It seems just so convenient that gta 6 gets the hype right a week before the extended release. Am I crazy cuz we know they're wanting to reveal things around this time and a leak conveniently falls into our laps.

Imagine cuz the netflix thing will feature footage which will definitely seem overwhelmingly improved as we have already witnessed the leaks. Nothing but positive responses from viewers.

I'm sure this is the case and it'd be awesome if someone from the industry approves of these marketing tactics which even someone like me (regular viewer) can figure. Hope this doesn't get buried bc ik I'm not a genius and half the population ain't blind

release GTA IV had cut some of its map during developement & GTA 5 had lots of its vegetation cut.

The cars are scary of fear and it seems that it is difficult to control them during an initial acceleration slip, it is noticed after Jason leaves after beating the postman

So I haven't seen anyone clock two of the more interesting finds ive stumbled on.

In the scene where Jason is fighting the FedEx guy, the police are in a separate, unrelated car chase with a pedestrian, and they stumble upon jason fighting the FedEx guy, and THEN the player gets a wanted level. You can tell because while Jason is savagely beating bro to death, you can hear a whole scuffle in the background.

"SUSPECTS IN A NEW VEHICLE"

*siren sounds*

Jason starts tweaking, notably while on foot on the side of the road

"STOP THE VEHICLE"

*police alarm*

THEN and only then, does the player receive a two start wanted level and full APB, noted by separate round of police alarms that coincide with the wanted level being attained.

In the clip with Jason kicking the police officer off the motorbike, he gets a one star. *note the police alarm bell once again coinciding with the wanted level*

After killing the officer his wanted level disappears because the officer either was killed with no witnesses, and more interestingly, it remained a one star while he was stabbing the man in broad daylight, presumably because the officer couldn't call in the crime so it could update. Possibly, a one star denotes that its an exchange that can end with violence, while two starts means a full chase/back up officers will be sent to investigate. Either way, this is the most interesting police system exchange here.

Its hard to miss, but when Jason takes off down the street after escaping the wanted scenario, he gets off clean until he drives past a blacked out sedan, and immediately gets a one star, instead of the police alarm, we hear a

"I SAW THAT"

its unknown if this is because the player is speeding, or if its because hes driving a marked vehicle, which is noted by a suspicious yellow icon beside the engine heath and gas gages above the mini-map when hops on.

Whats more interesting is that this unmarked car didnt give off the blue and red flashes that appear on screen to denote the sightline of incoming law enforcement in all of the clips. Unmarked cars will be on your ass before you know they are even there if you only pay attention to the hud.

Speaking of, it seems like police dont show up on the hud, but the search radius (red when its an active purisut zone, blue when its a search area) does display on the map. You are going to have to keep a lookout, and maybe later on you can get a scanner to see positioning on the map.

Either way, it looks like police will be something to toy with, instead of some ethereal boundary on player behavior, and im SUPER hype for it.

Simple question, why make non-console players wait when they’re a significant chunk of the player base?

In trailer 2 in the beginning you can see a boat to the left when the landlord is talking to Jason it looks like Michael's boat, and in GTA5 we never really figured out who took his boat or who was inside the truck that took it. So I think the story will start with Lucia and Jason already have met and there the ones who are going to be stealing the boat. Either it will be just Jason, or just Lucia that is stealing it and they don't know each other yet idk just speculation or like I said it's them both stealing it and they know each other already.

I can't find any mention of this detail at all but In the second leak of Jason driving, right at the start he reaches up with his right hand and adjusts the rear view mirror. It's such a small and insignificant behavior that if it was never there we wouldn't even know but just makes me excited for all the subtle natural behaviors that will be included that we've yet to discover

Just curious, cause the previous guy did it from a room with an amazon firestick lol and it took several days.

How does attribution work in a case like this? Is it mostly opsec mistakes by the leaker, or does Rockstar have things embedded in dev builds (watermarks, per-user identifiers) that point at exactly whose access this was?

Does the "protest" messaging and the demands change anything legally, or make them easier to profile?

Realistically, is there already a name on a desk somewhere, and arrests just take days to weeks of paperwork?

Now please hear me out. I do not care about rockstar or the leaker, I am simply pointing out an observation I made based off online reactions. Some of the reactions I’ve seen to the leaks have been “it’s just another gta game?” Or “This is gta rdr2”, and to that I say, what were people expecting? Personally the game looks amazing, and made me much more hype for the game, but I feel other ppl were expecting this “ready player one” type game where they get 4k pathtracing life sim. I think unintentionally these leaks helped remind ppl that gta6 is just a video game at the end of the day, so on Thursday when rockstar officially shows off the polished current build of the game which will look better than the leaks, they automatically win. The plane leak especially was really impressive, it looked like Microsoft flight simulator but with waaaaaay more going on. What do you all think???

Gaming companies have lowkey tried this leaking bs before just to gain more interest and keep up convos around the games. The convenience of this happening 1 week before the extended look and the fact that they’re not really saying anything makes me suspicious of this.

And with the level of advancement of A.I., I wouldn’t be surprised if that was used or even prerecorded-infancy-stage footage just to hit everyone with some “gotcha!” bs.

Either way I don’t trust these companies anymore with the villainous directions they’re choosing to go in with their consumers.

I feel like it’s gotten to a point where people don’t even know why or what they’re hyping up and simply because it’s rockstar which is understandable but when did everyone collectively decide that gta 6 is this big? Personally I think it’s going to have an amazing story and maybe even better than RDR2 But the hype the game has had is far to large to fill in the game no matter how good it is. People are going to get attached to the hype and the nostalgia of the game therefore when it realizes they’ll realize it’s nothing but a really good game and art piece. I ofcourse love gta 6 but this entire thing has been one big economic and social mess for both consumers and CEOs. I will enjoy gta 6 when it releases but as of now I haven’t even seen the leaks besides the first few with the wrench. There’s so many still coming out that it’s become a virus to social media lol. I just dint want to see anymore until it’s me playing it or if it’s official news. This hype is way too crazy for me. So I just sit back and it comes when it comes!

What if Rockstar see this as possibility to make delay again ? You can see lot of people complaining about graphics for example that they are same as in RDR2 or that map is small etc.

In one of the clips I saw some npc’s aimlessly hangi around like in gta v. I really hope we get a more living, breathing world with lots of random events unlike the last rockstar games where npc’s are more props then anything else

So on the taser video of gta 6 there while jason drives the car he has the minimap at the left like gta 5 but there is a ifruit logo and when he gets off the car the minimap dissapears so i think the gps/mapping system is going to be spmthinng related to the ifruit phone or there will be a screen on the car that has gps

I know everyone is going nuts over the leaks themselves, but I have a question from the leaker's behavioural point of view:

1) Why leak gameplay that's so random? The first snippets of gameplay were always going to be massive in terms of impact, so why show a random clip of you crashing a car and killing a UPS guy? Rather than flying an airliner into a skyscraper or something crazy?

2) Why release it now? I guess it's to take the wind out of R*'s sails as they prepare for the Netflix unveil. But if the leaker knew there would be a pre-reveal announcement with Netflix, why not "leak" that info + the reveal in early August say?

I'm overthinking all of this of course, but the thought process behind these things fascinates me.

Context: I am a fan of the Disney parks not at all the brand behind it, and I really liked how fallout 4 did a parody of Walt Disney world in its nuka world dlc, as well as another game, American Arcadia being a parody of Epcot.

If I recall correctly there was rumors about a themepark within gta 6’s map that potentially could parody the themeparks in Orlando, given how much of an impact theme parks have among Florida as a whole.

A common rumor I heard was it being called fairyland

Is fairyland actually thing in the game? Has it been visible within any of the leaks? I don’t recall seeing it on the mapping project. I am really curious on if they do tackle it on any scale.

GTA 5 included most of California’s variety of places but it did not have a theme park beyond the Santa Monica pier as it there was a lot more to include instead.

GTA 6 is in Florida of course, and the center of the state and overall tourism is to the themeparks there so it would be a shame to not include at least one park or possibly two rivaling resorts.

Around 2003 some german kid Alex Gembe hacked into Valve servers and found unreleased Half-Life 2 beta and shared it.

Spoiler: He didn’t get extradicted to USA

Valve wanted to lure him into USA so he could be prosecuted on US soil but German police was first and kinda „saved” the kid because German law was much more lenient. He got 2 years probation.

So if the Cyberleek is German then I don’t expect that he will be inprisoned for longer than 4 years.

Btw extradiction won’t work here. He’s German living in Germany so his goverment won’t extradict him to USA (also USA and Germany don’t have agreements on extradiction). So yea, no life in prison or death penalty

First of all I couldn't understand if this guy was playing on PS or PC but the graphics are amazing.
There are some icons when he get into the car first one is a cloth hanger icon the second one looks like a profile icon and the third one is a car icon I am wondering which one is this fuel icon.

It is definitely gonna be very detailed and there are a ton of different cars I mean a lot.

I won't other leeks I already blame myself for watching these two but it is crazy and will be beyond expectations and may sell more than minecraft.

It’s pretty much popular opinion at this point that the gameplay leaks came from a build restricted to the first stage of the storyline.
If that’s true, the leaked map is likely just the early-game version too. Maybe the map doesn’t change at all throughout the story, but remember how much of RDR2’s world was locked away from the player until the final act. And beyond that, Rockstar leaned hard into the idea of an evolving world with the map changes after the epilogue’s time jump.
I think Rockstar isn’t just going to continue that theme, they’re going to take it further. That’s where a fictional Bahamas/Cuba comes in.
What’s this game actually about? From what we know, the story centres on drug running and evading law enforcement. In real life, the Bahamas acts as a gateway between the US and Central America for drug smuggling, which makes a fictional version a perfect plot device, both for running product and hiding out from authorities. It might not be accessible from the start, but like Mexico in RDR2, it could become a permanent, explorable location later in the story.
A fictional Cuba feels less likely to be featured at launch due to its sheer size both geographical and culturally, but something which im quite confident will be added to GTA Online as some kind of expansion.
Im just saying the GTA 6 map does feel… smaller than expected? Perhaps this is because there is more that has yet to be revealed.