Stuck, no missions

[EbonHawk]

Just started playing, and I've done several missions as Michael and as Franklin, but now there's nothing on the map to indicate what I'm supposed to do now. No more ? marks to indicate random missions, and I go to Franklin & Michael's houses, and nothing happens.

I've played with Chop, I've started Beverly's paparazzi missions, as well as done sever tow truck jobs for JB (?) by helping Yolanda (?).. even Hao has told me about some races..

I'm stuck. Is this normal? Do I have to do something to manually progress the story? I can ride around and hijack cars and run from the cops all I want, but that gets boring after a while.

I see a couple of checkered flags on the map, indicating more races for Hao, I think his name was... is that all there is, just do some random side missions next?

[EbonHawk]

No, but I may have to.. I'm just not seeing anything that looks like story-progression stuff. I've called everyone in both of my phones, and everyone's busy.

I can only drive around, play tennis, golf, and go to strip clubs so much. Need some kind of income. And mugging innocent pedestrians and motorists isn't very lucrative.

I did manage finally to find an armored car and jacked it for about $10k, so now Franklin can enter that street race Hao mentioned...

[✠ Tsapluuna ✠]

I think sometimes you can't progress until you have improved some character skills like flying, shooting, stamina, etc. In the beginning I remember I also got stuck until I improved Michael's stamina for a mission by doing triathlons. Could it be be something like that that prevents you from progressing? Check what the NPCs said in messages, could be they told you to improve some skill like that for a mission.

[Soloplayer985]

have u watched on youtube yet?

[BookItFaster]

Originally posted by EbonHawk:

Just started playing, and I've done several missions as Michael and as Franklin, but now there's nothing on the map to indicate what I'm supposed to do now. No more ? marks to indicate random missions, and I go to Franklin & Michael's houses, and nothing happens.

I've played with Chop, I've started Beverly's paparazzi missions, as well as done sever tow truck jobs for JB (?) by helping Yolanda (?).. even Hao has told me about some races..

I'm stuck. Is this normal? Do I have to do something to manually progress the story? I can ride around and hijack cars and run from the cops all I want, but that gets boring after a while.

I see a couple of checkered flags on the map, indicating more races for Hao, I think his name was... is that all there is, just do some random side missions next?

Pass the time head to residence and sleep. prob wake up with text of phone call. Progressing in a skill set has nothing to do with moving forward

[zOldBulldog]

Online has no story to guide you along. And there is a LOT you can do, almost too much, but it is not quite clear.

Your focus should be on saving money for key businesses. Flight school is a good thing to do early, so is the treasure hunt, navy pistol quest, tomahawk quest, playing cards collectibles, scavenger hunt (one location per day), signal jammers, robbing every single convenience store in the map, action figure collectibles, LD Organics collectibles,

Once you get a bit of cash (very very early - you probably already have it) get VIP status (I can't remember but I think it is at the casino. And make sure to get something something cheap with a garage.

From what I sense of your playstyle from your writing you should probably start with the Auto Shop business. It is not the best playing business but it should give you fun activities to do while earning more cash.

Once you have enough cash, definitely get the Kosatka and become an expert at doing the Cayo Perico heist solo. It is the fastest way to earn more cash and you will need tens and hundreds of millions eventually, and this is a good way when you need cash fast.

That brings me to the weekly events. Every Thursday there is a new event that lasts for a week, with discounts (obviously the best time to buy - especially businesses) and 2x,3x ,4x income on certain things.

For all of the above... google and youtube. You rely on guides more than in any other game.

Above all... have fun, don't let it turn into a money grind. You will discover that there is so much to do that there is no reason to get bored... unless you stick to the single most profitable thing and do it until you want to throw up.

EDIT: GTA Online by default dumps you in public sessions where you get assaulted by hackers, modders and griefers constantly. If you find yourself unable to play you should look into switching to Invite Only sessions or join a 500-1000 player crew with strict rules of behavior (that match your preferences) and runs its own closed crew session and enforces the rules.

[BookItFaster]

Originally posted by zOldBulldog:

Online has no story to guide you along. And there is a LOT you can do, almost too much, but it is not quite clear.

Your focus should be on saving money for key businesses. Flight school is a good thing to do early, so is the treasure hunt, navy pistol quest, tomahawk quest, playing cards collectibles, scavenger hunt (one location per day), signal jammers, robbing every single convenience store in the map, action figure collectibles, LD Organics collectibles,

Once you get a bit of cash (very very early - you probably already have it) get VIP status (I can't remember but I think it is at the casino. And make sure to get something something cheap with a garage.

From what I sense of your playstyle from your writing you should probably start with the Auto Shop business. It is not the best playing business but it should give you fun activities to do while earning more cash.

Once you have enough cash, definitely get the Kosatka and become an expert at doing the Cayo Perico heist solo. It is the fastest way to earn more cash and you will need tens and hundreds of millions eventually, and this is a good way when you need cash fast.

That brings me to the weekly events. Every Thursday there is a new event that lasts for a week, with discounts (obviously the best time to buy - especially businesses) and 2x,3x ,4x income on certain things.

For all of the above... google and youtube. You rely on guides more than in any other game.

Above all... have fun, don't let it turn into a money grind. You will discover that there is so much to do that there is no reason to get bored... unless you stick to the single most profitable thing and do it until you want to throw up.

Thanks for describing how to play a game its unreal you had to write a multi paragraph article to explain how to play a video game. People like him are the reason we have to have our hand held in a tutorials for a video game. Back when i was a youngin we picked up the controller and learned how to play.

[zOldBulldog]

Originally posted by BookItFaster:

Originally posted by zOldBulldog:

Online has no story to guide you along. And there is a LOT you can do, almost too much, but it is not quite clear.

Your focus should be on saving money for key businesses. Flight school is a good thing to do early, so is the treasure hunt, navy pistol quest, tomahawk quest, playing cards collectibles, scavenger hunt (one location per day), signal jammers, robbing every single convenience store in the map, action figure collectibles, LD Organics collectibles,

Once you get a bit of cash (very very early - you probably already have it) get VIP status (I can't remember but I think it is at the casino. And make sure to get something something cheap with a garage.

From what I sense of your playstyle from your writing you should probably start with the Auto Shop business. It is not the best playing business but it should give you fun activities to do while earning more cash.

Once you have enough cash, definitely get the Kosatka and become an expert at doing the Cayo Perico heist solo. It is the fastest way to earn more cash and you will need tens and hundreds of millions eventually, and this is a good way when you need cash fast.

That brings me to the weekly events. Every Thursday there is a new event that lasts for a week, with discounts (obviously the best time to buy - especially businesses) and 2x,3x ,4x income on certain things.

For all of the above... google and youtube. You rely on guides more than in any other game.

Above all... have fun, don't let it turn into a money grind. You will discover that there is so much to do that there is no reason to get bored... unless you stick to the single most profitable thing and do it until you want to throw up.

Thanks for describing how to play a game its unreal you had to write a multi paragraph article to explain how to play a video game. People like him are the reason we have to have our hand held in a tutorials for a video game. Back when i was a youngin we picked up the controller and learned how to play.

Back then you had professionals writing games. Now we have the bottom of the barrel of the IT market - often with ADHD issues - writing the games. So they can't bother to make anything that makes sense. They just build one thing, get a new idea, build another and slap it all together any which way. No story, no consistent UI, full of bugs and brutal design flaws... oh yeah, that is exactly what GTA looks like... cool ideas but very poorly implemented.

Back then I also just picked up the game and learned it while doing it. Even now I find games that I can learn while playing, while others do require guides. GTA Online is easily the most disorganized and obscure game there is, and it compounds the problem by dumping you in public sessions where you get instantly assaulted by hackers, modders and griefers - long before you learn to play the game.

[EbonHawk]

Originally posted by BookItFaster:

Pass the time head to residence and sleep. prob wake up with text of phone call. Progressing in a skill set has nothing to do with moving forward

That might be it. I remember doing it very early on, but never again. I'll give it a shot the next time I play. Thanks! And thanks for helping. This isn't my first rodeo, but like you said, it just seems to be a bunch of hacked-together content right now. I only get to play for short periods of time, and I don't want to spend the majority of it just dicken around trying to figure out what's going on. Sometimes a nudge in the right direction is all it takes.

Don't get me wrong, I'm loving "simming" it in the game's world, but there's just no indication of what's required to progress to the next part at the moment.

[EbonHawk]

So, I think what finally worked was heading back to Franklin's house and Saving/Sleeping a couple of times, and then when I went to Michael's house, the next cutscene triggered finally. I had already tried going there as Franklin and Michael, but nothing would ever happen to progress the game's story.

I think resting finally did the trick.