This is the great anguish of all developers: to see the fruit of their labor appear before the game is finished. More than killing all suspense, it is also the consequences that will complicate the work of the teams. In the last hours, the teams of Grand Theft Auto VI have experienced this disaster scenario, with the online distribution of many videos of the title, scheduled for the coming months.
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A man named Teapotuberhacker claims to have posted excerpts from the GTA V source code on a forum and the following GTA VI, as well as builds of the latter (working demos of the game). Above all, he has posted dozens of “game” videos, game footage.
Difficult to say at first if the images were real. In particular, we saw a playable female character, a first in the series. It would even be a duo of heroes named Lucia and Jason, a la Bonnie & Clyde. We find in the first images all the features that made the success of the GTA franchise, car races, robberies, wanderings in an American city reminiscent of Vice City, a name also written on a subway train in one of the clips.
If Rockstar Games hasn’t confirmed the leak, Take Two Interactive, its US publisher, has nonetheless removed a good number of videos on YouTube and Twitter, and removed certain topics on the most influential forums, including GTAForums. (still visible in cache). Jason Schreier, the always informed journalist for the Bloomberg economic media, has also had confirmation from an internal source that the content emanated from the work of the developers of GTA VI and that it was images dating from the beginning of the development of the GTA Title. SAW.
More info on the upcoming game?
With more than 90 content published online, Rockstar Games is the victim of the largest leak recorded in video games, a situation that could have serious consequences. Starting with a postponement of the expected launch of the game.
Because the source code excerpts could give serious information to clever little guys who wanted to hack the game and create bugs for the final version. The Half-Life 2 game was also the victim of a major leak, forcing its designers to scrap all of the leaked source code and start over to avoid any hiccups.
The hacker also put pressure on Rockstar Games, saying that he was ready to “negotiate” with the game’s developer to avoid revealing other information such as the entire source code, which would thus reveal everything about the game and its plot. Information about the RAGE game engine that allows the title to be designed, but also its predecessor, is also mentioned. Years of work that could be reduced to nothing, even if the images seen were, without a doubt, only pre-production videos and not the final work.
Source: BFM TV
