Rockstar Games has seen a massive success with its popular "Grand Theft Auto V" title, which has broken sales records in the U.K. Rather than rest on its much deserved laurels, the company has decided that the massive story mode of GTA V will just be the tip of the ice berg when it launches GTA Online on Oct. 1. To prep users for the massive multiplayer experience, Rockstar came out with a blog post to outline some of the key features.
After confirming rumors that the online mode will include microtransactoins, Rockstar took the opportunity to outline a few features about online that the users will still in the dark about. For example, the game's reputation system.
"Reputation is earned from all your online exploits in everything you do in GTA Online - and will help you rank up, providing access to new features, weapons and criminal contacts. Spend cash you've gained on cars, clothes, guns properties and much more. You can either quickly accumulate cash through profitable activities like knocking over armored cars, winning street races, doing stick-ups or a host of other cash-making endeavors," the company wrote on the Rockstar newswire.
Rockstar also wanted to warn fans of, what it called, "growing pains" that come with the launch of any massive open world like that of GTA Online.
"There will be the typical growing pains for an online game, including but not limited to crashes, glitches, crazy bugs, gameplay modes and mechanics that need re-balancing and other surprises! Even in GTAV Story Mode, some of you may have seen a few odd and even amusing little glitches out there last week," the post read, likely in reference to a garage glitch. "This sort of thing is inevitable in a massive open-world game and there'll surely be lots more unexpected oddities like this in the Online world next week - rest assured we'll be monitoring and actively doing all we can to smooth such things out as they happen, but we need your help to find them, as well as your feedback to help fine tune all of the game's systems so everything is perfectly balanced."
IGN points out that Rockstar re-confirmed that GTA Online will support 16 players at a time, not 32 as a rumor from earlier stated. Gamers can pull of jobs, races and sporting activities like tennis and golf. Updates to the content creator, beach bum pack, capture the flag game mode and heists will come following the Oct. 1 release date. All of these updates will be free and additional information will come regarding them as plans become more final.
