Hunting

Hunting has gone from likely to confirmed: Rockstar’s own description of Mount Kalaga calls the state park prime hunting country, alongside fishing and off-road trails, and creators briefed after the Extended Look event report that the game has hunting activities in the open world, with wild forest areas to get into beyond the city and the Leonida Zoo. Official material leans into a living ecosystem too, with a screenshot showing a panther stalking deer through the undergrowth, suggesting predator and prey behaviour rather than decorative wildlife. The Extended Look itself shows the culture around it: a backwoods RV park in the swamps where locals handle live alligators, one man crawling on the ground with a gator, another holding a rifle and a double-barrel shotgun in shot, a scene viewers read as alligator hunters and a very Florida touch.

The economics are now on the record: Rob Nelson told TGG that hunting is for money and runs through a character that Jason knows, while fishing stays a catch-and-release pastime. That makes hunting one of the few named income streams outside crime. Drawing on Red Dead Redemption 2, hunting could mean reading tracks, staying downwind, lining up a clean shot and then skinning or selling the catch. Cleaner kills would reward better, encouraging patience and the right weapon for each animal rather than spraying and praying. Creators citing the leaked build say hunting and skinning are in, with hunting knives and gear among the items, though that remains unconfirmed by Rockstar.

What is confirmed is the study system that feeds it. The Extended Look shows Jason able to pet, scold or study a dog, and previewers confirm you can study animals out in the wild or at the Leonida Zoo, with each new species checked off a list in a system derived from Red Dead 2’s compendium. Creators expect that log to tie into hunting, and the animal count on show, from birds and hares to hogs, deer and bison, looks to rival Red Dead 2’s roster.

GTA 5 added a small hunting side-activity for Trevor, and Red Dead Redemption 2 turned it into a centrepiece system. GTA 6 sits between those two reference points, with the wetlands giving Rockstar an obvious stage if it chooses to bring hunting back in depth.

Early leak reporting has pointed to a speargun among the weapons, fueling speculation about underwater hunting or spearfishing, and analysis of the leaked Leonida map lists hunting among the activities identified from points of interest across the state.