What we want from GTA 6 Online

A GTA 5 Online player sits at a map in their office, fingers steepled.

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Nary other halting offers an feel for quite like GTA Online. Zero other will allow you quite so loose in an barefaced city with a group of friends and a submarine machine. It's a game that delights and frustrates me, offering some of the most amazing cooperative experiences I've always had, and much of the most frustrating. The next GTA has a huge chance to learn from both GTA Online's successes and, more importantly, its mistakes. Here's what I'd like to see from a sequel.

A car with a parachute safely lands on the ground. — (Image credit: Rockstar)

Much cockamamie vehicles

Backbone when Andy wrote all but what he wanted to see in GTA 6, he said he wished-for a more grounded game. That's all well and good for singleplayer, merely for the next loop of GTA Online I want the exact opposite. Support when GTA Online launched players had access to cars, bikes and—perhaps if you were really affluent—an attack helicopter. Now log-in to whatsoever server and you'Re possible to see someone suddenly taking soured in a flying DeLorean, plowing through traffic in a giant war rig, or immediately killing you with a flying motorbike. GTA Online has, in many ways, become Saints Row 3, and I couldn't be happier with the transformation.

The truth is GTA Online is at its top when it reasonable gives you a very sappy vehicle and lets you have got fun with it. Some of my favourite missions involve gliding across Los Santos in a Wyrd jet-boosted glider bike, surgery offensive Fort Zancudo in the Ruiner 3000: a bunny girl hopping, paragliding, missile toting version of Kit from Knight Rider. Keep the singleplayer grounded if you will, but the online constituent of GTA 6 needs to start where GTA 5 ended, with the most foolish, finished the top sci-fi vehicles realistic.

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Amend deceiver detection

It's fair rare in games I encounter an obvious hacker these days. Perhaps there's a guy in Destiny World Health Organization seems to be a suspiciously healthful colorful, but maybe that's precisely Pine Tree State being paranoid. GTA Online is the only place where I face-off people who are really, obviously cheating. "Waving around in an indestructible stretch limo" unfair. "Traps everyone in the server in a series of metal cages" cheating. Often I will encounter several of these people in an evening.

Straightaway I wear't claim to understand how anti-cheat software system works. It's probably rattling hard to do! But GTA Online is the alone game I play where the problem is this bad. GTA Online players have even evolved strategies to put themselves in empty servers strictly to ward of the rank number of griefers. I'm non active to unreal this is an easy problem to turn to, simply IT needs to exist fixed.

A heist planning board shows a map of Los Santos. — (Image credit: Rockstar)

More heists

IT seems angry that heists weren't in GTA Online at launch, because they've consistently been the most enjoyable activity the game has to proffer throughout. Heists are long chains of missions for equal to four players leading to a dramatic set man finale. The original set of heists were for a team of iv people, with different members often having various roles. In the original Prison Break heist, for instance, two players infiltrate a prison house, while a third flies a getaway plane and a fourth provides aura cover from a helicopter. Advanced iterations of the burglarise can be completed with less players, and lean little on the bespoke roles (a shame, as they were one of my favourite parts). The most recent, Cayo Perico, can be consummated altogether alone, but is largely the worsened for it.

I understand wherefore GTA moved aside from the four player heists, the new ones are easier to get a group unneurotic for, but they're also less fun. Heists should remain a centrepiece team activity, the raids of GTA.

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Information technology power seem weirdly picky to talk about a specialised card here, but the interaction menu is a major pain steer in GTA Online. American Samoa new features have been added to the game o'er the geezerhood, information technology's get on the de facto hub for any and all abilities players have. What was once a carte largely reserved for putting on a mask or feeding a snack straight off manages your Motorcycle Club, calls in your helicopter or center submarine sandwich, bidding various colossus trucks and so much Sir Thomas More. IT's not that putting these things in an easy to access card is a uncomfortable idea, it's certainly better than having to promise my mechanic to deliver a car, but the current menu wasn't designed to support as much arsenic it's being made to, and IT's creak under the weighting. The next GTA Online needs a new interface, planned from the starting to support the stray of abilities players testament likely have.

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Some persistence

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One of GTA Online's stranger quirks is that players can start Organisations and Motorbike Clubs that are temporary, transient things which only next-to-last for one playing session (if that). If both you and your friend cause Organisations (and you wish) and want to launching the activities Byzantine in them, you'll eventually receive to dissolve and restart it to switch owner. If you have several friends you can fetch up doing this repeatedly over the course of an evening.

Instead organisations should be a permanent affair, like a guild or clan (GTA does actually have a interpretation of this with Crews, but they do almost nonentity). You should never have to disband Oregon restart your organisation, and when incomparable of your friends buys, order a Nightclub, everyone in the organisation should have ownership of it. Rockstar have actually experimented with something similar to this in Read Tired Online's roles, where players pick a lasting life history, like selling moon or hunting bounties. Something like that would work wonders in GTA Online.

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Few phone calls

Path back in the caliginous days of GTA4, there was a running joke about how annoying information technology was that your first cousin Papist perpetually called you to ask in you to go bowling, even when you were in the middle of the firefight. Fast forward to GTA Online and Rockstar undergo inexplicably doubled down on this behaviour, having the game's picturesque cast of criminal assholes perpetually bombardon you with calls, texts and emails, usually berating you to buy some kinda building or fomite you keister't currently give. They Don't flatbottomed sportsmanlike do this once, they do it again and again every time you log in. Afterward with the Nightclub update Rockstar added another, even more annoying character known as English Dave, who can't even be properly hung up on until he's done with his drawn-out, rambling request.

Now I know major than to invite GTA to throw a cast of characters that aren't hateful pricks—that's a big part of the game's whole vibe. I just want to ask them "could this call have been an email?"