Surprise Red Dead Redemption 2 Patch Doesn’t Add the Update Everyone Really Wants

Rockstar has issued a surprise title update for Red Dead Redemption 2 — its first for nearly two years — which makes a number of improvements and fixes for the game, but it does not add the update the community desperately wants.

Red Dead Redemption 2 Title Update 1.32, out now for the game across PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, includes improvements for FSR (now updated to FSR 2.2), support for HDR10, and a fix for an infamous Red Dead Online glitch that caused the game to freeze when entering stables.

However, the title update does not add 60 frames per second to Red Dead Redemption 2 on consoles, perhaps the most-wanted update in all of video games.

In September, the explosive FTC vs Xbox leak sent shockwaves throughout the Red Dead Redemption community after a Red Dead Redemption 2 next-gen update was found listed by a Microsoft executive in a planning email.

In an email chain between Microsoft executives dated May 2022 is a list of third-party games earmarked as potential day-and-date Game Pass titles. One of the games mentioned is Red Dead Redemption 2 “D&D for gen9”, which Microsoft expected to come out during the second quarter of its 2023 financial year (October to December 2022).

“Gen9” refers to the ninth generation of consoles, aka the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. Rockstar has yet to announce a next-gen update for Red Dead Redemption 2, despite the many calls from fans.

Then, in October, Rockstar quietly patched its Red Dead Redemption port to add a 60 frames per second toggle to the game on PlayStation 5 via backwards compatibility, which made Rockstar’s 2010 open-world western was officially playable at 60fps for the first time.

Red Dead Redemption 2 launched in 2018 on PS4 and Xbox One and in 2019 on PC, and is considered by some to be Rockstar’s greatest game. Fans have criticized Rockstar for a lack of meaningful updates in favor of support for GTA Online, but Red Dead Redemption 2 remains hugely popular, selling over 61 million copies to date.

Red Dead Redemption 2 Title Update 1.32 patch notes:

General Stability Fixes and Improvements

• Red Dead Online General Fixes
• Fixed an issue that resulted in Naturalist samples not being counted toward Daily Challenges
• Fixed an issue in Dead of Night that resulted in Night Stalkers being able to collect the Night Stalker mask
• Fixed an issue that resulted in ambient vehicles not appearing in certain content
• Fixed an issue that resulted in Free Roam Missions not launching
• Improved an issue that resulted in players becoming stuck when entering the stables
• Improved an issue that resulted in players being unable to summon horses and wagons
• Voice Chat now defaults to Off

Game Stability and Performance

• Fixed various issues that could result in a crash

Game Stability and Performance (PC)

• Fixed various issues that would result in the game crashing or failing to launch
• Fixed an issue that resulted in Offline Mode not working due to Windows 11 updates
• Fixed an issue that resulted in crashes after reporting other players
• Fixed issues that resulted in Offline Mode not working correctly
• Added support for HDR10+ GAMING, this will automatically set game graphics in HDR for HDR10+ GAMING displays on compatible graphics cards and monitors connected via HDMI
• Updated AMD Fidelity Super Resolution (FSR) libraries to version 2.2
• Fixed an issue that resulted in 3200×2400 resolution being unavailable

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