Red Dead Redemption 2 Cut Content Restored By Dedicated Player

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's open-world and characters have been praised since the game's 2018 launch, with Rockstar's immense attention to detail making for one of the best in-game worlds to become immersed in. Unfortunately, as with nearly every game in existence, there was content that had to be cut during development, but thanks to the modding community on PC, many fans have found a way to restore some of this.

Oxydine's "" is one such mod, as it reinstates some of the pedestrian dialogue recorded for the game. While giving NPCs more dialogue out in the open world might not seem like such a big deal, the restored dialogue in question is interesting, as pedestrians now acknowledge the Van der Linde gang's status more by pointing out the game's protagonist, Arthur Morgan, is «one of Dutch's boys» either when passing by them or greeting them in this mod.

Red Dead Redemption 2 players who would have preferred a happier ending for Arthur Morgan are in luck because a new mod does just that.

The "" mod can also make Arthur far more flirtatious by adding a "" line, provided he meets certain criteria when interacting with some of the female NPCs in the game. This criteria essentially stems from the state of Arthur's personal hygiene, as he can't be muddy or bloody, or his dress sense, as he can't flirt while wearing a strange outfit.

Arthur also won't flirt with a female NPC if she is a rough traveler, or one of the Cowgirls from LittleCDumpster 's «Cowgirls Revisioned» mod.

Plenty more cut dialogue was discovered last month, including bloopers from performance capture sessions, all of which seemed to be linked to a cutscene in the “A Quiet Time” quest between Arthur, Dutch, Molly, and Lenny. Rockstar does not tend to showcase its recording processes, but between these audio files and the ones used for Oxydine's mod, it's great to see some insight into the game's development come to light again, especially when they can be integrated back into the game like the NPC dialogue was.

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