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Welcome to Los Santos

Read me first

Here you're a criminal, period. No RP, no hunger, no licences: you make money doing dirty work, blow it on cars and apartments, and you can lose it all to one bullet.

The server in a nutshell#

Mugshot is GTA boiled down: a city, cops who shoot to kill, other players after your cash, and video game progression, not a second life. Nobody will ask you to stay in character. You play, you rob, you run.

Your character is tied to your Rockstar account: one account, one character. You find it just as you left it from one session to the next, even on another PC.

Your first login#

  1. Pick your languageFrench or English, offered as soon as loading is done. Switch any time with /lang or in your phone Settings.
  2. Create your characterHeritage, face, skin, hair, outfit, accessories: a full studio, with a "Random" button if you're in a hurry. Careful, it's final once confirmed. After that, clothes and haircuts are bought in stores.
  3. Watch the introA short film about the city and what it pays, ending on your booking photo: your first mugshot. Hold Space or Enter for 1 s to skip it, /intro to watch it again.
  4. Read Vito's textHe's your mentor. He starts you on the First Steps tutorial: 9 paid steps to learn the basics.

You hit the streets with $5,000 in cash, a knife and a pistol. For 10 s you're untouchable (see-through character): the protection drops as soon as you aim, shoot or punch.

The loop#

  1. Make money: convenience stores, stolen cars for the chop shop, street dealing, burglaries, contracts, crew bank jobs like the Fleeca.
  2. Put it somewhere safe: cash can be lost, the bank can't. See Cash and bank.
  3. Spend it: weapons, cars, garages, an apartment to respawn at home, clothes, phones.
  4. Level up: every job raises your reputation, which opens better guns, better cars and bigger jobs.

When you die, all your cash stays on your body, along with your bought weapons, and a marker shows it to everyone on the map. Whatever is in the bank stays put. Read Death and respawn.

What's different from the GTA you know#

  • Two weapons on you, not the whole arsenal: the rest waits in your bag, see Inventory.
  • Free aim for everyone, no combat roll, a single grenade on you: see Combat rules.
  • Nobody on the map: not other players, not you. You only see your crewmates, bounties and targets.
  • Safe zones where nobody shoots, in green on the map.

Where to go next#

  • Follow Vito's tutorial: fastest way to learn the city, and it pays.
  • Pull out your phone (up arrow): contracts, gang, GPS, bank, everything goes through it.
  • Have a look at the controls and the emotes.
  • Got a question? The FAQ.

The interface has two themes: Casier (the default) and Nuit, a darker one. /theme nuit, or phone Settings.

Classified

Until your reputation goes past level 2, you , never out in the sticks. And before level 3, nobody : your first car is safe.