GTA Online gets Halloween update with a UFO in San Andreas

GTA Online is celebrating spooky season, just like Red Dead Online. GTA Online’s newest update features a bunch of new content, including the return of peyote plants. For those unfamiliar, peyote plants can be found in the open world and they allow you to transform into a random animal.

Players can also participate in a new business battle in Fort Zancudo that requires you to loot a crashed UFO. This leaked earlier this year thanks to dataminers but up until now, it was unclear what purpose it served or how to trigger it.

As always, this week’s GTA Online update also includes various bonuses such as free clothes, discounts, and more. You can view the overall breakdown below.

• An all-new Business Battle featuring a mysterious downed UFO with extraterrestrial gear
• Double GTA$ & RP in Alien Survivals, Business Battles, and gruesome Adversary Modes, including the Halloween Bunker Series, Slasher, Slashers, Lost vs. Damned, Condemned, Come Out to Play, and Beast vs. Slasher
• A free Cultstoppers Tee for players who win any Event Business Battle
• Free Tees and mask for logging in: The Butchery and Other Hobbies Tee, Knife After Dark Tee, and the Orange Dot Tech Mask
• The Albany Fränken Stange, wrapped with the Blazing Death livery, is the latest Lucky Wheel top prize
• Peyote Plants continue to grow across Los Santos, with ongoing reports of transformational effects caused by ingesting them
• 40% off select Facilities, plus 25% off several Facility Modifications/Add-Ons
• 50% off Arena Nightmare Upgrades: the MTL Nightmare Cerberus, Declasse Nightmare Brutus, HVY Nightmare Scarab, Vapid Nightmare Imperator, and the Annis Nightmare ZR380
• Returning discounts on Halloween-themed vehicles: 30% off the Albany Lurcher, Chariot Romero Hearse, and LCC Sanctus
• Prime Gaming Bonuses: A one-time GTA$1,000,000 bonus for players who link their Amazon and Rockstar Games Social Club accounts, plus a GTA$200K bonus for playing this week
• And Prime Gaming Discounts: 60% off the flying Imponte Deluxo, alongside the free Vespucci Canals Nightclub property

GTA Online is slated to get a big content update before the end of 2020 with a map expansion. GTA Online will also get a standalone version on PS5 in 2021 alongside a port of Grand Theft Auto V on both next-gen consoles.