Red Dead Redemption 2 Player Terrified By T-Posing Corpse

A Red Dead Redemption 2 player was recently greeted by the frightening sight of a murdered NPC frozen in the default T-pose position while looting a crime scene. Released to critical acclaim back in 2018, Red Dead Redemption 2 serves as a prequel to 2010’s Red Dead Redemption and tells the story of Van der Linde gang member Arthur Morgan as he flees from the law following a bank robbery gone awry amid the vast open-world backdrop of the American south in 1899. The game’s formula is very similar to Rockstar Game’s equally successful Grand Theft Auto 5, allowing players to explore the countryside and complete various side activities aside from Arthur’s main quest.

As with any open-world title of its caliber, fans have noticed plenty of strange details and random NPC encounters in Red Dead Redemption 2, both naturally occurring and triggered by player actions. Red Dead Redemption 2’s character AI is incredibly detailed, so much so that fans have conducted thorough research on the game’s many different types of horses and noted how NPC villagers become understandably angry when Arthur disturbs their sleep at night in RDR2. Some of these NPCs can even take the law into their own hands during shootouts, and Arthur has been noted to have an awkward conversation with a grieving old lady in a graveyard during a session of Red Dead Redemption 2.

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Reddit user psychorinch was rooting through an old house in Red Dead Redemption 2 when they were startled by the sight of the deceased owner standing in the corner of the bedroom. As psychorinch notes in their corresponding post on r/reddeadredemption, they were searching the aforementioned murder scene for any loose items to loot when they spotted the slain woman in the corner of their eye, standing motionlessly in the standard NPC T-pose position most humanoid video game characters are modeled in. Psychorinch’s included screenshot provides a closer look at this undead apparition from Red Dead Redemption 2 as she stands bloodied atop her bed like a phantom. Other players in the comment section agree that this is a frightening sight to be sure, and have related to their own scary experiences with titles like The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim and Fallout 4, two other expansive open-world games with humanoid NPCs whose modeling glitches can lead to bizarre and terrifying situations.

Frozen NPCs are far from the only strange detail players have come across in Red Dead Redemption 2, as some have seen Arthur Morgan touch piping hot mugs with his hands and noticed realistic details on dead bodies that were blasted with Red Dead Redemption 2’s old-school shotguns. It seems that finding out fun little touches like this is part of Red Dead Redemption 2’s ongoing appeal, as RDR2 has been named one of the highest-selling video games of all time.

Even a full four years after the game first launched in 2018, fans are still finding crazy new details and odd NPC behaviors in Red Dead Redemption 2. Psychorinch's discovery of a frozen NPC hanging around the site of her murder is especially creepy, since her bloodied appearance and the fact that she's standing weightlessly with her arms outstretched make her look like a zombie or vengeful spirit whose eternal rest has been disturbed by a careless looter breaking into her house. Perhaps Arthur should be more cautious about which homes he decides to enter in hopes of valuable materials, as even the most grizzled outlaw of the Old West will find this sight chilling.

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Source: psychorinch/Reddit