First - I'd like to thank the dev community for creating massive appeal in a game that otherwise would not have any (for me at least).

I've only been a pc gamer for about 2 years now, but I've modded skyrim and arma extensively, both in and out of Steam Workshop.  This time around I'm thinking I'd like to avoid Steam.  Will having a non-Steam version affect the modding process? 

I also saw videos of LCPDFR in multiplayer mode.  Was this an intended feature, or a mod of a mod? 

If online functionality is a goal then count me in.  I just hope we can play from Steam to Steamless versions!   Again, many thanks to the entire community here for turning a missed opportunity of this magnitude into something fantastic.

Sorry if all these answers are in a neat box somewhere.  I poked around for about an hour and didn't find much.

LCPDFR was fully supported in GTAIV's multiplayer because of the open, sand-box nature of freeplay, and was probably a big draw for a significant number of the playerbase.

GTA Online is a walled garden compared to that, with tight controls over what happens in it. Player experience is one reason, but Rockstar obviously has less than altruistic motives in the way they run things. At the moment, the designers behind Scripthook V, Rage Hook, and LSPD:FR have want to be clear they have no desire to intentionally let people meddle with GTA:O using their code.

If 3rd-party addons like FiveM or such ever work out, and if Rockstar doesn't come crashing down on them (which is highly likely), these mods may work unofficially, or even get official support, but all that remains to be seen.

Edited June 11, 201510 yr by The Loot

I see.  Well hopefully a sort of standalone free roam mode gets some focus, so that way Rockstar won't see this and other mods as potentially harming the organized stuff.  If that's even how it could work. 

I'm pretty sure now I won't be using steam.  Anything I should know then going in to V and LSPDFR?