Players can drink until they are intoxicated inRed Dead Redemption 2, where provided NPC gesture prompts slur and the screen becomes disorienting. In fact, a specific mission with Lenny Summers, called A Quiet Time, allows players to enjoy a disorienting evening ofraucous antics as Arthur Morgan.
This drunken sequence makes use ofRed Dead Redemption 2’s first-person-perspectiveand creates dizzying filters to emulate Arthur’s intoxication, such as hallucinating that every NPC is Lenny, or generally swirling and bending the player’s perspective with a colored hue painting the entire screen. But while the rest ofRed Dead Redemption 2is not intended to be played with this sort of visual hindrance affecting the player, another player has found a bug that seemingly distorts their vision in a much trippier way than Valentine’s alcohol.
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Reddit user jp_farah is the latestRed Dead Redemption 2player to have encountered a bug that paints a bizarre wash of rainbow neon colors into the game. Based upon where this gameplay clip is set, it appears as though jp_farah had found this bug during the narrative mission Country Pursuits, where Arthur and Dutch van der Linde wade through a bayou swamp at night and evade alligators. But while the location seems unremarkable,Red Dead Redemption 2’s colorshave saturated and washed out with an adaptive neon lightshow that follows characters' movements.
The bug seems to affect existing colors with sweeping blots of green, pink, yellow, and blue smeared about, whether in the direction and path that the player looks toward or following other character NPCs as they move around, as everything else is saturated in black. However, jp_farah does not state or confirm what they believe is the cause of the bug. But other instances of a similar bug found years ago may determine that, because it only affects colors, it may be connected to alteringRed Dead Redemption 2’s resolution.
One fan, radarmax, assumes that it might also be “a shader issue caused by memory corruption” due to its particular irregularity. Regardless, the trippy nature of the bug suggests to players the humorous idea that Arthur has taken some sort of psychedelic substance with hallucinatory properties. Another fan jokes that “Pearson made his homemade peyote stew again” to perpetuate this idea. But some fans believe that instead of a resolution error fromRed Dead Redemption 2’s settings, it could be jp_farah’s own hardware that is the cause.
So after all, the neon paint effect may be aRed Dead Redemption 2bug or potentially even an issue that jp_farah has with their own PC hardware. Either way, it is a stunning effect that is certainly not intended to be afeature aesthetic inRed Dead Redemption 2.
Red Dead Redemption 2is available for PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One.
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