So no improvments? :/ Was excited to play through it. Are you guys sure? On the site it says that they improved optimization across all devices.
I love GTA. I love playing games on my ipad. I don't love playing GTA on my ipad however. I have VC, SA, and CTW and just cannot get into playing them on iOS devices. There is just too much going on on the screen what with all the buttons and swiping and dragging. To me it's more of a chore to play these games than it is fun. And like its been proven with SA So far, the devs really don't have to fix anything because people will still buy it no matter what and talk about how awesome it is to have GTA in their pocket. Like the quality of the game doesn't even matter. Hopefully I can resist the trap on the next GTA release.
This is the ROCKSTAR GAMES Support update: iOS 2/18/14: Version 1.03 Increased stability across devices Fixed video poker payouts Assorted bug fixes
Well, I wouldnt say no improvements. The game defiantly plays far better on my retina iPad mini, but is not good enough yet, as there are still noticeable drops in the framerate. And concerning anyone still having the radio bug, you will most likely have to start a new game. The problem is that before this update, you'd start a game, the radio stations would be working just fine, but as you progressed through the story missions, they began to stop working. So I believe that they might have fixed the bug that causes it to happen, but not the saves already affected by it; the best proof that it was a bug in my save and not the actual game is that the radio would work just fine in the main menu, yet when I loaded up a save, the radio would be broken. I've started a new game and so far so good, I'll come back later to say for sure if it's actually fixed.
On my Mini Retina it is nowhere near as it is on my iPhone 5. I just can't stand all this stuttering. I've only checked it in the first town and it is still not smooth at all. And I know it gets even more worse in the outskirts with all the trees around. It's like a freaking slideshow. improved stability doesn't mean improved optimisation, imo. It just means less crashes.
I always get conned into buying GTA games full well knowing I won't be able to play them properly due to one or another ios limitations either frame rate or controls or both yet I still buy them. I don't regret buying them in the hope that one day they'll be really playable and enjoyable on the mobile platform instead of tedious and a chore as you said. I bought this and just gave up on the controls. Really, unless you have an ios controller this game cannot be played smoothly on ios. Maybe one day I'll buy a controller and then be able to play all GTA games but I'm using an ipad so I might be waiting a long while. But I did find Gameloft's games better as far as controls but had frame rate issues.
Well, it seems as if they haven't fixed the radio bug yet. I started a new game, everything was going smoothly, then, quite randomly, radio Los santos started playing commercials nonstop; sigh, here we go again....
If anything, it seems to have gotten worse! KDST was working and now is not. I still can't do the fire missions, but I can't blame it on the frame rate anymore as that has improved. I guess I just suck at it for reference, I am on an iPad 2.
Does anyone know what to do after the mission high noon. I did all the other missions that were avaliable and no no mission is popping up
I REALLY don't understand these gripes. I've played through all the GTAs on either my iPhone4 or my iphone5 and have only had issues with CTW's controls to the point where I opted for the PSP version. The controls on the other three have never caused more than a couple of retries on a few missions. I play for hours at a time with absolutely no frustrations. I have no interest in an ios controller because the controls couldn't be implemented any better, in my opinion. If the controls are a problem then it has to be a skill issue. Blame the player, not the game.
On my 1st play through I had a lot of troubles riding the bike. It may have been a camera issue I don't know. I just downloaded it now and thought that instead of playing around with the bike i just roam around and use the joystick controls and it works great. I don't know what went wrong or if they've fixed a camera issue but I definitely had problems when I downloaded it first time and the camera seemed messed up. But this time everything especially the camera worked perfectly. I don't think user error or skills is to blame. It might have been a corrupt download or maybe some errors have been fixed but it works now and I noticed so I've given it 5 stars. But it wasn't my imagination or my skill level as I noticed now I can play it easily as opposed to before when I tried continually but the camera just seemed to keep getting stuck. This time it all worked properly. Could have been a corrupt download or errors that have been fixed since. It also could have been that I took advice about tweaking the controls and the tweaks messed them up. This time I just went with default and joystick and works perfectly.
^^thats not the point . in that video i wanna show the framerate difference(A7 device fps issue) between when you inside the safe house and when outside. also because of the frame drop it makes you harder to control the car(unresponsive button at some point).
I just sent a huge list to Rockstar support (WDS support team never responded). Anyone want to help out? http://support.rockstargames.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
