Do I need to play past a certain point to play online

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I've read that you need to play at least the prologue of the single player to play GTA online. Is this the case for the PC (Steam) version?

Also does playing only multiplayer and ignoring single player spoil any of the single player missions/story?

I've never played GTA 5 before so no spoilers or anything like that please!

Best Answer

I can confirm that you are indeed required to complete the prologue of the game before you can play online on PC. I tried to jump straight into online and was in turn, forced to complete the prologue. (a relatively painless experience)

In theory it shouldn't directly disrupt the missions or story, but you do deal with story characters to collect some of the more fun online missions and these tend to coincide with their single player counterparts.

You could always just do the unrelated missions such as Team Deathmatch or Races.