Rockstar Games has released a new patch for GTA Online that is specifically designed to stop characters from being randomly deleted. This problem was discovered earlier last week and has been causing many people to lose progress on their character in the company's recently released multiplayer version of the World Record setting game "GTA Online."
A post on the Rockstar Newswire tells users that the latest update should prevent any more players from experiencing this glitch, which caused them to lose not only their character but their rank, apartments and cash.
"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," it reads. The company has also had to address other issues with the game that caused many players who purchase or put money into a vehicle to lose that car. This software patch does not have a fix for that particular glitch, but the company says it is working on it and will have something soon.
"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."
IGN reports that, despite the patch, the company is reiterating its previous advice for what to do if you find your character missing: "Exit GTA Online by returning to Single Player in order to force a save, and do not select "Retry" or create a temporary character when confronted with a message saying the Rockstar Cloud Servers are down."
There is no word yet on what will happen with characters that have already been lost. It's possible Rockstar will find a way to restore them or at least offer some compensation. However, nothing is clear as of right now.
