
For one, stream snipers aren’t really a thing due to the low population of the servers (24 at any one time), the secrecy around them (that shit is kept locked down!) and the fact that you have to have dozens of hours of RPing under your belt to pass the test and get promoted to the place to be. I know what you’re thinking… streamers streaming their online personas? Surely that’s a recipe for disaster, with ‘stream snipers’ turning up in games to deliberately target the streamer, or the RPers using other people’s streams and YouTube videos to fill in parts of the story they have no right knowing – AKA ‘ruining the meta’. Snitches get stitches on the mean streets of Los Santos.

Like in your favourite crime dramas, it’s the characters that make the show and that, right there, is GTA V RP in a nutshell. The wide range of characters with complex back stories and ever-evolving storylines is what makes GTA V RP such a captivating watch. The mysterious whitelisted world states on the State of Emergency servers have recently become all the rage on Twitch, with huge streamers, like Lirik and GiantWaffle, and avid RPers combining to provide hours and hours of entertainment for the masses. I’ve become addicted to these stories on Twitch recently, and seemingly, looking at the number of people watching it on Twitch every night, so has a significant portion of the internet. It’s the characters in these worlds – GTA 5 RP’s especially – that make them so fascinating, and the stories that unfold in front of your eyes are all engrossing, to say the least. They’re limited only by their imaginations. Players can earn money to buy cars, properties or whatever through any means they deem necessary. In FiveRP there’s plenty of stuff for people to do, whether that’s driving cabs for money – picking up other RPers who need a ride – driving cargo around Los Santos, doing illegal drug runs and more. The concept of RP is simple: take an online world, make yourself a character, give yourself a background, and then jump into the world and let the stories commence. The world of RP has been taken to a whole new level in 2017, though, with the emergence of a Grand Theft Auto V RP mod, FiveRP, that’s taking the world by storm, making the game relevant again on Twitch, and pulling in thousands upon thousands of viewers each and every day. It’s nothing new in the world of video games in fact, and as long as you have an open-world, mod support (that’s optional, but it helps), a hell of a lot of freedom and an online component, there’s a good chance that there’s people out there turning stale video game worlds into brand new immersive experiences.


RPing – or roleplaying as it’s known to us plebs – is nothing new on Twitch.
