First time startup: never ending captcha images

[Izhevsk 17]

Alright, so it's been over a year since I've played GTA V on PC. I've totally forgotten how everything works. I recently bought the game on Steam (after losing my game disk).

 

I can't even get started. My first attempts to login to social club are met with never-ending captcha images (please click the squares with signs, cars, horse, etc). After clicking well over 20 correct squares, it just keeps loading more and more images. Clicking verify tells me to try again. Well, after about 15 minutes of this, I'm met with: "Your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. For more details visit our help page"

 

Guys... this one is killing me. I'm totally lost on this one. I remember with the disk version of the game, you were required to have a 24/7 internet connection to social club to even play, despite the option for "offline mode" (which never worked).

 

Is there a way to bypass the social club (I'm using the Steam version, as mentioned before)? And also bypass the "always connected to the internet 24/7/365" crap? I just wanna play the game with Realism Dispatch Enhanced lol...

 

Side note: I take my laptop to work on the weekends and play games, (no WiFi at work) so an ability to play offline would be highly welcomed.

 

Thank you.

 

[Izhevsk 17]

Ok, update: got the game to work. Played around, no issues.

 

Installed the RDE mod (and SNT, ScripthookV, Scripthook.net) and it crashed to desktop while loading.

 

Any ideas? RDE is the only mod I have, its a fresh install.