Purple Useless Redemption 2 followers are looking for solutions to a newly-discovered thriller that is been hidden inside Rockstar’s cowboy sequel since its authentic launch.
After greater than seven years, a bunch of Purple Useless aficianados lately realized they’d came upon one thing nobody had reported beforehand — a sequence of mysterious spiderwebs that started spawning on eight telegraph poles all through the sport’s huge world, every throughout a particular hour of the evening.
Two weeks on, extra clues have now been discovered, and it is grow to be clear that this can be a deliberate secret included by Rockstar inside the sport, which gamers at the moment are speeding to uncover the complete that means of.
Much like Purple Useless Redemption 2’s quest involving dreamcatchers (and a well-recognized spiderweb thriller in GTA 5), gamers found in late December 2025 that these newly-found spiderwebs include a feather which might be shot free — although the webs themselves solely seem for one hour of in-game time every evening.
An preliminary video on the thriller by Rockstar fan channel Unusual Man credit this discovery to a trio of followers, goldenplaysterraria, pariah87 and u/FL4VA-01, whereas feedback on the video from others say they’ve checked and found this secret actually has been there because the sport’s authentic launch — all the way in which again in 2018.
Quick ahead to final week, and a contemporary replace detailed a second section of the thriller’s unravelling. Right here, gamers found that the assorted spiderwebs result in one central internet that contained a cryptic route in its internet design: “N” and a logo for one more telegraph pole. Heading north (as directed by “N”) results in one other wood pole which, as soon as discovered, might be shot at to disclose yet one more route below its bark.
All of that brings us just about updated, and as much as a brand new video revealed simply yesterday which particulars the place the thriller is at now. Presently, gamers are following one remaining cryptic telegraph pole message that depicts a remaining route, and the image for a guitar.
The place is that this all main? Gamers are usually not certain, however the sense is that there is undoubtedly extra to this thriller to unravel. Gamers at the moment are hurriedly looking out the Fort Wallace location — which holds the closest guitars to the thriller’s most up-to-date clue — and are mapping each different guitar discovered within the sport, in case it sparks some new revelation.
With this secret having existed for thus lengthy, there’s little probability that Rockstar itself is teasing something huge or new on the finish. (Although, what a approach to reveal single-player DLC this is able to be!) For Purple Useless Redemption 2 followers, although, that is an thrilling second — one thing new to ponder finally of their beloved sport, because the watch for information of a re-release or new content material stretches on.
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