GTA Online Reveals New Gunrunning Updates

Looks like more great stuff.

 

The mad scientists at Ocelot are back with another automotive beast – The Ardent. Effortlessly suave and equally ferocious, the Ardent pairs some good old-fashioned front-mounted machine guns with retro aesthetics. Pick up yours today from Warstock Cache and Carry.

DOUBLE PAYOUTS, BONUSES & MORE THROUGH AUGUST 28TH

From variations on Juggernaut to Resurrection, jump into the Bunker Series playlist or launch any Bunker-based Adversary Mode to earn Double GTA$ & RP through August 28th. If you’re more at home behind the wheel, run wild in the explosive Vehicle Vendetta Adversary Mode, dishing out double GTA$ & RP rewards as well.

Stack some extra paper by selling boosted exotic vehicles as Vehicle Cargo Sell Missions are doling out double payouts. If you’re yet to start trading out of a Vehicle Cargo Warehouse, be sure to take advantage of a 25% price drop running this week.

And whether you’re gunning down your foes through the cavernous halls of a Bunker or peddling luxury vehicles to buyers across the state, your Bunker R&D team will be firing on all cylinders as Research and Manufacturing speeds are boosted 25%.

BUNKER, OFFICE & VEHICLE DISCOUNTS

The illegal arms trade is the perfect arena for the vicious and ambitious – and with Maze Bank Foreclosures striking 25% off the Smoke Tree Road Bunker, there’s all the more reason to get your hands dirty.

And what better place to plot your illicit affairs than from behind your floor-to-ceiling window on high in the Maze Bank Tower? Now through August 28th, Dynasty 8 is offering 25% off ALL Executive Offices.

Live the high life for less with 25% off the following vehicles:

  • Rocket Voltic
  • Cognoscenti 55
  • Schafter LWB

PREMIUM RACE & TIME TRIAL SCHEDULE

Stack your paper to the sky and earn serious RP with the following Premium Race & Time Trial events, live from August 22nd – August 28th:

  • Premium Special Vehicle Race – “Pulse” (Locked to Rocket Voltic)
  • Time Trial – “Coast to Coast”

Launch Premium Races through the Quick Job App on your in-game phone or via the yellow corona at Legion Square. The top three finishers will earn GTA$ and you’ll get Triple RP regardless of where you place. To take a shot at the Time Trial, set a waypoint to the marker on your in-game map and enter via the purple corona. Beat par time and you’ll be duly rewarded with GTA$ & RP payouts.

 

Next Up in GTA Online: Smuggler’s Run

Seems like recent events have taken their toll on Nervous Ron – he’s even more on
edge than usual, and looking for a new business partner to help take over his
burgeoning smuggling empire in Smuggler’s Run, the next big update to GTA Online,
coming next Tuesday, August 29th.

With a name that’s a nod to an early classic from the Rockstar Games
catalog<https://www.rockstargames.com/games/info/smugglersrun>, Smuggler’s Run opens
up the air corridors above Los Santos and Blaine County, providing new business
opportunities while introducing a range of planes, choppers and even ultralights as
highly viable options for transporting criminal cargo across the state –
simultaneously opening up some creative new methods of dispatching any rival gangs
along the way.

Smuggler’s Run delivers a massive range of new, customizable aircraft perfect for
any mission along with expansive new aircraft hangars in which to stash your fleet
of fantastic flying machines. These new properties are also the HQ from which you
manage your smuggling business – guided by Nervous Ron and assisted by Charlie, your
new mechanic, who’ll take care of your collection of exotic aircraft.

 

 

Ever been told the sky is the limit? Well, not anymore. It’s time to elevate your criminal empire, taking your assets and your profits in the only direction left to go: straight up. Welcome to GTA Online: Smuggler’s Run.

Customizable Hangar properties are the center for your new smuggling ring, complete with a complimentary Cuban 800, optional living quarters, aircraft custom workshop, office, show floor and aircraft storage. Stock it with a fleet of lovingly personalized aircraft, take to the skies, and don’t come down until every cubic foot of Los Santos airspace has been brought under the control of a tax-exempt Air-Freight Business stretching from sea to shining sea.

 

The smuggling business is full of opportunities for proactive CEOs, MC Presidents and VIPs and a brand new Hangar is just the starting point you need. So, get yourself logged into the Free Trade Shipping Co app with the help of Nervous Ron, acquire the contraband – from high demand narcotics to fine jewelry – and make the sale to eager buyers awaiting your air-dropped delivery.

 

SEVEN NEW AIRCRAFT

The skies above Los Santos are about to get a lot more interesting. Everything from vintage dogfighters to miniature choppers to cold war bombers are now in stock (and available at a special trade price for committed smugglers). These magnificent flying machines can be stored in your private Hangar, and customized using a range of options including engine and handling upgrades, countermeasures, liveries, weapons, bombs and more with the investment in an Aircraft Workshop. You can even drop off any aircraft in your Pegasus inventory and display (or store) them in your Hangar, allowing you to call them up as your own Personal Vehicle from the Player Interaction menu. Here’s a look at all the new inventory available now at Elitás Travel and Warstock Cache & Carry:

 

Buckingham Alpha-Z1 – A speedster’s dream and a smuggler’s preferred getaway racer. Engine: four cylinder, fixed pitch. Wing area: 66 square feet. Top Speed: routinely fatal. Available from Elitás Travel.

 

LF-22 Starling – One moment you’re on the runway, slowly inching into position, wondering what all the fuss is about. The next, you’re 220 feet in the air and rising, a shrieking human speck on the front end of a blazing rocket trail headed straight for the stratosphere. The LF-22 Starling packs mounted rockets, optional homing missiles and bombs for extra punch. Available from Warstock Cache & Carry.

 

Mammoth Tula – Remember the kid who always had a multi-tool with him? Remember how popular he was? Well, if he had survived high school, there’s only one set of keys he would have in his fanny pack: the Tula is a quad-prop monster with VTOL and water-landing capabilities, space for turrets and a bomb bay, and the capacity for JATO upgrades. Be prepared. Available from Warstock Cache & Carry.

Nagasaki Havok – In the world of tactical air support, bigger is better, right? Wrong. Incredibly small and highly maneuverable, if the Havok was any smaller you’d have to stay on the ground and use a phone app to fly it. Throw the option for a machine-gun upgrade and decoy flares, and you’re going into any negotiations with a serious edge. Available from Elitás Travel.

 

Nagasaki Ultralight – What red-blooded American hasn’t gazed at an eagle as it soars through an empty sky, refined by millions of years of evolution into the epitome of aerial dexterity and lethal precision and wondered: what could be more dignified, more transcendent? Well, now you know. Available from Elitás Travel.

 

V-65 Molotok – The poster child for brutalist military chic, the V-65 Molotok has been reproduced in juntas and dictatorships right across the developing world, and that’s not just because of the lethal efficiency of its twin nose-mounted machine guns. It’s because when you look this merciless, the battle’s won before you’ve even taken off. Available from Warstock Cache & Carry.

 

Western Rogue – To the casual observer, the Rogue looks like a classic, single-prop training aircraft. And that’s exactly what you want them to think. Because with room for machine guns, missiles, anti-intercept countermeasures and a full-size bomb bay, you’ll have those casual observers running for any available cover. Available from Warstock Cache & Carry.

NEW ADVERSARY MODE: MOTOR WARS

Blending the adrenaline rush of Drop Zone with the claustrophobic tension of a match of Penned In, this brutal Adversary Mode is a deadly scavenger hunt where second place is not an option. Up to four teams parachute into a periodically shrinking kill box strewn with a lethal assortment of guns, explosives and Weaponized Vehicles. Work together, find a vehicle, and fight opposing teams and the shrinking map to survive and win.

 

NEW CARS: VAPID RETINUE AND GROTTI VISIONE

Your head may be in the clouds, but that doesn’t mean you’ve forgotten the smell of burning rubber. Whether it’s the seductive panache of the Vapid Retinue or the ozone-burning brilliance of the Grotti Visione, there’s something new in town to remind you that no matter how many air miles you rack up, nothing can replace the open road.

NEW APPAREL

In this brave new world of low-duty high-profit trade you have to look the part – and no self-respecting smuggler would be seen dead or alive this season without the latest clothes and tattoos. So whether you’re an urban pirate, a fighter ace, or you just need some thermal and night-vision headgear for your next cargo sale, there’s something new in town for you.

 

BONUSES AND MORE…

Hit up the Social Club Events page for details on all the latest discounts plus in-game clothing unlocks featuring the latest additions to the Rockstar Apparel collection at the Warehouse. And stay tuned for details on our #Smuggler Snapmatic Event and Social Club Sweepstakes…