Patch Notes

🟢 Going Online and Taking Rides

• Tap GO in the driver's seat of an eligible car and you're online. Buses are out
• Your car sets your service. Compacts, sedans, SUVs, coupes, off-roaders and vans run Standard. SUVs, coupes and vans with five or more seats can run XL. Sports cars can only take rides once you've unlocked Comfort, and super cars once you've unlocked Premier. Muscle cars and sports classics can't be used
• Requests come with a card: rider name and rating, distance to pickup, trip length and an upfront fare estimate. You have 20 seconds to accept or pass
• Better-rated drivers nearby are more likely to receive a request
• Pull up inside the pickup ring, confirm your rider with the arrow keys and Enter or in the app, and they get in, rear seats first. Stop inside the drop-off ring and they get out
• There's a short wait between rides, a little longer after a completed trip. Passing on or ignoring a request also starts a wait
• Riders who wait too long at the pickup give up. Cancelling with a rider on board hurts your rating. Cancelling before pickup doesn't

⭐ Ratings, Tips and Live Feedback

• Five things, five stars. Riders rate pickup time, trip time, smooth driving, vehicle condition and rider care
• Your live rating shows on screen and in the app while you drive, so you can see which part is slipping mid-trip
• Timing expects you to keep up with Los Santos traffic. Dawdling costs stars, arriving early doesn't earn extra
• Smooth driving forgives the odd tap of the brakes, but hard braking, crashes and bouncing the car count against you, and a rough patch takes a while to recover from
• Good trips earn tips, bigger when the car is clean, the ride was smooth and the rider was looked after. Riders comment when you brake hard, crash, or the car's a state
• Your overall rating is an average of recent trips. It gates the higher services and how often you're offered work

🧳 Riders, Luggage and Rider Care

• Groups of one to four riders. XL takes the big groups, Comfort and Premier pay more and expect more
• Exclusive riders pay well and rate hard. Night-out riders appear after 22:00 and might be sick in your car, so get it washed before your next trip
• Luggage. Airport and long-distance riders bring bags. Put them in your boot and hand them over at the drop-off. Drive off with them still in the car and it's lost luggage
• Rider care. Offer anything you're carrying that a person can eat or drink, up to three items per ride. The more filling, the happier the rider and the bigger the tip
• Rider requests. Mid-trip a rider might ask for the radio, the window, a drink or a snack. Answer in time and it counts toward your rating
• Riders chat during the ride, with optional speech bubbles above their heads

📲 The Driver App

• Home: full-screen map with your position, pickup and drop-off routes, today's earnings and your online status. During a ride the trip card shows the live rating, lets you confirm your rider and lists any food or drink you're carrying
• Earnings: weekly totals with a day-by-day chart, online time, trips, distance, a fare and tip breakdown and a week picker. Every trip has its own details page with a mini map and full rating breakdown
• Preferences: choose which services you take, and filter out Exclusive requests or long trips
• Recommended for you: progress to your next service unlock, the city's peak request hours and your own best earning hours
• Settings: light or dark theme, request chime and volume, auto GPS waypoint, rider chatter and 3D speech bubbles

💵 Earnings Wallet

Fares and tips build up in your Shyft balance instead of landing in your bank straight away. Cash out from the app whenever you like, minimum $50.

• Instant: the whole balance now, for a fee that shrinks as you unlock the quick-cash talents
• Standard: free, arriving in your bank about twenty minutes later in chunks of up to $2,500, so a big balance takes a few runs to clear
• Standard cashouts still arrive if you log out or the server restarts in the meantime

🌳 Talent Tree and Achievements

• A new Shyft skill levels up with every trip. Its 48-talent tree covers more pay and tips, service unlocks, smoother-driving forgiveness, more patient riders, shorter waits between requests, airport and long-trip preference, VIP magnetism, night-owl bonuses, rush-hour surge pay, luggage pay, cheaper instant cashouts and better odds that riders accept what you offer them
• Talents apply the moment you unlock them, and the app updates to match
• Five achievement chains: Shyft Driver (rides completed, up to Shyft Legend at 1,500), Five Stars, Chauffeur, Baggage Handler and Road Warrior

🪧 Ride Cards and Prompts

• Pickups and drop-offs are marked with a floating Shyft card showing who you're collecting, their rating, group size, bags and distance. It turns green as you arrive and hides behind buildings
• Rider chatter can appear as speech bubbles with the rider's initial, with a matching feed on screen. Toggle it in the app's Settings
• The on-screen prompts have been redesigned with the Shyft mark and scale with your screen, so they read the same at 1080p or 4K

🔀 Call Routing

Businesses now choose how their line rings, from the Call routing card on the mainframe's Service Channels page.

• Everyone at once. How it worked before, and still the default
• In turn. One employee at a time, starting with whoever answered a business call longest ago. After up to three people it rings everyone
• Ranks first. Chosen ranks ring first, then everyone else joins
• Declining, going off business calls or disconnecting moves the call on straight away, and anyone already on a call is skipped. A new Call Routing permission controls who can change it

☎️ On the Call

• See who's calling before you answer. Known customers show their name, loyalty card and order count, new callers are marked as new, and you can see which business line is ringing
• Barred callers are turned away before anyone's phone rings, and they're told the business isn't taking their calls
• Share your location from the call. Staff press Request location, and the customer picks Share or Not now. While it's shared the worker sees them move, and either side can stop it at any time. The 6 key still works too
• Transfers take everything with them. The colleague sees who's calling and who passed it over, you can cancel, and a shared location moves to whoever takes the call
• Logos and names. Calling a business shows its logo, and Recents shows the business's name and logo. Long names wrap instead of being cut off
• Updates on your phone. Customers get order updates as texts from the business, and staff get new orders and delivery notices as phone notifications instead of pop-ups

🚤 Smuggling Runs Reworked

Smuggling Runs are no longer one long, slow truck drive. Bring your own cars, because the van only takes you partway.

• A faster van, a shorter drive. Escort a quicker, upgraded van from the pickup to a switch point a short way off
• Company on the way. A car of armed men comes up behind the van and shoots from the windows until you deal with them
• The switch. Move the crates from the van into your own cars one at a time, then the van is ditched
• The handoff. Drive the crates to the buyer's boat or plane and hand them over while his rivals come for the deal. He closes once they're dealt with, and you're paid for every crate he gets
• Shorter routes overall, with new boat handoffs at Palomino and El Burro
• The Dark World app, the booking message and the job card all tell you to bring your own cars

📦 Contracts Pay Closer to the Street

• Dark World contracts were paying less per bag of coke or meth than selling on the street. Coke and meth bags now pay more on every contract tier, with the highest tiers paying the most

🗺️ Mapscape Turf Ledger

• Gangs can track their turf safe money in Mapscape. A manager turns on Turf ledger in a gang map's settings and chooses who can see it
• Members log what they took from a hood's safe, from the Ledger tab or by clicking the hood on the map, with who emptied it, when, and whether it was full
• The report page shows totals, earnings per day, each turf's takings, who empties the most and a searchable history for any date range
• Export to CSV or JSON, or create a feed link that keeps a spreadsheet up to date. Amounts are what members enter, nothing is read from the game

🗂️ Open Apps

Hold the home bar at the bottom of your phone or tablet to see the apps you have open. Business apps like Dark World or the Marketplace keep running after you leave them, so this is where you close them.

• Tap a card to switch to that app, and press the cross or swipe it up to close it
• Close all closes every business app and takes you home
• While business apps are running, the home bar shows on the home screen too
• Folding back to the phone with a tablet only app open now sends it to the background instead of squeezing it onto the phone. Opening it again unfolds the tablet

🐚 Shellspace Profiles

• New look. Photos and videos show as a grid in the Media tab, and posts that are only words sit in the Turts Texts tab. Tap any tile to open the shell in full, with its turts and comments
• Message and Block sit side by side under the profile header, and the back arrow sits in the top bar
• See it the way visitors do. Your own profile now looks the way everyone else sees it. Tap Edit profile to change your bio, password, Reef alerts and colour, and Done to put them away
• VIP profile colours. VIPs can pick from 12 colours in Shellspace › Profile › Profile colour, and everyone who visits sees your page in it. Royal Turtle profiles sparkle too, and your colour is kept if your VIP lapses

👥 Contacts and Messages

• 2,000 contacts. Contacts after the first 200 used to be hidden and new ones couldn't be added
• Search your contacts by name or by any part of their number
• Delete in bulk. Tap Select to delete many contacts or conversations at once. Conversations are only cleared from your phone, the other person keeps their copy, and new messages still come through
• Easier sharing. The button is now Share my contact, and Quick Share shows you to everyone nearby by default. Shares still have to be accepted, and you can switch to Contacts only or Off in Settings › Quick Share
• A contact picture that can't load shows the contact's initial instead of a broken image
• The call screen shows the caller's full name

⚙️ Settings

• App size. A new slider in Settings › Display makes everything inside apps bigger or smaller, from 70% to 120%, without changing the size of the device
• No more screen darkening. The screen no longer darkens round the edges when you take your phone out. Turn it back on in Settings › Display › Darken the screen if you liked it
• App sounds. Turn off the sound for any app in Settings › Sound while still getting its notifications
• Uninstall default apps. Shellspace, Shellmates, Marketplace, Lawyer and Party Games can be uninstalled and stay that way. Get them back from the App Store any time

🔧 Phone Fixes

• Esc in one press. Esc puts the phone away wherever you are in it, even while looking around with Alt. The app you were using is still open when you take the phone back out, and the pause menu stays shut
• Without a phone or tablet on you, notifications no longer pop up and calls no longer ring. Callers hear you're unavailable, and your messages are waiting when you pick it back up
• Opening a business app like Dark World and then changing a setting, such as switching to tablet mode, no longer leaves the phone unresponsive
• Logging out with the camera up no longer leaves it on screen on your next character with the pause menu blocked
• A failed photo no longer saves a screenshot with your HUD and phone in it. Take the photo again instead
• Shellmates no longer turns away characters with a birthday written month first, like 12/18/2001, as underage

🎖️ Department Roles

• Officers get their department (LSPD, SASP or FIB), their region and their rank. Medics get their rank and their Medical FTO certification
• Roles follow hires, promotions, demotions and firings. Existing members pick up their rank on their next change and their certifications when they next log in
• Moving between police and EMS, or between police departments, swaps your roles over

🔧 Fixes and Improvements

• No rain indoors. Rain no longer falls inside apartments and houses. The weather stays dry while you're inside, for owners and anyone let in, and the view out of your windows still follows the time of day. Using the unstuck command inside also brings the normal weather back once you're out
• Custom plates. Plates in the Plates tab of the business tablet now always match what's really on your vehicles. A plate that isn't on its vehicle any more goes back to your list, ready to fit or sell, and parking it no longer swaps the plate your vehicle is wearing
• Remember your wine label. Tick Remember this label when naming your bottles and you won't be asked again. Pick Change label in the bottling menu for a new one