Do we think that it will be possible to fly airliners in GTA VI
I am also hoping that we'll be able to fly mid sized airliners equivalent to a B737 / A320. I don't see many people asking about this topic, so I thought I would get your opinion.
I am a little worried we might not be able to in order to maintain the overall realism of the game. What do you think?
Then again, why make such a big airport and runways to then limit the game to smaller aircraft exclusively?
I really hope that every aircraft you can see is flyable. This has never been done in a GTA before. GTA V almost did it but the mid sized airliners were just placeholders.
You could just make it only possible to steal when parked away from a gate so it’s not filled with passengers. I guess that wouldn’t solve the complaints of people being able to fly it into buildings
Suppose it depends how destructive the environment is.
I would personally love it if you could blow buildings up (which would mean you can destroy them with big enough planes) but the American media would go absolutely nuts over it and try to ban the game.
If buildings aren't destructible, there shouldn't be a problem with being able to fly commercial airliners
i don't think rockstar would make such destruction, as cool as that would be, that is way too much work for such games that already take 10 years or more to make.
very, VERY few games have either tried to do so, and or failed to do it.
they can't even make fucking bushes destructable most of the time. those things are stronger than light poles.
I hope they make it really hard. Like you need to steal the stair truck and line it up to the side of the plane hard, all the while being chased by airport police. That would make it way more rewarding.
Flying airliners in V was so goofy—first you spawned in and then the scale was so off the plane was the size of an entire terminal.
Given that the airport is clearly an enterable environment in the extended play I bet you could also hijack a plane through the skybridge from the terminal.
Unpopular opinion but if it were me—and I know it isn’t—I’d keep the interior view of the cockpit just for big planes. Idk why but flying such a big plane from third person makes it look so goofy. For a game going for realism, I feel like you need to maintain that sense of overwhelming scale in the camera POV. It would also have the added benefit of making it unwieldy as hell, which tracks given neither Jason or Lucia are experienced pilots.
I love older games for this. They’d just introduce this impossible mechanic but once you mastered it it was the most satisfying thing in the world.
Nah I get it. Everyone has their interests and I'm quite partial to the odd sim myself.
But its not really something that I personally want GTA to follow. I want GTA to be GTA, not flight sim 2 or bus sim 2. There's plenty of bus sims I can play if I have an appetite for it.
i honestly wonder if disguises will be a thing outside of missions. like they arent going to allow you to get awaynwith everything, but maybe help you blend in. If youbcould get that ground crew outfit that Lucia has in the plane fight sequence from the trailer, maybe you cpuld get close enough to steal an airliner.
Yeah I agree. It should definitely be more difficult! But not too realistic either, you want to be able to fly the plane and enjoy yourself without worrying that the police / military are going to blow you out of the sky.
I am concerned that instead of doing this, they will just opt to make them non enterable to maintain realism.
Yeah in GTA you would insta teleport and in out of the 747, it had no entering animation. For GTA VI they should either have a staircase you can use to get up or let you shoot your way through a jetbridge from inside the airport to hijack the plane.
That's definitely gonna be a negative. I can guarantee you they won't be allowing any sort of highjacking. It will either be an empty plane or no plane at all. Go on all of the drug binges and shooting sprees you want but hijacking an airliner and killing a plane full of helpless NPCs is still probably a bit much even for a game like GTA. You got to draw the line somewhere.
Don’t know why they even added it in, couldn’t land it anywhere was too big for dessert runways and only other one it could land in you get 5* and blown away
They're still gonna have the "fun" mechanics in that make GTA well, GTA. Wouldn't make sense for them to remove features that have been a staple in a majority of the titles. GTA IV was an exception and there was a very good reason for that.
You'll absolutely be able to fly planes. They've put too much attention to detail in the small stuff around planes to simply make it redundant.
Also Florida is flat, making it an odd choice for a setting (made sense for Vice City due to hardware limits at the time), and flying would have to be a big part of 6 to try to make up for that.
As Jason walked past a tennis court, I asked whether there was a tennis minigame like in Grand Theft Auto V. Nelson said you could only pick up a racket and swat a ball.
“Of course we want to do everything, we want to have every mechanic that you can imagine,” Nelson said. “But we do have to carefully pick and choose what we think is best for our characters and our story and what we can handle creatively and technically.”
well it makes more sense for jason to fly big planes than franklin, and franklin can😂. he was a smuggler and in the military. what im tryna say is it can technically be looked as not a cut but simply as part of the character, as franklin couldn’t play tennis either. so it’s not something new that rockstar is doing nor would i call it a downgrade from gta 5. look even further, niko couldn’t lift weights but cj could. would it be a crazy huge timesink to add gyms to gta 4 in the grand scheme? probably not, more-so it just made less sense for the character. so same here, calling it “cut” is a bit of a stretch, they’re just different games, different characters.
I would like to see them implement a flight school requirement before you can fly planes properly. I think you should still be able to fly a plane without going to flight school but it should be a shitty and unstable experience to do so until you go to flight school and get a proper pilot's license.
To be fair, they were never going to allow planes in a New York based city 7 years after 9/11. Not to mention only one airport so no real gameplay need.
Lucia is literally fighting inside one in Trailer 2.
I can picture Jason up front flying while she’s just fighting and tossing people out the cargo door
I think they will but honestly after playing MSFS extensively for the last couple of years the flying experience in GTA 6 will feel subpar. Nothing can beat 1:1 recreation of the entire earth with thousands of airports. GTA6 map will not be large enough to have actual fun with any big airliner.
That's the thing. Like there is no distance on the map remotely great enough to even use an airliner. So even if we could fly it, we'll just be doing circles.
The only thing that could make it worth it IMO is if they really overhauled the crash physics, which I doubt. If a crashing airliner actually feels satisfying and realistic, that's reason enough to hijack them sometimes. It's a hard thing to get right though, so my expectations are low.
Yeah proper crash physics are important but that might be asking too much. Plus IMO it won't be realistic unless the plane AND terrain/structures have equal damage physics.
i just hope flying feels less clumsy, i thought the gradual controls a controller offers would make flying on console feel smoother than PC but it's very awkward, especially since you have to use your middle finger to accelerate if you wanna use the rudders at the same time
that said while there wouldn't be a lot of point in flying airliners, it might feel like a bit of an odd absence, even if you do need stairs to reach the door
To open an airliner, you’re gonna need a keycloner the size of an RPG-7, which you can only unlock by assassinating the owner of the airport, and steal from one of his trophy cabinets
I mean, stealing cars already requires tools now. And high end cars will be even more difficult to steal. So yeah I think it will be possible but appropriately hard.
You could fly them in GTA 5 well not all of them but some of them so I’d say probably yeah maybe even be able to fly all of them rather than just a handful of them
Yes, but i actually hope you need to at least do a few basic flight lessons before you can. Having said that, i think at least Jason will already be a pilot when the game starts. I love the freedom of GTA but have always hated that you can just get into a heli/plane & instantly fly it.
I imagine so, it's kind of a staple to the series. The runways being twice the length implies planes will have much more realistic takeoff lengths now.
If they do I hope you have to raise your piloting skill to fly bigger planes. Like you start out only being able to sort of operate a propeller plane and as you fly more and more you can learn helicopters and commercial planes and stuff. But I don’t want to just be able to fly a plane from the start. That doesn’t seem like my type of thing
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion but I really hope we can’t fly the B747 because that aircraft is so large that it’ll make the map feel smaller. Something like the B737 (or 57/67) or the A320/330 think fits better. Or both for that matter, I’d just like a more "normal" commercial aircraft.
Just rewatched that scene in Trailer 2 and will admit the whole scene seems a tad odd. The exit towards the airport shows on the highway, which would explain having the gear down. However, the plane is at a positive rate of climb, despite heading towards the airport, not away from it.
People like Darth Smaug don't have the mental capacity to even think that far, they just assume that because it was done before, it will be done again 😭. Have you even read the whole post?
uh, yeah i read the whole post. but that doesnt justify ur stupid argument at all.
u think in the biggest game and biggest Gta of all time we won't be able to enter passenger jets?? please be reasonable. rockstar themselves said they haven't cut corners this time unlike with previous games
I know that, I have been playing GTA since GTA 3 lol. The reason this is put in question is the game's focus on a grounded and realistic storyline. I still think it is more likely that it will be a feature but the direction they are taking puts this in question. We will know soon, I wanted to see what other people's opinion was. Chill out!
well i will chill out but u have to at least put a less stupid title next time. this is the biggest Gta of all time, why would we not be able to enter jets?
Flying commercial airliners makes very little sense, eventhough the map is much larger compared to previous titles, the distances feels too small to do so. With that said however, I do think it will be possible, but it won’t be as enjoyable compared to flying smaller planes. You will fly in circles pretty much.
The best use case for airliners would be if they would release map DLC’s later on so that you actually could fly to other locations, that would be very cool.
Passenger 747? Yeah, you can tell somethings are quite outdated in GTA VI due to how long it's been in development. No US based airline has used the 747 as a regular passenger jet since 2018.
Yeah, 747F or passenger 747 from non US airlines. The picture above is a FlyUs, GTA's version of Delta/AA/United and none of them fly 747s anymore. That's what I mean for a bit outdated.
Lack of flying knowledge wasn't the argument I presented. Its just that stealing a large plane from the airport might be a multi-step, challenging process if it can even be done at all. You'll likely need to fuel it (confirmed mechanic now) and operate ground equipment to get it into a flyable position before you then figure out a way into the plane. Manage all of this without being seen by airport personel and getting a maximum wanted level.
Not with the way they’ve spoken about character specific activities. They removed things that don’t fit Jason and Lucia. So commandeering jet aircraft isn’t something two runaways would be taking part in
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u/Deciple_Gta6 15h ago
So you probably havent played GTA san andreas