

If this was another game, I’d say that perhaps this empty zone could be used for future story DLC, but given that RDR2 is a prequel that is meant to bump up into RDR1 by the time it ends, I’m not so sure such DLC would even be possible.īut even using this zone as part of RDR2 online feels a bit weird. There are also rumors of a battle royale mode in Red Dead to come later as part of online, and perhaps this lifeless version of New Austin will be part of that. While the “used” map of RDR2 is big, perhaps Rockstar wanted it to be even bigger, which is why they added the sprawling section of New Austin. Well, the most obvious answer is that this is probably in place for the launch of Red Dead Online. So…what the hell? Why does this part of the map exist when even in 70-80 hours of Red Dead 2’s core story and epilogue, almost nothing at all takes place there?

The entire town had a carriage, a post office and a saloon, that was it. I spoke to a man shouting down the street who said that Armadillo was ravaged by a variety of plagues, most recently cholera.

He thanked me, but then promptly said he was retiring and leaving, as the town was curse/dead. The only real “event” in this entire zone I encountered was in the town of Armadillo, where I watched a sheriff hand over a Del Lobo gang member to a posse, but I intervened to shoot them all. I did not try to murder them all, but I suppose it’s possible
