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A pretty convincing, and potentially fake, video of Red Dead Redemption 2 PC has surfaced

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Red Dead Redemption 2 is a game that a lot of PC gamers are looking forward to. While Rockstar has not announced anything official yet, we are almost certain that it’s a matter of “when” and not a matter of “if.” And yesterday, a video surfaced online from this supposedly rumoured PC version.

Now as the title suggests, this is most likely a fake video. However, the reason I’ve decided to share it with you is because the man/woman behind it has done an excellent job. If this is a fake video, it’s one of the best fake videos I’ve seen to date so kudos to him/her.

This video is supposedly from an early version of Red Dead Redemption 2 for the PC and shows its graphics settings. However, there are some things that caught my attention, suggesting that this is fake. For instance, we cannot hear any mouse clicks while the user is browsing the menu. Moreover, there isn’t any “Quit” button so that makes this whole thing even more suspicious.

There are also other things that may tingle your spider senses. For example, the user does not show the game being played with the mouse and keyboard (though this could be faked by plugging a mouse and keyboard to PS4 via third-party tools/applications).

So yeah, this is probably fake but as said, it’s one of the best fake videos we’ve seen to date so go ahead and take a look!

UPDATE:

The original uploader has deleted the video but you can find a mirror below.

Red Dead Redemption 2 PC Leaked | Reupload

59 thoughts on “A pretty convincing, and potentially fake, video of Red Dead Redemption 2 PC has surfaced”

  1. Moreover, there isn’t any “Quit” button so that makes this whole thing even more suspicious.

    To get back to home screen in consoles, you have to enter in the “Story” menu, so I guess that a “Quit” button should be there, if it’s intended to be accurate.

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  2. If I really wanted to play RDR 2, I’d go to Walmart, buy a PS4 and a copy of the game, play it over the course of a few days, return the console back to Walmart for a full refund and then sell the game on eBay. Quick and easy way to “rent” the few decent exclusives on that platform.

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    3. Lol, i did something similar to get free PS3 games for RPCS3. But used from GameStop, dump discs with modded console, return within a week. Quality ISO’s, and f*cks over an awful corporation.

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  3. Fake, Why is it recorded with a camera pointed at a tv. Show me real screenshots and video captures, which is what pc’s do.

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      1. Who and where. It’s not even in a developer’s office you can see the background and it’s too dark also. I spent many years installing office furniture including developer’s offices. Full of cubicles. Look at the size of the bezels on the monitor looks like a tv. Devs do use decent monitors.

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  4. “Moreover, there isn’t any “Quit” button so that makes this whole thing even more suspicious.”

    can still be legit. i know a few alphas that didn’t have a quit button either.
    Bottom left says build 1116.8. beta perhaps…. assuming 1120.0 is closer to final.

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    1. There is no Quit(Exit) button because it is located in Story section with options for:

      -New Game
      -Load Game
      -Save Game
      -Exit Game

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  5. Its coming to PC in 2019. It has so far sold only 6 million copies on PS4 and if we assume 2:1 ratio then that would mean it has sold 3 million on Xbox One. While 9 to 10 million copies sold is generally considered amazing. For a Rockstar game that took 7 years to make the console sales can be considered very disappointing especially since GTA V has sold 100 million copies and continues to sell exceptionally well on PC.

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    1. That is Rockstar PR BS. The truth is only users 6 – 8 milliion have played RDR 2 on PS4. The sales are even less than that since console gamers can borough, rent or buy pre-owned copies to boost the user counts. Unless it has sold the same amount on Xbox that 17 million figure is a lie or shipped numbers.

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          1. It did huge numbers but not as huge as the PR makes it out to be. There is a very good reason for all PR doing this. Its to impress prospective buyers, investors and stock holders.

          2. And that is why the stocks of these Publishers have taken a huge nosedive this year despite doing “record” numbers in sales. Check Take-Two Interactive stock in the last 6 months.

          3. Bingo, I’ve been watch the back & forth between you 2 and I was waiting for you to do the final nail in the coffin with the stocks conversation. Because just look at nvidia, these companies all user PR to inflate their worth. Everybody is talking about how RTX is out of stock and that means it must be doing well. Haha, what a joke, that couldn’t be any further from the truth. RTX is a failure and Nvidia just lost their biggest investor for it. Hint hint, making a small amount of cards so they’ll seem scarce is not the same as “selling out/doing well”. And we haven’t even talked about their failure rate.

            But these sentiments of success are usually coming from the idiots that went out and bought one. If I went out and bought an overpriced piece of mess I too would probably be out there typing lies, so I can sleep better at night. It is so difficult to have an honest discussion these days. But on a seperate note, you have a game like God Of War 4 that did extremely well, even though it was not a God Of war game, which makes it a terrible game in my eyes. God that game is bad. Good game if you’ve never played a God Of War Game. A very Bad game if you’ve ever played a God Of War Game.

          4. The stock of major publishers are currently decreasing because of the uncertainty in the overall market. Fortnite showed investors that you don’t need AAA singleplayer games to rake in tons of millions. Also, a new console generation is on the horizon and that usually means a decrease in spending by the consumer and lesser sales during a transition. Also, for TakeTwo specifically, GTA V is 5 years old and nearing its end in support thus the investors expect less income since Red Dead Online is still and beta and just starting. That is perfectly normal.

          5. You sound like you have an agenda here so I’m just not going to bother with anything you say 🙂

          6. Your only mistake was that RDR2 did not “sell” 17 million copies in under 2 weeks. It “shipped” 17 million copies. And that is only physical copies to retailers not counting digital downloads.

      2. This is definitely not PR bullshit. R* did not sell 17 million copies but it shipped them to retailers what is already money in the hands of R*/T2. And Rockstar is owned by T2 which is an openly traded company so they are definitely not allowed to lie about that or exaggerate your numbers.

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        1. That how it works. PR says shipped and then all the media reports it as sold and nobody remembers they said shipped NOT sold. Months later when the game has actually sold the shipped amount and PR now says sold. People are left scratching their heads because they vaguely remember it as selling the same amount months ago.

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  6. I’m convinced that RDR2 will come to PC eventually. The argument against that is that RDR1 never did but things were different back in 2010. Console was king and seen as the future of gaming and there was still a feeling that PC gaming was dying and we were mostly pirates anyway. I recall an interview with someone representing Rockstar back then where he said it wouldn’t be worth the time and money to port RDR1 over to PC. That’s not the case today and it’s why we keep seeing previous console exclusives being ported to PC.

    The only reason we will have to wait is that Rockstar hopes they can sell the game twice to people who own a PC and a console by staggering the releases.

    I also wouldn’t be surprised if one day Rockstar does a remaster of RDR1 and makes it available to consoles and PC.

    The bottom line is that it would be stupid from a business perspective to pass up on potentially hundreds of millions in sales for RDR2 to PC gamers.

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    1. That’s probably correct. Today’s consoles are like cheap PCs but iirc the TurdBox 360 and the TurdStation 3 weren’t like today’s consoles. They used different hardware so it’s probably harder to port a game from that era to PC.

      But didn’t RDR1 get ported to modern consoles?

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  7. you PC nerds realize that PC is not powerful enough to handle red dead right?jesus you guys are dense as hell. PC couldn’t handle first red dead back then why would you even hope that rockstar would release the sequel which is far more demanding on PC?

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          2. Do you really think that you’re going to trigger me saying stuff like that? hahahhaha… get a life kid.

        1. So you were serious…

          Just to remind you what even the “most powerful console” worth:

          Forza Horizon 4

          CPU
          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b89154c632f11f4c15306a0b31114ef14057dda68d70a91a1db93a43e83b9972.png
          So to be fair the One X “cpu” can be compared to an i3-4330. Nothing special…

          GPU
          Some One X settings
          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d9bbcdaac934f8a63d6580491f5be331d5765f01c5a045c1da4e684c0a978bc9.png
          https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/628e0c70714d693bd69fef7431dc49b6d65b0526fcc92ebc75eb3171d4f03055.png
          So with MSAAx8 (instead of x4) and SSAO on ultra (instead of Medium/High), and some other settings higher as well, the 1070 kick the a r s e of the One X on a MS 1st party title…

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    4. PS3 couldn’t handle RDR obviously pc cant handle it because ps3 is a super computer, it has the power of the cell processor so muh POWAAAAA

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  9. If the “quit” button’s the only fake proof then having graphical options should also stand as the legit proof. Do console games include graphical options nowadays?

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        1. Now that you mention it. There’s that black screen after he pressed “settings” and after he changed the res of the game. Hmm …

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  12. poor pc pirates can only beg all the time. it’s been for a decade. pity pc pirates have already jump to consoles. so ahoy piratey mate.. hop aboard the true masterrace consoles

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      1. LOL. Rockstar was scared they didn’t wanna upset the console peasants by releasing a superior version at the same time.

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  14. I knew it would come, said that long ago…
    Not expecting true HDR support, but i can imagine how it will look at 8k downsampled to 5k or 4k.

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