Mapping Red Dead Redemption 2! Landmark Analysis Thread

[Cutter De Blanc]

As far as I can tell, it was caused by the 1.00 game attempting to access the current version's save file. Or possibly because it starts a new game after failing to load it. I had accidentally tried to load it before loading the correct save. 

 

I did it without accessing the current version's save and didnt have the island spawn in

Edited August 23, 2020 by Cutter De Blanc

[koeklin]

Bonjour

 

Diligent-Mylione Corner (St Denis) near the cemetery: 51-53  French Market Place (& 55-57 to the right), New Orleans

 

 

A better view of 55-57 French Market Place

 

 

4 buildings of Rabulione St. (St Denis): 401-407 Decatur Street

 

 

3 of them:

 

 

925-935 Decatur Street

 

 

The same building with its sign on the roof at the beginning of the 20th century 

 

[Taterman]

7 hours ago, koeklin said:

Bonjour

 

Diligent-Mylione Corner (St Denis) near the cemetery: 51-53  French Market Place (& 55-57 to the right), New Orleans

 

Great stuff man! Thanks for posting those.

 

[koeklin]

Bonjour

 

On 8/17/2020 at 3:26 AM, Deadman2112 said:

Nice.

Are you from Louisiana?

If you're not, then that's some pretty decent detective work.

Thanks! I'm French and I have never set foot in USA 

 

On 9/3/2020 at 6:54 AM, Taterman said:

Great stuff man! Thanks for posting those.

Thanks!

 

535-537 St Louis Street (New Orleans) - Galerie Laurent (Courtenay St. - St Denis)

 

 

I didn't notice it was an elevation of the same building IRL and in game (Napoleon House Restaurant at new Orleans- already posted in 2018) because of its pink color in the game.

 

 

Antoine's restaurant (713 St Louis Street, New Orleans) - Le Lion d'Or (Courtenay Street)

 

 

841 Dumaine street, New Orleans - Building at St Nicolas-Courtenay Corner ( St Denis)

 

 

In front of Lemoyne national Bank: 1000 Royal Street (Nola)

 

 

And its elevation :

 

Edited September 10, 2020 by koeklin

[Deadman2112]

@koeklin

Well then that's some amazing detective work.

 

I'm from Louisiana and the greater New Orleans area.

 

When you have some time you should check out the similarities between the blue building near the northern exit of Saint Denis.

 

I believe the real-life equivalent is the same building as a restaurant called Commander's Palace.

 

Edit...

 

Edited September 24, 2020 by Deadman2112

[koeklin]

Thanks. I posted Commander's Palace on December 4th, 2018 (time flies), I notice this building is next to a cemetery in game and IRL.

[DuPz0r]

Spent some time compiling a satellite map of "Guama" the beta Island, based on all the evidence we've found so far.

 

 

Edited September 11, 2020 by DuPz0r

[Bigglo145]

There was a thread on the comparisons of the same buildings from red dead 2 and mafia 3, anybody remember?

[Lemoyne outlaw]

so i have a question about the heartlands. i dont know where it is based off. but i recently saw the cactus and some of the shrubs. and it actually looked like a desert. except that the heartlands is all green. so my question is. what is the heartlands based off. and are those cactus and shrubs realistic to its real life counterpart? i just love those little cacti. and i would love to know what all those shrubs are. or if they are plants. i dont know. but it gives off a nice western vibe.

[Taterman]

1 hour ago, Lemoyne outlaw said:

so i have a question about the heartlands. i dont know where it is based off. but i recently saw the cactus and some of the shrubs. and it actually looked like a desert. except that the heartlands is all green. so my question is. what is the heartlands based off. and are those cactus and shrubs realistic to its real life counterpart? i just love those little cacti. and i would love to know what all those shrubs are. or if they are plants. i dont know. but it gives off a nice western vibe.

Sage brush maybe? 

 

Edited September 22, 2020 by Taterman
Added pic

[silly_nate]

11 hours ago, Lemoyne outlaw said:

so i have a question about the heartlands. i dont know where it is based off. but i recently saw the cactus and some of the shrubs. and it actually looked like a desert. except that the heartlands is all green. so my question is. what is the heartlands based off. and are those cactus and shrubs realistic to its real life counterpart? i just love those little cacti. and i would love to know what all those shrubs are. or if they are plants. i dont know. but it gives off a nice western vibe.

Those cacti really stood out to me from day one. I think they added them before they planned to put NA in the map to give off a desert vibe because there was no real desert in the game. Then because of time constraints they didn’t remove them after adding NA

[Lemoyne outlaw]

1 hour ago, silly_nate said:

Those cacti really stood out to me from day one. I think they added them before they planned to put NA in the map to give off a desert vibe because there was no real desert in the game. Then because of time constraints they didn’t remove them after adding NA

do you think they are realistic to the location? im glad they did not remove them.

[silly_nate]

44 minutes ago, Lemoyne outlaw said:

do you think they are realistic to the location? im glad they did not remove them.

I’ve just recently moved to a plains region, but it’s not green grass type plains like Kansas. It’s the area between real desert and plains. So overall I’d say it is realistic. But I wouldn’t expect to see cacti in Kansas or Arkansas (but who knows I’ve never been there haha)

[Cutter De Blanc]

Theres more of that weird writing that's behind the theater in Blackwater on top of the mortuary. 

[LeonVegaSuarez]

Fun to remember the months before release, wondering how the map would look like and speculating. I did imagine it a bit different than it turned out, but overall Rockstar really created a beautiful and very diverse world. 

 

Also props to you guys in here for your hard work mapping leaked map parts and images back then.

[TexasOdysseus]

On 9/22/2020 at 12:32 PM, Lemoyne outlaw said:

do you think they are realistic to the location? im glad they did not remove them.

 

Yes, it certainly can be realistic. There are many areas of high chaparral in NM, AZ, UT, CO, etc that could be proxies for parts of the Heartlands. 

[Lemoyne outlaw]

5 hours ago, TexasOdysseus said:

 

Yes, it certainly can be realistic. There are many areas of high chaparral in NM, AZ, UT, CO, etc that could be proxies for parts of the Heartlands. 

this might be a dumb question. but what does proxie mean? i did not understand what you said.

[Taterman]

7 hours ago, Lemoyne outlaw said:

this might be a dumb question. but what does proxie mean? i did not understand what you said.

It means something like fill-ins or replicas...

Edited October 6, 2020 by Taterman

[Lemoyne outlaw]

38 minutes ago, Taterman said:

It means something like fill-ins or replicas...

okay thanks i understand now.

[koeklin]

Bonjour

 

- Welcome to Tahiti! 

- No... 

- ...to Guarma ? 

- No. Welcome to Puerto Rico!

 

Fort San Felipe del Morro (San Juan) isn't Cinco Torres in Guarma but its main inspiration.

 

 

 

 

[TexasOdysseus]

23 hours ago, Lemoyne outlaw said:

this might be a dumb question. but what does proxie mean? i did not understand what you said.

A similar substitute, or stand-in. 

[Taterman]

Great pics Keoklin.

[Deadman2112]

On 9/11/2020 at 1:44 AM, koeklin said:

Thanks. I posted Commander's Palace on December 4th, 2018 (time flies), I notice this building is next to a cemetery in game and IRL.

Yeah they did a great job.

 

I was showing some friends (who are also from here) while back how accurate they made the game.

 

When I was showing them around Saint Denis I didn't even have to mention the name of some of the places, they just picked them out immediately.

 

[Fido_le_muet]

Hey guys. 

 

Just had a look back and marked on the map all the Saint Denis buildings that have been found IRL .

Haven't contributed yet so here's my modest part 

[Rocket0764]

On 9/21/2020 at 10:21 PM, Lemoyne outlaw said:

so i have a question about the heartlands. i dont know where it is based off. but i recently saw the cactus and some of the shrubs. and it actually looked like a desert. except that the heartlands is all green. so my question is. what is the heartlands based off. and are those cactus and shrubs realistic to its real life counterpart? i just love those little cacti. and i would love to know what all those shrubs are. or if they are plants. i dont know. but it gives off a nice western vibe.

It's based off the pawnee grasslands in colorado. the cactus type shrubs are called yucca and are very common in the eastern plains of colorado, which is semi arid/desert like but also green like the heartlands.

Edited November 10, 2020 by Rocket0764

[Fido_le_muet]

Hello. 

 

I think I found two new real life buildings in Sain Denis. Sorry if they've been found before :

 

805 Canal Street / Waldron & Hartmann Bros, Frontier Street (buildings are still there IRL) :

 

823 Canal Street / Hamil Drugs, Frontier Street (also still there IRL, but top window has been removed) :

 

[Fido_le_muet]

Soniat House, 1133 Chartres Street / Fouquet & Caron, Victory Street : 

[Fido_le_muet]

2928 Prytania Street / 2 houses in St Denis (south of the eastern park and east of the cemetery) :

[Fido_le_muet]

Pritchard-Pigot House, 1407 1st Street / Mansion, Victory Street : 

Edited November 17, 2020 by Fido_le_muet

[Fido_le_muet]

Goldsmith-Godchaux House, 1122 Jackson Avenue / 2 houses on Milyonne Street

Edited November 18, 2020 by Fido_le_muet