Social Engineering – Swatting – Snitching – Standard Social Engineering - Shadow Hacker Group Services - GTA Online Spy Satellite DLC

Developer Note: The Social Engineering component is in progress: 01052024, 1624. The logic to accommodate the new subcomponents is currently being written. The PowerPoint presentation below, is the first draft that does not have the new subcomponents nor the new sub-subcomponents that have been recently added.

 The Social Engineering component that is built into the GTA Online Spy Satellite DLC has been divided into three subcomponents. Each newly created subcomponent might have other subcomponents within it. These can be called sub-subcomponents. The three subcomponents for Social Engineering are as follows:

• Swatting - the apartment or home that belongs to the player will get raided by the LSPD including a SWAT team. Swatting has the following sub-subcomponents:
• Swatting with police, but no SWAT team.
• Swatting with a K9 Unit, and police.
• Swatting with the SWAT team.
• Dirty Cops - confiscate for themselves, any contraband or goods the player is selling.
• The backstory on the dirty cops is that they are ex- or current gang members. 
• The dirty cops could also be undercover cops gone rogue. 
• Dirty Feds - operate similar to Dirty Cops, but at the federal level.
• Including 'swatting' and 'snitching' may open the door for the creation of a Police DLC for GTA Online or GTA Six and GTA Six Online.
• The player will be available for swatting/raiding anywhere in the GTA Online free roam lobby map. Thus, all law enforcement vehicles must match the terrain and be able to travel as logically as possible to location of the player to then perform the raid.
• The following locations will be available for swatting/raiding:
• Yachts
• Hangars (military police, LSIA police)
• The Mammoth Avenger
• The Facility
• The Arcade
• The CEO Offices
• Any location that the player can spawn in (or plan heists).
• Snitching - the players will now be victims of, or have the opportunity to use police or federal informants, commonly referred to as jailhouse snitches.
• Standard Social Engineering. - the players will be able to use standard social engineering techniques against other players. Standard Social Engineering will allow for the possibility to have the LSPD arrest the player to take the player to a jailcell for processing. Standard Social Engineering has the following sub-subcomponents:
• Vanilla Unicorn - Gentlemen's Club
•  "Cheetah"
• Other dancers.
• "Extracurricular legal and illegal street and entertainment activities" the player engages in. 
• LSPD can arrest players and take them to jail for processing until the matter is cleared up.
• Side mechanism to create: At random times throughout the game, off-duty cops or undercover cops will now be in the liquor stores throughout San Andreas (and Los Santos) to increase the likelihood that the players of GTA Online are arrested.
• Players can be awarded the undercover cop uniform in the game.
• Permanent off-radar ability is awarded with the undercover cop uniform.
• Mechanisms for this functionality will be created.
• Players can be awarded or sold an unmarked, undercover police car.
• Mechanisms for this functionality will be created.

All of the services listed above are offered by the Shadow Hacker Group through the spy satellite. None of the proposed gameplay features are currently enabled in GTA Online.

The github for Social Engineering component of the GTA Online Spy Satellite DLC is found at this link: Social Engineering - GTA Online Spy Satellite DLC. 

(Developer Note: Original concept of Social Engineering begins here. The new Social Engineering concept is currently being written.)