So I recently bought GTAV on Steam, after I played the sp on PS3 thanks to a friend to try GTAO, since people keep saying it's good.
After 5 hours spent on it, I can say this mode has potential, but sadly it's plagued by a lot of issues:
-HUGE loading times. Really, when you start an activity, loading times are way too long, I think I spent at least one hour looking at a loading screen.
-lobbies can and should be improved, because often you enter a session with an inactive player, you exit and you enter that session again, because the game won't find a new one.
-inactive players make you waste your time: if you enter a mission and there's an inactive player, you are screwed because if you leave the mission (and you do that several times), the game will force you to play with people who do the same forever. People can stay inactive up to 15 minutes, I think it's really too much.
-the way you take some activities and missions via sms is too confusing. There's a lot of stuff to do, but there should be an easy way to access each thing, for now the game feels like a giant Babel to me.
-Rockstar/s ban policies. Of course I never triggered a ban, but I read they ban you even if you mod the single-player portion of the game. This is just stupid, because there are a lot of good mods you can't try without getting banned. Why don't do two separate exes for sp and GTAO? So you can mod the SP game without getting banned from GTAO. I agree there should be an anti-cheat system in order to keep the game sane, but by stopping the use of mods...it feels like the shortest way to do that, having no care for the player at all.
After 5 hours spent on it, I can say this mode has potential, but sadly it's plagued by a lot of issues:
-HUGE loading times. Really, when you start an activity, loading times are way too long, I think I spent at least one hour looking at a loading screen.
-lobbies can and should be improved, because often you enter a session with an inactive player, you exit and you enter that session again, because the game won't find a new one.
-inactive players make you waste your time: if you enter a mission and there's an inactive player, you are screwed because if you leave the mission (and you do that several times), the game will force you to play with people who do the same forever. People can stay inactive up to 15 minutes, I think it's really too much.
-the way you take some activities and missions via sms is too confusing. There's a lot of stuff to do, but there should be an easy way to access each thing, for now the game feels like a giant Babel to me.
-Rockstar/s ban policies. Of course I never triggered a ban, but I read they ban you even if you mod the single-player portion of the game. This is just stupid, because there are a lot of good mods you can't try without getting banned. Why don't do two separate exes for sp and GTAO? So you can mod the SP game without getting banned from GTAO. I agree there should be an anti-cheat system in order to keep the game sane, but by stopping the use of mods...it feels like the shortest way to do that, having no care for the player at all.