GTA 6 wanted — Criminal Profile, six stars, no radar blips

GTA 6 has a six-star wanted system and a Criminal Profile that tracks your clothes, face and car, per IGN’s Rockstar demo Reported. Rockstar has not published the full system Not confirmed. New here? Start here.

Quick answers

How does the GTA 6 wanted system work?

Reported Cops hunt a description of your clothes, face and car, per Rockstar North’s Rob Nelson to IGN.

Is there a star meter?

Not confirmed Rockstar’s screenshot library doesn’t caption one.

How do I lose the cops?

See Lose the cops and Police cars.

Reported IGN deep dive with Rockstar North (Rob Nelson), 27 Aug 2026. Desk framing, not a Newswire star card. Pair with /131 · tracker.

What Rockstar has actually put on the record

Nothing that looks like a wanted menu on the VI site. The official screenshot library captions vehicles, weapons, regions, and people. It does not caption a star meter. It does not caption a cop bulletin. Absence on Newswire is still the record for a printed HUD.

What the company did put on a tape: Trailer 1, 4 December 2023. Lucia Caminos is in Leonida Penitentiary. Line: “Do you know why you’re here?” / “Bad luck, I guess.” That is a prison, not a HUD. Trailer 2, 6 May 2025, is a failed score - gameplay and cutscenes captured in-game on PlayStation 5, per Rockstar. Bank job. Phil’s Ammu-Nation: “We got more guns than the law allows.” Law is in the story.

Official trailers · Watch order · Official screenshots

Six stars + Criminal Profile Reported

IGN sat with Rockstar North co-studio head Rob Nelson. Eurogamer matches the description hunt. Our desk pass is /131. Tracker row: six-star wanted + Criminal Profile - cops learn clothes, face, and car; icons under the stars. This is Reported press - not a Newswire support article. Game Informer’s 29 September cover story repeats the six-star Heat ceiling (Reported).

Dazed (via Kotaku, Eurogamer, Dexerto) also described pedestrians calling emergency services when someone walks a long gun through a plaza. Same press window. Same Reported stamp. Desk: /133.

• Wanted does not start until a witness sees the crime or an alarm trips. A hot area can stay marked after you leave.
• Six stars return after GTA 5’s five. One star is easy to shed. Six is high-chaos getaway.
• Cops learn what you look like and what you are wearing. Icons under the stars show which of those they have.
• Changing hair drops the appearance icon. A new hat or glasses is not enough for clothes - you need a full outfit. Clean set in the trunk matters.
• Masks during the crime, then off for the escape, can keep a face description off the radio even if CCTV sees you.
• They can know the car. Dumping it and taking another cuts heat. If the report is a couple, you can split.

Players already ask whether six stars means military or NOOSE. IGN only called six-star heat the classic chaos getaway. It did not name tanks or a federal unit. That guess stays off this page and off the tracker as invent.

New from IGN’s full Rob Nelson interview (7 October) Reported

• Police can surround a store you are robbing; some locations have alternate exits, and preparation such as a getaway car out front is encouraged.
• Missions are built to stay consistent with the open-world wanted and robbery systems. In the Raul mission, “the mission is essentially a police chase”: an on-rails opening, then an optimal but optional route.
• The tower-block escape has multiple exits.
• “There’s no right or wrong way to play”; the Criminal Profile changes how the world reacts, and the player is less overpowered than in earlier games.
• Damaging a stolen car, such as an Infernus taken from a police impound, cuts its value.

Source: IGN, “GTA 6: The Big Interview”, full Rob Nelson transcript, 7 October 2026. An interview, not Rockstar copy. More on Criminal Profile and Heat.

No police radar blips + telematics Reported

Extended Look desk read, 28 August: no police radar blips on the minimap. Pursuits are line-of-sight, not flashing cones. Same desk pass flags factory telematics on modern cars - a connected ride can keep a trail, so dump and swap. Tracker + magazine: /145 · /147. Not a chop-shop GPS scrambler list. Not an OnStar marketing card.

Short answers live on the FAQ wanted and fuel-gauge questions. Full stamp table: leak tracker.

Unofficial HUD leftover from the August clips

Circulating. Still Unverified where press did not name it. The highway-wrench file on the leak tracker, and the nighttime taser file we covered as the 19 August clip note, are not a Newswire. We are not hosting the files.

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