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So I wanted to see what things point to an announcement this year. Just playing the devil's advocate so this might contain some things that I may or may not have over-analysed. Sorry if this is longer than usual. Again, this is a very optimistic look at things. Also I wanted make this my first topic in the forums(Hurray!), since it seemed long enough. Let's get into it... 1. Chris Liberty, a trusted guy who knows some things about GTA VI, said the Announcement was supposed to happen in April-May, but delayed because of Dan's departure(I can't find where exactly he said that, someone here perhaps knows the source?). And maybe, covid-19 played a part in that too. 2. 2020 is a year after the Miami scout leak. (GTA V was announced a year after scout leak). But that could be nothing more than just a coincidence, still worth pointing out. 3. The Know leak said the game is slated for a 2021-2022 release, and Rockstar mostly announces their games a year before release, then delay it later, so if it's slated for 2021 then we can expect an announcement this year. 4. From Jason's article, two different employees said : The employee is referring to the crunch issues and what does he think about crunch in the future. Crunch often happens when a game is close to release. So it's most likely the game is slated for a 2021/2022 release, hence the "In a year or two", This is more legit than The Know leak since it's basically coming from an employee. Both The Know and the Employee expects the game to come out in 2021/2022, if that's true, then that could mean an announcement would happen this year. That is, only if it's slated for a 2021 release(unlikely, maybe?). Because both the Know and the employee said "2021 OR 2022" Maybe it's just an educated guess the employee made using the info he knows, doubt an employee knows about the release date but it depends which position he/she is in. And I see three reasons why he included 2022 there : Maybe he thought the game would get delayed from 2021 to 2022 after Announcement. Like every other Rockstar game. The employee is just generalizing the date by saying 2021/2022 instead of pointing at only one specific date, since people tend to generalise say the "In a year or two" more often than "In a year", so who knows, maybe he was just generalizing. The article was from May, so maybe the employee thought the game would be delayed to a 2022 initial release. Which would result in 2023 release after the delay(s). 5. About the GTA V port situation : Maybe, just maybe, after delaying the GTA VI Announcement, they might have decided to announce GTA V port instead in a hurry to get something out. I'm not saying it was a sudden decision to make GTA V port, it's probably the opposite since they probably want to transfer the player base from current gen to next gen. There were rumours that GTA V on next gen being a free upgrade for everyone who owns the current gen version. A lot of people think it's not Rockstar's type to do that, and say they're too greedy to do that. Maybe they're greedy but they'd be dumb not to realise the bulk of their cash is from Shark Cards. What's the best way to earn more sharkcards?, A huge player base... A lot of people wouldn't buy GTA V again, it could reduce the player base and reduce the shark cards revenue. So the best way to prevent that is make it free for everyone who owns it already, since it's free many players will just continue playing online and buy shark cards as usual. Hence, profit. GTA V Port would have the upgrade (Enhanced & Expanded) that encourages more people to keep playing it. Announcing GTA VI would increase the sales of GTA V port if anything. And like I explained in the last paragraph how the sales isn't their main priority (shark cards are), I don't see why not. But I can agree that they probably want to have some gap between GTA V PS5 release and GTA VI Announcement. 6. Rockstar's Newswire post from January. Probably this is over-analysing but, did Rockstar seriously think Online updates and GTA V port is a Surprise? "A few surprises as we move forward in this year" Note that they're saying "As we move forward" it sounds like something that you say to refer the early months of a year. Does "As we move forward" sound like it means October? No. Maybe, just maybe this proves that the theory about an announcement in April-May is more legit. And probably delayed. In conclusion : While these looks like it has some good points, someone can easily say it's overly-optimistic, that was the point of this post pretty much. I'm not getting my hopes up much but I have a very little expectation.

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Perhaps there, things will be different.

For those that like a taste of sanity with their GTA VI speculation, Red Dead Online's Outlaw Pass ends tonight and the Halloween pass was datamined a while ago, and that'll no doubt run for a few weeks. Good chance that will be their announcement tomorrow.

"No way GTA VI gets announced anytime soon" "2022-2023 at the earliest" "Won't get announced before GTA V re-remaster is released" *tUmBlEwEeD* "HMMM ANNOUNCEMENT TOMORROW?"

Maxwell Stingray 400, when? Side-note: Group B was insane.

Missed you @gonnaenodaethat

They need to stop worrying about lobby size and let people enjoy the game. All the time and effort they are putting into lobby size is a waste. Imagine if all that time had been spent on content.

Some of you would not have survived the R* drought of 2012.

People also said GTA V wouldn't be announced until after Max Payne 3 had been released and yet it was.

1989. The 80's are ending and the colors are fading away. Because it's in 1989 at the end of the 80's they can include all the songs that came out in the 80s too.

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Well, you finally convinced me that you all are incompetent a**holes. You keep doing the same thing expecting that miraculously the results will be different. I just spent 2 1/2 hours in a lobby that fluctuated between 11 and 14 players. The results? 1 enemy camp 1 moonshine camp A small percentage of wildlife though there were plenty of snakes which are pretty much useless in any of the roles. Where did all the rabbits go? I saw a few but about 10% of what there was previously, if that much. I made a special camp stew to get gold cores but the lobby switched within the first 7 minutes and the gold cores were gone, but keep the lobby switching on. Basically, the same problems as before. I made sure to go to every location where revenuer roadblocks pop up and not even one appeared. You know, if you all spent half as much time working on putting out an enjoyable experience for players as you do working on cramming as many people into a lobby as possible you may get somewhere. How many times do you morons need to be banged over the head before you understand your big lobbies don't freaking work? What freaking difference does it make to you if lobbies are smaller? If that's the only way to get the game working properly then you should be happy and move on to more pressing things like, oh, I don't know....FREAKING CONTENT! What the f*** is the point of putting out content anyway if most of it doesn't work? Only the mentally deficient don't understand that. I mean REAL content. The drip drip drip of content, and most of that is boring as hell, is a joke. Then you drop a "major update" that includes a role that is nothing more than collecting and hunting combined, as if we didn't already have enough of that s**t. I really do believe you do not know what the hell you're doing. You all need to find other jobs and R* needs to find people who know how to put out a game. You also need to find creative people who come up with ideas who are older than 10 years old. I've given you all over 2 years to get your s**t together and things just keep getting worse. Wrong trajectory idiots. You all are sorry sacks of s***.

If R* does bump the player counts at the expense of a living world with more events and NPC's I think I will stop playing. I have more than enough money and Gold to do the next three DLC's and I have no desire to go from A to B in a soulless and desolate wasteland.

It would be nice if they communicated even a few words when they change things that directly effect players. I did see a lot of NPCs in Valentine today, more than usual, actually now that you mention it. PvPCat speculates they are only trying this today so that tomorrow they'll have maximum players participating, likely the reason. Their priorities are clearly nothing to do with player satisfaction, but stats reporting and monetization. It's certainly right they should make money from their games, but not at the expense of customer satisfaction, which has been their MO for some time now. Broken and glitched game functions that go without a fix for years still remain in both GTAO and RDO, as long as they don't directly impact monetization no one cares in the least.

Fingers crossed

10 players in the lobby and a Trader sale mission blackscreens. Great going, Rockstar. Relogged, 12 players in the lobby. Restarted the sale mission and had a shoot out to do at delivery point. Right after I got them all killed, all corpses despawned immediately. One of the other disadvantages of higher pop lobbies. Nothing to loot after finishing a bootlegger mission/hideout (if they even spawn). f*ck this game, until we get low pop lobbies again.

Whats with the error code? We playing with some ciphers again? CGI movies are rendered frame by frame and it takes a loooong ass time. While video games have to render everything you see in real time. Thats why CGI movies will always look better than games. Cause no matter the technology we have, a movie can take that extra time of days/weeks/months to render something even better while a game has to do in instantly. So it always gonna look better. Yep, I've seen a lot of great looking game but theres something special about RDR2 that makes it look extra realistic. Took me a long time to realize what it was. And I think its the lightning effects and the clouds. The way its dark above your head but you can see a sunny landscape on the horizon, that really sells the effect for me. It looks amazing even on my old ass PC that can barely run it on high.

The game could use enough content to get us from one update to the next. We haven't gotten that in too long. Updates only last a couple weeks to a couple months, then everything's maxed out and things get stale again. It pains me to read well thought out concepts from some of you, improvement suggestions, etc. - wonderful ideas, but some of them should be in the game already. Covid threw a monkey wrench into the entire world, but it's very clear that R* hasn't given this game enough attention. There's a huge difference between the game's potential, and where it is now. I've played the game since day 1 (and I've taken breaks from it), it's getting harder and harder to stay loyal and keep playing We need different gameplay loops, not the same old "go here, fetch this, drop it off over there". We need Mexico and Guarma. We need a roadmap that looks 3,6,9,12 months ahead. Like any good book or movie needs an arch, we need an arch for our online character. One that takes a year or longer to follow. Something that keeps us engaged. Where's our arch? I don't see it. Am looking forward to comments and input from you guys. Maybe I've got a slight case of the fall blues that influences how I think about this game, but damn I hope we don't look back in 5 years and say "Remember RDO? What ever happened to that game. Such a shame, what a wasted opportunity"

It's a never ending cycle. Have fun on the ride I guess.

> gonnae comes back > says literally nothing about any date > somehow next tuesday comes up for no reason > everyone gets hyped for tuesday even though there's no indication or logical reason to be hyped > nothing happens on tuesday > everyone is disappointed, gets really angwy, hates gonnae I don't know if history truly repeats itself, but I know that it does in these forums. What a shame, really.

If the preacher is back that means that no Rockstar announcements are coming anytime soon. Mods are in on it again. They're doing it to bring in more hype and visitors to the site so they can get more money from ad revenue they probably know it's going to be slow for the next couple of months/years.

Friendly tip for heathens: go check out his channel, there's quite a lot to see now.

Their Miami map is really pretty. Makes me excited to know how good a modern day Vice City game could look.

People can mock me if they want but I’m pretty certain there was relevance to the hype that was caused back in March-April but due to circumstances this year has provided plans were changed. Keep expectations low however.

Real or Fake, Thank you @gonnaenoadaethat for reviving the nearly dead thread Can't wait to be shagged again twice. 20th & 27th.

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I must admit though, I never would have made those connections, myself. Certainly things you'd only really notice 'after the fact'. I have tried going back and watching some old Eastenders, but I guess I just don't know what to look for Oh divines, please show me guidance

Hey guys, I made a post with points that supports an announcement in 2020(A very optimistic view). It was big enough so I though I'd make it a new topic. (My first topic!). Let me know what you think!

Eww! Got lumped in a session with a much fuller list of players, and no gators near my shack or other encounters to be seen. Of course! Time to break the streak me thinks. *shudders*

Said it before and I'll say it again, you know the game is in a sorry state when "broken" offers a better experience than "fixed". Either that, or R* have seriously lost the plot. Probably a bit of both.

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also some parallax tests

Well...

You guys were so lucky with your Amiga over there. All we got round these parts was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ending-Man_Terminator and this:

Yeah, in 2011 I kinda watched but never participated. I didn't really know what to say. I vaguely remember 2007, but I hadn't joined yet. Too focused on the upcoming Halo 3. Man, those times were incredible for a number of amazing games releasing in quick succession. Halo 3, CoD4, Mass Effect, BioShock, GTA IV... The Preacher is always watching. He watches over us all...

Oh absolutely, I was talking about the Pixar style as a whole, there is impressive realistic CGI nowadays in live-action films. Edit: Also yup, we never see it, or barely do so, but all clouds in RDR2 are actual clouds, and it's foggy inside them and everything. I'm 99% sure they did this to lay the path for GTA VI, likely going to use thwe same tech.

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"Pixar level" of graphics is nothing too impressive for a video game. It's more impressive for a full featured CGI movie because the whole thing has to be rendered at once, not in real time like a video game. We're past the time something like 1995's Toy Story was impressive - apparently it took weeks to render just a few frames.

Looking good! He looks rather comfortable. I wished I could come up with some nice "sophisticated" looks for my boy. But I really suck when it comes to having any sort of fashion sense. I got a few more to share. These first ones were taken while my daughter and my husband were going after the legendary ram mission. Although I was a bit upset that my guy's hair is not so dynamic and did not mess a bit in the wind I thought the dust storm would make a moment for some good images. This is the ghost of Iara Feeblestein, who died when some dumb circumstances demanded her horse take a left instead of a right and they both ended up head over feet over a cliff. Lol, sorry this was a glitch but I had to do it. In this one, "somebody" thought it would be cool to start a gun fight with the cops in St Denis while on the train. It was going smashingly until the law happened to shoot the lantern that was sitting right above where we were taking cover. So for some time Ruvik was rocking this charred look. In hindsight, taking cover beneath a lantern is a bad idea. The shrug emote is something I have always needed for this game. For example, "Ruvik why are we being run out of town by aggravated townsfolk and irate lawmen?" In comes the shrug emote. Got slapped by a legendary bear, after he was sedated.

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Oh yes

All right, here are some bitches and moans from me. I chose just a few off my laundry list. I have many more lol Caveat: These are MY issues with the game, and I am not claiming they are objective flaws, just stuff I personally don't like: 1. Today I received a message from my Office Assistant saying that I had a super-rare special cargo. Since I am filling my 4 large warehouses to sell them all this week, but I only have 5 Super Rare items in my small one, I grab them whenever I can, no matter what. Anyway, I got the phone call from her after a heist I completed in a private room with @xInfected_Virus, so I told him I would have to jump to a public lobby for a minute, since you can't source cargo in a private room. We usually do two back-to-back Casino Heists every day, so we were in between heists. I jumped to a public room, spawning in my arcade, and went into my Master Control Terminal, and it was gone! No Super Rare cargo, since apparently switching rooms made it disappear. Note that I was in a public room within 3 minutes of getting the phone call. That really sucked lol 2. My first bitch may have been a glitch, so here are some real ones. This really annoys me, for some reason, but since the game clearly allows for a speedometer, something in the past only modders were capable of bringing to the game, why won't Rockstar allow us to have a speedometer in the normal 3rd person view? I HATE the 1st person view in this game, and it really annoys me that I can't have a speedo on my HUD somewhere. 3. Enemies spawning right in front of me. This s**t really has to stop. Particularly when the game gives me a vehicle that is uselessly vulnerable and SLOW, not to mention the vehicle missions (bunker, night club, cargo sourcing, etc. ) very often put your path on really thin roads where the AI enemies can so easily block my path, then shoot through the windshield where they can cut through armor and health like butter. I can easily toggle to snacks and armor, but that doesn't make it any less annoying. 4. Cooldown timer weirdness, where I am coming to the end of a mission, about to drive/fly into the mission end marker, call for my personal vehicle, only sometimes if I go into the marker too soon, the vehicle never comes and I end up with a stupid cool down timer even though the game never brought me my vehicle in the first place.