GTA Online: every quality-of-life improvement that came with San Andreas Mercenaries
Rockstar details GTA Online's June 2023 changes: vehicle insurance, Register as a Boss, rank-free Body Armor, Career Progress and Creator updates.
This article is from June 8, 2023. Some details may have changed since then.
Add GTA House as a preferred news sourceSee more of our GTA, Red Dead and Rockstar Games news on Google.Add on Google (opens in a new tab)Five days before San Andreas Mercenaries, Rockstar detailed on June 8, 2023 the long list of quality-of-life improvements arriving with the June 13 update on every platform. It's one of the biggest batches of tweaks in GTA Online's history.
Vehicles
- Mors Mutual: claim all destroyed vehicles at once, free of charge if they were destroyed during contact missions.
- Custom garage tags to find your cars when calling the Mechanic, plus floor selection for the Eclipse Blvd Garage.
- Re-request the Mobile Operations Center, Avenger or Terrorbyte closer to your location.
- New controls: F-160 Raiju Stealth Mode on D-Pad Right, with VTOL moving to the left stick.
- Lesser-used vehicles removed from the in-game websites, appearing instead in event showrooms and on the Lucky Wheel.
Gameplay
Change | What it means |
|---|---|
Register as a Boss | Start an Organization or MC faster from the Interaction Menu |
Body Armor | “Buy All” option, no rank requirement, restocked on mission Quick Restart |
Phone calls | Tom Connors and English Dave no longer call while you're parachuting |
Madrazo Dispatch Services | Can now be played solo |
Sprint | Hold-to-sprint option |
Acid | Naming your product gives a 5% sell bonus |
Daily Objectives | No rank requirement |
Collectibles and events | Higher payouts on Buried Stashes and Treasure Chests; +25% on Gerald's Last Play and A Superyacht Life |
Balance | Lazer and Hydra weapons rebalanced in Freemode; the Orbital Cannon can no longer be instantly reset |
Career Progress
PS5 and Xbox Series X|S gained Career Progress, a screen tracking your progress across every criminal activity in the game and rewarding completion. It later reached PC with GTA V Enhanced.
Creator updates
- Dozens of new props: license plate walls, eCola cans, destructible fences, underwater mines…
- Snow weather for Deathmatches, Races and Survivals.
- Distinguish teams by outfit and toggle the musical score.
- In Deathmatches, Dynamic Teams (switching sides on respawn) and Health Drain, among other options — like those already used by Shake Up and Top Marks.
- More enemy spawn points in Survivals.
Our verdict
Beyond the San Andreas Mercenaries missions, this list is what players felt day to day: less hassle recovering cars, armor available from the start and a quicker way to set up an organisation. Creator changes were also an early sign of the community push that would culminate years later in the Mission Creator.
