Rockstar Games, the developer of GTA Online, has rolled out a new title update for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Rockstar included tons of changes, such as new game modes like Entourage, Every Bullet Counts, and more to the Diamond Casino Series. Players can finally buy more properties such as houses, offices, and garages, which is really helpful if you have a lot of money to spend.
The patch is massive, so we included the major highlights below. You can find the full patch notes right here.
GTA Online Title Update 1.50 Abridged Patch Notes
[August 11, 2020] New Content in Grand Theft Auto Online
- The Los Santos Summer Special has been added to GTA Online.
- Six new ‘A Superyacht Life’ Missions have been added to GTA Online. Players who own a Galaxy Super Yacht can launch these one to four player Co-op Missions, anyone can be invited. These Missions can be accessed from the Bridge of the Yacht or by calling the Captain and choosing to ‘Request a Job’.
- Nine new Open Wheel Races have been added to GTA Online.
- The Open Wheel Race Creator has been added to GTA Online.
- The Diamond Adversary Series with new four to eight player variants of eight existing Adversary Modes have been added to GTA Online. These take place in the Diamond Casino & Resort:
- Entourage
- Every Bullet Counts
- Hardest Target
- Juggernaut
- Kill Quota
- Resurrection
- Slasher
- Trading Places
- Two new Business Battles have been added to GTA Online. These new Business Battles have players compete over eight packages in comparison to the two packages in previously released Business Battles:
- Aircraft Carrier Assault
- Factory Raid
- New vehicles have been added to GTA Online and can be purchased from either the Southern San Andreas Super Autos or Legendary Motorsport websites:
- Imponte Beater Dukes
- Canis Seminole Frontier
- Dundreary Landstalker XL
- BF Club
- Maibatsu Penumbra FF
- Benefactor BR8
- Declasse DR1
- Invetero Coquette D10
- Lampadati Tigon
- Six variants of existing vehicles have been added to GTA Online and can be upgraded at Benny’s Original Motor Works:
- Manana Custom
- Youga Classic 4x4
- Glendale Custom
- Gauntlet Classic Custom
- Yosemite Rancher
- Peyote Custom
- One new ‘Drug Vehicle’ Random Encounter has been added to GTA Online. This will make itself available to players while exploring Los Santos.
- New Stolen Movie Prop Collectibles have been added to GTA Online. Solomon Richards has had several movie props stolen from his office; the Police aren’t making enough progress in finding them, so Solomon decides to hire you as his private investigator. Find and return all 10 movie props to Solomon for rewards.
- Two new Arcade Games have been added to GTA Online and can be purchased from the Pixel Emporium website:
- QUB3D
- Axe of Fury
- Players now can play Single Player against AI opponents in the Arcade Game – Street Crimes: Gang Wars Edition.
- 15 new sets of Off-Road Wheels have been added to GTA Online and can be purchased at LS Customs Mod Shops.
- 30 new sets of Street Wheels have been added to GTA Online and can be purchased at LS Customs Mod Shops.
- Over 200+ new items and variations of Clothing have been added to GTA Online for male and female characters. These can be purchased from Clothing Stores.
Gameplay Improvements
- Players now have an increased cap on how many standard properties they can own. This has been raised to eight.
- When a player enters the Casino, they are now told how long they have remaining before they can spin the Lucky Wheel again.
- A ‘Return Personal Vehicle to Storage’ option has been added to the Interactions Menu allowing players to return their personal vehicle whenever they choose.
- Snacks can now be purchased from Wendy in the Arcade property.
- Players can no longer rapidly tap accelerate and always get the boost at the start of the Race. Players must now only accelerate once “Go” is shown to get the boost. For Open Wheel Races, you need to only accelerate after the countdown lights are removed.
- New spawn locations have been added to the Pegasus system to increase the chances of the requested vehicle spawning successfully.
- Updates have been made to the frequency that players receive the help text “The Terrorbyte is parked nearby.”
- Updates have been made to the frequency that players receive the calls from LJT about their Businesses.
- The vehicles in Simeon’s Export Requests have been updated to increase the reward for successful delivery.
- Several updates have been made to Open Wheel Races:
- Pits:
- White screen effects now appear when healing
- New particle effects now appear when healed
- Players are now always Passive when in the pits
- Players can now change tire type mid-Race while stationary when in the pits
- Pits map blip and checkpoints have been updated
- Vehicle Damage:
- New UI has been added that indicates when players have broken their front/rear wings and main vehicle body.
- Red screen effects now appear when losing a part of vehicle or if a tire bursts.
- Camera Shake effect has been added for when losing part of vehicle.
- All tire types now wear down faster and Hard and Medium tires now have noticeably less grip.
- Anti-Grief:
- If players do not collect a checkpoint within 12 seconds or if the player is given a wrong way shard, they will be made passive/ghosted until collecting another checkpoint. This only applies to Rockstar Created Open Wheel Races.
- Vehicles:
- The two new Open Wheel vehicles can be used in all Rockstar Created Open Wheel Races.
- Music:
- Ambient music is now off by default in Rockstar Created Open Wheel Races. Players can choose this to be on in UGC Open Wheel Races.
- UI:
- Bar displays for ‘Vehicle Health’ and ‘Lowest Tire Grip’ have been replaced with a new UI display showing the current health/wear of all vehicle parts.
- A new Start Countdown has been added.