Business Battles

Business Battles are a Freemode Event available in Grand Theft Auto Online as part of the After Hours update and expanded upon in the Los Santos Summer Special update.

Description
Business Battles consist of players competing to steal different types of cargo to use for their Nightclub Warehouse. Business Battles appear to replace and play out in a similar structure to both Dead Drop and Moving Target, both removed in the After Hours update. This event is triggered every 15 minutes and will trigger in GTA Online sessions containing at least 3 players not doing other Freemode Events at the moment of triggering. Each battle has a time limit of 20-30 minutes.

There are various types of Business Battles that involve reaching, stealing and delivering different types of Nightclub Warehouse Goods, varying from Cargo, Weapons and Product (Cocaine, Meth, Weed, Fake Cash and Forged Docs), and occasionally special Event Cargo.

Unlike Buy Special Cargo, Resupply, Steal Vehicle, Steal Supplies, Steal Cargo and Heist Prep missions, going Off the Radar will hide the goods from other players.

Mission Types
There are a variety of mission types that are picked at random.

Assassination
Six targets appear on the map and must be taken out, similar to Headhunter. Once they are all taken out, the location of the duffel bag cargo is revealed and marked on the map. Targets may or may not have protection from bodyguards.

Assault
Players must travel to a location where a faction have the target vehicle. Vehicles are a Barrage, Insurgent Pick-Up or a Technical Custom.

Car Meet
Steal a specific vehicle located at an NPC modified car meet. The vehicle will be a Hermes, a Sabre Turbo Custom, or a Dominator GTX.

Joyrider
A stolen weaponized vehicle must be stolen back or destroyed.

Merryweather Drop
An area protected by Merryweather Security must be cleared out before collecting a flare to signal a Cargo Plane to drop the cargo crates.

Parking Garage
A vehicle parked within a parking building must be located and stolen using a photograph to identify the target vehicle. Possible vehicles include the Raptor, Panto and Issi Classic.

Pick-Up
The player must intervene in a battle between two rival NPC factions and steal two duffel bags of product.

Police Station
Enter the Mission Row Police Station, Sandy Shores Sheriff's Station or Paleto Bay Sheriff's Office, to hack a computer containing the location of a vehicle.

Showroom
A Vapid Ellie with a custom license plate, "RA1NE" containing Business Battle Cargo must be stolen from Premium Deluxe Motorsport. The player must reach the garage door and hack a security panel to get inside.

Vehicle Export
A truck transporting the Mamba which contains the cargo must be assaulted and the Mamba must be retrieved by using explosives (including weaponized vehicle missiles) to blow open the door of the truck.

Aircraft Carrier Assault
Added in the Los Santos Summer Special update.

Eight packages are located on board the USS Luxington ATT-16 which is well off-shore to the southeast of Los Santos.

Factory Raid
Added in the Los Santos Summer Special update.

Hack the entry security at the location, fight off the enemies and return 8 packages.

UFO Battle
Added in the Los Santos Summer Special update.

The business battle overlay will say 'Goods type: unknown' and the player is instructed to go to Fort Zancudo.

This battle is only active during particular Events, including during the Halloween Week 2020, Happy Halloween and Halloween Week 2021.

Rewards
Besides the goods, there is a cash and RP reward. There is a $10,000 GTA$ reward for each crate of goods, with $500 GTA$ added depending on time taken. If completing the Battle as an Associate or Bodyguard for a CEO or VIP of an Organization, the cash reward will be transferred to the VIP/CEO.

Completing battles will also reward the player with the Battler statue on their Nightclub desk, the color of which will change with the number of battles won:
 * Bronze
 * Silver
 * Gold
 * Platinum

If the player's nightclub is already full of the goods type in the battle, they will see a message when collecting the goods advising them:

Note: All players can participate in Business Battles, even players not affiliated with any organization/motorcycle clubs. A player that does not own a Nightclub will instead be instructed to deliver the goods to a drop-off location at the opposite end of the map for cash and RP.

No Nightclub Drop-offs