According to Rockstar, Grand Theft Auto VI will feature a more dynamic and localized weather system in Leonida (the game\u2019s fictional version of Florida), allowing different areas of the map to experience dramatically different conditions at the same time.<\/p>\n
Players may be able to stand beneath clear skies in one part of Leonida while watching heavy rain fall just a short distance away, it claims. The system is said to be designed to reflect the unpredictable weather commonly experienced in Florida, where intense rain showers can occur alongside bright sunshine.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have re-engineered our weather system to make everything much more localized and persistent, and really wanted the world to feel dynamically solid and achieve a sense of scale we haven\u2019t felt before,\u201d Owen Shepherd, vice president of art for lighting and rendering at Rockstar, told Game Informer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe world features new fully dynamic cloudscapes that roll across the map, these give us a broad spectrum of weather from the clear blue skies of a Miami winter to the vertiginous cumulonimbus clouds with sporadic lightning that you see most afternoons in the Floridian summer and autumn.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rockstar has not revealed how frequently these major weather events will occur or how they may influence gameplay. According to the preview, during severe storms, players can expect water pouring from rooftops and lampposts, while thunder and lightning illuminate the surrounding clouds.<\/p>\n
GTA 6\u2019s 6 main regions revealed According to Rockstar Games<\/a>\u2018 head of development\/co-studio head Aaron Garbut, Leonida is the biggest map Rockstar has ever created \u201cby some degree\u201d, describing it as twice as large as GTA 5<\/a>, with more detail.<\/p>\n \u201cThis new world is different. We obsessed about every part \u2013 the rooftops, the alleys, the internals and everything in between to the point we hit a critical mass with the numbers of our interiors, and you start to feel the buildings are more real inside and out. This world is a cohesive whole with the density of content and a hand-crafted quality to every bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n