While not every server will have aliens warring, they do seem increasingly common. It’s the sort of shenanigans where a handful of players larking about can encourage many more to join in. When I dropped into a random server today and suited up (green, because the purple wars hadn’t started when I bought mine and I already spent $358,000 on this), a street brawl was already raging. I died a whole lot, and did not care one jot.
It’s a good sort of foolishness, brawls fought largely with baseball bats and pool cues. The cops inevitably get involved once murders start rolling, so it becomes a three-way rumble between green, purple, and blue. It got real messy when a purple called in their tank. After the big fight petered out, two greens pulled up in a green car with a purple passenger. I hopped in, thinking we were pals now and going for a nice drive together.
When we reached the dam and everyone got out, one green pulled a gun on the purple. Oh no. I was part of an alien abduction.
Directing the purple down the stairs to a ledge over the ravine, the green asked “LAST WORDS?” Oh no. “Yeah,” said the purple. “Yeet.” Then they pulled a gun and shot themself in the head. An astonishing power move.
The GTA Online Reddit forum is full of alien encounters at the moment. Here’s some aggro after a green sought refuge with its pals in a shop: And a canny C4 play by a brave green using some purples’ own car against them: I’ll not flood you with videos today. When the enthusiasm for aliens wears off, I hope some of this playful spirit remains in GTA Online. Green vs. purple is arbitrary and low-stakes, a daft thing to rally around and fire people up. No one loses business deliveries they spent ages prepping, you might simply get jumped in the street - and you can run away just as fast as those bat-wielding invaders can chase you. What a lovely bit of levity. Disclosure: I have some pals who work at Rockstar. Edinburgh’s a small city.
