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The latest GTA Online patch notes are a clear-cut mix of bonus payouts for certain activities and hefty discounts on relevant vehicles.The Arena is a focus this week, with the Arena War dishing out triple GTA$ and RP. If you're new to the Arena, you can get 50% off the Arena Workshop, which is basically the activity's home base, and then fill it with vehicles, some of which are also discounted. Those would be the three Arena Sasquatch variants, which are all 60% off. It's a regular Arena War starter kit, so channel you inner Twisted Metal and have at it.Time Trials will also award triple GTA$ and RP this week. The standard trial is in Sawmill, and the RC trial is in La Fuente Blanca. Oh, and if you get tired of crashing or racing cars and decide you'd rather, I don't know, borrow some, you can swap to Simeon's Premium Deluxe Repo Work, which is dishing out double GTA$ and RP this week.Other than new, that's it for activity bonuses this week. It's all sales from here - here's the full list.
40% off Invade & Persuade RC Tank. 60% off Ocelot Stromberg. 40% off RC Bandito. 50% off Grotti X80 Proto You can also check out our predictions for in the video below.
.In spite of its age, Grand Theft Auto Online was stronger in 2019 than before, with the highest number of players the game has ever seen. Rockstar has been pushing new and exciting including the long-awaited, and then let players at the end of the year.But what can we expect from the game in 2020?Based on the direction Rockstar took GTA Online in the past few years, we can make some educated guesses as to what players should expect this year, and we also have a few ideas about how the game will weather the impending launch of the next generation of consoles.
LATEST GTA NEWS CLIPS2020: Online OnlyNobody will win any prizes for figuring this part out, but it's pretty clear that Rockstar Games is only developing anything new for GTA Online at this point. GTA 5's single-player portion most likely for all eternity, barring the that no doubt expire in a couple of years.However, despite being 6 years old, and Rockstar having released Red Dead Redemption 2 with its own Online mode since, GTA Online is still seeing and significant income via microtransactions. As a result, we can expect more DLC this year.More HeistsGTA Online players love heists. Back when was released, these multi-mission end-game capers became the game's own take on 'raids' that traditional MMOs thrive on.With their major payouts, heists remain one of, and fans were clamoring for more.
Both and are huge successes with the community, and it's clear that Rockstar knows what players want. That said, both those additional heists proved that a simple bank robbery just won't cut it anymore.
Even the original heists showed greater range. What will the next heist be? A secret military complex? An Epsilon facility? A long-lost bunker? We'll have to wait and see.More RacesThe racing community is among GTA Online's largest and liveliest, owing to the huge variety and number of races present in the game. From simple, basic races you have everything such as, through, and all of these have their own Creators too, allowing players to make their own tracks.Rockstar keeps finding new ways to spice up 'be first across the finish line' and they have plenty of existing content to draw inspiration from.
Races are clearly popular, and frankly, relatively easy to make in terms of development. Expect to see more racing content in 2020. Next-Gen: Port or Sequel?The biggest question hanging over 2020 is how Rockstar will be handling the arrival of the next generation. The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X have both been revealed and will be launching later this year.Normally, we wouldn't be looking at any kind of connection between the upcoming consoles and a 6-year-old game, but the fact of the matter is that GTA 5 keeps selling like hotcakes, beating new AAA releases off sales charts. It is very much a live product.Rockstar isn't known for pumping out big AAA titles with any kind of frequency, and by their standards, Red Dead Redemption 2 is 'recent'. We don't see, or whatever it will be called, releasing anytime soon - certainly not this year - but we also doubt that Rockstar will just ignore the new generation of consoles.We're almost certain that RDR2 will be ported, much like GTA 5 was ported from Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 to the current-gen upon their launch, but it might be a bit of a stretch for GTA 5 to jump to the next-gen a second time. Will Rockstar allow the PS5 and XBX (?) to finally 'kill' GTA 5, or will they find a way to have it persevere through 2020 and 2021, and beyond?The fact that GTA Online, and by extension GTA 5, is doing so well this long after release is an anomaly, and something Rockstar and Take-Two likely didn't account for back in the day.
One possible solution is to re-evaluate how the company approaches the franchise. Maybe GTA 5 will be the Windows 10 of the IP - not to be followed by a sequel, but to be eternally iterated upon, re-released onto whatever hardware is current and constantly improved and added to.What do you think 2020 will hold for Grand Theft Auto 5 and GTA Online?