Rockstar has just revealed the latest update for GTA Online coming June 17th! "Money Fronts" will have players purchasing "iconic local businesses" and utilising them to launder their ill-gotten-gains away from the eyes of the law, and the IRS.
Quotes directly from the Rockstar Newswire:
With the help of longstanding associate Martin Madrazo, you’ll connect with new advisors who will help you accumulate new business ventures and launder your dirty money while also infusing your accounts with legitimate income. With some creative bookkeeping and a little elbow grease, you’ll end up further enriched and the taxman will be none the wiser.
Much like the famous Walter White of Breaking Bad, the first purchase we will be making is the Car Wash in Strawberry!
The famed Hands On Car Wash in Strawberry is your entry point, and the perfect vintage facade to conceal your illegal activity. This low-profile and cash-intensive business is prosperous enough without alerting the authorities, and serves as the heart of your new money laundering operation.
Owning the Car Wash will pull in passive income from your established criminal network, and allow you to expand your holdings to include the Smoke on the Water dispensary and Higgins Helitours — supplemental fronts each with their own above (and below) board operations. These properties will also boost earnings on your Weed Farm and Air Freight Cargo, respectively.
We will have all of the details on all available properties and bonuses in our databases right here on GTABase.com as soon as we have the information!
Rockstar mentions a new "Heat" mechanic, which will tie into the activities and missions we can complete in relation to our new businesses, where we will have to balance our illicit ventures with wholesome legitimate work!
Your illegal dealings through any of these establishments will attract attention and generate Heat. If it gets too high, you’ll need to lose the attention by playing the role of local business owner and managing the legitimate side of your operations to continue collecting passive income.
And of course, we were cued in on a variety of new quality-of-life features coming to GTA Online which will make the day-to-day experience of living in Los Santos much easier!
Money Fronts is also rolling out a collection of gameplay updates and changes, including adding Missile Lock-On Jammer capability to 50 more vehicles, making several cutscenes skippable on mission replays, and doubling all sources of Arena Points.
Additional improvements include delaying the global signal timer for Sell Missions in public sessions and disabling the Boxville Van Delivery Vehicle from Biker Sell Missions.
Money Fronts will be launching on GTA V Legacy for Xbox One, PS4 and PC, as well as GTA V Enhanced for Xbox Series X|S, PS5 and PC. Stay tuned to our Twitter @GTABase for live coverage of the update from the moment it drops!