GTA 6 Mapping Project Goes Into Overdrive With Trailer 2 Release: 'It's an Information Overload'

The long-running GTA 6 mapping task has gone into overdrive with the merchandise of Trailer 2, with 1 of its main members telling IGN: “it truly changes everything for america for the remainder of the year.”

The GTA 6 Mapping Discord is buzzing arsenic the project’s 370 (soon to walk 400) members get started connected making consciousness of Trailer 2 and each the caller details it provides.

“It’s an accusation overload - it truly changes everything for america for the remainder of the year,” Garza, who oversees the Discord server, told IGN. “We person truthful overmuch caller contented to enactment connected and we’re truly conscionable getting started.”

The GTA 6 Mapping Discord began beingness aft the immense September 2022 leaks (the aforesaid leaks immoderate judge Rockstar playfully referenced astatine the commencement of Trailer 2). Its extremity is to signifier the astir close GTA 6 representation possible, enactment that was, up until the merchandise of Trailer 2, based connected the leaks and December 2023’s Trailer 1.

The latest mentation of the GTA 6 map, released astatine the extremity of March by task pb DuPz0r, is present outdated, with the flood of accusation Trailer 2 provides helping to make a overmuch much close and elaborate effort.

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As good arsenic confirming crippled details, characters, and releasing 70 marque caller GTA 6 screenshots, Rockstar revealed accusation and images of the explorable places successful the authorities of Leonida, GTA 6's instrumentality connected Florida.

Locations confirmed arsenic portion of this week’s uncover see Vice City, GTA 6’s mentation of Miami, tropical archipelago Leonida Keys, Grassrivers, Port Gellhorn, Ambrosia, and Mount Kalaga, a nationalist landmark up against the state’s bluish border.

But the volunteers volition besides beryllium scouring the trailer itself for details connected the nonstop determination of everything we see, and trying to lucifer up images of fictional spaces to their real-life counterparts arsenic they lock-in much of GTA 6’s map. Once the enactment is done, DuPz0r volition merchandise an updated map, which fans anticipation volition springiness them their champion look yet astatine what to expect from GTA 6 erstwhile it yet comes retired successful May 2026.

And, if earlier then, Rockstar releases much GTA 6 assets, erstwhile fans get their archetypal due look astatine gameplay perhaps, the volunteers volition spell again. Only erstwhile GTA 6 is released and they tin comparison the instrumentality representation to the existent happening volition they find retired conscionable however close their enactment has been.

Of course, hanging implicit the GTA 6 mapping task is the imaginable for Rockstar genitor institution Take-Two to unopen the full happening down. In March, the modder who released a playable recreation of the GTA 6 representation successful GTA 5 ceased each enactment connected the task aft being deed by a Take–Two takedown. The mod itself was based connected the GTA 6 mapping project.

Last year, I asked Garza if helium was disquieted astir imaginable enactment from Take-Two, and helium admitted to "some mild concern."

"This task has been going connected for rather immoderate clip with nary nonstop disruption to our community," Garza continued. "However, I ever support it into information if they mean connected communicating with america successful the aboriginal for immoderate reason. We bash not explicitly showcase leaked worldly successful the map, truthful I bash not judge they would instrumentality that down successful particular. I judge they are alert that this task gathers popularity and involvement successful the game, since everyone wants to spot however the satellite whitethorn look like. This tin beryllium 1 of the reasons wherefore they haven’t done anything, since it’s not excessively negative. If I were ever successful the concern of receiving a cease and desist though, past I would respectfully cease and desist. As we get person to a precise map, it whitethorn beryllium imaginable to person that announcement successful the future."

While we hold to find out, we’ve got plentifulness much connected GTA 6, including each the details we’ve discovered truthful acold and each the GTA 6 instrumentality theories emerging from Trailer 2 itself.

Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].