Bizarre Red Dead Redemption 2 Clip Shows Player Reanimating a Corpse

Highlights

• PC players of Red Dead Redemption 2 enjoy benefits such as enhanced visuals and mod support, including a revive gun that brings dead NPCs back to life.
• A Twitch streamer showcased the revive gun by using it on a hanging corpse, resulting in a bizarre encounter where the animated corpse ran away, despite missing legs and a head.
• The mod that allows this reanimation is called Resurrect NPCs, and players can use the revive gun to bring any dead NPC back to life.

A Red Dead Redemption 2 player has clipped the moment in which they reanimate a corpse with a revive gun. There are many corpses littered around the Red Dead Redemption 2 open world, but this revived one may be the strangest.

The PC release of Red Dead Redemption 2 followed its console launch by over a year. Though they had to wait longer for the game, gamers have some benefits to playing the game on PC. Like other games, the visuals can be scaled up for players that have impressive rigs. The game also offers multi-monitor support and an FOV slider. Beyond the usual PC improvements, Red Dead Redemption 2 also has a plethora of mods. Among the mods is a revive gun that allows players to bring dead NPCs back to life. One gamer decided to use the gun on a hanging corpse, resulting in a bizarre encounter.

Popular Twitch streamer SWOL recently shared a YouTube video highlighting the Red Dead Redemption 2 revive gun. The clip begins with the player speculating that a hanging corpse would fall to the ground or move in place once shot. The first gunshot does nothing, but the second one animates the corpse, which starts frantically swaying side to side after the streamer shoots an arm. The ropes suspending the corpse in midair are then shot, resulting in the body running away despite missing legs and a head. The running corpse has perfectly animated arms that emphasize the speed of its pace, but due to the missing legs, it floats along the open-world landscape. Before grabbing their Red Dead Redemption 2 horse, SWOL questions how the legless corpse can run faster than Arthur.

The mod that allows players to reanimate corpses is called Resurrect NPCs. The streamer may be using a unique revive gun mod as the standard one doesn’t shoot bullets at the targeted bodies. Upon activating the mod, players can find the revive gun in the Give Weapon menu where it’s set to “off” by default. Using the revive gun will allow players to bring any dead NPC back to life. These NPCs will act like normal Red Dead Redemption 2 characters despite being covered in blood, heavy decomposition, or missing limbs like this one. Some fans have recommended that the streamer use the gun on the frozen couple and an NPC with their pants down.

Because there are so many corpses in Red Dead Redemption 2‘s world, players may use the revive gun in even stranger situations in the future. It’s unlikely that Rockstar Games intended for these corpses to be reanimated, but the way they act normally upon being revived is a testament to the NPC programming.