A Flawed Release: GTA Online's Disappointing San Andreas Mercenaries DLC

In this thought-provoking video, we delve into the highly anticipated San Andreas Mercenaries DLC for GTA Online, only to uncover a disheartening experience. Join us as we dissect Rockstar's latest addition to the game, exploring its flaws and missed potential. From underwhelming gameplay mechanics to disappointing content, we critically evaluate the lackluster release, discussing the aspects that fell short of expectations. Through a comprehensive analysis, we shed light on the regrettable additions and shortcomings that left players wanting more. Brace yourself for an honest exploration of GTA Online's San Andreas Mercenaries, as we uncover the disappointments and highlight the areas in need of improvement.
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[@swaggerdagger8976]

This update legit took away 100x more than it added

[@marius2361]

And it broke more than it fixed

[@24Ninetynine]

It’s the worst update for the car guys. Of course, they released a good dlc and after that released a massively shit one

[@wowplayer160]

Bro nobody cares. You're so fixated on cars you werent gonna buy.

[@Mitch93636]

It’s the best update ever.

[@Magst3r1]

It took away cars no one used, you wouldn't ever care about them if they weren't removed, and if you did, you'd still have them.

[@zykunno1336]

i love the part where u need to pay 5 mil to do missions, to get a discount of 1.7m and pay another 5.1m for the jet

[@Madd_Whack]

Eh... you should have had the avenger for years. So you if you're saying you need to pay for everything now as if it was a part of this update you're just wrong

[@slyceth]

Who doesn't already have the avenger lol

[@zykunno1336]

@@Madd_Whack well for new players id think avenger is like the last thing theyd get so, legit only got it today just to get the jet

[@zykunno1336]

but you still have to pay like 1.5m just for the mission screen

[@windowsxp3977]

​@@slycethme

[@adrianking3660]

The ridiculously hard missons, the removal of almost 200 vehicles and the bugs causing players personal vehicles being deleted, this is possibly the worst gta online update ever.

[@RacermonGaming]

dont forget how it broke cayo perico too

[@Awsomepablo]

All they had to do was add a search bar to the website but no they wanna remove some of the most iconic vehicles in the game

[@cumbender30]

damn worse than arena wars

[@ericdesjardins3760]

And you forgot that the missions are not only hard, *but they also pay like trash* making them even worse

[@mcredmond_0262]

Gta online now is way more buggier than it ever was in general. Like i recently got new and better wifi and it can support online games fairly well with hardly noticeable lag at all. Previously the Wi-Fi before wasn’t great and you would get speeds of 20mb/sec at a max and that was it. Anyways I find that the servers kick you out of the sessions way more frequently than previous versions of the game. Also every time I do the slot machines at the casino the slot machines themselves are enough to crash the game like literally I would spin the machine and the slot machine would just spin around indefinitely and you cannot leave the session or get up from the slot machine, you have to close the game to restart. That is another bug I found.

[@hop-skip-ouch8798]

They also removed some props used to make racing circuits, so certain circuits now have voids where the props were, rendering them completely unplayable.

[@user-ni7qv1nd8o]

What would that add though? Like why?

[@Shapershift]

The removal of older cars with this "update" is just absurd.

[@XvlerLorenzo]

Funny enough, some cars weren't even that old and most were well loved. Talk about taking one step forward then falling down a staircase

[@Chrimbo_]

@@XvlerLorenzo #ihaterockstar

[@Madanbek_The_Dragon_Lover]

I still stay at the same statement: this whole thing is moderately on RockStar's fault, and mainly on the community's fault. Why? Y'all had 9,5 years (≈7,5 years for PC users) to buy at least SOME of those cars, and most of those cars, especially OG cars were rarely used in races because almost every GTA V racing KZbinr has been saying those cars aren't that fast anymore, and not worth holding because of those Pariahs, Kriegers and such. Now what? Now they are "must have 10/10" suddenly after all these years? If that ain't hypocrisy, then what is it? And keep in mind that some cars can be purchased in your AutoShop , especially with a second car lifter , such as Comet, Futo, Schafter V12 (not armored tho) and Riata. And also Progen GP1, but that's rare. And most of those cars still can be carjacked from streets and parking lots, like I did recently with Benefactor Serrano (SUV with visual upgrades). Is that understandable enough now? Also thank you for reading this whole comment/reply, if you actually did it till this moment. Really appreciated.

[@crockdog9838]

@@Madanbek_The_Dragon_Lover there is no way you are defending rockstar bro💀

[@Hietakissa]

@@crockdog9838 the shops are still incredibly full of vehicles, making it hard to find what you're looking for. I haven't noticed a single vehicle missing, so I think they should remove a couple more tbh

[@iknowurip8151]

You need to pay 1.450.000 GTA$ to play missions which give you about ~200k GTA$ AND if you wanted grind those 1.5mil using the LSA operations, it would take you at least 15 hours.

[@Remnatis]

Which is of course like one GTA cayo perico heist, which takes an hour

[@yourmomsboyfriend3799]

That's assuming you've already got the avenger, like matto you need 5 million to start something that you'll never make a million out of

[@rustysausage69]

@@Remnatisor 5 seconds with a mod menu lol

[@Finnbobjimbob]

Skill issues

[@krizos5305]

​@@Finnbobjimbobthis is not even a good excuse anymore💀💀💀💀

[@sooperloozer907]

I appreciate the fact that even after accomplishing all the missions, the financial return falls significantly short, especially when you consider the scenario where someone only invests in the control terminal. Furthermore, it's astonishing to think that a majority of players may not even possess the Avenger so you wouldn't even make a QUARTER of the money back.

[@butters9354]

Ya I bought the avenger when the dlc came out ehat a waste.

[@-eMpTy-]

☝️🤓 💬

[@BennysVersion]

@@-eMpTy-what

[@averageSE]

@@-eMpTy-bro probably likes rockstar

[@DEVIKIER]

It gave me like 370 thousand for the first time. (First time bonus) so I'm 4.9 mil - 370 thousand in the red.

[@CarGuy32]

6:43 your editor is a man of culture

[@Theblanco_]

the most OG game out of them all...

[@thatcrystalpie]

I'm a somewhat new player, around 100 hours in the game by now. This update legit made me uninstall the game because I was so disappointed by it. I tried to keep playing, but I found myself getting so frustrated by the decisions made in this update. Rockstar sadly won't change if their sales don't change :/

[@DubberRucks]

Good for you. Don't play games that drain your desire. There are far better games out there that DO reward you. 👍

[@problemtf2532]

same here, I have about 160 hours on the game. After grinding cayo multiple times i kinda got bored of the game. I only come back when theres a new DLC. Mercenaries sucked even more than Drug Wars.

[@pphead9960]

I love how I spent 1.4 mil for an hour and a half of mediocre content that I’m literally never going to touch ever again

[@DubberRucks]

Great way to spend digital money. Worthy every penny. Would recommend. 😂

[@BigGreen945]

And the pay wasn't even good

[@edyslavico3761]

agreed

[@Mamuff5]

6:40 that bit gave me memories of simple times, thank you Matto!

[@briocheman21]

good old cobalt

[@jibitoaster6549]

Golf is better

[@Mamuff5]

@@jibitoaster6549 true, it was more common car from where I grew Up

[@TypedAnimal]

​@@tuukkasivonen4533Matto's editor clearly likes cars, I've seen countless car references

[@Just-some-other-guy]

@@TypedAnimal and im all for it, noticed first with the GT4 soundtrack getting used a lot, just pure nostalgia there

[@450mihirumrigar4]

Chevy Cobalt SS was the true MVP. Hilarious how that game from 20 years ago was built much better than GTAO

[@Tales541]

It totally caught me off guard and I was playing Most Wanted recently and finished it with the Cobalt hahaha

[@450mihirumrigar4]

@@Tales541 ayeee lessgooo another Cobalt finisher. Me and friends used to challenge each other to finish fully with the Cobalt. Memories!!! I hope you had a great time whilst your time playing.

[@3mmmmmm]

Despite the sometimes broken physics and AI, still better built than GTAO

[@Token_Black_Guy]

Cobalt was goated

[@Maximus6G]

On my first play through I took the Cobalt all the way to the end. Goated car.

[@johnnyrocketfingers1629]

0:26 Hey, the mole is from a cartoon from my country! Whoever edited this, thank you.

[@sbtopzzzlg7098]

Special Thanks to the editor for putting the NFS MW Cobalt SS reference... you good sir, I'm tearing up from the good memories.

[@BobTheMartin]

:)

[@nytimes474]

After this update Rockstar: Shut down the email in their social media bios then replaced it with a link to Newswire and completely removed their feedback section from Social Club lol

[@sergeantspeed5941]

Is this fact or cap?

[@kuzwon]

​@@sergeantspeed5941peer reviewed fact

[@sony_televize]

0:25 Chudák krteček D:

[@moinsenmittag8683]

Imagine they made these missions not require an avenger but actually give you one for completing it as a Host.

[@sweatyfeet5917]

Would never happen, it's rockstar we are talking about

[@moinsenmittag8683]

@@sweatyfeet5917 I know, sadly

[@TheGreyShaman]

​@@sweatyfeet5917they gave my main account the acid lab for free, just sucks that I had to grind it for my daughter account cuz I logged in a day later so she couldn't get the freebie too. So on my main I've got a stock acid lab that I can't even modify cuz I don't have access to the freakshop, and my daughter has a fully tricked out lab and motorcycle and got the damn racecar that's faster than any car I have and I've been playing since launch.

[@FurryQueenYT]

​@@TheGreyShaman Sounds a valid excuse to play more!

[@realmustangboy6437]

6:42 i love you put Most Wanted 2005's Chevy Cobalt SS in there, definitley pure Cobalt!

[@Hushio-Hero]

i appreciate the NFS MW Chevy Cobalt pop up 6:37 YESSS 20:09 I love this editor

[@nabikhnbk]

6:43 Brooo i love how I always imagine this car whenever I hear Cobalt out of nowhere, ahhh the memories😌

[@drummaghua2687]

In the parade mission, you can lead the avengers into the wind farm and they will get stuck. You can also fly very low above alamo sea and the avengers will crash into water and get instakilled

[@seb2750]

Eh yup, I figured that out on my subsequent plays to get them stuck on the windmills and blast them apart with the explosive cannons. First time was nasty trying to figure out how to kill both of them raid boss avengers. The Raiju missles are cheap made in china buzzard missles that fly thru slow ass avengers.

[@evergarden8592]

Cute pfp :3

[@edyslavico3761]

yeah I wish I knew that when I played it

[@cerjmedia]

6:44 just hit me with a hardcore dose of nostalgia right then I wanna play NSFMW again

[@ryantalley5284]

Not Safe For Motherfucking Work

[@welheizel9682]

Need speed for most wanted

[@andruloni]

@@welheizel9682 Not suitable for Modern Warfare

[@Axeeco]

Same, I really wanna play that game...

[@cerjmedia]

@@welheizel9682 Isn't speed like a slang for some kind of drug? If so then that typo makes more sense then it should lol

[@Eggyteevee]

that was the update of all times, no cutscenes, not even for opening the garage, VTOLs, we never see Perry the Platypus in a cutscene, truly the update of all times

[@DubberRucks]

Effort was certainly put into this. Maybe. Probably. 🤔 😂

[@epicdude3659]

Honestly, the one thing I liked about the update was getting to see canonically that Merryweather has basically been kicked out of LS.

[@spencers5898]

I mean, they were canonically kicked out of LS at the end of the single-player story way back in 2013, but then Rockstar decided to make Online.

[@dietbleach9362]

"Flawed DLC" is an understatement.😂

[@DubberRucks]

Flawed seems heavily, HEAVILY censored compared to what you'd want to call it. 😂

[@edyslavico3761]

it's undeniably the worst DLC they've ever released

[@user-mr2bk7ku9x]

Huge, unspeakable props to the editor, man. This was a whole ass masterpiece, at such a level, that it makes me say jesus fucking christ instead of jfc. Jesus fucking christ. Unbelievable.

[@elvispressplay7735]

The best part about this update is that all of my phone calls are glitched out now and the dialogue doesn't play. I've been begging for this since day one! (One day, DarkViper will learn to simply spawn in his Agency where he can get snacks, body armor and ammo all in the same room!)

[@RobertWilliamsRGW]

true, but he is still correct that the lack of body armor at an IAA facility is super suspect.

[@elvispressplay7735]

I fully agree that the Facility is terrible. That DLC is terrible and the Doomsday Heist is terrible. He needs to stop thinking of the Facility as "his base" and learn that it's all about resetting spawn points. Resetting spawn points would fix 90% of the problems he's experiencing. Need body armor and snacks after a mission? Reset your spawn point for the Agency and get everything right there. Don't like that an activity has a cool down timer? Reset your spawn point and enter a new lobby, watch that timer basically disappear! Unless of course it's more fun to complain about something you know is broken. It is kind of hilarious to see a grown man smack a desk like a child when he realizes the thing that always happens in this game is going to happen again.

[@RobertWilliamsRGW]

@@elvispressplay7735 i agree and draw similar joy from his anguish but have a shred of sympathy. i went the spy role so only have the facility, bunker, hanger, and import/ exports warehouse. no agency. the lack of armor is just the life of a spy....

[@elvispressplay7735]

He has an Agency though. So the minute he bought that, he should have burned the Facility down (in his mind) and switched everything over to the Agency. The Agency was literally Rockstar addressing issues that players had with the game. It gave us a home base with a multilevel car garage, snacks & Body Armor available in the same room, and it gave us multiple worthwhile ways to make money with or without a group in any session we like. Plus we could upgrade a decent number of cars with Imani tech and stop other players from immediately pummeling us with homing missiles! The Agency is where it's at.

[@shaunguy6154]

Jesus that moment with the "Cobalt" slapped me in the face with nostalgia 20:14

[@DiceMan20]

Editor put in a Need For Speed Most Manted reference They have all my respect

[@jakubjanicki4090]

the fact that you referenced NFS MW 05, is just amazing to me, with that song too, that game was my childhood favourite man, nostalgic

[@yuanfurbax]

Worst update in years: Removed 190 or smth vehicles, Bunker (moc) removes personal vehicles bug, Now corrently Insurance bug thing and canons nerf. if u got more, reply.

[@qui-gonsgin8747]

R* & TakeTwo trying so hard to compete with EA for the world's shittiest company

[@Exponaut_R-01]

6:40 I don’t often expect editors to make such distant connections But it’s funny when they do Nice touch

[@bearrett50kal17]

Watching Matto fly jets or really anything for that matter is hilariously frustrating to watch, I'm far from even being a decent pilot on GTAO but I could write a short essay on all the mistakes he makes while flying, it's a silly gripe I know but his flying is so scuffed it's hilarious

[@DubberRucks]

It's peace of mind that however bad you are, someone's always, ALWAYS, worse lol

[@aFatSxM]

Thx darkviperau for your upload in those hard times, my ps5 recently broke and i’m suspicious i’ll never be abble to play with my friend again 😔 and your videos just make me forget about it. I know you’ll probably never see this message but i really love you sooo much man really thank you.

[@sirguac]

I did all the missions solo and let me tell you, I was miserable

[@SomeoneYouHate]

This update is awful. They removed 188 vehicles from the shop and now you can only buy them if you have gta+, I mean there is a way to get them through waiting for them to show up in simeons or while customizing cars in the auto workshop, but those methods are tidious. The missions are tidious and fon’t pay out nearly as much as you pay for them. Also there is only 9 of them which is pretty bad.

[@tylerfirexh6080]

Even tho it’s a summer update and they don’t put much effort in summer updates I can understand but them deleting vehicles from the website is the worst thing they’ve done recently

[@therealgeiger2743]

Wasnt the Nightclub DLC a summer DLC which was one of the best with much content😂

[@tylerfirexh6080]

@@therealgeiger2743 rockstar always had summer updates that were low effort

[@t9yoo]

Love the edits, these types of videos with edits keeps the video interesting and less boring. Hope to see more of these edits🙏🏽

[@_Poliso_]

Holy shit, he put one of the classic characters of my childhood under the french baguette cutter.

[@kukoorooza1941]

One of my favorite TV moments ever is Ben Minicucci talking about cockpits.

[@cezio5318]

My favourite running joke is Matto saying "let's make like a tree, and get outta here"

[@jurajoravcok2369]

The editing is AMAZING, compliments to the editor/s.

[@BalterBlack]

Why “/s”? The editing is good, wdym

[@tomascarepo819]

​@@BalterBlackhe meant editors like in plural

[@devangnivatkar2649]

Definitely one of the GTA 5 Online DLCs ever

[@DubberRucks]

It certainly is. It exists. You can do things in it. 😂

[@jaedog53]

The best mission is the one rockstar ironically steals all your digital cars from you

[@low1tjeh]

Ahhh Matt I just wish you a couple of friends who go with you to the cinema, stores, go out etc. Your such an awesome guy

[@bananadaily2317]

the reward after finishing this dlc is ridiculous

[@BigGreen945]

The payout for this DLC would be considered bad even back in 2013.

[@DubberRucks]

A slap in the face would be more rewarding 😂

[@Rainquack]

0:25 - Noooo, my childhood! (very good, thank you editor)

[@ahveil3916]

what a fun video, all the edits were perfect and usually i dont care for edits but idk good job bro

[@mylesXDD]

the fact bridget and blahaj are in this makes it the best dark viper au video

[@AceRevero]

Kudos to the editor that added in Yakuza OST. Much respects.

[@JbotTG]

6.43 really appreciate the need for speed most wanted reference that rockstar put in the game. "we are getting reports of dangerous driving outside the donut shop, the vehicle is a black cobalt ss."

[@krystofmarasek691]

0:26 No way! That’s Krteček 😂 (famous Czech animated fairy-tale about a little mole). My Czech heart feels proud ❤

[@thegamingboi1959]

I like how they removed like 90% of the bikes and cars that have been since GTA 5 released.

[@The_394]

Me too. A bunch of useless cars that no one uses 😊

[@connivingkhajiit]

@@The_394 half the shit i owned. Good thing i stopped playing this wack "milking cow" of a game

6:42 What a nostalgia bomb

[@redactedredacted8107]

1:18 has me dying. Did you make that yourself? I love that batman cut 😂😂

[@TypedAnimal]

4:19 damn Matto's editor at with the initial d references as usual, rider of the sky by ACE is an amazing song, one of the best from 5th stage, good choice

[@whisper3856]

37:50 that was pretty impressive actually

[@NevermindHDx]

I had so much fun being there during the stream and the editing, as always, is just *chef's kiss* Hope y'all have a great day ❤

[@atinofspam3433]

I love how I need to buy an avenger for 3.5 million or however much it is PLUS the operation terminal for another 1.5 million just to play the update

[@The-Master-Shake]

“I’m Batman of the team” yeah that’s pretty much every update xD

[@Riggs10K]

Bro credits to the editor he's doing an astonishing job.Keep it up man 👍

[@Mr_Lesbian]

Damn Matto's earlier to this DLC than I was.. probably, I don't know when this DLC was recorded, but I only got to play it yesterday. Awesome!

[@snide2870]

3:51 Man that music brings me back :)

[@xaytana]

I wonder if this was meant to be what became Doomsday before they got into all of the futuristic stuff, like the general outline and later just recycle all the content. It almost also feels like it should be an extension to at least Smuggler's Run, if not also Gunrunning, given references and similarities, not to mention they're all extremely Trevor-centric if Ogg hadn't left. Sometimes I wonder if Ogg stayed and the storywriters had their way, what Online would be looking like right now; I wonder how much infighting there is between writers themselves and the writers with the other teams, just because Online genuinely seems to be all over the place.

[@chaosmagican]

Considering the animations/cutscenes Doomsday was most probably intended for single player. Your team is literally absent in most cutscenes. Given the scope of Doomsday I don't think they cheaped out on some character placement points when virtually any other, more garbage DLC, managed to.

[@nailil5722]

the online storylines don't make any sense. I tried to follow through with the lore but it's all nonsense. I don't think they know what they are doing

[@xaytana]

@@nailil5722 The way I see it, they don't make sense in execution, some of which stems from other issues, but in premise they're pretty easy to make sense of. Just look at relevant characters and concepts, and it's easy to piece together which sphere of influence of Trevor, Michael, Franklin, and Lester, whether or not they were meant to be directly involved or if it's an alternate character. For example, a lot of Trevor's sphere of influence would've been Gunrunning, Smuggler's Run (this one is directly related to Trevor via Ron), SA Mercs (especially if this was the original Doomsday before they went the killer AI with retro-futuristic vehicles route), etc. Michael would've been part of what Doomsday became and Arena War, given that Michael is now a producer, the retro-futuristic and Mad Max themes, along with the various references, make sense for Michael-esque content. Franklin is similar with the music, car, etc. side of content updates, as he became the CEO figure. Lester makes sense for the tech side of things, i.e. how AW and DD vehicles exist in the game, yet he just became the token heist guy. Then the 'alternate character' statement from earlier, being Ron, being English Dave, Solomon, etc. Then outside of that there's minor and side characters, like what Cayo introduced and how it played out, various other figures seen throughout the updates, etc. Everything can logically be pieced together if we look at Online as post single-player with an emphasis on the continuation of the story. Of course there's a _lot_ that I haven't touched on, but you should get the idea. Whereas the execution has always been fumbled. The fist issue is starting Online as pre-SP, the second issue is the very slow rollout of actual updates, etc. Then there's the glaring issue of Ogg wanting nothing to do with the franchise. There's also clear writing issues, which could only really be explained if you're internal to the team. I personally think it's partially a miscommunication between writing and devs, with multiple projects going on simultaneously, while TakeTwo is also pushing for updates to get released while also pushing for monetizable updates, of which this would be compounding issues that would actually explain a lot. Take the utter disconnect of Gunrunning and Smugglers run as an example, these two would otherwise directly go hand-in-hand just like how Casino part 1 and 2 worked, yet they didn't for seemingly unknown reasons; one clear issue was Ogg being gone and not wanting to reuse Ron, but another issue that explains this is the theory of multiple projects and miscommunication, if not an outright disconnect, between various teams working on updates. The writing isn't necessarily bad, but is entirely misguided, and part of that would stem from team A not communicating with team B. To further this issue, some projects clearly got put on hold for a very long time, and the shuffling and cycling of various teams would've impacted this, I think this is why Drug Wars was so bad when it otherwise should've been Bikers part 2, massive time gap, shuffling of internal talent, the obvious missing Ogg situation, etc. Then on top of this, TakeTwo is putting all of their dev talent on monetizable features, which is why we're seeing so much recycling of older content, of various interior being repainted, of entire SP missions being reused, etc. I genuinely think there was a planned out timeline of updates involving the four main SP characters, it was just getting those updates pushed out in a working fashion while also introducing the customizable Online character caused teething issues, then those teething issues snowballed into multiple projects that otherwise seem heavily incoherent in execution; then put TT's greed on top of that. I also have a theory that Online was never really meant to last this long, if you look at the theory of what otherwise makes sense for an Online timeline of coherent updates, the updates that introduced unrealistic vehicles would've been the start of the end leading into 6's release, not a situation where you stretch out this hellscape over six years later; and you get into the other issues when you artificially stretch the lifespan of constantly-updated IPs, which compounds with what was made previously. Think of it as if Online was meant to be a sequence of stories following up single player, rather than the disjointed mess we got instead, where the absolute end was the overpowered broomstick because there was nothing left in the pipeline within its natural lifespan. Things just make more sense this way. All of the SP characters get their post-story stories of having their own little empire played out, the various stories intertwine in an indirect way, etc. It shows how Rockstar, and mostly TakeTwo, absolutely fumbled what otherwise made sense for a variety of reasons. It also explains why we don't have 6 already, why there was a massive spike in power creep in updates, and why the content otherwise is an incoherent mess. We can also see why updates themselves were a mess to begin with, why they took so long to properly get features and stories rolling out, etc., because even within 5 quite a bit of content gets cut, with the most noticeable being slight inconsistencies within the stories themselves which is touched on in parts of the SP mission tier list video. The studio and publisher just fumbled so many things along the way, and while SP remained fairly cohesive minus some questionable cuts, Online took a fairly hard hit from the constant fumbling; and while TakeTwo is probably a lot of the blame I do think that R* just has terrible managerial capabilities, especially if you look at the early days of Online and how that shitshow went. It's less of 'they don't know what they're doing' and more of they have bad management and bad direction, they (the writers, devs, etc.) know what they're doing within what they know to do, but if they don't know the direction they're meant to be going in or don't know that update 1 from team A is supposed to be coherente with update 2 from team B, etc., then they're not to blame when everything ends up being an incoherent mess. I think the earliest storyboarding was entirely coherent, but various delays, splitting workflows, TT's greed, etc., got in the way and it all snowballed into incoherency. Things just make sense when you take out random new characters and replace them with the original characters we know would better fit that spot, Lester being the heists and tech guy, Trevor being the drugs and guns guy, Franklin becoming the CEO figure with connections to the streets via Lamar, Michael being the movie producer, where Lester got the bulk of what was meant to be with Franklin and Lamar getting some attention as well, Trevor is dead due to Ogg stepping out, and Michael is MIA; then of course the minor and side characters, the one-offs like the FIB, IAA, and Merryweather stuff, etc., everything at one point was so easily coherent but it's easy to see where coherency was lost. Which also gives me abysmally low hope for how 6 will turn out, especially with a lot of decent talent no longer being part of the company, and what kind of shitshow 6's Online will be if not mostly a copy-paste of what 5's Online currently is.

[@nailil5722]

@@xaytana fair point

[@Theo.Lefrancois]

It was from the Doomsday update that we lost all the DNA of the Online mode. I feel like as of 2017 it wasn't the same people leading the art direction of multiplayer anymore with the addition of futuristic vehicles, laser weapons, your character becoming an Avenger who is involved in conspiracy missions and saving the world. And it loses all credibility. Rockstar should have stayed focused on the criminal underworld and not taken liberties like this. We feel that they themselves are stuck in terms of ideas and can no longer implement simple updates, and always go into extravagance.

[@ondrejmalek1322]

0:25 YOU DONT DO KRTEČEK LIKE THAT MAN

[@PPedroFernandes]

I really appreciate the Lycoris Recoil use at the beginning :) It's not an underated show, but it's immenselly underwatched!

[@LukeJukeDuke]

LMAO i never expected a Lycoris Recoil scene from Matto's channel. must mean he's a man of culture!! Edit: never mind, its his editor's that are men or women of culture.

[@Rock_V]

W editor

[@nomoretears_]

Very underrated anime

[@glauberglousger6643]

@@nomoretears_ underrated? It’s shown up so much for me, Although the recent Oshi is a bit overrated (definitely good, but not overall best)

[@cumbender30]

@@glauberglousger6643agreed

[@Ramen.f]

anime watchers hangout right here lol

[@syafiqzr7326]

Matto, you mention about editing on the last video. I think somewhere between last video editing and this video editing is the sweet spot. Not to energetic, but a bit more out there.

[@ryan50011]

The best part about this dlc is test flying the raiju which costs another 5 million on top of buying the avenger

[@DubberRucks]

You'd hope the rewards would have seen you break even with some profit on top for your efforts

[@dominicanfrankster]

11:37 Grand Turismo music in my Grand Theft Auto games is my idea of ecstasy. Matto, tell your editor to give me a call. so, they reused some missions and vehicles, added one jet and one car, and force you to buy an Avenger. Hmm. If GTA 6 is $60 I'll buy it, but I'm counting on you for all future DLC, Matto.

[@ImJustAlex_]

6:43 I love that reference!

[@lolcatzidk]

I did tell you to do that one mission stealth and you won’t need snacks lol

[@LorshZontek]

It feels sad when even an edited down version of this DLC feels incredibly boring, I swear the only thing interesting about this DLC is the fact that it removed an insane amount of cars and created like 3 or 4 bugs that delete vehicles

[@MeadeJ67]

That's not "interesting" it's garbage...

[@LorshZontek]

@@MeadeJ67 interesting does not mean it has to be good

[@cloudy1722]

Matt I can’t watch your stream because I’m addicted to crack, so I really appreciate these videos. Keep up the good work.

[@Joe-xr2xl]

ok i was not expecting a friggin lycoris recoil reference in the beginning of a video about GTA 5

[@someidot9504]

Hey Matt, just to give some personal comment. Not against your new style of content, it clearly is very popular in a lot of groups and I'm happy you're diversifying but as a long time viewer I'm unsure I can keep up with these vids haha... they kind of overwhelm the senses if yk what I mean. I'll keep up with the rambles though, they're always of a high quality. Love you man

[@shortboi421]

I feel very similarly to this

[@nikoIai]

Matt and Martin both edited this, and Martins been around for well over a year. The All Awards video was certainly much more spastic than usual and IIRC it was done by a newer different editor, but these pop-culture oriented videos have been typical from Martin for quite a long while now. Personally Im a fan of Martins edits, the overly intrusive all-awards video was too much imo.

[@someidot9504]

@@nikoIai Yeah maybe I got a bit sidelined by the start of the video, it's fine after five minutes and I enjoyed the rest of it. I do hope that the all awards editing style stays far away or I'll keep to rambles aha

[@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome]

I love these videos, it's more fun for me than playing the game myself lol

[@troypowers750]

Sometimes I question if it's Rockstar's fault for not giving the player clear enough instructions, or if it's our fault for not being able to figure things out ourselves.

[@chaosmagican]

Frankly I would say the latter. I've seen it in other games that are pretty much all about exploration and figuring shit out and many people for some reason enjoy skipping it all and just going through with a guide. Games these days are already so handholding most of the time but apparently it's needed, I just wish that more games would have an option to disable handholding properly. On the contrary I would blame rockstar for not allowing us to figure things out most of the time. Despite being a result of the time, the openess of former titles turned out to be good game design. And now it's more and more on rails. Often the parts that are slightly more interesting are replaced by cutscenes. Like flying a slow chopper across the map and not even get to land it and things like that

[@troypowers750]

@chaosmagican you can definitely make the case that the game itself does a poor job of explaining things to you, though. But yeah, GTA 5 is so scared to let you figure things out, and when they do things like this, people are confused because the rules are inconsistent.

[@Poke-ladd]

Something I didn’t know was that the radio in game also has an ad for shark cards

[@flamepillarrengoku]

I think I downloaded the wrong episode of Lycoris Recoil

[@Kn3350ck5]

You know one of these days they're going to add a vehicle that has Y assigned to an action other than exit

[@MiltonGagliardi]

I'm glad this DLC helped Matto and Charlie become the bestest of friendos.

[@Silv3rM4st3r]

Seeing the Lycoris Recoil Meme pop off, makes me so happy you don't believe it.

[@BoomiestBomb]

22:25 keeping that truck upright is actually great driving.

[@justinfischxd9391]

0:00 Lycoris Recoil 10/10 🗿

[@ct7473]

I do love the game, I personally have around 7,000 hours played which are all online on PC as I only played the story on PS3 and I always hold out hope that the next update will be better. It's sad, because the things that are added are clearly made with atleast some enthusiasm or passion and I don't have any disdain for the developers as despite bugs now and then, the game has a absurd amount of content, all of the vehicle scaling must be tiresome as hell to code but the vehicles do always feel they handle as they should and are fun to customize and drive, the guns feel powerful and unique when using them and the optimisation of the game is outstanding for it being an open world online game even though it is a 10 year old game, it runs on just about any slightly modern PC and still looks and plays great. I can't imagine being a developer for gtao and you try so hard to make fun things for the game, but are then told by higher ups to do something that's anti fun to counter it. What I do hate is that there seems to be a huge disconnect between rockstar, or whoever at rockstar is deciding content releases and the playerbase. It isn't the people creating game content for gtao then pushing for it to be removed from the ingame stores, I feel I see a lot of people complaining about the devs but they're not the ones forcing this, it's the marketing department and shareholders at rockstar. It's just sad, as a player that does enjoy playing and will keep playing that the content that's being added is kind of pushing an exclusivity model -- hey the car I wanted is now in Simeon's, but I'm 1m short. Better buy a shark card -- it's disheartening. Yes I could just grind content, but at the end of the day me grinding that content and buying that exclusive vehicle will just mean I drive past someone in the game who's also 1m short and decides buy a shark card because they can't be bothered or just don't have time to grind the content. I understand that rockstar needs to make money from the game somehow but punishing players that have no interest in paying for things just to be a walking advert to the players who are willing to open their wallet for a shark card is just absurd. Not to mention that you spending time grinding in the game is just another number to add to the current gtao playerbase, which also acts as an advert for the game - which would be excellent if the future of the game wasn't the model I have just mentioned previously.

[@IlikeMilfs2003]

Well said mate

[@PrideCraft]

13:41 I have that same shark plushie from IKEA

[@Verchiel_]

Ngl that jet dogfight part was hype af. Mostly because of the editing and the song choice of course

[@Woud_]

Awesome video! Was waiting for this more than the actual release of the DLC itself xD Loved the meme at 6:45 , good times!

[@sixpest]

26:31 Boy that was the best explanation of why Gta5 / Gtaonline's Npcs are not really all that fun

[@fluctuations23]

Does anyone know the song music at 32:16? I tried shazaming it but it couldn't do it over the dialogue

[@renuteronpi484]

6:42 That got me and that song with the memories with that game is just guud..

[@ROMXNCE]

editor for this episode is based just for the lycoris opening alone

[@ch4rlie04]

I spent 1.5 million to do these missions expecting at least a 1M payout and got 250K instead

[@miata9916]

37:50 love the yakuza 0 substory music

[@Lebo2]

editors really did good with that NFSMW cobalt edit

[@fivetitan8299]

i love the part when the already flawed af gta online gets an amazing update that totally dosen't remove more than it adds😀😀

[@Croftice1]

I love people, who keep saying, that the update removed more content, than it added. You know, it didn't do anything like that. It added content, but all old content, that was in the game prior to the update is still in the game. Yes, it was made unavailable with some limited returns and stuff, but it's still physically in the game. There's also still some ways to get it, like the Autoshop, sure it's limited, the Autoshop doesn't give you every of the almost 200 cars, that disappeared from the websites and it also depends on luck, but it's still something. If R* actually physically removed those cars from the game and they disappeared from your garage, content, that you've paid for, then I would understand. But that didn't happen, did it? There's difference between removing content (and yes, that's essentially what you've said by comparing it to adding stuff "removes more, than it adds", that's your words) and making content available with limitations. First one is deleting stuff from the game physically, second one is removing it from the selling websites, but still making it available by other means, like Autoshop, Casino Lucky Wheel, Car Meet podium, or the two dealerships in the city. I just love, when people spread misinformations for no apparent reason, only to hate on R*. I'm not a big fan and I could complain myself, because I'm even more limited with my country banning gambling, so no Lucky Wheel prizes for me, but I'm not doing it, am I? Is it a dick move from R*? Yes, it is. But it could be much worse, if they really did, what people say they did, which in fact they didn't. So yea.

[@kwak0]

26:32 This is so true. The amount of times I have ran into enemies expecting them to not shoot me before I shoot them, only to die instanly.

[@littlebro1818]

Charlies Angels were made into movies with cameron diaz, lucy lou and drew barrymore. It later was renewed again

[@matchesburn]

9:30 - [Matto blows up enemy aircraft in turret] "Hey! I got one!" ...Editor missed a *_perfect opportunity_* to include a clip of Han Solo saying, "Don't get cocky, kid!" from Episode IV where Luke had done just this. For shame.

[@DubberRucks]

L moment right there 😂