We are officially less than a month away from the launch of GTA 6. That means Rockstar still has a few more weeks to squeeze in some reveals before we’re all left to our own devices in Leonida, and the latest of those reveals is that the team knows how much we hate GTA’s weapon wheel, and they really did try to come up with an alternative.

The new details about Rockstar’s failed attempts to replace the maligned weapon wheel come from Jason Schreier. Schreier went to Rockstar North to see more of GTA 6 and speak to some of the team who have been working on it for the past decade or more. In a follow-up video to his initial one covering some of the bigger topics, Schreier revealed some insight on the quest to replace the weapon wheel.

“They spent months, if not years, trying a million different things that would replace the weapon wheel,” Schreier revealed (thanks, Dexerto). The team wanted players to have a limited number of weapons, but wanted to move on from the wheel as they don’t like how the UI looks in GTA 5 when, most of the time, players are presented with big, empty slots filling their screens whenever they switch weapons.

Schreier notes that one of the alternatives they tested was a web, adding that they ran through several ideas that included removing the weapon interface completely, but, ultimately, found themselves back at the weapon wheel. “After all that, they just wound up back at a weapon wheel and in the final game it’s just a weapon wheel again,” Schreier concludes, as we’ve seen in previous footage of the game we’ve been shown so far.

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