Red Dead Online just got some surprise new missions, and one involves investigating "undead plagues"

Somewhere successful West Elizabeth, John Marston's ears person conscionable pricked up

Update: Rockstar pointed america to the Newswire station astir this Red Dead Online update present that it's live, which provides a spot much info connected each of the caller missions.

"There are stories of a malady spreading among the radical of Armadillo, turning them into shambling undead," reads the spot connected the zombie plague mission, "It’ll autumn connected you to retrieve respective of these diseased corpses for technological examination, if you tin debar corruption and fend disconnected attacks from a resurgent compartment of adjacent cultists."

The workplace didn't remark connected whether the accomplishment of these missions means Red Dead Online players tin expect immoderate much caller worldly going forwards.

Original communicative follows:

Howdy, pardner. Been a while, ain't it? Red Dead Online's conscionable gotten a caller update that amazingly adds immoderate caller missions, 3 oregon truthful years aft Rockstar gave up connected delivering large updates to the cowboy sandbox. Oh, and 1 of them looks to impact you investigating immoderate zombie plague outbreaks.

Sounds a spot Undead Nightmare-ish to me, and these abrupt caller additions person folks wondering if Rockstar's trying to bring the crippled backmost from the grave.

Rockstar look to person pre-emptively shared immoderate details astir the contents of RDO's July update with immoderate of its assemblage members yesterday, and among the accustomed database of monthly in-game discounts and bonuses, revealed that immoderate caller content's dropping.

"Author Theodore Levin needs your assistance investigating the bizarre and unexplained successful Strange Tales of the West," the workplace purportedly wrote, "a caller acceptable of 4 eerie Telegram Missions disposable time successful Red Dead Online. Track down undead plagues, rogue automations, swamp beasts, and more." Yep, undead plagues.

As of this writing, determination isn't a Rockstar Newswire station formally announcing the accomplishment of these missions, but the update appears to person gone unrecorded arsenic of 5am EDT/10am BST today, July 1st, with 1 subordinate already having shared a screenshot showing a notification inviting them to assistance Levin. Meanwhile, another's been changeable by a robot with a occurrence bow.

While these bash look to conscionable beryllium a fewer other missions, their arrival's inactive raised immoderate eyebrows among those inactive playing the game, with folks wondering however they came to beryllium and wherefore they've been deployed now.

You see, the past fewer years person been beauteous thin successful presumption of caller worldly being added to Red Dead Online, with Rockstar having made the telephone successful 2022 to cease large updates, truthful they could absorption connected GTA 6. GTA Online's inactive been recieving regular updates with plentifulness of caller additions successful that time, truthful you tin spot wherefore RDO players felt compelled to organise an in-game ceremonial for the online cowboy happening a fewer years ago.

We've reached retired to Rockstar for comment.

We'll person to spot however expansive these missions are and whether there's immoderate different worldly successful the works for the fewer outlaws inactive roaming the west.