NPC’s body was found frozen in its T-position while a player was looting at a crime scene in Red Dead Redemption 2’s latest update. After a bank robbery goes poorly, Van der Linde gang member Arthur Morgan flees from the law in the wide-open world of the American south in 1899 in Red Dead Redemption 2, which was released to great acclaim in 2018.
In a similar vein to Rockstar’s equally successful Grand Theft Auto 5, the game’s structure allows players to roam the countryside and participate in a variety of side missions. There are plenty of odd features and random NPC encounters in Red Dead Redemption 2, as with any open-world game of this level, both organically occurring and driven by player actions. RDR2’s character AI is so comprehensive that players have spent hours studying every breed of horse in the game, as well as how NPC villagers react when Arthur wakes them up in the middle of the night.
A few of these NPCs are even capable of self-defence during shootouts, and Arthur has been observed in Red Dead Redemption 2 to engage in an awkward discussion with a mourning old lady in a graveyard. After digging into an ancient house, psychorinch found the deceased owner standing in the corner of a bedroom in Red Dead Redemption 2. They were examining the murder scene for any loose things to loot when they found the killed woman standing immobile in the normal NPC T-pose position that most humanoid video game characters are modelled in, as psychorinch writes in their linked post on r/reddeadredemption.
Red Dead Redemption 2’s zombie apparition appears bloodied on top of her bed in Psychorinch’s accompanying screenshot. The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim and Fallout 4, two additional large open-world games with humanoid NPCs whose modelling errors can lead to weird and dangerous circumstances, have both been mentioned by users in the comment area as unsettling sights. There are a number of weird aspects in Red Dead Redemption 2, including Arthur Morgan touching piping hot mugs and seeing realistic details on dead bodies that were blasted with Red Dead Redemption 2’s old-school shotguns.
RDR2 has been hailed as one of the best-selling video games of all time, and it seems that finding out fun small tidbits like this is part of the appeal. It’s been four years since the release of Red Dead Redemption 2, but the game’s players are still discovering new features and strange NPC behaviours. Since her bleeding appearance and her weightlessness with her arms outstretched make her look like a vengeful spirit, Psychorinch’s finding of a frozen NPC hovering around the place of her death is extremely unsettling. There is a good chance that even the most hardened outlaws of the Old West would find this sight unsettling.