GTA Online has just added a long-requested quality of life feature, and it needs to be the new standard for when GTA 6's launch.

Grand Theft Auto Online has, in an eyebrow-raising move, been given an anti-cheat software named BattlEye over a decade after the game came out. As a consequence, it's now officially no longer compatible with the Steam Deck,

GTA V has consistently ranked among the top 20 most-played games on the Steam Deck for at least two years, and it even remained in the

BattlEye Anti-Cheat was rolled out in yesterday's GTA 5 update. As the patch notes explain, it's possible to disable it in the Rockstar Games Launcher if you're just heading into Story Mode, as ultimately, it's there to try and protect online players from ...

It appears that GTA 5 BattlEye anti-cheat has been added by Rockstar, as both the Steam backend and player reports indicate it's in-game.

Nine years after it arrived on PC, Rockstar's multiplayer murder and mayhem sim Grand Theft Auto Online has integrated BattlEye anti-cheat software. Simply put, BattlEye aims to keep people in online games from doing things they're not supposed to.

The update in question and the use of BattlEye specifically was first noticed in the background changes catalogued from Steam before Rockstar Games put out its patch notes on the GTA Online support site.