![]() I even spawn there now instead of my apartment. I ended up buying one of the cheapest buildings (though I did spring for all the extras, like the living quarters and the garage) and am quite happy with this new space. You will get a lot more out of it than you did with the submarine in the Cayo Perico mission, and it costs about the same. So, the building itself is a pretty good purchase. Dre, your new employees and some of Fanklin’s friends. And you can use that chopper or company SUV even if you are just going out on free roam missions. The building itself is really nice and features a lot of cool extras like a luxury living space, an armory officer (who gives you a discount on all weapon and ammo purchases), free snacks, arcade machines, a huge garage for your cars and the ability to take either a company car or helicopter (both for free) out when you leave the building. The Contract is a free expansion in terms of real money, but you will need to purchase an office building in the game, which will set you back several million dollars in online money. The Contract even brings back one of the three beloved characters from the original GTA V game, Franklin Clinton, who becomes your business partner in an agency that specializes in helping high-end clients and celebrities with difficult (and often illegal) problems and activities. And if any of my very few friends do stop by, then so much the better. I mostly play in closed friend sessions too, so there is no chance of other random players ruining the fun. I find myself playing both its story missions and the randomly generated agency ones all the time now, almost like I am experiencing one of those aforementioned DLCs from previous GTA games. It’s every bit as good as a single-player DLC. But the newly-released expansion, The Contract rises above that level. I mostly consider Cayo Perico and Tuners to be sort of hybrid offerings where there is single player content, although that is not really the focus. ![]() And while the LS Car Meet in Tuners was a public space, it’s a safe one where nobody can attack anyone, so at least you won’t get cheat killed out of the blue while fixing up your ride. ![]() The Cayo Perico heist update could be completed as a solo player, and so could some missions in Los Santos Tuners. That stance changed a little bit with some of the most recent GTA Online Expansions. Sadly, Rockstar did not seem to have any interest in doing something like that with GTA V, probably because they are making so much money with GTA Online. My hope with GTA V was always that it would go the way of other GTA games in the past and come out with single player DLC or expansions akin to Liberty City and Vice City Stories which expanded GTA III and Vice City, or The Ballad of Gay Tony which was an amazing addition to the GTA IV game. Franklin Clinton from GTA V, your new partner in crime in GTA Online’s The Contract. ![]() The one saving grace for me with GTA Online is being able to host a closed friend session, so I can experience the world without getting spawn killed every five seconds by angry, rude kids flying around with hovercars and jetpacks equipped with rocket launchers. More specifically, most of the time I would rather just play whatever new single player game is available than go online in GTA and hope to find a good group of players to share an instance with. Moving from something highly scripted like what we experience in GTA V (which I have gone completely through three times) over to the more chaotic GTA Online environment has not always been a smooth transition for me. Like a lot of people, I’m more into deep single player type games. It has been a ton of fun, but I’m not really an online player by nature. Like most folks, I have been enjoying GTA Online for almost a decade. ![]()
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