Do you hear that? The faint sound of hundreds of Grand Theft Auto followers going wild on-line over the most recent (potential) GTA 6 conspiracy. This time it entails an odd shirt with a coded message that briefly appeared in GTA On-line after the most recent replace. And whereas the shirt appears to be gone now, the thriller round it lingers as gamers on-line debate what it truly means.
On Tuesday, Rockstar launched the most recent massive, free replace for GTA On-line—its long-running on-line open-world crime sim—and whereas it added some new missions and a cool profession tracker, it additionally angered followers by eradicating 180+ automobiles. Then it made people even madder by bringing a few of these automobiles again behind a paywall. Not nice! Nonetheless, Rockstar’s newest GTA On-line replace didn’t simply anger followers, it confused them, too. That’s as a result of a brand new shirt and separate in-game texture had been found that seem to hit at one thing being revealed sooner or later.
GTA On-line’s unusual new thriller shirt
As spotted by GTA Net, a brand new shirt popped up in shops round Los Santos shortly after the brand new replace went dwell. The t-shirt was situated beneath a class named “GTA V Anniversary” and was oddly named: ???
On the entrance of the shirt was an odd picture that includes completely different symbols and numbers. Fairly rapidly, gamers had been in a position to decipher the numbers utilizing a easy on-line A1Z26 deciphering instrument.
The hidden message on the shirt was revealed to say: ONEDAYWILLREVEALALL aka “sooner or later will reveal all.”
Reveal what? Nicely, after all, followers instantly jumped to Grand Theft Auto 6 and assumed all of this was the primary half of a bigger ARG or advertising and marketing push for the upcoming open-world sequel. (The sport formally hasn’t been named but, so it may not even be referred to as GTA 6.)
Not lengthy after the shirt (and a laptop sporting its own cryptic hidden message) had been discovered, the brand new mysterious piece of clothes was quietly faraway from GTA Online. What’s occurring? Is that this simply one other elaborate half of a bigger thriller resulting in the reveal of GTA 6’s first trailer? Nicely, possibly, or extra possible it’s a teaser for an upcoming Halloween occasion that went dwell sooner than Rockstar supposed.
Kotaku has reached out to Rockstar in regards to the shirt and its that means.
The GTA On-line shirt is probably going teasing a Halloween occasion, not GTA 6
Nonetheless, one of the best principle and rationalization for what all this implies was provided by Twitter user Gaming Detective. They explained that by digging into the newly up to date recordsdata in GTA On-line you’ll find references to UFOs and aliens. Dataminers have additionally discovered an upcoming, new ghost hunt mode, too.
And what month did GTA On-line launch? October 2013. (GTA V itself got here out in September.) So the brand new shirt, quickly situated in-game beneath the class “GTA V Anniversary,” is probably going linked to the 10-year anniversary of GTA On-line, which might be in October aka spooky month. And previously Rockstar has carried out pretty elaborate Halloween-related occasions.
Plus, a reminder that 99 p.c of the time, all of those mysteries and conspiracies involving Rockstar Video games and GTA 6 quantity to nothing. Add all that up and the truth is that it is rather, very unlikely that is all a teaser for the following Grand Theft Auto sport. It makes extra sense that that is Rockstar teasing a Halloween occasion, just a bit sooner than deliberate.
Truthfully, one of the best GTA 6 tease we’ve gotten in latest months was from Take-Two Interactive’s earnings report, which projected an enormous, traditionally huge, enhance in earnings in 2024. That appears to closely counsel a sport on the dimensions of GTA 6 is popping out subsequent 12 months. So whereas this shirt thriller is probably going a bust, we most likely don’t have for much longer to attend earlier than Rockstar truly does begin teasing its subsequent massive sport—the primary new GTA title in a decade—someplace and in some way. And GTA gamers will probably be ready to freak out about it the second it occurs.
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