Being randomly teleported is old hat to PC GTA Online players due to all the modders on that platform, but it’s something new and novel for the Xbox One and PS4 crowd. While many Redditors discussing the glitch are suggesting that somehow the modders have finally figured out how to be annoying on console as well, popular GTA Online data miner Tez2 has a much less sinister, slightly more stupid explanation. According to Tez2, Rockstar pushed a background update live yesterday that for some reason swaps a specific event with a call to teleport to a garage or apartment.

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Basically, someone in the game does a thing, and that thing causes everyone to be whisked away to that outside of that person’s home base. It’s not a malicious act, just a weird occurrence that I’m almost certain no one will exploit before Rockstar gets around to fixing it.

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Until then, either be boring and avoid public lobbies altogether or be daring and roll the dice. Who knows, your internet might be fast enough that you get to shoot first. Wouldn’t that be something?