Summary
Rockstar has removed nearly two dozen missions fromGrand Theft Auto Online. The change was introduced as part of the latestGTA Onlineweekly update.
While Rockstar’s hit live-service game has been receiving new content on a regular basis since 2013, it has also occasionally lost features. In most such cases, the developer provided some kind ofreasoning for removingGTA Onlinecontent.
GTA Online Removes 23 Series and Modes
In yet another example of such a move, the game lost close to two dozen missions as part of its latest weekly update, which rolled out on Thursday, August 22. The new patch saw fourGTA OnlineAdversary Modesand 19 Series be removed from the hit live-service game. The former group comprises Assault on Cayo Perico, Bunker, Casino, and Missile Base Adversary Modes. Rockstar hinted at these removals on August 15, when itsaidthat it plans to start rotating select Modes and Racing Series “in and out” starting next week.
But the company did not communicate the extent of these rotations, the first of which turned out to be a big net loss for the game. Specifically, while the August 22 update removed 23 missions, it only added a single new one in the form of the Assault on ATT-16 Adversary Mode. Rockstar cited a desire to improve matchmaking as one of the reasons for this newly established practice of rotating missions. The company said that making room for newGTA Onlinecontentalso contributed to its decision to begin rotating Modes and Series.
It is currently unclear when the newly removed missions might return to the game. Looking at the social media reactions to this move, most fans who cared enough to voice their opinions online aren’t exactly thrilled with the removals. The most cynical of these opinions go as far as to speculate that Rockstar could be planning to return the pulledGTA Onlinemissions as GTA+ membership exclusives. However, the developer-publisher has so far given no indication of that being the plan.
This content rotation happened some 14 months afterGTA Onlinelost a quarter of its vehiclesas part of the San Andreas Mercenaries update. Back in May 2024, Rockstar also removed in-game emails fromGTA Online, which was another fairly unpopular move among the fandom. As for the sole new addition to the game introduced in the August 22 update, Assault on ATT-16 is a fairly content-packed Adversary Mode that tasks two teams of players with competing against each other across five different stages taking place on the ground, at sea, and in the air.
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