RDR2 DLC Speculation Thread

[Boozey St John]

Sorry to be that person but I'm surprised this thread doesn't exist yet. 

 

There's a lot of speculation/talk of a second Undead Nightmare but of course it's just that: speculation.

 

What are your thoughts? Someone pointed out that GTAO had a few updates within 2-3 months after launching, but this doesn't seem to be the case for RDO. Perhaps, the dev team could be focusing on a story mode dlc? Undead Nightmare was released 5 months after RDR came out, however it was announced just 14 days before it came out... 

 

Does the game have a shot? Or is it a case of, "The king is dead; long live the king"?

 

Edit: For the record, I'm not holding my breath for a dlc and I've taken the speculation with a few grains of salt. Just wanted to know everyone else's opinion. 

Edited January 16, 2019 by Boozey St James
Clarification

[RedDadRedemption]

The world is spooky enough we dont need it to be scarier no undead please

[Kirk Lazarus]

I would *LOVE* to see Rockstar add all the things they cut that are clearly just sitting in the world doing nothing.  Like the Hillhouse or those 3 pristine newly built ranch homes in the Epilogue.  Obviously, I'd pay a pretty penny for a remastered Red Dead Redemption in this new expanded land.  Imagine all the things you got in the previous game, with the new mechanics, updated graphics, and maybe even a bonus thread of content that takes John Marston back east.  I'm surprised and miss that Landon Ricketts didn't appear in Red Dead 2.  Maybe he's the protagonist for Red Dead 3 when they go backwards in time again, ha

 

Side note... wish they had not named it Red Dead Redemption 2.  It's hell trying to explain to someone the #2 sequel is actually a prequel and you can play the first one after the second one.

 

 

[Guest Guest176525326]

This thread will end up like the GTA V one...

 

You might as well as lock it now to save you the heartache 

[Corndawg93]

I'd like to see an episodes of Liberty City type thing, where you play as several other characters to see there point of view, I'd like to see Edger Ross's and Sadie's points of views

Edger's story starts just before the botch ferry job and goes all the way into the Epilogue with him seaching for John

Sadie starts with her mission in chapter 3 and ends with her trip to South America 

[Boozey St John]

2 hours ago, O.Z said:

This thread will end up like the GTA V one...

 

You might as well as lock it now to save you the heartache 

Thanks for your two cents, now kindly take it and feck off since you missed the whole point of the thread. 

[Sonny_Black]

[happygrowls]

Undead Nightmare 2 is the most likely, as it was Rockstar's best selling expansion alongside TBoGT for GTA IV.

 

I'd like to see a Chapter 0/Pro-Prologue, before Colter and being in Blackwater/NA as Arthur and the gang, maybe during the period where John abandoned them for a year.

 

Chapter 6/Finale spoilers.

Seeing as Arthur never gets to explore New Austin in RDR2, it would be a good way to allow him to collect items and get the Legend of the East stuff before Chapter 6.

[Guest Guest176525326]

8 minutes ago, happygrowls said:

Undead Nightmare 2 is the most likely, as it was Rockstar's best selling expansion alongside TBoGT for GTA IV.

 

It was the best selling and also the last ever Single Player DLC to be ever released by Rockstar. I’m sure of it.

 

Back then(end of 2010) online wasn’t a big deal at all. Nowadays things have changed. If Rockstar does release the Undead Nightmare 2 it will just be an online expansion  rather than a single player dlc.

[ReadDeadStu]

I heard rumours of a DLC which is the complete remastered game of Red Dead Redemption 1 that RDR2 just seamlessly flows into once complete. That's the one I'm hoping for. 

[Tonesta]

Way I see it, although they're a huge, wealthy company, Rockstar still have a finite number of developers and content designers.

 

So they've three choices:

1) Have them work on developing SP DLC for Red Dead Redemption 2

2) Have them focus on developing new content for Red Dead Online

3) Have them all working (I'm sure some are already) on the next game in the pipeline.

 

Before GTA V, Rockstar's model was clearly that there was money to be made in Option #1......then GTAO and Shark Cards blew up and they abandoned it in favour of Option #2.

 

Same will be true here. If RDRO is raking in the recurring revenue, then we won't see any SP DLC.

If RDRO doesn't do so well....then the chances are better. Unless they decide that they really need those resources for Bully 2/GTA VI/Whatever comes next.

 

Personally, I'd give it one chance in three.

[Smokewood]

Can't do undead nightmare because that happens later in RDR1.

Give me aliens....

[PhotomodePNG]

I hope a remaster of RDR...but I also like the idea of a time before the happening in Blackwater(and the happening itself)...Gives them a opportunity to fill up all the plot holes from the first games and gives them a change to start a new story for RDR3 

Edited January 16, 2019 by Morgan

[Boozey St John]

52 minutes ago, Tonesta said:

Way I see it, although they're a huge, wealthy company, Rockstar still have a finite number of developers and content designers.

 

So they've three choices:

1) Have them work on developing SP DLC for Red Dead Redemption 2

2) Have them focus on developing new content for Red Dead Online

3) Have them all working (I'm sure some are already) on the next game in the pipeline.

 

Before GTA V, Rockstar's model was clearly that there was money to be made in Option #1......then GTAO and Shark Cards blew up and they abandoned it in favour of Option #2.

 

Same will be true here. If RDRO is raking in the recurring revenue, then we won't see any SP DLC.

If RDRO doesn't do so well....then the chances are better. Unless they decide that they really need those resources for Bully 2/GTA VI/Whatever comes next.

 

Personally, I'd give it one chance in three.

Definitely agree with what you're saying! 

 

But allow me to play devil's advocate here: 

 

-The world of RDR2 is much more immersive and alive than in GTAV- which is what makes the game so great, and I think a lot of players expected online's world to be just as alive as SP's. There are very few activities and the amount of complaints, there are significantly less players online than on GTAO. R* noted that they didn't believe this would even compete with GTAO and so far they've proved right. (Is gold even selling like cardsharks?) 

 

-Apparently, Rockstar mentioned that they missed making SP DLC. (Not sure how true this is and I'm too lazy to Google it.) 

 

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If there is a SP dlc; it would have to be something like Cowboys and Aliens. 

 

After the end of the epilogue, there's really nothing to expand on.

[Deadman2112]

Edit

Wrong section 

Edited January 16, 2019 by Deadman2112

[CrimsonFolo]

Possible DLC from my view

 

1. Prologue possibly showing Dutch's gang before Blackwater heist (or they could save it for red dead 3 lol have the games be prequels to each other)

2. Undead Nightmare an option (They already have models like nite folk which they could adjust to make zombie models easily. Also could incorporate the cause to nite folk possibly, like they did some ritual or some random sh*t)

3. DLC concerning one of the characters in particular ( Charles and others could be a possibility but would have to before events of current game and so might be hard to incorporate so unlikely this option )

4. Leave Red Dead 2 SP as it is and focus on next Game/RDR Online content.

 

In my eyes, those are the possible paths that they would take.

[Darealbandicoot]

Hopefully they won't dissect it for Online updates this time, but a supernatural DLC is the most likely. The RDR1 remaster rumour has been debunked as the voice of a random NPC who plays at the Blackwater tables. From what I'm hearing, Gold sales are very low so the PC version should be announced sooner rather than later. Don't expect the PS4 and X1 versions of RDR2 to receive much more support since Rockstar are making a re release for next gen consoles so any DLC and updates /support might be exclusive to them. 

Edited January 16, 2019 by Darealbandicoot

[Frantz Fuchs]

Just put all focus on bully 2 tbh

Edited January 16, 2019 by Frantz Fuchs

[Implicitly]

I'd kill for some sort of alternative ending DLC.... Which would be a nice window opening to RD3 without having to go back further in time, if not an alternative ending, it'd be awesome to see all the cut content, and or removed original cutscenes they scrapped.

 

11 hours ago, Corndawg93 said:

I'd like to see an episodes of Liberty City type thing, where you play as several other characters to see there point of view, I'd like to see Edger Ross's and Sadie's points of views

Edger's story starts just before the botch ferry job and goes all the way into the Epilogue with him seaching for John

Sadie starts with her mission in chapter 3 and ends with her trip to South America 

I always wondered for some reason if they'd do that with Sadie to see her perspective on it though that'd be hard.

[Smokewood]

46 minutes ago, Darealbandicoot said:

Hopefully they won't dissect it for Online updates this time, but a supernatural DLC is the most likely. The RDR1 remaster rumour has been debunked as the voice of a random NPC who plays at the Blackwater tables. From what I'm hearing, Gold sales are very low so the PC version should be announced sooner rather than later. Don't expect the PS4 and X1 versions of RDR2 to receive much more support since Rockstar are making a re release for next gen consoles so any DLC and updates /support might be exclusive to them. 

The next gen will be 2020 at the earliest. 

[Boozey St John]

49 minutes ago, Darealbandicoot said:

Hopefully they won't dissect it for Online updates this time, but a supernatural DLC is the most likely. The RDR1 remaster rumour has been debunked as the voice of a random NPC who plays at the Blackwater tables. From what I'm hearing, Gold sales are very low so the PC version should be announced sooner rather than later. Don't expect the PS4 and X1 versions of RDR2 to receive much more support since Rockstar are making a re release for next gen consoles so any DLC and updates /support might be exclusive to them. 

Good point, honestly, next gen consoles totally slipped my mind. 

 

I remember reading about the Jack voice glitch being an NPC's voice but I also read that it wasn't an NPC's voice-- yadda yadda yadda. 

 

10 minutes ago, Frantz Fuchs said:

Just put all focus on bullw 2 tbh

Go put all *YOUR* focus on "bullw 2" tbh. 

Edited January 16, 2019 by Boozey St James

[Cutter De Blanc]

54 minutes ago, Darealbandicoot said:

From what I'm hearing, Gold sales are very low 

"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me"

[UncleTacitus]

I was one of the few who hated Undead Nightmare. Not because it was a bad game, exactly, it wasn't, but because it just didn't seem to fit into my idea of RDR. Guess that's on me more than anyone else. I just don't think that adding zombies brought anything to the table there. So... I'm hoping Undead Nightmare for RDR2 doesn't happen, although I would love a Story Mode DLC. As for RDO... yeah, why not, I could go for a, say, Halloween 2019 event, where the whole world turns into a zombie apocalypse. I don't know why, but it wouldn't seem so out of place with RDO. Despite the fact that RDO has some of the SP characters, it doesn't really 'feel' canon to me.

Edited January 16, 2019 by UncleTacitus
correcting a typo

[FrankNitti1886]

I would like a dlc which adds a new section of the map, Mexico seems the most obvious of course but I rather have the oher side of Ambarino or land to explore across the river from St Denis. I remember Mafia 3 did this and added quite a large land mass through dlc 

[Darealbandicoot]

1 minute ago, FrankNitti1886 said:

I would like a dlc which adds a new section of the map, Mexico seems the most obvious of course but I rather have the oher side of Ambarino or land to explore across the river from St Denis. I remember Mafia 3 did this and added quite a large land mass through dlc 

I can see it now.... Red Dead Online: Viva Mexico! Update. Coming soon with bonus missions featuring Arthur Morgan and or John or Sadie which TOTALLY isn't scrapped single player dlc.

[Ma-mothers-Ma-Sister]

I’d love a story of what really went down In Blackwater, or a dlc where you play as jack after Events of red dead redemption. Anything single player would be absolutely great but I guess rockstar would probably want to focus on the online for the next 5 years or so..

[spoonman039]

blackwater heist could be a great mission for DLC, but it could become too linear and short like prologue in GTA V, so that's definitely not enough for a DLC. it could be about younger days of the gang and the story ends with blackwater heist, but some people think that would be a good story for new RDR game..

 

my favourite option will be a remake of RDR1 with couple of added features, to keep people interested enough to buy it again.. 

[DrDetroit]

As long as DLC doesn't include any of that hokey goofy zombie or alien crap, I'm in!

 

I just couldn't even get past 20-30min of gameplay with undead nightmare it was so dumb. 

 

Like others have stated; how about the early days of the gang or port over RDR1, with a tombstone style OK Corral gunfight (still hard to believe that neither of the RDR games touch on that at all - odd ball in my mind).

 

Anyhow that is my $0.02 worth.

[Nulla Lex Ink.]

Blackwater DLC would be great, with Davey or Mac as the player character. I could see it being 20-30 missions, during which we'd finally be able to enjoy the gang seeing some successes. Would be real neat to play as one of them because apparently EVERYONE liked them. Even Micah seems to have thought well of them (or, well, better than the other camp members). Speaking of Micah, I think a DLC focusing on him before joining the Van der Linde gang would be cool, though I don't see him being the player character. Instead, I'd like to see his brother Amos, since what we know of him kind of fits the theme of the series - A man who used to do a lot of bad things but is now trying to reform. Plus it'd be nice to finally see that type of story have a happy ending, since unless something happened that we don't know about, it seems like he's living a peaceful life with his family in California.

 

In a similar vein, I think it would be cool to see Dutch building up that gang of Natives we see in RDR, but once again I don't ever see Dutch as the player character type. I think during this, if we played as anyone we knew about, it'd have to be Nastas before he decides to turn informant. This would be a cool one to do because we'd still have the camp mechanic, but with an entirely new cast... With the ending's implication being that John and the BOI eventually slaughters all but one. At least one has to end up living, because after Dutch's death in RDR1 you can find his grave around that camp apparently (I've never found it, but I've read it). Now that I think about it, the ending of that DLC could see that one survivor (perhaps the one you played as the whole time) going to kill Fordham, as a neat parallel to RDR's ending and wrapping up the one loose end from RDR.

 

I could see there being a DLC about Javier and Bill eventually pulling away from Dutch, and maybe showing us how they got to where they were in RDR. I could also see some interesting potential in focusing on Charles before (and maybe after) the gang, Sadie after the gang, and Lenny before the gang. I'd like a Red Dead Remastered, but more than that I'd like a Landon Ricketts style DLC, maybe one where he trains Jack in the ways of gunslinging. I saw someone suggest a DLC with him where it'd be a cheesy type of violent Western, and I think that'd be cool too, as something more lighthearted.

 

1 hour ago, DrDetroit said:

As long as DLC doesn't include any of that hokey goofy zombie or alien crap, I'm in!

 

I just couldn't even get past 20-30min of gameplay with undead nightmare it was so dumb. 

 

Like others have stated; how about the early days of the gang or port over RDR1, with a tombstone style OK Corral gunfight (still hard to believe that neither of the RDR games touch on that at all - odd ball in my mind).

 

Anyhow that is my $0.02 worth.

An OK Corral type of mission would be excellent. Probably very brief, but I could see it being powerful if all of the characters involved were built up and had good stories and personalities attached to them.

[Jabalous]

1. Prologue to Redemption 2. Basically, a West Elizabeth chapter that leads to the ferry robbery. 

 

2. 1907-1911 DLC. We don't play with John Marston because he settled in his ranch and lived a normal life. Instead we play with another outlaw and witness the developments in New Austin, from the recovery of Armadillo, complete abandonment of Tumbleweed, to the rise of the Bill Williamson gang and opening the borders with Mexico. 

 

3. Sadie DLC. Bounty Hunting and her own adventures sometime between 1900 and 1907. 

 

4. Charles DLC. Natives-focused and his own adventures sometime between 1900 and 1907. 

 

5. Another story with new characters that have nothing to do with Dutch's gang. Think of it as a new Red Dead game that just uses the assets of Redemption 2. It'd still be small and released as DLC. 

Edited January 18, 2019 by Jabalous