After Rockstar launched their new wee retailer shopper doodad this week, people who wished to play Grand Theft Auto V offline on PC had been discovering themselves unable to. Did Rockstar sneak in a brand new DRM measure when wedging the brand new Rockstar Games Launcher into the game’s guts? Naw, they are saying it was a bug, and now it’s mounted. The repair does contain going surfing one final time, thoughts.
Rockstar launched their Launcher on Tuesday. It’s a brand new retailer/shopper/updater doodad of their very own which could possibly be learn as a portent that they’re eager about launching some large new game on PC away from Steam. Anyway, whereas the Launcher has little goal at presence, it’s now required to launch Grand Theft Auto V (sure, on Steam too). And some technical hiccup meant that it was blocking folks from enjoying the open-world homicide simulator offline.
Having recognised the issue and mentioned they had been engaged on it on Tuesday, Rockstar have now issued a fix. You’ll want to go surfing to replace the Launcher in addition to GTA V, then run them each. After that, you must have the ability to go offline and play in a cave.
Rockstar are at the moment giving freely GTA: San Andreas free for installing the launcher. It’s an oldie however a goodie. You’ll probably want to put in the Launcher anyway for those who ever have GTA V replace on Steam.
Who’s even nonetheless enjoying GTA V singleplayer today? Ah, I do nonetheless typically like to fireside it up and simply cruise round, drive by means of town at evening, take a stroll, mess with some residents, discover a fairly swimming spot within the wilds, possibly steal a wise household automotive for some xtreme off-roading. I often do this in GTA Online however will take it to singleplayer if the load instances or hackers are being notably terrible – and definitely would if I had been offline, obvs. It is a pleasing world to easily be in.
Disclosure: I’ve some friends at Rockstar as a result of each Edinburgh resident is aware of at the least three Rockstar people, even when they suppose they don’t. Rockstareers are in all places. Always.
