{"id":88428,"date":"2026-08-27T17:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88428"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:36:50","slug":"gta-6-npcs-will-notice-if-youre-carrying-a-weapon-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88428","title":{"rendered":"GTA 6 NPCs Will Notice If You\u2019re Carrying A Weapon In Public"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto franchise, players have been able to walk the streets while armed to the teeth without attracting attention from the non-player characters populating the world. However, the NPCs in Grand Theft Auto 6<\/a> will be considerably more preceptive than their counterparts in the earlier games. And that means packing weapons in public is going to come at a price.<\/p>\n

According to a GTA 6 preview in The New York Times<\/a>, “a player in this one cannot whip out a shotgun or a rocket launcher and walk down the street without expecting the non-player characters to call the police.” <\/p>\n

As disclosed in Netflix’s extended GTA 6 preview special, the game has restored the six-star Wanted level<\/a> to the franchise. Presumably players will get into more trouble for firing a rocket launcher than simply holding one. But allowing the NPCs to behave more realistically to potential threats adds a new aspect that players will have to consider going forward.<\/p>\n

Although the apparent vocal stylings of the game’s male antihero, Jason, have been negatively received<\/a>, players have praised GTA 6’s ability to interact with dogs<\/a> and its potentially complex love story<\/a> between Jason and his co-lead, Lucia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto franchise, players have been able to walk the streets while armed to the teeth without attracting attention from the non-player characters populating the world. However, the NPCs in Grand Theft Auto 6 will be considerably more preceptive than their counterparts in the earlier games. And that means packing weapons…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":88430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88431,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88428\/revisions\/88431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}