Mods, Mods, even more Mods. Just when we thought all this modding talk had calmed down, it's already starting back up again. People left and right are getting banned from the PC version of GTA:V for using mods in online play. Now, it's not all mods that are causing the current uproar of players; after investigating some of the claims, GAMEPUR reports that most of the bans are being caused by Cosmetic Mods. Though Rockstar in a reply to user 'Manujango25' stated that Cosmetic mods are not a bannable offense. It seems though that there will be no clear reason of the bans until a statement by Rockstar is released.
On a Reddit Megathread players are reporting anywhere from a 7 to 14 day bans depending on the severity of the mods used. A few players are even stating they have to endure an almost month long ban. Forums are going crazy asking for answers, Rockstar is doing what they can to answer as many questions as they can, but the emails are building up. Hopefully we will see a report in the next few days to clear up the conundrum. But for now here's some angry people!
There are pages of players spamming these reviews to GTA;V PC steam market review board.
On top of the mod bans Rockstar posted the full patch notes for Patch 350.1 that came out on 5/3/2015. That will help with some of the in-game issues players have been having.
Full GTAV PC Patch 350.1 notes are listed below:
- Vehicles in your garage can no longer be accidentally replaced with vehicles from the street. For details, see this page.
- Improved stability and fixed several crashes and hangs while transitioning between Jobs in Online.
- Fixed an issue where certain players were unable to exit their garages while inside of a personal vehicle.
- Fixed an issue where the game could freeze if you were robbing a store while someone else was attempting to buy snacks there.
- A rare issue has been fixed where some players received a “Purchase Failed” error when attempting to buy apartments.
- Fixed an issue where players would be asked to quit the game while using text chat in Golf and pressing the “E” key.
- GTA Online characters can now be added to your shortlist in the Rockstar Editor.
- Fixed several clipping issues that occurred when taking Snap-matic selfies.
- One-on-One Vehicle Death-matches in Free Roam will now properly spawn all participants in vehicles.
- Fixed a Steam-only issue where you could not alt-tab back into GTAV if you alt-tabbed out while the Steam overlay was active.
- Various fixes to bring improved patch download speeds.
- Improvements to matchmaking so players that have good connections to each other are matched together more frequently.
- Fixed a Steam-only issue where players could not use Mexican Spanish as a subtitle language.
- General stability fixes for director mode and video editor.
- Various crash fixes.
- Fixes for issues caused by launching the game in offline mode.
As Always
~Tisnight
(Photos from Gamepur and Reddit)
