Best Red Dead Redemption mods to enhance your adventures in the Wild West.
After 14 long years, Red Dead Redemption has finally received its long-awaited PC release. PC players have been clamoring for it since its initial release in 2010.
Moreover, this anticipation is solidified further by just how fast Red Dead Redemption has been modded.
Though Red Dead Redemption has aged exceptionally, modders have found numerous ways to improve it both visual and gameplay wise to bring it up to more modern standards. These mods range from simple quality of life changes to overhauled graphics and gameplay systems
In this article, we take a look at the best mods you can download right now for Red Dead Redemption to get your best experience in this classic.
RDR Reimagined
Pros:
- Improved Visual, mainly lighting and color grading
Red Dead Redemption’s visuals have aged impeccably well, thanks to its art direction, especially for a 2010 game. Not focusing on photorealistic graphics can do wonders as it turns out.
However, that hasn’t stopped modders from improving its visuals, making Red Dead Redemption even more beautiful.
RDR Reimagined revamps the lighting, color grading, and more, vastly improving RDR’s visuals, making it look more like a modern game. So, if you want to enhance the visuals of the Wild West, give RDR Reimagined a try.
Reality Redemption
Pros:
- Improved Textures, Models, and Weather Cycles
- Improved Physics
- Improved AI and Random Events
Another visual enhancement mod, Reality Redemption focuses more on revamping textures and models to make Red Dead Redemption look more photorealistic.
Moreover, it also revamps physics and other gameplay systems such as AI Behavior to make the game more realistic.
The mod is still in beta and as of right now its features include:
- Improved reflection quality
- Improved physics for liquids like water
- Improved AI behavior
- Improved game camera to behave more like RDR2
- Improved Euphoria physics
- Improved random events spawn and spawn rate
- Improved materials and their interactivity
- Improve culling
- Improve John Marston textures
- Improve game world textures such as trails, roads, grounds, and grass
However, there are many features that have been announced such as improved secondary character and building textures, improved vegetation textures, etc.
Quick Loot
Pros:
- Quality of Life mod that saves a lot of time
Red Dead Redemption is an immersive experience, especially for a game released in 2010. However, some of the animations intended for immersion can get tiresome as you go through them over and over again.
This is where Quick Loot comes in, replacing the default looting and skinning animations with much shorter ones, which take less than a second.
You can also download Instant Loot by emoose, if you want to remove the animations altogether.
Horse Speed Overhaul
Pros:
- Increased Horse Speeds
- Does not make Horses Overpowered
While riding around with your trusty is one of the more enjoyable and peaceful parts of Red Dead Redemption, they can prove to be too slow for a lot of players. It can get tiring moving from objective to objective with a slow ride.
This mod aims to remedy that by increasing the base speed of all horses.
However, it does this without ruining the balance intended by the game, and some horses are still faster than others while not being excessively fast.
Seki’s Weapon Adjustments
Pros:
- Revamped Gunplay
This mod overhauls Red Redemption’s gunplay as much as possible to make it more realistic and unpredictable, thus enhancing duels and shootouts to make them more exciting.
It does this by removing bullet trails, making accuracy less predictable, and allowing bullets to penetrate objects such as wood, etc.
Moreover, it also changes all weapon names to their real-life names.
