If in case you have a one-star “wished” degree in GTA V, the police will chase you. At two stars, they’ll shoot to kill.
At three stars, a helicopter follows you and the police use extra superior methods to attempt to cease you. At 4 stars, the sport’s equal of a SWAT group comes after you. At 5 stars, the streets of Los Santos are overrun with a murderous cops, all of whom are decided to cease you, regardless of the price.
And at six stars? Effectively, there is no such thing as a six-star wished degree—not in GTA V, at the least. Earlier video games had a system that went as much as six stars, however the system was decreased into 5 stars for the most recent GTA recreation. This has by no means been a secret; for the reason that launch of GTA V, gamers have recognized that there’s solely 5 stars’ value of wished degree.
Most gamers accepted this. However round late 2014, some hardcore gamers dove into the code of GTA V and located what they are saying is proof of a hidden wished degree. Contained in the code, Reddit consumer GlassGoose45 claimed to see dozens of cases the place a degree six wished degree was referenced. Stuff like “PLAYER::SET_MAX_WANTED_LEVEL(6);” and such.
The query then grew to become: what did this imply? Was it simply unused code? Had been individuals misunderstanding what the code was saying? Was it doable to set off six stars one way or the other, however gamers simply hadn’t discovered easy methods to do it? Was this one thing that was going to be applied within the current-gen variations of the sport? Was it associated to the large ongoing thriller that gamers swear is hiding inside GTA V?
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Which will sound ridiculous, however contemplate what’s at play: Folks knew that earlier video games had six stars, and immediately the brand new recreation doesn’t have it—that was form of suspicious, of their eyes. A scarcity of six stars signifies that GTA V doesn’t throw issues like tanks at you, which appeared like a bizarre omission to some gamers. There are tanks in GTA V, in any case. Why not throw a few of them on the participant, like older video games did?
It wasn’t till 2015 that somebody introduced the hidden wished ranges again up once more, which is across the time that the PC model of GTA V got here out. The discharge allowed gamers to fiddle with the sport’s inside workings to a level they couldn’t on consoles. Prime alternative to see what GTA V is likely to be hiding, yeah?
In order that’s precisely what ClicheUsername, a member of r/chiliadmystery, did . He booted up one thing known as “Cheat Engine,” and used it to set the wished degree to six within the recreation. And it truly labored. The sport gave him six stars. You possibly can see what occurs right here, on this video:
Instantly after triggering it, a bunch of police automobiles began blasting towards him from a distance, and a helicopter begins chasing him. This wasn’t new to ClicheUsername, although. Enabling six stars was one thing he claims he tried shortly after the discharge of the PC model. This was simply the primary time he was documenting the chaos. “I used to be principally simply shocked that it didn’t crash the sport,” ClicheUsername instructed me by way of electronic mail.
Sadly, the six-star wished degree didn’t appear to make issues extra intense. “I don’t suppose any legislation enforcement spawns and comes after you,” ClicheUsername wrote on Reddit. “The cops that attacked me in that video have been already there.” Funnily sufficient although, setting the wished degree to seven crashed the sport altogether.
ClicheUsername appears satisfied that the sixth wished degree isn’t just a few unused code that by no means made it into the precise recreation. He believes, or maybe hopes, that there’s extra to the wished ranges than individuals have discovered to this point.
“I can’t make sure about this but, and the one approach to make certain could also be if we are able to get a have a look at the code for wished ranges and the way they work,” ClicheUsername stated. The hunch ties again to the large thriller on the coronary heart of GTA V.
“For those who’ve seen the blueprint map that got here with the Collector’s Version of the sport, there’s a number of attention-grabbing messages which you can see if held below a UV mild,” ClicheUsername stated. Particularly, he’s referring to this:
The phrases seem on part of the map often called Fort Zancudo, a army base in GTA V. Keep in mind how individuals discovered it suspicious that GTA V’s wished ranges don’t embrace army weaponry, like tanks? Yeah. That’s the place this principle goes.
“I believe if the sixth star is obtainable, Zancudo very seemingly has one thing to do with it, contemplating that’s the place the army is and that’s who I’d count on to be after you if you happen to had six stars,” ClicheUsername stated. The belief now could be that possibly, simply possibly, gamers haven’t discovered the particular approach to set off the six stars in-game but. That they haven’t “taken management” but, if you’ll. Years later, the oldsters on r/chiliadmystery haven’t been in a position to crack it, even after testing issues out at Zancudo. Nor have newer variations of the sport integrated extra wished ranges. However the hope stays alive for some, if solely as a curiosity.
Theories about secrets and techniques hidden inside GTA are a dime a dozen, and any gamer who’s spent lengthy sufficient taking part in the sport most likely has a narrative or two to let you know about such-and-such rumor. Often, these hunches don’t pan out. Most “proof” results in lifeless ends.
This thriller, the thriller of the six-star wished degree stands aside from most others. There is one other wished degree within the recreation. It could simply be unused code, and it might not do a lot (but?), however nonetheless, it’s in there.
This put up initially ran in 2015.