GTA 5 files accessed by modders, reveal horses, zombies, more

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Modders have managed to pry GTA 5′s file lock open and expose many of its interesting innards.

GTA community modders have gained access to several of GTA 5′s archives on PC. These files were previously believed to be inaccessible.

Popular modding tool OpenIV, which was used in editing files in GTA 4 (hence the name), has recently been updated to read GTA 5 files. The number of exposed files is huge, with many of them covering textures, AI, models and more.

GTA Forums user GooD-NTS posted a few screens showing some of them. At present, the tool doesn’t allow editing, but that could always change.

Even more interesting is some of those file names, which could be possible hints to upcoming DLC, in-game items, mini-games, and much more. @ZZCOOL went through them and posted some of his most strange findings.

Horses?

References to zombies in GTA Online.

Mini-games.

And finally, menial tasks DLC?

Some of these could be cut content, or could otherwise be names of upcoming DLC. In any case, once modders have the ability to edit those files, many secrets will be revealed and it will open the door to all sorts of mods.

Posted: Apr 17, 2015 8:59 pm
Related Forum: Grand Theft Auto Forum

Source: http://www.vg247.com/2015/04/17/gta-5-files-accessed-by-modders-reveal-horses-zombies-more/

Comments

1989Posted: Mon. Apr 27, 2015

Kura This is why I like games that are also on PC too, modders find things like this.
It's the little things in games which make me smile like the brush hair and teeth.

Yeah thats the main and best thing about PC.

RinPosted: Mon. Apr 20, 2015

Hopefully they'll let us edit character build cause I see the squats and benchpress minigames. Maybe we'll be able to edit body aesthetics like san andreas. I also wanted them to add horses so this could possibly come true.

DeluxeHazardPosted: Sun. Apr 19, 2015

It would not have been that long for PC users to find all of the files in GTAV. This was not unexpected in any way.

-CorgiPosted: Sat. Apr 18, 2015

-LOST- It would be cool for them to add horses. I wonder if it was supposed to be in the original release.

It might have something to do with the horse track people found awhile ago. Someone found that there was supposed to be a casino and a horse track for players to use/bet on.

-CorgiPosted: Sat. Apr 18, 2015

DedicatedNova I'm almost positive that the zombies and horses are from a shared engine that was in Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare.

Then wouldn't we see more RDR references in the files? I thought this too at first but seems very unlikely.

LostPosted: Sat. Apr 18, 2015

It would be cool for them to add horses. I wonder if it was supposed to be in the original release.

KuraPosted: Sat. Apr 18, 2015

This is why I like games that are also on PC too, modders find things like this.
It's the little things in games which make me smile like the brush hair and teeth.

EthanPosted: Sat. Apr 18, 2015

I could see the benching a squating thing because thats already in the game for missions where you had to kill body builders at the beach

nober555Posted: Sat. Apr 18, 2015

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DedicatedNova I'm almost positive that the zombies and horses are from a shared engine that was in Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare.

That would make sense cause they are both on Rockstars RAGE engine

This could point towards a Red Dead Redemption 2 in the near future.