The briefing
The October 4, 2013 patch tackled launch problems around the Mall or Nothing tutorial race, missing cash, lost property and failures when entering Online through the character wheel. It was an early stability update for PS3 and Xbox 360.
The notes also addressed temporary characters overwriting main characters and removed an autosave during transitions from the GTA V story into Online, reducing a possible route to story-save corruption.
These fixes concerned persistence and access rather than a new content expansion. The separate cases explain why a player’s tutorial, property and character data could need different corrections. Later patches continued the work, so this record should be read within the sequence of launch maintenance releases.
Sources & further reading
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