Delays & Blackmail! Is it real?

hi in this video we’re talking about the gta 6 leak is it real where the
game’s going to be set and what does this mean for gta online
hi and welcome back my name’s dan and i’m an old grumpy gamer well the internet’s on fire
with news of leaked pre-alpha footage of what’s claimed to be gta 6. we’ve seen a lot of this kind
of crap before with mr boss and the infamous fernando regularly clickbaiting gta 6 rubbish
most of the time with complete non-use and often flat out lies but in this case it looks to be the
real deal i’ve managed to review the footage which i can’t show here because take two are
going hard on the dcma takedowns but i’ve reviewed the footage and as someone who makes a living from
software development this looks well right i mean it could be an elaborate hoax knocked
up in the latest unreal engine unity or blender but it really doesn’t feel like it at this point
in addition according to bloomberg’s jason shreer staff at rockstar are devastated and
concerned the leak may disrupt work on the game for a minute and lead to restrictions
on work from home arrangements for rockstar staff and that could lead to an exitus of devs and
artists from the company as i mentioned before i develop software not this type of software mainly
businessy stuff in php python and javascript but software nonetheless during the play with the
endless work from home arrangements many of the developers and ui ux guys i work with moved out
of central cities and either back to their own hometowns or a ways away from the main office many
of them still even after all the restrictions have been lifted only work remotely myself included now
a lot of these remote workers if they had to start going back into the office every day would simply
well not they’d find other work so right now most of the hot takes and restrictions i’ve seen are
rightly concerned with delays around having to tweak the code base and lock down security my
concern is there’ll be additional delays around a reduced workforce which could also mean going
back to the bad old days of perma crunch that’s where dev teams are largely forced to work in
sweatshop-like conditions working more than 12 hours a day six days a week but we’re expecting an
official announcement a bit later today so let’s see what rockstar has to say in a while we’re also
now seeing reports of the leaker asking rockstar for money with additional legs threatened more
gameplay footage more gameplay features and the actual source code being threatened to be released
and that’s really bad because it will allow bad actors to glean ways to inject their own code and
that means data security problems for end users and the ability for modders to wreak havoc from
more or less day one of release it could also mean that rockstar is gazumps and some enterprising dev
could release a compiled version of the source code via bittorrent or similar which could gut
potential sales of the game and if it’s one thing that rockstar doesn’t like it’s having their money
messed with it’s also worth noting if you do see something claiming to be a compiled version of gta
6 on bittorrent so download it even if it’s the real deal which it won’t be but even if it is it
will be full of malware and there are some links below to a couple of videos that some ordinary
gamers did on the risk of using untrusted sources for any game software mudahara is great for this
kind of stuff and i highly recommend taking a look but anyway on to the gameplay which again i can’t
show without drawing the ir of take 2. as of the time of recording you can still view some footage
on youtube though so if you just search gta 6 original footage or something similar you’re
pretty good to go the footage itself is pre-alpha so that means the models aren’t nearly finished
yet the scene in the diner is only being rendered on a geforce gtx 1080 at 720p too but even at that
resolution the important stuff is there we can see robbery mechanics in place movement mechanics
hitbox meshes interactions with npcs decent voice acting and we have at least two known
characters lucia and jason we have what looks to be a house with a pool a diner nightclub condo
complex garages and general scenery and it appears to be set in vice city the in-game representation
of miami the cops seem to have a pretty decent ai too taking cover appropriately and it looks like
jay norris may be making a comeback with one of the voice-acted scenes alluding to a conspiracy
theory that norris was never killed so that may tie back into gta 5’s story somehow and if it does
that also may mean we might see leicester back in the action and finally we can see
visual representations of hosted weapons with one scene showing lucia using a handgun
while she has an assault rifle strapped to her back so as far as gameplay goes it looks to be
building on the foundations laid out by previous gta’s with solid gameplay mechanics and some
great voice acting but there’s not enough there to talk about the storyline or any key players beyond
lucia or jason finally what does this mean for gca online well it’s hard to say at this point
from the footage shown again this might not be real but from the footage shown the vehicles are
conventional and the setting appears to be modern day or recent past weapons appear to be of modern
american manufacturing too so nothing outlandish and nothing that wouldn’t slot straight into the
current version of gta online which leads me to speculate and this is only speculative but
i suspect we’ll end up with vice city as an additional island in the existing gta online
world similar to cayo perico which would make sense allowing people to move between los santos
kaio and vice city freely would mean people who’ve invested hundreds or let’s face it thousands of
hours into their gta online persona and businesses get to keep all that but start fresh in a new zone
on the map but again that’s pure speculation and i’ve been wrong before but hey this could all be
an elaborate hoax so who knows so what are your thoughts is it real have you seen the footage do
you like lucia or jason as potential protagonist we’re really keen to hear from you so drop a
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