🖐️ Left Alt for everything
The biggest change in this build: E prompts are gone. Hold Left Alt to see what you can interact with nearby (shops, doors, fuel pumps, garages, cars, trunks, players, dropped items, TVs and more). Click a dot to open its menu. Nothing shows until you hold the key, so the screen stays clean.
- Locked cars no longer offer to open the trunk or let you climb in
🎰 The Diamond Casino
The Diamond is open.
- Buy chips at the cage with cash or card, and cash out when you're done
- Slots on all 56 machines and four roulette tables (two of them high limit)
- A car turns on the podium, and the casino has its own clothing store
- More tables will follow
🔫 Weapons & combat
- Real ranges: guns now reach as far as they should. Rifles and snipers hit well past where they used to give up.
- Recoil you control: every gun kicks, full-auto climbs and settles back, and your aim sways a little. Crouching steadies you; sprinting and stress don't.
- Your Marksmanship skill makes a big difference to all of it, and firing at the range trains it
- Flashlights stay on after you stop aiming (gun-mounted and handheld)
- Reloads take ammo that matches the gun, and your own ammo is no longer used up by company weapons
- Ammu-Nation: boxed ammo for every caliber, 5.56 and 7.62, Mk II finishes, a muzzle brake, a plate carrier and fireworks
🔓 Lockpicking
- A new lockpicking minigame for car doors, ignitions, doors and handcuffs
- Hold Left Alt on a locked car to pick it. Botch it and the alarm goes off, and anyone nearby might call it in.
- Cuffed with a lockpick in your pocket? Press G. Whoever cuffed you may notice.
💼 Jobs
- Merryweather Security is hiring. Sign on at their compound for contracts: briefings, squad roles, rules of engagement, and a career that grows with every op. Get wounded on the job and you'll need treatment before you're cleared again.
- Gruppe 6 at The Diamond: casino security contracts replace the guard posts: camera desk, floor patrol, cage runs, vault watch and armored runs into the loading bay
- Police pay: arrest bonus, a share for officers who assist, and a bonus for ERS callouts
- Police: the VF-416 is now every department's patrol rifle
- Bean Machine: a full coffee house menu (48 drinks and bites) and a new business template
📱 Phones & MDT
- Two phones: the iFruit and the Badger. Each handset has its own number, its own data and its own look. Your current phone becomes your Badger, with everything still on it.
- Lock screen with a passcode for each handset
- 911 calls straight from the phone
- The MDT is now a physical item. Police, EMS and tow get one when they sign in (replacements at the armory and the EMS supply shop).
- City Hall has moved to Rockford Hills. Civilians handle licenses, permits and records at the terminal there.
- 64 document types in the MDT, including second passports, visas and immigration papers
🚗 Driving & mechanics
- Manual cars get neutral and a real R-N-1 gate: you start in neutral, and reverse sits below it. Automatics show P/R/N/D.
- Less understeer, smarter stability control and AWD torque vectoring
- Rollovers now come from real physics: no more tall cars flipping on ordinary turns or tripping over their tires in a slide. T-boning a car with something heavy is a different story.
- Top speed now follows engine power, and engine parts raise it
- Anti-lag and nitrous now show flames and make noise
- The plain repair kit works on any damaged car and always fixes something
- Flipping a car from the
Ipanel works from beside it
🧠 Status & wellbeing
- Unwinding: you don't need a strip club or a bottle to take the edge off. Sit on a bench, find a good view, watch TV, read a paperback (24/7 and LTD), hug someone, nap at home or go for a run. Mixing it up works better than doing one thing all day.
/unwindshows how you're doing. - Examine your status:
/effectsor Z → Status numbers every HUD circle and explains what it means - Stress now shows as pulses at the edge of your vision instead of blur, and never in the middle of a fight
- Fainting at the wheel no longer stops the car dead
- The hit that downs you always leaves a wound and a bleed, so EMS has something to treat
- New street drugs: cheap, rare and unpredictable. No two batches are the same. Good luck.
🏠 Homes & places
- Super yachts: buy one from the marina broker and move it between anchorages around the coast. They aren't cheap.
- TVs are synced: everyone in the room sees the same channel, with the real GTA channel names and proper sound. Apartment radios can be switched on and off with
/stereo(they start off). - Mirror Park two-story house: a new walk-in home with three bedrooms and a study
- Digital Den: a new electronics store on San Andreas Ave with a TV wall showing live channels. It sells both phones.
- Up-n-Atom: staff door and porch fixed, nothing floats over the counters anymore
- Dropped items show their own prop instead of a cardboard box
🌃 Nightlife
- Lap dances are now a rhythm minigame for NPC customers and between players. Watch closely: some moves give themselves away.
- Dancers can now get female patrons too, and a patron's name and lines match who they are
- Street workers now work some spots during the day, and there's an escort agency for those who'd rather stay home. Some dancers might give you their number.
- ~870 new emotes. Adult emotes are opt-in:
/adultemotes.
🕵️ Witnesses
- Witnesses are less jumpy: bumping into someone in a crowd is no longer assault
- Reckless driving no longer becomes a 911 call. If a witness reads your plate, it goes on the ALPR registry for a while instead.
- A new crime by the same suspect is added to the open call instead of starting a new one
🐛 Fixed
- The bank and businesses failed to start on some restarts
- Owned cars lost their fitted performance parts when spawned
- Handcuffs are now handled by the server, which closes a cuffing exploit
- The MDT handed Gruppe 6 case files to everyone
- Police vehicles are stocked with supplies again
- Stuck appearance/clothing menus
- A second phone's LifeInvader profile failed to create
- The phone crashed when clearing a contact's avatar
- The VF-416 couldn't be equipped
- Getting re-certified as EMS after losing it failed
- Merryweather Docks: the game's own guards no longer shoot on sight
🗑️ Removed
- E prompts (hold Left Alt instead)
- Gruppe 6 guard posts (replaced by the casino contracts)
- The Legion Square City Hall (now in Rockford Hills)
- Civilian access to the MDT outside City Hall
- The carbine as the police patrol rifle (the VF-416 replaces it)