Red Dead Redemption 2 mod updates entire game world
Red Dead Redemption 2 updates are probably never coming – despite creating one of the most convincing, rich, and evocative open worlds of all time, Rockstar, for some reason, seems content with letting it drift away, like a ball of Valentine tumbleweed. But that doesn’t mean the game is finished, as RDR 2’s passionate modding community continues to find new ways of breathing life into the western.
Case in point, Vestigia, a gigantic new overhaul of RDR from modder no12, and their dedicated team of collaborators. The product of more than a year’s work, this is a complete overhaul of Red Dead Redemption 2’s single-player world, improving the weather, wildlife, and pedestrian behaviour systems, in an attempt to make Rockstar’s underloved masterpiece even more plausible and real.
The mod is broken into four modules, essentially serving, according to no12, as “four mods in one”.
Firstly, it addresses the weather, changing the temperature, and rain and sun transition systems, so that downpours last longer, and transform more gradually into cloud, cold, and then sun again. The visual module also focuses on weather, but on how it looks more than how it behaves. Elements like fog, low clouds, and dust storms are now rendered in more detail, and their time cycles have been altered meaning they may last longer, or only occur in specific regions.
Flora has also been addressed, so there is thicker underbrush in forests, and the terrain in general is more reactive to Arthur’s presence – jumping into water, for instance, generates more bubbles and foam.
The fourth module, however, is the most substantial, as it increases the pedestrian limit in towns or cities (like Saint Denis) to 255, and also adjusts their AI so that they are more
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