Red Dead Online Fans React With Surprise and Delight as Rockstar Releases New Missions, Sparking Even More Speculation About Red Dead Redemption 2

Red Dead Online is showing signs of beingness aft Rockstar added caller missions to the game, and arsenic you’d expect fans are erstwhile again speculating that a next-gen update for Red Dead Redemption 2 is successful the works.

Most fans had travel to presumption with the thought that Rockstar had moved connected from Read Dead Online backmost successful 2022, but the developer has unexpectedly released the caller Strange Tales of the West update, which includes 4 caller missions and a tease of much to come.

The caller trailer, below, is the archetypal Rockstar has released for Red Dead Online since 2021.

Here's the authoritative blurb:

Author Theodore Levin can’t judge the rumors and missives he’s been receiving from the 4 corners of the American frontier. He’s moving connected an anthology of these unexplained and weird phenomena and helium needs your assistance investigating the wildest claims that transverse his desk.Strange Tales of the West volition necessitate steely resoluteness and courageousness successful the look of the odd, twisted, and downright supernatural. Embark upon these 4 caller Telegram Missions by picking up Mr. Levin’s missive astatine immoderate Post Office oregon from your Camp’s Lockbox, past opening it via your Satchel oregon launching Telegram Missions from your Player Menu.

The 4 caller missions are Strange Tales of The Plague, Strange Tales of Modern Science, Strange Tales of The Bayou, and Strange Tales of The Wilderness. As reported by @videotechuk_ connected X / Twitter, the update adds a caller zombie infected mode, the archetypal ngo of which takes spot successful Armadillo.

— ben (@videotechuk_) July 1, 2025

Fans are inactive digesting the news, with posts crossed societal media and subreddits showing the level of excitement.

But what does this mean for Red Dead Online and genitor crippled Red Dead Redemption 2? Given the zombie quality of the update, immoderate are wondering if Rockstar has prepared an Undead Nightmare-style enlargement for Red Dead Redemption 2. That would travel arsenic a immense daze fixed the studio’s all-hands-on-deck absorption connected adjacent year’s Grand Theft Auto VI, but possibly much apt is simply a next-gen port.

In May, GameReactor reported that a Nintendo Switch 2 mentation of Rockstar's Wild West romp was connected the way, on with a "next-gen upgrade patch" that would amended the crippled for current-gen systems (PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S). Both could beryllium released aboriginal successful 2025, according to the site.

Fans person agelong called for an updated mentation of Red Dead Redemption 2, which is considered a masterpiece. IGN's Red Dead Redemption 2 reappraisal returned a 10/10. We said: "Red Dead Redemption 2 is simply a crippled of uncommon quality; a meticulously polished open-world ode to the outlaw era."

For now, Red Dead Online fans are enjoying digging into Strange Tales of the West, which is officially described arsenic Vol.1. This suggests different contented driblet is coming. Whatever the aboriginal holds, it seems Red Dead Online is backmost from the dead.

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