Vehicle-based crime is the literal name of the game in GTA Online's open world of Los Santos by completing a wide variety of side activities or simply roaming around with an equally expansive assortment of vehicles.
A large part of GTA Online’s appeal comes from the unpredictable nature of Los Santos’s NPC civilians, who tend to either flee from the chaos caused by players or engage in the madness themselves. These computer-controlled citizens sometimes chase players across Grand Theft Auto Online’s Los Santos, and one GTA Online update introduced an indestructible, shotgun-wielding NPC that menaced players like a digital version of the infamous T-800 Terminator. Some believe the game's most recent Contract update has made Grand Theft Auto Online’s NPCs even more aggressive, with computer-controlled characters retaliating against the s regularly wreaking havoc across their digital homes.
Reddit Grand Theft Auto Online NPC manages to lift off and escape, leaving both Paulchen_Lichtstrahl and the first would-be copter thief to look on in both amazement and confusion.
Having a vehicle stolen out from under the player is just a minor inconvenience in Grand Theft Auto Online, as s can simply steal another in the busy city streets around them or have one they already own delivered to them. Additionally, another Reddit pointed out they can both retrieve their stollen Sparrow and enact brutal revenge against the thief by having the vehicle sent back to storage - leaving the unlucky NPC pilot to plummet back down to Los Santos. While this isn’t the case with Paulchen_Lichtstrahl’s recent run-in with a pair of helicopter-stealing NPCs, some GTA Online players have even figured out how to recover vehicles impounded by the game’s digital authorities without having to travel to an impound lot or pay a fine.
All in all, much of Grand Theft Auto Online’s success and appeal stems from just how unpredictable the massively multiplayer game can be. As Rockstar Games continues development on the recently-announced Grand Theft Auto 6, fans will likely continue to the time by stealing vehicles and causing all kinds of digital mayhem in the sandbox of Grand Theft Auto Online - assuming that the computer-controlled citizens of Los Santos don’t beat them to it.
Source: Paulchen_Lichtstrahl/Reddit (via GameRant)
