GTA Online Launches October 1 at 7AM ET

[Psychobabble]

Hey look at that. Another Single player to online player game adaptation with a perfect launch. .... Or not.

 

[xmbts]

Well I made my character and then it decided online isn't working. I am not that annoyed, but I do feel that gaming companies are beginning to get rather unreliable. It isn't like they needed to release it today, so if they weren't ready perhaps they ought to have either staggered it or simply waited for a bit longer.

At least I was able to make my character...in what I find possibly the dumbest and most inconvenient character creator every made ever...but still...

It truly is awful isn't it. The idea behind it is actually kind of cool, but it doesn't work the way they have done it. Characters all look hideous. I just used randomise until I came up with one that was at least bearable.

I found that if you sink more hours into sleep you look a bit less like a drug addict.

But yeah mine isn't really working either, can't say I'm too surprised about that though.

 

[Yoshi4102]

I'm trying to figure out where this so-called "Race Trigger" is, kinda just sitting at a stoplight doing nothing...

hell, I logged on and nothing showed up. Only the Ammunations in Los Santos and the car washes. no missions, no race, no cutscene. It just literally dropped me in front of the Vinewood sign with four other people and we ended up just shooting each other a-la GTA IV free roam.


I'm going to wait a while and see if the game get's another update to actually unlock Online instead of only allowing for a Temp character and no saving.

Just repeatedly make sure that you connect to the GTA servers otherwise you can't save your character or get the cutscene/tutorial mission. It'll take time but It'll eventually happen.

 

[Something Amyss]

Still waiting to start the mandatory first race. Waiting for other players (forever).. I would rather be in a private server just so I can past the god damn tutorial

You can launch a private game from the story mode's pause menu. I don't know if this'll work for the tutorial, though, because I didn't think about it until after I shut off my console and now I can't connect back to the cloud.

Hey look at that. Another Single player to online player game adaptation with a perfect launch. .... Or not.

It's more annoying because it impacts your offline game, too.

 

[Ryan Minns]

The main thing that keeps pissing me off is "Oh hey look you've failed to connect. How about we throw you into single player so you can enjoy the loading before you can try again?" Rinse and repeat pretty much. I wish it didn't throw me back into single player EVERYTIME. Just tell me it's not working and let me try again or quit

 

[Rebel_Raven]

Man, I select a solo session, and yet I'm still dependant on servers, and possibly other people coz I can't avoid the initial race. I just wanna screw around with -my- character, damnit all! I wish there was a more offline option. Always online sucks.

The main thing that keeps pissing me off is "Oh hey look you've failed to connect. How about we throw you into single player so you can enjoy the loading before you can try again?" Rinse and repeat pretty much. I wish it didn't throw me back into single player EVERYTIME. Just tell me it's not working and let me try again or quit

Yeah, I agree with this.

 

[Legion]

I am genuinely surprised I haven't seen more discussion about this. Has anybody managed to even play it properly yet? I gave up yesterday and thought I'd leave it for today, but it is exactly the same. I create my character, get told I couldn't get a server and am then kicked back to single player.

The main thing that keeps pissing me off is "Oh hey look you've failed to connect. How about we throw you into single player so you can enjoy the loading before you can try again?" Rinse and repeat pretty much. I wish it didn't throw me back into single player EVERYTIME. Just tell me it's not working and let me try again or quit

I agree with this as well. The way they do it doesn't make sense.

 

[Kingjackl]

They better get these things fixed; I've tried to get on 3 times today and all 3 times I wasn't able to even start the first race. It doesn't help that I have to remake my character and sit through the unskippable intro every time I restart.

I guess there's only so much they can do: these sort of issues are common at launch with online games, particularly the big ones like this. That said, I bought me a full month of Xbox Live Gold for this game and I don't want it to be wasted.

 

[waj9876]

Let's be perfectly honest, is anyone really that surprised by this?

Maybe they'll fix it. Maybe they won't. We'll see.