How GTA V Looked in BETA & ALPHA Development (it was better?)

[@DrModGTA]

cool comparison clips by @GTAExpert & @Noru122

[@HWGMAING]

you know rockstar develops new games in the previous games, they used gta 4 files and re designed it to be gta 5 map and updated its graphics and physiscs

[@hartonosutrisno5452]

The issue with GTA5 and GTA SA is because they tried to make the game very lively but because of the limitation of their techs and disc storage, they decided to removed most of them to make it playable or else we will experience rendering issue and stuttering in some areas. Actually, they can slightly reduce the Map size to prevent removing so many things they added and I rather playing in smaller maps but lots of details rather than playing on larger maps but feel balnd after playing for some time.

[@NameInVainProduction]

I've never even thought about the lack of vegetation in Los Santos, but seeing these beta screenshots makes me realize how barren the city feels.

[@DrModGTA]

Yeah, it's pretty empty but I understand why they did it. Thankfully with procedural generation and AI getting smarter maybe rockstar can fix it in GTA 6

[@jakub7777]

@@DrModGTA I have seen some earlier beta leaks and the game ran at 12-16 FPS on PS3 which is apparently the reason why they removed all the greenery

[@DatOneSwedishBoi69]

@@jakub7777 Imagine what GTA 6 would look like. Devs these days are lazy thanks to this AI non-sense with scaling.

[@callmeriiey4386]

@@DrModGTA I hope they use AI in the right way instead of using it to make shitty art or copy paste assets. (like how Dying Light 2 did their buildings)

[@balloonb0y677]

@@callmeriiey4386the CEO of rockstar said they don’t want to use AI to take over jobs. Just only in ways that would make things less tedious

[@Hyperchaoticcybernightmare.]

I think people forgot how limiting the devices and technology were

[@alistairhackney]

Exactly

[@DrModGTA]

Definitely.. I cannot believe all of it fit onto the discs for PS3 and Xbox 360..

[@khanny63]

So much of the original foliage and the population density were cut. The first trailer shows exactly this

[@Helvigster]

that's the problem with Rockstar, they push above their weight so much that the consoles can't take it. they should've honestly saved GTA 5 for the PS4/Xbox One gen exclusively

[@alistairhackney]

@@Helvigster They don't even need to. They have no competition. _Watch Dogs_ and _Watch Dogs 2_ don't come close in my opinion. And _Saints Row_ was competition, but that franchise was ruined by the third and fourth games. I'm glad GTA V did release on 360 because it was great to have a new GTA to play... but i partly agree with you regarding waiting

[@PortugueseBadman]

GTA 5 on PS5/Series X with all the beta foliage would have helped sell the name "Expanded and Enhanced" Yeah the beta certainly had that late 2000s style R had at the time.

[@DrModGTA]

Id love to somehow find a copy of the game pre beta or alpha that we could explore

[@PortugueseBadman]

@DrModGTA Someone found a dev kit but lost it if I remember correctly.

[@dominicviner6619]

Trust me dude put your ps5 gta settings to performance RT and it’ll be a night and day difference to a ps4 pro

[@PortugueseBadman]

@dominicviner6619 It is pleasant.

[@0xsergy]

Keep in mind the ps5/series x still don't get a consistent 60fps as is in GTA. I doubt they could add the foliage without reducing it to run at 30 fps.

[@sillygigglzYT]

Lester with a ponytail is not what we needed, but it's what we deserved! Man would have been even more creepy than he already is, lol.

[@DrModGTA]

that's so true

[@БогданКрименюк]

You've got beef with ponytails? What did they ever do to you?

[@sillygigglzYT]

@@БогданКрименюк Well, bald front with a ponytail in the back is the stereotypical white van driver, soooo there is that, lol

[@patrickiamonfire965]

He sort of look like that Redditor in those memes.

[@sillygigglzYT]

@@patrickiamonfire965 Exactly :D

[@aliexacute3930]

Dont forget PS3 had 256MB of rambus at the time! That is just crazy how they even managed to optimize GTA V that good for that console

[@omnikennylol]

Fun fact, gta 5 development of making the game started around April of 2009, right after gta 4. There are even left over bug log in the game.

[@DrModGTA]

Damn. That's super cool.. id LOVE to see some of the screenshots from them. Maybe some of these are close to that date maybe 2010

[@JoshuaGames4076]

And yet GTA 6 is taking 11+ years to finish, meanwhile Modders are able to add the whole GTA 4 Liberty City Map with all the Cars, Ai, Buildings, and places fully polished next to Los Santos.. Rockstar needs to step up their game smh

[@omnikennylol]

​@JoshuaGames4076 I mean sure, porting the map from 4 to 5 wasn't easy for the modders with textured buildings but at the same time. Gta6 is probably gonna have a road map for updates, mainly online expanding it. You gotta remember that gta5 was never suppose to last as most features are lacking, even online it was never suppose to last. Hell rockstar can port Liberty city to gta6 and add more stuff.

[@JoshuaGames4076]

@omnikennylol I hope that happens soon, they can port Los Santos and Liberty City over to GTA 6

[@FlooferLand]

​ @JoshuaGames4076 Your comment basically sums up why GTA 6 is taking so long They could've just moved GTA Vice City's map into GTA 6 and called it a day, but that would've looked ridiculous I'm not sure where you pull 11+ years from, but I don't believe GTA 6 development started anywhere near 2013. GTA Online was developed almost like its own separate game, then they made Red Dead Redemption 2, and I believe end of RDR2 development is where the GTA 6 development started, so, 5 - 6 years so far GTA 6 is far more ridiculously complex than GTA 5 was, with a larger map, photorealistic graphics, tons more enterable buildings. All of those have to be modeled, programmed, and tested

[@enbybeanie666]

lester with a ponytail truly deserves being called Lester the Molester lmao

[@DrModGTA]

😂

[@Jens.M]

I guess they decimated the foliage because of console framerates. Such a shame! It looked so much better

[@DrModGTA]

that's spot on, shame but it all makes sense really

[@theeNoobD3v]

lester with the ponytail is diabolical but so good at the same time

[@madhunter6420]

ps3 looked much warmer and more LA california like than the next-gen. it had better visuals

[@DrModGTA]

I agree

[@phaseshift943]

Agreed. I'll play it next year on my PS3 to do a nostalgia run since back in 2013 I played it on the 360

[@Ultra-Settings]

No it never... just watched comparison videos and new gen is definitely warmer. Take the nostalgia goggles off

[@madhunter6420]

@@Ultra-Settings your eyes are complete garbage then. take off youtube and try them for yourself. I modded this game since 2015, i KNOW what im talking about

[@fightlikabrave]

man I tried ans couldnt even play any of the old games they are so dated and ugly now..besides gta4.. which i feel is the best overall GTA game, best physics(most fun) and crowd reactions etc.. San Andreas and VC are prectically unplayable in 2025

[@Senti17]

I wish they added the trees back when they first remastered the game 🥺

[@DrModGTA]

I agree it would have been awesome

[@collinghood6828]

I think they choose not to because it would change the terrain too much

[@MarkovVulrelka]

I think one of the reasons that they tried to remove some of those textures and features is due to the limitations on consoles like PS3 and Xbox 360

[@DrModGTA]

Yes I believe you are correct 😊 I remember hearing that despite all the trees and bushes being cool.. it really hammered the games performance

[@mohamedkhider6998]

Sad honestly Such a wasted potential I feel like we never got to play the REAL GTA V

[@farazsiddiqui1312]

This..​@@mohamedkhider6998

[@GStealer666]

@@mohamedkhider6998 That's how Rockstar is. They always aim so high they have to scale it back down for the current hardwares. That was the case with San Andreas, GTA IV and clearly with V. Probably the same with VI too.

[@mohamedkhider6998]

@@GStealer666 RDR2 too as far as I’m concerned Cut dialogues. Unexplored/ unfinished maps/ cut missions/ side missions clothing weapons it’s unbelievable. Rockstar has to release a director’s cut for these games i know it’s very unlikely knowing their policies but still 😢

[@NoVidyaGames]

The different pause screens are neat, it's appreciated when they can go the extra mile for something so small. SA had something like that when you went to check out the gallery, stats, etc. MP3 allowed the player to move the camera around Max which was a very nice touch.

[@DrModGTA]

I wonder what the pause menu will be like in GTA 6

[@Junior.-.10]

Looking at the vegetation of the beta version, GTA V would’ve looked so much better but then it wasn’t added due to how much GB it would take. ☹️

[@DrModGTA]

Yeah the FpS was apparently low and stuttery.. like unplayable according to a dev. I think I heard that on a GTAseriesvideo

[@Junior.-.10]

⁠@@DrModGTA maybe when GTA VI comes out, it shouldnt be a problem with much vegetation since it’ll be released in Xbox Series X|S and PS5. But it’s such a shame that much vegetation isn’t added to the game during the final release

[@thinkpadnubert]

6:24 What's weirder is that the tow truck is from GTA TLAD, where we play as Johnny Klebitz, not Niko. I have no idea why they had the necessity to change the player skin just for one picture.

[@DrModGTA]

Yeah it really is a bit of a mystery

[@anfrac3700]

I picture somebody looking over a designer’s shoulder at Rockstar North saying “Wait, why are we doing this again?”

[@klimisioannidis]

8:11 The reason why these images of "blue" people appear so is because the colorspace/RGB values of the files are decoded incorrectly. From seeing it the R and the B signals are either swapped or inverted. The software that is used to decode/convert them, does it incorrectly.

[@muramolly]

5:08 That place is the bridge above the swampy area right next to the military base. When you go in game now and looks so empty and bad. It would look so damn good if those trees were there

[@DrModGTA]

Damn that's why I didn't even recognize it

[@austinhassler7283]

3:30 that’s not Trevor’s trailer

[@TXVY-clips]

1:45 you can see the vinewoodland image in the cheaper barbershops

[@III-g1x]

In the hood areas?

[@Enno9]

​@@III-g1xyea

[@MichaelInsightful]

I wish to see Las Venturas or San Fierro as an idea in the beta of GTA 5, considering It's a remake of GTA SA.

[@DrModGTA]

Id love to return to Las Ventura's some time. I wonder if they tried to add any of it early into the development

[@MichaelInsightful]

@@DrModGTA Prob, but hardware limitations I assume. I would have loved to see it in GTA 5's engine, but hopefully, GTA 6 expands the map potentially or adds DLCS for such things.

[@YoungBasedChefBeezy]

@@MichaelInsightfulSan fierro and las venturas were never planned for gta V.

[@MichaelInsightful]

@@YoungBasedChefBeezy There is no screenshots or anything for them though.

[@BasePuma4007]

The foliage getting taken out makes a lot of sense. The Xbox 360 only had 512MB of RAM shared between the system and graphics, and the PS3 had a split memory pool of 256MB for system memory and 256MB for VRAM. Having the foliage for promotional material makes sense, but those consoles were absolute potatoes by 2013. That 256MB pool for caching resources on the PS3 was especially limiting for open world games in that generation as it limited what developers could do. As I am typing this I recall Skyrim would eventually break completely on the PS3 after a certain point as the engine required more system memory than the console had available for use. Games like GTA 5, Battlefield 3, COD (which ran at 60FPS on those consoles), and Red Dead Redemption were really impressive given the tiny amount of memory that developers had to work with.

[@ArchiWorldRuS]

Beta version feels so strange... I would like to see GTA 4 like radar in GTA 5 to be honest

[@DrModGTA]

It has a very shiny but very warm feel.. I like it personally

[@thegamingvillager2392]

Same with art style and visuals, i hope they could make a spinoff game that recreates that effect

[@Jakeznk]

Nah this radar is way better.

[@thegamingvillager2392]

@@Jakeznk yeah, also current online is the best gta

[@Jakeznk]

@@thegamingvillager2392 feel like they mastered the updates. They should rename GTA Online to GTA 5 Online, I want to start over in GTA VI Online. The updates are so good that I just know GTA VI will be amazing

[@retrosonichero7995]

The foliage and vegetation cutbacks can likely be attributed to the target hardware. Allegedly, many beta pre-release builds averaged at around 13-20 frames per second on PS3/360 hardware, and that was with very little going on. That prop density likely wasn't helping matters. Had this been a next-gen release, we likely would've seen a map closer to the beta in terms of prop density.

[@mr.t967]

‏‪0:23‬‏ for some reason this looks way more realistic than the originial, in my opinion

[@unlimitedredux8367]

It’s because the color is flat and dull, much like the muted colors of actual lighting

[@patrick.6276]

Gta 5 was supposed to have more vegetation but the Ps3 could’nt handled it

[@sussy_baka999]

2:01 I think that vegetation is better now than It was in beta because it would be a little annoying hiting with a car a lot of palm trees that can't break.

[@thefunnyguyaha]

8:10 The images are hue shifted, when you shift an image’s hue by 180 it makes skin unnaturally blue, its possible the images got exported incorrectly

[@DrModGTA]

Nice explanation.. pretty interesting find

[@TrialzGTAS]

Love this stuff. Gonna be so much fun comparing VI alpha when the time comes

[@DrModGTA]

I agree! I think even things in the actual GTA 6 trailer now will probably be considered beta by the time we compare then

[@MechanicCactuss]

especially with that mega leak of like what 90 vids? in 2023 I think it was

[@Hubert69]

Imo, this game shouldn't have been released on ps3 and xbox 360. They should've waited until the ps4 and xbox one were released

[@Abdelrahma.]

Why

[@Hubert69]

​​​@@Abdelrahma.They could've added sooo much more shit to the game if it was 1st released on ps4 and xbox one instead. Less hardware limitations and all that shit

[@DrModGTA]

True. But I guess through releasing it on past Gen like the 360 and PS3 it essentially allowed them to sell the game twice... Major profits

[@Hubert69]

​@@DrModGTAAnd again on ps5 and xbox series and pc lmao

[@sebastiangonzales46]

Game development doesn't work that way, they will have to study and familiarize the PS4 hardware first unlike the PS3 and X360 they pushed both of those consoles to their limits.

[@Chainsawwed]

This game came out 3 days before I graduated from boot camp and I couldn't wait to get home to try it only to be let down by how bad the gunplay and hit reactions felt after playing RDR and IV religiously. They definitely released early to double dip instead of waiting a little bit for the PS4 and xbox whatever to come out.

[@JohnbertGarcia-y3x]

Thanks!

[@DrModGTA]

Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed

[@commanderbristle]

The desert was advertised in the TV commercial for the Grand Senora Desert exaggerating how big it was, as if it was originally much bigger.

[@DrModGTA]

Damn I'd love to explore a beta expansive map

[@Kwint.]

2:51 I wonder what made them redesign Mt, Chiliad as the old one looked much bigger and better

[@dunder5563]

thats how it looks in game without weather effects like fog. putting on a beta weather mode like snow or blizzard (x-mas works correctly) no fog or any attempts to block ur view is added, u can see all the way to the water edge looks like a line way out. anyways mt chiliad has the same peaks as shown here, when turning the camera more left or right the mountain comes into full view. something with the culling out in the engine when looking straight ahead it culls more out.

[@dunder5563]

1:15 the mountain is to the left of the center of camera, allows less to be culled.

[@Kwint.]

@@dunder55632:51 has multiple peaks at the same height, chiliad doesnt have that

[@dunder5563]

@@Kwint. it does when there is no weather fog or any blocking of view. without correct fog it looks identical to this video. these 3 peaks are the 3 parts of the mountain all slowly rising until the 1 top peak, the no fog and bad rendering causing the top to be culled.

[@dunder5563]

the blueish gray background mountains you see in game are not the actual 3d land it is an effect in game, without this effect the mountain comes into full view with many rendering issues.

[@BasedCaulfield]

GTA Beta: SOVL GTA 5: Soulless.

[@me25ow90]

I just really hope they keep all the vegetation shown in the GTA VI trailer in the game, unlike with the release of GTA V. Makes it so much more aesthetically pleasing

[@chillyman7340]

They really did play around with a lot of the GTA SA and GTA 4 aesthetics and yeah you can see some LA noire elements to the game. I am assuming that a lot of the beta and early concepts were most likely brainstorms and hardware test to see what would work and what wouldn't work. I love seeing the early betas of GTA games, great video man :)

[@Heffy_Boi]

Seeing a GTAIV approach to the earlier art style, texture work and vibe makes me feel such a bittersweet feeling. I absolutely prefer the look and feel of GTAIV and it would have been lovely to see it iterated on further here in V.

[@EmperorSarco]

The devs were very ambitious. I wonder what GTA V would look like if Rockstar themselves made an actual enhanced version.

[@Alaachad]

I was looking for a video talking about gta v beta version but couldn't find anything, how lucky for me that you made this video now lmao

[@Larfty]

Gta 5 on the xbox 360 and ps3 used to have a much warmer atmosphere which might be due to timecycle.dat being updated on next gen release. I wish we could still have the warmer look without mods.

[@V-95K]

Early Beta version most likely ran at 5-15 fps on those old consoles. As a game dev I understand why they cut so much, but I think initially they wanted to release this game on PS4, but someone on top needed lots of money. So releasing the game 1-1.5 years before new consoles was very profitable. PS4 definitely would be able to run beta version at 30 fps.

[@ddcs0s]

All of this is true but where they really messed up was not adding it all back in for a later PS4 release ... It could have been a major selling point for an enhanced version of the game

[@cheetosthrash]

as someone who played la noire a lot, 7:41 most definitely is a model pulled straight out of it

[@_Devil]

The beta screenshots looking warmer might have something to do with the saturation. Like you put it, they were taken before GTA5 had found it's footing when it came to art direction so the tone of the original map design was probably artificially brightened up a bit, either as a joke on Rockstars end about LA being a facade of itself or because they hadn't decided lighting placements and whatnot

[@balloonb0y677]

I like the colors of the beta. Felt more like fun land

[@NotSponsoredByEA]

As a joke? That theory of yours does not align with reality at all. They would not have shown a teaser trailer of their next flagship title just for it to be a joke. The teaser trailer even had better saturation levels similar to those in the beta screens here. The vegetation was most likely cut down because they *had* to release this game on really outdated hardware. The tonal shift I have no clue but that is also disappointing. Well the entirety of V is a disappointment to be fair.

[@ScottThePisces]

Lester with the ponytail confirms to me that he was indeed based on Dwight from Scary Movie 2. Even has the same green shirt

[@StonerHAS]

The beta npc’s remind me of GTA IV npc’s but with more detail

[@Havii]

Expanded and Enhanced should've brought their original design ideas back where there was a lot of vegetation

[@collection1068]

Part 2 please we love gta v beta and there original plans & Cut content

[@DrModGTA]

I need a copy of GTA 5 ALPHA from a rockstar dev.. then we could make some very good videos 😂

[@justdennis8775]

Were the foliage a memory issue for the Devs?

[@DrModGTA]

Yes that was the main reason it was cut

[@eggb4lls]

honestly, as much work as it would be, i'd love to see something like the dl2 e3 definitive mod pop up for gta 5 as this looks really interesting

[@DrModGTA]

I'd love to get ahold of a beta version or alpha development version and make a video on it

[@MetalDrummer666]

I understand the engine they were using and the limitations of the engine for the time they made it but after visiting LA, playing gta 5 feels so strange, solely because of the lack of foliage. I know they had to take a massive amount of it out but it just feels naked without it and I think that plays a huge role in the environment and doesn’t make it feel as lively and realistic. I’m hoping gta 6 gets the foliage right because as a Florida native, we have a lot of trees here and it’ll make all the difference in realism for the game. I’d love to see Los Santos with correct foliage. It would look so much better

[@CYBERBOIUK]

This video is far to good, all the love man!

[@Decked-Out]

I bet you the empty desert was the Salton Sea when it is all dried up. My guess is they decided to fill the sea to more diverse topography that blends better into the mountain river 6:07

[@HiroGamerXJ]

Hi game dev here, I think the main reason foliage density was reduced was due to frame rate reason. Having many normal polygons isn’t the issue. Having many alpha textures(trees leaf or bushes etc) makes the performance drop a lot. If it was exclusively made for ps4 we probably would have a density close to RDR2. And the blue face is probably testing pictures of the models normal maps.

[@Pir-o]

5:03 if I had to guess those are the swamps near Fort Zancudo 5:21 Most likely the forest near Paleto Bay that was later removed (you can see more trees even in one of the first trailers). On the right, I think that would be the place on the left of Alamo Sea that would lead to those swamps near Zancudo

[@Aries19974]

Los Santos clearly doesn't like trees very much

[@BANTHAxFODDER]

When LA Noire came out I was blown away by the faces, and without realizing the game was developed by Team Bondi, I thought that tech was just Rockstar games going forward. I remember finally seeing the GTAV trailers and being disappointed and pointing it out to my friend.

[@Nick18389]

5:52 In this scene, there are two easter eggs. Niko Bellic is on the right. I believe it's suposed to be a Cab from Romans new Taxi Cab Car Company. It's also a picture in the bar in Sandy Shores. In that bar, there is also Niko Bellics jacket and many believe that Trevor killed Niko in that bar, but it's just jacket model. That model can also be found in liquor stores in the game. That van above is an easter egg to Breaking Bad. Rockstar Games really like Breaking Bad and made multiple easter eggs to the series.

[@mlgmagichoodini3590]

I think the fact the map changed so much from vibrant to dead, and less trees, takes into account the Hollywood sign, since it was made in 1920s, so older times, and the game happens in around 2010s As we all know the world has gone dull, and dead, less trees, less color and all, so this is accurate, back then during "hollywoodland" it could have more life, colors and etc, but since it changed to hollywood, and times changed, it adapted, and map had to change to fit the time it was in

[@radhoodini9802]

After seeing these beta screenshots, imho I'd say that gta 5 would've been on par with gta 4 with the details and gameplay (with a bit of arcadey into it), if it weren't for hardware limitations. They definitely have so many ideas for the game.

[@DrModGTA]

I think so. I think it would have been much more similar to GTA 4 perhaps in terms of ragdoll and physics as well as some graphics but once they realized the hardware couldn't handle it they toned back the physics and they removed the foliage

[@radhoodini9802]

@DrModGTA Yeah, its a shame, but it did brought us rdr2 and gta 6 later lol

[@JuanGamer0202]

I feel like some of the tree models are from red dead 1, could be a way to bring back the beta look since now the game finally released for pc, they can be now ripped

[@DrModGTA]

Possibly 🤔 maybe reusing those assets to be get a very early map sorted and then update the models day by day

[@shamusbob7969]

"LESTER HAS A PONYTAIL, WHICH IS... EXTREME INTERESTING!" ahahahahaha idk why but that made me crack up so hard, no pause, no nothing.

[@sebastianx708pl]

5:04 - 5:35 that's isn't from RDR 1 which was released in 2010? Or from canceled Agent game?

[@gregallsmagic]

There are areas around the city of Los Santos where trees are obviously missing. If you look where there are trees you can find areas that has textures of where trees should go that aren’t there.

[@DrModGTA]

Hmm that's interesting 🤔

[@stepik0dvo]

PS3 was released in 2006. Its crazy how gta V was limited by this. All vegetation had to be removed so ps3 could run it. I wish they would add it back with ps4/ps5 versions And it is another reason to look forward to GTA 6. Finaly GTA running on some reasonable hardware

[@OrdinaryDevq]

I Don't think that skyscraper is ever gonna get built 😭

[@DrModGTA]

Hell nah 🤣

[@NeptasticEnergy]

8:14 From the looks of it, they randomly decided to invert the textures. I have no idea why they'd do that, since there is no significance in doing so at all in game development. Maybe they were just messing around. Who knows?

[@ForenaamAkternaam]

5:30 I always thought the one on the left was Tall Trees in Red Dead Redemption because I remember it looking similar to this and there's even an ad on tv partially taken in RDR. No idea about the one on the right though.

[@emma_psycho]

the missing parts of the map is likely a rendering bug this is also something you can see in the trailer but they made the scene fast so you don't notice it

[@SamXB-wj8lx]

It looked like lego city undercover

[@DrModGTA]

Lmao

[@Patfustypoopoo]

I would really like having a gta map with a big open desert wasteland wher nothing happens other than some roads and maybe an airstrip and you can just see som mountains and the city in the distance

[@daliceToons]

1:16 - I Like How They Were Originally Parodying Shell Gas Station Before Replacing It With A 76 Gas Station Parody And This The Same Company That Was Parodying 7 Eleven With 24/7 In GTA San Andreas And It Later Came To GTA V If They Were Adding Sandy Shores They Should've Also Added Something Based On Palm Springs So Paleto Bay Can Touch A San Gabriel Mountain Version Of Mount Chilliad

[@DrModGTA]

That would have been cool.. I prefer the shell garage colours personally

[@daliceToons]

@@DrModGTA Shell Gas Station Not Garage

[@MrEdouard5555]

The best detailed explanation before 2025 🔥

[@TailsUHD]

6:59 this is a npc from the GTA IV's The Ballad of Gay Tony DLC

[@DrModGTA]

Interesting 🧐🤔

[@LEACHGAZER]

Yeah one of the npcs in maisonette 9

[@doktormerlin]

1:22 I noticed that you might want to check if you are colorblind, the garage is red and blue in the final game :) Might just be a coincidence that you skipped saying blue, but actually it's mostly blue with only a red stripe

[@akeemwint6841]

Dr. Mod is back. Grab your popcorn 🍿

[@hearts4yayah]

1:07 is those back buildings even in the game

[@ewan503]

Yeah you can make out the FIB building and the maze bank

[@brainnourishment-p2d]

the only thing i kinda get bummed out about was how alive and natural the beta vegetation map was with all the trees, i wish they just kept a few more trees to make it look better.

[@DrModGTA]

Yeah it's a shame but I understand why they did it

[@Thunder_unit00]

I believe when R* said they want GTA 6 to change over time, this and the difference between PS3 version to PS4 version is basically what we're gonna get.

[@AidenTan-t4n]

The bata gta 5 npc look like fallout new Vegas npcs

[@DrModGTA]

😂

[@cs.s7723]

more like gta 4

[@MajorExploitz]

@@cs.s7723 that’s because some the npc’s were from GTA 4

[@DominicanKidHd]

I never understood why rockstar never updated the vegetation in gta 5 when it got updated versions for 2 other console generations,they make a huge difference to the feel of the map

[@Alazure_]

Considering how much foliage/vegetation was removed, I can only imagine how bad it impacted performance that they had to remove this much

[@curiousmind_]

should have compared it to the original release on ps3/x360, as those versions had a warmer colour palette and were closer to the beta aside from the vegetation of course.

[@daytonapsycho]

2:52 I swear I played this version of the game when I was younger. My sister had access and let me play, but I just kept crashing into a really long fence and flipping the car.

[@Filippen]

My guess for the blue people in the game files is for setting the skin tone on random NPCs in your contacts. Most of the NPC models have multiple textures and models to randomize their appearance, perhaps there would have been a way to befriend an NPC and add them to your contacts.

[@pab3247]

When you realize the high mile club was in development even in a supposedly gta 4 engine alike

[@perli216]

8:12 Could it be that just Blue and Red channel are swapped? BGR vs RGB

[@DrModGTA]

Possibly 🤔

[@GERMANFANPRODUCTIONS]

Either the map wasn't finished or when your at a distance the models kinda load out and disappear

[@MatthewPhillips-l7y]

GTA 5 was actually developed using a Ps3 first then after it was completed they ported it over to the xbox 360. so GTA 5 on 360 is actually a Ps3 port. Rockstar are very clever as the Ps3 was known to be difficult to develop games on.

[@kadirpvp6174]

The beta and alpha looks much more realistic I think it changed because the older consoles couldn’t handle that

[@DrModGTA]

That's spot on.. sadly that is the reason why

[@drgabi18]

8:17 The color model is BGRA8888 instead of RGBA8888, just shuffle the channels around and they will look correct after

[@SentientSignalMusic]

Appreciate your content. ✌️😊

[@gavra-1337]

0:38 this reminds me a lot of "alpha build" of "GTA ViIV" mod that was made between the release of X360/PS3 and PC/PS4 versions of the game, I even think that same building is missing (LS Customs area) with these AC vents floating in the air... so I'd say the first shown clue is not a leak but PC mod, made after the official old gen release 😅😅

[@gavra-1337]

5:03, this area reminds me of the swampy section bellow Zancudo, if it had trees and vegetation, tho it wouldn't make sense to clear up that area as it shouldn't really be that demanding (presumably for old gen consoles at the time).. like removing so many assets wouldn't make up a noticeable performance gain imo 😄

[@astrovisionbroadcastingunion]

5:11 I'm pretty certain this is the swamp just below Fort Zancudo but with way more vegetation

[@galihuno4372]

Oh man, they can release cut content in expanded & enhanced versions before but they choose not and more focus to gta online

[@Pluh88]

Possibly the reason for the blue was it was some kinda a texture map or maybe a normal map that was put in the wrong node.

[@jacke_RS]

Ah the consequences of rockstar forgetting to make a new game and leaving us in a hot car with a Xbox 360 game for 12 years

[@degen159]

I really wish we would’ve gotten this earlier version of the game

[@DiabolicCrusher]

Some of the wilderness/forest screenshots even look like they could be in very early version of RDR2

[@dieabolical488]

the pic at 5:03 i believe thats the swampy area next to the military base, but with a lot more vegetation

[@Utonian21]

It's unfortunate that they had to remove so much of the greenery. I love the look of the city being overrun with palm trees