Grand Theft Auto 5 Online has been plagued with many different problems such as vehicles disappearing, and players losing character data, one of the most serious problems, but Rockstar is planning to release a new patch that will hopefully resolve the issue and help the game reach its full potential.
As Rockstar announced through Rockstar Newswire, the company hopes the patch will help get fans back after many reported the online portion of Grand Theft Auto 5 was almost unplayable:
"A new title update to address the reported issues of game progress loss in GTA Online as well as other technical fixes, tweaks and enhancements is now available for PlayStation 3, and we expect it to be available by tomorrow at the latest for Xbox 360. 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. 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," Rockstar wrote.
The patch also fixes many different bugs besides the character deletion error. The patch will also stop a glitch that locks out the ability to replay some jobs. The patch will also work to stop several instances where gamers are stuck either waiting for a mission or job to load or being stuck in a lobby. Additional fixes will prevent users spawning too far ahead in races to end them prematurely as well as a glitch that will cause a user to lose guns and ammo.
Rockstar also has a reminder for users that other issues still exist for the online portion of Grand Theft Auto 5 and have several steps they should take to avoid losing their data:
"...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."