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Post by Dam351 on Apr 18, 2015 1:08:36 GMT
Strange thing, in the job lobbies I could only invite 3 people with the auto invite friends/crew (invite all on gtaV) but if I go into the list of crew and friends manually (from the gta friends online or crew online lists) I can usually send invitations to most friends and crew on those lists. I wasn't sure if people were actually receiving the invites though, but then Trak joined. Anyway I tried to explain how I sent it via chat using the ps4 controller but that takes forever and hopefully this explains it more clearly.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2015 6:44:53 GMT
The game is utterly broken in my opinion. I have a feeling that it is so very broken now that it is beyond fixing, certainly by Rockstar on the evidence gleaned from their previous faulty patching efforts. They are flailing in the dark. This game has never worked properly and the introduction of heists, as many expected, has trashed it completely. I have a very bad feeling about it all. This looks like a hugely embarrassing for R* write-off to me. I am very tired and stressed at the moment though after a very long night of not being able to join a fucking thing, waiting for clouds to clear, rebooting etc etc etc etc etc. This may have coloured my present mood somewhat.
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Post by Cuz05 on Apr 18, 2015 11:27:47 GMT
I really think you're suffering more than most Trak, unfortunately. The problems are there, no doubt about that, I signed in and no one was showing online in the pause menu, even tho I knew a whole bunch were. It cleared up at the halfway stage and there were more showing but you were still offline as far as GTA was concerned.
I know a lot of people went offline or AFK after the 2nd wet list. Kid n Mehdi were the only ones in Skype chat still racing and PSN went quiet.
I hope you weren't trying repeatedly to join me... I was heading off any second but ended up loitering in an inv sesh on my own, taking a few pics, sorting cars out etc. If I'd realised I was gonna be faffing about for the next hour I'd have made it more clear. You can always msg me if I'm still on and I should be able to give you some direction if something is going on.
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Post by Cuz05 on Apr 20, 2015 9:25:02 GMT
Well holy cow, it is more broken than I thought. I've clearly been racing more PLs than anything else recently. I wasn't really active last night but fired up that one race to test the Stallion and after a good 5 min finally gave up and hit auto inv. Probably 10 min after that I had 5 randoms in and still no RRR invites out. Went into my FL and manually invited a few online people, no idea if they were on GTA or not.... Finally got a few of you through the party.
What a bag of shite it is for the single series racer. You gotta spend 3x as long in lobbies as in races and even then you've no idea who you're missing.
Well, plenty of events being run so if we can at least organise ourselves for a few nights a week we can maintain the Rum on Rum action until it gets sorted.
Surely has to get fixed, this bollocks is gonna kill the game for a lot of people if not.
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Post by kidovey on Apr 20, 2015 11:19:02 GMT
Well holy cow, it is more broken than I thought. I've clearly been racing more PLs than anything else recently. I wasn't really active last night but fired up that one race to test the Stallion and after a good 5 min finally gave up and hit auto inv. Probably 10 min after that I had 5 randoms in and still no RRR invites out. Went into my FL and manually invited a few online people, no idea if they were on GTA or not.... Finally got a few of you through the party. What a bag of shite it is for the single series racer. You gotta spend 3x as long in lobbies as in races and even then you've no idea who you're missing. Well, plenty of events being run so if we can at least organise ourselves for a few nights a week we can maintain the Rum on Rum action until it gets sorted. Surely has to get fixed, this bollocks is gonna kill the game for a lot of people if not. What we need is a nice coupe series...maybe Ubermachts?  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2015 14:21:05 GMT
I have noticed that the ability for the game to make a match fluctuates. Last night, unlike Cuz it seems, was a good night for me and most people on my friends list were showing as being able to be invited or joined as opposed to most of last weeks not able. I have not "changed" anything to bring about this marginally happier state of affairs. It appears the ability to match-make with friends or crew is entirely according to the mood of the R* server gods. However, R* will insist it is all your fault, suggesting many useless, time wasting sea changes you can make to your system so as to have the privilege of being able to connect to just a few of the 45 million other in game users rather than admitting to, let alone addressing, their pathetic inability to simply connect you with whomever you wish to connect to on the internet. A fairly basic requirement I would have thought. Support the ticket link |
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Post by coach_wargo on Apr 20, 2015 20:46:45 GMT
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Post by del on Apr 21, 2015 3:51:58 GMT
I have a question. Is there a way to make my friends list not show all my psn friends online only the ones that are on PS4? Tried finding a way on google but had no luck.
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Post by emptyplayer on Apr 21, 2015 12:55:32 GMT
I have a question. Is there a way to make my friends list not show all my psn friends online only the ones that are on PS4? Tried finding a way on google but had no luck. Are you on ps4 now mate? And unfortunately not, that I'm aware of. All friends will show regardless of console. A good indication to show what console they maybe on is try have playstation plus, but there maybe ppl on ps3 with plus and some on ps4 without it. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 3:58:02 GMT
Reet. It have been a couple of weeks now and I has a observiation re Rummery or the lack thereof to make. Not driving standards wise. That's been exemplary. Pat selves on back this instant please.
What we have here though is a failure to communicate. The messaging system on ps4 is admittedly slightly clumsier than the chatbox of ps3 as it takes a few button pushes more to get to and respond to a message and a few more to get back in game. On the upside it is very easy to set up a virtual chatbox (sidechat as I believe it has come to be known) that can quickly include everybody in any given lobby. But, ahem, I feel I am not seeing it being used to best effect.
I am not seeing the cheering greetings and felicitations as we come online nor the polite tatas and faretheewells of yore when we get off. Let alone the important rummer defining displays of rumness in between these cockle warming book-ends, something like for example, "Oopsy, cor blimey, strike a light and lummy cap'n, I appear to have accidentally punted you up the arse and into next week, my heartfelt apologies n such guv". Possibly followed by a similarly rummy "Totes not a problem my oldest of beans, your error was perfectly understandable given your self evident witlessness and well proven all round gaming incompetence".
Ironically, I believe my first gripe ever was about a lack of chat in the ps3 chatbox. Here I find myself re-griping on much the same matter. Am aware you modern chaps may be shooting the breeze perfectly adequately via skypemebob but unlike ps4's messaging system it is not ubiquitous and those preferring to use what they have readily at hand rather than yet another gadget kinda miss the bonhommery of old.
Also, with things the way they are in GTA at the moment regarding matchmaking, a bit of communication regarding what exactly is going on exactly when, becomes super necessary to make up for R*'s lack. One can't be attempting to join something one doesn't even know about now can one.
It's late again and I may have over woffled or stick the end of wrong got. Feel free to poo poo my observiances. Long as you smiled reading it I don't mind..
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Post by Dam351 on Apr 23, 2015 6:14:01 GMT
del the little ps plus symbol Empty mentions is a good indication. Another that I've been using lately with the recent invites bs occurring is to use ps button to see friends list, and after returning to gta friends list, manually invite those you saw on gta online. . @traksta1 I seem to have stopped getting the notification sounds lately. Idk if this is of my doing or if other people have this problem?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2015 13:59:39 GMT
I have had that too Dam. I put it down to ps4 moodiness. It's a thing.
Not wishing to be out fumbled by R*, Sony's Wednesday overhaul and maintenance of the previously perfectly adequate messaging system has predictably introduced little inconsistencies as well.
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Post by emptyplayer on Apr 27, 2015 12:53:05 GMT
I must admit I've been quite lazy when it comes to actually communicating on anything while I'm on the ps4 which I'll be a bit more pro-active about.
My laziness is down to a due a few extra buttons that sometimes I can't be bothered to do and not thinking about ps4 communication while I'm in skype or talking on mic, and vice-versa. And also the crappy matchmaking has made the game unbearable. I'm getting pretty fed up of spending a lot of time in the clouds when I'm supposed to be playing for fun.
My invites have been getting better though, and I wonder if it has anything to do with what someone posted on the gtaf the other day that if you close the application rather than shutting the ps4 down in game it may help the tutorial error we're all receiving.
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Post by coach_wargo on Apr 27, 2015 13:45:07 GMT
I always close the application before shutting down the PS4, and I still end up with the same issues.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2015 22:58:49 GMT
Same.
Most of the time I just end up getting very angry and extremely frustrated with it all. It's meant to be fun, that's why we call it a game I guess. The fun used to outweigh the "issues" quite handsomely. I was quite content (most of the time) to tolerate the foibles we all have had to, to a greater or lesser degree, at one time or another.
Of late though, since Heists in fact, very little of GTAO has been even close to being fun or my definition of a "game". Even the most loyal of fan-boys (hi there!) will turn to something else very quickly if the game continues in this miserable vein.
First, let me reiterate, there is nothing wrong with my isp or my gear. I have never had, in any other game nor on my PC, the slightest weirdery or issue with compatibility or anything less than the expected pleasantly unremarkable and decently solid performance with anything and everything interweb related. However, in this particular "game" I have all too often spent the vast majority of a GTAO session just trying to get something I want to happen, to happen. To find and successfully join a 5-6 minute race can easily absorb 15-20 minutes of staring at various loading, not ever loading or re-reloading screens. That estimate is being very kind to GTAO. I know i have spent several hours in several GTAO sessions where the actual playing time would be measured in minutes.
A great pity for us and a pure disgrace that so much money can be made by any company, without legal remark, let alone recompense, for a product that, if it were any other, would be considered "faulty".
Apologies for my less than cheery tone but I am much disappoints at present and my new Comet sucks gonad.
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Post by TheMasterBrewer on May 2, 2015 9:37:01 GMT
Crew sessions seem to be the only way to really overcome the invite problem. People occasionally start crew sessions and tell everyone in Skype but maybe we all need to do this more often - any time you jump into GTAO for some rumming, start a crew session if there isn't one already open (and a party) then tell people via Skype. Outside of pre-arranged events, this doesn't seem to happen very often, even though varying numbers of us are rumming most nights (or at least trying to!)
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Post by kidovey on May 2, 2015 11:21:32 GMT
Crew sessions seem to be the only way to really overcome the invite problem. People occasionally start crew sessions and tell everyone in Skype but maybe we all need to do this more often - any time you jump into GTAO for some rumming, start a crew session if there isn't one already open (and a party) then tell people via Skype. Outside of pre-arranged events, this doesn't seem to happen very often, even though varying numbers of us are rumming most nights (or at least trying to!) I literally only play in Crew sessions. However, at the moment everytime you do a race and come back to FR, it changes it to inv only. Hope they fix this. If you ever see me online though, it'll probably be a crew sesh. |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2015 16:31:33 GMT
Some ps4 vs ps3 observations.
Bluray disc replay significantly shittier looking than ps3. Ten years newer tech but looks worse than dvd on 3. Hmmm.
Messaging system messed up in various ways and sucks balls for not having a simple "live" in game mini message capability as per chatbox on ps3. Who would have thought that would make so much difference.
Menu navigation unintuitive, cluttered and over complicated. Also sucks major balls.
My screen needed major settings tweaks to appear not "washed out" on any game compared to ps3. Odd. Your mileage may differ.
Does not appear to play music c.d's or even my laser lens cleaning disc??? wtf?.
The deliberate incompatibility and unnecessaary obsolescence of many current headsets and peripheral devices.
On the upside. Once screen tweaked, games at 1080p res can look a little bit nicer than 3 and the extra power under the hood shows on games able to use it.
The Spotify app (which Apple are currently attempting to kill off cos their virtually untaxed profits will not go up as fast if peasants with no money can keep listening to free music. If the f*****rs could find a way of making you pay for air on a monthly subscription they absolutely would). O wait. Can get this on 3 too.
So, in brief. In all ways except for some extra pixels and a bit more game capability. ps3>ps4.
Also, for the very technical that may peruse this post. Why the hell does a tracert back to R*'s servers have an ip in South Korea showing up along the way???.
Happy Sunday my arse. Humbug!
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Post by Cuz05 on May 27, 2015 10:27:56 GMT
I wonder if you've got some kind of R* sync issue T. Random guess of the day.
Gills was missing a lot of invites but it seems like maybe his has cleared up a bit. Joined on one from me last night, mid list, moments after coming online. Surely a miracle happened there, perhaps alien intervention.
I personally can never invite anyone to a session unless they're already in it. A strange one. A pain but not debilitating enough for me to bother doing anything about it.
Since you've tried everything but seemingly the kitchen sync, perhaps that old rattle of mystical bones that is unlinking and relinking your SC account may bring a touch of rain?
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2015 12:57:13 GMT
Currently hunting down "eye of newt", "wing of bat" and a virgin. Tescos deli for first two. Last, unlikely round these parts.
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Post by coach_wargo on May 27, 2015 14:09:15 GMT
Has anyone had to initialize (or I suppose re-initialize) their PS4? Ever since the last system update I've been having problems with the Capture Gallery crashing. After looking at the error code Sony tells me that I may need to initialize my PS4.
I've backed up my saved data to the cloud (because that's sure to be reliable), but am still hesitant to essential wipe everything out and start fresh..
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Post by jaystonepk on May 27, 2015 14:39:59 GMT
I would back any game saves to USB at least. I did that with my PS3 when I upgraded from 40 to 80 GB systems.
I don't play much with pics or vids so I haven't had to do any of the wizardry you're talking about.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2015 15:08:42 GMT
Yup. Been there done that too Coach. Trusted what little game saves I had to Sony cloud on this occasion. Re-initialised ps4 (Completely wiped and reset to factory defaults). Re-installed everything from disc. Downloaded saves from cloud. Good to go. Eventually.
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Post by Dam351 on May 28, 2015 5:20:26 GMT
Hey Coach what does ur ps do? Freeze/resets itself? Cos i get the messages after my ps4 freeze/crash/stops playing the game im in and sends "update ur system or the game" asks me to report to sony. I've not reported anything because it still works when I reload. But from about once a week to maybe half dozen times a week now, 4 one and 3 the previous day was worst run it had. There's never any stuff waiting to be downloaded to be installed like sony suggest. Seems more their way of wiping their hands of any further problems. Imo anyways.
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Post by coach_wargo on May 28, 2015 13:20:54 GMT
All that happens is the gallery crashes/closes. It happens when I try to upload. I just have to restart the gallery and try again. I report it every time, and also get the "update your system" message. Then I check and everything is up to date.
It only happened once when playing GTA, but the gallery upload crash happens all the time.
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Post by Dam351 on May 28, 2015 13:50:50 GMT
Yeah really Coach. Ah well my story is very similar but opposite kind of. Only once or twice crashed with share (the video editor) all the rest 3/4 were Gta and a few ProCars. (^Factory) I guess its happened 12-15 all up. Ive thought about reporting it but I don't want to have to work for em. (Drunken thoughts- I could send a nice report, which will lead sony up the garden path. Not as a joke, but more revenge for all the fn around with brand new glitchware)
Back to our gremlins, I'll let u know if it improves when I empty the share factory vids. I don't think I have deleted any yet.
Anyways thanks mate. Ttyl
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Post by emptyplayer on May 30, 2015 15:30:12 GMT
Heads up for anyone with dodgy/degrading ps4 controllers:
Today I went to my local GAME store to ask about if I could get a replacement ps4 controller. The rubber on the left stick has worn away completely from 270 to 360 degrees. Also the R2 is sticking and I'm adamant that I'm not getting 100% throttle power cuz of it. The man at GAME said bring in, with your receipt as "Sony did a shit job with the controller" and well replace it.
So just thought I'd let you know that if you are receiving problems with the controller, don't be hesitant to replace it with the shop you bought if from if it's known issue that Sony did a crap job.
Sorry for spelling mistakes. Many beers have been drunk and I'm on phone, and yes it is only half 4 and yes it am attending split tonight.
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