How to make 'Grand Theft Auto V' guns shoot cars instead of bullets
You think you're so tough because your gun shoots bullets? Pfft. My gun shoots cars.
That's right. A creative Grand Theft Auto V mod making the rounds this week allows players to turn regular weapons into machines of vehicular murder.
This trick works on any gun in the PC version of GTA V, and we're here to help you make that magic for yourself.
As Mon Mothma in Return of the Jedi might put it, many cars died to bring us this information ....
There are two key steps to setting this up. First you need Script Hook V, a handy little file that makes GTA V mod-ready. Download the latest version here, open up the ZIP archive, and copy the two DLL files — ScriptHookV.dll and dinput8.dll — from the "bin" folder to the root folder where you have the game installed.
If you play using Steam, the folder location probably looks something like this: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Grand Theft Auto V
One important note before you proceed:
Neither of the DLLs overwrite anything that's already in the folder, but Script Hook V breaks your ability to play GTA Online. Mods are cleared for use in the single player and "Director" modes, but developer Rockstar Games doesn't allow them to be used online.
Neither of the DLLs overwrite anything that's already in the folder, but Script Hook V breaks your ability to play GTA Online. Mods are cleared for use in the single player and "Director" modes, but developer Rockstar Games doesn't allow them to be used online.
Once you're done playing with mods, you'll need to delete the two files and reset the game before you can use GTA Online again.
Now that that's done, head over to the Vehicle Cannon download page on gta5-mods.com and download the mod. Open up the archive and copy the lone file you find there — vehicle cannon.asi — to the same folder you dropped Script Hook V into.
That's it! Fire up the game (remember to start it in single player), travel to whichever lovely vista you'd like to use as a backdrop for an apocalyptic number of car explosions and press the F11 key to activate the mod. Then just shoot any gun in your inventory and enjoy the fireworks.
You'll know the mod works if you see white text pop up in the top left corner of the screen after you hit F11 (though the flood of cars exploding out of your gun barrel is a dead giveaway as well). You can press F11 once for a "normal" rate of fire and a second time for a "fast," though we couldn't see much of a difference between the two.
Pressing F11 a third time turns the mod off, though you'll still need to remove Script Hook V if you want to get into GTA Online.
There are tons of other scripts (the type of mod that Script Hook V enables) on the gta5-mods website if you're feeling adventurous. A lot of them amount to cheats, but there are definitely some intriguing possibilities. Like the one that causes spontaneous chaos in the world. Or the one that turns you into a Jedi Master.
Let us know if you try any of these mods out and please, share videos!
