All* Mods Get You Banned From GTA Online

However, accidentally leaving a single player mod active when going Online will absolutely get your ass banned, and there is nothing to do about it. Yes, FOV mods will get you banned, car model mods will get you banned, graphics mods will get you banned. That funny script that lets you summon a random animal to follow you around? Banned. Trainers? Banned, obviously. Texture changes? You might be the only one who sees the difference, but banned.

The thing is, Rockstar only tolerates single player modding, and isn't entirely supportive of the idea in spite of the GTA 5 modding community being a massive and thriving chunk of the playerbase. While modding is possible, GTA 5 isn't a mod-friendly game, and the developers won't sift through the "harmless" mods and made exceptions for them in the anti-cheat.

If non-official files, or official files that have been modified and do not correspond to the vanilla reference are detected, a ban will be issues regardless of what kind of discrepancy the anti-cheat detects. There are zero exceptions, and if you go Online with a mod active, it doesn't matter if it was accidental or if the mod doesn't give you any kind of advantage, you will be banned and cannot do anything about it. The new system might seem harsh, but it's necessary.

See, the moment some kind of leniency is granted, and certain "harmless" mods are allowed, the hackers will find a way to exploit that within a day or two, and we'd all be hit with insurance fees all over again, which is something nobody wants. Incidentally, Character Transfers are most likely being axed in a few days in order to stem the tide of transfer cheaters.

Players can use accounts on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 to get hacked privileges, hacked cash and hacked RP, then transfer the character over to the current gen consoles. The way the anti-cheat works is that it attempts to seek out either altered files or sudden massive and suspicious increases in a player's money or rank. If a character goes from having a few hundred bucks to several hundred million inside of a second, they're obviously hacking.

However, the transfer character appears on the new console with the hacked money already, and with no sudden positive change in the amount, the anti-cheat isn't ticked off. Add to that the lack of an changed official files, the hacker goes unnoticed. Some manner of tweak was introduced to the anti-cheat allowing it to detect hacked money sometimes, which lead to the Great De-Moneying of 2016 when billions upon billions in illegitimate cash were removed from player accounts.

There you have it, clear as day. There are no exceptions, if it's a mod, using it Online will get you banned, and that means either getting a permaban or losing all of your progress. It's worth the effort to double check whether you've cleared out all of your single player mods before going Online, or even maintaining a separate install for Multiplayer provided you're let go when it comes to storage.

It's always better to be sure with this kind of thing than to be sorry afterwards. As we mentioned, all bans are final and cannot be appealed, so if a stray mod is picked up by the anti-cheat, you'll likely have to start over, and there is no point in risking the use of what you may think is a harmless mod. Stay safe, stay vanilla.