GTA Online release times, unlocks tied to Rep Points
As confirmed last week, players will be able to spend real-world money to buy in-game currency, or GTA$. You need this cash – earned in single- and multiplayer through mission progress, optional objectives, and the stock market – to buy weapons and upgrades. In a Rockstar Newswire post, the publisher said this won’t unbalance the game.
“The option of purchasable GTA$ should not disrupt the playing field – and there are a few mechanics in place to help ensure that. All players still have to rank up with Reputation Points (RP) in order to get access to purchase high-end items,” Rockstar wrote.
“No one can begin GTA Online and simply spend a lot of money out of the gate to get a leg up. You will have to earn your stripes and play to unlock access to the aspirational clothes, guns and other items. Please also remember that in GTA Online, hustling to afford the finer things by earning GTA$ doing robberies, stick-ups, winning races and other profitable activities is a fun gameplay experience rather than ever being a ‘grind’.”
Rockstar also said it will keep an eye on balance and tweak if necessary.
Addressing another common concern, Rockstar said players invited into another’s property will not be able to “shoot up their place or steal their cars from their garage”. If you and another player own the same piece of property, you will each be able to enter your own personal instance of that property at any given time, and can enter other player’s instance via invite, so multiple instances are fine.
The events of GTA Online take place in the months preceding the story of GTA 5. Once it unlocks today, you’ll be able to play just by selecting the bottom slot on your character wheel. The exact time of the unlock is unknown as it depends on a title update.
When creating a character, players choose gender, parents, genetic history and lifestyle variables to generate stats and appearance. once you start playing you can access manual character customisation options by purchasing clothes, haircuts and accessories.
Rockstar said it intends to add new content to GTA Online soon, including the ability for players to generate jobs and share them. The Content Creator tool is due during northern autumn.
Grand Theft Auto Online will go live on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network at 4am Pacific / 7am Eastern / 12pm Greenwich Mean Time / 9pm Eastern Australian time on October 1, Rockstar Games has confirmed to IGN.
The GTA 5 multiplayer add-on will come in the form of a Title Update on both platforms. Anyone who owns GTA 5 will be accessible via the game menu once the multiplayer game rolls out.
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Source: http://www.vg247.com/2013/10/01/gta-online-unlocks-tied-to-reputation-points-not-microtransactions/
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ZomfirePosted:
Are you serious? It's meant to be BST (British Summer time) not GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).
The clocks changed so it's BST, please sort this out, there is an hour difference between the two timzones
The clocks changed so it's BST, please sort this out, there is an hour difference between the two timzones
-InsanelyAwesome-Posted:
xboxfan7892-InsanelyAwesome- I seriously cannot wait for 12pm.. It is going to be amazing to finally play online with my friends and meet random people (killing some of them *sly look") don't think I will be getting sleep tomorrow to be honest, sorry body but it has to be done!sorry but online doesnt start untill around 7am est
I know, which is 12pm (midday) UK time.
A7XfoREVer44Posted:
brendan64sharkThird_Eye Single player helps with GTA$? Can't you just get a 2.147 bil save game?...
I was wondering about that because I am sure most people will do that.
money earned in single player does not carry over, due to different economies.
the way this is worded, leads you to believe otherwise, but perhaps with the update you can buy money for single player
AlbericiPosted:
dpmaddog1803 Hopefully Free Roam will have the option for all guns :)
I hope they have a type where no one can kill each other or no vehicle damage so we can offroad or race.
CowOGPosted:
Potion I can't wait for this, I hope taking the day off tomorrow is worth it.
Taking the day off? Servers will go down ALOT tomorrow.
varPosted:
I guess it's finally time for me to go buy GTA V. The online is always fun, and can't wait to ply it.
xboxfan7892Posted:
-InsanelyAwesome- I seriously cannot wait for 12pm.. It is going to be amazing to finally play online with my friends and meet random people (killing some of them *sly look") don't think I will be getting sleep tomorrow to be honest, sorry body but it has to be done!sorry but online doesnt start untill around 7am est
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