The crashes are on the game's side, although they could be networking/cloud saving related. It's been happening even before the "broken avatars" issue, so it's not related.

[TheGhostFromPast]

28 minutes ago, Spider-Vice said:

The issue with broken avatars in the SC client was due to recent changes on the Social Club side. They've moved all the avatars to their CDN on Akamai (prod-avatars.akamaized.net), but this doesn't reflect in-game because it's still trying to query the old "a.rsg.sc" domain - it won't cause crashes, just a 404 for the avatar, if anything crashed it would be just the SC client, which wouldn't crash the game. They need to change the SCUI code for this.

 

The crashes are on the game's side, although they could be networking/cloud saving related. It's been happening even before the "broken avatars" issue, so it's not related.

 

Is that also the reason why AVG jumps out with a message that says the launcher wants to change or delete the PNG file, which is my chosen profile picture?

[Spider-Vice]

Erm, antiviruses are sometimes a bit anal with that stuff - obviously that the Social Club and the game will store temporary files on your PC for certain operations, and changing avatars is likely one. That's not a R* issue. The only Social Club related "issue" here is that R* has done some server maintenance in regards to avatars and they need to tweak the code so the client reflects that change.

[TheGhostFromPast]

5 minutes ago, Spider-Vice said:

Erm, antiviruses are sometimes a bit anal with that stuff - obviously that the Social Club and the game will store temporary files on your PC for certain operations, and changing avatars is likely one. That's not a R* issue. The only Social Club related "issue" here is that R* has done some server maintenance in regards to avatars and they need to tweak the code so the client reflects that change.

 

AVG was silent all these years whenever the launcher made changes, yet since the recent update, it doesn't like what the launcher is trying to do, which is why I find it hard to believe that the antivirus is simply paranoid or meticulous.

 

 

[fsbkgb]

1 hour ago, TheGhostFromPast said:

 

AVG was silent all these years whenever the launcher made changes, yet since the recent update, it doesn't like what the launcher is trying to do, which is why I find it hard to believe that the antivirus is simply paranoid or meticulous.

 

Do you find it easier to believe that you in particular are the sole target of an elaborate hacking campaign that involves deleting temporary png files

[TheGhostFromPast]

1 minute ago, fsbkgb said:

Do you find it easier to believe that you in particular are the sole target of an elaborate hacking campaign that involves deleting temporary png files

 

1) What makes you think I'm the sole target? 

 

2) Jokes aside, I'm just saying that I don't like the fact that suddenly AVG is jumping out with that message when all these years it didn't say anything about the changes the launcher made. All I can conclude from the available information is that something has gone wrong, but I can't say how badly because there's not enough information available about this issue. 

[Spider-Vice]

...anyway. SCUI avatars have been fixed in a code update not long ago.

 

[mrfonzius]

16 hours ago, Spider-Vice said:

The issue with broken avatars in the SC client was due to recent changes on the Social Club side. They've moved all the avatars to their CDN on Akamai (prod-avatars.akamaized.net), but this doesn't reflect in-game because it's still trying to query the old "a.rsg.sc" domain - it won't cause crashes, just a 404 for the avatar, if anything crashed it would be just the SC client, which wouldn't crash the game. They need to change the SCUI code for this.

 

The crashes are on the game's side, although they could be networking/cloud saving related. It's been happening even before the "broken avatars" issue, so it's not related.

 

Thank you, good to know. Those were just observations I made during the last few days which made it seem like a possible cause.

[Max96]

It is fine now, yep: