Grand Theft Auto 5 Story DLC FAQ
These days, when you hear about Grand Theft Auto, chances are it’s related to GTA Online rather than the single player portion of the game.
GTA Online is getting constant DLC updates many of which dominate global gaming headlines when they’re released. The multiplayer game reigns supreme in terms of player base — but what about that Story DLC?
Over the years, there has been a lot of conflicting news and confusion regarding any potential single player DLC for GTA 5. We’ve collected all the relevant information and answers to whatever questions you may have into this FAQ. Here’s everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the continuation of Franklin, Trevor and Micael’s adventures, but were afraid to ask.
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Will there be any Story DLC for GTA 5?
No.
Let’s get the big question out of the way first. It took a while, but we now have official confirmation that GTA 5 will not be receiving additional single player content.
It’s a shame since it was GTA 5’s single player portion that earned almost universal praise back when the game was released, and while some fan favorite characters did turn up in Online through cameos, it just isn’t the same.
So where did all the rumors and fuss come from?
Official sources.
While we now know that the official stance is a big «no» on story DLC (see above), things looked a little bit different in the past.
The reason why the community was so hyped up about some story DLC is because at one point Rockstar Games announced it.
Considering the massive success of GTA 5, it wasn’t even surprising. Though certain events at the end of the story meant that Rockstar would need to set the DLC during the course of the existing story, or canonize one of the three possible endings, it seemed like a logical evolution for the game.
As for the exact content of the scrapped DLC, we can’t say for sure.
The source code of certain GTA Online DLCs contain a lot of leftovers that make it seem like they were originally planned for single player DLC, most notably Heists and the more recent The Doomsday Heist.
However, GTA Online had a few words to say about that. The absolutely unexpected runaway success of the multiplayer mode, which included similarly successful microtransactions, clearly caused some resource re-allocation and suddenly Rockstar was releasing one GTA Online DLC after another.
When was the story DLC cancelled?
We don’t know.
Much of the back history of GTA 5 story DLC is mired in secrecy. At best, we can peg the approximate cancellation of the DLC as sometime in 2014/2015.
What we do know comes from conflicting reports, making it seem like at one point Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive weren’t on the same page. A Rockstar representative indicated that DLC would be produced for GTA 5, but then a Take-Two representative issued a corrective statement saying that isn’t the case, all within a couple of days.
What made this whole period of time even more confused was several Instagram posts by Shawn Fonteno that kept hinting at story DLC. Whether some or all of these were made back before the DLC was canceled, or he was just trolling, is something we’ll never know.
Why are there so many fake GTA 5 Story DLC leaks?
Because it generates traffic.
Even today, so many years after the game was first released, when we’ve already had official confirmation that there is no plan for single player DLC, people are still wishing and hoping. GTA 5 Story DLC, or variations thereof, is a hot search term. Fans might hope that the off chance of it happening are worth investigating, or some people just didn’t get the memo.
Even so, people adamant about nabbing their 15 minutes of fame keep posting leaks, some more elaborate than others.
How can I add more content to single player then?
Mods!
If you play on consoles, tough luck, what you get is all there is.
However, on PC, players can download fan-made mods that add to or change the game’s single player portion. In fact, porting content from the Online DLCs over to single player with mods is quite common.
What about Zombie DLC?
Allegedly planned, definitely cancelled.
Among the various rumors regarding what the story DLC would have looked like had it been spared the headman’s axe, one of the most prevalent theories indicated a zombie scenario similar to the one we saw in Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare.
Early on after the game was launched, data miners already discovered a number of references in the code regarding Zombies. Files, code snippets, directories all indicated that the undead would have some kind of presence in the game.
While there have yet to be any zombie-related discoveries or any new GTA Online update which brought zombies to the game, it is possible that future content for the multiplayer mode will revive this scrapped idea in some form, as certain other Online DLCs have scavenged such ideas before.
In true zombie fashion, this dead piece of news reared its decomposing head again during 2018 when the data mined from the game files made the rounds online once more, even though no new info was discovered.
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Will GTA V receive any single-player DLC? Rockstar’s response
Even though GTA Online has had constant updates for the past eight years, GTA V still hasn’t had any extra single-player DLC. With no GTA 6 is in sight and another remaster on the way, we will explain if fans should expect any more single-player content, including a response from Rockstar.
The adventure of Franklin, Michael, and Trevor will be remembered for years to come as Rockstar’s innovative narrative process in GTA V broke new ground in terms of storytelling creativity.
Players expected to encounter them all once again in the form of some GTA V single-player DLC, similar to how GTA IV expanded upon its universe with The Lost and Damned and Ballad of Gay Tony.
This hasn’t proven to be the case, however, with years passing without any new content.
GTA V is set to be re-released onto a third generation of consoles in 2022 on the PS5 and Xbox Series X, and people are still asking the question – will GTA V be getting any additional single-player content?
Based on the most recently recorded comments from Rockstar regarding GTA V, the answer sadly seems to be a no.
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Despite the love and support shown for GTA V and its characters and story, it appears that Rockstar is content to leave GTA V’s single-player aspect alone.
Rockstar explain why GTA V has had no single-player DLC
In a 2017 interview with GameInformer, Rockstar’s Director of Design at the time – Imran Sarwar – discussed a few reasons as to why GTA V has had no single-player DLC.
“With GTA V, the single-player game was absolutely massive and very, very complete.
It was three games in one. The next-gen versions took a year of everyone’s time to get right, then the online component had a lot of potential, but to come close to realizing that potential also sucked up a lot of resources. And then there are other games – in particular Red Dead Redemption II.”
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These three key reasons seem to be the stumbling block preventing any further single-player content for GTA V.
GTA Online’s success has been unprecedented. Despite the size of Rockstar Games, the size of GTA Online and RDR2 Online has understandably required a lot of work to maintain and grow.
Given that GTA V is the most successful piece of media ever, selling over 140 million copies and counting, it makes sense for Rockstar to ensure that a large portion of that revenue, GTA Online, continues to pour in.
Not only that, but the GTA Remastered Trilogy has presumably been in the pipeline for some time, and of course, we assume that Rockstar has a ton of people secretly working on GTA VI.
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Given the scope and scale of GTA V, Grand Theft Auto VI is expected to eclipse it in every way, meaning that there just probably isn’t any time to work on GTA V single-player content.
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3DNews Software Rockstar Explains Why GTA V Isn’t… The most interesting in the reviews
10/24/2017 [11:35], Alexey Likhachev It is unlikely that this will come as a surprise to anyone, but the plot addition to GTA V will never be released. For the first time in four years, Rockstar has revealed why this has happened.
According to Rockstar Design Director Imran Sarwar, a DLC release «was both impossible and unnecessary.» Many of the studio’s latest games have had some pretty big expansions, including Red Dead Redemption and GTA IV. The fifth GTA received only regular updates for GTA Online. “It wasn’t a deliberate decision, it just happened, ,” Sarvar told Game Informer. — We would like to release more single player expansions in the future. We love story projects more than anything else, and multiplayer can’t tell a good story as well as a single player campaign.» “GTA V turned out to be so massive that we considered it completely finished. One game actually included three. Versions for next generation consoles took us about a year, then the online component needed improvements, as many saw potential in it. A lot of time and resources have been spent on this, as well as on new projects (including RDR 2),» continued the director.
“In view of all this, a single-player expansion was both impossible and unnecessary. At the same time, Sarvar hinted that the release schedule for GTA Online updates «may change a little» to draw users’ attention to Red Dead Redemption 2. «It would be great if people spent time in both virtual worlds, but we’ll see see how things go from here.» ,» the Rockstar employee concluded. Source:
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But our future games may receive DLC, he added. — We are perfectionists and spend a lot of energy on development. And we love story-driven games in the open world, otherwise we would never have released GTA V. GTA 5: DLC
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Today we will talk about the plot addition for GTA 5 and as you all know, there has been talk about this for a long time, various rumors and they did not lead to anything special, but now we were personally surprised by one news about that with a fairly high probability, all players will still see plot DLC for GTA 5 where there will be fresh missions, a story, perhaps a continuation of the toy for Franklin or in general for some new character about which we already know nothing, as it was in GTA 4, the main story about Niko Belik , but, and about a year later, The Lost and Damned plot supplement appeared where the main character was biker Johnny Klebitz, and literally half a year later, one plot supplement came out and Luis Lopez became its main character.
It can be the same in GTA 5, although the toy is already more than three years old, this does not mean that there will be no story DLC. GTA 5 was heavily influenced by the success of GTA Online nevertheless, the developers rely on GTA Online, they release updates and support multiplayer, thereby earning a lot of money, as mentioned earlier by people close to Rockstar specifically because of the work on the multiplayer part, the developers “scored” on the plot update.
Yan2295, posted an entry on one of the GTAforums forums, in which he said that, according to the information he has, Rockstar Games still plans to release DLC for the GTA 5 story mode .
The moderator in the GTA area, who constantly knows about all future DLCs and by the way, he correctly told that Rockstar Games advertise their new game Red Dead Redemption 2, said that in general, the add-on may appear in the game despite the fact that the floor years ago, he himself denied this possibility. According to him, his sources directly from Rockstar confirmed that they are working on DLC and even the main part of the work is still done, namely the story, voice acting and part of the levels. Apparently, it’s not long to wait, again, judging by this information, this is done so that GTA 5 does not lose its relevance, of course, the plot dlc will become paid and similarly assume that if the add-on really comes out, then the demand for it will become high , respectively, developers will earn again a lot of money.
