According to Rockstar Games the much anticipated (for 1.5 years) Heists DLC will be coming in early 2015. The end title card for the trailer listed GTA5 as for PC as well as all the other platforms its currently released. This provides speculation that Heists will release with the PC version. The trailer depicts the four player co-op mode for Grand Theft Auto Online. Expect to plan, prepare, and execute multiple different heists all over Los Santos and Blaine County.
Unlike Destiny, which wants every player in its raid to do every job during the raid, Rockstar has leaned up against tactics for it’s heists. Each player will need to take care of specific jobs during the heists in order for the robbery to be a success. This DLC will bring new vehicles, weapons, clothing and more.
Imran Sarwar answered many questions about the upcoming Heists DLC without spoiling the exact release date.
He said, “To be honest, (Heists) just turned out to be alot more difficult than we originally thought. After many months of designing, testing, rewriting, and re-testing, we settled on the four player structure that you will experience in the game. It took a ton of work from our programmers and mission designers to make it work at the level we were happy with.”
He continued, “As it turns out, creating missions of that complexity for multiple players at the same time was much more difficult than we anticipated and every time we thought we were close, something would send us back to square one. Having already let players know of our intentions with Heists, every setback only increased the pressure to make sure we got them right.”
I think we can give a nod to Rockstar for making sure all the I’s were dotted and T’s were crossed. We have seen multiple failures this year already and we are sort of tired of buying those. I realize that this is just a DLC but it is almost a game with in a game. One thing I can say as a consumer is that Destiny and Rockstar are stepping up the game for Downloadable Content. Each DLC is actually an ordeal, not just some new items and trinkets.
Imran Sarwar went on to say, “Even as we were working to solve this, the entire team was also throwing everything we could into creating the PS4, Xbox One, and PC versions of Grand Theft Auto V – adding First Person Mode, building the new replay editor for PC – as well as constantly working to improve the GTA Online experience. All of these projects are linked and require the attention of our core team at all times, so despite our best efforts, we simply wound up needing more time to make sure every one of these projects was as good as it could possibly be.”
Things we know about the heist and how it works:
- It is 4 player co-op and all players must be rank 12 or above.
- 1 player will be designated as the heist leader.
- To be leader you need to own a high-end apartment with a planning board room.
- Leader will invite players to the heist, assign positions, pick outfits, and allocate each player’s cut.
- Leader will have to front the set-up costs in order to successfully pull off the heist.
- Leaders will not receive a cash payout until the finale is complete.
- Crew members a cash payout for each part of the mission.
- At launch there will be 5 heists comprised of over 20 missions. (Around 20 hrs of gameplay)
- Bonus rewards for playing all 5 heists in order with the same set of players.’
- Bonus reward for playing all of them in first person mode.
Where does this leave you as a player? Does this information make you excited for the update? Does it make you more forgiving for the amount of time this promise took to become reality?
Here are some images from the heists that were shared by Rockstar Games:
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For the last 90 Days, according to Google’s Trends information, this is the graph rated 0% to 100% of trend attention between the Pope and Pewdiepie.
What does this make you feel?
EA Access is only available on the Xbox One and costs $4.99 per month or $29.99 per year. Also, In addition to The Vault, members receive limited trials of certain EA titles from up to five days before release. Members also receive a 10 percent discount on all digital purchases made through the Xbox Store on EA Content.
SOURCE: EA Access
We give a Gold Standard Video Award to Julien Dupont and Red Bull for turning the Montaña Rusa at La Feria de Chapultepec amusement park in Mexico City into a Trials HD like course and riding it! We really appreciate the work and sacrifices everyone went into to bring the world this stunt!
This is just another reminder to you all to get up and live today for today and not worry about yesterday or tomorrow.
“Now I feel better, for sure,” said an elated Dupont afterwards. “This morning, I was very nervous because I’m not used to riding this kind of stuff. It was the sickest ride ever!”
Last year Ava was taking it upon herself to learn Christmas songs and talk to us about how great Christmas is. Can’t get much happier than she is! She really gets the Christmas spirit even here when she was only 4 years old. I’m a very proud dad! Hope this brings a smile to your face. Love ya’ll!
“When you think about Halo, it’s such a tailor-made experience for Esports. Especially with that competitive edge, getting back to the level playing field and everything,” 343 Industries’ Josh Holmes said. “So we put a lot of focus on surrounding features.”
“(Spectators) can go in and (watch) any of your friends’ matches in the Beta; you can flip between first person and third person. So if you want to cast, you can go do that in a Twitch stream.”
“(343 Industries will) take (Twitch) streams from top players that are playing, and bundle them up and spotlight them so you can go into the Halo channel and browse through matches, and tune into that.”
“(Casters can) rewind and fast-forward through the match, assuming that you’re tuning in if there’s a bit of a delay. So, if you want to go back and replay a specific moment, you can do that within the controls. We’re looking at deepening those controls for launch, but we want to get that there for Beta so we can put it in the hands of players.”
Looking at Halo 5’s rank system one can easily notice that it was designed with Esports in mind as well. 343 Industries’ rank system will consider the top 200 ranked players in the world as professional players.
“It’s a seven-tier system, so it goes from Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, through the ages. The cool thing is that the last two tiers are called Semi-Pro and Pro, so it’s actually integrated into the game,” said 343 Industries Creative Director Timothy Longo.
We reached out to Sundance DiGiovanni, the CEO of Major League Gaming (MLG) and asked what he thought about Halo declaring 200 players professionals. He responded with a smiley face, “No comment.”
I think we can all agree that any efforts made by any developer to help support the growth of Esports is a win.
The real question is, how much power has 343 lost with the Halo Master Chief Collection? Will the Haloites run out and jump on Halo 5 on release? Or will you wait to find out how the servers are?
The director, Shawn Levy, and writers, Kieran and Michele Mulroney, of the upcoming Minecraft movie have quit.
The three were hired to develop the film with Levy directing. Levy and the Mulroney’s presented a new idea to the studio last month but apparently it didn’t agree with what the Mojang had in mind.
Warner Bros. Studio still views the Minecraft movie project as a very important property and is hoping to hire a new director by the start of the new year.
Warner Bros. acquired the rights to “Minecraft” in February of 2014 with Roy Lee producing along with Jill Messick (Mean Girls).
Metal Gear Online, Kojima’s “companion” to MGS V: The Phantom Pain, was revealed during the Video Game Awards in a four-minute trailer.
The following was gathered from the official press release:
“METAL GEAR ONLINE is a dedicated multi-player mode that segues into elements of the main game and will be included with the single player campaign in METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN at no extra cost.”
“With a focus on Tactical Team Operations, the game features a ‘class system’ that more uniquely defines the strengths and abilities of player characters on the battle field. Key characters from the series including Venom Snake and Ocelot will also make appearances in the anticipated multiplayer feature.”
The real story from the release was that Kojima was wearing a shirt that said 22 – 6 in Swedish. A reddit user figured this out. So it is now speculated that the release date for Metal Gear Online and MGS V: The Phantom Pain is June 22nd, 2015.
Gold Members Will Continue To Get Xbox Fitness For Free In 2015
During 2014 one of the member benefits of Xbox Live Gold on the Xbox One was free access to Microsoft’s health and fitness suite, Xbox Fitness. Now, XBOX has confirmed that Xbox Fitness will be free as an Xbox Live Gold benefit to members in 2015 as well.
“While some of the content available will change in January, Xbox Fitness will continue to offer free and unlimited access to a wide fitness video catalog with your Xbox Live Gold membership, as well as the option to purchase additional full programs with Gold and Silver memberships,” an official XBOX spokesperson said.
All you need is an Xbox One, a Kinect 2.0 sensor, and an Xbox Live Gold membership.
