Again for anybody working on their own games or who does software. Avoid this like the plague.
The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked
Submitted 1 year ago by Hubi@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Just a quick question, why? Is it because Take2 or Rockstar will come after anyone that they think copied their code, or are there a lot of bad practices used in GTA5’s code?
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because even the possibility that you implemented somebody else’s proprietary code from memory or inspiration opens up a lot of legal issues.
And while you may win there’s no winners when you or your employer has to pay your side of legal fees. It’s best to just avoid it to make that process easier.
Cheers@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Bad take.
Code is about working with a limited set of tools and making them work for whatever task is in front of you.
Inspiration is from interacting with something and receiving insight.
The best coders meld the two and push the industry forward. If you impose self limitations like this on yourself, then you’ll never advance yourself.
This is like saying you read lord of the rings and now can’t play DND because the fantasy source material was ‘stolen’.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Again for anybody working on their own games or who does software. Avoid this like the plague.
Learning from the code and reusing the same code are two different things. It’s not every day you get to see how the pros do it.
On a completely different subject, I’m curious about your username, could you elaborate on it?
anonymouse@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Nice username! Stormlight right?
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 year ago
These words are accepted.
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It is!
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Stormlight right?
Is that a game? A novel?
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But the traffic AI is so cooool
FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cease and desists go brrrrrr
Coasting0942@reddthat.com 1 year ago
What about anonymously working with it? Coding not for the street cred?
thrawn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 year ago
“UFO thing”?
Kiwi_Girl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Lots of easter eggs involving aliens + UFOs over the decade.
Gimpydude@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
GTA:Alpha Centari!
thrawn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
JoMomma@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It was just drugs
TheBig2023Meltdown@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fuck that I want to see where the jetpack has been all this time
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You could buy it in GTA Online.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Now that the source code is “out there” it may be possible in the future for better mod support, fingers crossed.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“You have been banned from Rockstar Social Club.”
But seriously, fuck their jank-ass forced integration.
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Could be modded to work around their shit app
Breezy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Banned from their social club and all local saves wiped for good measure.
moon@lemmy.cafe 1 year ago
So… link?
n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
rustyriffs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Haven’t seen a rick roll in a while. Someone else click on it first. Lol
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No seriously, here is the real link:
lmy.de/aqyG
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
OpenGTA5 would be so cool. To bad Rockstar is Rockstar.
ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
And FiveM is already property of Rockstar.
000@fuck.markets 1 year ago
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.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
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.
tourist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
- Join our discord server!
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Neato@kbin.social 1 year ago
Didn't we use things like irc in the past?
PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Trying to compile well-documented github projects is a crap shoot half the time. iirc no one figured out how to compile the Windows XP source code when it got leaked and it’s long gone so no one can try
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 year ago
My experience with large projects is that the bigger they get, the more their build systems turn into large projects in their own right. Maintaining the build for something like Windows is probably many people’s full-time job, so it’s no surprise a bunch of amateurs with no docs couldn’t do it.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I agree generally. Here lately I’ve taken the plunge and compiled everything from source (Linux). While tricky on some, (dependencies mostly), the outcome is unusually stable. More stable than expected.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Does this mean we’re not going to see community enhanced version of GTAV? I thought the game was disappointing when compared to GTA:SA. The world feels empty and the campaign is too short.
coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Even made a new account for it. Just to be sure.
khronos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have a download link (and the password), someoje posted it on the ycombinator thread. Not sure if I can post it here.
PeachMan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Does this mean the hackers and cheaters will only get worse from here?
d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Unlikely, unless the source code for the anti-cheat system and server-side codes have been leaked as well.
Leaking the source code for just the game isn’t really going to help cheaters. 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 they coded the game properly, the server won’t allow the client to connect if any of the files have been modified or it can’t talk to/detect the anti-cheat system. So assuming that’s the case, any mods that may come out of this would be for offline gaming.
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
lapommedeterre@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Yarmin@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
to my knowledge the anti cheat is basically disabled anymore
aluminium@lemmy.world 1 year ago
yes
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But does it compile?
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Grand Theft Video (Game)
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Here come the unbreakable cheats I guess.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is (one reason) why anti-cheat should be server-side.
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or better open source security since everyone and his dog tries to crack it and the open source community patches it
BurnSquirrel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
amazing to me that open source games usually sputter out quickly, yet communities will dissemble, reassemble and polish and finish games from established IPs
yamanii@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So sad seeing all these games, all that creativity, sacrificed for a sixth installment.
CarolineJohnson@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
GTAV NES port here we come
BaardFigur@lemmy.world 1 year ago
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In the meantime you can emulate the remastered Switch version pretty easily.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I don’t think they have the source code for rdr 1 and that’s why they’ve never ported it themselves