Welcome to a news update from GTA Series Videos. I’m Gary7 MT and today we are going to talk about the newly announced DLC for GTA Online by Rockstar Games:
Smuggler’s Run.
Sharing its name with one of the first titles from Rockstar Games,
Smuggler’s Run looks to provide the players with a new opportunity to make money in GTA Online.
After the CEO businesses, the drugs business and Gunrunning,
Rockstar Games is releasing this Tuesday, August 29th that is, the next big thing in GTA Online!
Introduced by Ron, Trevor’s partner in crime, Smuggler’s Run is probably going to replicate
the structure of the Finance and Felony, Import/Export and Gunrunning DLCs.
Features include a new location, from where the business is managed, and new missions to collect and sell goods.
Plus new cooperative, missions that unlock discounted prices for some of the coolest, most unique and dangerous aircraft, including helicopters and ultralights.
We think the question is, “How solid and fresh is this DLC going to be?”
This is unknown, but the question resonates - especially after the long months of content released tied to Gunrunning.
Now before analyzing the content of the Smuggler’s Run trailer,
we’re here to tell you Rockstar has also announced that they will release new vehicles and new adversary modes in coming months.
These will accompany the timely celebrations for Halloween and the Holiday season.
But there’s also gonna be another extension of the racing “in-game”. After the Special Vehicle Circuit Races, we’re going to have the Dynamic Circuit Races,
a series of circuits with checkpoints that will instantly change the vehicle class driven.
Instead of doing a classic frame-by-frame analysis, we’re going to take all the shots of common places,
possible missions or content in order to analyze everything in deeper depth.
For some of the info a big thanks goes to one of our guys, who has an insane passion for WW2 era stuff
and the people over at the GTAForums; Twitter and obviously, Google and Wikipedia.
Now, let’s commence with the interior of the Hangar starting from the image released in the news by Rockstar.
In the background, some big green doors to maybe access the area to personalize the airplanes or to access the interior.
On the right we see an area were new computers will probably be to access the network for selling - or stealing - stuff.
In another wide shot of the new hangar interior we can also see a WWII fighter aircraft, the German Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet.
In twelve different occasions, we can see the inside of the hangar.
The center part where the helicopter and planes are stored is big enough to contain a Titan,
so these interiors cannot be placed on the Sandy Shores or Grapeseed airfields without changes on the map by Rockstar Games.
These are huge interiors and if they’re not located underground like the Gunrunning bunkers,
there’re only two places with buildings big enough for them: the Los Santos International Airport and Fort Zancudo.
If there’s going to be an area on the right for personal quarters and such,
on the left of the hangar there are going to have to be storage for the crates and all the stolen goods for sale.
You can see how similar these crates are to the contraband crates we’ve seen with jewelry and art, in the Import/Export DLC
Or the green crates of weapons from Gunrunning.
In this shot of Ron talking to the GTA Online protagonist, we can see an NPC behind both; this could be Charlie, our new mechanic.
That said let’s move on the new aircraft from the rest of the trailer.
The big, blue, plane in this shot is a seaplane inspired by the Grumman G-21 Goose – but with four motors instead of the classic two.
In the second official screenshot the same one is shown carpet-bombing an area.
In the trailer we see the same airplane but weaponized, with a machine gun in the front and sporting a classic WWII Pin-up girl on the side.
On the right, almost in line with the Goose, is a small stunt plane, maybe a compact, faster more agile version of a Mallard,
based on another stunt plane, the Reberry 3M1C1R.
In front of this plane we see a small helicopter, maybe a new version of the gyrocopter Little Willie,
first introduced in an earlier Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
The white and grey plane in the foreground instead, is based on a Beechcraft T-6 Texan II,
a single-engine, two seater aircraft used as a training plane by the Air Force and Navy.
These shots are maybe taken from three separate selling missions.
The first two shots shows a Skylift dropping a container over a cargo ship.
In the next three shots we can see a very small helicopter, based on the classic single seater, CH-7 Heli-Sport,
drop a crate in the Mile High construction area.
The same helicopter, but with a red colored cabin, is shown on the right of the Hangar, under the platform of the second floor of the “business area”.
Probably there as a prop considering its shown in the same color and identical position as the other.
These three shots show a new kind of cargo plane dropping crates over the north while being attacked by Buzzards.
It’s a more compact version of the Cargo plane with the same wheel system as the Cargobob but sporting a 360° turret tucked under the nose.
As said before, the previous shots could be moments taken from selling missions
or like most of the rest of the trailer, moments from missions that allow accessing discount prices
for some of the DLC’s more powerful, lit, planes and helicopters.
One mission is going to involve our team destroying a Cargoplane using jets inspired by the Russian MiG-15.
The MiG was one of the Korean War’s most respected aircraft until the release of the MiG 17 –
and it is still in use today as an advanced training craft with the Korean Air Force.
Carpet-bombing is not going to be a Goose exclusive - this shiny remix of a B-25 Mitchell and the Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior,
is able to drop bombs on the competition’s runways or meetings.
And if bombing ain’t enough, a second player can move into the machine gun on top of the aircraft to bus’ a multitude of caps in they backs.
Here we can see two Hunters cluster bombing – with Buzzards exploding.
The Hunter, GTA’s version of the classic Boeing AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter, was first added to the series in GTA: Vice City.
After the Hydra, added by Rockstar Games with the Heist update, the Hunter was the other long-requested addition by players –
and was already in the game for all this time considering that it was shown in the in-game movie trailer of “The Simian”.
In one mission ultralights are also going to used - maybe not the best choice considering the attacking Buzzards on their 6’s.
An Ultralight was also shown inside the hangar in the first official image released by Rockstar today.
The Humane Labs are going to again be soil for a night-time mission with players intent on stealing something using new gear –
a helmet with night-vision goggles.
There’s also gonna be hundreds of new clothes added to GTA Online with this DLC, from jackets, to new flying suits, to hats like the camo shemagh, pants and more.
The Palmer-Taylor Power Station instead is going to be the terrain for another mission where the players are probably going to be split
into two teams, with two of them in a distant helicopter supporting a ground team using a Sniper Rifle to eliminate lookouts or something.
Before closing our analysis, we want to take a final look at the official DLC’s artwork.
In it we can see new gear from the DLC with the Goose, the smaller Mallard and the Beechcraft T-6 Texan II.
In the bottom left is one of the update’s new 4 wheeled vehicles; a Rockstar Games version of the classic Ford Escort MK1.
With that this analysis of today’s video concludes.
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