Glasgow filings describe a 32-player GTA 6 Online session

Hearings opened at the Glasgow Tribunals Centre on 10 September 2026 over the dismissal of 31 Rockstar staff. Filings in the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain dispute say the confidential talk on an employee Discord was an unreleased 32-player session architecture for GTA 6 Online. That is workplace evidence. It is not a Rockstar Newswire. Some technical reads treat 32 as a choice for dense simulation and stable netcode over giant battle-royale rooms. That is a read of a filing, not a spec.

Rachel Crawford outside the tribunal

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Outside the courthouse, dismissed developer Rachel Crawford told demonstrators that leadership ran a shop where staff feared losing their livelihoods. IWGB filings say 31 employees were terminated on 30 October 2025 with no warnings and no disciplinary appeals after organizing in an off-site Discord. Rockstar's filings reject that. The studio says it will vigorously defend the terminations as lawful gross misconduct. Counsel said talking about unannounced project milestones on external servers broke signed NDAs roughly two months before manufacturing lock.

Filings put Leonida at 32 players

Rockstar's defense treats those Discord chats as protected trade secrets and calls the multiplayer infrastructure one of the most closely guarded secrets of the company. The number in the papers is an unreleased 32-player session, two seats above the 30-player cap in Grand Theft Auto V for GTA Online. Thirty-player Los Santos sessions already strain peer-to-peer sync, thin out traffic, and make cop pathfinding sloppy in a heavy gunfight. Reading 32 as a way to keep ambient crowds, dynamic weather, and law-enforcement AI is technical inference. It is not a Newswire sheet.

Five weeks, then 35 days to launch

34 Fired Workers. Rockstar's Trial Ends 35 Days Before GTA 6 walks the calendar. The five-week hearing runs through mid-October 2026, about 35 days before 19 November. Labor advocates want protection for staff walked out with no recourse. Security defenders point at the 2022 breaches. Five weeks of testimony may surface more multiplayer paper. It may not. Rockstar still has not posted a session size. 32 is a Discord number in a firing case.