You can now pedal around GTA 5 using a real-life smart bike

Date:
Tue, 05 Apr 2022 10:14:34 +0000

Description:
GT Bike V lets you take a real ride through Los Santos by making your thighs do the work.

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A lot of mods have been released for GTA 5 over the years, but few encourage you to exercise. GT Bike V does just that by enabling you to hook up a smart bike to your PC and pedal around the virtual streets of Los Santos. You can even cycle with friends in a new mode.

GT Bike Vs latest update introduces multiplayer to the GTA 5 mod (thanks,
Rock Paper Shotgun ). Get your buddies to connect their smart bike or cycling power meter to a PC, and youll be able to ride around the game together. You can either casually roam the streets at your leisure, or join a dedicated
Ride for a group cycle.

Right now, multiplayer interaction is pretty limited. You can send chat messages and see the list of players riding a course, but outside of that, group cycles are the main way of banding together with your friends. There
are currently no missions or competitive races to complete, but the GT Bike
Vs team says they plan to implement those features down the line.

The mods multiplayer mode doesnt run using GTA Online . That means youll have to boot up the game in story mode and your online account wont be affected in any way. It also means the NPCs and weather conditions in your game are
local, so don't expect other players to see the same. Its a little odd, but the mods team says it doesnt really [much impact] the experience, so dont worry.

Jumping into a multiplayer game sounds easy. You just need to boot up the
game with the mod installed, log into your Rockstar Social Club account, and select join multiplayer ride in the menu. According to the mods description, youll be automatically loaded into whichever course has the highest number of players, and plonked next to another rider, so youll never start alone.

GT Bike V could even replace your regular workout. The mod records your cycling data into a FIT file that can be uploaded into training apps, such as Strava , to track your fitness. There are several courses to complete, each featuring different routes of varying difficulties, so you can create an entire cycling routine.

Don't be thinking it'll give you an easy time of it, though. The mod records the roughness of the ground you cycling across, the incline of the virtual terrain, and even the in-game wind direction, sending all that data to your smart bike so it can accurately reproduce the difficulty of your cycle.

The mod even periodically captures screenshots of the game to make it that little bit more real.

You can download GT Bike V for free. To get it up and running, though, youll need to have a PC copy of GTA 5, a smart bike or trainer that meets the compatibility requirements , as well as an ANT+ PC dongle that allows your computer to communicate with the bike.

You can also connect a smart treadmill if youd rather run around the streets of Los Santos than cycle. Excited for Rockstar's next crime 'em up? Here's everything we know about GTA 6



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