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GTA 6 just got leaked (Up: confirmed real)

ikbalCO

ikbalCO

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Another sunny city? I really wished they'd go to liberty city again for the 6th installment.

Oh well. Gameplay looks promising at least.
 
schaft0620

schaft0620

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mortal said:
Yea I'm surprised by the lack of DMCAs considering these leaks have been floating around for hours now.
Take-Two have DMCA'd people for far less.
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I work in Cyber Security, and the initial claim is a hacker, with that, here is what's going on.

- Everyone at Rockstar is shocked and completely dismayed and frankly stunned, its Sunday AM here in the US, and the hack happened overnight. Even the most immediate reactions to this may not come for a few hours. The person that files the DMCA has to wake up and process all of this. Working on a Sunday? Fuck you thanks for the crunch dick.
- This is a legal security incident. There is a good chance that Rockstar tells employees that they can't touch anything for 24 hours up to two weeks. They are going to have to hire an outside firm to take a snapshot of the current layout and understanding of the environment. They have to involve law enforcement and it's essentially like a crime scene. It varies how long this could take depending on how disaster ready they are.
- Once they establish what happened they are going to implement new workflows to prevent it from happening again. Like, let's say their cloud storage was hacked. They might even need to move to another host/vendor. Could be petabytes of data and everyone may have to learn the new workflows. Or their desktops were hacked, they may need to install new protection on thousands of desktops before people can start working again. If this was someone from the India team posting the data online after being fired, or showing off to be cool, they could move the game to another studio.

If this costs them 1 month of Dev time we are lucky and we should be playing GTA6 sometime between the fall of 23 and the spring of 24. Don't forget when this happened to CDPR they started over on CyberPunk and it cost them pretty much everything. Including launching CyberPunk in the middle of the worst global pandemic in 100 years.

I don't have a read on any code that was shown in the videos but if Rockstar feels like it will compromise the integrity of the game or GTA Online they may be forced to scrap all of this code. Which is what CDPR did.
 
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tommib

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schaft0620 said:
I work in Cyber Security, and the initial claim is a hacker, with that, here is what's going on.

- Everyone at Rockstar is shocked and completely dismayed and frankly stunned, its Sunday AM here in the US, and the hack happened overnight. Even the most immediate reactions to this may not come for a few hours. The person that files the DMCA has to wake up and process all of this.
- This is a legal security incident. There is a good chance that Rockstar tells employees that they can't touch anything for 24 hours up to two weeks. They are going to have to hire an outside firm to take a snapshot of the current layout and understanding of the environment. They have to involve law enforcement and it's essentially like a crime scene. It varies how long this could take depending on how disaster ready they are.
- Once they establish what happened they are going to implement new workflows to prevent it from happening again. Like, let's say their cloud storage was hacked. They might even need to move to another host. Could be petabytes of data and everyone may have to learn the new workflows. Or their desktops were hacked, they may need to install new protection on thousands of desktops before people can start working again.
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GT6 to be released in 2030. 💀
 
ManaByte

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schaft0620 said:
I work in Cyber Security, and the initial claim is a hacker, with that, here is what's going on.

- Everyone at Rockstar is shocked and completely dismayed and frankly stunned, its Sunday AM here in the US, and the hack happened overnight. Even the most immediate reactions to this may not come for a few hours. The person that files the DMCA has to wake up and process all of this.
- This is a legal security incident. There is a good chance that Rockstar tells employees that they can't touch anything for 24 hours up to two weeks. They are going to have to hire an outside firm to take a snapshot of the current layout and understanding of the environment. They have to involve law enforcement and it's essentially like a crime scene. It varies how long this could take depending on how disaster ready they are.
- Once they establish what happened they are going to implement new workflows to prevent it from happening again. Like, let's say their cloud storage was hacked. They might even need to move to another host/vendor. Could be petabytes of data and everyone may have to learn the new workflows. Or their desktops were hacked, they may need to install new protection on thousands of desktops before people can start working again.
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If it really was a “hack” Twitter would be using their hacked materials policy to suppress the information, wouldn’t they?
 
K

kevm3

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GTA 5 came out on ps3 nearly 10 years ago. Even if this was 2019 source code, what has Rockstar been doing all this time? If they started dev after GTA 5 released, that'd still give them near 5 years to work on the game.

I don't doubt that this will be a graphical masterpiece eventually, but not sure what is going on in that footage.
 
V1LÆM

V1LÆM

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schaft0620 said:
I work in Cyber Security, and the initial claim is a hacker, with that, here is what's going on.

- Everyone at Rockstar is shocked and completely dismayed and frankly stunned, its Sunday AM here in the US, and the hack happened overnight. Even the most immediate reactions to this may not come for a few hours. The person that files the DMCA has to wake up and process all of this.
- This is a legal security incident. There is a good chance that Rockstar tells employees that they can't touch anything for 24 hours up to two weeks. They are going to have to hire an outside firm to take a snapshot of the current layout and understanding of the environment. They have to involve law enforcement and it's essentially like a crime scene. It varies how long this could take depending on how disaster ready they are.
- Once they establish what happened they are going to implement new workflows to prevent it from happening again. Like, let's say their cloud storage was hacked. They might even need to move to another host/vendor. Could be petabytes of data and everyone may have to learn the new workflows. Or their desktops were hacked, they may need to install new protection on thousands of desktops before people can start working again.
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if Rockstar were going to announce the game this year we can forget about that now. If we're lucky maybe in a year.

It's not on the same scale but when CDPR were hacked that fucked shit up for them for a long time. I agree with everything you said... FBI likely will be involved and it'll take a time to assess everything.

The game is going to be seriously delayed now and could potentially be rebooted depending on how severe it is. The leaker could still post more stuff. Take Two need to shut them down real fucking fast.
 
V1LÆM

V1LÆM

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kevm3 said:
GTA 5 came out on ps3 nearly 10 years ago. Even if this was 2019 source code, what has Rockstar been doing all this time? If they started dev after GTA 5 released, that'd still give them near 5 years to work on the game.

I don't doubt that this will be a graphical masterpiece eventually, but not sure what is going on in that footage.
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it was apparently rebooted so even thought it's been 9 years and 1 day since GTA V came out it doesn't mean this is representative of that amount of time.

some builds are about 3 years old and the game was likely about 2 years away for a total of 5 years dev time.

now it most definitely won't be coming out in the next 2-3 years.
 
T

Thief1987

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This Vice City Remake looking good)
 
schaft0620

schaft0620

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ManaByte said:
If it really was a “hack” Twitter would be using their hacked materials policy to suppress the information, wouldn’t they?
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Yes, the OG post is claiming to be the hacker Teapot. Again, these things take time, it is going to take a few hours. It was overnight on a Sunday.
 
Dr. Wilkinson

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Why would anyone want to see super early footage of game not meant to be shown publicly? It won’t be flattering and most people won’t realize this is what early in-development games look like. A lot of the visual polish happens in the last phase of production.
 
jshackles

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Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Rocco Schiavone said:
Better leaked footage than no footage.🤷🏼‍♂️🤌
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Yup - the only way for Rockstar to actually get out in front of this is to show off the current state of the game. Give people a trailer, or something.

Otherwise, people are going to think that this early footage is what the game will actually be / look like.
 
Represent.

Represent.

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Dr. Wilkinson said:
Why would anyone want to see super early footage of game not meant to be shown publicly? It won’t be flattering and most people won’t realize this is what early in-development games look like. A lot of the visual polish happens in the last phase of production.
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this is what happens when you remain silent for a decade on the most anticipated game in video game history.
 
AV

AV

We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
Damn, I go away for one night.

This is pretty damn wild.
 
Tomi

Tomi

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I think FBI alrdy trying to find his adress, he is packing his bags wife and kids and he is trying to find some new place to stay
 
NoLootBoxDev

NoLootBoxDev

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schaft0620 said:
I work in Cyber Security, and the initial claim is a hacker, with that, here is what's going on.

- Everyone at Rockstar is shocked and completely dismayed and frankly stunned, its Sunday AM here in the US, and the hack happened overnight. Even the most immediate reactions to this may not come for a few hours. The person that files the DMCA has to wake up and process all of this. Working on a Sunday? Fuck you thanks for the crunch dick.
- This is a legal security incident. There is a good chance that Rockstar tells employees that they can't touch anything for 24 hours up to two weeks. They are going to have to hire an outside firm to take a snapshot of the current layout and understanding of the environment. They have to involve law enforcement and it's essentially like a crime scene. It varies how long this could take depending on how disaster ready they are.
- Once they establish what happened they are going to implement new workflows to prevent it from happening again. Like, let's say their cloud storage was hacked. They might even need to move to another host/vendor. Could be petabytes of data and everyone may have to learn the new workflows. Or their desktops were hacked, they may need to install new protection on thousands of desktops before people can start working again. If this was someone from the India team posting the data online after being fired, or showing off to be cool, they could move the game to another studio.

If this costs them 1 month of Dev time we are lucky and we should be playing GTA6 sometime between the fall of 23 and the spring of 24. Don't forget when this happened to CDPR they started over on CyberPunk and it cost them pretty much everything. Including launching CyberPunk in the middle of the worst global pandemic in 100 years.

I don't have a read on any code that was shown in the videos but if Rockstar feels like it will compromise the integrity of the game or GTA Online they may be forced to scrap all of this code. Which is what CDPR did.
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Sorry for the guy who had to wake up earlier today. This will be a mess and delay a game, "security is a bitch". I can believe it was due to one stupid mistake but simultaneously created by the higher-ups, with a stupid policy (like changing your password every x months, people get lazy with that). Still, there is nothing impenetrable. If you do not want anything stolen, then do not connect it to the internet.

Imagine all the code for GTA online being online. If it is used in GTA 5 online, expect a mess XD soon.
 
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