GTA Online: Goodbye Down The Drain cardboard, you claimed the lives of so many (Picture: Rockstar)

Rockstar released a hefty DLC update for GTA 5 Online today, which makes some small but very important changes to day-to-day criminality in Los Santos.

The Beach Bum pack is the main thrust of the update, bringing a host of new weapons, vehicles and missions that you can read about here.

There are some salient pieces of information at the foot of the mini-expansion however, namely:

• The Bad Sport penalty for destroying personal vehicles has been reduced significantly.


(So feel free to helicopter grappling hook players’ cars into the water to your heart’s content)

• Removed some instances of debris in specific Races, including the cardboard from the ‘Down the Drain’ Race.



(Yes, that cardboard, the stuff that has sent you careening off up the side of the sewer at the last minute)

• Restricted cars and vehicles that have been added to player garages through exploits have been removed. This includes tanks, helicopters and police vehicles.

(Say goodbye to those army vehicles you spent hours glitching into your garage)

GTA Online – Beach Bum update is finally here

And the rest of the ‘dynamic tuning’…

• The following vehicles have been added to the southernsanandreassuperautos.com website in-game: BF Dune Buggy, Canis Bodhi, Karin Rebel, Maibatsu Sanchez 2, Vapid Sadler, Vapid Sandking SWB.

• The GTA$ and RP rewards for Races, Deathmatches and Parachuting are now based on the average time they take to complete.

• Players now receive GTA$ and RP rewards when failing a cooperative Job or being a member of the losing team during a Versus Mission, depending on how long the Job / Mission lasts.

• Players now receive a bonus GTA$ multiplier for Missions when played at the higher difficulty levels (Normal = 1.25, Hard = 1.5).

• In Team Deathmatch, all players on a team now receive the same GTA$ and RP rewards, with the winning team getting roughly 4-5x what the losing team receives.

• Deliveries from Pegasus have been reduced from $1,000 to $200.

• The cost of removing a wanted level by calling Lester has now been scaled based on the amount of stars you have – at a cost of $200 per star.

• To eliminate any remaining vehicle loss issues, an additional automatic cloud save will occur when purchasing a vehicle or vehicle modification.