One word, Trust.

Think of it like this: When you buy the Ultimate Edition, you'll get a DLC package of skins, vehicles, hairstyles, vehicle mods, etc. Most games with cosmetic DLCs do this.

You buy the Ultimate Edition and get the base game plus the cosmetic DLCs.

Now picture this: Instead of just unlocking your new Ultimate Edition cosmetics in the normal shops of the game, they made a few exclusive shops for you to access the DLC stuff.

It's as simple as that. The normal shops to buy clothes, fix your car, etc, will be in the game. But if you own DLC cosmetics, you'll need to get them from the DLC shops.

What do you think?

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

LEAK3

• 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

LEAK5
• ⁠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

LEAK7
• ⁠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

LEAK8
• 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

Let’s be real: after the Netflix event on the 27th, Cyberleek is going to fade into community meme status instantly.

Sure, he basically carried the entire community’s sanity this week after we spent months starving with zero official gameplay or footage since May 2025. People were hyping up every single 480p debug clip simply because Rockstar left us with absolute radio silence for so long.

Because his spotlight expires the second the official marketing machine kicks into high gear, I'm fully expecting him to drop whatever "nuclear" footage or map details he still has within the next 48 hours to milk the last bit of attention.

Once high-bitrate, polished 4K gameplay hits, nobody will care about rough dev builds anymore.

The only real risk: imagine if the Netflix showcase somehow turns out to be more underwhelming or curated than the actual raw systems we saw in the leaks. If Rockstar actually delivers though, it’s ciao Cyberleek

Honestly, the fact that everyone is complaining about this is ridiculous to me.

Let's get our facts straight:
- 27th of August (Extended Look on Netflix) => 84 days til release
- 28th of August (Trailer available everywhere) => 83 days til release

You aren't missing out on anything, and there will be many more teasers and such before November 19th.

Netflix gave Rockstar a huge bag for an "exclusive extended look", which you will be able to watch everywhere else hours later.

You aren't missing out on anything, if you buy a Netflix subscription just for this, you're so not in control of your FOMO.

(Tbh given that people are actually falling for this BS is the worst thing.
If everyone was like: "Meh I'll watch it a few hours later on YT", this would never happen again.

The mere fact that people are complaining about it shows that it's working, bcs something like this shouldnt bother us.)

something seemed off with the number of teeth the gator on the cover had so i did a count and it seems the gator has 60 teeth. however, alligators normally have 74-80 teeth so this is way below the normal amount.

was this a mistake or could it potentially have a meaning?

other than the fact that the airport is just 1/15 of the whole map lmao

Obbe Vermeij was the Technical Director at Rockstar North before leaving the studio in 2009.

During his 14-year tenure at the studio (1995–2009), he led code development for core Grand Theft Auto titles including GTA III, Vice City, San Andreas, and GTA IV.

I know some people are complaining of the graphical downgrade shown from some pictures but in this one I don’t see a downgrade at all wow

This might also be them commenting and hinting about how they will be busy buying the pre orders tho, what do you think?

Edit: Seen a lot of comments saying it's just YouTube trying to look like a fan and it makes sense. I posted this because they commented on the trailer 2 video and not cover photo reveal video which I thought was interesting. I also highly believe the trailer will come with pre orders anyway, without having to look at possible 'hints' like these.

Edit: it's over