In addition to player limit, the game will feature a “Freemode” for one through 32 players and no team options.
A co-op mode is also available, it only supports two-players and I assume this is for the
GTA Online story mode. But I don't know, so don't quote me on co-op only being for story mode, it could be like
Saints Row where it's just a limit of two-players and you can just run around and do stuff... I don't know.
A free-for-all “Deathmatch” or “DM” mode is also present. Again, it supports up to 32 players – or so, that's what the configuration file is showing.
A “Team Deathmatch” or “TDM” mode is also present. It supports 32 players and a max of two teams.
A “Races” mode is available, again, 32 players.
There's a reference to a multiplayer test bed, but I don't think it's an actual game mode. I could be wrong, though.
A “CnC” or “Cops and Crooks” mode is also present. It looks like there are two gang options and a cop option. It also shows support for up to 32 players. However, I'm almost under the impression that this is the max threshold and that there will be other limitations put in place so that all 32 players aren't actually playing. Then again, who knows, maybe Rockstar found a magical way to host that many players on the current gen home consoles?
The last option from out of the lobby menu is for the mission creator launcher.
One other thing worth noting is that it looks like it has an automatic filter for people who go AFK. Again, I could be wrong but there's a flag that checks for player activity, so I would assume this is what it would be used for.
Things really get interesting in an XML for the mission scripts. In this file it's possible to parse through and see what's playable and what's not in single and multiplayer modes.
There is a mission for something called “Battle Buddies”, where you can call your friends in to back you up during a mission. That seems kind of cool.
There's a cinema mode for single-player, but in another file I spotted flags for a multiplayer version of the cinema mode, so I'm assuming this is like the Cinema Mode in
Garry's Modwhere multiple players can head to a theater and watch the in-game movies. It would be really awesome if this could be used to watch videos from the Rockstar Social Network.
There is a fairground script where you can go ride on rides and stuff.
There are multiple entries for military and prison activities, one of which includes having to snipe off an army guy at a military base. The flags seem to indicate that it's a Cops and Crooks mission.
There are a number of “Arrest” flags, where players who are in the role of a cop will be required to arrest select NPCs or other players.
Another Cops and Crooks mission seems really cool – a crook is assigned a task to assassinate another player who is online (could be either a cop or a criminal) and it's up to the cops to track him down and stop him. This seems like something straight out of
APB: Reloaded.
There's another mission that describes stealing a boat and boarding another enemy boat. Crooks must eliminate all the baddies on the enemy boat before the cops arrive.
Another CnC mission involves blowing up a strip club with a car bomb. There are some coordinates for the strip club, so it looks like this mission is preset and will not randomize to different locations. There's also an odd flag noting frame-rate issues that drops down to 14fps. If that's how low it gets during multiplayer then... ouch.
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