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Robot2600 posted...

i played a few hundred hours of gta 4 online, but never gta 5 online, oddly enough.

4 was hacked to shit so i just assumed 5 would be really bad too but it sounds like i missed out

5 Online was a ridiculously complex experience. When it launched originally, about a month or two after 5 came out, it was a little more basic - you could buy garages, buy apartments/houses, modify cars, but most of the money and experience earning activities were instanced matchmaking things (ranging from PvP death match to car races to PvE missions like in the main game).

But they've added so frigging much now. There are heists that comprise multiple planning missions culminating in the actual heists, all sorts of businesses to buy and operate (like an arcade and you can buy more arcade machines that you can actually play), a submarine with cruise missiles and submarine dock and helipad, a night club, you can buy a hangar for storing and modifying aircraft and run smuggling operations out of it, you can run drug and money counterfeiting operations, a chop shop, an underground gun smuggling ring.

Many of these businesses also come with their own special operations centers that you can drive around and run more missions out of.

And a lot of the stuff has splashed out from the instanced content to open world content, so you can steal someone's car as they're trying to deliver it to a seller or destroy someone's helicopter as they're trying to drop off stolen medicine.

It is absurdly well developed and fun with friends in closed sessions but good luck in the public world.

Last time I played there'd be some modder or other who would spam a cash service message and then crash your game. And 98% of the time if you try to report a modder, their mod intercepts the hacking message and you die and then the game crashes.