More content for soloists in the future

Grand Theft Auto Online is set to keep going for a few more years, at least with the release of its latest major update, and remains a multiplayer-centric experience that doesn’t necessarily neglect the loners as the latest heist proves. And at Rockstar, we want to let people know.

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The Cayo Perico Heist is the new GTA Online adventure that will allow you to discover a new environment, the island of Cayo Perico, and experience one of the greatest adventures of the online game GTA V. You have the opportunity to enjoy the accompanied content normally, but also alone. Or even super alone. Without penalty. From A Z.

GQ spoke to two designers from Rockstar North, Tarek Hamad and Scott Butchard, about this specialty. This is what the second quote says:

This is something that has been on our mind for a while and that the community has said a lot about. We want to keep moving in this direction.

We want to respect the teams and those who prefer to work together. At the same time, we want to give solo players a good experience. In both cases there are advantages. If you go alone you take 100% of the loot and it is much easier to play stealth and plan when you are not on the phone. With multiple players, you can split up and do multiple things at the same time. You can take more secondary goals. For example, I can send Tarek to the control tower to dismantle the air defenses while I start looting the piles of money.

I think we’ll be adding more solo elements in the future.

The question of the solo DLC for GTA V has been raised many times – not least because those of GTA IV left very good memories between leather jackets and gay boxes. But why bother creating certain additional content for it when all you need to do is take advantage of the most successful “fad” by helping everyone? When everyone is there …

GTA Online can be played on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.