'GTA Online' Gets Competitive F1 Racing Today

An anonymous reader shares a report: Rockstar refuses to let GTA Online die, and why would it when it's one of the company's biggest moneymakers? If you haven't played GTA 5's online component in a while, today's update may convince you to step back into the world of San Andreas. Rockstar is adding a new competitive racing mode to GTA Online called Open Wheel Races that allows you to drive the game's equivalent of F1 cars against other players. As part of the update, Rockstar is adding two new cars, the Ocelot R88 and the Progen PR4. You can purchase both through the in-game Legendary Motorsport store and customize them with different tires, spoilers, engine mods and more through Los Santos Customs.

No

[stealth_finger]

Release some single player dlc and I might consider going back to it again, until then r* can shove their shark cards up their collective arse.

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[Kokuyo]

Not even then. The story bugged me so much. At no point did I have to option to either fix anything for real or shoot the damn family.

I like my games to give me a sense of accomplishment. I didn't have that at any point in this game.

Frankly, I'd love to have an open ended mafia economic simulator. The Godfather, if I remember correctly, had a great story but the simulation part was a bit limited...

I'd love to explore if a red light district could be run profitably without most of the human misery. I'd like

Games are overpriced, evil and exploitive

[Anonymous Coward]

.... typical unethical and abusive corporations, they charge people excessive prices, offer inadequate support, games are poor quality and lack skill based matchmaking. The use low skill players as free kills for high skill players. They engineer the games to be deliberately abusive and psychology addictive and they market them to children in order to generate unreasonable incomes. It's an evil industry run by greedy, selfish and irresponsible jerks.

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[Aereus]

AAA / Mobile / F2P (Fee to Pay heh) are what you claim, but it's important to keep in mind there is still a large wealth (pun intended and not intended) of Indie and so-called AA games that still provide a good value. They may not have the highest budget, or lensiest flares, but they can still be a lot of fun and maintain the spirit of gaming that the greedier end of the spectrum have forgotten.

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[turp182]

Want the original GTA experience, but with zombies?

Zombie Driver. Hella fun, top down view, good level design and weapons.

Most games are too complicated today. This one hits the sweet spot for me.

It took me back to GTA 1. Just without running over hip-hopsters in the park (they are zombies in this game).

don't bother

[slashmydots]

About 1 in 5 people online are cheating and use hacks that disconnect other people, troll them, and accidentally or purposely make simple things not work correctly. The game is basically unplayable. You can't reliably finish missions or basically do anything unless you use a known exploit in Windows to kick yourself into an empty session.
I estimate with the number of concurrent sessions going, they could get a room full of 500 temp workers and pay them $15/hour and get rid of every single cheater in every live instance in the entire game in less than a week. So generously, half a million dollars to solve the cheating problem instantly. The chilling effect would be unbelievable if they handed out perma-bans with zero warning. So instead they released into this unplayable shithole a $1 million + update. Great prioritizing, Rockstar, you morons. Also the game was completely offline twice today for over an hour each time.

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[Anonymous Coward]

About 1 in 5 people online are cheating and use hacks that disconnect other people, troll them, and accidentally or purposely make simple things not work correctly. The game is basically unplayable. You can't reliably finish missions or basically do anything unless you use a known exploit in Windows to kick yourself into an empty session....

Speaking from experience, Fortnite / Epic is no different, and I suspect that cheating is allowed on free to play games since the companies rely on customers for ingame purchases. If they banned cheaters, they'd be losing customers. What's worse is the abusive matchmaking, they use low skill and low performance players as free kills to keep top players and streamers happy. Without skill based matchmaking, these online games are havens for bullies. These companies are encouraging poor sportsmanship and cheat

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[wiliamatina]

I love playing GTA V I use this app at GameHotTrend, this is an address that provides Mod applications.

It's GTA

[dwillden]

You should be able to just steal the car.

Not worth it

[drinkypoo]

GTA as a racing game is at its best when you are racing through the city. And the fantasy tracks where you're racing through tubes in the sky are somewhat amusing as you can go upside down and such. But it lacks both realism and detail as a racing game, so it's limp when you're not taking advantage of the fact that it can create a whole city and populate it with other vehicles.

Who the fuck cares?

[nitehawk214]

Are we going to have a slashdot story every time some online game puts something up for sale?

Does anyone play GTA 1 or 2 multiplayer any more?

[damn_registrars]

I remember this was an option for a while before GTA III turned it all into first-person. I found the first two much more enjoyable myself. It's hard to even search for the first one anymore as content for it is drowned out - by many many orders of magnitude - by stuff for the newer games.