Grid Archive

No name. No rules. No one coming to save you. The first choice the Grid puts in front of you is the only one that matters: who do you want to be?

San Andreas has gone dark. No law worth the word, no line you can't cross, no one to answer to. This is a lawless PVP city: every block is contested, every player is a threat or a mark, and the only thing standing between you and the street is the face you choose to wear.

The second you drop in, and any time after, you pick a Proxy Faction to run as. Not a skin. A whole identity, with its own way of taking the city:

• Signature ability: one power that's yours alone. It defines how your faction fights, moves, or survives.
• Unique skills: a kit built around that ability. No two factions play the same.
• Style loadout: weapons and tools matched to a way of playing, not a generic starter pack.
• Faction clothing: a look that tells the street exactly who just walked in.

Pick Your Face

One faction rushes. One hides. One deals. One hunts the people who do. There's no "right" pick, only the one that fits how you want to run the city. The roster is always open: switch runs whenever you want and wear a different identity for a different night.

How You Unlock Them

Some faces are open to everyone. Others you have to buy your way into, or dig out of the city yourself.

• Free factions: open from your very first spawn. Enough to fight, earn, and start carving out a name.
• Property-locked factions: take an apartment in the right block and the faction behind it opens up. Your address is your access.

A Proxy is not a class, It is a life you borrow.

Every Proxy Run drops you into the city under a different identity, with its own starting point, faction and opportunities.

Some files are open immediately, Others only appear once you have earned the right reputation or access.

Choose the name, Take the run, See how far that life gets you.

Faction Standing

Every faction remembers you separately.

Build a name with the Ballas, and the Families may still treat you like nobody. Reputation, levels, and unlocks stay with the faction that gave them to you.

Who trusts you depends on who you worked for.

Unlock New Runs

Not every identity is available from the start.

Some Proxy files require faction levels. Others depend on properties, progress, or things hidden deeper in the city. The more paths you explore, the more identities begin to open.

One city, Dozens of lives, No single path through it.

Every few hours, the Grid changes its rules and starts cleaning the city.

The Sweep is an automated X Grid purge cycle. Surveillance shifts from observation to enforcement, exposed players become targets, and the streets turn hostile until the cycle is complete.

It usually activates every 4-5 hours, you can't stop it, You can only prepare for it, or use it.

The Cycle

Use the Cycle

The Sweep was built to remove threats, that doesn't mean you can't benefit from it.

Wanted levels are disrupted, players disappear into the chaos, and loot becomes available that cannot be found during normal Grid operation.

Know when the Sweep is coming. Decide whether you hide from it or move with it.

Cross the line and the Grid starts watching. How you move decides how fast it locks on.

Stolen vehicles, reported bodies, and active crime scenes can all generate heat. The bigger the score, the stronger the response. But the Grid still needs to confirm you as the threat, and your behavior can make that easy or difficult.

Move Clean

• Reckless: speed, collisions, and property damage push your heat up fast.
• Low Profile: drive normally, stay controlled, and give surveillance less to flag.
• High-End Scores: valuable vehicles attract more attention once you're confirmed.

Hide Your Face

Masks interfere with the Grid's facial read. If surveillance can't clearly identify you, it takes longer to confirm the target and loses track faster.

Cover up before the job, not after.

Almost everything you bring out of the city can become cash. The question is who wants it, and where.

Loot, salvage, stolen goods, product, and other valuables can be moved through NPC buyers across the city. Prices change by location, and so does the risk.

Pick Your Market

Move Product

Drugs work differently.

Alongside regular dealers, gang members on the street may buy directly from you. Different crews want different product, and stepping onto their turf with a full stash always carries a risk.

Know who you're approaching before you start selling.

Vex doesn't sell access, she makes you earn it.

Reach her through the GridLink or the QuickMenu (ALT) and you'll find favors waiting. Complete enough of them, and she starts trusting you with things most players never get to use.

Her Favors

• Find Them: track the target from a description and location. Find them. Finish it.
• Clear the Warehouse: enter the marked warehouse, clear the resistance, and leave the place empty.
• Hot Cargo: move an explosive vehicle without wrecking it. One bad impact can end the run instantly.

Earn Her Trust

Every completed favor pushes you further into Vex's network. With enough trust, she can reveal hidden locations, expose Black Market contacts, interfere with surveillance drones, clean reported vehicles, and unlock other tools buried deeper in the Grid.

The more useful you become, the more she lets you see.

The city is not a checklist. Step outside, follow a lead, and see what is still out there.

San Andreas is full of people who can change your run, if you find them. Dealers working out of sight. Contacts with work that never reaches the public feed. Strangers who know a shortcut, a score, or a door that only opens for the right person.

Off the Path

Not every opportunity arrives through the GridLink. Some appear when you wander into the right block, hear the right rumor, or take a turn that is not marked on the map. Keep moving. Talk to people. Pay attention to what the city is not advertising.

There Is Always More

There is no final route through the city and no clean list of everything waiting in it. More dealers, more jobs, more contacts, more trouble, the world keeps opening as you live in it. Your run is what you choose to chase.

Two powers rule the ruins, and they despise each other. Everyone else fights for the scraps.

The X

The corporation that owns San Andres: the Grid, the banks, the law. Side with them and the city stops hunting you: doors open, limits lift, protection most survivors never know. They don't cage you. They reward you for letting them watch.

The Ashen

What's left of the ones who fought the machine. The name is everywhere now and means almost nothing: believers, opportunists, and killers all wear it. Stand with them and you stand against the X. Just don't mistake them for family. They keep you alive because you're worth keeping alive.

The In-Between

Traders, scavenger packs, gangs, and wolves, each running their own corner of the dark. Build standing, pick enemies, and survive long enough to matter. In the end, the city makes you choose a side. It remembers what you pick.

A few of the faces behind the Shelter door. There are more, hidden deeper.

• Marlow: Handler, Ashen. Runs the Shelter. Weary, sharp, tired of burying people. He'll teach you to survive and quietly work out why the X wants you alive.
• Vex: Hacker, remote. A voice inside the Grid who clears stars, cleans plates, and moves cars for a price. Knows more than she says.
• Dax: Identity Handler. Deals in the names of the dead. Cold, careful, never quite on your side.
• Brix: Bartender. Runs the Slate, pours drinks, trades rumors. Hears everything first.
• Sable: Armory. Blunt ex-soldier who keeps the Shelter armed.
• Tully: Crafting bench. Gentle, nervous, good with his hands.