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Grand Theft Online Will Finally Get Heists In 2015

When Grand Theft Auto V came out over a year ago, one of the new draws was online play. The multiplayer mode was a really great piece of content, but its had a gaping hole since launch. That's the co-op heists. They were announced prior to the game's release and seemed like an incredibly ambitious feature.

That's turned out to be the case as you still can't rob banks and do 'jobs' in Grand Theft Auto Online.

That will change in "early 2015" Rockstar have revealed to IGN. GTA Online lead mission designer Imran Sarwar talked to the site, answering the the question on everyone's lips. 'What has taken so long?':

To be honest, they just turned out to be a lot more difficult than we originally thought.

He continued explaining the difficult production of the feature saying:

As it turns out, creating missions of that complexity for multiple players at the same time was much more difficult than we anticipated and every time we thought we were close, something would send us back to square one. Having already let players know of our intentions with Heists, every setback only increased the pressure to make sure we got them right.

Sarwar outlined that players will need to be level 12 to do a heist and each group will need a leader, who is integral to the set up. That player will need their own apartment to set up the heist and will take on a whole load of other responsibilities.

Being a heist leader has advantages and disadvantages. On the upside, Lester contacts the leader directly when there's news of a job and it's up to the leader to invite players into the crew, assign positions, pick outfits and allocate each player's cut. On the other hand, the heist leader will need to personally front the set-up costs in order to successfully pull off the heist.

To go with this information, Rockstar have released a new trailer for you to gawk at.

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It's good to see Heists finally in the game, even if I suspect I won't get too heavily involved. They might just be a little too late for me as I think I've had my fill of Los Santos, as great as the time I spent there was. Rockstar will no doubt be hoping not too many other payers feel the same way

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