The new Ludendorff Cemetery Survival mode is breaking records, with nearly 1.7 million players already taking up arms in GTA Online.
Rockstar Games is on a roll these days. Instead of slowly moving away from Grand Theft Auto Online and focusing most of its efforts on Grand Theft Auto 6, GTA 5's now-standalone online component of the second-best-selling video game of all time is more popular than ever, and it's all thanks to its latest update.
Confirmed earlier this month, Rockstar released the Ludendorff Cemetery Survival mode last week. It's safe to say that it's been a huge hit so far.
Offering GTA Online players their first legitimate chance at coming back to North Yankton, the latest gameplay mode to hit the game banked on nostalgia and the draw of being able to mow down wave after wave of zombies with your friends and other strangers online.
To sweeten the deal, Rockstar incentivized trying out the new mode, which it realized wasn't necessary at all as it had to adjust its target because of how popular the update was among fans almost immediately.
Now heading into its second weekend with players threatening to slay a billion zombies before the next weekly update arrives, Tez2 dropped the latest figures.
According to the GTA insider, the zombie-themed GTA Online mode has drawn "almost at 1.7 million players and nearing 4 million total plays."
Previously he compared the success of the Ludendorff Cemetery Survival mode to past GTA Online updates, as the game achieved in mere days what took the said releases twice as long if not longer.
With the Halloween season in full swing, something tells us that GTA Online will continue to see more players over the next few weeks.
If you haven't had a chance to check out GTA Online yet lately, now is the best time to do so, and if you need help with the new content updates, we've released a guide on where to find the ghosts and UFOs that have popped up all across Los Santos in recent weeks.
Aside from GTA Online's Halloween update, Rockstar appears to be sitting on two huge announcements: the PC port of Grand Theft Auto 5: Expanded and Enhanced and the second trailer of Grand Theft Auto 6. The former was "confirmed" two years ago when it was rated and Rockstar itself leaked its existence alongside the PC ports of GTA 6 and Red Dead Redemption, which will be available on October 28.
On the other hand, we might finally hear more about the latter right around the same time Take-Two Interactive holds its next earnings call in November.
