GTA 5 has suffered a brand new leak that implies Rockstar Video games had formidable, city-sized DLC plans for the sport.
Experiences rising on-line at the moment point out a close to 200GB model of the GTA 5 supply code initially leaked in 2023 has now been made public, and events are analyzing it as we converse. The spotlight here’s what appears to be like like a Liberty Metropolis DLC for GTA 5 that clearly by no means noticed the sunshine of day (GTA On-line’s huge success steered Rockstar away from story DLC in direction of multiplayer centered updates).
In keeping with X / Twitter person TJGM, the Liberty Metropolis DLC discovered within the information has been extrapolated and visualized to indicate simply how a lot larger this model of town is in comparison with the one present in GTA 4. “This is a take a look at the expanded Liberty Metropolis structure,” they tweeted. “This define of the map is drawn based mostly on the place shorelines are, the strains point out zones that play shoreline audio.”
There’s hypothesis on-line that this Liberty Metropolis DLC could have been held again for GTA 6, however there isn’t any proof to counsel that’s Rockstar’s plan.
Extra has emerged from this leak: Agent Trevor DLC mission names; lower automobiles, lower dialogue, lower cutscenes, and extra.
On Agent Trevor, GTA followers have recognized for a while that Rockstar labored on a single-player DLC for GTA 5 that might have seen Trevor assume the position of a undercover agent. In 2024, actor Steven Ogg mentioned Rockstar initially deliberate to make a narrative enlargement centered on his character, Trevor, with it thought to have fallen by the wayside because the developer centered on the money cow that was GTA On-line.
Ogg was joined by Michael actor Ned Luke and Franklin actor Shawn Fonteno in a Questions and Solutions session with Streamily, and the trio make clear what they claimed was scrapped downloadable content material for GTA 5 that starred Trevor as a Federal Investigation Bureau agent.
“Initially they had been gonna do persevering with tales of Michael, Franklin, and Trevor,” Luke mentioned, and Ogg expanded on his model. “We additionally had that basically cool s**t of — and I neglect if it was DLC, I don’t know — however the place Trevor was gonna be undercover, he works for the FEDs,” Ogg mentioned. “And we did shoot a few of that stuff with James Bond Trevor. He is nonetheless form of a f**okay up however he is doing his greatest. And we shot some stuff after which it simply disappeared they usually by no means adopted up on it.”
Additionally in 2024, Joe Robino, who was a senior digital camera artist and digital cinematographer working at Rockstar’s New York workplace from 2010 to 2016, spoke to the SanInPlay YouTube channel about why the GTA 5 story DLC was canceled.
“Lots of the crew went to do Purple Useless Redemption 2 instantly and I took on this different undertaking that was a standalone DLC for GTA that by no means got here out and it was kick ass,” Robino revealed.
“That was my factor. I used to be one of many foremost editors, digital camera artists, and on-stage stuff. We break up our groups into two. I stayed on GTA On-line after which this DLC, which Steven Ogg [the actor who played Trevor Philips] was an important a part of.
“After which a few of the crew overlapped and went to RDR2 early on, after which we simply form of did this [flipped motion], as a result of when that sport bought shelved, we spent a lot cash… plenty of that stuff although did find yourself making it I imagine into later iterations of GTA On-line, I feel. So it’s not like they wasted it.
“It was actually actually good. However when GTA On-line got here out it was a lot of a money cow and folks had been loving it a lot that it was exhausting to make an argument {that a} standalone DLC would outcompete that. I feel wanting again now you possibly can in all probability do each. However that was a enterprise resolution they made. I used to be slightly upset about that.
“That truly was plenty of the rationale for me being slightly bitter at the moment. As a result of I used to be like yo, WTF guys? This s**t’s superior. Let’s preserve going. Let’s end this s**t.”
Followers have had snippets of details about GTA 5’s fabled story DLC through the years. GTA dataminers have additionally found a reference to Trevor with a jetpack, which suggests story mode DLC was repurposed into GTA On-line, as Robino mentioned. In 2018, Rockstar lastly unveiled GTA On-line’s Doomsday Heist missions alongside the Thruster jetpack.
Final yr, talking on the Lex Fridman podcast, Rockstar Video games co-founder and former lead author Dan Houser addressed the DLC for the primary time, insisting that if the developer had continued with it, it wouldn’t have been capable of make 2018’s Purple Useless Redemption 2.
“The web is aware of we made a DLC… single-player DLC for GTA 5 that by no means got here out,” Houser mentioned.
“It was one whenever you performed as Trevor, however he was a undercover agent. It was cute. It by no means fairly got here collectively, and it was by no means completed. It was about half finished when it bought deserted. However I feel if that had come out, we in all probability wouldn’t have gotten to make Purple Useless 2. So, there are at all times compromises.”
What method will Rockstar take with GTA 6? Will it return to story DLC, or concentrate on no matter new model of GTA On-line it has up its sleeve? Some assume Rockstar will finally add a number of cities, together with Liberty Metropolis, to GTA 6, alongside GTA On-line 2 or regardless of the multiplayer mode finally ends up being known as. For now, although, it’s a case of what may need been for GTA 5.
Final week, as a part of the continuing employment tribunal to find out the destiny of the 31 GTA 6 builders Rockstar fired final yr, the corporate revealed the intense lengths it goes to in an effort to stop safety breaches.
Rockstar has suffered a string of high-profile leaks through the years, most just lately the ‘CyberLeek’ incident which noticed GTA 6 gameplay hit the web forward of the sport’s Netflix particular. Talking on the tribunal, Rockstar mentioned it is underneath intense scrutiny because the developer of GTA.
“Guarding the secrets and techniques of the distinctive gameplay and design are akin to Apple defending the iPhone or Coke defending its method,” Rockstar mentioned, including that it adopts “the safety posture of a Wall Avenue financial institution.”
In April 2025, Rockstar dismissed an worker in Lincoln, UK, who it alleged disclosed confidential details about GTA 6 to a 3rd occasion who then printed the knowledge to social media. Rockstar dismissed an worker within the U.S. in November 2023 and one other in India in November 2025 for 2 separate acts of knowledge leaking.
Rockstar identified the frequency of espresso store journeys by workers and pizza deliveries to the Rockstar workplaces have been monitored by followers, and site visitors volumes by its workplaces had been allegedly tracked in a bid to get an inside observe on the GTA 6 launch date.