GTA V on FiveM
Closed betaStandalone FiveM. No roleplay framework, no economy, no jobs. You spawn into a hub, pick a fight from a menu, and every match runs in a world of its own.
Closed beta means the build is complete and the door is not open to everybody yet. There is no launch date for the same reason there is no countdown: it opens when it is genuinely ready, and Discord hears it first.
The part almost nobody else does
Most combat servers either trust what the client says about damage, or try to recompute the game’s damage arithmetic themselves. The first is cheatable in one line. The second produces a validator that is wrong at the edges, and a validator that is wrong at the edges kicks real players. SKIRM splits the job so each half is authoritative over what it can actually know.
Every shot raises a damage event, and the server answers a yes or no question it can answer perfectly. Is this attacker in this arena, alive, holding a weapon the server granted, firing no faster than that weapon can, at a victim in the same arena who is not spawn-protected, not a teammate, and within range? A refused event is never relayed, so the damage happens nowhere.
Health is then read server-side and never predicted. The server sees the true health whatever the client believes, and it decides who died and who gets the kill.
How a session works
There is no character to make first, no job to take, and nothing to earn before you are allowed to shoot. You land on a roof with a menu on it.
A branded loading screen that comes down when you are actually placed in the world, not several seconds earlier.
The Maze Bank roof. A six-tab lobby menu and no combat anywhere on it.
You wait in a pen standing on the map you are about to play, with everyone else queued for it. Nobody can shoot in there.
The match forms and you all leave together, onto the map you were standing on. Weather and time are frozen at midday and clear.
Or straight into the shared open world instead, which is a first-class mode rather than a lobby with the rules switched off.
The lobby menu, six tabs
There is no close button. K toggles the menu and ESC opens the rules page over the top of it.
Leaving a match is /forfeit or /leavematch, confirmed by repeating it. That costs a queue cooldown, two minutes casual and ten ranked, keyed to your account rather than your session. A ranked forfeit is a full loss.
The portal
5 more pages, because one page describing all of it would be unreadable and skipping half of it would be dishonest.
Every mode, the ranked series lengths, the PVE scenarios, the aim drills and all eleven arenas.
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Green zones, bounties, the redzone decks, the outposts, the platforms and everywhere you can travel.
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Gangs as a Discord role, chat and proximity voice, tournaments, spectating and creator codes.
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How a shot is authorised, what the anti-cheat does and does not see, and how moderation works.
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What is sold, what cannot be sold, and why the game itself can never take a payment.
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Progression
Levels come from playing anything. ELO comes from ranked only, so a bad night in Free For All cannot cost you a rating and a good one cannot buy you one.
It accrues from matches, PVE runs, aim drills and time on the server. XP comes from kills, headshots, assists, round wins, match wins, matches played and minutes played, with a per-session cap on the playtime part.
None of it can be farmed alone. A kill needs a victim, a round win needs opponents.
It moves on ranked match results and nothing else, so a bad night in Free For All cannot cost you a rating and a good one in a casual lobby cannot buy you one.
There is a floor, so a losing streak cannot produce a number you have no way to climb out of.
A player can be max level and unranked, or a fresh account and the best duellist on the server. The two boards answer different questions on purpose.
Level roles in Discord
| Role | At level | Roughly |
|---|---|---|
| Rookie | 5 | 2 hours |
| Regular | 15 | 10 hours |
| Veteran | 30 | 27 hours |
| Elite | 50 | 55 hours |
| Apex | 75 | 100 hours |
Ranked roles in Discord
| Role | At ELO |
|---|---|
| Contender | 1300 |
| Gladiator | 1600 |
| Champion | 1900 |
Both ladders are reconciled against Discord automatically. Nothing is stored to go stale, and a role deleted by hand comes back. Ranked roles demote as well as promote, with a band around each boundary so nobody flaps on it, and none of them apply until you have played your placement matches.
Drawn from what the server already counts, so nothing has to be tracked twice.
Live progress on /challenges. A reset changes the period key rather than wiping a row, so your history survives it.
Per mode and global, cached. Every stat is written twice, once for the mode and once into a global row, so a global board is a single indexed read rather than a scan.
Your setup
Everything that affects how the game feels is a preference. Nothing that affects who wins is one, and nothing that affects who wins is for sale.
Default keys
Every one of these is a default and every one is rebindable. The scoreboard is on Z rather than Tab, because fighting the weapon wheel breaks weapon switching.
Under it
Useful if you have run a server, and reassuring if you have played on one that could not hold a match together.
Deployment is automated from GitHub over SFTP with per-resource reloads, so shipping a fix does not drop everybody mid-match.
Roadmap
None of this is described anywhere else on the site as a feature, and that is the point of the page. Naming the gap is worth more than a paragraph that quietly implies it is closed.
| Not built yet | Where it actually stands |
|---|---|
| Gang worlds | A gang buying a private copy of the open world. Every piece exists. The join path and the ownership check do not. |
| Double-elimination brackets | Single elimination only. The tournament tool refuses any other format outright rather than running a single-elim series under a label that promises losers a second chance. |
| Ranked seasons | Ranked roles read lifetime rating and lifetime ranked matches. There is no season reset yet, so nothing has ever been wiped. |
| Gang roster management in game | Gang rows are added by hand today, and buying a gang is one automatic step and four manual ones across three systems. |
| A role and entitlement bridge | Discord roles and Tebex entitlements are two delivery chains with nothing joining them. Each product is wired to exactly one, deliberately, until there is something safe to join them with. |
| Self-service redeem | /redeem exists and reports itself unavailable until the Tebex package map is filled in. |
| skirm.me profiles | The domain redirects to the profiles page today. What is missing is the profile itself, and it is the next thing on this list to land. |
| Custom arena maps | Every arena is a real GTA location. Purpose-built arena maps are separate work and are not shipped. |
| Social emotes | Not ported from the predecessor. |
| A weapon components menu | Attachments exist and are edited in the loadout editor. There is no menu that modifies a weapon you are already holding. |
Closed beta
There is no application form and no queue to buy your way past. Join, say hello, and you get told when the door opens.