Red Dead Redemption 2 launched three years ago and fans have stumbled upon a myriad of details since. Because Red Dead Redemption 2's environments are dynamic, it can be difficult for players to traverse the same area multiple times in a short period and notice minor changes.
As a result, there may be many details throughout the game's open environment that are still easy to miss if players are not attentive. Rockstar Games fans pride Red Dead Redemption 2 on its finer details, with more than a few of them being found by players after many playthroughs. While one fan's recent discovery is not news to every Red Dead Redemption 2 player, it is still an exciting find for themselves after five separate playthroughs.
RELATED: Red Dead Redemption Images Show How John Marston's Face Changed Throughout the Games
Reddit user epicredman shares a clip of themselves happening upon a particularly gruesome and discolored corpse that is nearly skeletal. Confused, epicredman asks other players if they have any insight into what they have found. An overwhelming response from players confirms that it is indeed a decomposed corpse left unattended and undisposed of in Red Dead Redemption 2's open world. Many fans who have been aware of this feature have shared their own experiences with body decomposition occurring regularly in Red Dead Redemption 2.
Qpzfd claims that dead bodies allegedly take around 45 minutes to decompose, but also notes that there are a number of different environmental factors that weigh in on a corpse's decomposition. Players who are unfamiliar with Red Dead Redemption 2's gradual corpse degradation may not have experienced it for multiple reasons. As LotusSloth states, when a freshly deceased body is laying in the environment, it does not commonly take long before "critters swoop in for an easy meal." Scavenger animals picking at a corpse is perhaps the most natural way a corpse is dealt with in Red Dead Redemption 2's open world.
Of course, corpses could not be left everywhere to rot in-game. For example, settlement locations such as Strawberry or Rhodes do not let dead bodies linger in the streets. Corpses vanishing from these highly populated areas in Red Dead Redemption 2may then be explained as the populous' citizens maintaining the area and taking care of corpses themselves. Main roads also have a discreet clean-up crew, because enemies and such NPCs that are slain along a main road are also gone when players return.
Further, BrandonBellinger94 suggests that it may have been a slain bounty hunter that epicredman "had previously killed in that area, decomposing." Rockstar could have simply let these corpses vanish in the open world as well, and it would have gone unnoticed by many players. But because a majority of Red Dead Redemption 2's heartland terrain is an unpopulated landscape, it is exciting to see Rockstar provide a body decomposition feature for corpses that would not be easily obtainable by local authorities.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is available now on PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One.
MORE: Take-Two Interactive is Developing Three Unannounced Remakes or Remasters
