The Diamond Casino is the best update we've gotten in years

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I was so afraid they would ruin the update in some way, but no, this update is the one we’ve been asking for since we discovered the casino with it’s Opening Soon banner in 2013. There’s just so much here and it answers a lot of huge requests the community have been asking for.

-We got the casino itself finally, and while we didn’t get Texas Hold’Em, the games we did get are really enjoyable, especially since they can all be played with other players adding a social experience in sessions. You can actually make money from the casino, which we were all afraid they would limit it, but no, they let players have at it, even massive million dollar jackpots. And there’s systems in place to keep from overgambling, with a 50k chip purchase limit every 48 minutes. It should be adjusted so money from Shark Cards cannot be used in the casino though.

-The casino comes with amazing penthouses, which are the best property we’ve gotten yet. They’re honestly x1000000 better than the yachts, cheaper too. You can change your hairstyle in them, play blackjack and arcade minigames, enjoy the spa, go to an indoor theater, and more. You can even customize them with the artworks you buy in the casino store!

-WE GOT ZERO NEW WEAPONIZED VEHICLES! They actually listened after the complaints of After Hours. Instead we got…

-A lot of new and amazing cars. Course the majority of them are dripfeed, but when they do come out, they’re gonna be beautiful cars.

-PASSIVE POPPING IS GONE! (Insert Crab Rave here) With the Diamond Casino, R* destroyed passive poppers. Can no longer go into Passive Mode with a weaponized vehicle, and if you just killed a player you gotta wait two minutes before you can go into passive mode, and passive mode has a five minute cooldown inbetween uses. Took them long enough. In fact tryhards got nerfed overall as now you can ghost as an Org and MC now, and can ghost after being killed twice instead of three times, and ghosting now lasts five minutes versus the two it originally did.

-The parking garage inside the casino is shared, so you can do car meets in the safety of the casino now

-Nightclub Management missions give 25% popularity now instead of 10%, so now it’s actually worth it to do those missions and increase your nightclub’s popularity

All and all, this is just a really damn good update, and we needed one after the mess that was Arena Wars seven months ago. What makes me the most happy is the fact R* actually listened to the playerbase and addressed several problems in the patch, and gave us the big thing we’ve wanted since vanilla. I hope this is a sign of updates to come for GTAO. As for me, I got a roulette table with my name on it.

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Agree with all of it. But we did get a single weaponized vehicle. The Armored Paragon R. It has some pretty decent machine guns in the grill. It doesn’t stack up with the big boys, but it’s a great drive.

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I like how they streamlined the interaction menu. Small change, but they grouped the terrorbyte, moc and avenger together on a submenu.

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Where / how do I custom penthouse after I buy the art

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I agree! Loving it, all except for the requirement of two or more players for Casino missions. I’d much rather run them solo, or at least have to option to.

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Probably the best part of the update is that there is no business that came with it.

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Yeah. this makes me wish for an update that’s entirely focused on just leisurely activities. Restaurants, new strip clubs, new movie theaters, mini games like basketball, volleyball, skateboarding, surfing, hunting, camping, snorkeling for lost treasure, etc.

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I could barely sleep last night I was so excited, just as good as gunrunning

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No doubt I’ll get downvoted for disagreeing but this is supposed to be a discussion so I’ll throw my thoughts out there.

Honestly, rather disappointed.

I really enjoy the games, with friends. A few of us that like to play casinos IRL got online and played together last night (sort of, but I’ll come back to that), and we really enjoyed it. All the games were really fun to play and enjoy with your friends. Having said that, I’m not likely to go in on my own and spend hours just sat there.

The penthouse though, not quite as big a waste of money as the yacht, but christ it’s close. It’s very much a pure aesthetic thing designed to take your money. I was hoping for something useful from it, the office I thought would’ve been great to have finally introduced a remote resupply option for the bunker/MC businesses buying supplies, but I guess not. And the fact that you have to host each mission to be able to progress is frankly, bullshit. I’ve done Loose Cheng more times than I can be bothered to count and she’s still calling me with the same bullshit message every 5 minutes.

Don’t get me wrong there are things they’ve done well in this update, but as far as content goes, with things to do, it’s restricted at best.

While I mention restricted, the fact that R* didn’t even bother to find a way to implement the games so that everyone could be involved tells me they’re just about done with this game. Which is fine, its a 6 year old game and they have RDO to push for the next few years. I just feel they definitely didn’t put as much into this as they could have. And for anyone that wants to pipe up “oh you can just use a VPN”, although it doesn’t effect me, thats a bullshit answer. Some people (particularly console players) don’t have the time or the means to set up a VPN to be able to play a handful of games. Yes its a solution but its not always going to be a practical one for everyone.

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My only personal issue is that the casino work missions in freemode when you call her up dont pay as much as VIP work or terrorbyte client missions but overall im loving it

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I really wish there was an option to get like 500,000 chips once every month or something. I get the whole over-gambling thing, but I have a penthouse, and a VIP membership to the high rollers table. It doesn’t make sense for me to have access to the high rollers lounge and not be able to play like a high roller. I would be ok if there was like a prompt that was like “If you purchase 500K now you won’t be able to purchase any amount of chips for 30 days”. If shark card money can’t be used, and it’s my virtual money, why can’t I gamble as much virtual currency as I want?

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I will consider it perfect once they add the Texas holdem from RDR2.

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They also removed the advanced handling flag that gave certain cars (like the Itali GTO) annoying bouncy suspensions.

I really love this DLC.

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I totally disagree…

This dlc is the worst dlc ever! It’s so boring and before we reach a week many people have nothing to do…

It’s really not fun at all… the only thing that’s good as usual is cars so we’ll keep an eye on weekly basis…

I give this dlc 2 out of 10

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I haven’t been this excited to play since day 1.

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Fuck I have to download this again

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Cant wait to hit a jackpot and be a responsible mk2 user

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All they need is nerf Deluxo and Opressor missiles and then killing people will be at least a little bit harder.

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I passionately disagree. It’s okay. Maybe even good. But it’s no Bikers.

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I so want to play GTA Online but I’m on a vacation for my brother’s coding camp and his Quakecon. :frowning: I have to wait until Sunday.