The latest update to a GTA Online role-playing server pushed Grand Theft Auto 5 to the top of the Twitch charts this week. For a hot minute, the open-world game was watched on stream by more than 400,000 people.
In late January, a new trailer announced the release of the NoPixel 3.0 GTA RP server, a GTA Online server designed for role-playing in a makeshift San Andreas. Players can be criminals, police officers, regular people just getting by, whatever, all existing in this MMORPG game-like ecosystem. The server is created using the FiveM modding framework and is supported by a dedicated team of volunteers.
The server is open, but you must sign up through the NoPixel website to be released for access, with a waiting time of two to four weeks. This somewhat limited availability succeeded, however, as on Friday, 413,000 viewers tuned in to makers of Twitch playing Grand Theft Auto 5. Part of the charm of NoPixel is that it’s common, you look at content creators, and then go out into the world yourself, everyone sharing in the experience. The spike it created indicates quite a stir among the player base as this is four times the current number playing the crime game.
Here’s the NoPixel trailer:
Here’s a screencap of GTA 5 standing upright on Twitch:
GTA 5 is the # 1 game on Twitch before the launch of NoPixel 3.0 GTA RP. a fully community developed and maintained GTA mod with no help from Rockstar keeps the game more relevant than ever pic.twitter.com/BGrVk8iLxD
– Rod Breslau (@Slasher) February 5, 2021
Just a few weeks ago, another creative GTA 5 player unveiled a Burnout 3 remake that will (hopefully) be playable in GTA Online one day. Clearly the sky is the limit for this community, and the public is ready to see it all happen.