Grand Theft Auto V Legacy News

GTA Online weekly update doubles rewards on Bikers content

It's a good week to pick up a new motorbike or make some extra money if you're into GTA Online's Bikers update. Rockstar Games refreshes the crime game's bonuses every week, but the update lands before the studio posts any patch notes. As such, players dip in and see what's new for themselves - why wait?

This week you're getting double the rewards on clubhouse contracts, club challenges, and MC work. You'll need to buy a clubhouse to do contracts, but the good news is they are discounted by 35% this week, so now is a good time to buy in if you haven't done so already - renovations are also 35% off if you're feeling fancy. Malc offers contract work once you're set up, though other players can interfere in it. It's heaps of fun.

Club challenges, meanwhile, offer competition among your crew and involve things like hitting the most vehicles with a biker melee within ten minutes. MC work, finally, is challenges against other clubs, such as Team Deathmatch. If you fancy doing something else entirely, you can also pick up double rewards doing the Deadline adversary mode. Everyone gets a chonking Tron bike that leaves a light trail. The catch, though, is that you'll lose a life if you cross someone else's trail.

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GTA Online weekly update brings double rewards for Arena War and Rhino Hunt

It's that time of the week again, GTA Online fans. A new update has hit the multiplayer crime game's servers, and the good folk of Los Santos are having a look around to see what's new for this week's drop. Rockstar Games will post the full rundown on its newswire later today, but with the update's goodies, discounts, and new podium car now live, why wait for a look-see?

In the multiplayer game's new weekly update you're getting the chance to scoop up double the rewards for GTA Online's Arena War modes. In case you need a refresher, these are the series of (primarily PvP) missions introduced with the game's 2018 Arena War content update, which play out in the huge Maze Bank Arena, and feature a bunch of weapon devices and traps to use to emerge victorious.

This week, the modes will hand out double GTA$, RP, and arena points - the latter being for the Arena War-specific experience system, which you can use to grab some rewards if you have an arena workshop. Additionally, GTA Online's Rhino Hunt adversary mode and Special Vehicle Work missions will also be dishing out double GTA$ and RP this week.

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Rockstar pays $10k to the modder who fixed GTA Online's ridiculous load times

Grand Theft Auto V's load times are ridiculous. That's true of GTA V proper, and it's extra true of GTA Online. One modder discovered a way to reduce those loading times by 70%, and it seems Rockstar has taken notice - thankfully, this time it's not just to shut down the mod in question. Instead, that loading time fix is getting officially implemented in an upcoming patch.

In the most basic terms, t0st reported that there's a single-thread CPU bottleneck when GTA Online starts loading up, and the game spends ages reading redundant information from a JSON file that doesn't have much reason to exist. In his original findings, t0st wrote: "If this somehow reaches Rockstar: the problems shouldn't take more than a day for a single dev to solve. Please do something about it."

In a new update to that post, t0st says he "just got awarded $10k" through Rockstar's bug bounty programme, which is normally used only for major security issues. t0st adds that "I did try asking for more technical details but they couldn't say anything."

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GTA Online's weekly update brings double rewards for putting up with Lamar

It's Thursday in Los Santos, which means GTA Online players are mulling around to see if there's anything decent in the crime game's weekly update. Rockstar Games will have its usual roundup up on its newswire later today, but the update has already gone live, so, uh, why wait?

This week you're getting double rewards for doing Lamar Davids' contact missions, which is excellent news for those of you who are a fan of the recent Franklin roast memes. Lamar's missions are a good time and almost heist-like. That said, they don't pay the best in terms of dosh, so hopefully, this week will make them more worth your time. If you fancy switching things up, Martin Madrazo's contact missions are also paying out double rewards, and offer the same kind of experience you get with Lamar, just - you know - without Lamar's nonsense.

There are more ways to make better money in GTA Online this week, too. Business Battles and Transform Races are paying out double their usual rewards. The former is a freemode event that involves nicking cargo, whereas the latter is a variant of GTA Online's stunt races.

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