In between the DLCs and major content updates, Grand Theft Auto Online gets its fair share of patches and bug fixes — a game this huge and active needs plenty of maintenance. A new title update has dropped for GTA Online, bringing the version number up to 1.56 and adding a surprising and useful feature alongside the usual fixes and improvements.
1.56 affects the console versions of the game, both last-gen and current gen running Expanded and Enhanced. While Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 benefit from the improvements in this patch, version 1.56 is skipping PC — possibly because recently E&E was rated for the platform, and all the included changes will be wrapped into the new release.
While there are some welcome bugfixes in the update — you can check out the full patch notes here — the main attraction is, surprisingly, a new feature. New features usually don't get rolled out in title updates in between DLCs or bigger updates, since these patches tend to be reserved for bug fixes and performance tweaking, as well as just general maintenance.
GTA 5 and Online now have Motion Blur sliders on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S — sorry, last-gen players, you only get bugfixes. The slider is a welcome addition since motion blur is an utterly abhorrent effect with no place in video games, but companies are adamant about including it regardless.
