The team behind OpenIV has announced that its tool currently supports the PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2. Right now, OpenIV is able to open the new RPF8 archives from the RDR2. What this means is that by using this tool, PC gamers will be able to mod this latest open-world title.
As the team noted, it is now possible to harvest file names from the game itself. Just like GTA V, RDR 2 has many META, XML and PSO files that contain names of the files and archives. Furthermore, this first version most likely has a very limited database of the file names.
The OpenIV team is currently working on support for the most of the basic files. Moreover, there is no ETA on the when the next version of the OpenIV will come out.
What this ultimately means is that there isn’t much you can mod right now in RDR2. Still, you can download the latest version of OpenIV from here and experiment.
Last but not least, you can find below a video giving you a first look at the Red Dead Redemption 2 files.
Enjoy!
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I’d love if a modder could optimize the textures for 2 3 vram cards. I’ve never seen a game where you needed a 4gb vram card so that textures wouldn’t look like system shock ones
A great news, definitely a great news 😉
For me this is good news.
And this is also one of the reasons why PC Gaming platform is far superior thanks to the MODDING community, regardless of whether any game is good or bad though, at least in my opinion.
After all, SKYRIM/GTA 5 is an example to showcase how far PC game modding has evolved over time. Modders keep the Game alive, and even implement features and tweks/fixes which the Game DEVs have failed to do so, in the first place.
It would be nice to see what type of MODs are going to be released for RDR2, though I don’t intend to play this game, at least for the time being. Just my 2 cents.
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I’ve just started the chapter 3 and i really like the visuals until now (the game as well), but if we can have only a fraction of mods we had for GTA V (not super hero or modern mods nonetheless), it would be really a great thing.
Yes, indeed. I agree.
“It would be nice to see what type of MODs are going to be released for RDR2”
Hopefully a Blazing Saddles total conversion mod so to witness the ensuing seismic meltdown at Polygon, PC Gamer, Kotaku and Eurogamer! ?
That’s a good one, lol…
Good news. This game needs a few texture mods then it would be spectacular. But it needs patches first. I just finished the story mode and the constant freeze-ups are a pain.
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A motorcycle mods would be great 😀 also i hope NO ONE has an idea to make RDR2 total conversion mods into Brokeback mountain..