GTA 5 is effectively open source now, and fans and modders are scrambling to figure out what that means
Jan. 3, 2024Over a year after it was hacked, the GTA 5 source code has gone public
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The source code forGTA 5went public this past Christmas Eve, over a year after it was originally obtained by hackers. Modders have already gotten their own custom GTA 5 builds up and running based on that leaked code, and now the whole community is reckoning with what this means for the future of the open-world game.
Modders quickly started playing with that source code, and within days, footage of a custom build of GTA 5 was already online. In theory, this sort of source code reveal could turn GTA 5 into a modder’s paradise. With the game’s building blocks out there for everyone to see, there should be no limits to the kinds of mods that could now come to GTA 5. Some fans are already hopeful for full-on DLC-style story expansions, and those don’t seem far out of the realm of possibility.
The issue is thatTake-Two has already shown a pretty unfriendly stance toward mods, and I’d certainly expect the company to be even more aggressive about taking down mods built with source code that was obtained and released illegally.Rockstar developers have rightly been critical of the effects leaks have on their work, and I doubt there would be much goodwill toward mods derived from those leaks.
There are already plenty of old-fashionedGTA 5 modsout there.
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