The big day is here — Grand Theft Auto Online's biggest DLC of 2018, After Hours is now available for download and play.
After Hours features the return of two fan-favorite characters, Tony Prince and Lazlow, alongside a huge wealth of new content including seven new vehicles, a new Nightclub venue and warehouse, Business Battles game mode and the chance to consolidate your businesses into a single location.
The new nightclubs you can buy and run alongside Gay Tony are the star of the DLC. You can pick from 10 nightclub locations scattered around urban Los Santos with prices ranging from GTA$ 1,080,000 at Elysian Island to GTA$ 1,700,000 in West Vinewood.
When setting up your nightclub you can pick from a wide variety of interior styles and depending on what your budget allows you can upgrade the facilities. Alongside equipment, you also need staff and have marketing to think about.
As you're starting out, several elements of your new business aren't simply bought but need to be acquired via missions. Resident DJs are among these, with Solomun being the first. The other three, Tale of Us, Dixon and The Black Madonna are going to be added in the upcoming weeks.
Once your venue is set up, it's time to receive your first guests. Players are given a great deal of control over their clubs, allowing you to set entrance fees and restrict access to some areas of the venue like the VIP room, DJ booth and office.
Your nightclub also doubles as a HQ for all of your other businesses with a combined warehouse that can store goods for any venture.
The warehouse comes with a complementary Vapid Speedo Custom, one of the new vehicles added to GTA Online with After Hours, and plenty of garage space to store the new rides — you can have up to three floors with 10 slots each.
Staffing your nightclub warehouse with technicians also allows you to slowly convert your businesses into sources of passive income. Though really slowly, technicians source product automatically for you.
Additionally, Business Battles are new Freemode events which trigger for players in an active MC or organization. Drops of business supplies pop up somewhere in the world, and the first group to claim it get a free boost — so expect tough competition.
