Rockstar releases GTA Online “High Life” update for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC

Written by Brandon Hofer on May 13, 2014

News: Rockstar has released another update for GTA Online allowing you to own multiple properties, new cars, weapons and more.

GTA Online has received “The High Life Update” today featuring a bunch of brand new content along with some exciting features added to the game experience. The High Life Update gives players the chance to live large in Los Santos with the ability to own two properties at any one time. With the addition of five opulent new apartments, players can add to their real estate portfolio with hot new listings at Eclipse Towers in Vinewood, Richards Majestic in Rockford Hills, Tinsel Towers in Little Seoul, 4 Integrity Way in Downtown, and Del Perro Heights by the beach.

With the added storage space of owning two garages, players will have ample room to park the all-new vehicles The High Life Update offers, including a trio of luxury cars and a blistering new motorbike. The Enus Huntley S (SUV), Dewbauchee Massacro (Sports), Pegassi Zentorno (Super) and Dinka Thrust (Motorcycle) are all now available to purchase from Legendary Motorsport. These vehicles can also be accessed from any garage in Story Mode, adding a new spin to mission replays. And because success breeds jealousy, the powerful Bullpup Rifle is now available in Ammu-Nation to help protect your assets.

Some of the new game features and enhancements that have arrived with the “High Life” update include:

With the new Mental State stat, we are keeping track of player behavior. If you seem to enjoy attacking pedestrians and terrorizing other players, then your blip will start to turn red on other players’ maps. The redder the blip, the more psychotic the player; the whiter the blip, the friendlier they are.

The actions you take will have varying effects on your Mental State. For example, killing another player will turn your blip red faster than blowing up a car or taking out a random pedestrian. Killing a player with a white blip will push your Mental State into the red faster than killing more psycho players, while taking out full-on psycho players won’t cause your own Mental State stat to increase at all.

Mental state also factors into matchmaking - you’ll automatically join Freemode sessions containing people more ‘compatible’ with your play style, and if a red-blipped lunatic does enter your session, you at least have fair warning!

Non-Contact Races are now an option. When players create a Non-Contact race, other racers appear as semi-transparent and collisions with them are disabled (although you'll still be able to collide with non-player traffic, structures and other scenery).

Players now have the option to Friend Spectate – if you and a friend are in separate GTA Online sessions you can now choose to spectate that player through the Friends menu.

New player toasts and celebrations: Switch out your salute for jazz hands, a face palm, a slow clap and more. There are also paired toasts for celebrating with a friend, like a backslap, or a solid, manly handshake(just double tap the sticks to play all full body animations).

New clothing: It can be hard work finding the perfect ensemble to really make your character stand out, so we’ve done some of the hard work for you and put together some stylish outfits. Hit the town, dressed to the nines with an array of classy new suit sets available with a pret-a-porter jacket, trousers, suit vest and shoes.

10 additional vehicles from Story Mode are now available for the first time in GTA Online – these will be marked on the car sales websites as new in the High Life Update so you can find them easily at southernsanandreassuperautos.com and legendarymotorsport.net: Bravado Banshee Topless, Inverto Coquette Topless, Vapid Dominator Ocelot F620, Schyster Fusilade, Maibatsu Penumbra, Ubermacht Sentinel XS, Ubermacht Sentinel (Convertible), Grotti Stinger Topless, Coil Voltic Topless.

In addition to that update there is also new Rockstar-created Jobs in GTA Online, including eight new Contact missions listed below. These new jobs will be available later today and even more will be available soon including Capture, Survival, TDM, and Last Team Standing mode Jobs.

Will you take advantage of the new options you have available to you with this update? Tell us what you think below.