So this is where Jason's house actually sits on the mapEN

leaking a mans home address four months before the game is even out is genuinely wild behaviour

four months before the game is even out

he clipped my car in online and drove off without saying sorry so i pulled his ip. simple as that

word is he was posting stuff he shouldnt have on lifeinvader so honestly, consequences

the thing im actually curious about is how close any of these community maps land once we can lay them over the real one. the reasoning behind most of the placements is solid, coastline shapes, where the roads have to run, what the trailers show in the background. but the amount of straight guesswork filling the gaps is still enormous. im saving a copy purely to do the overlay in november

and theres a load of it we still havent laid eyes on. every version of these maps has big empty patches that are just someones best guess

i grew up between homestead and islamorada so this corner of the map is the one im watching like a hawk. rockstar actually do the legwork on this stuff, they send people out, they photograph everything, theyve had architecture firms on the books before now. so what i reckon we get is a squashed version of the real drive rather than a made up one.

south beach to key largo is about an hour and a half in a car in real life, and thats roughly where the mainland gives up and the keys begin, same as it looks on that map. obviously they cant have you sat driving for 90 minutes, but it has to read as a long way. downtown with the grid and the crowds, out onto the highway, then farmland, then two lane bridges with water on both sides, stilt houses, bungalows, sunrises you can sit and watch off a lump of sand. get that transition right and its the best drive theyve ever built

please let this be the only key you can reach for the first handful of missions. walling parts of the map off was the best trick the old ones had and everybody quietly dropped it. a storm shutting the bridges would do the job without it feeling like an invisible wall

which key is that one exactly? theres a bridge on it going to the mainland so im guessing the top one

theres a bridge on it going to the mainland

yeah, the first one. same spot from the air, causeway up in the corner and the city sat way off in the haze

that second shot sells the scale better than any trailer frame has so far tbh

already mapping out my little runs down that chain of islands 🚤

hang on we START with a place on key lento? im never moving out. good luck selling me a flat in the city after that

this is going to be a valentine situation isnt it. half the playerbase never leaves the area the game drops them in

works as a tutorial zone though. quiet roads, a bit of water, nobody shooting at you, learn where the buttons are. then it opens the highway and you get that first drive north

the drive into the city proper is the bit im here for. san andreas nailed it with san fierro and vegas, 4 had that moment crossing into algonquin, 5 mostly skipped it apart from trevors run south. this map is built for exactly that