The mysteries in New Hanover explained

The mysteries in New Hanover explained

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For as long as we can remember, Rockstar has always loved putting dark, mysterious, and sometimes downright creepy Easter eggs into its open worlds. And as the most ambitious open-world game the studio has created to date, Red Dead Redemption 2 Obviously it was no exception to this. Scattered throughout Red Dead 2’s five states are mysteries hidden in the wild that range from fun Easter eggs to downright chilling mysteries that may or may not get some kind of resolution.

While it is not the official starting region of the game, most players have their first memories with Red Dead Redemption 2 in the state of New Hanover. Home to the now-iconic small village of Valentine and the beginning of free play, New Hanover is the quintessential Great Plains region where cowboys are free to do whatever they want on the last great American frontier. As a result, there are many unexplained mysteries littering the state’s wild regions.

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The Valentine’s Day Serial Killer

The Red Dead Redemption 2 Serial Killer's Cabin

The first mystery in New Hanover is the Valentine serial killer. This might be the most disturbing and creepy Easter egg in the game, if only because of how open and unresolved it can end up being for most players. The first sign that a killer is roaming the Wild West is a dead body hanging under a train track near Valentine. This is easy to see on a first playthrough, as the location of the body is between the first camp and Valentine. This is the beginning of the side quest “Look at my works”.

Players can follow additional clues found in Scarlett Meadows and Big Valley to obtain the killer’s final location; a ramshackle, ramshackle cabin just west of Valentine. The serial killer’s lair, located in the basement of the destroyed house, is a grisly scene with blood, viscera and skulls covering the walls and floors; It seems more like a horror game than a cowboy adventure. If all quest requirements are met upon entering the cabin, the assassin will attack and allow the players to finish the quest. However, if the cabin is found before the quest requirements are met, the site simply serves as a confusing and creepy vignette as the player wanders through the wilderness.

Shark attack in New Hanover

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Far from the eastern reaches of New Hanover, along the coast, players can find a sunken ship that has been almost completely destroyed. There are no obvious clues as to what caused such a devastating accident, but checking a safe deposit box stranded on the nearby beach may provide some clues as to what caused this ship to meet such a violent end.

The box in question contains a single item: a trinket with a shark tooth. It is a unique item that permanently increases the player’s horse bonding experience by 10%. While this is certainly an excellent score with minimal effort, the trinket seems to imply that the unfortunate crew could have had something of a Jaws moment before meeting his untimely end. And from the size of the remains, it looks like there’s an absolutely gigantic shark lurking in the waters of New Hanover. A larger boat may not be enough.

Don’t play with fire

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Another fun/useful Easter egg will give access to a new recipe for a new variety of disposable products. After exploring the Heartlands, players will notice a striking area of ​​burned forest, with trees and grass completely burned in the surrounding area; all telltale signs of a wildfire so devastating it would give Smokey the bear a heart attack.

And there was definitely a wildfire, but not the natural kind one might expect in one of the driest regions of the country. Venturing into the burned husk of the wild, players will find what remains of a camp. The only thing of note in the camp is a lockbox containing a booklet for the Volatile Fire Bottle, among other randomly generated supplies. It’s safe to say that whatever poor soul put together that pamphlet needed to practice more fire safety.

UFO Sightings and Tragedy in the Real World

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UFOs and aliens have long been a staple of Rockstar games, and Red Dead Redemption 2 keeps the tradition alive and well. There is a cabin north of Emerald Ranch and south of Moonstone Pond with the aftermath of what appears to be the result of an occult ritual. By looting the bodies, players can find a note with instructions to observe the skies “in the second hour under the crescent.” Of course, a game as detailed as this has its own lunar cycles. Returning to the scene at 2:00 am, when there is a half-full moon in the sky, will give players the opportunity to see a UFO flying high above.

This macabre Easter egg is a very obvious reference to the real-life mass suicide of the Heaven’s Gate movement in 1997. The group believed that their souls would cling to the passing of Comet Hale-Bopp and that they would live on in the afterlife. with extraterrestrial beings. An obscure real-life reference, to be sure, but the dead red The series isn’t exactly a stranger to darker themes.

Man-made mutant

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One of the strangest Easter eggs in the game is found in a ruined mansion just west of Van Horn. In this neglected and neglected dwelling, players may find a strange and disturbing science experiment whose owner is missing. While not overtly gory or gruesome, the scene is quite grizzly in its own way; the project in question was a mad scientist’s attempt to fuse a bear, a human, a wild boar, and a vulture. The result is a lifeless, sewn-up hybrid that would make even Mary Shelley blush.

Even though this is one of the strangest things one can encounter while wandering around the game’s open world, in context this mystery is a little more blatant than one might expect. The man-bear-boar fusion is an obvious homage to the now legendary south park episode featuring the fictional cryptid ManBearPig. But even though the origins of this Easter egg are purely comedic, it doesn’t change the fact that it’s still a pretty creepy thing to stumble across it unprepared for, even if the player is in on the prank. Even creepier is that dataminers have found code in the game that suggests that at one point in development this abomination was supposed to move and actually be alive, although this was scrapped before its release.


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