A PC Gamer writer describes adding a mod to Grand Theft Auto 5 that spawns hit squads sent to hunt down and kill the player, adding an extra layer of threat on top of the game's usual police response. The experiment highlights how GTA 5's PC modding scene, over a decade after release, continues to let players radically reshape the game's difficulty and mechanics, though it also shows the practical headaches of running many mods together.

The author found that the hit-squad mod frequently clashed with the large number of other mods already installed, causing conflicts that interfered with how the feature functioned in practice. Rather than a clean, isolated addition, the result was a messy but entertaining example of the trial-and-error nature of heavily modded GTA 5 setups, where compatibility issues are a common trade-off for expanded gameplay options.