Former GTA 6 Dev Leaks New Feature For Rockstar's Open-World Crime Game

This article was updated by Andrea Trama on March 29, 2026, in reference to a fan's Reddit post highlighting glass breakage and environmental destruction. It was first published on March 24.

A now-altered LinkedIn profile for a working former Rockstar game developer Grand Theft Auto 6 Reveals a procedural “breakable glass system” that will add another level of realism to the open-world crime game. It's worth noting, meanwhile Grand Theft Auto Series and Red Dead Redemption series, the latter focused more on realistic immersion, but the company's pedigree applies to both franchises. GTA 6 There will be no exceptions in this regard.

Right now, fans are basically starving for any information Grand Theft Auto 6. The trailer was released on May 2, 2025, meaning it's been almost a year since fans got a solid look at the game. For this, and many other reasons, fans believe there will be news GTA 6 in April, but that also means they're scouring the Internet for new information. Some recently took Take-Two's CEO's off-the-cuff comments as confirmation. GTA 6The price when it was not. That search also brought a few fans on LinkedIn.

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Every so often, developers on LinkedIn accidentally slip new details about a project (or the fact that a project exists). The same can be said here, but within hours of discovering this breaking glass system, the developer updated his profile. In other words, it should be taken with a grain of salt. The LinkedIn profile listed the developer as a graphics programmer who worked at Rockstar Games between February 2020 and April 2023, where they “took the lead on next-generation procedural glass systems for vehicles and accessories.” Beyond that, they worked on some key elements of various rendering systems, but it's the Glass system that has taken off the Internet.

GTA 6's Procedural Glass System (Leaked)

As a point of comparison, Grand Theft Auto 5The glass systems were impressive, but they all set break patterns. If players hit them, they break in a predetermined way and are not unique for each hit: there are the same cracks, the same segment sizes, and the same burst effects. Is this GTA 6 The feature means that the glass changes procedurally, in real time, depending on how, where, and which players hit it.

A Reddit post by a user named NoBed2493 goes into detail about the Bautista trailer for the game, what appears to be procedurally generated glass and environmental destruction. This will line the leak about the broken glass.

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Shooting, punching and flying will have different breaks in the form of broken glass such as car windshields, store windows or side-view mirrors. Presumably, this also means that partial and continuous damage is possible (a half-broken mirror) and that there are real physical interactions (how pieces of glass fall, bounce, slide, or react to external forces). It's a small thing, but Rockstar Games has always been the king of small details, and this is the type of feature that strengthens immersion.

That attention to detail can also have an impact GTA 6The gameplay too, if perhaps in a subtle way. This can affect how players approach stealth, car chases, or even spur-of-the-moment decisions. This is a crime game, after all. Hitting the storefront window is going to feel different every time, and assuming so GTA 6 Some types of loot features, this system will help the longevity of the game. Similarly, vehicular shootings can be more visually unpredictable, with windshields cracking and windshields shattering in ways that reflect the actual intensity of the encounter.

Of course, this is pure speculation until Rockstar confirms any such system, and should be taken with a grain of salt. Fans just have to wait for the official one GTA 6 News, though perhaps they shouldn't hold their breath. If Rockstar knows anything, it's how to use impatience as marketing.