Heists... where do we even begin!? The one year anniversary of Grand Theft Auto V's launch recently passed and heists, a feature promised and touted by Rockstar as a major part of the game, are still missing from GTA Online.

We've have update upon update, and controversy after controversy in respect of GTA Online, and yet heists are still nowhere to be found... even with the launch of GTA 5 on the Xbox One and Playstation 4 coming next month in November, and the PC version following in January next year.

Are heists, finally, almost upon us though? User "funmw2" from the GTAForums seems to think so and recently posted the code you can see below. Apparently it was added to the source code within GTA V as part of The Last Man Standing update that went live just a few days ago.

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  GTA Online: Complete a Heist finale without anyone dying.
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  You completed a Heist prep mission.
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  You completed a Heist finale without taking any damage.
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  GTA Online: Invest your hard earned cash to set up a Heist.
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  You completed The Pacific Standard Job as Heist Leader or Crew.
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  GTA Online: Earn 5 gold medals across Heist preps and finales.
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  You earned 25 gold medals across Heist preps and finales.
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  You invested your hard earned cash and set up a Heist.
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  GTA Online: Complete a Heist prep mission.
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  You earned 5 gold medals across Heist preps and finales.
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  GTA Online: Complete a Heist finale without taking any damage.
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  GTA Online: Complete The Prison Break as Heist Leader or Crew.
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  GTA Online: As Heist Leader set the finale cut as 25% across all players.
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  You completed a Heist finale without anyone dying.
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  Prep Mission
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  Heist
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  As Heist Leader you set the finale cut as 25% across all players.
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  GTA Online: Complete The Pacific Standard Job as Heist Leader or Crew.
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  GTA Online: Earn 25 gold medals across Heist preps and finales.
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  You completed The Humane Labs Raid as Heist Leader or Crew.
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  GTA Online: Complete The Humane Labs Raid as Heist Leader or Crew.

As you can see it appears to be a list of Achievements/Trophies that can be earned while carrying out heists. Given the code was literally only just included within the "live game", does this mean that Rockstar Games are actually preparing to open up/launch heists publicly in GTA Online?

Let us know what you think... the crew here at GTA BOOM think that heists will be launched some time this month, prior to the launch of the game on the Xbox One and PS4 next month in November. What do you think?