Red Dead Onlineplayers have been excitedly anticipating the multiplayer game’s upcoming Halloween event ever since it leaked in late July. With the release of a new Halloween Outlaw Pass, a variety of new content including skins and more will be introduced. It seems that there’s still plenty more forRed Dead Onlineplayers to discover, however. A new leak reveals thatRed Dead Onlinemay be revisiting the originalRed Dead Redemption’sUndead NightmareDLC and adding zombies to the game.
YouTube channel Red Dead Guides claims to have datamined the details regardingzombies coming toRed Dead Online. Just saying that zombies are being added to the game might be a gross understatement, too. Red Dead Guides says that it’s found “almost 50 zombie models” inRed Dead Online’s files. These models are all labeled “Army of Fear” and include diverse examples of zombies including both 29 men and 19 women.
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Virtually nothing is known about these zombies' role inRed Dead Onlineor how they’ll fit intoRockstar’s Halloween plans. One notable detail is that all of the zombies appear to be wearing red clothes, as if they’re all a part of the same cult. They otherwise all have very similar faces, with different hair or clothes colors. In other words, players probably won’t be directly interacting with these zombies as NPCs. They would make for decent enemies to fight against in a hectic battle, though.
The one clue that the Red Dead Guides video mentions is an earlier leak of audio files with the label “Fear of Us.” The music in those files is quite spooky, so it seems likely to be used for aHalloween event or game mode. Perhaps a new mode or questline is named Army of Fear, perhaps it’s named Fear of Us, or perhaps it’s something entirely different.
WhileRed Dead Redemptionfans would love something akin to theUndead NightmareDLC, that seems unlikely.Undead Nightmarefeatured single-player missions with a lot of storytelling. The 50 datamined zombies implies something less authored. And story-heavy missions don’t lend themselves as well toRed Dead Onlineas opposed toRed Dead Redemption 2.
With Halloween less than a month and a half away,Red Dead Onlineplayerslikely won’t have to wait long to find out exactly what Rockstar is planning. If the Halloween update itself isn’t dropped going into October, then dataminers will make up for it and continue finding pieces of whatever’s in the works.
Red Dead Onlineis available now on PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One.
