THE BLACKOUT · GRID FEED

OCT 6, 2026

Patch 0.9.9

Patch 0.9.9 expands Stacks into a full heist progression system. Crews can now plan jobs from the Job Wall, choose their approach, assign cuts, complete dedicated setups and carry the score through to the final delivery. Vangelico has been rebuilt around this system, and the Gruppe Sechs Job joins it as Stacks' second major heist with completely different Quiet and Loud approaches.

Outside of heists, Hideouts, Grid Caches, X Vaults, drones, inventory, the phone and world interactions have all received major additions. Hideout progression now connects Purge Signals, drones and Grid Caches together through jammer parts, Grid Intercepts can lead into deeper hidden caches, X Vaults must be physically drilled open, and several new activities and hidden interactions give players more reasons to explore the city. Dive into the full changelog below.

✦ NEW

Stacks Heist Planning: Stacks now operates through a full planning board. Build a crew, choose the approach, assign each member's cut, complete the required setups and launch the finale once everything is ready.
Leadership Badge: Players who prove themselves by leading enough Stacks heists can earn the Leadership Badge, required to found an Organization.
Grid Intercepts: New encrypted Grid traffic can be recovered and followed to hidden Grid Caches around the city.
Deep & Black Grid Intercepts: Higher-level Intercepts lead to more dangerous and valuable caches, while Intercept Fragments can be assembled into deeper signals.
Signal Intercept Hacking: Players with the proper Proxy OS module can decrypt Intercepts themselves rather than paying Vex to do it.
X Vault Drilling: X Vaults are now sealed shipping containers that must be physically drilled open. The drill can jam during the breach and the vault only remains open for a limited time.
Grow Nodes: Grid Workbenches can now build Grow Nodes, connecting Hideout crafting directly into the growing system.
Hideout TVs: TVs inside Hideouts and several properties can now play synchronized videos for everyone in the room.
Hideout Fridges: Hideouts can now use functional fridges to store food and drinks, including chilled drinks with improved effects.
Passenger Entry: Press G near a vehicle to enter an available passenger seat without taking over the driver's seat.
Phone Games: The phone now includes playable games such as Grid Worm, Grid Stack, Cipher Crack and Grid Breaker, with saved scores and leaderboards.
Dumpster Hiding: At lower wanted levels, players can climb into dumpsters and attempt to hide from pursuing police.
Vending Machine Loot: Punching vending machines can occasionally knock free food or drinks, but making too much noise can attract attention.

✦ CHANGED

GrowSync: The growing app has been expanded with crop status, alerts, field layouts, routes and saved growing information.
NetScan: NetScan has a redesigned radar interface, can detect security cameras and now uses a short handshake interaction before revealing its results.
Inventory: The inventory has received a major redesign with cleaner categories, search, sorting, new-item markers and a more consistent Blackout visual style.
Item Information: Hovering an item now gives much more useful information including its purpose, rarity, value, effects, weapon stats and important warnings.
Wardrobe: Clothing stores and property wardrobes now allow full outfit editing with live previews instead of random outfit changes.
Wanted HUD: The old escape card has been removed. Escape progress now appears beside the wanted stars, including dead-zone guidance during a 6-star lockdown.
Objectives HUD: The objective tracker now uses one cleaner card showing active objectives, their descriptions, progress and distance.
Vehicle HUD: Speed, fuel, gear, engine condition and refueling costs now use a new compact HUD card.
Drones: Drone combat has been heavily reworked across targeting, movement, vehicle protection, wrecks, salvage, event cleanup and performance.
Drone Wrecks: Shot-down drones now remain on the ground longer so players have time to search and salvage them after a fight.
Purge Signals: Purge Signals are back to a faster format: clear the hostile camp and participating fighters receive their own reward crate, with OVERRIDE remaining the stronger tier.
Purge Jammers: Signal jammers no longer remove your entire HUD. Instead they disrupt the minimap with static and NO SIGNAL until destroyed or escaped.
Supply Drops: Supply crate loot has been refreshed with more attachments, tools, tyres, utility gear and rare robbery equipment.
Grow Node Trading: Best Buds owners can now put Grow Nodes up for sale through Bud.
Joint HUD: Smoking now uses a redesigned card showing the joint burning down, remaining puffs and active healing time.
Gruppe Sechs Cash Cases: Regular Gruppe Sechs cash cases now sell for $250,000 at the Black Market, separating them from the main Package objective in Stacks heist.
Low-Level Police: At 1 and 2 stars, police now rely more heavily on nightsticks and only draw firearms once the suspect actually fires a weapon.
Phone Layout: BlackOS apps have received several presentation improvements, including cleaner Stacks plans, Holdings integration and improved GrowSync and message presentation.
Mask Use: Masks can now be equipped while inside vehicles using a seated animation.
X Vault Package Carrying: Large heist packages are now physically carried and occupy one of your carry slots, making the carrier clearly visible to other players.
Dax Jobs: Dax's work has been cleaned up with improved objectives, clearer property unlock information and once-per-life access instead of cooldowns.
Beachcomber: The mission now includes an armed jet-ski ambush after recovering the documents.
Battle Pass: The Battle Pass page has been redesigned around individual tiers, reward previews and clearer information about what each reward actually gives.
Store Robberies: Robbing a 24/7 or Ammu-Nation now requires deliberately aiming at the clerk and holding the robbery input instead of triggering from a stray aim.
Elevators: Hideout elevator panels now have a cleaner layout showing floor state, ownership and locked floors more clearly.
Leaderboard: The Z leaderboard has been redesigned to match the newer Blackout inventory and HUD style.
Carried Loot: Players carrying one X Vault bag can now still eat and drink because the bag is carried on their back.

✦ FIXED

Drone Combat: Fixed drones becoming invisible, frozen or impossible to shoot, along with several targeting issues involving dead players, vehicles, safe zones and nearby players.
Drone Swarm Rewards: Fixed duplicated or lost reward crates, reconnect issues, safe-zone interactions and several event cleanup problems.
Burglary Drones: Drones spawned during apartment burglaries now leave properly once the wanted level is lost.
Gruppe Sechs: Fixed multiple issues involving truck movement, guards, quiet entry, wanted behavior, door cutting and consecutive runs.
Gruppe Sechs Cutting: Fixed an issue where cutting the truck doors could overwhelm the player's connection and disconnect them.
Vangelico: Players far away from the Jewelry Heist no longer receive its local alerts, gas messages or Shop PC marker.
Hideouts: Fixed several issues involving jammer placement, furniture interaction, TV detection, lift floors and placement controls.
Wanted System: Fixed several situations where stars or X Grid drones could incorrectly prevent players from escaping, especially around tunnels and 6-star lockdowns.
Gang Jobs: Gang jobs now properly fail if the player dies, disconnects or redeploys outside their gang.
Inventory Search: Clicking or typing into inventory search no longer causes the bag to close unexpectedly.
Dax Objectives: Fixed several Dax missions not appearing properly in the HUD objective tracker or remaining after the mission had ended.
Marlow Objectives: City Service missions from Marlow now correctly show their objectives on the HUD.

EARLIER TRANSMISSIONS

PATCH

PATCH 0.9.8

SEP 28, 2026

A major gang-focused update, expanding how gangs progress, earn, work together and control their crew. Daily Gang Contracts, crew dealing, larger recruit limits, new gang jobs and improved contact boards are joined by Coastal Rescue, Weazel News, Vex's new BLINDSPOT contract, Dax payphone missions, a rebuilt Battle Pass, redesigned phone apps, mission reward cards and major HUD improvements. Open the full changelog below.

✦ NEW

Gang Contracts: Every gang now receives three shared daily objectives: Easy, Medium and Hard. Every member can contribute, with Cash and Gang Rep awarded to participating members when the gang completes a contract.
Crew Dealing: Gang recruits can now be sent out to sell weed on your turf. Dealers physically meet buyers, hold their own product and cash, and can be robbed, turning a normal sale into a street chase.
Hospital Pickup: Added a new gang job where one of your members needs a ride home from the hospital while a rival crew attempts to intercept you.
Coastal Rescue: Added a full lifeguard gig on Vespucci Beach.
Weazel News: Added a new photographer gig at Weazel News HQ.
Vex: Added a new Vex contract targeting X Grid surveillance cameras around the city.
Dax Payphones: Dax jobs are now accepted through payphones around the city and are connected to specific Proxy factions instead of being directly tied to property ownership.
Gruppe Sechs Run: Players who have met Stacks can now request the public Gruppe Sechs convoy directly through his mission board.
Mission Reward Card: Mission payouts now appear in one organized reward screen showing Cash, Character EXP, Faction EXP, Gang Rep, Favor, items and other rewards earned from the run.
Tag Progression: Spray Tags now contribute to new Tags Sprayed and Rival Tags Covered profile statistics, a Top Taggers leaderboard and new Battle Pass challenges.
Job HUD: Added a unified HUD card for jobs, showing the current objective, shift earnings and important job information in one consistent interface.

✦ CHANGED

Gang Crews: Recruit limits have been significantly increased. Higher gang classes can now build much larger crews, with Gang Leaders gaining additional recruit slots on top.
Crew Movement: Recruited gang members now travel with you across the city instead of returning home simply because you moved too far from their original block.
Gang Jobs: Several gang job payouts and Gang Rep rewards have been rebalanced.
Gang Job Board: Gang contacts now use a cleaner job board showing each activity, its reward, cooldown and availability instead of a long dialogue list.
Gang Contacts: Gang contact dialogue now uses the gang's own color, and several contacts have received new names.
Gang Jobs & Map Routes: Major gang jobs now use a unified route marker styled in your own gang's color, making active gang work easier to identify on the map.
Battle Pass: Daily and Weekly missions are now randomized from a much larger objective pool. Players can refresh unwanted missions, build a daily streak and complete special Blackout objectives for additional rewards.
X+ Battle Pass: X+ members receive additional Daily, Weekly and Blackout mission slots alongside their increased refresh allowance.
F1 Hub: The Home page has been rebuilt into a command center showing current city activity, Gang Standings, upcoming events and your property upkeep information.
Messages: The phone's Messages app has been rebuilt with a proper inbox, conversation threads, message previews, unread indicators, requests and contact search.
GPS: The GPS app has been redesigned around quick Nearby destinations and cleaner Property, Car Dealer and Job lists.
Motor Pools: Vehicle pools now open through conversations with the quartermaster, showing available vehicles, prices, rank requirements and outstanding return fees.
Coastal Rescue: Rescue calls, CPR, treatment, tower positions and the overall shift HUD have received a large presentation and interaction pass.
Weazel News: Breaking stories now arrive as real phone messages, photo uploads use the phone progress card, and story information is handled directly through the unified Job HUD.
Grid Customs: Window tint, liveries and Xenon colors can now be stepped through directly instead of randomized, with clearer visual selectors. X+ members also receive exclusive paint colors based on membership tier.

✦ FIXED

Server Performance: Major performance improvements were made to shelter stashes and X Vault inventory checks, reducing some of the server's heaviest thread hitches.
Kill Feedback: Downed players now settle into a proper death pose, and killers receive an immediate ELIMINATED confirmation with Cipher, range and headshot information.
Vehicle Trunks: Fixed cases where loot from a street vehicle could incorrectly spill onto the ground while the vehicle was still present.
Vangelico: Fixed the Jewelry Heist shop PC and wanted system after the mission moved to Stacks.
Pizza This: Runs can once again begin with any number of pizzas, and abandoning a shift now charges the correct penalty.
Property Safe: Dying while using your property Safe can no longer cause withdrawn money to disappear with your run wallet.
Vehicle Persistence: Vehicles you actively use are now much less likely to disappear after being parked or exited, with driven vehicles remaining protected for significantly longer.
Phone Navigation: Fixed navigation issues across the phone, including message cards, contact requests and the bottom quick-action row.

PATCH

PATCH 0.9.7

SEP 20, 2026

The city gets louder and dirtier. Spray tags mark your territory, apartments can be broken into and stripped, the Grid Convoy rolls out as a full moving world event, Beach Patrol takes Vespucci, Stacks steps up as a full Missions contact, and tyres, fake plates, elevators and a customizable quick menu rebuild how you move through the streets. Open the full changelog below.

✦ NEW

Spray Tags: Spray cans can now be used to leave persistent graffiti around the city. Choose from multiple tag styles, sizes and colours, paint over other players' work or scrub tags from walls.
Beach Patrol: Added a new City Service faction operating around Vespucci with three ranks, its own equipment, land vehicles, boats and the Home Water ability.
The Convoy: The Grid Convoy has become a full moving world event. Intercept an armored Gruppe Sechs transport, survive its guards and X Grid response, breach the cargo and escape with high-value Security Cases. City Service can instead escort the convoy for cash and XP.
Apartment Burglary: Apartments can now be broken into and searched for valuables. Small, Medium and High properties offer different loot and different levels of police and drone response, while burglaries during the Blackout can be completed without alerting the Grid.
Pizza This: Added a new civilian delivery job. Load pizzas onto your scooter, deliver orders before their promised time and protect the food to earn better tips before returning the bike to bank your earnings.
The Front Door: Alta Tower owners unlock a new Dax infiltration mission inside the X Grid bureau. Behavior matters more than firepower, with different escape routes depending on whether you keep your cover intact.
Contact High: Best Buds owners gain a new party operation centered around selling product while identifying undercover Grid agents hidden among the guests.
The Snatch: Feedline owners gain a new high-value target operation involving an X Grid commander, with both quiet and aggressive approaches available.
The Buy: Marlow now offers another undercover City Service operation where officers blend into a crowd, make the buy and move in for the arrest without blowing their cover.
Vehicle Tyres: Wheels can now be changed manually using a Car Jack Kit. Standard, Reinforced and Armored tyres have different resistance levels, and poorly installed wheels can loosen and eventually come off.
Tyre Shop: GRIP now sells tyres and wheel tools, with the option to buy tyres loose or have a complete set fitted directly to your vehicle.
Fake Plates: Fake license plates can now be created and fitted to vehicles, changing their registration and clearing the vehicle's stolen report.
BLACKOUT Class: X+ Blackout members now receive an exclusive locked Proxy class with a randomized masked identity, supercar, strong combat loadout and out-of-combat regeneration.
SWAT & FIB Air Support: Both factions now have dedicated rooftop helipads with their own Air Support quartermasters and helicopter pools.
New Elevators: Eclipse Towers, FIB Tower and Palomino Heights now use multi-floor elevator systems with proper floor selection instead of separate teleport points.
Custom Quick Menu: The ALT wheel can now be fully customized, letting you choose which actions, phone apps and shortcuts occupy each slot.

✦ CHANGED

Stacks: Stacks is now a full Missions contact focused on the equipment needed for major scores. The Vangelico Jewelry Heist has also moved under his progression instead of Dax's property missions.
Jewelry Heist: Vangelico received additional security pressure, stronger escape defenses and a limited window once Vex opens the doors, making getting out part of the robbery rather than just clearing the store.
Grid Convoy Rewards: Gruppe Sechs Security Cases are now worth significantly more, while getting them out safely requires surviving a much stronger moving X Grid response.
Meth Dealing: Gang members and ordinary pedestrians now use the same negotiation system when buying meth, with a maximum sale value of $30,000 per crystal.
Smoking: Joints are now persistent multi-use items with individual puffs remaining. They can be put out, relit later and passed between players, with shared smoking providing stronger effects.
Profile: The F1 profile has been rebuilt into an X Grid subject file showing your key statistics, behavior tags, threat profile and full record on one page.
SWAT & FIB Armories: Both departments received proper armorer NPCs and refreshed rank-based weapon selections.
City Service Armories: City Service factions can now use other department armories for support equipment such as cuffs, kevlar, tasers and parachutes, while weapons remain faction-specific.
Vex Services: Vex's abilities now live directly inside the phone's Abilities app with clearer pricing, requirements and cooldowns. Rearm is available from every Vex rank.
Dax Rewards: Major Dax jobs now have more distinct rewards tied to what the mission is actually about instead of repeatedly sharing the same reward pool.
X Vaults: Common vaults now contain more lower-value bags while the highest-tier vaults contain fewer, much more valuable bags for faster high-risk extractions.
Laptop: Hacker laptops can now be opened and used from inside vehicles, making mobile hacking possible while another player drives.

✦ FIXED

Dropped Items: Dropped items and X Vault bags now properly fall, bounce and roll through the world. Wherever the object physically comes to rest is where it can be picked up.
Trunk Loot: If a vehicle carrying player-stored items explodes or sinks, its cargo now spills onto the ground instead of disappearing with the vehicle.
X Vault Guards: Vault guards can no longer fire through solid walls and must establish actual line of sight before shooting.
One-Handed Aim: Pistol aiming while carrying two X Vault bags or a boombox works correctly again without causing duplicate shots.
Gang Brawls: Fixed recruits and rival fighters disappearing, dying too easily or incorrectly turning melee jobs into gunfights.
Apartment Missions: Owning any valid Small, Medium or High Apartment now correctly unlocks the corresponding Dax mission.
Taser: Stun Guns are properly non-lethal again and can incapacitate suspects without accidentally killing injured players or NPCs.
Respawning: Fixed an issue that could cause players to respawn at random GTA spawn locations with the wrong character model after dying.
Map & UI: Fixed numerous missing or incorrect map names, mission markers, shop labels and interface overlaps across the city.

PATCH

PATCH 0.9.6

SEP 13, 2026

The city moves into a much bigger criminal and hacker ecosystem. Bank robberies open through the Signal Bridge, real players can run remote hacks on PROXY OS, the Vangelico Jewelry Heist goes live, Dax gets new and reworked missions, Post OP adds the first full civilian job loop, and new factions, properties, XPay progression and world systems expand how you build your run. Open the full changelog below.

✦ NEW

The Getaway: High Apartment owners can now run a new Dax mission with Stacks. Complete the escape to earn the Signal Bridge, giving you access to your own bank robbery.
Bank Robberies: The Signal Bridge can now start full bank heists with vault access, deposit boxes, cash piles, police response and X Grid security. Four banks are now robbable around the city.
Player Hackers: Bank crews can now route a Signal Bridge to a real player's PROXY OS instead of using Vex. Skilled hackers can influence the vault window and help manage security during the robbery.
Vangelico Jewelry Heist: Stilt House owners can now launch a full jewelry robbery with armed security, breakable display cases, rare valuables, store lockdown systems and a public response once the heist goes loud.
Hacker Laptop: Added the Laptop and PROXY OS, featuring the PROXY SHELL, persistent workspace, movable windows and a Notes app for hacker operations.
Laptop Wallet: Hackers can link their XPay account to the laptop and transfer XCredits to another Cipher or saved contact without visiting a bank teller.
NetScan: A new BlackOS app for discovering and saving nearby XPay endpoints for use through PROXY OS.
Lester's House: A new hacker property with its own Safe, Stash and Wardrobe. Ownership unlocks advanced hacker access and the HACKER Proxy faction.
Hacker Faction: A new three-tier stealth-focused Proxy faction built around hacking, quiet movement and resistance to X Grid surveillance.
Post OP: A full courier job. Load your van, choose how many parcels to take, deliver them around the map and return the vehicle to collect your earnings.
Mercenaries: A new faction operating from the Elysian docks.
Gunrunner: Morris Hold now unlocks the Gunrunner Proxy faction with three ranks and escalating black-market weapon access.
Locked Supply Drops: Some Supply Drops can now require an Unknown Key and contain improved rewards. More drop locations have also been added around the map.
Vex Credit Line: Vex now offers long-term missions that permanently increase your XPay bank limit as you complete larger criminal milestones.
X Vault Response: High-tier X Vault raids can now trigger X Grid attack drones, raising the pressure around the most valuable vaults.
Abilities App: Property abilities are now available through a dedicated phone app showing their current availability and cooldowns.
Faction Abilities: Homeless, Militant, Lookout and Terrorist now have their own unique class abilities, and Budrunner's ability was rebalanced for between-fight recovery.

✦ CHANGED

Street Dealing: Selling valuables and drugs now runs on hidden price ranges and negotiation. Buyers make offers, and pushing for more money risks losing the deal.
Best Buds Run: The Medium Apartment mission is rebuilt into a Finder-based resupply run with escalating drone attacks and improved rewards.
Car Boost: Dax's Car Boost mission now includes armed guards, a Juggernaut carrying the vehicle key and a physical reward crate at the end.
Bank Heists: Deposit-box rewards, security response, vault interaction, police dispatch and overall heist presentation have been significantly expanded.
Post OP: Courier payouts, route guidance, loading, parcel handling, uniforms and vehicle return flow were reworked to make longer delivery runs more rewarding.
Garages: Purchased garages can now be sold for their full purchase price once emptied, and military vehicles can be stored in compatible garages and parking spots.
City Service Vehicles: Several department motor pools were refreshed, and LSPD now has access to a dedicated Police Maverick helipad.
Dealer Vehicles: Vehicles bought from dealers now come with reinforced tyres that resist light gunfire before eventually giving out.
Crystal Meth: Meth now provides both Health and Armor regeneration for 30 minutes, with armor recovery pausing during combat.
Injury: Severe injuries now reduce movement speed and prevent jumping until you recover or suppress the injury with Painkillers.
Sprint While Crouching: A new optional movement setting allows faster crouched movement while sprinting. Higher Stealth skill increases the speed.
Wanted System: At 1–2 stars, police use nightsticks against unarmed suspects and switch to firearms if you draw a gun.
Street Gangs: Gang members now deploy empty-handed and collect their weapons directly from their faction armory.
Alta Tower: Added a property ability that lets owners recall one of their stored garage vehicles to their location.
Property Perks: Best Buds now offers a Shop Van call-in, and Armenian Auto Yard owners gain free vehicle repair and heat-cleaning services.

✦ FIXED

Street Vehicle Loot: Street vehicles carrying your items are now protected from disappearing while temporarily unattended, with extra safeguards against lost stored loot.
Dropped Items: Pickup markers now follow items when they roll or fall, and dropped items and X Vault bags can be selected by looking directly at them.
World Event Rewards: Purge Signal and Drone Swarm reward drones now deliver crates directly to the player instead of dropping them somewhere unreachable.
Attack Drones: Drones can no longer fire through windows, walls or other solid cover.
X Vault Bags: Dropped bags now fall and settle properly instead of floating or disappearing through terrain.
Save & Quit: Resuming a saved Proxy Run now correctly restores your previous armor alongside your health and position.
Purge Signals: Players who genuinely contribute to clearing a Signal now receive their proper reward when the event completes.
Connection Stability: Fixed a server-side issue that could cause slower connections to time out shortly after joining.
Map & Interaction Fixes: Cleaned up incorrect event routing, map markers, pickup targeting, interaction ranges and several world collision issues.

PATCH

PATCH 0.9.5

SEP 5, 2026

The streets get more interactive. 24/7 stores can now be shopped, held up and cracked for a second score, Vex's Hit Contract moves to the new FINDER app, vehicle trunks switch to slot-based storage, food and healing get a full balance pass, and new world interactions, faction upgrades and performance fixes keep pushing the city forward. Open the full changelog below.

✦ NEW

24/7 Stores: 15 convenience stores are now fully interactive.
24/7 Robberies: Hold the clerk at gunpoint, empty the register and keep him covered before he fights back.
Back Safe: Every 24/7 has a larger score in the back. Bring a Drill to crack the safe for roughly $15,000–$30,000, with progress saved if you stop.
Robbery Dispatch: Store robberies now alert deployed City Services, who identify the robber by Cipher unless they're masked.
Drill: A reusable tool for cracking 24/7 safes.
FINDER: A live tracking app on the DOS phone with a directional arrow and distance to active mission targets. Minimize it and keep following the signal with the phone closed.
Enemy Health Bar: A new HUD setting lets you turn on a small floating health bar above NPCs you're fighting.
Quick Heal: The HEAL option on the Left-Alt quick dial now consumes a Medkit from your inventory.
Budrunner: The Best Buds property's Proxy Class is now BUDRUNNER, with a new look and a new BEST BUDS ability that lets Joints regenerate armor while high.
Bob's Watchtower Perk: Owners can now call in a Duster from the Sandy Shores airstrip on a 5-minute cooldown.
Mojito Inn: A new food location near Paleto selling burgers on foot or through a drive-through.
New Food: Added the Chicken Drumstick, Chocolate Bar and Protein Bar, each with different bonuses.
Character Voice: Your Proxy now speaks during more world interactions, using a voice that matches the character.
In-Car Trunk: Press U while seated in your vehicle to open its trunk without getting out.

✦ CHANGED

Hit Contract: Rebuilt around FINDER. Vex gives you a search area and a roaming target instead of a map marker, now paying up to $10,000.
Wanted Suspect: Marlow's fugitive no longer gets a map blip, FINDER now guides you to the suspect.
Vehicle Trunks: Storage is now slot-based, with capacity depending on the vehicle.
Medkits: Patch-up time drops from 7 seconds to 5, and now leaves you regenerating health for a full minute.
Peddling: Low-value street goods now have a minimum base value of $1,000.
Air Drop Run: Each flight now sends you to 5–8 random coastal drops paying around $25,000 to $40,000.
Building Raid: The reward stash now carries an SMG instead of a pistol, and no longer destroys the crate when closed.
Status HUD: The optional STATUS card is now a compact one-line layout with identity, Sprint, Hunger, cash and nearby players.
DOS Phone: GPS and Messages now use sharper tactical cards, and long message pop-ups expand properly.
City Service Phone: City Services now use a blue phone theme across Missions, Radio and Quick Actions.
Grid Captain's Office: Owners now get recruitment discounts at selected City Service pads.
Food & Drinks: Consumables rebalanced so meals, snacks and drinks have clearer strengths and durations.
Food Shops: Generic food stands have been replaced with proper named restaurants, some now offering drive-through service.
Armor Rewards: Scout, Medic and Bulwark carriers no longer appear in reward crates. Existing carriers remain sellable as salvage.

✦ FIXED

Event Performance: Purge Signals, X Vaults and Drone Swarms optimized to reduce crashes and FPS drops.
Courier Run: Dying inside the mission van now drops your gear into a body bag instead of losing it.
Personal Stash: Medkits and Masks now stack correctly instead of creating duplicate tiles.
Gang Jobs: Fixed missing enemies, bad spawns and stuck route markers in Brawls and Stash Hits.
Air Drop Run: Removed unreachable coastal drop points outside the flight boundary.
World Collision: Blocked several broken world-collision spots that let players into invalid areas.

PATCH

PATCH 0.9.4

SEP 2, 2026

The factions get their teeth. Armories are rebuilt for fast deployment, armor drops to a lean 0–100 bar, and Vex and Marlow line up fresh contracts and city dispatch. New apartments, boats and dealers crack open the map, X Vaults start shooting back, and masks, drones and loading are finally cleaned up. Open the full changelog below.

✦ NEW

Vex Contract: Scrap It A quick, low-risk starter contract, find the marked vehicle and destroy it any way you like.
Marlow: City Dispatch City Services now get their own missions through Marlow, including Wanted Suspect (bring a fleeing suspect in alive) and Hostile Clearance (raid a hostile crew).
More Apartments: 16 new apartments (7 Small, 6 Medium, 3 High), now labelled on the GPS by street or area.
Boat Parking: 18 free boat spots around the coast, so owned boats can be stored and retrieved like cars.
Boat Dealer: A new dealer near Paleto Cove, $3,000 for a random boat, from basic to rare.
Bars: Four bars now sell Beer for a small armor boost, one has a stronger drink that fully restores armor.
Best Buds Shop: A working weed shop for seeds, joints and weed, owners can stock it and earn through the Safe.
Recruitment: Sheriff & Highway Patrol Both can now be joined at world locations without owning their property.
Private Event Reward Crates: Purge Signals and Drone Swarms now give each player their own crate instead of one shared one.
XPay: Transfer to Contacts Send XCredits straight to a phone contact instead of typing their Cipher ID.

✦ CHANGED

Armor System: Wearable armor is gone, armor is now a simple 0–100 bar. Refill at Ammu-Nation ($5,000), with Beer, or with Meth, and old carriers can be sold as salvage.
The Armory: Redesigned for faster deployment, with weapons split into Primary, Secondary and Extra and clear rank locks. Gangs fit attachments as items, City Services get gear issued directly.
City Service Deployment: Most City Services now deploy unarmed and pick up gear from their armory (LSPD, SWAT, FIB, Detectives, Military, Sheriff, Highway Patrol).
City Service Motor Pools: Department vehicles are free with no loss fee, one active vehicle per unit, return it before taking another.
Faction Select: Rebuilt Proxy Faction screen with search, AVAILABLE / YOUR PROPERTY / LOCKED tabs, cleaner cards and a Redeploy Last shortcut.
Gang Equipment: Gangs with a turf armory now rely on their territory for gear, and armories are expanded and unique per faction.
Aztecas: Removed as a selectable faction, with remaining gangs adjusted so they still have rivals.
X Vault: Vault guards now shoot back when attacked from range. Normal heat caps at 5 stars, with 6-star Lockdown kept for the toughest raids.
The Sweep: Reaching a secured Sweep spot now blocks most of the event's screen effects, which return when you step back out.
Gang Jobs: Better pay, Brawl $5,000 + 50 XP and Stash Hit $25,000 + 250 XP, plus extra street weapons in Stash Hit crates.
Best Buds Property: Green Cross is replaced by Best Buds near Legion Square, a walk-in with Safe, Wardrobe and weed equipment.
Clothes Shops: Cleaned-up clothing pools. New Identity now removes your mask, Change Clothes keeps it, and a fitting animation plays.
Map & GPS: Cleaner map icons, names and colors across services, irrelevant faction markers hidden, and GPS categories reorganized.
Supply Drops: Looting a Supply Drop briefly flashes its location to everyone, so others can contest what's left.
Aircraft Parking: Helicopters can now use plane spots, planes still can't use helipads.
Speed Cap: The Speed Cap now follows your HUD units, KPH for KPH players, MPH unchanged.
XPay Breach: Breaches now hit real ATMs worldwide, the chosen ATM is briefly disabled, then returns to normal.
Beach House: Floyd's Apartment is renamed Beach House, ownership is unaffected.

✦ FIXED

X Vault Bags: Dropped X Vault bags now land properly instead of floating or falling through the floor.
Drone Swarm Performance: Drone Swarms no longer cause a heavy FPS drop, with lighting optimized.
Loading Screen: Fixed the loading screen sticking at 100% READY over character select.
Gang Stash Hit: Defenders and the reward stash now spawn in reliable, reachable spots.
Mission Route Blips: Gang and mission route markers now clear on completion and show clearer target info.
FIB Elevators: FIB elevators now work both ways and use the proper sequence instead of teleporting.
Elite Deployment: Fixed Elite wrongly saying you don't own the Stilt property on first deploy.
Save & Quit: Vehicle factions now resume on foot with their saved health, not in a fresh full-health vehicle.
Marked Goods: Marked goods no longer lose their wanted heat when carried through tunnels.
Squad Roster: The Squad roster now hides while the map or expanded minimap is open.
HUD Names: Long character names now fit the HUD instead of being cut off.
Supply Drop Distance: Faction supply drops now always spawn a meaningful distance from you.
Native Weapon Pickups: NPC-dropped weapons no longer jump into your hands, use normal loot instead.
Map Markers: Fixed unnamed, mis-colored or stuck markers across shops, garages and services.
The Rush: Inventory use can no longer interrupt The Rush while it's active.

PATCH

PATCH 0.9.3

29/08/2026

A heavy pass on world interaction, vehicles, property management, the phone and combat, with XPay Banks, the Property Ledger, ParkNet and dozens of cleanups. Open the full changelog below.

✦ NEW

XPay Banks: Full-service banks now let you transfer XCredits to another player by their Cipher ID, on top of normal deposits and withdrawals. ATMs stay available for basic banking; transfers are bank-only.
Property Selling: Sell a property straight from its Safe for the purchase price back in cash, any money left inside the Safe is lost, and rebuying carries a cooldown.
Property Ledger: The old /upkeep is now the Property Ledger, showing every property you own, individual and total upkeep, how many you hold and a countdown to the next collection. Pacific Standard Office unlocks remote Safe deposits via XPay.
Stash Improvements: Hover the KITS button to equip a saved loadout instantly, plus a new SORT option to organize stash tabs by category, rarity, name, quantity or value.
Random Car Shop: Pay $25,000 for one random vehicle, usually normal, rarely something far harder to find.
Ammu-Nation Armory: Every Ammu-Nation adds an armor station, buy a Scout Armor Carrier for $5,000 or repair your worn armor for $2,500.
Free Plane Parking: Park aircraft for free at dedicated spots around LSIA, Sandy Shores, Grapeseed and the military base.
Player Messages: Incoming messages and contact requests now create phone message cards while your phone is closed, press E to jump straight into the message or request.
ParkNet: The Garage system moves into BlackOS as ParkNet (10,000 CR, one-time), showing every garage, the vehicles stored inside and a waypoint for each.
Emote Keybinds: Assign emotes to 9 custom keybind slots, with new Favorites, Recents and improved global Search.
/help: A new command with a quick reference for key features, common commands, the website, Discord and the full FAQ.
Recovery Locations: A second Recovery Aircraft Rental in Grapeseed, plus extra Recovery Vehicle Rentals outside Los Santos.

✦ CHANGED

Peddling Rework: Street sales no longer instantly become police reports, offers can lead to sales, refusals, theft attempts, fights or special buyers, and some peds point you toward a better buyer with no guarantees. District value still matters.
Missions: Vex missions now grant Faction XP (Hit +50, Building Raid +75, Courier +100, Air Drop +100). Building Raid pays $10,000 (up from $5,000) with one mini-boss and leaves a loot stash instead of removing you instantly.
City Services: Police, SWAT, FIB, Detectives, Sheriff, Highway Patrol, Military and Security can now buy and own properties (Safe + perks) but can't use property Stashes, New Identity, home wardrobes or masks. Services can also ride as passengers in each other's vehicles.
Scuba Equipment: Scuba sets are now persistent items that keep their own air %, shown on the tile, stashing no longer refills them, and they can be dropped and picked up without losing air.
Armor: Scout 70, Medic 85 and Bulwark 100 armor; each carrier is now an individual item with its own durability, keeping existing bonuses.
Ammo: Looted ammo now feeds the reserve of the weapon you're holding, weapons show loaded rounds on their card, and carry limits still scale by ammunition type.
Repairs: Vehicle shops now offer Full Repair ($5,000, includes body damage) or Mechanical Repair ($2,000, leaves body damage). Aircraft repair drops to $6,000 with larger interaction zones.
Recovery Rentals: The Tow Truck is now free to take (fee only if lost), the Slamtruck costs $5,000 and Recovery Aircraft cost $10,000 with a $30,000 loss fee; returns stay free.
Squad: Max squad size drops from 15 to 10, and the roster is now part of Adjust HUD, move, resize and hide it like other elements.
Phone: Quick Actions reordered to Flashlight / Autopilot / Redeploy / Save & Quit, Garages moved to ParkNet, the old Properties app was removed, and the phone now works while driving.
X Vault: High-tier Vaults are rarer and build more Wanted pressure, top Gold, Diamond and Unknown Vaults can trigger instant 6-Star Lockdown.
Gang Jobs: Stash Hits now target a random rival gang, and defenders focus on you and your crew instead of their own members.
Gang Identity: Gang characters can change clothes but can't use civilian New Identity disguises or home wardrobes; several female gang pools were redesigned for a connected look.
Speed Cap: /speedcap now opens an interactive on-screen control and eases the vehicle down smoothly instead of slamming to a near-stop.
Vehicle Damage: Fuel leaks now start only when the tank is genuinely damaged, light damage no longer drains fuel.
Stolen Vehicle Heat: Wanted levels now scale by vehicle, bicycles none, ordinary cars low, aircraft, supercars and military progressively higher.
Weed: Rolling a Joint now needs 1 gram of Weed instead of 2.
Leaderboards: Now default to your Cipher ID instead of your real name (revealable in settings); private profiles still appear but can't be opened. Best Money Run still tracks the largest single-life business-safe haul.
World Weather: Weather is now synchronized server-wide, with smoother, more natural storm transitions.

✦ FIXED

Voice Communication: Proximity, Radio and Squad voice are restored through a single reliable voice layer.
Property Prices: Fixed properties charging the old amount while showing a new price, displayed and actual prices now match.
Property Loading: Entering or respawning inside a property no longer drops you through the floor before the interior loads.
Vehicle Dealer Deliveries: Purchased vehicles, especially large aircraft, no longer explode on delivery, and LSIA plane spawn positions were fixed.
Scuba Vehicle Collision: Attached scuba gear no longer launches vehicles, and dropped tanks no longer interfere with passing traffic.
Vehicle Trunks: Stackable items like ammo and Weed Bags now stack correctly instead of creating duplicate entries.
Phone & Chat: Opening chat now closes the phone first, so keyboard input no longer leaks into vehicle and character controls.
Faction Abilities: Military Command's Combat Resupply now loads ammo into your held weapon, and Ballas Street Rush triggers only from being shot.
Injury While Driving: Low health no longer removes steering control, injuries give visual feedback but keep you in control.
Property Perk Vehicles: Vehicles spawned through property perks are no longer treated as stolen.
Issued Vehicles: Your faction deploy vehicle stays recognized as yours after entering an interior.
Body Bag Loot: Take All now collects the cash even if another item in the bag can't be taken.
BlackOS Purchases: Fixed apps failing to purchase during a Proxy Run.
Leaderboard Privacy: Using your Cipher ID now truly hides your real name behind the entry.
Visual & UI Fixes: Cleaned up the HUD, maps, inventory prompts, deploy screens, faction cards and property interfaces.

PATCH

PATCH 0.9.2

24/08/2026 · 07:22

Apartment missions, hunger, a HUD & minimap overhaul, autopilot, gang jobs and more. Open the full changelog below.

✦ NEW

Apartment Missions: Small and Medium Apartments now unlock their own Dax missions.
Hunger: Food now matters, with bonuses for staying fed and penalties for running empty.
HUD & Minimap: Expanded minimap, separate layouts and hide/show options for HUD cards.
Gang Jobs: More gangs now have their own shotcallers, brawls and stash-hit missions.
Autopilot: Travel to waypoints automatically with supported vehicles and aircraft.
Handcuff Escape: Work your way out while officers aren't watching.
Rocket Ammo: Launchers now require ammunition from a new hidden dealer.
GPS: Shops and vehicle services are now easier to find.
Name & Gender Changes: Change your identity through F1 Settings using tokens.

✦ CHANGED

Ammo: New carry limits for each ammunition type.
Property Economy: Prices, upkeep and Safe capacities rebalanced.
Building Raid: New interior with a smaller, tougher enemy crew.
Air Drop Run: Now handled by Vex and available to everyone.

✦ FIXED

The Sweep: Now properly damages Proxy players.
X Vault Bags: Fixed bags causing vehicles/NPCs to disappear.
Vehicle Trunks: Items now stack correctly.
Death Loot: Mid-air loot bags now fall safely to the ground.

PATCH

PATCH 0.9.1

18/08/2026 · 00:52

Apartment missions, buyable businesses, marked goods, new valuables and a batch of fixes. Open the full changelog below.

✦ NEW

Apartment Missions: Apartments can now come with their own unique missions, starting with Bob's Watchtower. More apartments will receive their own mission givers over time.
Sweep Safe Houses: Temporary hideouts now open during The Sweep.
Businesses: Buy businesses around the map and earn extra money from your sales.
Marked Goods: Stolen goods and vehicles can now carry Wanted Stars and must be cleaned before selling.
New Valuables: Added 17 new street valuables plus expanded loot across crates, vehicles, bodies and events.
Bolt Cutter: Skip the Supply Crate lockpick minigame while holding one.

✦ CHANGED

Property Garages: Garage capacities rebalanced and entrances now have access panels.
ATMs: Interaction moved to [U].
Loot: Supply crates, Drone Swarms, Purge Signals, car boots and bodies now have more valuable variety.
Cash Caches: Cash stashes now use money bags instead of bin bags.
Audio Balance: Reduced the volume of several voice lines and voice-acted sounds that were previously too loud.

✦ FIXED

Carried Bags: Money bags and X Vault bags no longer disappear inside vehicles or interiors.
Voice: Fixed character-select open mics and Radio/Squad voice getting stuck or becoming inaudible.
Drones: Fixed destroyed drones freezing in the air and surveillance drones clipping into buildings.
Properties: Police and unauthorized players can no longer follow you through walk-in property doors.
Purge Signals: Fixed cleared signals appearing active and loot caches disappearing at completion.
Wanted Timer: STAY HIDDEN now displays the correct remaining escape time.

PATCH

PATCH 0.9.0

15/08/2026 · 18:22

Stack splitting, saved loadouts, department radios, property garages, and a long list of fixes. Open the full changelog below.

✦ NEW

Stack Splitting: Split stackable items with SHIFT + Drag.
Saved Loadouts: Save and instantly pull gear kits from Apartment Stashes.
Smart Restock: SHIFT + R now sorts items back into the correct stash tabs.
Street Interest: Weed & Meth selling now includes buyer activity and gang hotspots.
Phone Quick Actions: Save & Quit, Deploy, Flashlight and Radio.
Department Radios: Private channels for all City Services.
Property Garages: Selected properties now include bonus vehicle storage.
Grid Customs: New paints, color previews and SHIFT + Color Key to step backward through colors.

✦ CHANGED

Supply Drops: Common crates are easier to spot; Rare crates are harder to find.
Fuel Leaks: Vehicle fuel loss now scales with tank damage.
Property Safes: Safe-Balance must now be checked directly at the property.

✦ FIXED

Radio & Squad Voice: Voice communication now works correctly.
Inventory: Fixed item loss, attachments and insured-item issues.
X-Track: Fixed signals disappearing after vehicle retrieval.
Death Loot: Fixed loot being stored in the wrong vehicle.
Jerry Cans: Fixed duplicate pickup interactions.
Property Garages: Fixed garages requiring a relog after purchase.

✦ X+ MEMBERSHIP

Saved Loadout Slots: Extra slots based on membership tier.
Signature Death Bag: X+ members now drop a unique death bag.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Welcome to The Blackout

JUL 28, 2026

The lights are on. The rules are gone. You wake up in a borrowed body with no safe way out, only the city, the hunt, and whatever you can take from it. Survive long enough to find your way back.

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