As the world waits for Grand Theft Auto 6’s debut trailer, additional proof has emerged of scrapped plans for Grand Theft Auto 5 story DLC in addition to Bully 2.
As noticed by VGC, the most recent information comes from the alleged leak of a database file for Grand Theft Auto 5, which is being dug into by the neighborhood. According to Twitter person @billsyliamgta, who credit GTA dataminers, this file contains reference to the unreleased Bully 2.
GTAV’s PDB leak accommodates a string referring to Bully 2.
Credits to @GlowDevs and @WildBrick142 pic.twitter.com/4vDiyTozjn
— Liam (@billsyliamgta) November 19, 2023
For the uninitiated, Bully is Rockstar’s 2006 sport a few juvenile delinquent pupil named James “Jimmy” Hopkins, who rises by means of the ranks of Bullworth Academy. Fans have long-called for a sequel, which was as soon as in improvement at Rockstar’s New England studio within the late 2000s. While Bully 2 was clearly by no means launched, a few of its concepts made it into different Rockstar video games like Red Dead Redemption 2.
@billsyliamgta provides there’s a reference to GTA 5 playable character Trevor with a jetpack, which suggests story mode DLC was repurposed into GTA Online. In 2018, Rockstar lastly unveiled GTA Online’s Doomsday Heist missions alongside the Thruster, a jetpack that is nonetheless unique to the multiplayer mode to at the present time. (It did not take lengthy for modders so as to add the jetpack into GTA 5’s story mode, after all.)
Cut #GTAV Story Mode DLC is additional confirmed because of the PDB leak with a string referring to Trevor and a jet pack. The Doomsday Heist was undoubtedly a rework of it.
Info @GlowDevs pic.twitter.com/TRqnJLOMFS
— Liam (@billsyliamgta) November 19, 2023
GTA 5 by no means did obtain vital story DLC, regardless of the fixed name from followers. Rockstar as an alternative targeted on money-spinner GTA Online, which a decade on from GTA 5’s preliminary launch remains to be going sturdy.
Meanwhile, Twitter person @GlowDevs reveals reference to CNC, which is assumed to narrate to the Cops ‘n’ Crooks mode that was reportedly meant for GTA Online however was canned after the homicide of George Floyd by a police officer in 2020.
GTAV PDB LEAKS – COPS N’ CROOKS – THREAD
Originally, it was deliberate for there to be 8 totally different roles, it appears. Those are Cop, Crook, Officer, Tactical, Tech, Soldier, Enforcer and at last hacker. But there is no such thing as a phrase on what specifics every of those roles do. pic.twitter.com/dx9POgwmI7
— Glow (@GlowDevs) November 19, 2023
All this pertains to previous content material, after all, and with Rockstar’s focus now firmly on GTA 6, it is uncertain it can ever see the sunshine of day. But that hasn’t stopped GTA and Bully followers from questioning what may need been had Rockstar taken a special path and launched GTA 5 story mode DLC in addition to Bully 2. GTA 6’s debut trailer is due early December. While you wait, take a look at IGN’s function GTA 6: Everything We Know.
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].
