The next installment for GTA may not be out yet, but new information has come to light regarding new patents apparently related to Rockstar Games.
A Twitter user Great Jim Colosimo discovered some new patents published by Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of Rockstar Games regarding virtual environments and a new session management system for online titles.
Virtual environments – what does it mean?
What it specifically means: the virtual environment patent points to a new form of generated navigation for the NPCs (it determines where NPCs may go) and it may seem that artificial intelligence may also play a role in the next title, so that a more a leading chance that Rockstar can use dedicated servers rather than localized hardware.
This will also benefit consoles as most AI is handled on the servers. If implemented in the next title, Rockstar should be able to push the game even further than AI, so it will not be pushed back from any hardware limitations. .
With that in mind, the next game goes with an advanced AI system (again) for NPCs, as we also saw with Red Dead Redemption II (2018) which introduced daily routines and improvements, which is an important step compared to GTA V from 2013.
Session Management – what is it?
Being alone in the next GTA Online title can be even harder with a new patent showing that there can be a new system that merges sessions without any action on the player.
This technology is already used in some Red Dead online but this patent shows that it can be further advanced to fill sessions as much as possible. This feature can also turn off some loading screens if a player wants to participate in a session of a friend, because the game will change seamlessly from session because nothing happened. Or if a player is kicked from an online session, the game will enter the X player seamlessly into another session without affecting or loading the screen.
For now, take all this information along with a grain of salt. Companies can often publish patents without some things ever appearing in a final product.