Six wanted stars — the scale goes back to six, after GTA V's five.
The six star slots are visible in the HUD from the police raid on the apartment block. The rumor from the 2022 leak became an official system.
HUD
HUD & Map
Whatever the screen tells you: stars, evidence icons, stamina, satellite map.
* File coverage = (Confirmed + Solid) ÷ (all facts + open questions). It measures how solid the file is — not how “ready” the game is.
The Lab · Read the screen
Don't read it — play it. Every verb is an action in the game; the screen reacts the way the evidence says it should.
Original LI design built on the file's evidence — HUD grammar, not Rockstar material. Every step shows the evidence that backs it.
How it works
The HUD learned to talk. The six stars49▶ aren't just a meter: hollow means “they're looking for you”, filled “they've seen you”50▶ — and underneath, icons reveal what evidence the police have51▶. Next to the minimap, the stamina meter appears only when it's needed83▶.
And the pause map is satellite imagery84▶ — not a drawn graphic. You read the state the way you'd read it on Google Maps.
The facts
Hollow stars = they're looking for you without line of sight; they fill in when they spot you.
The switch between hollow and filled stars is clearly visible in the HUD during the escape from the building — two search states, visible on-screen.
Below the stars, icons show what the police know about you: face, clothes, vehicle, cameras, duo, weapon.
The evidence/witness system shows up on-screen in the raid: the wanted level is no longer one red dot but a list of what's been recorded.
A stamina meter appears on the HUD next to the minimap when you run or climb.
Visible in the escape from the apartment block. The leak's extra details about stamina were not confirmed — only the existence of the meter.
The map is revealed gradually: the unexplored areas stay hidden and show up only when you visit them — as in GTA V and RDR2.
“When you unlock new areas they are marked on the map, but as in GTA V and RDR2 the unexplored areas stay hidden and show up only when you actually visit them” (Nelson, Famitsu). An explicit, declarative answer to a question the Archive had kept open since its founding (u-hud-2): the satellite pause map does NOT show the whole state from the start. Consistency note: that the pause map is a satellite rendering remains c-084 (Solid) — here we're talking about its reveal, not its form.
Confirmedfamitsu.com · 28.08 ↗
The pause map is a satellite image — not a designed graphic.
A steady mention across the preview reports: the pause screen shows Leonida in satellite view. It hasn't been shown clearly in official material — it stays Solid.
Full first-person mode won't be there at launch — Rockstar focused on third-person animations; the first-person view stays on aiming certain weapons.
Rob Nelson said it to Brazilian creator Davy Jones, who spent over two hours at Rockstar North watching live gameplay — original publication flowgames.gg, picked up by Vice/Beebom/TweakTown/Insider Gaming (all 28/8). The reasoning: the team concentrated its work on third-person animations, which are the core of Jason & Lucia's presence. The first-person view was NOT removed entirely: it remains in the aiming of certain weapons. Historical parallel: GTA V also shipped without first-person and got it a year later, with the PS4/Xbox One editions. WHY Solid and not Confirmed: the statement reaches us through a creator preview, with no written feature announcement from Rockstar — same treatment as c-117 and c-119. The upgrade is for the Validator to decide (pending 3/9).
Solidvice.com · 28.08 ↗
What we DON'T know yet
The edge of what we know, in public. When something gets answered, it isn't deleted — it stays here, struck through, pointing to the evidence that solved it.
How customizable is the HUD — can the minimap be hidden, can the elements be scaled?
What would settle it: Settings screens in hands-on or at launch.
Does the pause satellite map show the whole state from the start or is it revealed gradually?
Answered 03.09 → the evidence