GTA Online VIP Work Guide

Sightseer

Sightseer: In this mode, the VIP is declawed, but is the only one with the knowledge that will win you the job. While the VIP is busy hacking the Sightseer app and placing custom waypoints on the map for the bodyguards to follow, they will need constant protection. Getting in a vehicle is a good tactic here, but you'll need to weigh speed and vulnerability when picking your ride.

Hostile Takeover

Hostile Takeover: While in other modes, it's only rival organisations you need to worry about, this time the game itself is out to get you. Possessing the package means you're telegraphing your location to every soul in the session, so hiding isn't an option. You need several routes in case one is overrun, as well a multiple vehicles to provide security for your valuable cargo. You might think that NPCs are a pushover, but when you have to pay attention to so many attackers, every hostile is a failure waiting to happen.

Executive Search

Executive Search: If you're taking on this job as a VIP, you're putting your skin up for sale. As the million-dollar man, you'll need to keep moving at all times, as staying in one place will mark you on the map. Even so, the general area you're in will be shown. While your enemies arrive in force to cover more ground, hiding in plain sights is the best option. Acting like an NPC is the best cover. No one will assume that a GTA Online player actually follows traffic rules.

Asset Recovery

Asset Recovery: Yet another mode where the cops add to your troubles, Asset Recovery has you steal marked vehicles from the police. The best tactic is to get everyone into position before nicking the first ride, as the moment that happens, all members of your organisation will immediately become wanted. Stealing all the rides simultaneously will improve your chances of escape. When driving to the drop-off zone, look at the road and not the mini-map — the GPS may lead you astray.

Executive Deathmatch

Executive Deathmatch: This one is the most straight forward. Stay close, use your abilities, stock up on ammo, keep the VIP alive and kill anything that moves. Bodyguards may want to sacrifice themselves if it means saving the VIP — it's his life that counts. This job pays all participants equally, allowing bodyguards to make a little extra alongside their regular pay.

BodyGuard Work

Continuing Rockstar's series of gameplay tips and guides for the latest major DLC that GTA Online got, Executives and Other Criminals, we now focus on the Bodyguards.

White collar crime may be one of the most lucrative ways to spend time playing GTA Online, however it isn't the only way to turn the dynamic VIP/Bodyguard system into your source of serious income.

VIP challenges are smaller events where Bodyguards compete with one another for fame and glory — and the paycheck of a VIP. These jobs are too dirty for an executive to get involved in, so it's up to you to persevere.

These challenges are kicked off by the boss of a criminal organisation for the member bodyguards to try each other out, so to say. In order to gauge their protectors' skills — maybe to spot the weak link — executives can spectate these matches. Strangely enough, when doing so in the Most Wanted challenge, the spectating VIP also needs to be... "dealt with" for the mode to be completed.

Competition in challenges will be tough, as only the winner walks away with the riches, but participating isn't a complete waste, as the increased cash and RP rate bonus is still active for all bodyguards. Let's cut to the chase, shall we?

Auto Buyout

We'll be looking at Auto Buyout first. This challenge feels most faithful to the GTA name, since that's exactly what you will be doing. To win this challenge, you'll need to steal and deliver — in one piece — the most valuable total of vehicles to the set drop-off point in the allotted time.

The different regions of GTA V's map have different kinds of vehicle spawn rates. It's worth going for a longer trip to greener plains than to stack up cheap rides close by. Don't go too far though — there are only a limited amount of slots and it doesn't matter how expensive your bounty is if you can't drop it off.

You should also keep an eye out for flashier rides en-route. If you come across something more valuable, feel free to leave you current ride behind. If you have a particularly valuable personal vehicle, you can deliver that too for a quick advantage — or just steal someone else's. Don't waste time trying to destroy or damage your opponent's drop-offs though. This might seem like a sound tactic, but you'll just be wasting time.

Most Wanted

Moving on to the next challenge, Most Wanted is what happens when the LSPD uncover your criminal organisation. Every bodyguard is hit with 5 wanted stars and it's last man standing from there on.

Police in GTA V are more harrowing than they were in previous games, so you'll need to be quick on your feet and wits to survive this one. You won't be able to decrease your wanted level in any way while the challenge is on. You'll also be automatically disqualified if you take to the skies or the underground.

Fight might serve you better than flight. If you get into a fortified position, chances are you can hold out longer than the others. If more than one of you weather the storm for longer than 10 minutes, all survivors will share the riches.

Due Diligence

Due Diligence, the next challenge on the list, is the most violent version of a scavenger hunt we've seen. The race is on to collect as many of the packages marked with a flare within the time limit. It's pretty simple, whoever finishes with the most collected wins.

Make sure to keep the Trackify app open during this challenge, as it will guide you to the packages. If one package is un-collected for long, more flares will light up to help — but if you know someone else will get there first, don't bother.

A large, heavy vehicle may not be the best choice for this challenge, as you'll need to be nimble and quick. Your opponents will likely have the same idea, but this also means they will be vulnerable. What better way to win than to eliminate the competition, right?