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GTA Online weekly update brings back peyote plants and a new quad bike

It's Thursday in the real world which means it's reset day in the online version of Los Santos. As such, GTA Online players are mulling around to see what's new ahead of Rockstar's more official roundup on its newswire.

While the GTA Online weekly update's main thrust is usually which mode is paying out the most, sometimes other things grab players' attention. Namely, peyote plants. There are typically 76 of them scattered around Los Santos, and eating one will turn you into an animal for a brief stint (it's a hell of a trip). They're back this week, so if you need a break from making some dosh, you can go and be one with nature, maaaaan.

We've also got another new vehicle this week. This time it's the Dinka Verus, a quad bike you may recognise from the Cayo Perico update. If you fancy adding it to your collection, head to Warstock Cache and Carry and pick it up for GTA$192,000. If you're looking to raise some funds this week, open-wheel races and contract missions are paying out double, whereas bodyguard and associate missions are dishing out triple their usual rewards. Nice.

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At last you can fly PUBG's C-130 plane thanks to a new GTA 5 mod

Modding communities are wonderful things, aren't they? Not only do they make new - and often silly - things possible in some of the best PC games around, but they often make some cross-game mash-ups we might never have thought of come to life, too. Take a new Grand Theft Auto 5 mod, for example, that brings one of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' planes to Los Santos.

Modder Jamessays has posted a new add-on version of their recent PUBG C-130t plane mod for GTA 5 on the open-world game's 5 Mods site. In case you need a refresher, the C-130 plane is the vehicle used to drop the battle royale game's 100 parachuting players into PUBG's island map - and, as such, it's non-useable. Well, until now.

Jamessays' mod uses modder Hi2142's 'Philippine Air Force C-130T 1.0.2' GTA 5 mod and re-skins it to add a skin accurate to PUBG's version, as well as "20x more health than [the] regular titan". As you can see when you compare the mod's images to those of the PUBG craft on its Gamepedia page, it looks like a really faithful rendition, from the colour down to the symbol on its rudder.

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GTA Online weekly update triples rewards on some Valentine's Day modes

It's time for the GTA Online weekly update in Los Santos, so people are mulling around to see what's new. We're also mere days away from the romance extravaganza that is Valentine's Day, so I suppose it's not too surprising that most of the goodies people are digging up are themed around the event.

If you're looking to make some cash this week, it looks like PvP modes are the way to go. The Shotgun Wedding deathmatch and Till Death Do Us Part adversary mode are offering triple the rewards that they usually do on RP and GTA bucks. The former is merely a game of deathmatch on a map that has a chapel. The latter, though, puts players into teams of two in a last man standing mode in which each group shares one life. Better pick 'em well, gang.

This week doesn't appear to be as financially lucrative as the previously weekly update with its bonuses on the heist, but it's a good time to get into the nightlife trade if that's your thing. All nightclubs are 40% off, and renovations are 30% off on top of that. You can also get double rewards on DJ requests.

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GTA Online publisher praises single-player as 50% of players solo Cayo Perico

GTA Online is wildly popular, but for some players that old single-player itch is getting tougher to ignore every day. Rockstar's decision to forgo single-player GTA 5 DLC in favour of non-stop updates for GTA Online has always been controversial, but story-driven content like the Cayo Perico heist has managed to pretty effectively split the difference. A lot of players are doing Cayo Perico solo, and it seems parent company Take-Two is happy about the single-player possibilities.

"More than 50% of those playing the Cayo Perico heist are engaging with this as a new single-player experience," Take-Two revealed in its latest financial earnings call. CEO Straus Zelnick says the success of Cayo Perico as single-player content "wasn't coincidental", either.

"The folks at Rockstar Games intended to create a powerful single-player experience - a story-driven experience," Zelnick says. He adds that it's "a reminder" that Rockstar can do both multiplayer and single-player content at "the highest possible level of execution in our business."

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