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Today, in a sort of buried, sly wink kind of way, Rockstar Games announced it would finally bring PS5 and Xbox Series console features to the PC version of Grand Theft Auto Online sometime next year.

Hidden at the bottom of a GTA Online community update today, Rockstar said the following: "There is much more still to come, including ongoing weekly special events and bonuses, festive celebrations, gifts, surprises, as well as plans to bring the much-requested PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S features of GTA Online to the PC platform in the new year. Please stay tuned to the Rockstar Games Newswire for details."

What this refers to are the features contained exclusively in the enhanced release of GTA 5 for PS5 and Xbox Series consoles that launched back in 2022. These included everything from graphics setting enhancements to actual new features, including quality of life improvements, a new intro and tutorial, new vehicle upgrades, and a lot more. There's also character transfer features that allowed players to transfer story mode progress and GTA Online characters from prior gen systems to current-gen and even cross-platform, which suggests we may be able to similarly transfer progress to PC now too.

It's an update that's been due for several years now, and fans have been asking for it pretty much since the enhanced editions landed on console.

The rest of the community update, which talks about the stuff actually showing up in GTA Online for everyone in December, including new things to do at the Darnell Bros Garment Factory, new missions, vehicles, and some quality of life improvements.

GTA Online on PC Is Finally Getting Current-Gen Console Features in 2025

Took them long enough.

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[MDSLKTR]

Ray tracing finally?

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

I hope they'll release a awesome DLC on the scale and level of the Doomsday DLC. I want some crazy high tech and powerful vehicles again. Got over 40 million saved up from modders dropping money still.

 

[squidilix]

Ray tracing finally?

Oh no.... Alex video coming in 3...2...1....

 

[Three]

Console-ation for no GTA 6, "here's that GTA5 online update".

 

[Bojji]

Native HDR is amazing on PS5 version.

 

[Gonzito]

Fuck off Rockstar. You treat the pc community like shit

 

[amigastar]

Fuck off Rockstar. You treat the pc community like shit

I love Rockstar games but unfortunately you are right. They indeed treat me like shit as a PC player.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Fuck off Rockstar. You treat the pc community like shit

The PC community treats each other and the game like shit. The hacking is atrocious on there.

But with that said, R* needs to stop being so cheap and make their games 100% dedicated servers as well. It would mitigate a lot of the P2P bullshit.

 

[cormack12]

And PC Bros are like "Why do you need the Pro, Sony bro's"

And I'm like

 

[SkyHighTrees]

Native HDR is amazing on PS5 version.

it is, makes the game look so much better, on a RDR2 port, we should have this

 

[Bojji]

it is, makes the game look so much better, on a RDR2 port, we should have this

It's funny that PC have much better RDR2 while consoles have better GTA5.

Rockstar is just amazing with how they treat their customers...

 

[Pandawan]

Only GTA Online? Not for campaign?

 

[Killer8]

The PS5 version is great. The TAA creates a pristine picture at 4K and the ray-traced shadows correct a lot of the annoying alignment issues they originally had. I'd be all aboard this update on PC too but I think i'm all GTAV'd out at this point. It's been over 10 years.

 

[DirtyBast8rd]

The PS5 version is great. The TAA creates a pristine picture at 4K and the ray-traced shadows correct a lot of the annoying alignment issues they originally had. I'd be all aboard this update on PC too but I think i'm all GTAV'd out at this point. It's been over 10 years.

TAA and pristine don't belong in the same sentence.

 

[YCoCg]

Gotta keep milking, I wonder if they'll try and charge PC gamers for this.

 

[rodrigolfp]

It's funny that PC have much better RDR2 while consoles have better GTA5.

Better how?

 

[amigastar]

Better how?

Idk, i don't think you can use Ragdoll mods on console which make the game much better.

 

[YCoCg]

Better how?

At this point in time, the extra enhancements for PS5/Xbox Series were never ported to PC, so the console has Ray Traced Reflections and Shadows, some improved effects and rendering improvements from RDR2 that are not on the PC version. However as this thread points out Rockstar is finally bringing those to PC next year.

 

[Bojji]

Better how?

Much better shadows than any PC setting plus native HDR support (one of the best I have ever seen) - auto HDR or RTX hdr can come close but not on par.

All this is coming to PC but right now i consider console version better.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Much better shadows than any PC setting plus native HDR support

Stuff like that make it better overall?? Are not the RT stuff only in the proud powerpoint mode?

 

[Bojji]

Stuff like that make it better overall??

To me, yes.

HDR alone makes it better.

RT shadows are in 60fps mode and are much better than pc shadows (draw distance).

 

[YCoCg]

Stuff like that make it better overall??

Tech wise, yes, this isn't some fanboy thing, the PS5 and Xbox Series X version of GTAV IS technically better than PC, that isn't a slight on PC though, it's because Rockstar never originally ported the improvements over and took their sweet time to do this even though the PC can handle those features. Let's hope that extra few years bringing this to PC includes stuff like DLSS too.

 

[rodrigolfp]

the PS5 and Xbox Series X version of GTAV IS technically better than PC

IS it technically better missing ultrawide, super sampling, m+kb, wheels, 60+ fps, minimum input lag??? Or just shadows, TAA, reflections (at 30fps lol) that counts???

 

[YCoCg]

IS it technically better missing ultrawide, super sampling, m+kb, wheels, 60+ fps, minimum input lag??? Or just shadows, TAA, reflections (at 30fps lol) that counts???

I feel like you're just being pedantic here and somehow taken these comments as an insult and you're even misrepresenting information too, the PS5 and Series X have Ray Tracing at 60fps as an option too and you're ignoring the additional rendering improvements Rockstar did for those versions.

And they're finally bringing that to PC, that's a good thing, stop trying to argue for no reason.

 

[rodrigolfp]

the PS5 and Series X have Ray Tracing at 60fps

Not reflections, as I stated correctly.

 

[Nex240]

The PS5 version is great. The TAA creates a pristine picture at 4K and the ray-traced shadows correct a lot of the annoying alignment issues they originally had. I'd be all aboard this update on PC too but I think i'm all GTAV'd out at this point. It's been over 10 years.

TAA is a downgrade compared to MSAA and GTAV doesn't really need TAA. I bet they are gonna remove sharp ghosting free MSAA and force that blur filter TAA.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

I never even knew this. Crazy. And no cross play with PC and console yet?

 

[Kerotan]

I hope they'll release a awesome DLC on the scale and level of the Doomsday DLC. I want some crazy high tech and powerful vehicles again. Got over 40 million saved up from modders dropping money still.

I'm with you but I think any huge updates like that will be saved for GTA VI online. I've over 100m saved up legit and I've resided myself to the fact I'm never spending it.

R* should bring out some crazy expensive vanity purchases for us but realistically they're probably saving those ideas for VI.

 

[rodrigolfp]

TAA is a downgrade compared to MSAA and GTAV doesn't really need TAA. I bet they are gonna remove sharp ghost free MSAA and force that blur filter TAA.

Super sampling + MSAA >>>>>>>>

 

[YCoCg]

Not reflections, as I stated correctly.

 

[rodrigolfp]

That logic would mean I stated that TAA also is ray traced. -_-'

 

[DeepEnigma]

The endless loop of strawman gaslighting.

 

[YCoCg]

That logic would mean I stated that TAA also is ray traced. -_-'

What are you even on about? Bro, there has to be a miscommunication somewhere here.

 

[rodrigolfp]

What are you even on about? Bro, there has to be a miscommunication somewhere here.

What are you on saying I was misrepresenting information??

 

[noob smokes]

Pc mastawait race

 

[Bojji]

Pc mastawait race

So how is that 30fps rdr2?

 

[noob smokes]

So how is that 30fps rdr2?

Wasnt too shabby Is red dead still as good as it was 14 yrs ago

 

[Bojji]

Wasnt too shabby Is red dead still as good as it was 14 yrs ago

It's still great

 

[SmokedMeat]

I’ll never buy a Rockstar game day one because of how poorly they treat the PC community.

 

[Gonzito]

I’ll never buy a Rockstar game day one because of how poorly they treat the PC community.

See you on GTA6 launch day friend

 

[Togh]

Aside from ray tracing, another cool feature the current gen consoles got that was missing on PC was that there were animals on the desert, forest and ocean, just like on the story mode. Before this update, in the online mode there was no animals in the world and exploring the ocean with the submarine is pretty boring because of that.