Grand Theft Auto V Legacy News

GTA Online's weekly update includes double rewards for the Air Freight missions

It's that time of the week again, folks, which means the bonuses and deals in GTA Online's weekly update have been dug up. The information comes from reliable Rockstar tipster Tez2, who rounds these up every week.

This time around you are getting double experience and cash from the Air Freight missions. If you don't know what missions those are, they're a series of Smuggler's Run missions that were introduced in the GTA Online update of the same name. The task hasn't proved to be the best source of racking up experience and cash, so hopefully the double reward will make it worthwhile. There are also triple rewards for the Overtime Rumble and King of the Kill PVP modes, so you may want to think about doing those if you're looking to rack up some funds and experience.

There are heaps of discounts on GTA Online cars, too. To name a few, the Torero, Swinger, and Savestra are half off, and the Deluxo and Zhaba are 25% off. The GTA 5 podium car has also been swapped about this week and is now the Itali GTB.

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GTA Online's casino diamonds are back, with high probability

Diamonds have returned as a reward for the GTA Online casino heist in the latest update. If you're planning a run on the casino's vault in the open-world game, you've got a high chance of maximum pay-out for the foreseeable future.

The update comes via dataminer Tez2, who runs through everything that's coming in the latest patch. Generally when you rob the casino, you'll find a cash reward of up to $2.1 million, which is hardly chump change, but when diamonds are in play, you can make considerably more. The extra valuable stones are periodically taken out and re-inserted, to help mitigate folks getting too rich or trying for the gambling hub too often. As of now, you can start planning your next heist, and odds are good you'll be rewarded for your exploits in the crime game.

Some other additions include the Coquette D10 as the podium vehicle, 40% off all bunkers and renovations, and a number of cars, including Stirling GT, Rapid GT Classic, Infernus Classic and Swinger are a lovely half-off. The highlight, going by replies at least, is the flourescent Lemon Sports track pants and top, which will guarantee you stand-out in any crowd. Might be best to leave that one in the wardrobe if you're thinking of trying any high-risk crimes.

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GTA Online gets double payouts and a big Diamond Adversary series prize this week

There are some super sweet rewards and a big "one-time bonus" up for grabs in GTA Online this week. Rockstar Games has posted details of the online crime game's new set of challenges and goodies, which mean the chance to "make a killing in the Diamond Adversary series" - that is, scoop up some double payouts and a "quarter million in stone-cold cash" in-game.

"You don't need to tap the vault to win big at The Diamond this week," Rockstar's latest newswire post says. That's because the opportunity to grab some goodies is actually on the Diamond Casino and Resort floor itself, through the location's scenario-based Adversary modes. For all of this week, you'll earn double payouts for each and every mode in the series - and there's a "special one-time bonus to players on the winning side of any mode in the series: a quarter million in stone-cold cash, deposited within seven days of winning".

Plus, from now until September 9, you'll also be able to scoop double cash and RP rewards in all of the Gerald's Last Play missions, as well as score double rewards in the Special Cargo Sales.

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GTA Online players are getting character wiped for using new money exploit

GTA Online players are reporting that their characters have been completely wiped of progress and money after using a new exploit to rack up a load of in-game currency. From the looks of things, it stems from a recent wave of money resets from Rockstar.

The money cheat was discovered two weeks ago following the launch of the the game's Los Santos Summer Special update. The way it works is simple and proves to be reasonably potent, as it could be done in several minutes. If you already had the most expensive CEO office and slots six and seven available for garages and apartments, all you had to do was buy two specific properties and then load into the creator mode and then launch an invite-only session. Once there, you could go to Dynasty 8 Real Estate on your phone and buy the cheapest properties on slots six and seven. Regardless, though, it has now been patched.

Several players have taken to Reddit and Twitter to share screenshots of messages they've received from Rockstar explaining that their account has been reset due to violating the terms of service. Grand Theft Auto dataminer Tez2 also reports (below) that it's a complete character wipe, too, so all their progress, including money and everything else, is gone.

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GTA Online has a secret UFO mission - but only dataminers have played it so far

GTA Online now has a secret business battle where you fight your way into the Fort Zancudo military base, invade an air hangar, and collect a load of spaceship parts inside. Yep, this ties into the game's long-standing almost-conspiracies when it comes to alien content, and once again a group of dataminers have figured out how to play the mission well ahead of anybody accessing it for real.

Nobody's quite sure yet if it's even possible to activate the mission yet in-game, but a datamining group called the Game File Gurus has once again activated the mission early - just as the group did with another alien mission in GTA Online back in 2017. As team Guru tells Kotaku, however, this mission was far harder to activate, and they believe Rockstar is working harder to keep this stuff from being triggered by dataminers.

But after the Summer Special update went live earlier this month, it took only a handful of weeks for the Gurus to post a full playthrough of the mission on YouTube, so I guess the secret's not all that safe after all.

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