GTA Online's newest big update, Smuggler's Run, is now available worldwide. Bringing a new kind of business, vehicles, properties, clothing items and a new game mode, this DLC also kicks off a new season in the game, and will be followed by weekly mini updates that further expand the new content.
Hangar Property
The main attraction in Smuggler's Run, and your key to unlocking the DLC's contents, is the new hangar property. Joining the long line of update specific properties such as the executive offices, clubhouses and bunkers, hangars will unlock the new missions and vehicles of Smuggler's Run.
Without a hangar, you cannot purchase the new planes and helicopters of the update, nor can you engage in smuggling missions throughout Los Santos. These are the two main additions to the game this DLC brings to the table, so you'll be missing out on almost all of the goods if you don't dish out the cash for these properties.
There are five available hangars, two located as LSIA, while three are all within Fort Zancudo, with size being the only difference between the various hangars within the same location. An added bonus of having a hangar at Zancudo is that it gives you and any active associates low-level clearance, allowing you to enter the area without getting a wanted level. Stealing military vehicles no longer gives you a wanted level either, under these circumstances.
The two LSIA hangars are the cheaper options, costing GTA$ 1,200,000 and 1,525,000, respectively. The three Zancudo hangars are GTA$ 2,085,000; 2,650,000 and 3,250,000. All hangars can be upgraded and customized with various interior styles, furniture, lighting and floor patterns. Additionally, you can add 2 kinds of living quarters, and an airplane workshop for GTA$ 1,150,000.
This workshop is essential if you want to customize the various planes added via the update with upgrades, paint jobs, liveries and countermeasures. Each of the 7 new aircraft have extensive customization options allowing you to make your fleet unique and stand out from the crowd, whilst also being capable and well equipped.
One of the least expected but possibly most useful feature of the workshop upgrade, however, is the ability to bring Pegasus aircraft to your hangar, convert them into personal vehicles and change their color scheme. You can bring things like Luxors and Hydras, recolor them and make them a personal vehicle — in the case of the latter, this is quite troubling as it will make Hydra griefing all the more simple and thus common.
Vehicles List: Planes and Helicopters
Rockstar teased the new vehicles throughout a series of social media posts, but now we know the full list of those added to the game. It may come as a disappointment, but the Hunter helicopter, based on the iconic Apache, is not in the update as a purchasable vehicle but will be added later on. It can, however, be piloted during a mission.
The new planes and helicopter cover a wide range of roles, from the heavy duty cargo delivery to the quick getaway. The best example for the latter role is the Buckingham Alpha-Z1, a fixed-wing four-cylinder high-speed single seater. Costing GTA$ 2,121,350 (1,595,000 discount price), this is one of the mid-range aircraft. We tell you how to get the discounts further below, by the way.
If you want to soar the skies on a budget and think you can spare the armor, weapons, chassis, and just about everything except the wing and engines, the Nagasaki Ultralight is right up your alley. With a GTA$ 665,000 (500,000 at discount) price tag, this new aerial vehicle won't break the bank, and comes with a particularly handy upgrade which hides it's minimap pip when flying at lower speeds.
