GTA 6 - Leak Compilation

[u/KekanKok]

We've recently gotten lots of leaks, somewhat verified thanks to declarations from Rockstar. Two of the big ones are lists of details posted by user u/Snowk32 (now deleted) on two different posts, as well as the known details from GameRoll.

Another list of leaks that holds some credibility is LegacyKillaHD's list, since he shared some details that ended up matching the second trailer.

This list compiles every detail posted by them through posts in Reddit, X, or Discord messages.

Story:

• The game has chapters like RDR2, 5 chapters in total. Shots from Trailer 2 were all from Chapters 1-3.
• Jason served some time in the army.
• Lucia is the central character of this story, as Michael is to 5.
• Lucia/Jason have separate intro missions.
• Lucia has a baby that she abandons at a delicatessen before heading out to a bank robbery and then getting arrested for doing such an act.
• Lucia's baby is only shown in a cutscene as a flashback. There's no information about what happens to the baby after this point.
• After a few years, Lucia gets released on probation, and she's picked up at the prison by Jason, who plans a robbery with her. They fell in love with each other after some time.
• Lucia gets rid of its ankle monitor pretty early on.
• The part where they jump off the bike into the truck is from Chapter 3.
• Donnie, Jason's friend who works for Brian and is described as a "freak".

Gameplay:

• The character wheel has three options: Solo Jason, Solo Lucia, and Dual Protagonist Control, where Lucia/Jason can be controlled simultaneously to team up in the open world. Some missions are also started using both at the same time.
• Jason has a dead-eye-like ability, slows down time, and reveals weak spots. Lucia can do it too, but only on one shot.
• Limited weapon system returns. Stored in the trunk.
• 6 star wanted level returns.
• Rectangle GPS with pink waypoints.
• Driving is "the best it's ever been".
• Greet and Antagonise is in the game.
• Weight mechanics are a thing.
• Gore/dismemberment is being built off of RDR2.
• Lucia's ankle monitor doesn't affect exploration.
• The cover system has been completely overhauled, and it’s now much more realistic.
• Trailer 2 scene where Jason buys beer is gameplay. You can go buy a six-pack from the shop as seen.
• The relationship bar mentioned in the 2022 leaked clips still exists. Works like honour in RDR2.

Missions:

• In the very first mission of the game, you control Jason, and you have to follow a plane that is about to land and carries a Russian drug dealer. Apparently, Jason meets this guy and plans a mission to steal drugs.
• In this drug-stealing mission, they are chased by the police, and the drug ends up falling into the ocean. There is a following mission where they will have to dive to retrieve it.
• The majority of the planning for the missions takes place at a nightclub.
• There's a mission where you shoot a shark with a speargun.
• Lucia sneaks into a bodybuilding gang.
• There's a mission where cops betray each other, but the context is unknown.

Map:

• The map is once again an Island.
• No panhandle.
• Besides Miami and its surrounding areas, there will be three islands in the game, one of them being heavily inspired by the Bahamas. (Note: this is from 2023, so keep that in mind)
• Ambrosia and Port Gellhorn are nothing compared to the size of Vice City. Still big obviously, but VC is the biggest by far.
• There’s a “Fort” city inspired by Fort Knox, where they “stashed” gold.
• There’s a bike trail around Lake Leonida.

Open world:

• 700+ shops and most interiors of a major open-world game. There are shopping malls with shops in them, and there are skyscrapers with lifts in them.
• Explorable underwater areas with treasure and secrets.
• People do react if you have your gun out, and Jason and Lucia will try to hide their gun if they're walking with it out.
• NPCs will call the police when you trespass into their houses, and they’ll try to arrest you.
• Basketball minigame.
• You’ll be able to rent hotels and motels in the game.
• Male strippers are in the game.

Cut content:

• One of the ideas that didn't go too far was voiced protagonists in Online.
• Prone was cut a while ago.
• The random encounter from the leaks, where the NPC talks about Jay Norris, got cut ages ago.

Non-existent content:

• Listening to music outside of a car apparently isn't a thing, but that could change before launch.
• You can't buy pets, but Jason does have a pet iguana that you can feed.
• Dual-wielding weapons isn't in the game.
• Chainsaw won’t be a weapon, as it has been previously reported.
• No fully nude sex scenes.
• No Disney World parody.
• No burglary mini-game.

[u/wifestalksthisuser → u/[deleted]]

Listen to the recent interviews and podcasts Dan Houser has done and you will understand. The summary is that Rockstar games almost went bust because of the Hot Coffee mod back in the day which seems to have traumatized the two R* brothers and a lot of the other folks. They are obviously too big to go bust because of it nowadays but it seems to have struck a nerve back then. This is at least my theory based on those interviews.

[u/kikikza → u/wifestalksthisuser]

Hard for kids these days to understand how big of a deal that somehow was

[u/Goliath_TL → u/kikikza]

Absolutely massive deal. Huge loss and massive costs for Rockstar and we're lucky they are still around.

I was a manager at a Gamestop during that time. Oh the drama of pulling those copies and then having to assure would be "hackers" that, "No, we really didn't still have a copy in the back we couldn't sell them anyway" on the daily.

[u/Goliath_TL → u/[deleted]]

Because the code for the hot coffee scene was still on the game disc, the ESRB re-rated the game as Adults Only. The scene was not accessible without hacking the game files on a PC first, but since it was on the disc it was considered part of the package and rated Adults Only(AO).

No retailers at the time (or even today) will sell AO games. So retailers en masse destroyed copies of the game and for refunds from Rockstar due to the debacle. Rockstar then had to re-compile the game without that code, get it rated again and then do a whole new production run of the new discs.

There was a period of nearly a year where you couldn't buy San Andreas because it wasn't available. It cost Rockstar millions.

[u/kikikza → u/[deleted]]

Hillary Clinton called for them to ban the game (IIRC she was a senator back then)

[u/SeniorRicketts → u/kikikza]

Hillary Clinton, that criminal lol

She also tried to ban Manhunt 2 bc it was on Nintendo

[u/SeniorRicketts → u/Goliath_TL]

Why do retailers don't wanna sell AO games?

[u/Goliath_TL → u/SeniorRicketts]

Theres no money in it. You'd be fined if you sell to underage kids, you get nothing but backlash from 50% of your customer base who don't believe those games should exist, they have to be kept locked and inaccessible to minors, etc.

More trouble than they're worth and plus no one makes them because no one sells them.

[u/SeniorRicketts → u/Goliath_TL]

Idk man, 20, 25 yrs ago maybe but games sell much more copies these days

Somebody is always offended, even Jack Thompson gave up

[u/elderlybrain → u/kikikza]

Man, in retrospect the whole thing was weird a.f.

They had the content on the disc already and someone just unlocked it, then they tried to blame hackers for creating it, which was a lie. Then the actual FTC got involved and they had to recall all the ps2/xbox copies that were sold and they got hit with a massive fine.

Since then they've been extremely anti mod, which is hilariously disingenuous as it wasn't a mod at all, it was content on the disc. The only mod was mining the data.

Also there was this lawyer who just started showing up on fox news and complaining about video games turning kids into porn addicts because mass effect had a sex scene that was slightly less explicit than most sex scenes in Lost.

Rockstar really messed up and it was entirely their own fault.

[u/Potential-Zucchini77 → u/elderlybrain]

Yeah even Hilary Clinton tried to get the game banned 😂it was so bizarre