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Rockstar Games is launching its year-end update — dubbed GTA Online: Los Santos Drug Wars — for its online gaming version of Grand Theft Auto.
This update features six mission stories that focus on Dax (a new character) and his gang of misfits (known collectively as the Fooliganz) trying to start a business selling high-grade hallucinogenics. They do this from the Acid Lab, a mobile headquarters.
Dax is a “man-on-the-edge with high hopes of dosing the world,” getting rich, and climbing to the top of the Southern San Andreas criminal food chain, Rockstar said.
Today is the start of the story. More will follow in the New Year. This update includes a variety of new vehicles, clothing, and weapons, as well as experience improvements. GTA Online’s popularity has been maintained by this type of update since its inception in 2013.
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First Dose is the first chapter of six Fooliganz missions. One gang must fight off rivals in order to control the illicit drug trade. It also features an Acid Lab in the rear of the new MTL Brickade 6×6, a heavy-duty vehicle that includes the Maibatsu Manchez Scout C motorcycle. Players who successfully complete the First Dose missions and obtain the required lab equipment for their new mobile business will have access to it.
It also includes the Freakshop, which is the gang’s psychedelic base of operations, complete with a Weapon Workshop and the ability to modify the MTL Brickade 6×6 and Maibatsu Manchez Scout C. It also has Fooligan Jobs, which are additional shady activities that can be requested from Dax, sabotaging rival drug operations.
Five new vehicles are available, as well as new clothing and tattoos. There are also other improvements like rewards, test rides and GTA+ benefits.
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