The problems with the missing characters could soon be a thing of the past. Rockstar recently announced that a patch will soon be released to address game progression issues Grand Theft Auto Online which are among the most unpleasant and frustrating of the many problems that plague the multiplayer online portion of GTA V have been plaguing since its launch last week.
Unfortunately, you won’t get your missing characters back, but at least there will soon be no more mass character deletions that so many players have been complaining about for days. The patch has already been implemented on PlayStation Network and will also be implemented on Xbox Live tomorrow.
“This title update will resolve the cause of players losing their gameplay progress except for some specific instances where players purchase a vehicle and the save does not occur due to a cloud save failure,” writes Rock star. “A fix for that particular issue is being worked on and we will provide an update as soon as we know when this will be resolved.”
Here is the complete list of bug fixes:
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Fixes multiple issues causing character deletion or other loss of progress
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Fixes issues causing infinite loading, infinite sky cams, and missing interface options between jobs
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Fixes an issue causing the “replay” option to be locked out on certain jobs
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Fixes an issue where a player would become stuck in the mod garage when respraying a Sanchez motor bike
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Fixes an issue where the Player became stuck inside Los Santos Customs during Online tutorial flow.
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Fixes an issue causing the loss of guns and ammo
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Fixes issues causing GTA races ending early because of players spawning too far ahead
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Fixes issues in Last Team Standing where sessions would not progress past the lobby
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Fixes issues with network errors when joining Last Team Standing using Quick Job
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Added clarifications around when a player is using a temporary character in GTA Online during Rockstar Cloud server outages
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Adjusts the monetary penalty for being killed in a One on One match
Unfortunately, Rockstar doesn’t seem to have any intention of restoring deleted characters, but at least the company apologizes for the bugs and reminds us all to save our game progress before logging out/exiting the game:
In the meantime, please always remember to save your game before leaving GTA Online, otherwise you may lose any progress since your last save – this can be done by exiting back to Single Player through the pause menu. Until downloading the title update above and in order to minimize the chances of any further data loss, if at any point you receive the message “Rockstar Cloud Servers are unavailable”, please do not either select the “Retry” option or create a temporary character to play GTA Online. Instead, you should exit to GTAV Story Mode and try entering GTA Online again through the menu in Story Mode. Please also stay tuned or subscribe to the GTA Online Status Updates article at the Rockstar Support site for the latest word on common known technical issues and fixes.
The start of GTA Online was and still is accompanied by a number of problems, such as it Rock star predicted – server lag, random error messages and character deletions are the worst bugs facing the multiplayer portion of Rock stars huge open world game. However, when the whole thing works well temporarily, it is very entertaining.
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