GTA V Official Thread - GTA Game Disscussion

you can call merryweather and put bounties on peoples heads

The character loss is caused by people trying to go online when the cloud servers are down. You are given a choice to retry and use a temporary character. People make the temporary character and use it to overwrite the characters that would be in the slot their normal characters are in. So when they go online the data syncs with the server and is told that the slot is overwritten with a new character that was temporary.

Really all you have to do is not create a temporary character or try to go online when the server says it's down. Simply try again later.

I've being following the instructions and no problem. Also exit out of the game via the pause menu - online - leave GTA Online. Saves your progress and brings you back to the main game. Then from there I just do a quick save via the phone to be sure. No hassle.

You do have two slots at the start to create characters.

I will say the one thing I find annoying, when you are in a game and loading up if the host chooses "Auto Invite and Play" anyone on my friends list that is playing GTAV, wheter online or not, gets sent an invite. So I'm inadvertently flooding people with requests.

Rx brought it to my attention, when he sent me a message saying that he wasn't playing online. I never sent an invite cause I wasn't the host and couldn't send one. The host sent it via me. While useful for sending out to as many people as possible who would hopefully fill a game, it can get annoying to people who are just doing Story Mode or in a different game online with other people.

Yeah, I found it near the end of the game. By accident. And when I restarted the game I noticed the Tutorial pop ups saying about how you can save with the phone. It's the first left when you bring up the phone.

I think that's your auto save you mean there. It's the one that pops up after missions. It only has one file and saves to that but needs you to say Overwrite. The Manual saves also have their own slots. It always loads the most recent.

Iunno about the bikes, but when I'm stealing something I either get knocked down by it to stop em or shoot the owner.

I got a few cars.

www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/51565/grand-theft-auto-online-half-a-million-gta-stimulus-package-this.html

"We will be dropping a cool half a million GTA$ in the GTA Online bank accounts of all players this month, starting as early as next week."

Cause of launch issues, and character loss. Just play in October and do the 1.04 update to be eligible.

When you start out, you will go straight to a brief tutorial, race and mission. Money is used for everything. Buying a car, car insurance, replacing a destroyed vehicle with insurance weapons, ammo, garages, safe houses, passive mode (A mode where other people can't harm you), starting certain activities, paying for the hospital bills when you get killed in free mode to cover the medical expenses. There is a sink for the money. You can put it into a bank so that it can't be stolen from you via ATM's or your phone.

I recommend grouping up with friends and doing the missions and activities as they open up to you, avoid freemode till you establish yourself as a "Good Sport" so you play with other good sports rather than dick weed bad sports. Don't quit mid mission or destroy someones personal vehicle when you're starting out to get a good sport ranking. You will level up quick enough. When you can, do survival missions, good money in them if you survive enough waves of enemies (that get progressively harder. Group up with crew members for good Rep Point (Exp Points) When you feel confident enough in your skills do hard mode on missions (1.5x Exp points for completion.)

Expect griefers. You can challenge them to a 1v1 if they kill you. I haven't lost a 1v1 yet I think. Sawn off shot guns are your friend at close range. Bikes are good for weaving in and out of traffic but terrible for when a car suddenly swerves at you.

Build up your strength stat. It's useful.

And get online and play with me I need someone to do jobs with that won't mess up.

Last job I had to take a tanker of oil. I took the tanker and managed to lose the cops. With the cops no longer after me I was free and clear. My team-mates however had other ideas. They decided to follow me with the cops following them. Cops were not after me or anything. They were only after the team mates who decided to kill and shoot at every cop following them instead of losing them. The more hassle the caused the more road blocks I had to deal with. Eventually I got stuck in a pile of cars in front of me, unable to progress through the crush. Being the ever helpful people they are, while I was starting to back up one of them decided to use high explosives to remove the obstacles in my path. There-by blowing me up along with the truck because of my close proximity.

Got an "LOL u suck" type message and restarted the mission, despite my reservations. Got to the truck cops were coming and while I was backing away to get escape one of them jumps in the front seat and shoots at the cops thereby ensuring I cannot escape. 5 minutes of this I stopped the truck got out and let the cops run me over. A further 15 minutes of watching some stupidity awaiting for the others to get killed so I can quit safely without tarnishing my "good sport" rating.

Before that I did a different tanker mission and one of my team mates decided to kill me so they could take the truck for a drive after knocking me down off my bike for giggles.

That is not to detract from the good team mates though. I had some seriously good missions with guys that were twice my level. And they invited me back into play with them on other missions, despite my low level.

Got my apartment, $400,000 GTAO dollars. There is one of the same model I have minus the views, for $230,000 in the town center. Getting my garage stocked. Two bikes and three cars. Dingo has some serious amount of cars though. Dude can't play a game without a bounty placed on his head. :-p

Gives you a spawn point, a place for your crew to hang out in off the map without other people mowing you down, a wardrobe, a tv and a shower. It's more of a status thing or something to sink your money into. I also get a 10 bay garage to hold my personal/favorite vehicles, however you can just buy a garage alone to do that if you don't wanna sink money into an apartment, keep it for car mods/weapons/vehicles.

I couldn't be arsed responding or whatever to the message. Didn't bother me either. I was like (o.O) "Yeah, yo momma's titties." in my head.

With the in game garages (offline) if I save a car then drive it out , if it blows up will it be back in the garage or is it gone for good ?

I spent about 60K on upgrading a car for Franklin. Now I'm to afraid to drive it lol .

If left somewhere it gets impounded, blown up I dunno. I searched and someone else asked the same question on a GTA Forum which devolved into a talk about the modding and garage glitch but no actual answer.

I think I'll test it out later.