The “Valentine’s Cheater” random event is a Freemode Job that was implemented in the “Hills Hideout” update released on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, and was unlocked in the weekly update of February 5, 2026.
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Random Event Overview
A random event where a man who was caught cheating on Valentine’s Day appears, tied to a utility pole or tree with rope, wearing nothing but his underwear.
Spawn Conditions and Event Details
Spawn Conditions
- Conditions:
- Randomly spawns when you enter within 100m of an event location
- Any session type
- After 20 minutes have passed since the session was created
- 20-minute cooldown
- Any vehicle is allowed
*The event’s active time is 10 minutes.
*When the event spawns, as with other random events, the minimap briefly flashes and a light-blue ● appears on the map.
*In addition to the above, there may be a condition such as “after XX minutes have passed since creating the session,” but this is currently unknown.
Event Details
In front of a house, a man who was caught cheating on Valentine’s Day appears, tied to a utility pole or tree with rope, wearing nothing but his underwear. His suitcase—apparently dragged out of the house—and his car have been burned and destroyed. You can obtain a reward by either “helping” him or “stealing his wallet.”
Actual Gameplay Impressions
Based on impressions from Madara actually triggering this random event several times, one of the conditions states that “more than 20 minutes have passed since creating the session,” but when measuring the time at which it actually appeared, it often occurred around the 1 hour 20 minute mark. Internally, it is likely that the event becomes enabled after 20 minutes have passed, and at that point the task is added to a queue. However, during the time before the 20 minutes have elapsed, other tasks may be added to the queue first, so at the 20-minute mark it ends up waiting its turn and has a low chance of occurring. If it cannot be triggered at the 20-minute mark, it then enters a 20-minute cooldown, and after 40 minutes have passed, a check is performed again to see whether to trigger the event. At that time, if the waiting task has top priority, it will occur; if there is another higher-priority queue, it will enter another cooldown, and the next check will be after 60 minutes, repeating this cycle.
Therefore, rather than continuously patrolling the spawn points nonstop, it may be better to patrol the spawn locations once 20 minutes have passed, and if it does not occur, wait until 40 minutes have passed. After 40 minutes, patrol again, and if it still does not occur, wait until 60 minutes have passed and patrol again, repeating this process at 20-minute intervals.
All 10 Spawn Locations
Overall Map
All 10 Spawn Locations
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Rewards
Rewards
- Untie and help him: $25,000
- Steal his wallet: $5,000
- Kill him before obtaining a reward: no reward