Red Dead Redemption 2 Cut Content

This is the list of content cut from Red Dead Redemption 2 during development.

Characters

Unused Characters

Cutscene/Mission PEDs

• In the game files, there is an unused Gray family member named Adam. One of his appearances would've placed him inside of Caliga Hall's cut interior alongside other members of the Gray family.
• Males likely intended for Frank Heck's mission remain in the files.
• There is an unused character named Featherston Chambers who remains in the files. Of note, Dutch van der Linde uses a very similar name to this as a pseudonym in the mission "The Gilded Cage" in the final game.
• A cut character named Abe Maclean exists who would've served as the owner of Maclean's House. He has a few cut missions featuring him and his mail order bride.
• There is an unused character known as Nial Whelan who is still in the files. He wears a recolored version of Billy Midnight's suit and pants in red and grey instead of blue and gold. Nial was part of the cut "tre2" mission, and some animations exist for him including one that depicts Dutch opening a window only for Arthur to throw Nial out of it.
• There is an unused character named Dr. Lane Higgins who was leftover in the files alongside his voicelines, he would've served as the subject of a cut stranger mission set on Guarma.
• A character known as Leon's niece would've been rescued by Bill and Arthur during a mission in Guarma. Cut dialogue notates that she would've been taken off the island. Her dress uses the same model and textures as Mary Linton's, and she even has a funeral hat that is nearly identical to Mary's (which is used by Edith Downes in a trailer) except it also features a veil. Mary Linton also wears Leon's Niece's hair in her funeral outfit.
• Parts of a model and textures for a miner who likely fell victim to an explosion exists in the game with a scarred face.
• Remnants of a cut character that would've appeared on Guarma exist called Senor Andreas Colon who used similar face textures to Leviticus Cornwall. His hat is nearly identical to that of Dr. Lane Higgins' and Samson Finch, his hair is nearly identical to Professor Andrew Bell III's, his pants are nearly identical to Hercule's, and he would've given out missions to either Arthur or John.
• There is an unused PED model for Seth Briars for Red Dead Online found in the game files. He also has remnants of a different appearance.
• A character known only as "Madeline Fussar" has leftover files as well as hair, a turban, and an open and closed veil in the files.
• There is an unused Acrobat performer. She would've performed at the Théâtre Râleur, and one of her three performance animations as well as animations for Aldridge T. Abbington's introduction and outro for her remain in the files.
• In the game files, there is an unused character named Mrs. Fellows. There is also mention of a character known as Mrs. Hollows in the files, and given that Hector Fellowes' last name was originally Hector Hollowes/Hollows, it seems likely that she was intended to be his wife.
• There is an unused female character that is labelled for the "Oh, Brother" stranger mission. Her torso is unfinished and her right hand bears the Rockstar logo, the texture for it is called "righthandprincess" in the files.
• A lady wearing a turban who is labelled to be used for "A Kind and Benevolent Despot" appears in the files.
• A character known as a Cajun was cut from the game.
• One couple, which are labelled as having been "forgiven", appears to have been cut from the game.
• A Braithwaite Servant and Maid was cut.
• There exists a cut maid intended for Online named Mabel, who may have been intended to physically appear in Bonnie's introduction scene.
• A suicidal miner was cut from the game; only a few assets for him remain in the files.
• There exist a models skeleton and a few pairs of legs for a character known as Miss Timmins, who is implied to have been Mayor Timmins' wife. One of the unused leg textures features lingerie and there is an unused box of shaving cream addressed to her, the legs also feature male genitalia which implies the wife was transgender.
• There is leftover hair and a vest for a judge.
• A character known as Alfonzo has hair leftover in the files.
• There is hair, boots, and a funeral hat similar to Mary Linton's leftover in the files for a character known as "Gunslinger's Widow".
• Boots and hair for a character known as War Vet Wife remains in the files, it is worth noting that Hamish Sinclair is internally labelled as War Vet.
• There is a cut O'Driscoll Leader in the files, as well as some henchmen for him that also go unused.
• There is a cut character named Brutus, though all that remains for him is a hair model.
• An unused bully named Bill has a hair model leftover in the files.
• There is a cut pimp most likely intended for "Polite Society, Valentine Style".
• A Chelonian intended for "We Loved Once and True" was cut from the game.
• There is text mentioning an cut Train Hobo in the files.
• There is a cut Rhodes fiddle player intended for "Advertising, The New American Art".
• Text in the files mentions a cut sick miner.
• There is an unused Mixed Race Kid in the files.
• A Rhodes Saloon Bouncer was cut from the game.
• There is a cut Train Station Worker intended for "Friends in Very Low Places".

Bounty Targets

• There exists a cut bounty target who was intended to have been found at the saloon in Saint Denis.
• A mauled outlaw exists in the files who would've served as a bounty target named James "Jim" McGoGarty. There is also a mauled O'Driscoll in the files who may have served as a counterpart to James.
• A bounty target labelled "Old Man" was leftover in the files.
• There is a cut sleeping O'Driscoll who would've served as a bounty target. It's possible he was originally going to take the place of Bart Cavanaugh due to similarities between the two.
• A drunk O'Driscoll leftover in the files would've originally served as a bounty target.
• There is an unused bounty target named J.P. 'Doc' Wormwood. He has a headless outfit variation, implying his head could've possibly been blown off at some point. His partially cut bounty poster (which only appears during Black Belle's mission) says he was wanted for poisoning people by posing as a traveling salesman, similar to Benedict Allbright. He would've been found at Cornwall Kerosene & Tar.
• Lizzie Hicks is a cut bounty target who has audio relating to her leftover in the files.

Shopkeepers/Lawmen

• In the game files, there is an unused character named Sheriff Owens with outfits for both 1899 and 1907.
• There is an unused official with voicelines named Mr. Pattison. He was intended to have appeared at the Wapiti Indian Reservation.
• An Old Wise Man wearing a Chinese Skull Cap was cut who would've likely been a shopkeeper at Manzanita Post. He also has a 1907 appearance and appearances featuring bandages.
• Members of the Mexican Army were apparently meant to appear in the game, based on cut text files for them.
• A bartender labelled for the cut location Tallulah Jetty was scrapped prior to release.
• A Sheriff for Van Horn was cut from the game, one of his animations has him being drunk.
• Strawberry had a cut bartender.
• Old Fort Wallace had a shop with a cut shopkeeper.
• Annesburg had a cut general store owner, banker, doctor, and bartender.
• Le Vilaj had a cut bartender and shopkeepers.

Miscellaneous

• Obese men and women were originally intended to spawn around the map as evidenced by the large amount of finished models (aside from a man from Butcher Creek who is missing his eyes) left over in the game for them, though it appears they ultimately went unused. An obese member of the Murfree Brood bearing a resemblance to the obese man from Butcher Creek can only be seen in the gang's compendium image and is otherwise unused. There also exists an obese man with unknown affiliations, an obese "Mail Order Bride" who is a man wearing a dress, wig, and makeup, intended for Abe Maclean's cut mission and an obese art appraiser.
• A discoverable Neanderthal was intended to appear frozen in something, though only a cut model and an animation still exists within the game files. He has unused hair models.
• There is an unnamed lady who may or may not be unused.
• Models exist for Blackjack Dealers in locations that do not feature Blackjack. This includes dealers for Strawberry, Valentine, and Annesburg.
• Deer Cottage and Reed Cottage were intended to be inhabited by feuding twin brothers. PED models and unique animations for both remain in the game files. It seems during their final encounter, they would have been found dead.
  • Josie Dawson has lines which still allude to them in the final game.
• Ambient foremen were supposed to spawn in the game at various locations, but their models go unused for one reason or another.
• Thirty-three masked Lemoyne Raiders went seemingly unused in the game.
• Nuns were cut from the game, as well as an encounter with one of them asking John to donate.
• There is an unused fundraiser lady.
• Twenty ambient Chelonians were cut from the game.
• An unused character known as "Shack Serial Killer" would've been found at Bayall Edge. Inside, the player would find him chopping up a body with a hatchet and would subsequently throw him in the gator enclosure below. Inside a cooking pot in the shack, a stew featuring human hands could be found.
• There is an unused bear trap encounter character for Valentine.
• There is an unused character known as "Val The Man" who has bandaged and 1907 appearances in the files.
• An unused character known as "Andrew Dale" has voicelines for Arthur mentioning him.

Mentioned Character Models

Cutscene/Mission PEDs

• Frank Heck was meant to be a subject in the stranger side mission "The Noblest of Men, and a Woman". His model is within the game files but was left unused.
• There is an unused character in Red Dead Online named Bessie Adair. She has an eyepatch and was meant to be a daredevil as described in the "Aerial Amazement" newspaper article.
• Grace Lancing, despite only appearing in a photo in Red Dead Online, has a full model that is never seen in-game implying that she was supposed to have a larger role.
• Eliza, the woman with whom Arthur had a child, was intended to have a much larger role in the game. She has five cut missions with dialogue and animations for some of these missions. There are also remnants of textures and a model for her, including hair for 1907. Eliza would've accompanied the gang across the various camps and then showed up in the epilogue; she was even intended to accompany the gang in Guarma at some point. Their son, Isaac, who has a cut model for a blanket he was likely supposed to be wrapped in, was also intended to appear as a very small child and was intended to have frozen to death at the beginning of the game.
• The Giant has cut animations, models, lines, and textures with alternate appearances for 1899 and 1907.
• Though she was not entirely cut from the final game, Isabeau Katharina Zinsmeister has a cut adult model and text as well as animations relating to turning her in to the sheriff at Annesburg and putting her in a cell.
• There is an unused model of the mentioned character named Archibald Jameson. He also has a tuxedo intended for the mission "The Gilded Cage".
• There is a cut character mentioned by an NPC in Smithfield's Saloon named Dale Maroney, who has outfits for 1899 and 1907. Cut animations reveal he has five encounters that were cut from the game. On the first, he would've been seen drunkenly stumbling out of the saloon; the player would've thrown him into one of the stalls at the stable. Then he'd be seen being beaten up a man in an alley in which the player could intervene. After this, he'd try to drunkenly steal something from a store only to be arrested by the sheriff. The player could then presumably meet him in a cell. Finally, the player could either watch him be hanged or intervene by shooting the rope in which he'd drunkenly stumble away. He also has a cut vest and hair.

Bounty Targets

• Gideon Bennett may have been intended to have been captured by the player as evidenced by his wanted poster.

Shopkeepers

• The Strawberry Doctor was intended to physically appear at one point.
• The Rhodes Doctor has an unused appearance in the files, animation files suggest he would've appeared in "Advertising, The New American Art".

Existing Character Changes

Cutscene/Mission PEDs

• In the files, there is a Lemoyne Raiders Leader who may have served as an early version of Lindsey Wofford.
• Gilbert Knightly's appearance in "The Gilded Cage" is random, although a model exists in the files for him.
• In a trailer for the game, the Valentine General Store Owner looks entirely different.
• In Red Dead Online, there exists an unused PED model for a camp cook.
• The Old Cajun originally looked much different than in the final game, this cut version of him can still be seen in the mission photo for "A Fine Night For It". It's possible this version of him was also intended to be an informant for the Lemoyne Raiders, or perhaps an early version of Camille de Millemont due to his appearance and filename.
  • Similarly, a "Duster" (internal name for O'Driscolls) Informant appears to have been cut from the game.
• Marko Dragic's robot has full functionality as an NPC and even drops unique loot, its 1907 appearance also works as an NPC.
• The Manmade Mutant has remnants for a fully functioning PED model within the game's files and thus it's possible it was intended to be able to move around at one point.
• Jake Adler's face model and appearance is starkly different in the photo inside of the Adler Ranch house than in Red Dead Online; there is also a cut corpse model for him featuring a starkly different appearance.
• William was originally meant to be a Native American, there exist textures and voicelines for this version of him in the files.
• Seamus is listed as being the son of Eugene Wegner in the files.
• It was originally possible to encounter members of the Gray and Braithwaite families in free roam.
• Hamish has an unused appearance. In the final build, his model is random.
• Thomas has an unused model with a starkly different appearance.
• The Adler Family appears to have been intended to have been slightly bigger at an earlier stage in development; there exists files referring to a mother, father, and son.
• Father O'Leary has an unused alternate appearance.
• The fight referee in "Bare Knuckle Friendships" seems to have originally been intended to be an associate of Bronte, with an unused model being leftover in the files for this.
• An unused bounty target appears to have been an earlier version of Joshua Brown.
• There exists a cut version of the Rhodes Preacher.

Shopkeepers/Lawmen

• There exists a cut sheriff for Valentine, as well as an unfinished 1907 outfit for this sheriff.
• There exists a cut Saint Denis fence with multiple different outfits, including a tuxedo intended for "The Gilded Cage".
• An unused Armadillo Train Station worker (different from the one who appears in Red Dead Online) exists with bandaged appearances and an alternate appearance for 1907.
• An unused Tumbleweed train station worker (different from the man at Benedict Point) exists in the files.
• Wendal Bishop, who works at the Blackwater Post Office in Red Dead Online, was originally supposed to appear in Story Mode and has unused 1907 and 1899 appearances leftover in the files.
• The coach driver who appears in "The Course of True Love V" was actually intended to run the train station at Riggs Station. He has unused casual, 1907, and bandaged appearances as a result of this.
• There is a cut character who may have been intended to have been used to sell tickets for the ferry in Saint Denis.
• The Trapper has an entirely different version that was cut in which he would've looked much more rugged and older. It's possible the Trapper that appears in the final game was only supposed to operate in Saint Denis due to his filename.

Miscellaneous

• Arthur has unused face textures, including high definition textures, but also, as seen in some trailers for the game one of his earlier face models would've more closely resembled his actor, Roger Clark. The model and textures themselves went through many iterations throughout development.
• The playable John Marston has an unused pre-release model more closely representing his NPC counterpart which included the functionality for this model to lose and gain weight; he also would've worn his NPC hair and used different animations that more closely resembled his appearance in Red Dead Redemption.
• The Rhodes Undertaker who appears in "A Short Walk in a Pretty Town" may have been intended to appear outside of this mission and could have been an earlier version of Gwyn Hughes.
• The peeping tom who looks in on the couple smoking opium has an unused look that differs from the one seen in the final game.
• There are mentions of characters known as "GulFussars" (who appear to have been Fussar's men) in the files.
• While Ned Luke voices a character in the final game, he was intended to voice a character with a larger role at some point but only his mocap for the character remains.
• The trolley conductor's voicelines appear to indicate they were meant to drive trains at one point, as some of their lines are used for train conductors in the final game.

Character Name Discrepancies

Some characters have their names listed differently in the files or in-game, either due to a potential developer oversight or a name change at some point in development. These discrepancies are listed below:

• Rains Fall was originally known as Rains Come.
• One of the textures for Davey Callander's and Jenny Kirk's grave has the name inscribed as "Jenny Callender". Most of the files and the grave for Davey have his name spelled "Callender", implying his last name was spelled this way initially. It's also worth noting that in Arthur's journal the last name is spelt "Callendar" though this may be intentionally misspelled.
• Amos Lancing is known as Amos "Lansing" in the files.
• Hector Fellowes is referred to as Hector Hollowes/Hollows in the game files.
• Mama Watson was originally known as Mama Russell.
• Multiple times in the files the Downes family is known as "Downs" or "Down".
• Trelawny is sometimes referred to as "Trelawney" in the files.
• David Geddes is known as Mr. Michael Geddes on the sign for Pronghorn Ranch.
• Iain Gray's name is sometimes spelled Ian, the more modern way of spelling the name.
• One of the Bennett Brothers' graves has the last name spelled as "Bennet".
• Andrew Milton is referred to as "Milton Andrews" in the files.
• James Langton is known as "Langston" in the files.
• Annabelle is referred to as "Annabel" by the subtitles.
• Herbert Moon is known as "Herbet Moon" occasionally in the files.
• Olive Calhoon is referred to as "Mrs. Calhoun" in the files.
• Anthony Foreman is known as "Antony Foremen" in the files.
• Norman was originally known as Nelson.
• The Gray family is occasionally known as the "Grey" family in the files.
• Amos is known as "Hans" in the files.
• Gwyn Hughes is known as "Gwen" in the files.
• Mr. Gillis is known as "Mr. Linton" in the files.

Outfits

Van Der Linde Gang Members

• Molly O'Shea has an unused outfit for "The Gilded Cage" mission. She also has two unused shirts, a torso, hair, a coat, and two unused blankets.
• Javier Escuella has an unused tuxedo which was likely intended for "The Gilded Cage" mission. He also has a multitude of unused beards of varying lengths, an unused outfit with a duster coat, two unused vests, a lower vest, a ponytail, a tie, a gunbelt, a coat, and three shirts.
• Jack Marston has unused pants, a vest, a hat, and two coats.
• Bill has an unused outfit that lacks a beard, this outfit was seen in one of the trailers of the game. More beards for Bill can also be found within the game's files. He also has an unused heist hat. In "Banking, The Old American Art", Bill wore his bandana instead of a full mask in trailers for the game. He also has three unused suspenders, an unused shirt, an unused gun strap, sleeves, a coat shawl, five unused pants, two unused holsters, a mask, five unused gun belts, and an unused coat part.
• Mary Beth has three unused hairs, a head model, and two unused eyelashes.
• Charles Smith has an unused hat for heists and a vest, gloves, as well as a gunbelt.
• Leopold Strauss has an unused vest and boots.
• Dutch's winter coat has an unused coat shawl, he also has an unused heist hat, a striped red vest, two other unused vests, two unused ties, two unused shirts, two unused torsos, an unused holster, two unused coats, an unused chain, unused sleeves, and his bandana was originally maroon as seen in trailers for the game.
• Micah's corpse has two variations: one without an eye, and one with an eye. The one with an eye is never used in the final game due to a developer oversight. He also has a cut vest, shirt, hair, two bangs, an eye patch, and two beards, as well as a cut robbery outfit.
• Lenny Summers has unused hands, a vest, and two unused gunbelts.
• Uncle has an unused torso.
• Trelawny has a cut sleeveless union suit, three vests, two ties, pants, a torso, legs, and boots.
• Cleet has an unused coat and a winter outfit intended for 1907.
• Hosea wore unique outfits in some of the trailers for the game, he also has a cut red scarf and a few other cut components.
• Kieran Duffy has a cut hair model, shirt, coat, and neckerchief.
• Reverend Swanson has a cut arm, another arm and a stomach, as well as hair and half chaps; his eyes were also originally blue.
• Karen Jones has two unused torsos, a loose blouse, hair, and knickers.
• Sadie Adler has two unused pants, a hat, a shirt, a shawl, a head model, hair, a belt, and a coat. She also has an unused "kidnapped" outfit that is identical to her early Chapter 3 outfit but without a dress.
• Abigail has a cut torso.
• Sean MacGuire has an unused hat texture, two unused vests, a robbery outfit, and wound model.
• Susan Grimshaw has unused earrings and a corset.
• John has many different cut clothing articles for his NPC version which includes a black closed coat, another coat for him being wounded as well as another coat, an unused variant for one of his shirts, a tie, two scarves, spurs, four other shirts, a pocket watch, a strap for his pants, five pants, a neckerchief, a torso, a head model, a gunbelt, globes, three hairs, two suspenders, a black vest, four other vests, his original Cowboy Outfit, brown textures for his hat, and a black hat as well as another hat.
• In the mission "Advertising, The New American Art", both Arthur and Hosea would've worn complete hillbilly outfits with overalls and fake beards. Hosea would've also worn a similar hat to the one Arthur wears during the mission. The cut Rhodes doctor was also supposed to make an appearance in this mission.
• A cut unique red bandana could've been worn by the player.
• There were two different variations of the duster coat that don't appear in the final game.
• It seems it was originally possible to remove the satchel.
• The player could've worn both a full mask and a hat at the same time.
• A quiver as well as an upgraded version was cut from the game that would've been used to store arrows.
• It was originally possible to wear both a bandana and a necktie at the same time, this would've likely coincided with a cut animation involving the player tying their bandana each time they put it on.
• The lasso was originally supposed to appear on the player's belt.
• It seems to have been possible to manually tuck the neckerchief down into the player's shirt at one point.
• The Legend of The East outfit has an unused special bandolier and knife sheath.
• There was originally supposed to be a rifle holster the player could wear, similar to the first game.
• Arthur has over a hundred remnants of and full cut outfits leftover in the files, most of which were completely scrapped prior to release. His hat was more brown in the beta, his shirt was a darker shade of blue, it was originally possible to close the gunslinger jacket, he also has a cut pirate outfit leftover in the files which would've likely been taken from a cut pirate skeleton as well as a cloak. His belt buckle was also flipped at some point in development (some NPCs still use the buckle as it was originally designed), and he wore his full Wittermore outfit during "Banking, The Old American Art". The high honor version also had a pocket chain and the outfit itself went through many changes including having a green vest at one point.
• There are some cut outfit components including a mask, boots, and holster which appear to be for low honor players and something similar for high honor players.
• Promotional art for the game features various gang members in outfits that are either discolored or that they are never seen wearing.

Cutscene/Mission PEDs

• Angelo Bronte has an unused outfit with a towel and shaving cream on.
• Various members of the band at the Mayor's party in "The Gilded Cage" have unused outfit pieces, including the singer's cut boots, the pianist's cut vest and hair, the drummer's cut vest and hair, and the bassist's cut vest and hair.
• Ashton has an unused vest.
• Brother Dorkins has an unused scarf.
• Alberto Fussar has unused hair.
• Bronte's butler has an unused vest.
• Brenda Crawley has an unused hat.
• The Braithwaite's butler has an unused vest.
• Jimmy Brooks has an unused vest.
• A living version of Agnes Dowd exists within the files.
• Mabel has unused hair and boots.
• Aldridge T. Abbington has cut eyelashes, hair, a mustache, and hands.
• The French Man who appears on Guarma has an unused vest and hair.
• The trailer for the game used an alternate appearance for Eagle Flies in the final mission featuring him.
• Archie Downes has a cut outfit featuring him being much younger and a slightly different outfit for the trailer.
• Nathan Kirk had hair instead of being bald.
• Mayor Nicholas Timmins has an unused outfit for 1907.
• Edith Downes wears an unused funeral outfit in the trailer as well as an unused skirt.
• Edgar Ross has an unused gunbelt.
• The old lady who appears during "Angelo Bronte, a Man of Honor" has unused hair.
• A henchman intended for Red Dead Online has two unused masks.
• Amos has an unused overall piece and teeth.
• JB Cripps has four unused shirts, two vests, two unused teeth, two unused spurs, two unused pants, four torsos, three gunbelts, two heads, two unused hats, two hairs, two unused sets of eyes, two coats, two sets of boots, and two beards.
• Cliff has an unused scarf.
• Mary Linton has two unused hats.
• Lilly Millet has unused socks.
• Lillian Powell has unused eyelashes.
• Jeb has a strikingly different cut outfit with him being clean shaven and well dressed. He also has an outfit that was likely intended for 1907 with a blue coat and no hat.
• Guido Martelli has an unused 1907 outfit, vest, and a head.
• Levi Simon has an unused vest.
• Jon has an unused hairline.
• Arthur Londonderry's son has an unused vest.
• Miss Marjorie has unused eyelashes.
• Some of the O'Driscolls present at Colm's execution have three unused hairs and three unused vests.
• Desmond Blythe has unused hands.
• Deborah MacGuiness has unused legs and a head.
• Dorothea Wicklow has an unused hat and boots.
• The conductor for Leviticus Cornwall's train has an unused vest and hair.
• Leon Fuentes has an unused hat.
• Jake Adler has a cut outfit that appears to have been intended for Story Mode.
• Abe has an unused hair model, glove, and face texture.
• Tom Dickens has an unused hair model and head texture.
• Some of the Saint Denis street kids have unused hair, a hat, teeth, and eyes.
• Charlotte Balfour has an unused vest, shirt, and head model.
• Winton Holmes has an unused belt.
• Hamish Sinclair has an unused vest.
• Jean-Marc Mercier has an unused vest, likely intended for "The Gilded Cage".
• The Vampire has unused hair.
• Moira Calthorpe has an unused vest and hair.
• Acrisius has unused hair.
• Tavish Gray has an unused vest.
• The Mysterious Maya has an unused skirt and shoes.
• Sonny has unused hair.
• Bob Brownlee has unused pants, legs, boots, and three unused hairs likely intended for a 1907 appearance.
• Old Man Jones has a vest that isn't used in-game as well as a horn and coat.
• Sheriff Freeman has an 1907 appearance that isn't used in the final game.
• Lee has an unused coat, union suit, knife, belt, and satchel.
• Margaret has cut hair and a vest.
• The Chelonian Master has cut eyelashes.
• Brynn Tildon has a cut outfit for use outside of "The Gilded Cage".
• Antoinette Sanseverino has an unused torso, hat, three hairs, and boots.
• Emmet Granger has unused hair.
• Jeremy Gill has an unused outfit without a vest or a coat featuring a bloody shirt and apron as well as unused hair.
• Algernon Wasp has unused frills, a shirt, a corset, and a coat.
• Benjamin Lazarus has an unused piece of his hair.
• Wendell White has unused legs.
• Sampson Black has an unused shirt and suspenders.
• Marko Dragic has an outfit variation for 1907 that is never used as well as an unused hair.
• Catherine Braithwaite has unused hair.
• Some of the cancan dancers at Théâtre Râleur have four unused boots and two hairs.
• Cooper has a vest that was cut.
• Edmund Lowry Jr. was intended to have a gun belt.
• The Town Crier has an unused 1907 appearance and mask.
• Gwyn Hughes has an unused vest.
• The man whom Karen attempts to rob in "Polite Society, Valentine Style" has unused hair and a vest.
• Obediah Hinton has an unused vest.
• Archer Fordham has an unused red vest, gloves, and pants correlating to an 1899 appearance, implying he was originally supposed to be a part of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. He also has cut hair.
• The Hermit Woman has a cut appearance that slightly differs from the one seen in-game.
• Wilson J. McDaniels has an unused shirt and hairs.
• J. John Weathers has a cut holster.
• Benedict Allbright's coat originally had a quilted pattern as seen on his bounty poster.
• Frank Heck has a cut outfit which has him looking slightly different and it noticeably features fewer buttons on his coat sleeve.
• Albert Mason has a cut opened vest.
• Senator Antoine Ricard has unused glasses and a boutonniere.
• Samson Finch has an unused off-hand holster, a hat, another holster, and an unused belt.
• Heston Jameson has an unused hat, as well as an appearance lacking gloves. This implies he was originally supposed to appear outside of "The Gilded Cage", perhaps patrolling the grounds at Sisika Penitentiary. He also has an unused torso and hair.
• Hobart H. Crawley has two unused sets of hands.
• Hercule has an unused coat.
• Carmela has an unused head model.
• Virgil Edwards has unused eyelashes.

Shopkeepers/Lawmen

• Benjamin P. Lockhart Jr. has an unused scarf.
• A few of the shopkeepers (and Oswald Dunbar) from Blackwater and some from New Austin had 1899 outfits that were reused for Red Dead Online.
• A Pinkerton has an unused vest and hair.
• Herbert Moon has cut appearances wherein his face is thinner.
• Eldin Grubb has cut outfits for 1899.
• Benjamin Lambert has unused hair.
• Many shopkeepers in New Austin and Blackwater have cut 1898/1899 bandaged appearances as it's not possible to kill shopkeepers in Red Dead Online.
• Benjamin P. Lockhart Sr. has a cut 1907 appearance.
• A.J. Banks has unused 1907 appearances.
• Shopkeepers and lawmen including Ned Keane, Cliff Douglas, Ralph Dalton, Arnold Dunn, Bob Mattice, Ben Calloway, Quentin Fern, Jasper Feeney, Francis Drury, A.J. Banks, Virgil Fisher, Claude Jarreau, Chu Ling, Isaac Horner, Gabe Doyle, Elijah Howard, the Lagras bait saleswoman, Mr. Schultz, the shopkeeper at Wallace Station, Josie Dawson, Horatio, Silas Crawford, Cecil Fowler, Chip Cooper, Oswald Dunbar, Benjamin P. Lockhart Sr., Sam Neely, Burt Mackay, Emory Phillips, Eldin Grubb, Herbert Moon, Roscoe Brenner, Mavis Chambers, the Tumbleweed Butcher, and the Tumbleweed bartender all have cut casual outfits for 1899 and 1907.
  • However, Francis Drury's 1899 casual appearance is used in "Advertising, The New American Art".

Miscellaneous

• Two crowns, likely intended for Red Dead Online, were cut from the game. There are male and female variants of these crowns.
• Misfortune Martha has unused boots and hair.
• The bathing ladies have an unused necklace and eyelashes.
• A cattle rustler has an unused hair and vest.
• Some generic males and females intended for the story have an unused vest, two hairs, and two sets of boots.
• The Meditating Monk has unused boots.
• There exists a pig mask which has functionality to be worn by an NPC.

Outfit Discrepancies

• John Marston has various components that were ported from Red Dead Redemption and thus were likely intended to be placeholders, there even exists some textures unique to the game that were intended for these components. Arthur has a military uniform that uses models also ported from Redemption.
• Maggie Fike has a pants model that is identical to the one she uses in the final game.
• Angelo Bronte has a partially unused outfit that only appears in a photo in-game.
• Amos, Cripps (who has two sets), Meredith's Mother, one of the Saint Denis Street Kids, Jeremiah Shaw, a Henchamn for Red Dead Online, John, Eagle Flies, and Brenda Crawley all have unused eye caps which are nearly identical to the ones shown in the final game.
• Most every character in the game with exposed genitalia have unused models that feature underwear or clothing covering it up.
• Simon Pearson has unused pants and a sweater that is identical to the ones he wears in the final game.
• Penelope Braithwaite has a near identical hair model that features culling that goes unused.
• Many female characters including Penelope Braithwaite, Brenda Crawley, Anastasia and her friend, the Hermit Woman, Tilly, Sister Calderon, Molly O'Shea, Antoinette Sanservino, Black Belle, Dorothea Wicklow, Catherine Braithwaite, a cancan dancer, a bathing lady, Abigail Roberts, and Tammy Aberdeen have pants and leg models for if the player were to have been able to look up their dresses. These models go entirely unused in the final game.

Missions

Story Missions

• Textures for a saddle and a night stand as well as an audio file of Arthur spitting exists for a mission known as "Winter03" in the files. It would've likely taken place between "Enter, Pursued by a Memory" and "Who the Hell is Leviticus Cornwall?".
• A cut mission for Chapter 3 named "tre2" (or "Trelawny2", as the mission was given by Trelawny) was intended to appear in the game which involved Arthur and Dutch fighting off bounty hunters from Boston while on a train. There exist animations for the pair hiding in a bar in Saint Denis at one point in the mission. Two unique train cars were intended to be used in this mission, and variants of these cars were reused in later missions. Arthur has a cut bounty poster that may have been used in this mission, and the cut character Nial Whelan would've been thrown out of a window during this mission.
• There is a cut Chapter 4 mission named "NTV0" (or "Native0"). There is a cutscene regarding the conversation between Arthur and Charles for this mission, though it was trimmed down, turned into a random camp interaction, and only rarely occurs during Chapter 4. The mission would've consisted of Charles, Eagle Flies, and Arthur going to rescue some kids who were sent off to boarding school in a military convoy. The convoy would be attacked and at some point a soldier, who at some point says he was "just following orders", would've tried to kill one of the Native Americans who would beg him not to do so and would say that they have a family.
• One of the cut missions, named "ind2" (or "Industry2") in the game files, was supposed to involve Arthur, Micah, Hosea, and Abigail trying to test the law response times prior to "Banking, The Old American Art". The mission would've involved Arthur planting dynamite underneath the Cornwall Freight and Commodities building before having to stop a witness, blowing the fuses, and escaping a shootout involving an Iron Mule in a train before both the train and the Iron Mule would've crashed, leading to Arthur and Micah jumping off the train and escaping. A model for the blown up Cornwall Freight and Commodities building still exists within the game files, as well as a mission image featuring Arthur planting the dynamite.
• A mission was cut from the game (referred to as "smg1" or "Smuggler1" in the files) which involved Bill and Arthur rescuing Leon's niece during the Guarma chapter. Only a mission photo and models for Leon's niece remain in the game files, though cut text implicates that Arthur and Bill would've helped her off the island. Roger Clark mentions that at one point, a scene would've taken place involving jumping into a lagoon.
• A mission was cut from the game in which Arthur would assist Brenda Crawley in escaping her husband Hobart and his men. A crypt would be involved somehow and Brenda would express gratitude to Arthur for having helped her.

Side Missions

• Eliza was the subject of a mission strand, known as "ELZ". The first mission involved her running off in Chapter 1 and Abigail telling Arthur to go look for her, wherein she would've set up camp not too far from Colter. Not much is known about the second mission other than Susan Grimshaw asking Arthur if he's seen Eliza while at Clemens Point during Chapter 3, and nothing at all is known about the third and fourth missions. In her final encounter, John could meet her in the epilogue just a bench away from where Tilly is encountered in Saint Denis, where he doesn't recognize her at first although she immediately recognizes him.
• Text and animations leftover in the files have to do with a mission involving Arthur meeting with Mary Linton at the saloon in Rhodes, wherein she has rented a room. She mentions that the people who she is hiding from "may kill her" if Arthur does not help her.
• A cut character known as Senor Andreas Colon was supposed to give five missions in Guarma (referred to as "Coln" in the files) to either Arthur or John, though this was cut quite early in development and there are only remnants of what would've happened. He would've been met at a table for the first four missions (though he does not seem to have a physical role in the second), and each time he would be asleep with a bottle or a glass of wine and his opium pipe. During one encounter, there would've been a camera involved. During the final encounter, the player could find him sitting down on the ground writing in a book with an umbrella before he would've stood up, and joined the player in a boat. He'd look around and get frustrated at one point, before pointing excitedly in presumably different directions. Cut text suggests he also would've given the player a map, and the opium pipe belonging to him can be found inside of a room during a random encounter in Valentine.
• The cut character Dr. Lane Higgins was intended to be encountered on Guarma and was the subject of a stranger mission strand. Cut voicelines depict him asking the player to stop members of the Cuban Military from desecrating a sacred site in order to steal post-Columbian artifacts, which he believes "belong in a museum".
• A mission known as "MCAT" in the files would've involved the cut character Abe Maclean asking the player to herd some cattle for him. All the while, he'd be ordering a bride from a catalog who would show up as an obese man in a dress and the two would make way to Emerald Ranch where they could be found looking at a dress.
• Over fifteen bounty hunting missions (including Doc Wormwood's, which would've taken place near Cornwall Kerosene and Tar) were cut from the game, this includes one near Watson's Cabin, one involving one at Beryl's Dream, one at Quaker's Cove, one at Guthrie Farm, one involving Lizzie Hicks, one involving a man named James "Jim" McGoGarty having been mauled at Diablo Ridge near Strawberry, possibly one involving Gideon Bennett, one at Old Fort Wallace, two near Bluewater Marsh, one near Ringneck Creek, one near Mattock Pond, one at Clemens' Point, and one near Braithwaite Manor.

Existing Mission Changes

• Though possibly an oversight, in "Horse Flesh for Dinner" Arthur mentions the horses they steal to either be English Thoroughbreds or Arab Chargers (a non-existent horse breed) and Tavish Gray mentions the horses to be Thoroughbreds. Despite this, neither Thoroughbreds or Arab Chargers appear in the mission though it's also possible neither knew exactly what breed the horses were. A similar occurrence happens in "He's British, of Course" and "A Kind and Benevolent Despot" where the mule is referred to as a donkey and vice versa.
• In "Enter Pursued by a Memory", Javier's actor recounts one of his first scenes for the game where he fought off against wolves in a cave with a torch.
• In "Angelo Bronte, A Man of Honor" a small cutscene with Arthur and John leaving the scene of the graveyard was cut.
• Edmund Lowry Jr. has a cut bounty poster, which seems to implicate that he may have originally been turned in to the Strawberry Sheriff.
• During "Eastward Bound" a cut cutscene featured Bill getting into a fight with someone and Arthur trying to break it up, either successfully or with backlash from both parties.
• Slightly different dialogue was cut from "The New South".
• Arthur has cut dialogue for yelling out in "Welcome to the New World".
• During "A New Future Imagined" there exists a cut cutscene involving John and Abigail arriving home after their date.
• In "The Noblest of Men, and a Woman", Billy Midnight was originally meant to be found running an establishment called Midnight's Saloon in Annesburg, as evidenced by cut text and an earlier version of his photograph for the mission.
• During the mission "Good, Honest, Snake Oil", Benedict Allbright was originally supposed to be found in the Valentine Oilfields according to a poster in the back room of Ben Calloway's office and location coordinates in the files, similar to the cut character Doc Wormwood. He would've apparently tripped over a chicken crate and bystanders including a woman would be present during this bounty.
• Molly, Javier, the cut Saint Denis Fence, and Archibald Jameson all have outfits for "The Gilded Cage", implying they would've been in that mission. Molly in particular has cut dialogue pertaining to the mission.
• During the mission "Bare Knuckle Friendships", John and Uncle were supposed to be seen riding to Riggs Station in a cutscene instead of immediately getting off of the train.
• Bill Williamson and Lenny Summers were originally supposed to be part of the mission "Pouring Forth Oil IV".
• "Duchesses and other Animals" along with many other missions in the game have cut animations for John, with subtle differences throughout such as John refusing to let Algernon hug him.
• Many stranger missions appear to have unique animations for both Arthur and John, though John's animations go unused in the final game.
• Bill was originally supposed to be part of the mission "Country Pursuits" instead of Dutch van der Linde.
• Originally Javier Escuella was supposed to be a part of the mission "Just a Social Call", as pre-release images showed him fighting alongside Arthur in a shootout in Annesburg.
• Frank Heck was intended to have a mission in "The Noblest of Men, and a Woman", wherein he would've been encountered playing a game of cards in the Tumbleweed Saloon (though it seems an attempt was made to relocate it to the Saint Denis Saloon) with four others. The player needed to have a certain amount of money and they needed to be dressed in specific clothing in order for the guard to let them into the room. The player would request for Frank Heck to pose for a photo, to which he would agree. Afterwards, the player would've participated in a game of cards with him. At some point, the player would've insulted Frank Heck which would result in him flipping over the table and drawing irons. It was possible to disarm one of his guns, which would result in him attempting to shoot at the player with the other. Only a mission photo, music, some animations, the photo Theodore Levin would've given Arthur of Frank Heck (which can still partially be seen in the first mission), and Frank Heck's model remain in the files.
• An unused female character would've taken part in the mission "Oh, Brother".
• Arthur has a far more intimidating line cut from interrogating the O'Driscoll in "Outlaws from the West".
• "He's British, of Course" is known as "Here, Kitty Kitty" in the files and would've likely featured a camel as well as the Bradley Brothers in Saint Denis.
• "The Artist's Way" is known as "For My Art" in the files.
• "The Mercies of Knowledge" is known as "Ride The Lightning" in the files, and it seems as though it could've been done by John at one point.
• In "The Noblest of Men, and a Woman", unused voicelines reveal that originally Ged Calloway was named Matt (or Mac) Calloway.
• Arthur has cut dialogue for completing "A Test of Faith" despite him never being able to collect all of the dinosaur bones without the use of glitches.
• Arthur has cut dialogue for completing the mission "A Fisher of Fish" despite him never being able to catch all of the legendary fish without the use of glitches.
• A cut cutscene shows Dutch and Arthur exiting from the Saint Denis Tailor in their new outfits prior to "The Gilded Cage" mission. There also appears to be a follow-up to this involving the player getting in the carriage afterwards as lines for Bill exists for this sequence.
• In the mission "Red Dead Redemption", there are extended cutscenes that are hidden behind the Coyote and the Buck scenes.
• John has unused lines for "Good, Honest, Snake Oil", implying he could've done that mission originally.
• Black Belle has a bounty poster that was likely intended to appear during her mission, though it is instead replaced with a poster of Doc Wormwood in the final. This poster appears marked out in Red Dead Online's Bounty Hunter camp theme.
• Animations leftover in the files show that during the mission where Micah is broken out of jail, a mob would've gathered in front of the sheriff's office with scythes, pitchforks, torches, and more. At some point, an ambush would've occurred in the room the player can rent in the Welcome Center involving a blunderbuss.

Locations

• Purchasable safehouses were cut though there remains several properties with unfinished interiors which are labeled as player housing in the game files in Strawberry, Rhodes, and Annesburg.
• The train station at Manzanita Post was meant to make a return, it also would've had an interior area at one point.
• There was meant to be a gang hideout in Roanoke Ridge where Van Horn Trading Post is now located called "Tallulah Jetty". It's possible that the Tallulah Jetty gang would've inhabited it. A bartender for it exists in the files.
• The grass color in The Heartlands was supposed to be predominantly yellow and not green.
• Ambarino was supposed to be smaller with only the northern and southern portions being explorable.
• Pronghorn Ranch has a partially cut living room interior that can only be seen for a few moments in one mission.
• Millesani Claim was supposed to be located in Big Valley instead of in Grizzlies West.
• The gang's camp on Guarma was supposed to be located in a cave on a cut area of the map known as El Hueco, it appears the place was relocated and an arch covers its intended entrance in the final game. An occlusion model still exists in the files for it.
• Instead of the gang settling at Clemens Cove, it seems they were intended to settle at Dewberry Creek.
• A landmark called "Cohutta" was shown on the leaked map, it being the location with the sacred place in which Arthur and Rains Fall visited during in "Archeology for Beginners", though the location was not named in the final game.
• In Ambarino there was a deleted location called "Iron Cloud", which would've served as a gang camp and a landmark.
• There was a location known as "Dzoavits Claim", there is a cut letter that refers to it as a mine.
• Cochinay seems to have been intended to be a gang hideout or something of the sort with a jail and gallows.
• Caliga Hall was intended to have an accessible interior at its main house.
• Cut text may implicate that Nuevo Paraíso was intended to be fully explorable at some point in the game's development, possibly as a DLC or in Red Dead Online.
• Tempest Rim was meant to be accessible and served as the original location of Colter.
• Doverhill was meant to be located in the Cumberland Forest.
• The barn for Beecher's Hope at one point was supposed to be seen in a state in which it was under construction, but only appears in a completed state in the game.
• The Giant's cave's were supposed to have an opened up entrance as seen by his cut animations.
• Armadillo has a few cut interiors, most of which are leftovers from Red Dead Redemption. There is, however, a cut bathing room and player room which is not featured in the final game and only appears on the low poly map.
• Cut text references a general store at Emerald Ranch.
• The rest of the mine shaft at Gaptooth Ridge which appeared in Red Dead Redemption was intended to also appear in the game, but it was left unfinished and blocked off by some rocks.
• Sisika Penitentiary has a cut low poly interior featuring cell blocks.
• Many buildings around the map have cut basic interiors, most of which are empty or extremely lackluster (with only one or a few props in them).
• The fence at Emerald Ranch was originally supposed to be in the house across from the saloon with the only partially visible interior.
• The Aberdeen Pig Farm was originally meant to be located in the Heartlands instead of being in Scarlett Meadows.
• The Blackwater barber would've had a much larger back room as evidenced by the low poly map.
• Clingman was meant to be a homestead located in the Cumberland Forest.
• Sisika Penitentiary was located much further away in earlier versions of the game, some cut props still exist underneath the map near where it would've been, and a glitch occurs where hovering over its beta location on the map will show the player as being wanted dead or alive in that area.
• On the low poly map for Bayou Nwa, a submerged boat appears between the Tiny Church and Sonny's house.
• Also on the low poly map, the sign on the Valentine gunsmith's counter is different and some shops like the one in Tumbleweed have labels for the shovels and other tools.
• Mayor Nicholas Timmins' house has an inaccessible interior, part of it briefly appears in the end credit sequence for the game.
• There was supposed to be a gang hideout in Bayou Nwa called "Criard Slaughterhouse." The gang would've set up camp there for an unknown amount of time in earlier versions.
• Van Horn Trading Post was originally located further north on a portion of the map which is now inaccessible.
  • At Van Horn, there was a rope bridge that the player could cross to get to the lighthouse but was removed from the game. The bridge still exists in the game files and can still be spawned through mods and the bridge can also be seen in a loading screen picture of the lighthouse.
• Evidence would suggest the player was originally going to be able to sail over to the shore across from the Lannahechee River and Flat Iron Lake, but this was scrapped at a late point in development.
• A horse jumping arena would've appeared somewhere in the game as evidenced by a cut compendium image.
• The gang was supposed to set up camp at Hanging Dog Ranch in the beta.
• A mass grave connected to the curse of Valentine was cut, it was intended to be located near the stables.
• Numerous pictures on the map cards for stables are of different locations that mostly exist in the final game, this includes the Strawberry stable being located next to Norman's house, the Valentine stable being located at the Livery Sale & Feed Stable, the Rhodes stable being located near the cut jumping arena, and the Van Horn stable being located in the abandoned building behind the hotel. Due to an unused blacksmith blip in the files, it's possible that the current locations of the stables were simply meant to be blacksmiths, possibly intended to provide tack for horses. It's also possible that at some point, the player could freely go inside stables.
• The Rhodes Parlour House's bathing room originally jutted out of the side based on a low-poly interior left in the files.
• The Strawberry Doctor was intended to be functional at one point, Strawberry also had a saloon inside of the Trackers Hotel.
• Annesburg was intended to have a fully functioning general store, doctor's office, saloon, and bank.

Location Name Discrepancies

• Text in the files refers to Canebreak Manor as "Cranebreak Manor".
• Guarma was originally called "Guama" and was intended to be smaller and fully explorable. The player was also intended to be able to revisit it in the Epilogue. It had many different cut locations such as Le Vilaj which had a bar and a few shops with a leftover occlusion model remaining in the files, El Hueco, and more.
• Fort Wallace was known as "Old Fort Wallace" and was located in Grizzlies East in earlier stages of development. At one point, it also served as spot in which bounty posters could be acquired and had a shop. It was located higher up on the mountain range than in the final game, and the mountain it was supposed to appear on had a completely different shape during the beta. A cut road sign can be found underneath the map near where it was supposed to be, and a glitch occurs where hovering over its beta location on the map will show the player as being wanted dead or alive in that area.
• Butcher Creek was originally known as "Butcher's Creek".
• Text in the game refers to the Heartland Oil Fields as the Valentine Oilfields.
• Bluewater Marsh was initially named "Bluegill Marsh".
• Willard's Rest was originally called "Rocky Seven".
• Saint Denis was further below its current location and it was initially named "New Bordeaux". However, the name would be used in the Mafia III, another game by Rockstar Games parent company, Take-Two Interactive. Some documents and audio clips still refer to it as New Bordeaux in the final game.

Minigames

• Rustling was a minigame that would've likely worked the same as it does or similar to in the "Go Rustling (Uncle)" mission. It could've been done at locations such as Pronghorn Ranch, Carmody Dell, Maclean's House, Painted Sky, Downe's Ranch, Larned Sod, Clingman, and Adler Ranch.
• Liar's Dice was a minigame that is mentioned in the game, but cut assets and voicelines suggest it was going to be playable like in the first game.
• Three Card Monte was cut from the game, and assets for it exist in the files.
• Chess is classified as a minigame in the files and thus it's possible it was supposed to be played at one point.
• There exists a table for a Craps Field minigame.
• A horseshoes minigame was intended to return from the first game.
• A Roulette Table for a Roulette minigame can be found in the files.
• Cribbage was evidently supposed to be in the game at some point.
• An archery minigame was cut at some point in development.
• It appears to have originally been possible to cheat at Poker.

Items

• There were collectible pieces of an animal skin painting that depicted a massacre of Native Americans by settlers, connected to the curse of Valentine. They could've been collected in spots near Valentine, and a man at a campfire still mentions them during a random encounter. Other Native American artifacts for the curse of Valentine were also cut from the game, though it seems they would've been discarded by the player shortly after being unearthed, this includes a Native American mask that would've been sitting in the gunsmith.
• There were supposed to be more trinkets in the game, but they were cut before the release of the game. They are as follows: A Mayan Trinket, an Asteroid Chunk Trinket, a Bobcat Claw Trinket, a Ghost Alligator Trinket, a Badger Claw Trinket, a Bat Wing Trinket, a Bear Heart Trinket, a Bull Gator Trinket, a Condor Beak Trinket, a Rabbit's Foot Trinket, a Racoon Claw Trinket, a Deputy Star Trinket, a Crane Feather Trinket, a Toad Legs Trinket, a Flower Spun Trinket, a Poisoned Bluegill Trinket, a Futuristic Trinket, a Panther Claw Trinket, a Giant Boar Trinket, a Giant Rabbit Trinket, a Gila Monster Tooth Trinket, a Chelonian Master Trinket, a Little Egret Trinket, a Duck Feather Trinket, a Reddish Egret Trinket, an Eagle Feather Trinket, a Heron Feather Trinket, a Gold Trinket, an Ornate Gold Trinket, a Bull Horn Trinket, a Squirrel Tooth Trinket, and an Oxen Horn Trinket.
  • Some of the cut trinkets still spawn in game. The Bull Horn Trinket can be found in a chest inside the Blackwater Sheriff's Office. The Rhodes Fence has the Squirrel Tooth Trinket, Toad Legs Trinket and Turtle Shell Trinket. The Turtle Shell Trinket was released when the game came out for PC. Other initially cut trinkets like the Ram Horn, Buck Antler, Javelina, and Snowy Egret trinkets were later added to Red Dead Online.
  • The cut Squirrel Tooth trinket was actually used for the UI picture for "Private" lobbies for the online mode pre Red Dead Online.
  • An alternate version of the Squirrel Tooth Trinket can be found in an icon within the game's files.
  • The Squirrel Tooth Trinket was mean to be given out by a beggar originally, as evidenced by animation files leftover in the game.
  • William was meant to give the player a trinket during "To the Ends of the Earth" as a reward according to voicelines left in the files.
  • The random encounter with the moonshiners was going to award a trinket originally, as seen by voicelines leftover in the files.
  • The icon for the cut Deputy Star Trinket depicts it as simply being a single badge as opposed to being multiple badges put together.
• Several herbs which can be collected in Red Dead Online were intended to also be available in single player.
  • Additionally, there is two cut herbs known as "Crow's Garlic" and "Salt Bush".
• An item known as an "Oats Bag" would've allowed you to feed your horse automatically.
• A cut version of the Boar Tusks, called a "Boar Tusk", can be found inside of the Rhodes Fence just outside of the player's reach.
• Icons for rotten meat, reading glasses (intended to have been used for an item request), regular pirate rum, a lost relic, a chicken egg, a pocket shaving kit, poison tonic, and health serum exist in the game files.
• A seemingly unused skeleton key exists in the files.
• Marko Dragic's robot can be spawned in as an NPC and gives a unique item called scrap metal when looted. Its description says it could've been used in crafting.
• Early trailers for the game showcased a bigger horse blanket than the one used in the final game, as well as different saddlebags. Horse holsters were also cut from the game and they would've held rifles as opposed to them floating like in the final game.
• Like in Red Dead Redemption, the player was originally able to obtain pardon letters that would've alleviated them of their bounties.
• Documents exist in the game that went unobtainable in the final game for one reason or another, these include a letter that would've been looted from the cut character Mr. Pattison, a letter that cannot be picked up in the shack with a fallen tree, letters dropped from foremen that do not spawn in the game, Doc Wormwood's bounty poster (which initially loads into the Valentine Sheriff's office for a moment before disappearing), his other bounty poster, James' bounty poster, a coach robbery tip for a moonshine wagon in Bluewater Marsh (with variations for 1899 and 1907), an invitation to the party in "The Gilded Cage", a restraining order from Gavin, a letter about Dzoavit's Claim, two letters from Brenda Crawley, a letter from Deborah MacGuiness that would've been received after mailing in your first dinosaur bone, a Scarlet Fever handbill, a paper related to H. Fischer's home business, and a letter that Simon Pearson is supposed to send John in the epilogue despite him never doing so. Some other documents, namely the one that Abigail leaves to John in "Motherhood", the Letter from Tilly, Molly's Poem, Bill's Dishonorable Discharge, the Letter from Lenny's Father, the Letter to Micah to Amos, The Case of the Deceitful German, The American Inferno, Existence and Oblivion, the Diary, The Castle Above the Glen, The Castle Above the Moor, The Castle in the Field of Lavender, Mary-Beth's Notebook, the First Bank Robbery Newspaper Scrap, the New England Examiner Scrap, the family Daguerreotype from "The Iniquities of History II", and the bank document from "Home of the Gentry?" have functionality to be added into the player's inventory, but can only be accessed via glitches.
• A cut version of the Jail Cell Key, called "Jail Cell Keys", can be found inside of the Rhodes Fence just outside of the player's reach.
• There are a couple cut item requests for the game: Josiah Trelawny was supposed to request an Eagle Talon and Leopold Strauss was supposed to request reading glasses. Some other item requests appear to have been for Javier's Sombrero, Karen's book, Lenny's "bf", Mary-Beth's "as", and Micah's "bk" (it is currently unknown what these initials stand for).
• Lettuce was originally supposed to be an item that could either be consumed or fed to a horse.

Animals

Mammals

• Bobcats were originally in the game but were cut at some point during development. Only a compendium icon, audio files, and clues for a Legendary individual remain in the game files.
• Based off of a cut white giant rabbit foot trinket and clues leftover in the game files, it is implied that at some point, a Legendary giant white rabbit was intended to be in the game and could've been hunted by the player.
• A camel was meant to appear in-game. It was likely originally featured in the Stranger mission "He's British, of Course" and has animations relating to lassoing and decomposing.
• Audio files and a model skeleton exists in the game files for baby bears.
• Black bears originally did not have fur and instead used a texture as shown in earlier compendium images (removed in an update) for them. This lack of fur can be seen in-game on all animals that have it, albeit only when said animal is far enough away from the camera.
• Audio and a slaughtering animation (possibly intended for a trailer) exists for piglets.
• Cows were originally identical to how they appeared in Red Dead Redemption, as seen in the first trailer for the game and on a corpse model.
• Based on the mission image for "A Kind and Benevolent Despot", donkeys were originally bigger. Also, textures for donkey hide still exist within the game files.
  • Similarly, text referencing Mule hide also exists within the game files. Further remnants suggest they would've dropped stringy meat.
• Death sound files exist for a rhesus monkey.
• Sound files for death sounds for chimps are in the files.
• Rottweilers were evidently cut from the game as audio and an expression dictionary still exists for them.
• There exists an unused albino and mangy variant for the deer.
• A loading screen for the game shows an earlier model for the Buck that is still used for some of the taxidermy assets around the map.
• The goat corpse at the Pagan Ritual site has unused textures for the body of the goat.

Reptiles/Birds

• A side-mission involving a "River Monster" was cut. The Loch Ness Monster Easter Egg featured in the Grand Theft Auto Online The Cayo Perico Heist Heist DLC appears to have reused the model which was intended to serve as the River Monster's model.
  • Audio files for the River Monster also remain in the game files.
  • According to associated game files, the River Monster would've also apparently dropped Crustacean meat if killed. It also appears to have at one point had similar loot to a frog.
  • Cut dialogue indicates the River Monster was intended to appear somewhere in Flat Iron Lake.

• There are audio files cut from the game for crocodiles.
• An albino alligator was cut from the game.
• There exists a cut texture mapped for a Bullgator.
• Despite being able to be found in Guarma if the player makes a run towards their spawn points, the Green Sea Turtle was mostly cut from the game and can only be studied and drawn into the players' journal (but not added to their Compendium). There is also a cut functionality to skin the Turtle. Due to the Green Sea Turtle not being added to the compendium, there exist unused compendium images related to that in the files.
• An earlier compendium image (removed in an update) for the Legendary Bullgator depicted a different appearance than in the final game.
• Voice lines seemingly intended for a talking bird were cut from the game.
• Coral snakes were scrapped from the game at some point, with the only remnant of them being a cut model.

Fish

• The Legendary Channel Catfish has a model which was left unused.
  • Although game files state the player was never intended to interact with the catfish, Arthur Morgan has generic voice lines for catching it.
  • Dialogue suggests it was intended to be yellow at some point in development.

• Sharks were supposed to be encountered in Guarma and included in the Compendium. There are two types; the Hammerhead and the Tiger Shark. Tiger Sharks come in Silver, Matte, and Orange varieties. Hammerhead Sharks have two varieties, with one having a bit of brown detailing. They will still spawn in Guarma, but only if the player returns to or enters Guarma early through the use of a mod or exploit. A cut random encounter involving a shark attack can also be found within the game's code.
  • Textures, a model, and scripts also exist for a discoverable dead Tiger Shark, evidence suggests the player would've opened its mouth and possibly taken one of its teeth. The model for the dead Tiger Shark was reused in Grand Theft Auto V's Cayo Perico heist.

• Unused texture files, compendium icons, and model skeletons exist for both a regular and a brown Marbled Grouper, a type of fish which only appears on a cigarette card in the final game, as well as other cut fish including a Greater Amberjack, a Cobia, a Great Barracuda, a King Mackerel, a Snook with black and common variations, a Wahoo, and a Red Snapper. Textures and compendium icons exist for a Speckled Trout, Brown and Black Bullhead Catfishes, a Rainbow Trout, and a Tiger Muskie. Some other icons exist for variations of fish that do exist in the game, but they go unused likely due to a rework of the compendium.
  • Also, the model skeleton for the Muskie lists the fish as being "ml" size instead of "lg" (large).

Horses

• There are many horse coats completely cut from the final game; these coats appeared in trailers and promotional images prior to the game's release. The only horses left in the files that do not appear in the final game are the Speckled White Arabian, the Liver Chestnut Hungarian Half-bred who was intended to be ridden by Alfredo Montez in Red Dead Online, the Mealy Chestnut Belgian Draft with the Breton model who was intended to be killed by Brother Owlhoot, four alternative horses that were supposed to spawn as corpses, and the Silver Bay Thoroughbred. There are still a few cut horses that appear in compendium images, and even some unused images and horses from when "rare" horses would've had separate photos in the compendium. There are a few horses cut from the game referenced in text files, these include a Malnourished Horse, a Sabino American Paint, a Black American Paint, an Amber Champagne American Standardbred, a Mosaic American Standardbred, a Strawberry Roan American Standardbred, a Blood Bay Arabian, a Chestnut Ardennes (it is worth noting Brown Jack is internally called a Chestnut Ardennes), a "Villain Horse" which may have been for low honor players, a "Hero Horse" which may have been for high honor players, a Dark Bay Dutch Warmblood, an Albino Turkoman, a Grey-Black Dutch Warmblood, a Grey Andalusian, a Silver-Black Dutch Warmblood, a Dark Chestnut Hungarian Half-bred, a Perlino Hungarian Half-bred, a Sooty Buckskin Hungarian Half-bred, a Bay Kentucky Mountain Saddle (note that Kentucky Saddlers are still sometimes referred to as Kentucky Mountain Saddle horses in-game), a Brindle Kentucky Mountain Saddle, a Dapple Grey Tennessee Walker, a Blond Bay Suffolk Punch, a Chocolate Dapple Missouri Fox Trotter, a Black Morgan, a Flaxen Liver Chestnut Morgan, a Chestnut Morgan, a Flaxen Black Missouri Fox Trotter, a Palomino Mustang, a Buttermilk Buckskin Nokota, a Grey Shire, a Dark Liver Chestnut Suffolk Punch, a Deep Red Chestnut Suffolk Punch, a Cherry Bay Thoroughbred, Flaxen Chestnut Thoroughbred, and a Grey Tersk. Another cut horse can be seen in Pearson's picture of the Van der Linde gang. It also appears the Flaxen Roan Tennessee Walker was supposed to be found in the world and could've pulled a wagon as seen in a trailer for the game.
• Wrinkle mask textures and a model skeleton are in the game files for a baby horse, it's possible that this horse was intended to appear during the mission "Fatherhood, For Beginners".
• Baylock's original texture looked nearly identical to that of the Dark Horse's, minus the scarring. Various details were changed including the number of socks, eye color, and face marking; all of which was possibly done in an attempt to distance him from the Dark Horse.
• There exist remnants of a living version of the dead horse model that appears in multiple locations across the map (including an out of bounds avalanche, near the Panoramic Map, and as John's horse during "Enter, Pursued by a Memory".) Animations also exist for this horse.
• An unused 2K resolution horse texture exists within the files.
• Geldings (castrated male horses) were intended to be in the game as evidenced by text relating to them in the files.
• An idle animation exists in the files for horses to urinate.
• The Standard Horse can be seen acting as a replacement for the Raven Black Shire, Buell, and Uncle's horse in trailers for the game as the model served as a stand-in for many cutscene horses.

Transportation

• Three train cars were completely or partially cut from the game: A higher class sleeping quarters train car exists which is used during the missions where Captain Monroe, Reverend Swanson, or Mother Superior Calderón board the train but it was originally supposed to be used during a cut mission in which it would've also featured a barrel, a crate, and boxes of dynamite. A lower class sleeping quarters train car also exists and blows up during "Our Best Selves" though it was intended for the same cut mission as before and has an unused exterior. Finally, a train car with three private cabins was cut from the game.
• The warship in Guarma has an interior area and backing details that can never be seen by the player through normal means.
• Most of the moving boats in the game, including large boats like the ones near Saint Denis, have cut functionality to be driven by the player. This functionality was made accessible by a now patched glitch in Red Dead Online.
• Arthur was originally able to travel to Blackwater and locations in New Austin.
• The player was originally able to pay $100 to board a ferry, which would've taken them to locations such as Blackwater, Saint Denis, and Guarma. John was able to go to Guarma in the epilogue this way.
• In Pearson's photo of the Van der Linde gang, the coach that is used has a flipped lever (as also seen in the thumbnail for "Friends in Very Low Places") and is a different size than the one used in the final game. It also has luggage that does not appear in-game.

Weapons

• An unfinished model exists for a Blunderbuss.
• A cut model for a Derringer can be found in the game files.
• There exists a model for a Buffalo Rifle in the files.
• An icon, model, and textures exist for Brass Knuckles, which could've been equipped by the player.
• Confusion, Drained, and Disoriented were all statuses that could've been inflicted by special arrows or throwing knives.
• Text exists in the files for a folding shotgun, as well as a photo of Arthur wielding the gun.
• The compendium image for John's revolver depicts a slightly different appearance than in the final game.
• Various weapons such as the Elephant Rifle were originally intended for story mode, but were instead reused for Red Dead Online.
• Some gang members' weapons were different in appearance in earlier versions of the game, and some gang members carried weapons they don't use in the final game such as Javier having throwing knives.
• Trelawny was meant to have a custom Double-Action Revolver in Red Dead Online.

Miscellaneous

• Some props never show up in the final game, either due to performance issues or design decisions. Sometimes these cut props will show up under the map, like the flagpoles and other props underneath Fort Riggs.
• Arthur and numerous other characters (most of which are gang members), have lots of cut dialogue. Some of this cut dialogue came from missions or from cut features, such as Arthur originally being able to ride with gang members outside of missions.
  • There exists a bunch of dialogue relating to Arthur in New Austin as well as portions of West Elizabeth, including lines from Sheriff Freeman referring to Arthur by name and lines for Arthur ordering food that is only available in the Blackwater Saloon.
  • Dialogue can be triggered via accessing Pronghorn Ranch's cut interior wherein Mrs. Geddes will ask Duncan where David Geddes has gone off to, only for him to state that he has gone into town. She then begins to bemoan and emotionally play the piano, crying out about how David is always going into town. Another event can occur in the house after this in which she will continue to play the piano.
  • John O'Creagh was originally intended to voice Uncle before his passing, some lines belonging to him remain in the game.
  • Abigail's original voice actor from the first game was intended to make a reprisal, some lines by her are still in the files.
  • Jack Marston's 1899 voice was originally going to be voiced by a male, some remnants of his early voice still remain in the files.
  • Most of the cut cutscenes have dialogue that goes unused in the final game.
  • Dutch has a cut line in which he tries to seduce a female.
  • John has cut dialogue pertaining to him visiting Arthur's grave.
  • Coach drivers have lines relating to gossiping while driving the player to their destination.
  • Silas Crawford has cut lines mentioning Princess Isabeau.
  • Arthur has a bunch of cut ambient combat lines and different lines intended for cracking the reins on a wagon.
  • Some characters have generic lines that could potentially be triggered in the game, but are not for one reason or another. Just a few examples of this include things such as Molly's generic lines for riding a horse despite her never doing so (it is worth noting that text in the game suggests characters like Molly and Pearson would be able to drive vehicles, and ride horses), gang member's lines for being hogtied, sheriffs (including those in Blackwater and New Austin) referring to Arthur by name or to the Van der Linde gang, ambient lines for characters that only appear in "The Gilded Cage", and Joe Butler's lines for storming off or engaging in a fight.
  • Sheriffs have lines for bringing out dogs to track down the player.
  • Despite only a few select characters actually playing blackjack and poker, many NPCs including generic women, men, lawmen, shopkeepers, etc. have lines for playing it as well as the cut minigame liar's dice.
  • There is unused dialogue for robbing saloons.
• Text that was cut from the game suggests that you could originally visit someone at Lagras, Manzanita Post, Benedict Point, Butcher Creek, Valentine, Strawberry, and Blackwater who would buy stolen horses from you or forge papers so that your horse wouldn't be considered stolen and you could sell them to the stable. There is also text suggesting you could solicit the services of a horse trainer. It seems these forged papers were moved to the fence, but ultimately went unused.
• Many cut models exist within the game files. Most notably, cut models exist for a caboose door (intended to be used in the cut "tre2" mission), a crashed train, and a train stopper (intended for the "ind2" mission).
• It seems John was supposed to be able to shave in the bedroom of Beecher's Hope before the house had reached its full completion.
• The bathing ladies were originally supposed to be prostitutes, the prostitutes even spawn outside of the player's view in some scenarios when the bathing lady appears.
• In some trailers and pictures for the game, Charles is seen riding Falmouth prior to the epilogue.
• Molly O'Shea originally was going to be buried in a unmarked grave in relative close proximity to Beaver Hollow instead of her body being burned. The texture of grave, location coordinates and model exist in the game files. It can be spawned with mods.
• The player was intended to be able to borrow horses from gang members.
• Wapiti Warriors were intended to act as lawmen in the Ambarino region, but this functionality was completely cut prior to release.
• Cut saloon dishes including Turtle Soup, Consomme, Cornbread, Corned Beef Hash, Crab Cakes, a Ham Sandwich, a Liver Sandwich, Oyster Stew, a Pork Biscuit Sandwich, and Potatoes and Peas were scrapped from the game at some point in development. It is possible (though unconfirmed) that they were intended for Armadillo, Annesburg, Emerald Ranch, and Guarma as those locations either don't serve food or were originally intended to have a functioning saloon.
• Charles and Bill have an unused encounter in which Charles punches Bill for tripping him.
• When Arthur was originally supposed to visit New Austin in 1899, the Cholera outbreak would've been replaced with the Scarlet Fever outbreak (which is still mentioned in-game) to keep it historically accurate to the time period.
• Arthur has cut journal entries and drawings for animals, plants, and points of interest that are exclusive to New Austin as well as the Great Plains and Tall Trees areas of West Elizabeth, which he cannot access through normal means. This includes entries for Red Sage, Wild Feverfew, Blackcurrant, a Gila Monster, Labrador Retriever, Peccary, Armadillo, Condor, Sonoran Pronghorn, the Legendary Cougar, Pronghorn, and Tatanka Bison, and points of interest including the Jesuit Missionary, Donkey Lady, Sperm Whale Bones, Circus Wagons, Wickiup, and the Crashed Airship. He also has a cut journal entry for finishing "A Test of Faith" and for seeing the later phases of the Strange Man's shack. John has cut journal entries for the Green Sea Turtle (Arthur's entry isn't technically cut as the player can still study them), and other Guarma-exclusive animals including the Scarlet Macaw, Great Green Macaw, Blue-and-Yellow Macaw, and Red-Footed Booby, as well as certain animals from missions such as a Shire, American Standardbred, and a Tennessee Walker (while Arthur is required to mount at least one Shire, American Standardbred, and one Tennessee Walker, skipping these parts of the missions will still fill out the journal entry). In order to get some journal entries for John such as the deer, yarrow, and rabbit entry the player must skip certain parts of missions.
• A pirate skeleton was cut from the game in which it seems Arthur could've obtained the jacket and hat from on Guarma. There also exists a cut pirate skeleton key which may have been related to this.
• Evidence within the game suggests that shopkeepers and lawmen were supposed to be able to change into more casual outfits and were able to leave their posts and play a game or get a drink at the saloon. It's also possible they would've loitered at other locations around town, but this functionality was scrapped at an indeterminant time prior to the game's release.
• There are many cut cutscenes that are not tied to a specific mission leftover in the game.
  • If Arthur were to have been arrested in Annesburg, a cutscene involving Charles bringing in a hostage and demanding for him to be released would have played. Charles rides away on a Standard Horse at the end.
  • A cutscene exists of John giving Jack a new book before walking out of his room.
  • A cutscene in the end credits was supposed to feature Edgar Ross and Fordham interrogating citizens and Sheriff Hanley in Strawberry.
• Sometimes, after the player dies in a mission there are extended animations and dialogue tied to their death that cannot be seen or heard due to it being abruptly cut off.
• Despite there being no horses on Guarma, there is mission fail text for attacking some of the characters exclusive to there such as Baptiste's and Hercule's horses.
• Some animations are marked as being intended for a trailer, though not all of them were used.
• It seems at one point the player could've saved the starving kids at Clawson's Rest, cut text shows they would've been taken to the sheriff in Valentine.
• The Chelonians were originally known as "Kelonians".
• Internally, The Grand Korrigan is referred to as the Serendipity, implying it was originally intended to be that ship.
• Arthur's police uniform disguise is much darker in the mission prior to and after him wearing it, implying the Saint Denis Police uniforms were originally meant to be darker in color.
• There is an unused file mentioning quicksand.
• In the files, there is an unused cheat code: "IS IT STRENGTH OR TRUE WEAKNESS?".
• Thomas Downes' grave is in a different location during a trailer for the game, the grave Edith Downes mourns at is not present in that location in the final game.
• At some point in development, the player could set up camp on Guarma.
• The picture at the Aberdeen Pig Farm's textures have it listed as a picture of a grandmother, possibly implying it was originally meant to be the Aberdeen couple's grandmother.
• A few blips were cut from the game including a blacksmith, riverboat, plant, fence building, locked house, rustling, round up, market stall, epilogue feeding, epilogue guard, and bank blip. The epilogue guard and epilogue feed blip appear to have been intended to be used at Pronghorn Ranch and would've likely had corresponding actions/minigames attached to them.
• The actor for Sadie recounts a take of a scene cut from the epilogue which caused some of the actors present to feel uncomfortable regarding their manhood.
• Various activities with gang members were cut from the game or watered down, this includes hunting with Javier, hunting with John twice, target practice with Javier, rustling with John and Javier, fishing with Hosea, poker with Hosea, fishing with Dutch, robbing the Strawberry Doctor with Bill, a bank robbery with Bill, drinking with Sean, fishing with Charles, drinking with Swanson, playing Poker with Pearson, and drinking with Uncle.
• The photo of Charlotte and Cal Balfour is said to be in Chicago, though the picture was taken outside of the Braithwaite Manor. In the files, the picture is named "Adler Mansion" and also "Rocky Mansion" in that same file.
• A model and animations exist for taking a meteor from the squirrel statue.
• Originally, it seems police would bring out dogs to track down the player similar to bounty hunters.
• Loading screen tips were originally supposed to appear as the game was loading.
• A random encounter was cut from the game involving Arthur or John helping a lady who is trapped under her horse. After doing so, the lady will then ask to either be taken to Valentine, Annesburg, or Saint Denis. It seems the lady may have needed to have been saved from a group of Lemoyne Raiders and was on her way to visit her pa. She would've commented on the buildings in Saint Denis and told a story about her cousin Lucy who hurt her arm and ended up having it permanently messed up after the cast was removed. She also expresses sorrow over the horse she lost, whose name was Moses, and seems extremely upset from losing him.
• There is an unused acrobat outfit with a ripped ankle, as well as animations for a corpse next to a tightrope. It is possible, though unconfirmed, that the outfit was intended for the corpse.

Hoaxes/Misconceptions

• An infamous leak that has since been proven false; dubbed the "Evil Hair Leak", was spread around the internet shortly after the game released. It detailed numerous cut plot lines and features such as horse breeding, Micah being a good guy initially, and the player being allowed to pursue a bisexual relationship with Charles.
• After mentions of there being a cut love interest for Arthur, many assumed that this was intended to have been Sadie; it was later revealed to have been Eliza instead.
• Two photos of the Grand Theft Auto Online Loch Ness Monster in Flat Iron Lake floated around the internet that claimed to be beta mission photos for the river monster. This was later revealed to be a hoax by the creator of said photos.
• A video titled "Red Dead Redemption 2 - All Easter Eggs And Secrets! (TOP 100)" that garnered over five million views showed the Neanderthal hidden behind some rocks in the Elysian Pool. This was later proven to be a hoax.
• The mission photo for Smuggler1 depicted a woman who many assumed to be Eliza, though it was later discovered that this character was Leon's Niece.
• Many people have claimed to have found Princess IKZ in-game, though evidence points towards her being more than likely just cut content.
• A few NPCs such as two Chez Porter sons and a man at the Downes' ranch were spread around the internet as being cut content, though this has since been found to be false.
• Rumors spread about online that the Giant was intended to either be Bigfoot or the Neanderthal, though following the discovery of his model this has been proven false.
• A widespread theory was that the Liver Chestnut Hungarian-Halfbred was Arthur's deceased horse Boadicea, however it was later proven that this horse was meant to be ridden by Alfredo Montez in Red Dead Online.

Leaks

• Some photos from an earlier stage of the game (some of which can be seen in the pre-release screenshot gallery below) were leaked on various platforms such as Twitter and Reddit.
• In 2016, an early version of the final game's map was released online. (Seen in the Locations gallery)
• A leak detailing various details about the game- including Marston birthing a foal and one of the gang members being a spy for the Pinkertons- was posted by a user known as reddeadinsider, it also detailed the troublesome state of development of the game and listed some features that didn't make it in such as recruiting gang members like Abigail and Jack throughout the course of the game.
• A leaked document from Trusted Reviews mentioned various details of the game; most namely a battle royale mode which ended up being confirmed after the game's release.
• The GTA V source code leak included a small amount of Red Dead Redemption 2 animal source models and a texture.

Characters Gallery

Dale Maroney

Sheriff Owens

The Valentine Sheriff

Doc Wormwood

The Unused Rhodes Doctor

The Cut Saint Denis Fence

The cut Tallulah Jetty Bartender

The Armadillo Train Station Worker

The cut Tumbleweed Train Station Worker

Cut Train Station Worker intended for "Friends in Very Low Places"

The cut Saint Denis Boat Ticket Salesman

Adam Gray

Archibald Jameson

Featherston Chambers

Dr. Lane Higgins

An unused Acrobat performer

Nial Whelan

Mr. Pattison

Mrs. Fellows

Frank Heck's Unused Model

Seth's in-game model intended for Red Dead Online

Camp cook cut from Red Dead Online

The two feuding twin brothers

The female character that was supposed to be in the stranger mission "Oh, Brother"

A restoration of Leon's niece

Isabeau Katherina Zinsmeister's cut adult model

An obese man with unknown affiliations

An obese man from Blackwater

An obese man from Blackwater

An obese man from Blackwater

An obese man from Rhodes

An obese man from Rhodes

An obese man from Rhodes

An obese man from Saint Denis

An obese man from Saint Denis

An obese man from Saint Denis

An obese woman from Saint Denis

An obese man from Butcher Creek

The cut obese member of the Murfree Brood

An obese woman from Butcher Creek

A restoration of the obese Mail Order Bride

A restoration of the cut Obese Art Appraiser

A restoration of the Giant

A restoration of Senor Andreas Colon

Bessie Adair, cut daredevil character that was meant to appear in Red Dead Online

Grace Lancing's Model

Marko Dragic's Robot as an NPC

A Restoration of the Valentine General Store Owner from the Trailer

Jake Adler's cut face model and outfit

Jake Adler's Beta Corpse Model

A restoration of the cut Explosion Victim

A cut version of the Trapper

The cut Old Wise Man who would've likely worked at Manzanita Post

Abe Maclean

Gilbert Knightly's Cut Model

The Cut Pirate Skeleton

A restoration of Eliza

A restoration of the cut Suicidal Miner

The cut Neanderthal in his cut animation

Males intended for Frank Heck's Mission

The Lemoyne Raiders Leader

Mabel

The Shack Serial Killer

The Forgiven Husband and Wife

The Lady intended for "A Kind and Benevolent Despot"

The Braithwaite Servant and Maid

A Female who may be Unused

Hamish's Original Model

An early version of the Old Cajun/Camille de Millemont

An unused Cajun

An early version of Thomas

Unused Models for Ambient Foremen

The Saint Denis Saloon Bounty

James "Jim" McGoGarty

The Old Man Bounty

Three O'Driscoll Bounties, from left to right: Mauled, Drunk, and Sleeping

The O'Driscoll Leader (middle right) alongside three unused henchmen

The Duster Informant

Blackjack Dealers for Annesburg

Blackjack Dealers for Strawberry

Blackjack Dealers for Valentine

Twenty Unused Ambient Chelonians

Unused Chelonian intended for "We Loved Once and True"

Unused Fundraiser Lady

Cut Pimp

"Val The Man"

The Rhodes Fiddle Player

Beta Fight Referee

Beta Joshua Brown

The Rhodes Saloon Bouncer

Unused Bear Trap Character for Valentine

A Mixed Race Kid

The Unused Peeping Tom

Cut Rhodes Preacher

A Restoration of a cut Nun

Father O'Leary's Original Model

Unused PED model for ManBearPig

William's Original Native American Appearance

Miss Timmin's Legs (Censored)

Madeline Fussar's Leftover Components

The Thirty-Three Unused Masked Lemoyne Raiders

Arthur's original head model and textures which more closely resemble his actor

Outfits Gallery

Van Der Linde Gang Members

Javier's Unused Beards

Javier's Unused Robbery Outfit

Javier's Unused Tuxedo for "The Gilded Cage"

Molly's Unused Outfit for "The Gilded Cage"

Kieran's cut Coat, Hair, Shirt, and Bandana

Sadie's Unused Barefoot 1907 Appearance

Sadie's Unused Kidnapped Outfit

Sean's Cut Robbery Outfit and Hat Texture

Strauss' Unused Vest and Boots

Trelawny's Unused Union Suit

Micah's Unused Eyepatch

Swanson's Unused Hair and Eye Color

Swanson's Unused Chaps

Grimshaw's Unused Corset and Earrings

Unused Winter Outfit for Cleet

Hosea's cut hat, overalls, beard, boots, arms, and shirt

Arthur's Cut Hillbilly Outfit

Arthur's Cut Pirate Outfit

Arthur wearing the pre-release duster without a satchel and with his neckerchief tucked in

One of Arthur's cut outfits, featuring the Quiver

Unused textures for Arthur's clothing as well as a cut gunbelt, holster, bandolier, and neckerchief

The Cut Rifle Holster

Arthur wearing both his hat and the mask at the same time

Cutscene/Mission PEDs/Miscellaneous

Angelo Bronte's outfit with shaving cream and a towel

Archibald Jameson's tuxedo for "The Gilded Cage"

Dale Maroney's 1907 Appearance

Doc Wormwood's headless outfit

Heston Jameson's cut hat and lack of gloves

Abe's Cut Outfit

Archer Fordham's cut vest, gloves, and pants

Brynn Tildon's unused outfit for use outside of "The Gilded Cage"

Jeremy Gill's Cut Outfit

A restoration of the Giant's cut 1907 appearance

Outfits for the cut Old Wise Man, including some for 1907

Sheriff Freeman's 1907 Appearance

Marko Dragic's Robot as an NPC's 1907 appearance

Archie Downes' appearance as a child

Archie Downes' Trailer Outfit

The Town Crier's cut 1907 appearance and mask

A restoration of Seth Briar's Unused Outfit

Jeb's Unused Outfit featuring a Starkly Different Appearance

Jeb's Unused Outfit

Aldridge T. Abbington's cut hair and mustache

Marko Dragic's cut 1907 Outfits

Outfits for "Val The Man"

Nicholas Timmin's Cut 1907 Appearance

Hercule's Unused Coat

Agnes Dowd's Living Appearance

Lee's cut coat and vest

Old Man Jones' Cut Vest

Samson's unused Off-hand Holster

Samson's cut Hat and Belt

Shopkeepers/Lawmen

Gabe Doyle and Elijah Howard's Casual Outfits

Claude Jarreau, Isaac Horner, and Chu Ling's Casual Outfits

1907 and bandaged appearances for the cut Saint Denis Boat Ticket Salesman

1907, Bandaged, Casual and a Gilded Cage appearance for the cut Saint Denis Fence

Eldin Grubb's unused 1899 and bandaged appearances

Herbert Moon's unused 1899 appearances, casual, and bandaged outfits

Emory Phillip's casual outfits and 1899 bandaged appearances

1907 and bandaged appearances for the cut Armadillo Train Station Worker

The Tumbleweed Butcher's 1899 Bandaged and Casual Appearances

Mavis Chamber's 1899 Bandaged and Casual Outfits

The Tumbleweed Bartender's 1899 Bandaged and Casual Outfits

Roscoe Brenner's 1899 Bandaged and Casual Outfits

1907, casual, and bandaged appearances for Benjamin P. Lockhart Sr.

Benjamin P. Lockhart Jr.'s cut Scarf

Burt Mackay's unused 1899 Bandaged and Casual Outfits

Sam Neely's 1899 Bandaged and Casual Outfits

Unused 1907, Casual, and Bandaged Appearances for Wendal Bishop

Oswald Dunbar's casual and 1899 bandaged appearances

Ned Keane, Cliff Douglas, Ben Calloway and Arnold Dunn's Casual Outfits

Ralph Dalton, Jacob Worth, and Bob Mattice's Casual Outfits

The Unused Val Sheriff's 1907 and Bandaged Appearances

Quentin Fern's Casual Outfits

Jasper Feeney and Virgil Fisher's Casual Outfits

A.J. Banks' cut 1907, bandaged, and casual appearances

Francis Drury's Unused 1907 Casual Appearance

Cecil Fowler and Chip Cooper's Casual Outfits

Silas Crawford, Josie Dawson, and Horatio's Casual Outfits

Mr. Schultz's Casual Outfits

The Wallace Station General Store Owner's Casual Outfits

Casual Outfits for the Lagras Bait Saleswoman

1907 and bandaged appearances for the Riggs Train Station Worker

Sheriff Owen's 1907 Appearance

1907 appearances, bandaged, and casual appearances for the cut Tallulah Jetty Bartender

Promotional Art Outfits

Arthur's Unused Promo Art Outfit

John's Unused Promo Art Outfit

Abigail's Unused Promo Art Shirt

Jack's Unused or Discolored Promo Art Suspenders

Dutch's Unused Promo Art Outfit and Serrated Knife

Tilly's Unused or Discolored Promo Art Outfit

Swanson is never seen with an open vest and no coat except in this image

Karen's Unused Promo Art Outfit

Lenny's Unused or Discolored Promo Art Outfit

Pearson wearing what appears to be his Shopkeeper shirt with his belt apron

Javier's Unused Promo Art Outfit

Sean's Unused or Discolored Promo Art Outfit

Hosea is never seen with an open shirt collar while wearing his winter coat

Bill's Unused or Discolored Promo Art Outfit

Missions Gallery

Lenny in the mission "Pouring Fourth Oil IV"

Bill in the mission "Pouring Fourth Oil IV"

Bill in the mission "Country Pursuits"

The mission card for the cut Frank Heck mission

The mission card for the cut "ind2" mission

The mission card for the cut mission involving Leon's Niece

Unused Letter from Mary in which she asks Arthur to help her in Rhodes

Unused Letter from Brenda in which she thanks Arthur for helping her escape her husband

Locations Gallery

An early map leaked from 2016

An earlier version of the map on an object found in the game's files

The unused model for the under construction barn at Beecher's Hope

A photo featuring some of the unseen parts of Guarma's map

An earlier version of Guama's map

The cut bridge at Van Horn's Lighthouse

The cut horse jumping arena

The unused Gaptooth Breach mineshaft

Low poly assets for Escalera

A low poly model for a cut structure in Nuevo Paraíso

Low poly assets for Torquemada

Low poly assets for Agave Viejo

Low poly assets for Casa Madrugada

Low poly assets for El Matadero

Low poly assets for Chuparosa

Low Poly Assets for Las Hermanas

Low Poly Assets for a camp in Mexico

Occlusion models for Le Vilaj

Occlusion models for El Hueco

The Original Rhodes Parlour House Bathing Room

Pronghorn Ranch's partially cut Living Room Interior

Items Gallery

The Asteroid Chunk Trinket

The Bobcat Claw Trinket

The Ghost Alligator Trinket

The Badger Claw Trinket

The Bat Wing Trinket

The Bear Heart Trinket

The Bull Gator Trinket

The Condor Beak Trinket

The Rabbit's Foot Trinket

The Racoon Claw Trinket

The Deputy Star Trinket, note that the icon differs from the model itself

The Crane Feather Trinket

The Toad Legs Trinket

The Flower Spun Trinket

The Poisoned Bluegill Trinket

The Futuristic Trinket

The Panther Claw Trinket

The Giant Boar Trinket

The Giant Rabbit Trinket

The Gila Monster Tooth Trinket

The Chelonian Master Trinket

The Little Egret Trinket

The Duck Feather Trinket

The Reddish Egret Trinket

The Eagle Feather Trinket

The Heron Feather Trinket

The Ornate Gold Trinket

The Bull Horn Trinket

The Oxen Horn Trinket

The Squirrel Tooth Trinket, note that the icon differs from the model itself

The Mayan Trinket

The Gold Trinket

The UI picture featuring the Squirrel Tooth Trinket

The cut Horse Blanket and Saddlebags

One of the Unobtainable Letters in a drawer

Cut animal skin painting

The Cut Crow's Garlic Herb

The Cut Salt Bush Herb

How the pardon letter would've most likely looked and functioned

The cut Guarma Relics

The icon for the cut Oats Bag

The icon for the cut Pirate Rum

The icon for the cut Scrap Metal

The icon for the cut Chicken Egg

The icon for the cut Rotten Meat

The icon for the cut Shaving Kit

The icon for the cut Reading Glasses

The icon for the cut Health Serum

The icon for the cut Poison Tonic

The icon for the Upgraded Quiver

Doc Wormwood's Unobtainable Bounty Poster

A later version of Doc Wormwood's Bounty Poster

Edmund Lowry's cut Bounty Poster

James "Jim" McGoGarty's cut Bounty Poster

Scarlet Fever Handbill

An image for the cut reading glasses item request

An image for the cut eagle talon item request

Minigames Gallery

Leftover assets for the Three Card Monte Minigame

Leftover assets for the Liar's Dice Minigame

Leftover assets for the Craps Field Minigame

Leftover assets for the Roulette Minigame

Animals Gallery

The unused Legendary Channel Catfish model

The compendium icon for the cut Marbled Grouper

The compendium icon for the cut Brown Marbled Grouper

The compendium icon for the cut Common Snook

The compendium icon for the cut Black Snook

The compendium icon for the cut Red Snapper

The compendium icon for the cut Speckled Trout

The compendium icon for the cut Rainbow Trout

The compendium icon for the cut Tiger Muskie

The compendium icon for the cut Wahoo

The compendium icon for the cut King Mackerel

The compendium icon for the cut Great Barracuda

The compendium icon for the cut Cobia

The compendium icon for the cut Brown Bullhead Catfish

The compendium icon for the cut Black Bullhead Catfish

The compendium icon for the cut Greater Amberjack

The unused compendium icon for the Bobcat

The River Monster's model found reused in Grand Theft Auto V

The Hammerhead Shark

The Matte Tiger Shark

The Silver Tiger Shark

The Orange Tiger Shark

The Dead Tiger Shark

What the cut Legendary White Rabbit would've likely looked like alongside its cut clues

The Coral Snake's Cut Model

What the cut Piglet might have looked like

How the cut baby bears would've likely looked

The removed compendium image for the Black Bear depicted without fur

The removed compendium photo for the Legendary Bullgator depicting a different appearance

Cut texture mapped to the Bullgator

The Cut Albino Gator

The Cut Albino Doe

The Cut Mangy Doe

The Cut Albino Doe

In this shot from the trailer, the cows are identical to the first game. Also note the mountain formation is different, the player is inside of the Emerald Ranch barn, and the horse appears to possibly be unused

In this shot, Lenny's, Sadie's, and Arthur's horses are unused. Also note the yellow-tinted pre-release Heartlands grass color and that Baylock appears to be using a healthy recreation of the Dark Horse texture

The Mealy Chesntut Breton who would've been killed by Brother Owlhoot

The Dappled Black Chestnut American Standardbred

A Piebald Roan Norfolk Roadster with a broken unused model

A More Gray Speckled Gray Norfolk Roadster with a broken unused model

A Black Norfolk Roadster with a broken unused model

The Cut Liver Chestnut Hungarian Half-bred who would've been ridden by Alfredo Montez

John's Silver Bay Thoroughbred (Healthy)

John's Silver Bay Thoroughbred (Skinny)

A living version of the dead horse model used in multiple places around the map

The 2k Horse Texture

The cut Mahogany Bay Overo

A cut horse pulling a cart

A compendium image showcasing a horse using the same texture as the Mahogany Bay Overo

The cut rare Ardennes

The cut rare Arabian

The cut rare American Standardbred

The cut rare Mustang

The cut rare Andalusian

Transportation Gallery

One of the partially cut train cars mostly restored

Another of the cut train cars mostly restored

The cut train car with cabins

Inside one of the cabins on the cut train car

The stagecoach in this picture appears to be a different size than in the final game, its lever is flipped and it appears to use decor that is not seen in the final game as well as luggage. Also note that some characters, notably Arthur, John, Pearson, Bill, Susan, and Jack appear to use unique or altered outfits though it's possible they were created specifically for this photo. The two horses are also unused

The Cut Train Stopper

Weapons Gallery

The cut Blunderbuss

The cut Buffalo Rifle

The cut Derringer

Trelawny's cut Double-Action.

Arthur wielding the cut folding shotgun

Models for the Brass Knuckles

The icon for the cut Brass Knuckles

Miscellaneous Gallery

An example of a prostitute having spawned outside of the room while the player bathes

Benedict Allbright's bounty poster with him in a different coat. Also note his location being listed as the Valentine Oilfields.

The cut Cheat Code

John's cut drawing of a Tennessee Walker

John's cut drawing of a Shire

John's cut drawing of an American Standardbred

John's cut drawing of a Red-Footed Booby

John's cut drawing of a Great Green Macaw

John's cut drawing of a Blue-and-Yellow Macaw

John's cut drawing of a Scarlet Macaw

John's cut drawing of a Green Sea Turtle

Arthur's cut drawing of a Californian Condor

Arthur's cut drawing of a Gila Monster

Arthur's cut drawing of a Peccary

Arthur's cut drawing of a Labrador Retriever

Arthur's cut journal entry for an Armadillo

Arthur's cut drawing of a Sonoran Pronghorn

Arthur's cut drawing of the Legendary Cougar

Arthur's cut drawing of the Legendary Pronghorn

Arthur's cut drawing of the Legendary Tatanka Bison

Arthur's cut journal entry for Wild Feverfew

Arthur's cut journal entry for Red Sage

Arthur's cut journal entry for the Donkey Lady

Arthur's cut journal entry for the Jesuit Missionary

Arthur's cut journal entry for the Crashed Airship

Arthur's cut journal entry for the Circus Wagons

Arthur's cut journal entry for the Sperm Whale Bones

Arthur's cut drawing of Wickiup

Arthur's cut drawing for "A Test of Faith"

Arthur's cut journal entry for "A Test of Faith"

Arthur's cut drawing for seeing the later phases of the Strange Man's shack

Text for Arthur seeing the later version of the Strange Man's shack

The Fence Building Blip

The Locked House Blip

The Stall Blip

The Riverboat Blip

The Telegraph Blip

The Summer Guard Blip

The Bank Blip

The Plant Blip

The Blacksmith Blip

The Epilogue Feeding Blip

Official Pre-release Screenshots Gallery

The lantern is not present in this location in the final game, and Arthur's clothes are slightly different

Arthur in Tall Trees, a location he cannot normally access

Charles, Arthur, Micah, and an unknown character resembling Hosea or Sean riding together (something that never happens in this location in-game)

An armored stagecoach travelling through the beta Heartlands, all horses in this shot are unused

A train travelling through West Elizabeth with far more smoke than in the final game

All of the horses in this shot are unused and the lighting is different

Dutch's revolvers appear different in this shot

At least one of the horses in this shot is unused

Arthur in one of his beta outfits with his cut bandana and flipped belt buckle

Arthur with a horse that appears to be unused

The gang in Ambarino featuring The Count with brown eyes, Arthur and bill on horses that appears to be cut with Arthur's belt buckle flipped

Arthur during the Pinkerton assault on Lakay, the positioning of gang members and effects seem to have changed before release

Sadie (and possibly Arthur's) horses are unused in this shot

Arthur on a possibly cut horse

The gang riding out during "Sodom? Back to Gomorrah", the lighting is different than in the final game

A grizzly bear

Arthur's horse with what appears to be a cut saddle, also note the cut horse holster

What appears to be NPC John with his scars healed

Arthur staring at the camera

The lighting is different than in the final game, and Joe's horse is unused

The gang sitting around a fire

Arthur at the Downes' Ranch, note the wagon that is not present in the final game and the horse holster

Arthur and Bill during "Sodom? Back to Gomorrah", note the flipped belt buckle

Dutch standing at his tent alongside Molly with a beta hair model

Arthur with a bow, note the flipped belt buckle

Arthur during "Sodom? Back to Gomorrah", note the flipped belt buckle

The gang riding through the beta Heartlands, with Arthur on a cut horse

John wearing his Cowboy Outfit alongside Sadie wearing her 1907 coat with her 1899 outfit

Arthur in either Blackwater or the beta Heartlands

A coyote

Arthur in Rhodes, note the flipped belt buckle and the coat on the newspaper boy which he does not wear in the final game

Arthur and Lenny in the forest with Arthur on a possibly cut horse and Lenny on a beta version of Maggie

What appears to be the playable John with his original hair

Arthur hanging up game on a post, something which is not possible in-game. Also note the horse holster and flipped belt buckle

Arthur at some graves on a cut horse

What appears to be the playable John in Strawberry

Arthur on his horse, note the flipped belt buckle

Arthur in Valentine on what appears to be a cut horse with the lighting having changed

Arthur, Sadie, and Bob during "Red Dead Redemption". It appears to be in Van Horn's beta location as the light house is nowhere to be found, the terrain looks different, and the sign is missing

The gang sitting around a campfire

Arthur and Charles

Arthur shooting a man in the Valentine Saloon, note the flipped belt buckle

Arthur riding with Charles and John who appear to be on different horses than their own and Sadie on Bob

Dutch and gang during Chapter 6, note the flipped belt buckle

Arthur hunting a buck

Some deer in the woods

Arthur and Bill during "Sodom? Back to Gomorrah", note the flipped belt buckle

Arthur carrying a buck

Arthur on a cut horse resembling the Mahogany Overo American Paint

Arthur pointing a gun at someone

Arthur in Bayou Nwa on a horse with a coat resembling the Mahogany Bay Overo

John in his Cowboy Outfit with his NPC hair and Sadie

Sadie in the Mayor's Mansion, note that she never visits this location in-game

Arthur on what appears to possibly be a cut horse with horseshoes

Arthur gambling with Dutch in the Valentine Saloon

Arthur blowing something up, note the flipped belt buckle

There appear to be two cut horses in this shot, also note the horse holster

Arthur and Charles rowing during "That's Murfree Country"

Arthur and Lenny in front of the Valentine Bank

Javier and Lenny during "Old Friends"

Arthur looking at the camera

What appears to be Arthur and John riding near Braithwaite Manor

Sadie in her Chapter 2 outfit in Valentine, alongside Dutch on a horse

An earlier version of Arthur Morgan on a bicycle

An earlier screenshot of Canebreak Manor alongside an earlier version of Arthur with a gun holster on his back

Two photos of an early version Colter

A photo of early Colter with a Cleveland Bay from Red Dead Redemption used as a placeholder

An early version of Arthur at early Colter with his Gunslinger Jacket closed

Concept Art Gallery

Concept art for Arthur Morgan

Concept art for Dutch van der Linde

Concept art for Rains Fall

More concept art for Rains Fall

Concept art for Colonel Henry Favours

Concept art for Albert Mason

Concept art for Evelyn Miller

Concept art for the Van der Linde gang. Bill, Javier, and Karen appear to be present in the photo.

Concept art for the intro cutscene

More concept art for the intro cutscene

Concept art for the gang heading into Adler Ranch

Concept art for a caravan crossing a cold river next to a waterfall

Concept art for what appears to be the Dakota River

More concept art likely on the Dakota River

Concept art for Iron Cloud

Concept art for the Downes' Ranch

Concept art for a gang at a house, possibly Six Point Cabin

Concept art for a stagecoach ambush

Concept art for a caravan heading along the road, note the Ox pulling the cart which is something that never happens in-game

Concept art for a river

Concept art for a gang sitting around a fire

Concept art for an alligator attacking a horse in Bayou Nwa, something which never happens in-game

Concept art for Guarma

More concept art for Guarma

Concept art for ruins on Guarma

Concept art for more ruins on Guarma

Concept art showing the inside of some Guarma ruins

Concept art for Beaver Hollow

Videos

Beta Analysis of Red Dead Redemption II -Part 1-

Beta Analysis of Red Dead Redemption II -Part 2-

RDR2 - Arthur in New Austin - Beta Voicelines Pt 1

RDR2 - Arthur in New Austin - Beta Voicelines Pt 2

RDR2 - Guarma -Beta Analysis-

RDR2 - Guarma's Cut Stranger Mission

RDR2 Cut Content - Valentine Massacre, Bounties & Beta Clingman