Traffic variety in GTA 6 might finally kill the duplicate car curse
I've been rewatching the trailers and something hit me. In every street shot, I can't spot a single duplicate car. Not one. In GTA V you'd see the same damn sedan three times in a single intersection, but here every vehicle looks unique. Even the background traffic in the beach scenes seems to have real variety.
I know it's just trailers and they're curated, but Rockstar usually doesn't hide that stuff. The 2022 leaks (not gonna link, don't ask) also showed way more vehicle models loaded at once than V ever managed. So maybe they've actually solved the memory issue that caused the duplicate spawns.
What I'm really hoping for is that rare cars feel rare. Like you're cruising Vice Beach and spot a classic Grotti that only spawns once per in-game day. Not the same old "drive a rare car and suddenly it's everywhere" trick. The hardware should handle it now, especially with the new consoles' SSDs. No more spinning the camera to despawn traffic just to get a different set of cars.
I've been playing since III and this has always bugged me. The modding community fixed it on PC years ago, but console players were stuck. If Rockstar actually pulls this off, it'll be a bigger immersion boost than ray tracing. Just give me a city that feels alive, not a parade of cloned Cavalcades.
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The density in those shots does seem way higher than anything V managed on last-gen. I'm still wondering if that's the game actually tracking more unique models at once, or if they just got better at blending a smaller pool with different paint jobs and rims.
What I'm really curious about is the spawn logic itself. Even if the SSD can handle bigger pools, the game might still fall back on duplicate spawns in busy areas just to save cycles. It happens.
If rare cars actually stay rare, how's that going to feel for players who want to collect them all? Could be amazing for immersion, or it could turn into a chore if you're hunting one specific classic Grotti for hours. Where's the sweet spot for you?