A fair amount of graphical improvements, actually. It started off as barely anything, just improved fire effects, burnouts and glass shards, with the only ray tracing option being RT shadows, but sometime later they actually bothered to add proper ray traced reflections.
Realistically I think it means nothing for GTA 5 at this point, modders and hackers were already rampant on online, The big deal is the fact Rockstar has had 2 major leaks within a bit over a year, which doesn't look good for them or their security team.
Code quality is a factor, too. If it turns out the game is coded like some pajeet's leetcode project (you just know it is), R* North are going to have egg on their faces.
If attempting to emulate RDR1 has taught me anything.
I know of three; the alien DLC, a Trevor DLC, and a zombie DLC. What were the other five? What a waste.
How can this be when GTA V is known in benchmarks to be one of the most optimized games out there?
Including one for Liberty City. The absolute state of Rockstar to even think of scrapping that.
Am I crazy optimistic for thinking the "Manhunt Pack" is referencing their Manhunt series instead of something police related. They haven't acknowledged this IP for years.
The source code is almost entirely the same
Hardware limitations with the PS3/360, I can understand. Now, there's no excuse. I would've loved to have a prologue with Michael/Trevor or Franklin. This just reeks of laziness and complacency from GTA Online.
Carcer city does exist in GTA Canon and vice versa so that could totally be what they planned.
I'm pretty sure Liberty City was the one that got the most work done, since pictures of it in the GTA V iteration of Rage were found on a LinkedIn profile or something. back in like 2016 or 2017.
