The hottest craze amongst GTA Online gamers is donning a inexperienced alien go well with, selecting up a baseball bat, and riding around with their alien friends in a van looking for people to beat up. In a game the place demise often comes from some walloper on a hoverbike raining missiles, it’s delightfully foolish. But aliens may by no means maintain the streets of Los Santos eternally. While makes an attempt to struggle them as Men In Black (in black go well with with the black Ray-Bans on) haven’t actually caught on, a shocking credible opposition has emerged: different aliens. Purple alien gangs have arrived, they usually have come to rumble. I dropped into an alien avenue struggle myself right now.
While not each server can have aliens warring, they do appear more and more widespread. It’s the kind of shenanigans the place a handful of gamers larking about can encourage many extra to hitch in. When I dropped right into a random server right now and suited up (inexperienced, as a result of the purple wars hadn’t began once I purchased mine and I already spent $358ok on the go well with), a avenue brawl was already raging. I died an entire lot, and didn’t care one jot.
It’s a superb kind of foolishness, brawls fought largely with baseball bats and pool cues. The cops inevitably become involved as soon as murders begin rolling, so it turns into a three-way rumble between inexperienced, purple, and blue. It acquired actual messy when a purple referred to as of their tank.
After the large struggle petered out, two greens pulled up in a inexperienced automotive with a purple passenger. I hopped in, pondering we had been friends now and going for a pleasant drive collectively.
When we reached the dam and everybody acquired out, one inexperienced pulled a gun on the purple. Oh no. I’d joined an abduction.
Directing the purple down some stairs to a ledge over the ravine, the inexperienced requested “LAST WORDS?” Oh no. “Yeah,” mentioned the purple. “Yeet.” Then they pulled a gun and shot themself within the head. An astonishing energy transfer.
The GTA Online Reddit discussion board is filled with alien encounters in the mean time. Here’s some aggro began in a store:
And a canny C4 play by a courageous inexperienced:
I’ll not flood you with movies right now.
When the passion for aliens wears off, I hope a few of this playful spirit stays in GTA Online. Green vs. purple is unfair and low-stakes, a daft factor to rally round and fireplace folks up. No one loses enterprise deliveries they spent ages prepping, you may merely get jumped on the street – and you’ll run away simply as quick as these bat-wielding invaders can chase you. What a stunning little bit of levity.
Disclosure: I’ve some friends who work at Rockstar. Edinburgh’s a small metropolis.
