Just a quick question, why? Is it because Take2 or Rockstar will come after anyone that they think copied their code, or are there a lot of bad practices used in GTA5's code?

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 123 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Because even the possibility that you implemented somebody else’s proprietary code from memory or inspiration opens up a lot of legal issues.

And while you may win there’s no winners when you or your employer has to pay your side of legal fees. It’s best to just avoid it to make that process easier.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 36 points 10 months ago (14 children)

If they can prove it. There's only so many way to do something in code

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[–] LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Depends on which country you're in. I would bet if you do it in Russia there will be zero consequences.

[–] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 75 points 10 months ago

The consequence of living in Russia is you will die in occupied Ukraine.

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

when you or your employer has to pay your side of legal fees

Where I live, the losing side must pay for all legal fees

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 14 points 10 months ago

That is if you will have enough to keep going until you win. Having to pay a hundred grands for years may be a price to just prove you're innocent, after that you'll be refunded (sometime)

[–] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

Ok, that's what I thought you meant by the original comment but I wanted to make sure.

Thanks

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Again for anybody working on their own games or who does software. Avoid this like the plague.

Learning from the code and reusing the same code are two different things. It's not every day you get to see how the pros do it.

~~On a completely different subject, I'm curious about your username, could you elaborate on it?~~

Edit: I scrolled down. What is Stormlight?

Edit2: I scrolled down even more. [This says it the best].(https://lemmy.world/comment/6232601)

[–] anonymouse@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Nice username! Stormlight right?

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[–] thrawn@lemmy.world 106 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Maybe we can finally end all the hopes for that UFO thing. The people who spent years on it deserve closure, even if it was just hints towards a cancelled DLC

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 15 points 10 months ago (5 children)

"UFO thing"?

[–] Kiwi_Girl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Lots of easter eggs involving aliens + UFOs over the decade.

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[–] TheBig2023Meltdown@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fuck that I want to see where the jetpack has been all this time

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

You could buy it in GTA Online.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 60 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now that the source code is "out there" it may be possible in the future for better mod support, fingers crossed.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 84 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"You have been banned from Rockstar Social Club."

But seriously, fuck their jank-ass forced integration.

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Could be modded to work around their shit app

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[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Banned from their social club and all local saves wiped for good measure.

[–] 000@fuck.markets 48 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Are there any links floating around to download said code? The various tweets/articles seem to suggest it leaked in one Discord server, and nobody's providing a link to that Discord nor a mirror of the code.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 116 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I know there's nothing original about that but God damn I hate that a chat platform somehow became used to transfer info... We're overdue for a forum Renaissance.

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 113 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Join our discord server!
Give this server your home address, date of birth and mother's maiden name?
Please read the rules before being able to even fucking read anything :3
Please download this third party extension verify that you're not ban evading
Give this third party extension your home address, date of birth, mother's maiden name and unobstructed pictures of your taint from several angles?
You've been verified!
Sending messages is for donors only :3
Notifications for every channel is on by default. I hope your speakers aren't loud, pisshead
Every channel is just a moderator with an amphetamine problem writing a new manifesto every 15 minutes

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[–] Neato@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Didn't we use things like irc in the past?

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 52 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah and it sucked for archival purposes then and it still sucks now and forums took its place and that's still where serious people go to talk about their field. Want a custom ROM for your phone? You're going on a forum. Want to know how to repair a specific thing on a car? You're going on a forum. Want to talk about your new patchwork passion? You're going on a forum.

But somehow there's some fields (crypto, some parts of gaming...) where people have forgotten that or simply have never spent time on forums to see the difference in quality of info having an ongoing discussion makes.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just thinking about the fields and fields of car, electric, and plumbing forums all sitting out there with broken links and dead photobucket / imgur embedded pictures....

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[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

Trying to compile well-documented github projects is a crap shoot half the time. iirc no one figured out how to compile even the Windows XP source code when it got leaked and it's long gone/no longer obtainable so no one can try. The chances of anything coming out of this that the average person will see are almost complete zero.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My experience with large projects is that the bigger they get, the more their build systems turn into large projects in their own right. Maintaining the build for something like Windows is probably many people's full-time job, so it's no surprise a bunch of amateurs with no docs couldn't do it.

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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I want to archive it

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 47 points 10 months ago (1 children)

OpenGTA5 would be so cool. To bad Rockstar is Rockstar.

[–] ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago

And FiveM is already property of Rockstar.

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 45 points 10 months ago (3 children)

So... link?

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[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

But does it compile?

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Grand Theft Video (Game)

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Here come the unbreakable cheats I guess.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

This is (one reason) why anti-cheat should be server-side.

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[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do Red Alert 2 next, please

[–] flauschke@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you know about openra?

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