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They had to remove a lot of props to boost performance, nothing weird about it. Stuff like that happens all the time in the industry First the artists make the world on high end PCs, then they actually test the game, they realize it runs terribly on the current gen consoles so they cut stuff out. And a year or so later when they release the PC version they just bring some of that stuff back. But they still gonna use the best possible footage for trailers, obviously. Thats why I kept saying that the "enhanced" version will bring back all the animals, trees and other props they had to originally remove. I guess its also possible they gonna bring back horses (since they had horses in the game at some point). Maybe cows, bears, bisons etc as well. Porting them from rdr2 shouldn't be that hard. What do you mean how will we know? When the dlc gets officially announced lol. But for no all the leaks and hints point to a new island inspired by Catalina. Everything else is just a speculation. Where we stealing from? - Most likely ideas are mansions / luxury houses / museum / another casino / yachts What we stealing? - Does it really matter? I bet one of the things gonna be paintings (since that animation was added with Casino Heist, they probably gonna reuse it) edit: but speaking about stealing from mansions, that would be a cool way to unlock unique paintings and statues for your own place. You steal the original in a heist and unlock a copy for yourself. IMO best case scenerio/pipe dream - Catalina island for now (as the last dlc for this gen) and LC for next one (cause they need something to convince people to buy the game again)

With how big game worlds can be nowadays, it'd be interesting to see Rockstar try to recreate what they did with GTA 3's map, with Shoreside Vale actually be connected to mainland America, but blocked off by the only two road tunnels being blocked off due to roadworks. and the mountainous area either being too steep or having an invisible wall. I reckon all they need to do is expand the Boat/Plane breakdown & Shark death they already have in GTA V. The standard option would be to have a pop-up say; "You are about to leave [City Name]" and if you continue driving the game triggers a Trip Skip, and fades back to see you returning to the map about 6-12 hours later. Of course, that's if you're driving on the highway... - Walk or drive too far in the desert, your car breaks down and you collapse from dehydration. - Go too far in the countryside you get shot by Bigfoot hunting rednecks - Go too far while parallel to a secret government facility and there's a chance you get abducted and drugged by aliens or government agents and spawn somewhere random in the city.

Today I was watching videos of "leaks" of GTA V prior of the release date and I have seen videos like this one that have exactly the same R* and R* North intro of the final game but the next loading screen is so different, and there are a bunch of videos with the same patron like this one, real R* intro but fake or different loading screen with the final game, and another one of the XMB pre start game at PS3, and the video was published in august...and it is the SAME XMB theme and artwork and all that. I mean we can't say it is the same situation with GTA VI leaks because it hasn't been announced yet and we are far away of the release date, but how R* allowed that part of the game were leaked 3 weeks/1 month before the launch of the game? (I have watched the Xbox 360 leak again and he had the real trophies listed, the Space Ship parts trophy was there, really I can't understand this knowing how R* protective is with leaks and all that)

tbh it's pretty unlikely they'll pick the same setting again, despite how much nostalgia-laden fans want them to, unless it's a prequel/sequel...which we already have so lol If it's Vice City again, I feel like they're not going to creatively constrain themselves to the same time period they've done twice now unless they felt they had a really specific reason to, and given that the main series game + its offshoot prequel already explored most of the tropes people associate with that, I can't really see what it'd have to offer aside from "GTA:VC but modern".

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The Coachella look

A while ago, I comprised a list of games to play each week to get through the wait. Had around 85 games. What would really be cool would be a game club. Start a thread, and you have a weekly game to play and discuss. Not necessarily similar to GTA. Just decent games to play, that can last at least a week. Help get everyone through the long wait.

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I refuse to get my hopes up but if a map expansion is true if love for it to be Liberty City.

That's exactly the point. We already know GTA VI probably entered pre production around mid 2017. That's when the first leaks started to happen. It's not until RDR2 is wrapping up that full production ramps up. That's standard for any game. There's a reason why GTA VI is still early in production in April 2020. This is why. People say all the time "I'm sure they were working on it since GTA V" But with no evidence to back it up. It's just a feeling, based on nothing. A way of comforting yourself, because the reality of waiting 10 years is hard to take. GTA VI was just ideas on a piece of paper after GTA V. I'm sure some work was done early on, but after everything that happened at Rockstar after V released, and with RDR2 growing needs, those ideas were left while they focused on other things. Not until a few years later would they start actual work on it. There's a difference between pre-production and full production. RDR2 was in pre-production in early 2011, but it wasn't really in full development until 2013. It's things like that that give people the wrong impression. They haven't been building the game (GTA VI) for the past 5 years. That probably only started mid 2017 to early 2018. Which is when the Tim Neff leak happened, and then the 'Project Americas' leak happened, March 2018. They didn't even know where the game would be set in 2016. Which suggests that in 2016 they were beginning to discuss potential settings, locations, story ideas, characters, etc. Basically pre-production. With pre-production based on their design documents beginning not too long after that. They may have also decided to wait for next-gen hardware before making any real progress. This is what BGS wanted to do for TES6. They didn't have the technology to do what they wanted to do with that game. It's a little muddy to really nail down any dates. But if you simply look at the facts, it's been 7 years since V, and we're still without an announcement. And when you consider they spent 5 years post V working on RDR2, with Rockstar literally confirming they restructured all of their studios into "Rockstar Studios" to work on RDR2 as their sole major project... it begins to make sense. GTA VI will be Rockstar Studios next 'sole major project'.

The MC businesses absolutely have chain raids. I’ve had it happen to me where I defended coke and then meth got raided and then weed got raided etc. And I am always in a session by myself so it’s definitely not people messing with me. The old raid system they had was so much better but then they randomly changed it to make raids happen more often

The timing is pretty tight when compared to the hype After Hours and the Casino got. If they want to let Halloween pass, that means no tease/reveal until Nov 5th at the earliest if they reveal it after the regular Newswire post of the week. They could do a reveal on the 29th this month, which given the unfortunate circumstance of the Summer Update this year, you'd think they'd want to give something special but regular like Halloween a bit of an early start in October (the 15th? R*, where's the harm in it? Keep the Peyotes reserved until the very last week if need be) and give it a little more longevity than usual closing it off with a tease to keep the hype. October 29th - Tease November 5th - Reveal & Subtle Teases (Location pics, out of focus weapon, clothing) November 19th - Date, Synopsis & Obvious Teases (Extra Location pics, front and centre weapons, vehicles) November 26th - Final Event Week (bankbreaker/semi-decent week odds are around 20/80). December 3rd - Trailer December 8th - Launch Something like that is how I'd do it, but this is a funny set of circumstances R* are under.

The reason the online character uses lower quality textures, is bc there can be in a intense scenario 30 players next to each other while in SP the most HQ characters standing around are not more than 10 iirc. So while arthur and the gang and other cutscene characters have 2048x2048 textures, NPCs and iirc the online character has 1024x1024. Which is still good considering for V SP characters have 1024x1024 while NPCs and online character are only 512x512.

The Palomino Highlands area of the map is a woefully sh*te tract of land. It's mostly too extreme to explore in any land vehicle, and even if you did somehow manage to do so without rolling into the sea there's f*ck all there. It's a part of the map that was added to bulk up the overall heft of the GTA5 expanse, but it's useless and bland and feels very last-minute. I know you were only referring to it as a scale guide, but I think it also serves as a cautionary tale about how the design of any map expansion might be approached. If it ain't done right then the cosmetic look of a chunky piece of new land might be a million miles away from its value to players of the game. How disappointing that would be.

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This thing needs a teaser ASAP.

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eh...well, I attempted at least. The year difference of the rancher/the CUCV I had in mind is enough for some noticeable differences, but it's honestly closer than anything I thought we would ever get. And considering there's already 3 Yosemites in this game, i'm not sure we'll get another to better emulate still an absolute baller of a truck, no matter how you spin it.

Actually, Rockstar have or at least had "their own" Van

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There's a difference between being inspired by a location and simply putting it in the game. IF a map expansion is coming and IF it is a new luxury island, sure, it could be inspired by Santa Catalina, but that doesn't mean it has to be a 1-to-1 recreation of the real thing, like how Forza Horizon handles real world locations. Say they split the island up into 3 sections; - The yacht party loud music neon lights atmosphere - The quiet yet scenic mansion side with subtle lighting which has the partys going on in the distance - The untouched natural parts of the island. Having seen how players play the map for 7 years, I'd like to believe they would put a big focus into making an environment players could walk through and explore the little nooks and crannies in both the civilized and natural areas of their first ever true map expansion, like making a wilderness that's not comprised of huge lifeless mountains that'll trip and kill your character 5 times trying to get down them. With the Random Events being brought to Online in LSSS, there'd actually be a reason to go hiking in those areas, you never know what you might find.

All the hints made by the staff members were about Catalina tho. But sure, its possible (but unlikely) that they just picked that one as a random example. The first real hint about Catalina island was a post made by one of the admins where he randomly said this: So I guess you might be on to something with the yacht club idea. Its quite possible one of the heists takes place on a yacht. Maybe act I = yacht / act II = museum / act III = mansion ? That way they can give us new custom yachts mk2 with new interiors and features and also use them for a new heist (just like they used the facility in one of the DD heists). And that could also explain the Summer Special dlc. We know they needed to quickly improvise a new update (cause CnC was postponed) so maybe they cut away yacht missions from the new yacht and added them to the old one instead and called it a day? That way they had something to give and by the time they are finished with the next one, they'll have more than enough time to make a new set of yacht missions to go along with the new yacht.

Red Dead Online players: "I wish there was something, anything, to spend my gold on. Rockstar: *releases a pass costing 15 GB* Red Dead Online players: "Ugh, hard pass. I can't even get my gold back. Waste." Bruh.

I think it was something related with GTA V digital preorders at PS3 that Sony accidentally leaked part of the game with the pre-downloads and people started to search in game files and they found music, some dialogues and possibly the R* intro, I think the "leaked loading screen artworks" was only a concept to make them fit with the R* and R* North leaked intro, but damn what a big mistake by Sony, but it is strange that the other video is on Xbox 360 and the executables of the two plattforms are not the same, but anyway it was like a test I did to try to filter with GTA VI possible leaks with the experience of GTA V leaks, and yeah, there also were trash blurry "leaks" that were so fake so who knows

If nothing happens I'll go read a book that makes me think of Vice City.

Seriously. Prepare yourself for this. Not trying to be a dick, but many of us have been there before. Getting your hopes up is the worst. Nothing will happen this year.

and done! now I go ahead and be a family man!

We all know that having a MacBeth shot right? I just found out if you're in a random's Casino Penthouse and have a MacBeth shot lmao

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That area is a pain in the ass if you die there and lose your vehicle. You can't even call the merryweather helicopter. That area can even be cool for chill out or do some motocross...but without even some dirt paths, it's a very inhospitable place. People simply don't go there, we don't even know if there's some easter eggs, but i wouldn't think so.

Yeah that happened to me once when I had first purchased my arcade and was really inexperienced. This was like a few weeks into when I first started playing GTAO with a friend I met on here, @xInfected_Virus, whose Solo Money Making guide is awesome, by the way. Anyway, on topic, I did my best. I eventually found a way to make it through...somehow. Even with the ridiculous spawning me right in the thick of it. I forget how I made it, but it may have had something to do with just killing literally one or two guys every time I re-spawned, right before they killed me lol. It took a very long time. If I knew then what I knew now, I would simply have just either try to go to my pause screen > Online > Find another session. Failing that, I would have just force closed the game and restarted. I was quite honestly way out of my depth. I hadn't even purchased all the better weapons, forget about upgrades at that point! Now when I get that mission, I just fly in their with my Oppressor MK II and make short work of the goons. You want to know what else gave me a HUGE problem when I was completely new? This was literally 4 months ago, by the way that I started playing GTAO. When I first bought my Farmhouse Bunker, and I had first come across the mission where you get an Insurgent and have to make 5 stops with all the Merrywheather assholes on you. I just kept on dying, re-spawning, and killing a few guys before dying again, re-spawning, and repeating the whole fiasco. Bear in mind that, back then, I didn't realize I could enter the passenger seat by holding right on the D-Pad, Hahaha. Anyway, true story: for all the constant talk about griefers in this game, when this was happening to me, I was literally getting my ass handed to me at every stop. Some random player jumped in and started helping me fight them. He must have seen my low rank and complete inability to really fight properly, and he took pity on me. I was so new, I wanted to thank him, but didn't realize you could text people in the game or that they could text you. I tried looking for him in "Players Met" to friend him, but he left so fast after he helped me get my bunker money, I never got to say thanks. If I could find this guy and say thanks now, I totally would. Its nice to see that some people play this game not to grief others or to try and ruin their day.

A completely new Bus Stop, with better glass effects. A few more final ones.

Meanwhile.

What's weird is that there are some pre-release screen shots that appear to have more woods, the below one is likely one of the most famous examples ---------------- Did a quick google, found 7 newswire posts about the After Hours dlc, only one mentioned the terrorbyte, R* never called it (ultimate) "business control computer", they only said "It can launch source and resupply missions for every business you own" and at the time that was correct. Source: https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/60534/GTA-Online-After-Hours-The-Black-Madonna-Arrives-Terrorbyte-and-Oppres ---------------- From my point of view it most certainly delivered on its promise, After Hours did combine our several businesses into a single larger organization.

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Showcase of the noire mode:

Just imagine: trailer opens with a panoramic shot of the bay of the new island, yachts are parked and there's a marina with new boats and actual mini games and restaurants to visit. Zoom into the city and existing DLC cars are being driven by pedestrians, a player character speeds through the streets in a Comet Classic and another in a ZR350 in the middle of a heist set up mission. The next shot is of mansions and luxury beach houses and then cut to Lester and Ms. Cheng on the balcony of one of the mansions laying out a brief overview of the new heist. That would be my ideal teaser trailer. A peak at the island, some new cars and real estate and a small glimpse into what the heist will entail.

The Quadsquad community of Yosemite Ranchers:

Seeing a player once in a blue moon makes the world feel much larger than it is. People used to congregate around Valentine or Saint-Denis and it always, without fail, descended into a sh*t show with all the NPC's scared off/dead, random events cancelled and one player on a rooftop with the Bolt Action killing everyone. Reminded me I am playing a video game.

An "entirely new location" being literally just a building is a fast way of angering players. They might be stupid, but they aren't that stupid. Putting that much emphasis on something they've been technically doing since Heists would backfire. It's a map expansion, and what it is will pretty much tell us how committed r* is in updating a near decade old games.

Played the lucky wheel maybe 5 days in a row and won RP every time. I swear this f*cking sh*te is rigged! That’s it, from now I’m gonna close application and cheat at the wheel every time until it gives me something that ain’t jack sh*t!

Yeah Trip hit the nail on the head, though it's worth saying that though there are plenty of allegations of concerted impropriety relating to postal ballots in the US there's no actual evidence that they are more prone to fraud than in person voting. it's also worth noting that most of the US uses electronic/paperless voting machines which have proven themselves incredibly problematic in the past as well as vastly more prone to external interference. The war on postal ballots is primarily political. Mail in ballots tend to benefit the Democrats because of the demographics of their usual users. It's in the Republicans interests to try and deny these groups their vote so in that respect it's every bit as much of a voter suppression tactic as voter ID laws, closing poling stations in minority areas, randomly striking people off the electoral register and gerrymandering.

Rockstar literally said they reorganized their studios, to all work together on this one project, Red Dead Redemption 2. That's just how it works now. Look at CDPR, look at BGS, Rockstar are the same now. One game at a time, alternating series. It's fine not to like it, but it's naive to disbelieve it. The evidence is right there in front of us.

Another way they are slowing down legit money? Funny they are that worried about raids meanwhile players can still spam the heist finalies over and over again.

Get well soon mate! Covid's a bitch.

So because I support the theory of the Catalina Island being added soon to GTA Online as part of upcoming Heists update I've made small dumb sketch based on it and the San Clemente Island: Saint Misty Island featuring Elaea (based on Avalon) with its beautiful harbor, iconic Roundabout Casino and Parkwood, Double Docks (Two Harbors), Kazansky Navy Airbase (San Clemente's Auxiliary Landing Field), Castle Cove (Hamilton's Cove), Mount Meyoseh (Mount Orizaba), Kraff Springs (Church of Scientology's "The Hole") and few others!