Update: Rockstar pointed us to the Newswire post about this Red Dead Online update now that it’s live, which provides a bit more info on each of the new missions.
„There are stories of a malady spreading among the people of Armadillo, turning them into shambling undead,“ reads the bit on the zombie plague mission, „It’ll fall on you to retrieve several of these diseased corpses for scientific examination, if you can avoid infection and fend off attacks from a resurgent cell of nearby cultists.“
The studio didn’t comment on whether the arrival of these missions means Red Dead Online players can expect any more new stuff going forwards.
Original story follows:
Howdy, pardner. Been a while, ain’t it? Red Dead Online’s just gotten a fresh update that surprisingly adds some new missions, three or so years after Rockstar gave up on delivering major updates to the cowboy sandbox. Oh, and one of them looks to involve you investigating some zombie plague outbreaks.
Sounds a bit Undead Nightmare-ish to me, and these sudden new additions have folks wondering if Rockstar’s trying to bring the game back from the grave.