GTA Online Spring updates incoming, expand home ownership and more

The real estate market in Los Santos is set to explode with the new updates incoming to Grand Theft Auto Online, along with the Capture Creator, co-op heists and tons more.

Not quite hitting the game just yet, Rockstar has a trio of pretty major pieces of DLC on the way in the weeks to come for Grand Theft Auto Online. A Capture Creator, Heist missions, and a bevy of new stuff including vehicles and an expansion of the housing system that’ll allow you to own two properties in the game are all on the way in short order.

• Capture Creator: Coming next week, the Creator community will be able to make their own original customized Capture Jobs and add to the over 3.5 million (and counting) player-created Deathmatches and Races currently available on Social Club. Players can strategically place pick-ups, define weaponry, set location, and tweak tons of other variables to make their own unique Capture Job for others to take on. We will also be reviewing homemade Capture creations to stamp standout experiences as Rockstar Verified.
• The High Life Update: The High Life Update will allow players to expand their foothold in Los Santos with new high-end apartment options, the powerful Bullpup Rifle, new wardrobe items, the Dinka Thrust motorcycle and three new lavish cars to choose from, including the Super class Pegassi Zentorno. The High Life Update will also feature the debut of multi-property ownership in GTA Online, which means players will be able to own two distinct properties (with garages) simultaneously. All this plus the new Mental State player statistic, which is designed to let players see just how passive or psychotically unhinged fellow players in their session really are, and a slew of new Jobs.
• Heists: Coming this spring to Grand Theft Auto Online, players can team up with their most trusted Crew members or with random other mercenaries in Grand Theft Auto Online to pull off cooperative Heist Missions for glory and profit. Stay tuned for much more information to come.

Also coming up later in the year, according to the fine folks at Rockstar, are more downloadable goodies including Holiday-themed updates and a piece of story-mode DLC for GTAV. I had no idea that was even on the drawing board, so that’s a very happy surprise indeed right there.

The Online portion of things is also something of a work in progress as Rockstar is constantly working on refining the experience according to player feedback. Some of the tweaks en route to GTA Online include:

• The addition of a ‘Non-Contact’ option for Races. This will allow you to play standard Races with collisions disabled between player vehicles. Other players will appear as semi-transparent and you’ll still be able to collide with non-player traffic, structures and other scenery, but this mode – for those who want to play it – will eliminate the “rubbing is racing” mentality that some wish to avoid.
• Players will be able to call Lester and have him tell his cop buddies to turn a blind eye to any crime you may or may not be committing for a short period of time.
• As a reward for players who leave feedback on Jobs, there will be some bonus RP granted every time a player likes or dislikes content after playing it.
• GTA$ payouts will be increased when completing Parachute, Races, Deathmatches and LTS Jobs with less than 4 players.
• As part of our ongoing commitment to target cheaters and keep the game as fair as possible, we are closing RP exploits and will be adjusting the RP totals of players who we know for certain to have gained illegitimate RP by cheating. Your RP will only be adjusted if you participated in mods, hacks, DNS redirects, manipulation of cloud files, or other similarly nefarious behavior. If you grinded short legitimate missions or otherwise gained a small amount of RP without modding, your RP should not be affected by this correction.
• We’ll be fixing the issue where players who had upgraded personal vehicles prior to Title Update 1.10 were only able to sell them for $10,000.

As to when all this will hit, we’re not exactly sure. Rockstar is simply saying “Spring”, which could be any time now. So hope for sooner than later I suppose and we’ll let you know as soon as we do when they do officially arrive.