I play dead for a while on the deck and allow my aggressor to move on before I hit the road once more. And the fact that, you know, he’s driving a tank. I’ll hitch a ride to the Diamond, I think to myself, although I’m slightly bemused by the speed with which my would-be chauffeur is hurtling towards me. I see headlights and thank my lucky stars. I respawn, continue my long hike down the freeway, and before long find myself in company once more. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. What is less welcome is death-by-Fuhrer – especially one who stalks the shadows like a ninja.
That’s welcome news, given how loud these places can be with so many players vying for their space on the airwaves. By the time I reach the highway, this realm’s instant messenger feed informs me a pack of roleplayers plan to meet in the grounds of the Diamond Casino, so I begin to hoof it south in that direction.Īs I do, I notice that chat spam, both via IM and VOIP, is a kickable offence in this server. It’s dark, but I manage to navigate the range’s cracks and crevices in diagonal bursts so as to avoid taking a header backwards whence I came. The server I jump into tells me 310 people have arrived before me, and I spawn on a small westerly beach south-east of the San Chianski mountains, not far from the Senora Freeway.
Nowadays, some FiveM servers boast 500+ players, but I’ve since learned that 250-300 seems to be the sweet spot between fun and stable playable worlds for now.įiveM, for those unaware, is a popular open-source community mod which works independently of GTA Online, beside validating the player’s copy prior to launch. When I first discovered the GTA 5 roleplay scene a few years back, the vast majority of RP playgrounds housed similar numbers, with the odd alpha server pushing 64. Later on, I’d be fixing cars deep in the throes of a mid-city firefight, touring the skies with a jet-fighter gang, and getting high out of my mind as a backstreet doctor. Getting stabbed to death by the Führer wasn’t the best of starts.ĭon’t get me wrong, I expected Grand Theft Auto 5’s 300-player modded online servers to be hectic – GTA Online’s vanilla crime sandbox support a maximum of 32 bodies at-a-time, after all – but I learned very quickly that here, anything goes.