If you are out of the loop, Open IV is a tool that allows one to alter games to do what you want them to do. In other words, mod a game on PC. Well, the team behind Open IV took to their main site to announce that mod support is coming to Red Dead Redemption 2, but the tool for the game is in an early stage.

DSOG helped spread the word that openiv.com is now working on supporting RDR2, even if you’re in love with the game or not. This means that if everything goes well in the future without goons showing up to the team’s doorstep, folks can explore a much different wild West experience on PC.

If you want to know the current status of RDR2 and Open IV support, you can read the following portion from the latter website:

“Right now OpenIV is able to open new RPF8 archives from the RDR2. But, there is few things you need to know:

 

• New RPF8 archives does not have names for their entries, only hashes;
• It is possible to harvest file names from the game itself. Just like GTA V, RDR 3 has many META, XML and PSO files that contain names of the files and archives. We already have some archives where all the file names are known.
• The first version will probably has a very limited database of the file names, we are hoping to grow list of the known names with every new update in the future.”

That’s right, RDR2 will be the first Red Dead game to support Open IV. However, the team is also working on support for the first Red Dead Redemption game (released back in 2010).

In addition to the above, support for the first RDR title is said to come out later next year, which means RDR2 is the primary focus.

This means in late December, and throughout 2020, Red Dead Redemption 2 might see mods similar to its counterpart, GTA V, pop up on the scene that changes the game’s core in all the right ways. As of now, the first version will not have any editing capabilities.

So what does all of this mean? Well, it means that the team has no ETA on when a new version of the Open IV will release for RDR2. It also means that the current state needs additional support for most of the general files, but until then, mods to trigger Polygon, Kotaku, GameSpot, Rock Paper Shotgun, and EuroGamer may hit the PC scene like “Red Dead Redemption 2 – Blazing Saddles Edition” in the coming future.