Red Dead Redemption 2/Locations
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Locations
- Purchasable safehouses were cut though there remains several properties with unfinished interiors which are labeled as player housing in the game files in Strawberry, Rhodes, and Annesburg.[1][2][3]
- The train station at Manzanita Post was meant to make a return, it also would've had an interior area at one point.
- There was meant to be a gang hideout in Roanoke Ridge where Van Horn Trading Post is now located called "Tallulah Jetty". It's possible that the Tallulah Jetty gang would've inhabited it. A bartender for it exists in the files.
- The grass color in The Heartlands was supposed to be predominantly yellow and not green.
- Ambarino was supposed to be smaller with only the northern and southern portions being explorable.
- Pronghorn Ranch has a cut living room interior.
- Millesani Claim was supposed to be located in Big Valley instead of in Grizzlies West.
- The gang's camp on Guarma was supposed to be located in a cave on a cut area of the map known as El Hueco, it appears the place was relocated and an arch covers its intended entrance in the final game. An occlusion model still exists in the files for it.
- Instead of the gang settling at Clemens Cove, they were intended to settle at Dewberry Creek.
- A landmark called "Cohutta" was shown on the leaked map, it being the location with the sacred place in which Arthur and Rains Fall visited during in "Archeology for Beginners", though the location was not named in the final game.
- In Ambarino there was a deleted location called "Iron Cloud", which would've served as a gang camp and a landmark.
- There was a location known as "Dzoavits Claim" which still has associated cave painting designs in the game files. There is also a cut letter that refers to it as a mine.
- Cochinay seems to have been intended to be a gang hideout or something of the sort with a jail and gallows.
- Caliga Hall was intended to have an accessible interior at its main house.
- Cut fast travel text implicates that Nuevo Paraíso was intended to be fully explorable at some point in the game's development, it would've included locations such as Chuparosa, Casa Madrugada, Agave Viejo, El Matadero, Torquemada, Las Hermanas, and Escalera.
- Tempest Rim was meant to be accessible and served as the original location of Colter.
- Doverhill was meant to be located in the Cumberland Forest.
- The barn for Beecher's Hope was at one point was supposed to be seen in a state in which it was under construction, but only appears in a completed state in the game.
- The Giant's cave was supposed to have an opened up entrance as seen by his cut animations.
- Armadillo has a few cut interiors, most of which are leftovers from Red Dead Redemption. There is, however, a cut bathing room and player room which is not featured in the final game and only appears on the low poly map.[4]
- Cut text references a general store at Emerald Ranch.[5]
- The rest of the mine shaft at Gaptooth Ridge which appeared in Red Dead Redemption was intended to also appear in the game, but it was left unfinished and blocked off by some rocks.
- Sisika Penitentiary has a cut low poly interior featuring cell blocks.
- Many buildings around the map have cut basic interiors, most of which are empty or extremely lackluster (with only one or a few props in them).
- The fence at Emerald Ranch was originally supposed to be in the house across from the saloon with the only partially visible interior.
- The Aberdeen Pig Farm was originally meant to be located in the Heartlands instead of being in Scarlett Meadows.
- The Blackwater barber would've had a much larger back room as evidenced by the low poly map.
- Clingman was meant to be a homestead located in the Cumberland Forest.
- Sisika Penitentiary was located much further away in earlier versions of the game, some cut props still exist underneath the map near where it would've been, and a glitch occurs where hovering over its beta location on the map will show the player as being wanted dead or alive in that area.
- On the low poly map for Bayou Nwa, a submerged boat appears between the Tiny Church and Sonny's house.
- Also on the low poly map, the sign on the Valentine gunsmith's counter is different and some shops like the one in Tumbleweed have labels for the shovels and other tools.
- Mayor Nicholas Timmins' house has an inaccessible interior, it briefly appears in the end credit sequence for the game.
- There was supposed to be a gang hideout in Bayou Nwa called "Criard Slaughterhouse." The gang would've set up camp there for an unknown amount of time in earlier versions.
- Van Horn Trading Post was originally located further north on a portion of the map which is now inaccessible.
- At Van Horn, there was a rope bridge that the player could cross to get to the lighthouse but was removed from the game. The bridge still exists in the game files and can still be spawned through mods and the bridge can also be seen in a loading screen picture of the lighthouse.[6]
- Evidence would suggest the player was originally going to be able to sail over to the shore across from the Lannahechee River and Flat Iron Lake, but this was scrapped at a late point in development.
- A horse jumping arena would've appeared somewhere in the game as evidenced by a cut compendium image.
- The gang was supposed to set up camp at Hanging Dog Ranch in the beta.
- A mass grave connected to the curse of Valentine was cut, it was intended to be located near the stables.
- Numerous pictures on the map cards for stables are of different locations that mostly exist in the final game, this includes the Strawberry stable being located next to Norman's house, the Valentine stable being located at the Livery Sale & Feed Stable, the Rhodes stable being located near the cut jumping arena, and the Van Horn stable being located in the abandoned building behind the hotel. Due to an unused blacksmith blip in the files, it's possible that the current locations of the stables were simply meant to be blacksmiths, possibly intended to provide tack for horses. It's also possible that at some point, the player could freely go inside stables.
- The Rhodes Parlour House's bathing room originally jutted out of the side based on a low-poly interior left in the files.
- The Strawberry Doctor was intended to be functional at one point, Strawberry also had a saloon inside of the Trackers Hotel.
- Annesburg was intended to have a fully functioning general store, doctor's office, saloon, and bank.
Location Name Discrepancies
- Text in the files refers to Canebreak Manor as "Cranebreak Manor".
- Guarma was originally called "Guama" and was intended to be smaller with multiple islands and fully explorable. The player was also intended to be able to revisit it in the Epilogue.[7] It had many different cut locations such as Le Vilaj which had a bar and a few shops with a leftover occlusion model remaining in the files, El Hueco, and more.
- Fort Wallace was known as "Old Fort Wallace" and was located in Grizzlies East in earlier stages of development. At one point, it also served as spot in which bounty posters could be acquired and had a shop. It was located higher up on the mountain range than in the final game, and the mountain it was supposed to appear on had a completely different shape during the beta. A cut road sign can be found underneath the map near where it was supposed to be, and a glitch occurs where hovering over its beta location on the map will show the player as being wanted dead or alive in that area.
- Butcher Creek was originally known as "Butcher's Creek".
- Text in the game refers to the Heartland Oil Fields as the Valentine Oilfields.
- Bluewater Marsh was initially named "Bluegill Marsh".
- Willard's Rest was originally called "Rocky Seven".
- Saint Denis was further below its current location and it was initially named "New Bordeaux". However, the name would be used in Mafia III', another game by Rockstar Games parent company, Take-Two Interactive. Some documents and audio clips still refer to it as New Bordeaux in the final game.
Name | Description | Exterior | Interior | |
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Doctor | A fully complete and highly detailed interior exists for Strawberry's doctor's office, and is briefly seen in the mission "The Wheel". The doctor himself, Wheeler, curiously doesn't actually exist in-game despite Abigail saying goodbye to him during a cutscene.
The game's explanation as to why the good doctor is missing is somewhat contradictory; the owner of the general store mentions that he hasn't been seen in months, while a newspaper article mentions that he only left town following the massacre that occurs when Arthur breaks Micah out of jail. The interior is not normally loaded until "The Wheel", so the building is usually seen with opaque windows and a "Gone fishin'" sign on the door. |
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Elegant house | A house located opposite the Welcome Center, possibly intended to be the residence of Mayor Timmins. Most of the house is empty and untextured, but a small and rather elegantly furnished study can be found inside. Strangely, a photo frame floats in mid-air behind the desk instead of being placed on top of it.
The study lacks a door, and most of the decoration is laid out across two perpendicular walls, which would suggest the room was intended for a cutscene viewed from a north-westerly perspective. |
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The Tracker's Hotel | The ground floor is long, but has basic textures and is empty inside. A smaller room upstairs looks much the same and is also empty...save for a single white bucket situated on the floor. Strangely, generic NPCs can sometimes spawn inside of this room. | |||
Skinny's house | Micah briefly enters Skinny's house during "Blessed are the Meek?" to kill Skinny and his wife. Normally it's not possible to see inside as the player is blocked from even stepping on the porch, but the entrance hallway and stairs are fully detailed. The upstairs loft is completely empty and unfinished however. | |||
Henry Elsom & Sons Carpentry | The inside of this building is textured but mostly empty, with foliage clipping through the walls. An NPC will pop out of the doors to ambush the player during "Blessed are the Meek?", and it's possible to get inside if you are quick enough to run in before the doors close and lock shut. There's an upper level containing a distinctive wooden chest, but the chest, floor, and supports all lack collision.
It's likely the interior simply exists to facilitate the ambush during the mission, but the presence of the wooden chest is an unusual detail as there is no way the player can ordinarily see it. |
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Safehouse | On the south-western edge of town, a large building advertises a furnished apartment within for rent. In-game files indicate that this was intended to be a safehouse that could be acquired by the player. The inside has basic textures and is completely empty, though there's a strange wooden artifact on the wall near the north-eastern corner. |
Emerald Ranch
Rhodes
Annesburg
Blackwater
Blackwater appears to have the most unused areas of any settlement in the game, though this may partially be because of the map being ported over and modified from the first Red Dead Redemption game.
Armadillo
Despite Armadillo's rather desperate situation in Red Dead Redemption 2, there are remnants of more things that were planned for the town that suggest it was going to be set during a happier time. Not all the interiors from the first game are present here (notably the gunsmith), but a few of them are.
Name | Description | Exterior | Interior | |
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Bank of Armadillo | The bank has an almost fully modelled and near-complete interior, appearing much more richly detailed than in the first game. Only the room at the back is unfinished, however, and evidently wasn't planned to be accessible anyway. | |||
Church | The church is accessible in the first Red Dead Redemption game as a film house. A low-poly version of the same interior is present in this game, but lacking textures and lighting. | |||
General Practice | An untextured interior of the doctor's office from the first game is present in this one. There may have been an intention to have a functioning doctor's office in Armadillo, but was likely scrapped when the plague scenario was devised for the town. | 250px |
- ↑ Player housing in Strawberry: https://youtu.be/B9fE3iKfL6s?t=22
- ↑ Player housing in Rhodes: https://youtu.be/B9fE3iKfL6s?t=149
- ↑ Player housing in Annesburg: https://youtu.be/B9fE3iKfL6s?t=251
- ↑ https://gtaforums.com/topic/918036-the-rdr2-beta-hunt/page/39/#comment-1071096610
- ↑ https://gtaforums.com/topic/918036-the-rdr2-beta-hunt/page/34/#comment-1070976983
- ↑ https://youtu.be/19RP48D4oKk
- ↑ https://imgur.com/lNtDr8f