Picking sides (I’m purple till I die, by the way, which has evidently been often) and duking it out in-costume is up there with some the most fun I’ve ever had in vanilla GTA Online, and the en masse free-for-all is the quintessential example of its "I want that" culture.Īlmost seven years since its console release, over five on PC, the current obsession underscores GTA’s impressive breadth when it spreads its wings. These seemingly innocuous uniforms exist alongside reams of virtual garments, a growing digital wardrobe almost a decade in the making, yet have spawned a viral subculture, driven entirely by its players almost overnight. GTA Online’s official expansions are great, but what makes its player-led alien warfare so entertaining is its ad-libbed and unpredictable nature. RIP to those of you who’ve stumbled into the wrong room wearing the wrong colours, or even worse, no colours at all. What started as a modest contingent of bothersome Green Martian Bodysuit-wearers terrorising others with Louisville sluggers, has in the last few weeks exploded into a mass-server conflict between millions of players that’s totally consumed pockets of Instagram and TikTok along the way.Ī competing Purple Martian Bodysuit-sporting faction now exists to police the greens, and it’s suddenly harder to find servers not overrun with folk head-to-toe in one colour or the other. GTA Online’s ongoing alien gang war is the game at its best. Or maybe it occurred more recently, when a green alien onesie-wearing loon whacked you upside the head with the thick end of a baseball bat. Perhaps it starred a twin-shooting Oppressor mk2, when the Looper-like hover bike first dropped in 2018. Maybe your own armoured Baller moment involved a run-in with a missile-launching Deluxo, when the DeLorean-aping whip rolled out in late 2017. And that’s one of GTA Online’s most important and enduring features.Ĭustomisation in sandbox PvP games is nothing new, but through years of tweaks and tinkering, Rockstar has near perfected the game’s shop window appeal, where you pine for new items in practice – often as they career towards and/or kill you at break-neck speed – and revel in the unscripted, circumstantial set-pieces that unfold thereafter. The recently deceased in the above scenario had barely respawned before I’d purchased an armoured Baller, for what better endorsement of its durability than to survive a helicopter crash at ground level? You may as well throw in the chopper and the gun turret-toting limousine while you’re at it. ![]() It was also the first time I experienced the FOMO mania that drives the game today. Los Santos was hardly a quiet getaway before then, but this slice of inventory-boosting DLC stepped up the crime sim’s chaos exponentially with a slew of new weapons and battle-ready vehicles. With the arrival of Grand Theft Auto Online’s Executives and Other Criminals update in December 2015, so too came a new level of carnage. And then a Valkyrie MOD.0 fell from the sky like a fiery comet. I took a deep breath and prepared for war – that is, before an armoured Gallivanter Baller battered my aggressor at full speed, flipping him three times over with a crunch of metal and broken glass. ![]() I fancied my chances against the Stretch limo hurtling towards me with a spray of well-placed 39mm bullets, but the unexpected mount posed a new threat. ![]() Everything was fine till I spotted the gun turret.
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