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After Downtime, GTA 5 Online Heists Back Up and Running

"Full access has been restored to GTA Online and all services have resumed as normal."

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When Grand Theft Auto V's long-awaited online Heists missions rolled out yesterday for GTA Online, many were unable to play due to server issues. Now, those issues have been resolved, developer Rockstar Games says today in Twitter post from its Support team.

Server woes are nothing new for GTA Online. When the mode launched in October, it faced widespread issues. These have been largely corrected, and Rockstar Games even thanked players with free in-game currency and more for their troubles.

Heists are available now for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation 4. The mode will be playable for the PC edition of GTA V when it arrives on April 14.

All players can take part in Heists, but to lead a Heist in GTA Online, your character needs to be at least Rank 12 and own a high-end apartment.

Heists are described as "massive, multi-layered, 4-player co-operative missions" where players will work together to take on a number jobs, similar to the way they did in the main Grand Theft Auto V campaign.

There are five total Heists available in GTA Online right now, including an "introductory" Heist that can be played by two people instead of four. For a full rundown of what to expect from Heists, check out the video above and GameSpot's previous coverage.

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Plz help for some reason in gta 5 online I'm not able to host my own heists yet I'm over level 12, have my own apartment with a heist planning room and I don't know what to do

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plz help for some reason i can`t host any heists in gta if done the trip to the warehouse and back to my own appartment but never played the first heist now after update 1.22 i dont get the call from lester to start the first heist what can i do to make this happen again..?

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I can't get people to join my heists at all. They should add some NPCs or something.

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Hmm, what happened to the now playing for heists?

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article has to be updated, Rockstar servers are down for maintenance

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How many Heists are there? 2?

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The heists patch has also made story mode buggy on my ps4

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As of 5 minutes ago it's still "Rockstar services unavailable" for me..been like that for a few hours now. It was working earlier in the day, but I was getting booted after a few minutes in each session.

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i just tried it for the first time. but it says it wasn't available.

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still not working.

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It's painfully obvious that rockstar servers can't handle any type of actual traffic.

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There is a glitch in the heist.


if you have more than 1 player in an objective-vehicle then you cannot loose the cops, no matter how far you are and no matter if they can see you or not.

even when its a plane, no matter where I go a police helicopter keep spawning right next to me.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> False, had the same bug, replayed the heist no problem. Did it with another group and was the pilot, once again worked just fine.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> so it did happen to you, it happen to me twice, once where we have to steal the prison bus and 2nd time when i was flying the plane in the prison break heist finale. Sure restarting fix the bug but the bug still exist and will happen again until its fixed

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<< LINK REMOVED >> No you can you just base "facts" off of a first test nice try though

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Which one?

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As soon as both Europe and the USA are trying to get on the servers they crash. When the Europeans are off at around 10pm Eastern time its about time I got on and complete me some heists

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servers are down again

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I can't get online at all!

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Can't start heists. Says I need to be lvl 12 when I'm lvl 125.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> is it the first time you are entering the heist room?

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yes and no. I've entered the room multiple times and it just says up at the top left I need to be level 12 to unlock it but my character is level 125.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> you need to wait till you get a call from Lester, he will tell you to meet with him where he will tell you about the heist, then he will setup your room for heist and give you the 1st basic heist which needs only 2 players to complete.


After that, you need to wait till Lester calls you again and give you more heist

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thank you so much for helping me. I really do appreciate it. I wish is was explained when I came out so I didn't have to just ignore the calls because they're so annoying. Lol

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<< LINK REMOVED >> no problem

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And we are back in business baby! (Michael's voice)

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Managed to complete the prison break heist last night

Effin awesome

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<< LINK REMOVED >> did you or your heist member had a glitch where they cant loose the cops no matter how far you get away from them?

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Back to the usual shitty to less then satisfactory connectivity? Good! ;)

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Prove to me Eddie makuch you even know what your talking bout turn on your Xbox one and add me gt: cooledpenny46 and grow up cause the last two hours nothing!!!!!!

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Look I'm on Xbox one right now no go keeps kicking over and over!!!!

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I doubt I'll even give it a try.... I don't see it being worth the hassle of having to deal with the community (which is full of hom0phobic, wanna be gangsta ldlots) to try and enjoy the content.


I love online gaming... but only play co-operative type games that require teamwork on PC as the community is generally more mature and less abrasive.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Don't you have friends to play with?

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> RLF? not really... I'm the only serious gamer out of the people I associate with. I have lots of people on my friends list... but most I've never actually played with... just added them b/c they sent a request and I feel like I'm being a jerk if I decline.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> umm you are playing GTA, what do you expect? Fluffy bunnies and pink shoes?

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I expect people to act civilized... sure I like to rob, kill and take pleasure in the pain of others IN A VIDEO GAME... but in real life, I'm empathetic, kind and try not to offend people.


See... I can separate video games from reality, unlike many others apparently.

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Well will say your heist mates can make the enjoyment factor vary wildly. My wife for instance spent a night cussing with people constantly quitting and heist failing because players were dying needlessly.


My experience is i stumbled on a team of seasoned players, and we ran maybe 5 of them back to back over the course of three hours, its the most fun I've had with the game to date. We appropriated players with the proper skills to each job, best pilot flew, best driver drove, best hacker hacked, best shooter shot. Was just damn slick and cool in many instances it felt like a movie. After awhile we all were outfitted in business suits barely talking, some serving as distraction for police, shooting down helicopters while drivers hijacked prison buses. My wife at one point logged off her xbox 1, and just sat next to me to watch me play.


She's ranked 90 and ran into a bunch of elitist high ranked players that booted anyone lower than rank 50 and basically had a bad play experience. While you don't need crew, or friends, you need competent players to have fun.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Heists with Randoms is almost impossible. They either s u ck or are tr0IIing or they give minimum payout. And then when you quit out because of it you get a bad sport warning..

I got better things to do then restarting over and over because of mentaIIy ret@ rded players

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I wish they would have added more heists for single player mode after finishing the story line.

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Another article about GTA V Heists? I'm all out of popcorn too... Damn!

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I really wish you could do heists with less than 4 players.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Try the 2-player heists then in the meantime.

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That first one with Lester felt great with just two players, then I had to invite others into the next job that needed the 4 players and it just became a mess.

Unless the people you are playing with are friends/crew/high ranked, then it is more frustrating than ever.

Nobody wants to use mics either, which I get b/c I'm not much into chatting either, but it seems to be essential with the heists and that is also annoying.

So basically, I agree with you. I just like taking a long time to get to the point as you can see.

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Dude, mics are so not essential.

Drive to 'A' collect bus.

Drive to 'B' deliver bus

dosent get much more difficult than that

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Headsets are needs. The later heists needs coordination.

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