Discussions surrounding the latest Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition update debate whether or not the patch does enough to address the remastered collection's many issues. After initial hype for the GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas remasters quickly turned to ire once the collection released with game-breaking bugs and glitches, publisher Rockstar Games apologized for GTA: The Trilogy's launch state and promised major changes.
These GTA: The Trilogy glitches have included players struggling to navigate through unnaturally heavy rainfall, falling through the map thanks to random holes in the level geometry, and the vehicle camera sometimes zooming uncomfortably close to player characters' faces. While unintentional comedy gold has been uncovered among these technical problems, there has also been plenty of serious pressure on Rockstar and developer Grove Street Games to fully address the games' issues. In response, a major GTA Trilogy update has been released, which is said to address over 100 of the collection’s reported bugs and glitches.
Now that the patch is out, players have taken to r/GTA to discuss how it has (and hasn't) fixed some of the GTA Definitive Editions’ most glaring problems. Shawn_thesheep pointed out how the recent GTA: The Trilogy patch brought fog back to GTA: San Andreas’s game world like in the original release, gloriousgoy praised the update for correcting the aforementioned rainfall, which no longer prevents players from being able to see where they're going at night. Not everyone is satisfied, though, as fernyjones posted a video of their character glitching through the ground even after the patch was installed and TJGM compared Rockstar’s fog efforts to a fan mod created in the wake of GTA: The Trilogy’s divisive launch.
At this point, I think it is humanly impossible for Rockstar Games to fix the Defective Edition. [Running on a PS5 with the latest patch 1.0.3] from GTA
While every version of the GTA Definitive Editions were plagued by these glitches and more when they launched on November 11, the PC version sat at the epicenter of the backlash. Because of accidentally leaked code present at release, Rockstar temporarily pulled the game from the Rockstar Launcher for days before restoring an updated version. The publisher’s perceived reluctance to provide refunds to players unhappy with GTA: The Trilogy hasn’t helped matters, but Rockstar recently offered the original GTA games for free to those who purchased the remaster on PC.
Rockstar has admitted the launch of GTA - Definitive Edition was far from ideal, and it has pledged to address more of the collection's issues in the coming weeks and months. There is still more work to be done before the GTA remasters can match the high bar set by the franchise’s past offerings, but the fixes provided by Rockstar and Grove Street Games’ first major update at least seem like a promising start.
Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is available on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC, and it will launch for iOS and Android in H1 2022.
Sources: Shawn_thesheep, TJGM, gloriousgoy, fernyjones (via Reddit)