Grand Theft Auto V Legacy News

GTA 5 has less murder than the Mass Effect trilogy

For a crime game all about doing nefarious acts, Grand Theft Auto 5 doesn't involve much murder - comparatively speaking, at least. A kill-count of every mandatory kill has concluded the Mass Effect series is more violent, on a pure killing other NPCs level, anyway.

The science was done by Reddit user TK-576, who broke down their methodology and results in a post. Across Franklin, Michael, and Trevor, the player is forced to kill 726 enemies. Franklin has the most blood on his hands, murdering 295, Trevor's next at 258, and Michael's slacking behind with only 172. The three have one together, from the end of the open-world game.

Getting the minimum viable body count - MVBC for short - took some amount of patience. No innocent bystanders could be hurt, a difficulty in any Rockstar action-adventure game, the stealth route was always used, or a quick escape if feasible, and for stages that had endless respawn until you switched to a certain character, options were tested to find the quickest pattern. There's no way to avoid all the cops collapsing in 'Blitz Play', the post says, but they managed to find a speedrun that meant the player doesn't pull the trigger to kill them. Off on a technicality, but off nonetheless.

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GTA Online's weekly update is all about racing

It's Thursday in the real world, which means it's reset day in Los Santos. While Rockstar will reveal the official rundown in the newswire later, GTA Online players have already jumped into the online game to see what's new and what's worth doing this week.

By the looks of things, racing is very much the thing that's worth doing this week if you're looking to raise some extra money. Time trials, RC time trials, and RC Bandito stunt races offer up twice their usual reward. If you need to catch a break from all the motoring, you can see three times the Sumo adversary mode's standard reward. It's still car themed, but it's all about nudging your pals off the top of a very tall building. We have garages packed with fancy cars, so it's a good week to put them to work.

There are plenty of discounts on offer, too, which means that somewhere a GTA Online player is cursing their luck because they didn't wait a week to buy a particular car. The Progen PR4, Ocelot R88, and Souther San Andreas Super Autos Rc Bandito are currently 40% off, while the Grotti Brioso 300 is 30% off.

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GTA 5 modder brings the Cayo Perico heist to single-player

While GTA Online offers plenty of hustle and bustle, some people prefer the solace of single-player. You can still live amongst Los Santos and go about your day-to-day grind, though chances are you won't be blown to bits by a rocket from a flying motorbike. While GTA Online's heists are one of the few things that tempt me to break stride, even those are coming to single-player thanks to the work of modders.

HKH191 managed to bring the crime game's most recent outing, the Cayo Perico heist, to GTA 5's offline mode, finally allowing me to rob El Rubio as Trevor. You're even getting the Kosatka, a chonking giant submarine with missiles that features in the Cayo Percio update.

The heist comes with five startup missions and one big finale. Much like GTA Online, you can do this one solo, but you can get a team of AI teammates if you fancy tackling this with a gang. The way you approach the finale still comes down to decisions you make, such as what vehicle you want to kick things off with.

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GTA 5 was the most watched Twitch game in March

Three things in life are guaranteed: death, taxes, and people still buying Grand Theft Auto 5. After jumping back into the Steam top seller's list recently, the open-world game was the number one game on Twitch for March 2021, the first time it's attained the honour.

The achievement was logged by StreamElements, a toolkit and support network for streamers. According to its data, Grand Theft Auto 5 logged the most hours watched on Twitch during March of this year, viewers tuning in for a combined 181,000,000 hours. This is nearly 40,000,000 above the next entry down, League of Legends, and over 70,000,000 above Fortnite. It's the first time Rockstar's behemoth has placed this high, at least since 2016 when StreamElements began recording this data.

Just chatting is still plainly number one on the list, making up 265,000,000 hours watched in total for the month. More and more variety streamers are coming to the platform, and the streams are getting more, um, varied, shall we say. Over two million hours of sleep streams were watched, led by Ludwig Ahgren, whose endless subathon stream is actually still going, over three weeks strong at time of writing.

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GTA Online's weekly update is a callback to the Freemode Events update

It do be that time of the week again. Every Thursday, we get the GTA Online weekly reset, which means a new host of bonuses and discounts to mull over in Los Santos. Usually, though, it involves someone on Twitter or Reddit cursing their luck as a car they bought last week is on discount this week. Rockstar typically posts the full rundown of each update on its Newswire later on in the day, but the update is already live, so people post what it entails online.

If you're looking to make some dosh this week, Freemode challenges and the Hunting Pack adversary mode is dishing out triple the usual reward. Both of these modes came to Los Santos in GTA Online's Freemode Events update back in 2015. The first is pretty self-explanatory and involves open-world quests that pop up every 12 minutes or so, around half a day in-game.

Hunting Pack, meanwhile, is a multiplayer mode that sees players split into three teams. One player has to escort a bomb, while the other players are divided up into attacks and defenders.

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