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coyo7e
Aug 23, 2007

by zen death robot
My apologies to the [STRS] dude who was in that big pubby lobby by himself, when I began singing 'la Cucaracha' to the tune of slowpoke Rodriguez, while reading off of the wiki page of random lyrics because I can't speak spanish at all.

I got 4000 RP for it.

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ClearAirTurbulence
Apr 20, 2010
The earth has music for those who listen.

TheRationalRedditor posted:

People sabotaging because they give up in standard is also really lovely, particularly on the more open circuits. Someone straying way off course over boundaries for more than 5 seconds should be auto-reset or DNF'd. Arbitrary spinouts that are traffic or latency assisted are absolutely the worst part of racing.

The other day I was racing at an airport and I missed one of the checkpoints but just kept going. Started pulling ahead of everyone because of Catch Up being on and me technically being in last place. I didn't know the course and the markers didn't show up so I just started making up my own course and one other racer followed me for a while until he figured out I hadn't figured out some glitchy shortcut to 1st place.

Pleads
Jun 9, 2005

pew pew pew


Hahaha. I stole an Infernus to help some crewmates chase down a pubbie with a bounty, and I ended up in a game of head-on chicken with the pubbie. He hit the Infernus and popped straight up 50 feet into the air, coming down on 4 wheels behind me a few seconds later. It was goddamn amazing and now I want an Infernus to play Pubbie Launch and bomb around hills going full tilt into trees because it's too drat powerful for its own good.

Agent Burt Macklin
Jul 3, 2003

Macklin, you son of a bitch

Intrepid00 posted:

I have found you should wait a few seconds before logging after getting money or banking it.


Noted...and thanks. I'm going to make sure I play a little longer after I make deposits just in case.

NattyBo
Sep 20, 2004

Football Team.
Cant load story or online mode on PS3 right now...the PS3 is functioning fine. WTF?

Intrepid00
Nov 10, 2003

I'm tired of the PM’s asking if I actually poisoned kittens, instead look at these boobies.
Something weird might be going on at least with me. The servers keep dropping people.

Mice Everywhere
Sep 7, 2007

I love animal porn! So F* you if you don't accept that!

Intrepid00 posted:

Something weird might be going on at least with me. The servers keep dropping people.

The game has taken on a mind of it's own and realized the only way to stop bad sports from hurting people is to get rid of all people.

TheRationalRedditor
Jul 17, 2000

WHO ABUSED HIM. WHO ABUSED THE BOY.

Hakarne posted:

This buggy piece of poo poo. I traded some race wins with another goon so I could get the upgrades unlocked for my car. As a nice bonus, I went from level 35-39. I then go and buy the assault shotgun, extended clip, and suppressor for my AP pistol. I log out and back after ensuring multiple saves to the cloud and everything's gone. There goes $30-$40k, but whatever I just buy it again, make it save 2 or 3 times, then log out and make dinner. I come back and it's gone again but it's still unlocked for me at ammunation.

I then notice I've been reset back to level 35 but still have items unlocked as if I were higher level... which promptly gets eaten if I buy them and log out. So I lost $50k+ and 4 levels of progress because of their lovely loving ~cloud~. It at least kept accurate track of the number of races I won. Fuckers.
This RP/cash rollback happened to me as well earlier. That wasn't me you were trading with though, I was trying to get you to invite me so we could game the betting. :sigh:

ClearAirTurbulence posted:

The other day I was racing at an airport and I missed one of the checkpoints but just kept going. Started pulling ahead of everyone because of Catch Up being on and me technically being in last place. I didn't know the course and the markers didn't show up so I just started making up my own course and one other racer followed me for a while until he figured out I hadn't figured out some glitchy shortcut to 1st place.
That's actually cool.

TheRationalRedditor fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Oct 19, 2013

ProfessorGroove
Jun 10, 2006

by Ion Helmet
I know this is a ridiculous complaint but I think my biggest problem with the changes they've done to missions with disabling the replay button and halving the payout on missions that have already been done is how sloppy they did it. New players will probably think the replay button is bugged or something. Greying it out and having some notification you've done a mission before and it will only pay half would probably help players who don't spend their time reading forums about the game when they're not playing it. Right now the system for doing missions from contacts is starting to look like a totaled car someone tried to fix with duct tape.

coyo7e
Aug 23, 2007

by zen death robot

Lotish posted:

I picked up an Annihilator for the first time and am learning how to use it. Is there a way to hover with a helicopter so you can just focus on aiming? It is a bitch to get something in the crosshairs with this thing.

First Person view, use rudders to aim left and right. And it's nearly impossible to kill someone with the Annihilator.

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free
Jesus christ. Liberating a tank is dangerous to your Good Sportyness. I nearly got Bad Sport Helled on me and LordofSPACE's tank and jet rampage.

Pubbies always have cars that look like the common trash driving the streets so it's impossible to tell it's their personal car. No clown horn playing pink and green monstrosities because they gotta look "Sweggy" as some dude in a session said once.

Hakarne
Jul 23, 2007
Vivo en el autobús!


What the christ

http://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/200555488

quote:

Question: After installing TU 1.04 today, my cash and RP aren't saving properly. My game loads up fine each time, but no progress I'm making is saved between sessions. Is this a known issue?

Answer: We have received some reports about cash and RP not saving in GTA Online since around 5PM ET on 10/18/13, and are investigating this now. If you would like to receive an automatic email notification as soon as there is more information, please log into the Support Site and click Subscribe at the top of this page.

Updated 10/18/13 9:30 PM ET: Stat processing is currently delayed. These should catch up later tonight or--at latest--early tomorrow morning.

So what the hell does this mean? When I log back in and it says I'm 35 I'm really 39? If I start accumulating exp will it keep adding up to my 39 total? Do I lose the levels if I keep playing at my "lower" level and it saves? Will my guns magically reappear that I bought and lost? What a useless reply.

Lunethex
Feb 4, 2013

Me llamo Sarah Brandolino, the eighth Castilian of this magnificent marriage.

Hakarne posted:

What the christ

http://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/200555488


So what the hell does this mean? When I log back in and it says I'm 35 I'm really 39? If I start accumulating exp will it keep adding up to my 39 total? Do I lose the levels if I keep playing at my "lower" level and it saves? Will my guns magically reappear that I bought and lost? What a useless reply.

Oh boy here we go :allears:

I saw a few posts here and there on the forums about this actually, this patch is causing more problems than anything.

Like this.

Lunethex fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Oct 19, 2013

VarXX
Oct 31, 2009

Hakarne posted:

What the christ

http://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/200555488


So what the hell does this mean? When I log back in and it says I'm 35 I'm really 39? If I start accumulating exp will it keep adding up to my 39 total? Do I lose the levels if I keep playing at my "lower" level and it saves? Will my guns magically reappear that I bought and lost? What a useless reply.

Yea, I think that is what they mean by delayed

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



Hakarne posted:

What the christ

http://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/articles/200555488


So what the hell does this mean? When I log back in and it says I'm 35 I'm really 39? If I start accumulating exp will it keep adding up to my 39 total? Do I lose the levels if I keep playing at my "lower" level and it saves? Will my guns magically reappear that I bought and lost? What a useless reply.

I guess this explains how I was able to buy an Entity XF but my money got refunded when I logged in later while still having the car.

Chard
Aug 24, 2010




I have a question re: surviving a bounty. I know it takes about 48 minutes (one 'day') before it expires, but what happens to the cash that was placed on me? Does it evaporate (I hope so) or go back to the crying pubby (lame)? Anyone know?

hiddenriverninja
May 10, 2013

life is locomotion
keep moving
trust that you'll find your way

Chard posted:

I have a question re: surviving a bounty. I know it takes about 48 minutes (one 'day') before it expires, but what happens to the cash that was placed on me? Does it evaporate (I hope so) or go back to the crying pubby (lame)? Anyone know?

It goes to you, I think.

Coldforge
Oct 29, 2002

I knew it would be bad.
I didn't know it would be so stupid.
Sorry racing crew. I'd be talking more poo poo, but my voice went out yesterday.

Chard
Aug 24, 2010




Sweeeeet. Is there any way to see if it's still on you, other than catching the little pop-up text? I've been reading forums and watching creeper vision but I forgot to mark the time.

Hakarne
Jul 23, 2007
Vivo en el autobús!


Chard posted:

I have a question re: surviving a bounty. I know it takes about 48 minutes (one 'day') before it expires, but what happens to the cash that was placed on me? Does it evaporate (I hope so) or go back to the crying pubby (lame)? Anyone know?

You get to keep it. I generally don't do public free roams and do a lot of solo in invite only sessions, which will count for bounty time. You'll also have NPCs place bounties on you when you jack their rides, so they can be nice cash bonuses if you're a loner in free roam. :)

NattyBo
Sep 20, 2004

Football Team.
e: nevermind, totally a sever issue, was able to join with him hosting

Hakarne
Jul 23, 2007
Vivo en el autobús!


Well, anyone want to take their chances and do some race-win trading on PS3?

Sh4
Feb 8, 2009
Also since the patch the vehicle permissions are not working, I have them set up as "crew + friends" and crew members can only access my car if I set it to "anyone".

I hosed with the setting a bit but in the end "crew + friends" doesn't work for crew (haven't tried with friends)

Chard
Aug 24, 2010




Hakarne posted:

Well, anyone want to take their chances and do some race-win trading on PS3?

What's your PSN ID? I'm GarlicDalek, just idling right now so I'm 100% down

Krynn
Dec 12, 2005
Professional Lurker

Sh4 posted:

Also since the patch the vehicle permissions are not working, I have them set up as "crew + friends" and crew members can only access my car if I set it to "anyone".

I hosed with the setting a bit but in the end "crew + friends" doesn't work for crew (haven't tried with friends)

They've never worked right. It's something I really wish they would fix soon.

Hakarne
Jul 23, 2007
Vivo en el autobús!


Chard posted:

What's your PSN ID? I'm GarlicDalek, just idling right now so I'm 100% down

Just sent you a request, it's the same as my forum name :)

Dr. Abysmal
Feb 17, 2010

We're all doomed
Ron has sent me a few missions that I've successfully completed but whenever I call him the Request Job option is still locked. I'm pretty sure that's not supposed to happen since I'm rank 30 and Lester/Martin/Gerald/Simeon all readily offer work if I call them. Any ideas?

NattyBo
Sep 20, 2004

Football Team.
Just hit level 60, which probably means whenever I get to freeroam I'm going straight to badsport hell. Grenade Launcher :getin:

Feenix
Mar 14, 2003
Sorry, guy.
gently caress
High
Profile
Case


Seriously. What a waste of my time.

Feenix
Mar 14, 2003
Sorry, guy.
Here's what I don't understand about destroying cars and bad sport hell...

If destroying a player's car is such a griefous (yes that's an intentional
misspelling) then why allow it at all.
I'm not saying *I* want it gone, I'm saying, if R* thinks it's such an evil that deserves banishment with cheaters and hackers, WHY is it a gameplay mechanic in freeroam at all?

Right??

Sh4
Feb 8, 2009

Krynn posted:

They've never worked right. It's something I really wish they would fix soon.

It was always working right before the patch, changes were only effective after leaving the menu maybe that's your problem, I'm on 360 if it makes any difference.

mhsneon
Jul 2, 2005

I work for Intel but AMD makes me hot
After trying over the past couple hours after the update, I finally joined a session. Though as soon as a bounty was put on me by a NPC, everyone was dropped from the session.

wressen
Dec 22, 2011
Anyone else having trouble downloading the patch?

Nm

wressen fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Oct 19, 2013

BlueDestiny
Jun 18, 2011

Mega deal with it

Feenix posted:

Here's what I don't understand about destroying cars and bad sport hell...

If destroying a player's car is such a griefous (yes that's an intentional
misspelling) then why allow it at all.
I'm not saying *I* want it gone, I'm saying, if R* thinks it's such an evil that deserves banishment with cheaters and hackers, WHY is it a gameplay mechanic in freeroam at all?

Right??

To give people a false sense of security while we douse their car in gasoline and light it with a tailpipe.

Morzhovyye
Mar 2, 2013

Sh4 posted:

It was always working right before the patch, changes were only effective after leaving the menu maybe that's your problem, I'm on 360 if it makes any difference.

It never worked for me on the 360, I would always have to switch between the separate "crew" and "friends" settings.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Feenix posted:

Here's what I don't understand about destroying cars and bad sport hell...

If destroying a player's car is such a griefous (yes that's an intentional
misspelling) then why allow it at all.
I'm not saying *I* want it gone, I'm saying, if R* thinks it's such an evil that deserves banishment with cheaters and hackers, WHY is it a gameplay mechanic in freeroam at all?

Right??

If you ask me, car deliver/replacement should abstracted. Just let players spawn any owned car in front of them with the phone. The mechanic and insurance company are cute the first time you call them, but it’s skeumorphism taken too far at the expense of gameplay.

marshmallow creep
Dec 10, 2008

I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

Man, I do not like Cops Capacity. Especially getting to the riot van.

Mr Scumbag
Jun 6, 2007

You're a fucking cocksucker, Jonathan

Hakarne posted:

This buggy piece of poo poo. I traded some race wins with another goon so I could get the upgrades unlocked for my car. As a nice bonus, I went from level 35-39. I then go and buy the assault shotgun, extended clip, and suppressor for my AP pistol. I log out and back after ensuring multiple saves to the cloud and everything's gone. There goes $30-$40k, but whatever I just buy it again, make it save 2 or 3 times, then log out and make dinner. I come back and it's gone again but it's still unlocked for me at ammunation.

I then notice I've been reset back to level 35 but still have items unlocked as if I were higher level... which promptly gets eaten if I buy them and log out. So I lost $50k+ and 4 levels of progress because of their lovely loving ~cloud~. It at least kept accurate track of the number of races I won. Fuckers.

This pretty much happened to me.

quote:

Question: After installing TU 1.04 today, my cash and RP aren't saving properly. My game loads up fine each time, but no progress I'm making is saved between sessions. Is this a known issue?

Answer: We have received some reports about cash and RP not saving in GTA Online since around 5PM ET on 10/18/13, and are investigating this now. If you would like to receive an automatic email notification as soon as there is more information, please log into the Support Site and click Subscribe at the top of this page.

Updated 10/18/13 9:30 PM ET: Stat processing is currently delayed. These should catch up later tonight or--at latest--early tomorrow morning.



Online is a giant mess that had no business at all being launched when it was. In all seriousness it probably needed at least another month of dev time and maybe more. Should have come out with heists ready to go at the very least. Sell the game, I say. Online was created to stop people doing that so if you are unsatisfied, sell away and make it hurt!

Mr Scumbag fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Oct 19, 2013

teacup
Dec 20, 2006

= M I L K E R S =
Hey when I've played this I log on and heaps of people are on my map but I can't find anyone doing any missions or races or jobs, or barely any at least. I'll try to invite based on matching, playing with me, random, etc. I'll try and host. I'll try to find. I'll even hit "Join random" and it won't do anything.

Someone mentioned that different lobbies will have different aiming set ups, I have free aim on. Are there less people doing free aim so more difficult to find them?

Thanks in advance :)

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Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005

teacup posted:

Hey when I've played this I log on and heaps of people are on my map but I can't find anyone doing any missions or races or jobs, or barely any at least. I'll try to invite based on matching, playing with me, random, etc. I'll try and host. I'll try to find. I'll even hit "Join random" and it won't do anything.

Someone mentioned that different lobbies will have different aiming set ups, I have free aim on. Are there less people doing free aim so more difficult to find them?

Thanks in advance :)

That's your problem, barely anybody uses Free Aim

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