A team of modders has created a rudimentary zombie mode up and running for Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC, and it looks tremendous.
One of the first glimpses of the mode showed up on YouTube just yesterday on the channel of one jedijosh920. Collaborating through a Discord channel, folks have cobbled together a handful of zombie skins and an AI that spawns in and rushes players from all angles. They’re not yet biting and slashing with claws; instead they go after players with hunting knives. But it gets the job done.
There’s no objective other than to survive, but what’s fascinating is how adaptive and elastic the non-player characters are. The video starts out in a saloon, and patrons freak out and fight back in a realistic fashion. The action spills out onto the street, where the player and another AI end up back-to-back in the muddy ruts on the road. The action switches to a more populated town, where the undead start streaming in from the rooftops. With the lighting and the melee animations, it’s all very evocative of a good zombie flick.
Some fans claim to have seen teases of an official Undead Nightmare mode in the game on consoles, but there’s been no official announcement of such a thing. Rockstar missed the Halloween holiday for a proper, and seems to be mostly concerned with squashing bugs on PC than adding new modes to the game. Time will tell if that holds true through the holiday season. In the meantime, we’ll be hunting down tutorials on how to get this new zombie mod up and running.
Comments
Undead Nightmare for RDR (1) was was amazing fun with a great story. I sure hope they do the same for RDR2.
By igotnuthin on 11.21.19 1:12pm
Undead Nightmare had no business being as lengthy, polished, and pure fun as it was. Off the top of my head, it’s probably the first DLC that made me think, "Ah! So there IS potential for this type of thing."
By OlorynEx on 11.21.19 2:37pm
As much as I want an Undead Nightmare DLC for RDR2 I have zero expectations that it’ll ever come for a couple reasons.
1. The return on investment for expanding Read Dead Online exceeds that of any other effort they could undertake. For example, one story mission in RDO will be played hundreds of times by millions of people over many years while most people will only play the single player story once.
2. It seems like half the people already playing RDO have no interest in playing the RDR2 story and over time there will be even fewer people who buy the game for anything other than RDO. Anybody who skips the single player story will undoubtedly skip any single player DLC.
3. If Rockstar decides to make an Undead Nightmare event in RDO it’ll be just that, an event – much smaller in scope and scale than a proper sequel to the original Undead Nightmare DLC.
I would love it if Rockstar proved me wrong. But I wouldn’t bet on it.
By ObjectNull on 11.21.19 4:06pm