Grand Theft Auto V Legacy News

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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GTA RP: the best servers and how to join them

What is GTA RP and how do you download it? Grand Theft Auto V fans are bound to be wondering that as Rockstar's open-world game continues to skyrocket in viewership figures on Twitch thanks to its RPG community. The reason for the resurgence is a host of prominent streamers who have been engaging with the game's role playing servers, such as Lirik, Summit1G, and TimTheTatMan.

All this will be familiar to anyone who has used Skyrim's Alternate Start mods - GTA RP allows you to join the game as a regular NPC as opposed to any of the main characters thanks to the installation of a mod. The trend of role-playing has been around for years as it proves to be quite idyllic - instead of being thrust into the spotlight, you can live out a normal life and inhabit whatever character you'd like to be.

If you're new to all this, however, it can prove to be quite daunting. You need to download the required mods to make it work, find and apply to join servers, and then figure out how to properly play the thing itself. On top of all that, you'll also come across a bunch of slang terms you may be unfamiliar with. To try and alleviate some of that stress, we've put together a handy starters guide to help anyone wanting to join in.

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GTA RP's latest star is Cyberpunk 2077's Johnny Silverhand

One of my favourite things about Grand Theft Auto V's roleplaying community is the characters you stumble across. Last year we spoke to the GTA roleplayers who task themselves with enforcing Los Santos, and the kinds of strain that streaming those sessions of roleplay bring.

Since the NoPixel 3.0 GTA RP server's launch, though, variety streamers have started returning to Los Santos to see what's new. As more attention has returned to the scene, a particular GTA RP streamer has begun to appear more consistently on Reddit. Content creator Burn roleplays as Cyberpunk 2077's Johnny Silverhand but doesn't settle for merely looking or sounding like the Samurai frontman. He'll strike a T-pose in the middle of a conversation, and generally glitches out anything he touches.

The most viral clip of Burn so far involves an encounter with Félix 'xQc' Lengyel. It has plenty of glitches you'll likely recognise from Cyberpunk 2077, from T-poses to character models going awry. The whole thing starts with xQc falling off his bike, and trying to talk to Burn while he bugs out and hovers in mid-air as he tries to get back into his car. The Silverhand impression is funny enough, but watching other roleplayers try to adlib and react to it is genuinely amusing.

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