Grand Theft Auto V Legacy News

GTA RP streamer discovers that roleplaying jobs is as unpleasant as having a job

When it comes to GTA RP servers, Chance 'Sodapoppin' Morris is a working man. He roleplays as a character called Kevin Whipaloo, who owns a restaurant among other businesses on the server and is the Diamond Resort and Casino floor manager. It turns out, though, that the responsibilities that come with all of that are exhausting when you have to factor in your roleplaying employees' needs.

So Morris is taking a break from GTA RP, at least for now. The content creator told his stream that the responsibilities of having that many jobs in-game have begun to feel like a real-life job. "I'm taking a break, and I'm coming back when I feel like it," he explains. "It's too much. I don't want to say those things while I'm doing GTA RP because the last thing I want is someone to look at Kevin in-game and say, 'oh, I don't want to interact with him because I know he's got too many interactions going on already'."

One of the challenges of roleplay is that everything has more consequences as you have to consider how it'll affect other people. Whipaloo's character has the amusing hook of someone trying to live an honest life in a dishonest city. Try as he might, Whipaloo can't avoid the life of crime, no matter how many startups he gets involved with.

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GTA Online player figures out how to speed up loading times by 70%

If there's one thing that feels part and parcel of the Grand Theft Auto experience, it's sitting in front of your screen and waiting for the darn thing to load. While Grand Theft Auto 5 has been out for around seven years now, it's more or less the same deal. GTA Online also operates on the same dime and can take a hot minute to boot up even after you've loaded into GTA 5 itself.

I've rarely questioned it as Grand Theft Auto 5 is a lot of game, after all. Now, though, someone has decided to mull around in the crime game's files for themselves to see if they can speed GTA Online's loading times up, and it looks like they've achieved some promising results.

The GTA 5 fan posted their findings online after managing to speed up loading times by up to 70%. I'd encourage you to read their post in full, but the short version is that they found a single-thread CPU bottleneck while starting up GTA Online and that GTA struggles to parse a 10MB JSON file as the JSON parser is reportedly "poorly built".

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GTA Online's weekly update adds a weaponised dinghy

The rollout of vehicles from GTA Online's Cayo Perico update continues this week in Los Santos. Rockstar provides the official rundown of what the GTA Online weekly update entails later on in the day, though the content goes live when reset hits. As such, players mull around and post what's new to Reddit and Twitter.

This week you'll be able to buy a weaponised dinghy - yes, really - for $1,850,000 in GTA bucks from Warstock Cache & Carry. To find it, head to your humble abode, go to the garage, interact with your PC, and you should see the new vehicle. You're looking for the Nagasaki Weaponised Dinghy, which is pretty hard to miss. It doesn't, uh, appear to offer the most protection, but there's little else like it.

If you need to raise some funds, the good news is that it's looking like an excellent week to grind some dosh. Special cargo sales are offering twice their usual reward, and special cargo warehouses are 50% off. So they're cheaper to set up, and pay out more, too. If you haven't heard of them before, they're a type of CEO mission that Rockstar added to the game with the Further Adventures in Finance and Felony update. Simply put, they're open-world missions that task you with going out, fetching cargo, and stashing them in your warehouse.

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Illinois politician wants to ban Grand Theft Auto after a rise in Chicago carjackings

February 23, 2021 The ESA has issued a statement on the proposed Illinois legislation.

A rash of carjackings in Chicago over the past year has, of course, led some to point fingers at violent videogames. Now, an Illinois lawmaker wants to amend a state restriction on selling violent games to minors so that it would ban the sale of violent games to anyone - and would define depictions of motor vehicle theft as violence.

Following the original publication of this article, a representative of the Entertainment Software Association, the US game industry's largest trade association, reached out with the following statement: "While our industry understands and shares the concerns about what has been happening in Chicago, there simply is no evidence of a link between interactive entertainment and real-world violence. We believe the solution to this complex problem resides in examining thoroughly the actual factors that drive such behaviors rather than erroneously ascribing blame to videogames based solely upon speculation."

Illinois's criminal code of 2012 restricts the sale of violent games to minors, with a fine of $1,000 USD as punishment. Democratic State Representative Marcus Evans Jr. has introduced HB3531, which would ban sales of violent games outright. The bill would also modify the definition of 'violent' to "include psychological harm and child abuse, sexual abuse, animal abuse, domestic violence, violence against women, or motor vehicle theft with a driver or passenger present inside the vehicle when the theft begins."

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xQc banned from NoPixel GTA V roleplaying server

By now, Felix 'xQc' Lengyel should be pretty used to the word 'ban'. He's no stranger to controversy and is a frequent rule-bender, which has landed him with plenty of suspensions in the past throughout both his professional esports career and since turning to streaming full time.

xQc's latest comes from the land of roleplaying. Over the last few weeks, there's been a spike in popularity for GTA V roleplay content on Twitch, and 2020's most watched streamer wanted in on the action. xQc has been recently streaming in the popular and well-renowned NoPixel server, tearing around the open world and bumping into other roleplayers in the process, all in front of his usual massive audience.

However, on trying to access the server during his February 22 stream, the former Overwatch pro was met with a message informing him he had been permanently banned. This was due to breaking one of the NoPixel servers golden rules: No ramming other players with vehicles without reason to do so.

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