In what has grow to be nice custom, I’ve discovered of a tremendous mod on the identical day I’ve discovered that the mod has been kiboshed by publishers. The mod in query is the GTA 5 Liberty Metropolis Preservation Undertaking, a six 12 months challenge that rebuilds GTA 4’s Liberty Metropolis in GTA 5’s world. It launched earlier this month – and now it’s no extra, for Rockstar have descended like briefcase-wielding peregrine falcons and carried out what’s being referred to as a “pleasant takedown” on modding staff World Journey. My brother did a “pleasant takedown” on me as soon as, and my elbow nonetheless would not bend the appropriate manner.
As reported by PCGamer, staff member NK Jellman broke the information on the challenge’s Discord. “Because of the sudden consideration that our challenge obtained and after talking with Rockstar Video games, we’ve got determined to take down the Liberty Metropolis Preservation challenge,” he wrote. “We respect all of the assist that the challenge has obtained, and we stay up for persevering with to pursue our ardour for modding the Grand Theft Auto sequence.”
This may occasionally appear a really cheerful method to announce that six years of labor have been for naught, however Jellman insists World Journey don’t have anything however love for Our Mates At Rockstar, to say nothing of Their Mates At Mother or father Firm Take-Two. “We have observed quite a lot of misconceptions and theories surrounding our newest announcement and wish to make just a few issues clear,” added NK Jellman in a later Discord submit. “This is not a DMCA [Digital Millennium Copyright Act claim], somewhat a pleasant takedown, mutually agreed upon by all events concerned. There isn’t a negativity between us and Rockstar Video games / Take-Two Interactive.”
Previous to its mutually agreed destruction, the GTA 5 Liberty Metropolis Preservation Undertaking introduced again the whole lot of GTA 4’s warped New York full with NPCs, the subway, the police forces, civilian site visitors, automobile fashions, radio stations, and non-compulsory HD textures. All this for the low, low worth of nothing in any respect.
Rockstar and Take-Two have a monitor report, in fact, for bringing the hammer down on extra formidable GTA mods, although the standards for a “pleasant takedown” or worse stay ambiguous. This is not the one GTA 5 Liberty Metropolis mod. You might take all of it as proof that Rockstar are engaged on their very own GTA 4 replace, however in keeping with stories they shelved such plans in 2022 to give attention to GTA 6.
