GTA Online Weekly Update: First Dose Mission’s New Hard Mode And New Community Series Jobs

It’s another week, and that means GTA Online has new bonuses and weapons for players to obtain in the Gun Van, The First Dose Mission’s new Hard difficulty setting, and more.

Gun Van

A mobile storefront for fun weapons, the Gun Van is zooming around in the city and offering discounts. There’s no Rank requirements, and players can get the new Railgun from the van. For a full inventory of available stock, check out the list below.

Gun Van’s available weapons

• Railgun
• Combat Shotgun
• Assault Shotgun
• SMG
• Assault Rifle
• Heavy Sniper
• Compact EMP Launcher
• RPG
• Knife
• Baseball Bat
• Molotovs
• Proximity Mines
• Grenades

Hard Mode Event: The First Dose Missions

This event’s new Hard Mode runs until February 8, and players can get 1.5X GTA$ and RP for participating. Special rewards include the following:

• Complete any Hard Mode First Dose Mission–Green Fooliganz MTL Brickade 6×6 livery
• Complete any Hard Mode First Dose Mission without dying–Kisama Driver Annis 300R livery
• Complete any Hard Mode First Dose Mission in less than 10 minutes–Speed Demon Ubermacht Cypher livery
• Complete three Hard Mode First Dose Missions–Safari Ranger Overflod Entity MT livery

Community Series

Players get 2X GTA$ this week for participating in any of the player-made Jobs. Rockstar added a bunch of games to the Community Series, like 0Xenox0’s go-kart Docks race and Spitfire2205’s Rapid Vapid Rally’s Stunt Race–where players choose to drive Trophy Truck or Desert Raid through rough roads.

There are many more new Community Series Jobs, and you can check them out over at Rockstar’s Newswire writeup.

LS Car Meet Updates

Place top three for five days in a row in order to get the Vapid Caracara 4×4 (Off-Road). On the Test Track, there are new cars to take on a test drive. See the list below.

• Annis ZR350 (Sport)
• Obey 10F (Sport)
• Pfister Comet S2 (Sport)

GTA+ Rewards

If you’re a GTA+ subscriber, you’ll get the following bonuses:

• Free Acid Lab Upgrade for the new MTL Brickade 6×6 and 50% Faster Acid Production Speeds
• A Buckingham Alpha-Z1 airplane and LSIA Hangar A17
• 1.5X GTA$ and RP on First Dose Missions
• 1.5X GTA$ for Payphone Hits and Assassination Bonuses
• The Have You Seen Me? Sweater, The Red-nosed outfit, and The Nutcracker outfit

In other GTA V news, the game received a quality-of-life update for PS5 and Xbox Series X editions back in December 2022. Ray tracing is now supported and can be activated through Fidelity Mode. In other tweaks, you can check out our December GTA 5 updates article.