CyberLeek's thirteenth clip is out, and this time it's a beach at dusk - Jason riding a bike along the sand through a genuinely huge crowd of NPCs. What's drawing attention isn't the setting itself so much as how little repetition observers could spot in it: different body types, skin tones, outfits, and individual animations scattered across a crowd that size, rather than the same handful of characters copy-pasted around.
Large-crowd scenes in games almost always lean on some amount of visible repetition to stay performant - the same face or outfit showing up more than once if you look closely. Reviewers combing through this clip say that's much harder to spot here than usual, with NPCs visibly reacting and going about their own business well into the distance rather than only near the camera. It's not flawless - a couple of background NPCs reportedly pop into existence rather than walk into frame, and one has an odd stumble - but the overall density and variety is being described as well beyond what other open-world games have managed.
As with several previous CyberLeek uploads, this one was filmed in dim evening light, which has become something of a running complaint among people covering the leaks - the footage keeps landing in conditions that make it harder to actually judge how the game looks, even as the underlying detail keeps impressing people anyway.
This is officially the thirteenth piece of footage CyberLeek has released, adding up to roughly half an hour of combined clips at this point. That's a lot of unofficial exposure landing in the days immediately before Rockstar's own first properly-produced look at the game, and it's leaving some observers wondering how much air the leaks have taken out of that reveal before it even happens - even though nothing so far has touched the actual story.
The general read from people who've followed the leaks closely is that they're unlikely to dent GTA VI's commercial performance either way. The audience obsessively rewatching every clip is largely the same audience that was always going to buy the game on day one; most players simply aren't tracking a leak drama this closely. If anything, the leaked footage seems to be doing the opposite of harm - repeatedly convincing skeptics and hesitant buyers that the game looks worth getting.
The leaked clip's authenticity can't be independently confirmed, so this is tagged unverified. Reporting via Kotaku (John Walker).