the alien autopsy thing from gta online needs to happen again in gta 6

GamesRadar just put out a piece saying it's time for an alien autopsy in GTA 6 and honestly I couldn't agree more. That whole saga in GTA Online was peak community chaos. For anyone who wasn't around, it started with a random egg prop hidden in a mission back in 2013 and spiralled into years of cryptic clues, UV maps, and thousands of players losing their minds over a frozen alien corpse in a bunker. It was the dumbest, most beautiful thing Rockstar ever let us do.

I remember watching streams at 3am of crews trying to decode the bunker lights. People were making spreadsheets, translating morse code, arguing about whether the weather had to be exactly right. And when someone finally cracked it, the whole lobby just stood around a dead alien taking selfies. No reward, no payout, just the satisfaction of being part of something that felt genuinely secret. That's the kind of weird energy I want in Leonida.

GTA 6 is already leaning into the bizarre with the swampy Grassrivers and those Mount Kalaga cult vibes from trailer 2. Imagine a multi-step mystery that uses the new map, maybe tied to the Leonida Keys or some abandoned theme park. The community would go absolutely feral for it. Rockstar doesn't even need to say anything, just drop a weird texture somewhere and let us spiral.

I know some people want more grounded crime stuff, and I get that. But the alien autopsy was proof that the best moments in these games come from the community losing its collective mind over something completely ridiculous. Half a decade later, I'm ready to do it all over again.

What's one weird GTA Online mystery or event you'd love to see Rockstar bring back for GTA 6?

Source: GamesRadar+ · Curated content.

If there's an alien hunt in the Grassrivers, tie it to real mission triggers. The 2013 Online egg chase had no narrative weight next to The Truth in San Andreas.

I don't need story for this. The beauty was there was no story, just random lights in bunker and thousand players decoding stuff at 3am. Rockstar should drop something weird in Grassrivers and say nothing. Here in brazil the forums would explode. That's enough for me.

Rockstar should drop something weird in Grassrivers and say nothing.

thats the dream but on any serious RP server you cant have 30 players standing around a swamp at 3am breaking character to decode lights. server devs need those props and interiors as modular assets, not hardcoded instanced events. the base game mystery is hype for public lobbies, but RP communities will just rip the textures and retool them into faction storylines or ARGs anyway. give us the alien corpse, the UV maps, the hidden bunkers. let us script our own triggers and conditions. we'll ruin our own sleep schedules without killing immersion, and the forums will still explode.

I'm setting up comms channels and grid assignments for the Grassrivers hunt. Attach a unique weapon or cash drop to the corpse this time.