Summary
- GTA Online player encounters glitch with police helicopter leading to hilarious chaos.
- Lag likely caused helicopter to behave erratically, dropping suddenly and disappearing.
- Despite glitches and bugs in GTA Online, players enjoy the chaotic nature of the game world.
A GTA Online player experienced a glitch wiith a police helicopter that ended with hilarious results. The moment may have been due to lag in GTA Online, but it's nonetheless funny to see play out.
While GTA Online is an extremely popular game, it's hardly without glitches and bugs. Players have been complaining about issues in GTA Online for years, with one player notably getting so fed up that they personally found a fix for a bottleneck in GTA Online's boot sequence that was making it take much longer to get into the game than it should.
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In this particular glitch's case, one player had a very strange encounter with GTA' s cops. The clip, shared on Reddit by franklin20221401, starts with the player shooting at something down the street when a police helicopter lands on the ground directly in front of them. However, instead of the cops scrambling out, or firing at the player, they simply remain seated. The OP goes to drag the pilot out, but ends up miming the action, with the pilot still in place. After shooting one of the cops, a driver behind the player freaks out and runs them over, and the helicopter poofs out of existence. Before the player gets much of a chance to do anything, the same helicopter suddenly falls out of the sky, and the tail crushes and kills them.
GTA Online Helicopter Likely Had Some Help
While there are issues that can arise in GTA Online with AI, in this particular case, lag was likely the culprit. Severe lag can see vehicles suddenly stop or, in the case of flying vehicles, suddenly drop to the ground like this. It's further cemented by the player trying to remove the pilot to no avail. It's not entirely clear why the helicopter drops to the ground at the very end again, but it's possible that the game momentarily regained a solid enough connection to download new data, only for the lag to take effect again.
With that said, there are plenty of glitches in GTA Online that can potentially transpire even without lag. Players have reported random explosions, odd frame-rate drops that make GTA Online look like Into the Spider-Verse, casino dealers randomly vanishing into thin air, mechanics and NPCs getting run over during cutscenes, and so on. While getting killed by random moments like this can be annoying, most GTA players are likely accustomed to the sheer chaos that can break loose in the game, whether due to lag, glitches, or the simple nature of an open-world title that lets players run wild with everything from pistols to weaponized submarines.
- Released
- October 1, 2013
- ESRB
- m
- Developer(s)
- Rockstar North
- Publisher(s)
- Rockstar Games
- Engine
- rockstar advanced game engine, euphoria
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Franchise
- Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto Online is a dynamic and persistent online world for SIXTEEN players that begins by sharing gameplay features, geography and mechanics with Grand Theft Auto V, but continues to expand and evolve with new content created by Rockstar Games and the Grand Theft Auto community.
Grand Theft Auto Online takes the fundamental Grand Theft Auto concepts of freedom, ambient activity and mission-based gameplay and makes them available to multiple players in a detailed and responsive online world. In GTA Online, players have the freedom to explore alone or with friends, work cooperatively to complete missions, come together to participate in activities and ambient events, or compete in traditional game modes with the larger community, all with the personality and refined mechanics of Grand Theft Auto V.
Players can invest in their character through customizing their appearance, improving their stats, owning customized vehicles, purchasing personal property, and taking part in missions, jobs and activities to earn reputation and cash to open up new opportunities to rise through the criminal ranks.
The world of Grand Theft Auto Online will constantly grow and change as new content is added, creating the first ever persistent and dynamic Grand Theft Auto game world. Access to Grand Theft Auto Online is free with every retail copy of Grand Theft Auto V.
