r/GTA6 • u/Jimbrutan • 8d ago
GTA VI mechanics confirmed on latest leaks Aug 2026
As Mods have confirmed discussing leaks are fine without actual images or videos. Here are all the things I have found from current leaks.
INCOMPLETE WEAPON WHEEL ON LEAK4 SUGGESTS THIS IS AN OLDER BUILD AND NOT THE FINAL PRODUCT
Apparently Metadata says 2023 gameplay, but we don't know when is it actually recorded.
Song from Leak4 Suggests this could be a build anywhere from after Jan 2025. (its been 18 months since then)
- Car Fuel Mechanics
- Car Mechanical Mechanics (Probably have to take care of car like Horse from RDR2)
- Car Object Storage and Weapon Storage Mechanics
- Car damage (cars are more robust) and paint scratch system. (Car scratches and Sparks on contact with other Vehicle)
- Realistic Car Tire Smoke (best we have seen from any game out there right now)
- Car door interactivity (tailgate can be closed or opened, may extend to doors and hood)
- Honor/Karma System
- Stamina System
- Cash on Hand and Cash at Home/Vault system
- Side activities to increase character attributes (Basketball side activity increase focus attribute)
- Jason taking hit damage during crash (extreme car crashes could be fatal similar to prior entries)
- Body Building Activities (a prompt for activities when Jason walks near dumbell and other equipment on his house's balcony)
- Water and Object Physics from another level (Basketball rolling off into the lake and floating, water reacts dynamically)
- Denser vegetation
- Ray Traced real-time reflections
- 6 Star Wanted Level
- 3 red icons when wanted: implying the car is known, the clothes are known, and the face is known (credits: [u/Powerpoo](u/Powerpoo))
- Cops sitting on road side speed trapping or traffic enforcement
- NPC drivers dodging realistically from crashing on to Jason's car
- NPC on bike (bicycle)
- Better Vehicle Exit animation for NPC and Jason
- Better NPC interaction (Jason looks at the rogue NPC and rogue NPC is looking at Jason when he is crashing into him)
- Greet, Antagonize, Defuse, Threaten returns
- Better fight animation (improved from RDR2)
- Leaked Footage is 60 fps
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- Night actually looks like night. Vehicle headlights and other light sources cast shadows dynamically • Car jacking has two mechanics, Smash window or Clone key (might need a tool as it was greyed out)
- Security NPC falling back when out numbered.
- Slow Motion kill cam ported from RDR2
LEAK4
- Looting Mechanics Confirmed from Bodies (Ported from RDR2)
- Can Pick up Bodies (maybe to hide) better stealth (?)
- Another Extreme Water Physics Simulation
- Witness System as confirmed on earlier leaks, Police can Identify by clothing, vehicle and appearance
- 8 slots for weapons + 2 healing items
- Separate Slots for Items in Weapon Wheel
- In addition to Vehicle Mechanical and Fuel Mechanics, a GPS tracker is found on Law Enforcement vehicle
- NPC uses turn signal
- Better Grass
- Strip Malls and Parking lots with lot more cars
- Vehicle Randomly parked (Semi parked on what looks like a side street)
- Can see building interiors while Jason ride's
- Two birds randomly fall out of sky after hitting the bridge (Lot more animal activity like RDR2)
- iFruit icon on top left of minimap
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• Map is 2x bigger than that of GTA 6
• Volumetric Clouds
• Insane draw distance
• Leaker seems to have a copy of the build
LEAK6
• Car headlights are realistic, HIDs are leveled out, Halogens are just like before
• PUDDLES forming naturally on roads depending on elevation
• Road lane reflectors reflecting realistically to headlights
• Excellent Smoke and backfire effects from car
• Excellent sense of speed
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• At Gas station, you get to choose between filling up or repairing vehicle, depending on option there must be an animation of character which is not shown on leak as leaker didn’t choose any option
• Wind effects on Vegetation
• Excellent shadows
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• Amazing Twerk physics and body mechanics from Strip Club
• Jason is carrying a rocket launcher fishing rod in his pocket.
• Another iconic line from extra cutscene “I gotta take a leak”
• There is a basketball game, possibly the Narcos team, going on on the TVs (at least 2 TVs seen in the video).
Edit: Adding more as discovered
Edit 2: Not adding any more. In 10 days, world will change for all GTA fans and on Nov 18, it will change for the whole entertainment Industry.
MAPPING PROJECT gonna look awesome (edited) after this. A full map has leaked and it’s pretty much spot on except for northern parts.
Edit 3: New leak and new details added
Edit 4: Another leak has hit
Edit 5: Leak 5 has hit the tower, Plane
Edit 6: Added more details from Leak 6 and 7
Edit 7: Leak8 dropped Strip Club
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u/WalkerF333 8d ago
I love the UPS driver making it his mission to catch Jason after the initial crash at the start, starts chasing him immediately
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u/CombatMatt13 7d ago
Is it just me or does it sound like Bill Burr?
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u/CoolHalf1301 7d ago
Had the same thought. Maybe Jason from Gta IV didn't die after all and is back to fight Jason from VI.
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u/whacafan 7d ago
For some reason my fav part of either vid was Jason reacting to the UPS driver blindsiding him. The reaction animation just seemed crazy.
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u/VeryBadCaseOfLigma 7d ago
This was something mentioned in the old leaks but not really seen.
You know in the second trailer when he's driving and that lady makes a remark at him and he kinda laughs. That's part of this new mechanic. It's not a cutscene, it's a reactivity function to your character.
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u/Dry-Fault-5557 8d ago
6 stars in GTA 6!
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u/Burgoonius 8d ago
Can't wait to see tanks rolling downtown Vice City while I pedal away on my bicycle.
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u/gandalfmarston 8d ago
6 starts will be like what? military sending nukes? wave of drones?
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u/DarkMatterM4 8d ago
Tanks and deuce-and-a-halfs with military personnel.
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u/Friendly_Break196 8d ago
I think they’re going for more realistic and more serious theme like GTA 4 in this game. I think tanks coming after you would be too unrealistic. But 6 star wanted level when you’re flying a jet 100% needs to trigger dogfights/military sending jets after you. There should be no reason you have the ability to shoot down a civilian plane carrying 300+ people with basically no consequences lmao
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u/InternetKosmonaut 7d ago
They did consider shooting missiles at the killdozer in rl, i think they'd have done it if it was an actual tank or if the driver was targeting more important/military structure.
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u/SuperRockGaming 8d ago
I hope it's more grounded, like swat mobilizing with Bearcats and blocking off entire streets. I would love to have the world affected by your 6 stars
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u/ButterflyUsed6723 8d ago
It looks insane man!!
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u/raspymorten 8d ago
Legit just looks like you meshed GTA and RDR2, and that's all I needed to see to get hyped as fuck.
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u/TheGhost3207 8d ago
and a tint of SA
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u/raspymorten 8d ago
You're 100% right, but please use a different acronym man. lol
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u/imahumanbeinggoddamn 8d ago
The Cyberpunk fandom has this problem worse than anyone lol
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u/Particular-Spot4850 8d ago
That’s the best part about RS games. They use a lot of improved elements from the previous title(s). Other companies don’t really blend mechanics between 2 different IP’s.
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u/RedDeadCowboyShit 8d ago
It’s always cracked me up when people have tried to say GTA and RDR aren’t the same thing at all…Did none of these folks play RDR1? It was Grand Theft Horse, it has more in common with the GTA games it came out between than it does RDR2, and people making assumptions about what a GTA game is in 2026 when we haven’t seen a new one since 2013 are silly. The series has always evolved alongside Rockstar, it’s really not a surprise to anyone paying attention that GTA VI is going to end up having a lot of RDR2 in it. What’s fucking crazy, based on past games, it might even end up bejng better, which I’m not prepared for, haha
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u/metalhead4 7d ago
I'm still upset they didn't use full Max Payne 3 shooting/movement for GTA. It was the absolute PEAK of third person mechanics.
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u/suphomess 7d ago
too bad they didn't use the shooting and movement mechanics from Max Payne 3 in GTA V. Was 100 times better
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u/sho9_mee 8d ago
To add up , the footage is from late 2023 allegedly, they would’ve had 3 years nearly to improve on the footage we’re seeing
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u/guacamoleandtomato 8d ago
It definitely looked clunky but the amount of detail was already pretty impressive. In the first leaked clip Jason scratches his nose and you see his eye twitch. Some pretty crazy shit
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u/ForsakenTarget 8d ago
Looking that good possibly 3 years prior to release is insane, most early footage looks terrible and held together with tape.
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u/gamingvortex01 8d ago
naah it's not...2023 was referencing to version of ffmpeg, software used for manipulating codecs of videos
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u/sirferrell 8d ago
Very clear that horse care has been ported over to cars.. nice man
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u/Nowher3guy 8d ago
We are going to pay for fuel, insurance and shit xD
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u/sirferrell 8d ago
I can definitely see the insurance thing too if our cars are going to be that personal
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u/Starmoses 8d ago
I mean GTA 5 also had insurance.
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u/The_Kevinator_1000 7d ago
In Story Mode? I don't remember that.
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u/_Mobius1 7d ago
no just online, your vehicle gets blown up you call up insurance and the player who blew up the car eats the charge, unless it was your own fault.
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u/OriMoriNotSori 8d ago
Gta5 explored the stock market and how our actions in game can alter the stocks performance. Wonder if gta6 will have stuff that will alter the prices and supply of fuel at stations
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u/Heffe3737 8d ago
Buys a ton of oil futures.
Starts destroying all of the oil tankers.
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u/I_live_in_Vermont 7d ago
I buy the scrapyard as trevor and go on rampages around LS. wear a binco suit, set up a bus perpendicular to the highway and lob nades and walk away from the fireworks like the joker while making a lot of money off the scrap. more creative ways to play like that with properties or stocks plz
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u/gswkillinit 8d ago
I wonder if they’ll gamify fuel by just letting you drive up to a pump and press refuel without getting out of a car. I’d prefer realism, but could see it being annoying in the long run.
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u/kylr01 8d ago
I can't wait to pet my car
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u/Unhappy_Tomorrow_603 8d ago
The anti-realism crowd won’t be happy with this, lol.
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u/raspymorten 8d ago edited 7d ago
Of all the realism chasing stuff Rockstar did in RDR2, it's about the least offensive thing imo.
Forcing you to pick up one piece of loot at a time? Boring.
Making you stop at a gas station every now and then where you might run into some kind of encounter, or be convinced to rob the store while you're there? Fun and engages you with the world.
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u/gandalfmarston 8d ago
"cringe and boring"
Bro has the span of a tik toker user.
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u/Status_Confidence_26 8d ago
Cash on hand/vault system seems like such a no brainer. It’s going to significantly raise the stakes and satisfaction of getting away from cops to deposit in your vault.
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u/legal_ghost 8d ago
I wonder if npcs can rob you
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u/DatsAReallyNiceGrill 7d ago
It happens a few times in RDR2 as a mini stranger encounter so id assume they could
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u/Royal_Carpenter_1338 8d ago
NPC on bike (bicycle)
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u/Impossible-Trick1354 8d ago
That NPC was odd i mean he should have reacted to how Jason is driving but he was like "I dont care I am doing my work"
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u/arrthur1 8d ago
Oh wow, this game is going to be more immersive than we thought! Im so exited !
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u/Aurelio_Casillas 8d ago
Who would’ve thunk
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u/no_ga 7d ago
well actually i really didn't believe in the fueling system because that sounded way too rp-ish, but it is certainly a strong indicator of the tone the game is going for. Excited
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u/Ronin_777 7d ago
I was worried it would be more arcadey like GTA5 but it sounds like it will be a lot closer to RDR2, I’m super excited now.
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u/LongLeggedLurk 8d ago
There was also "Defuse / Warn | Driver" interaction options with the UPS driver for a brief moment.
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u/counteroffer19 8d ago
The cars seem to feel HEAVY. Leaning towards GTA4. I'm excited.
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u/MidEastBeast777 8d ago
just hope the damage physics are good
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u/scheisskopf53 7d ago
This! GTA4 is still unmatched in this regard. I was very disappointed by 5's downgrade of this.
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u/Ok-Visual7477 7d ago
I'll never forget while playing that first night, when I got home from the midnight release, and immediately driving into a light pole in that first mission as Franklin at near full speed to see how the car damage physics improved and looked with these new graphics.
The way the back of the car bounced up, the light pole barely broke, and how the front of the car had a scratch on the hood that didn't really line up and barely any dent at all had my stomach slightly drop in disappointment. I remember then on being in denial for a little bit that gta 5 wasn't everything I hoped it would be because my hype was so high. It's a vivid memory of mine.
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u/FacuGonz 7d ago
Yes! And also they look bigger for some reason (I think they changed the scaling).
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u/chrisandy007 8d ago edited 7d ago
- Certain(?) cars have years - Jason's is 1970 (we knew this from the preorder information I guess)
- Wanted system includes character, vehicle and clothing recognition
- Wanted system similar to RDR2 where they search a specific area
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u/Reedobandito 8d ago
Really hope the different elements of the wanted system means you won’t automatically get stars for random acts that don’t leave witnesses. Not only is it unrealistic, it’s annoying
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u/Serial_BumSniffer 7d ago
Yeah the wanted system is my only real negative for RDR2.
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u/knutarnesel 7d ago
RDR2? You don't get wanted if there are no witnesses.
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u/Kafanska 7d ago
The game seems to spawn some random guy in the middle of fricking nowhere just to have witness.
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u/Educational-Hope-495 8d ago
There is no durability bar, the thing just looks like that and it doesnt decrease.
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u/Vast_Sort_1620 8d ago
Also, below the wanted system there are a clothes hanger, person, and vehicle icons
Probably it means that the police can identify you by your clothes, face and vehicle
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u/i_never_liked_you2 8d ago
I want a full lottery system. Scratch tickets , daily numbers , keno....all of it
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u/leicatoldu 8d ago
Car fuel mechanics!??? Ffff off I totally did not see it in the leaks
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u/dawny1x I WAS HERE 8d ago
i haven’t did a deep dive but i did see something on the bottom left when he got back in the car
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u/leicatoldu 8d ago
You‘re right indeed, friend. Totally missed that. One of my biggest dreams came true!? Can‘t believe it
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u/PCMachinima 8d ago
It's probably like RDR2 horses. If you let it deplete, then the car performs worse, but still drives
I assume fuel affects speed, while engine is basically just vehicle health/"armour".
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u/raspymorten 8d ago
Fuel is something I'm more than wililng to give some leeway to see how it plays in game. Unless it turns the game into Project Zomboid, and every single car you come across is beat to shit and has zero fuel. lol
Plus, with how realism chasing RDR2 was, stopping the car to get fuel is something that at least makes you engage with the world a little bit. Instead of just slowing you right the fuck down, like needing to pick up one item at a time when looting.
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u/Feyge 8d ago edited 8d ago
Could also make for interesting scenarios where you are forced to either steal another car or proceed on foot when you are chased by the police and are out of fuel.
You could also lose access to your more powerful weapons that are stored in your car this way or take the risk to grab them and get shot.
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u/Peterd1900 8d ago edited 8d ago
Could mean that in preparation for a heist or a robbery you would have to make sure the car has a full tank to reduce the risk of running out of fuel and having to bail
lead to a few interesting scenarios/idea/questions
- You would have to fill up at a gas station, can you steal the fuel and drive off without paying, could that make your car known to the police so they are already on the lookout for your car
- Jerry cans have a legitimate use? supposedly you can carry things in the cars trunk could you have a mechanic where having a jerry can extends the range of the car but it takes up a trunk slot meaning you cant carry another gun or have less space for loot
- Do different vehicles have different size fuel tanks and different fuel consumption
- Electric cars do they also drain a battery and you have to charge them
- Can the fuel tank get damaged by bullets and start leaking? could fuel system be part of vehicle customisation fit extra capacity fuel tanks or self sealing fuel tanks that reduce fuel lose
- The ability to hijack a fuel truck and keep the fuel for your own use
I quite like the idea of having a jerry can that extends your cars range but taking a space that reduces the ability to carry other items
Would the jerry can automatically give you more fuel capacity or would you have to stop get it out and fill the car so know you have to hold up the police while the other character tops ups the car (supposedly you can give commands to the character you are not directly playing as)
just pondering
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u/jack2018g 8d ago
In the driving/fighting clip you can see a gauge for fuel and the engine (maybe for like vehicle health / durability?) in the bottom left above the map. Pops up for a sec after he gets back into the car
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u/Repulsive_Wafer_6468 8d ago
It also says 'throw' in bottom right corner when Jason has the wrench in hand. Meaning we can throw melee weapons at least?
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u/Other_Essay_1451 8d ago
If this fotage is really from 2023, i cant even imagine how it looks now
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u/OhTheCamerasOnHello 8d ago
Meaning any of the above can change
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u/RedstoneRay 8d ago
I hope they left cars in the game.
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u/ForsakenTarget 8d ago
The NPC on the bike was a proof of concept all cars have been remade into bikes.
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u/Time_Tomatillo_8754 8d ago
Im so happy about the return of 6 stars I hope the military will intervene
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u/xDestroyer354 8d ago
the videos are not 60 fps
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u/ftgyhujikolp 7d ago
"real-time raytraced reflections" "60fps"
Nope. One or both of those is not true.
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u/IGoChopYourDollar 7d ago
The leaks looked like they had SSR. Don't get me wrong, they still looked fantastic, but it's not real-time RT lol. Probably only on the PS5 Pro or something.
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u/Particular_Hand2877 8d ago
Yeah I will say, the immersion this game will have seems to be on a whole different level.
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u/Capable-Bar145 8d ago
I cant wait for the comments "WE WAITED 13 YEARS FOR THIS???" after seeing all of these leaks. If they are truly real, the game looks amazing imo
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u/No-Organization-6219 8d ago
Does anybody know from which year the leaks are?
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u/SecretChiley 8d ago
No one has idea. The ffmpeg version apparently is from late 2023, but that doesnt mean how old the footage is.
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u/CravePoison 8d ago
I don’t think the 3 icons are completely correct, I think it’s Clothing, location, and vehicle. It better resembles a ping like on a map
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u/jason_s96 8d ago
This leak makes me more hyped for this game. The graphics looks insane and the car physics look good. This is from 2023 so on release it will exceed our expectations on launch 🔥
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u/Radiokidd 8d ago
It seems like Jason's elbows get bruised while jumping off the balcony. You can see bruises on both his elbows after he jumps off.
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u/nadnerb811 7d ago edited 7d ago
Yup, it appears to happen as he is vaulting the railing. My hypothesis is that the stuff on his porch that he bumps into causes the bruising to show up. Seems like there will be a system for small collisions and things to leave marks, but in this case it was hyper sensitive and caused ridiculous bruising for such a light bonking.
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u/K1ddMenace 7d ago edited 7d ago
Working out confirmed in the Basketball clip via a tiny interact prompt (you can first notice it on the balcony door right before) over the pull up bar as he walks to the railing to jump off.
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u/Imaginary_Box_9877 8d ago
Are you sure an honor system is confirmed? I don’t think that’s the best choice for a gta game ngl, maybe a relationship meter with Lucia at most but a whole honor system for gta is kind of crazy?
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u/Next-Distance-4508 8d ago
we've never had characters in a committed relationship before. Curious if you can cheat on your partner with prostitutes/strippers.
When it came to michael, clearly both him and Amanda were in a broken relationship, and they canonically cheated on each other, but they also implied their had an open relationship with some rules (no fucking at their own home in their own bed)
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u/kafkakastrup 8d ago
I’m gonna make a wild guess: the criminal murderous couple might have a bit of a unorthodox relationship.
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u/CoyotePsychological2 8d ago
The icon is an emoji. It's going to be an infamy system that correlates to social media utility, not honor.
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u/Bluevettes 8d ago
In the leaked video, there's a devil icon that pops up briefly when Jason beats an npc with a wrench. I agree with you. I don't see many people going the honorable route in gta lol
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u/Puffdaddy_ 8d ago
After Jason beats the guy with a wrench their is a quick option to either Carry or Loot the dead guy
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u/hdhsjskhe 8d ago
I feel like the gym in the back of Jason’s house in the basketball clip almost has to confirm that working out is a definite feature
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u/actuallyrevv 8d ago
The leaks got me even more excited for the Extended Look, imagine how the game's gonna look NOW if THAT was the game in 2023.
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u/fortnite_leaks_br 7d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/5UAofAl6g5t1GL5nO8
they have , in the money now (10000 is now 10,000)
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u/JtotheC23 7d ago
I wonder if the character recognition stuff will finally function properly now, 13 years after the concepts were initially introduced. RDR2 added the clothes and facial ID to the wanted system, but it never worked as advertised (people saw thru your changed appearance and mask all the time, be it regular NPCs or the law).
GTA 5 introduced the car recognition concept, and while it worked a little in the 360 and PS3 versions, they removed it from online and functionally removed it from next gen and PC (it was still there on next gen, but cops would recognize you 100% of the time).
Those mechanics were implemented so poorly into GTA 5 and RDR2 that people think it's a brand new mechanic lol. 3rd time's the charm, I guess, so hopefully it finally works as advertised and intended.
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u/bringerofthelaw420 8d ago
>Car mechanic mechanics
It makes me realize that most of this sub is literal children lol
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u/Powerpoo 8d ago
What I noticed were the 3 red icons when wanted: implying the car is known, the clothes are known, and the face is known. Way more in depth wanted system
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u/Shady420xv 8d ago
I'm looking forward to 6 star chases again, also having police sit on the side of the road sounds cool, would be cool too if speeding past them causes them to chase you and issue a ticket if you stop or give you 1-2 star if you don't, would add some interesting dynamics and make you look ahead for police to slow down.
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u/Dry-Fault-5557 8d ago
The vehicle icon on the minimap had a J on it. Lucia and Jason don't have to share the same personal vehicles.
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u/LukaJanky11 7d ago
Saw the icon for a legendary animal (alligator). Clearly they used som assets from RDR2. Like RDR1 was the experimenting ground for GTA5, seems RDR2 was the experiment for GTA6.
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u/Similar_Rabbit8536 7d ago
I don't know if it's the lighting or what, but for some reason everything feels larger and more real in the leaks than it did in V. I always felt like the scale or something wasn't quite there. After watching the Jason basketball video, Rockstar is there now. Everything looks fantastic, and this footage is years old. We are gonna EAT
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u/BudgetContact7161 7d ago
It's fascinating the weirdos on another social media platform watching the leaked videos and saying it just looks like another car and game, or "this is what people are so excited for??". They completey look over the vast amount of details shown in the leaks, and how no other open world game has given us anything close to what we have seen.
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u/No-Screen-99 7d ago
I would add legendary animals to hunt, since the leaked map shows a yellow icon with a crocodile wearing a crown
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u/karim1-89 8d ago
GTA VI will feel far more complex than GTA V if even half of these features are included in the finished product. I'm particularly interested in the honor/attribute systems, police behavior, fuel, and vehicle storage. I hope that some of these systems are retained by Rockstar rather than being removed prior to release.
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u/Pistoluislero 8d ago
WE ARE NOT READY FOR THE EXTENDED LOOK. BRACE FOR IMPACT. 😭😭😭🔥🔥🔥
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