Travel and fast travel

Buses

Working network, usable for fast travelSource confidence: ReportedRide the journey, or skip it.

Trains

Operational rail systemSource confidence: Reported

RydeMe

Ride-hailing via the phoneSource confidence: Confirmed

Scooter Bros

Vehicle delivery to your locationSource confidence: Reported

Personal vehicles

Multiple per character, stored in garagesSource confidence: Confirmed

Fuel

Cars refuel; EVs use charging stationsSource confidence: Reported

Map

Satellite imagery with fog-of-warSource confidence: Reported

Road width

About 15% narrower than GTA VSource confidence: Reported

Four ways across the state

Leonida is large enough that Rockstar built more travel options into it than any previous Grand Theft Auto, and the notable thing about them is that almost all are things in the world rather than entries in a menu.

• The bus network, with real stops you walk to and a choice of riding or skipping the journey.
• An operational train system running across the map.
• RydeMe, the ride-hailing app, which brings a driver to you.
• Scooter Bros, which delivers one of your own vehicles. The driver turns up on an e-scooter and hands it over.

Scooter Bros is the one that quietly solves the oldest problem in the series. Personal vehicles have always had a habit of being on the wrong side of the map from you, and the traditional answer was to abandon them and steal something. Having your own car delivered means the garage you paid for is actually usable, which in turn makes the car theft and customisation systems worth engaging with at all.

Fast travel that costs you something

Wait at a bus stop and you can either take the full journey or skip straight to the destination. That is fast travel, but you had to walk to a bus stop to get it, and the bus had to arrive, so it is a fast travel with a small price attached rather than a teleport from the pause menu.

It is a good compromise for a map this size. Pure teleportation flattens a world you spent years building. Pure driving turns a forty-minute session into thirty minutes of highway. Anchoring the skip to a real stop keeps the world in the loop while still respecting the player's time, and it means the transport network is a thing you learn rather than a menu you open.

Fog-of-war on the map

The pause-menu map is satellite-style imagery that fills in as you explore, rather than a complete map handed over at the start. On a state this size that turns traversal into discovery, and it is a real change from GTA V.

Paired with the phone's social feed, which surfaces random events and hideouts as you scroll, it produces an unusual approach to open-world discovery for a modern game. The map does not tell you where anything is until you have been there, and the leads arrive through a feed rather than as icons. You find Leonida by moving through it and by paying attention to what people are posting about, which is much closer to how you would actually learn a place.

What driving is like now

The roads are reportedly about 15% narrower than GTA V's, which is a density decision rather than a driving one. Tighter streets mean more buildings, more people and less empty asphalt per block. It also means the traffic and the pedestrians are closer to you at all times, which changes what a chase through a city centre feels like.

• Vehicles need fuel, and electric ones need charging stations.
• Each protagonist can own several personal vehicles, stored in garages bought around the map.
• Pay & Spray returns for repainting and re-registering, with mod shops throughout the world.
• The trunk doubles as a mobile weapon inventory, so where you park matters.
• Shooting out tyres works, on the police and on you.