Rockstar is looking to keep Grand Theft Auto: Online alive. Ps4 and Xbox One players will be receiving the latest ‘Freemode Events’ update next week, September 15th. This update will allow players to seamlessly transition into the online space and join missions with their friends.
At any given moment while in Freemode, one of these events may kick off and you can tailor and customize your session to decide exactly which ones you want to occur so you can play as much or as little of this new content as you like. With countless variations on each Freemode Event, there are tons of unique new experiences each offering new opportunities for reaping GTA$ and RP in GTA Online.
Feeling locked and stocked? Look out for King of the Castle – an every man for himself turf war where you’ll need to ascend and claim the designated ‘castle’ as your territory – and then fend off everyone else as they go all out to dethrone you. Form fragile alliances and work together in modes like Hunt the Beast, where one volunteer is temporarily transformed into a faster, stronger, beastly character who must escape relentless pursuers. Freemode Events also take the shape of insane stunt challenges, such as popping the longest wheelie, catching the most air in a land vehicle, or performing the most near misses in a vehicle without crashing.
Also included with next week’s update are two brand new Adversary Modes. First, Hunting Pack: you’re part of a team tasked to deliver a priority vehicle rigged to explode if it drops below a minimum speed, while your opponents race, ram and batter to take it down. Or try Cross the Line, where heavily-armed squads face off across a neutral zone – with the goal of having all team members strategically penetrate their opponents territory to claim victory. The Freemode Events Update also brings the Rockstar Editor to PlayStation 4 with new features such as an ambient audio and sound effects library, Snapmatic integration, Director Mode updates and more.
Rockstar North spoke with Mashable about their decision to leave Ps3 and Xbox 360 behind.
We managed to pack in two years’ worth of free updates onto the older platforms, but after the release of Heists we started to run into some very real memory constraints, we knew moving forward that the game’s online performance could be in jeopardy if we continued to pile in new content but after some creative programming, we were able to deliver the two-part Ill-Gotten Gains update.
