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Since the launch of Grand Theft Auto V, players have been excited about the rumoured new Heist mode for GTA Online. But GTA V for the new-gen consoles came along and there was still no Heist mode included. Rockstar games later announced that the heist mode would come as a part of a free update, which should be out sometime in 2015. Now IGN has revealed some new details on what these heists will be like.
In a recent interview with IGN, GTA Online producer and mission designer Imran Sarwar spoke out about the reason for the delay in bringing heist mode to GTA. When questioned about the reason for such a long wait, Sarwar answered with the following statement:
“To be honest, they just turned out to be a lot more difficult than we originally thought. Our initial idea was to build on the concept of Story Mode heists to make a new gameplay experience for GTA Online that was more focused on cooperation, where everyone could play to their individual strengths and feel like they had a stake in the outcome. 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.
“The main challenge seemed to be keeping all four players active and interested, even when some players might have tasks that require them to simply wait. One of the challenges is that unlike a heist in Story Mode, every player needs to feel central to the action at all times, and that’s much more challenging than it appears. A good example is the classic idea of your getaway driver, waiting outside of a bank for the big score.\
A movie might not spend too much time focusing on that person because while they are waiting, we are watching the action going down in the vault. In a similar situation in Story Mode, we could use a character switch to make sure the player was always in the center of the action and switch back to the driver later. But to make this work for multiple players, we needed to create situations where the driver has something interesting to do at exactly the same time the rest of their team are locking down the bank and making their way to the money.”
Heists will have a total of 4 players with one designated heist leader
Rockstar studios has finally gotten over the issues they were facing with the mode, which is now almost ready to release, although they have not revealed a release date for this update yet. “After many months of designing, testing, rewriting and re-testing, we settled on the four-player structure that you will experience in the game.” Imran has stated. “It took a ton of work from our programmers and mission designers to make it work at the level we were happy with.”
The update is expected to release sometime in early 2015 for GTA Online. So how exactly will these heists play out?. Imran elaborated on the new mode in his interview with IGN.
“Each heist requires 4 players all at rank 12 or above, with one player as the designated heist leader. Leading a heist requires owning a high-end apartment so that you have a room available to set up the planning board. From there you’ll be able to launch missions as the leader, starting with the prep work and building up to the score itself. Being a heist leader has advantages and disadvantages. On the upside, Lester contacts the leader directly when there’s news of a job and it’s up to the leader to invite players into the crew, assign positions, pick outfits and allocate each player’s cut. On the other hand, the heist leader will need to personally front the set-up costs in order to successfully pull off the heist.”
So while the heist Leader will initially have to pay from his pocket, he does get paid out by the end of the heist. Imran went into more details on what these heists will be like:
“Some missions have all players working as one unit, some require players to take on specific tasks like hacking or crowd control, while others require players to split into smaller teams to complete separate high value objectives. For example, one team may be stealing a getaway car from some gangsters while another team is attempting to sneak into a police station, all within the same prep mission. We really want to push the co-op aspect and make players feel like they need to communicate effectively and work together to pull off each element.”
This mode will contain about 20 missions, providing for 20 hours of gameplay for players, which is a pretty sound’s pretty good and should keep players entertained for a long while, if you count replays. GTA Online is definitely going to be a lot more fun once this feature comes about. Check out Imrans full IGN interview here.
Here is the trailer for the upcoming Heist mode in GTA V:
