Hunting is the activity Rockstar has shown most without ever explaining it. The place is written down, there are three screenshots, the prey is recognizable; what is missing is a single official sentence on how it works.
What we have seen
Three official images show hunting from three different angles.
The trophy in the Grassrivers. On the official Grassrivers page, three mud-covered people pose on an airboat with a dead alligator and a wildcat. That is the aftermath, the souvenir photo.
The cougar and the herd. At Mount Kalaga a cougar moves through shallow water toward a herd of deer drinking at a stream. Animals hunting animals, a sign that the wildlife has behavior of its own.
The hunter on the quad. Among the twelve screenshots from Game Informer’s cover story is a man in a cap with a scoped rifle slung on his back, watching two deer at a stream from the seat of a quad bike. That is the before, the stakeout.
The hunter is shot from behind and there is no telling whether it is Jason or a non-player character: the scene says people hunt in Leonida, not yet that you do.
What the cover story says
Game Informer reports more than 170 animal species, and its free article on the species says certain animals can be “tracked” and fall into three categories: Rare, Discoverable and Legendary. Rockstar is still keeping the Legendary ones secret.
Still to be confirmed
Rockstar has not described a hunting mechanic: nothing on tracks, pelts, selling game, licenses or dedicated weapons. We do not know whether hunting is an activity with its own system or just one more thing you can do in the open world, nor whether legendary animals are prey or entries in a collection. All of this gets checked at launch, on November 19, 2026.
