The latest update for GTA Online has been released. Los Santos Drug Wars features six wild new story missions about players helping an outlandish group of new arrivals to Southern San Andreas establish a fledgling business venture running high-grade hallucinogenic out of a new mobile headquarters. Today, the opening chapter of the story update has been released. Los Santos Drug Wars brings in the brand-new acid lab business, new vehicles, an array of experience improvements, and more much in the upcoming weeks and months.

Los Santos Drug War is all about the group known as the Fooliganz, led by Dax, recently released from prison and looking to put himself back on the map after things have changed while being in prison. The Fooliganz are less of a gang and more of a tight-knit family of misfits that features ravers, addicts, and outcasts of all stripes.

This includes Luchadora, a metalhead wrestler who found community in the Foolignaz and rose through the ranks to become the second-in-command. Labrat is the gang’s resident chemist. He will help players get the operation up and bubbling. Ron Jakowski is so paranoid that friends say he lines the inside of his bucket hat with aluminum foil. With Trevor gone, he’s discovered the seedy psychedelic underworld of the Fooliganz. He gets in touch with players with an invitation to join the circus.

The opening chapter for Los Santos Drug Wars, First Dose, has players steal the MTL Brickade 6×6, a heavy-duty vehicle that includes the Maibatsu Manchez Scout C motorcycle which can be used in freemode and helps deliver Acid product. Once the necessary lab equipment gets acquired, the MTL Brickade 6×6 becomes your HQ to make your own party drops on the go. Getting the Acid lab upgrade at The Freakshop, the Foolignaz’s base of operations, will let players source the ingredients, either by ordering supplies or procuring them using brute force. Then you manufacture and sell the product.

The Freakshop is located under the Los Santos Highway. Players can access a Weapon workshop to upgrade their arsenal, as well as modify the MTL Brickcade 6×6 and Maibatsu Manchez Scout C.

GTA+ members will get all of this and other, exclusive benefits such as the Buckingham Alpha-Z1 Plane, Hangar A17 at LSIA or relocate there for no additional cost, 50% faster Acid Production Speeds, 1.5x GTA$ and RP Bonuses on new Story Missions, stacking with this week’s bonuses for 3X GTA$ and RP, 1.5 GTA$ for Payphone Hits and completing respective Assassination Bonuses, free Holiday clothes, including the Have You Seen Me? Sweater, The Red-nosed costume, and The Nutcracker costume, and 50% off all Armor Upgrades, and more.

Other activities include getting Dax on the FIB’s watchlist. Players will run interference, sabotage rival drug operations by poisoning crops, planting remote-controlled bombs, and other schemes.

Five new vehicles are coming in the new update. This includes the Overflod Entity MT super car, Annis 300R sports car, Declasse Tulip M-100 four-door muscle car, Zirconium Journey II can, and the BF Surfer Custom van. There are also hundreds of new clothing items for players to choose from Freakshop-ready Fatal Incursion ink and Logger Boots to snug new Onesies and colorful Ugglies. A huge variety of patterned, embroidered, and unique clothing items will be available in the events over the coming weeks and months.

As a reward for quadrupling 2020’s Heist Challenge total, taking down over GTA$ 4 trillion over the course of this year, All GTA Online players can pick up the brand-new Declasse Tahoma Coupe Muscle car for free from December 16 through the 18. It will be made widely available for purchase from Southern San Andreas Super Autos afterward.

Experience improvements introduces increased payouts in Smuggler’s Sell Missions as part of ongoing economy balancing, and a range improvements based largely on player feedback including launching Business Sell Missions from the Benefactor Terrorbyte in all Session types, taking on Agatha’s Casino Story Missions solo, and more. Players can also trim down their Contact List on their phone by choosing which names to show/hide by pulling up the Interaction Menu, selecting Inventory and Phone Contact Favorites.

Los Santos Drug Wars will continue over the coming weeks and months, delivering new vehicles, world events, and gameplay updates staring with new festive encounters and collectibles starting next week. Early next year, expect Downtown Cab Co. to be looking for new recruits, a traveling Gun Van offering exclusive items, street dealers looking to pay premiums for your product, a new garage with the most vehicle storage yet, and much more.