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GTAV NES port here we come
Maybe we can finally end all the hopes for that UFO thing. The people who spent years on it deserve closure, even if it was just hints towards a cancelled DLC
“UFO thing”?
Lots of easter eggs involving aliens + UFOs over the decade.
It’s all part of a probe to gauge sympathy for an Alien race orbiting an unstable star system, hoping to relocate to Earth and build an army of sympathisers.
Well let them know they have my vote.
have fun in australia, and try not to get eaten
GTA:Alpha Centari!
Sorry for late response, one of the other commenters got it but if you didn’t look it up after you probably don’t know the scale of the search. There are a ton of Easter eggs and a few UFOs hanging around in the game, leading many to think there is a large scale mystery that can be solved. Also hard to describe the Easter eggs— there was a mural on a mountain, an ingame serial killer, a ghost and her daughter, a cult, ingame rumors of UFOs, an alien frozen in ice, three UFOs hovering and one crashed, and a lot more that I probably can’t remember.
So for years people scoured through the game and decompiled code hoping to find it. The search is actually vaguely still ongoing apparently, even after the leak since it takes time to parse through.
While there is still stuff undiscovered, it’s most likely that this was part of the cancelled single player DLCs. Which does suck because it was a genuinely interesting idea and it would’ve been cool if R* had managed to hide a real massive subplot in the game.
Not the best summary cause it’s been a while and I was never that invested, but it was pretty interesting in the first few years.
Thanks for responding!
It was just drugs
Fuck that I want to see where the jetpack has been all this time
You could buy it in GTA Online.
Still can
Now that the source code is “out there” it may be possible in the future for better mod support, fingers crossed.
“You have been banned from Rockstar Social Club.”
But seriously, fuck their jank-ass forced integration.
Could be modded to work around their shit app
Wait, all mods have to go through that app? That’s total shite. Is there any way to launch it completely offline or would someone just have to pirate it?
I imagine with this leak that’s going to get cracked wide open soon
I like my software cracked wide open.
On a serious note, soon I can check out OpenFive/FiveM or whatever those multiplayer mods are that let you play on selfhosted GTAV servers, without Rockstar having a fuss…
Banned from their social club and all local saves wiped for good measure.
So… link?
It says in the Twitter thread that the source code was shared on a discord server for Xbox modding.
Haven’t seen a rick roll in a while. Someone else click on it first. Lol
Lmao, it’s a Rick roll on archive.org!
Lmao, it’s a Rick roll
TY for taking the bullet.
🫡
Called it. 🤣
No seriously, here is the real link:
https://lmy.de/aqyG
Does this mean the hackers and cheaters will only get worse from here?
Unlikely, unless the source code for the anti-cheat system and the server have been leaked as well.
The source code for just the game isn’t really going to help cheaters. Cheat makers typically don’t care about the code, they’d look at either altering the game files, and/or the memory space where the game variables are stored. Having access to the source doesn’t really help with that (well it may help them understand the compiled binaries a bit better, assuming they don’t know them inside-out already - we’re talking about a 10 year old game here).
But it may help modders for making mods and stuff. These mods may or may not be detected by the anti-cheat system though.
If Rockstar coded the game properly, the server won’t allow the client to connect if any of the files have been modified, or if the anti-cheat system is spooked/borked. So assuming that’s the case, any mods that may come out of this would be for offline gaming.
TL;DR: There’s nothing the worry about, online gaming (against randoms) will continue to suck as usual, best to stick to offline play or playing with/against a trusted friend circle.
Wow. I used to use a sector editor on floppy disks to cheat on games way back in the eighties by looking for player stats and abilities and whatnot. I had no idea that modern day cheating would be so similar to the rudimentary stuff I was doing nearly forty years ago.
Well, software is software after all :P
It all becomes 1s and 0s at the end of the day lol
The core ideas remained the same, only difference is that they’ve got more roadblocks now which makes it considerably tricker (security measures in the OS + anti-cheat + encryption/DRM + server-side checks etc).
But modern day cheating goes beyond memory editing, for instance there are things like aimbots which can work at the GPU/driver level, or input automation/macros which work completely ouside of the game so normal anticheat measures may not prevent it.
Yeah, computers have a lot more bells and whistles now, but the basics of how the system and the OS work haven’t really changed that much, until you get out of native apps and into Electron and stuff. It’s honestly remarkable how similar they are. Microsoft has a bunch of documentation about weird and quirky behavior they keep available for backwards compatibility, and most modern software developers take them up on that offer.
I agree. Most points of entry are usually via injection, and you need to maneuver around the anti-cheat defense. Once the game code isn’t in parity with the server, it’s also likely to be rejected; this leak is likely older anyway, so probably a non-issue since it’s not feature complete at this point.
It may help identify new points of entry for injection, but that’ll likely get patched once exploited.
to my knowledge the anti cheat is basically disabled anymore
If support has been discontinued for GTA 5 and it no longer receives any updates then yes that’s likely.
edit: depending on what is actually included in the “full source code”, of course.
yes
OpenGTA5 would be so cool. To bad Rockstar is Rockstar.
And FiveM is already property of Rockstar.
Are there any links floating around to download said code? The various tweets/articles seem to suggest it leaked in one Discord server, and nobody’s providing a link to that Discord nor a mirror of the code.
I know there’s nothing original about that but God damn I hate that a chat platform somehow became used to transfer info… We’re overdue for a forum Renaissance.
- Join our discord server!
- Give this server your home address, date of birth and mother’s maiden name?
- Please read the rules before being able to even fucking read anything :3
- Please download this third party extension verify that you’re not ban evading
- Give this third party extension your home address, date of birth, mother’s maiden name and unobstructed pictures of your taint from several angles?
- You’ve been verified!
- Sending messages is for donors only :3
- Notifications for every channel is on by default. I hope your speakers aren’t loud, pisshead
- Every channel is just a moderator with an amphetamine problem writing a new manifesto every 15 minutes
You got a point
You dont want my credit card? Where do I sign up?
Forgot to mention that you have to give them your phone number. That one really pisses me off.
Forgot the part where you are sometimes FORCED to join some discord server, be it for downloading a mod just one time or troubleshoot something else. And then sometimes comes the part you listed.
Discord got problems… but none of those things I’ve encountered. Save for the
- Please read the rules before being able to even fucking read anything :3
And are you really going to complain about being shown the rules of the place before use? You got a point on notifications too but that’s it. Annoying, but easy to deal with (right click server, disable notifications, boom done that’s it.)
The other shit I could be easily convinced you’re straight up making up.
Didn’t we use things like irc in the past?
Yeah and it sucked for archival purposes then and it still sucks now and forums took its place and that’s still where serious people go to talk about their field. Want a custom ROM for your phone? You’re going on a forum. Want to know how to repair a specific thing on a car? You’re going on a forum. Want to talk about your new patchwork passion? You’re going on a forum.
But somehow there’s some fields (crypto, some parts of gaming…) where people have forgotten that or simply have never spent time on forums to see the difference in quality of info having an ongoing discussion makes.
Just thinking about the fields and fields of car, electric, and plumbing forums all sitting out there with broken links and dead photobucket / imgur embedded pictures…
That’s an issue with the cost of storage back then meaning that people needed external hosts, but these days if Reddit and Lemmy can self host then an equivalent forum could do it too.
You aren’t “archiving” shit of this magnitude. Forums and hosts get the real letters and even the more permissive countries and hosts tend to have minimal issues taking action for these kinds of leaks. They are just as transient as chat rooms with a much bigger investment to run
Which leave “dark web” sites that very much do exist but don’t get linked in news articles
And Usenet before that.
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Even with logs they’re still a pain because without threads it’s just questions getting repeated again and again and again without being able to refer the person to a previous part of the discussion where they could find all answers they need…
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I want to archive it
@RemindMe@programming.dev 1 week
@RemindMe@programming.dev 1 week
Even made a new account for it. Just to be sure.
I have a download link (and the password), someone posted it on the ycombinator thread. Not sure if I can post it here.
But does it compile?
Grand Theft Video (Game)
Here come the unbreakable cheats I guess.
Or better open source security since everyone and his dog tries to crack it and the open source community patches it
Do Red Alert 2 next, please
Do you know about openra?
Yeah I love it. It makes some gameplay changes though. Regardless, I can’t wait until the RA2 mod is done. If someone gets Mental Omega running in it then I’ll lose my marbles
amazing to me that open source games usually sputter out quickly, yet communities will dissemble, reassemble and polish and finish games from established IPs
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/golfclap
So sad seeing all these games, all that creativity, sacrificed for a sixth installment.
I don’t understand. Sacrificed how?
It’s not just GTA V, there’s also references to Bully 2, and Rockstar has been all hands on deck for their open world mega games since V blew up, last month a former employee talked about how Agent was cancelled for being a distraction from GTA.
What’s agent?
