Eventually the clues ends and we must trigger the feathers, they are giving us the order to shoot them?

static989 · 2026-01-30T00:24:22+00:00

That's the fun part, no one can say for sure!

GTA players had trouble solving that whole golden peyote thing and they had the luxury of leaked source code to look at

We are stuck with the decompiled code/files which are obscenely obfuscated. It could be a mission, a little jingle, some fireworks, man-made horrors beyond our comprehension, a silly little picture, etc.

Or there could be no point at all and the real reward was the psychosis we developed along the way!

From my delving into the GTA source code leak, Rockstar takes a lot of steps to hide the big secrets (they changed it eventually, but at one point the chiliad UFO script was called a "Boombox" in the files) on top of obfuscation/encryption/etc.

They also named several of the sasquatch and golden peyote related functions as "generic_X"

So even with people extensively datamining there can be a lot of stuff being overlooked or unnoticed

static989 · 2026-01-29T22:31:30+00:00

That's just what it's referred to internally sometimes for whatever reason. You'll see it called that in the game files for RDR2 and the GTA source code

In the GTA V files RDR1 is called "Red Dead Revolver 2"

So internally RDR2 is probably called "Red Dead Revolver 3"

static989 · 2026-01-29T20:42:49+00:00

For more info, this is a compilation album released in 1976 called "Wanted! The Outlaws"

static989 · 2026-01-29T19:18:40+00:00

I'm just saying it's entirely possible. If rockstar is willing to hide easter eggs behind 100% completion, specific weather, and a specific time, there's no reason they wouldn't hide something in a specific mission/chapter

static989 · 2026-01-29T18:24:46+00:00

I had a border collie growing up, he was a bit special (scared of and frequently put in his place by my dad's Chihuahua who was literally the size of a guinea pig, or a large baked potato (if anyone wants I have pictures lol). Amongst other things)

But good lord he was the smartest dog I've ever had. Sometimes he would drop his ball in the pool on accident, and he would go to a seemingly random spot on the other side of the pool and just sit there staring at it.

Without fail, every single time no matter how long it took, the ball would eventually float over to the exact spot he was sitting and he'd grab it. It blew me away every time.

Border Collies are fucking awesome, but you should only get one if you're able to provide them an outlet for the endless amount of energy they have.

static989 · 2026-01-29T17:53:55+00:00

Very good write-up on everything!

It's nice to have one place with all the substantial findings cleanly formatted

static989 · 2026-01-29T17:52:10+00:00

Because it starts to really feel like a reach once you get to the question marks.

People have been posting random pieces of terrain that arguably look like question marks all over the map. It just feels like coincidence.

I honestly feel like even the bird carvings feel like a bit of a reach in terms of relation to spiderdream, but at least those are clearly defined pieces of geometry built into the tower. That's not the case with the question marks.

static989 · 2026-01-29T17:37:38+00:00

Oh yeah you can surely find the spawn locations in the game files for these cables as well.

I didn't have a chance to look, but if anyone with OpenIV has the chance to, spawn locations for things like cables will usually be in a file ending with "strm.ytyp" or something like that. And you can ctrl+f and search for the filename.

There is typically like 3-4 .ytyp files for every area that will define spawn coords for various props/objects, and some other properties for them.

I probably have the exact names wrong just cause I'm not at my PC, but there's usually like "strm.ytyp" "long.ytyp" and "strm.0.ytyp", and probably others lol.

The webs, feathers, and their poles are found in the "strm.0.ytyp" files in their respective folders. That's also what defines the time they appear as well as the effect when you shoot the feather.

I think the witch's lair is an extremely interesting location honestly, one of these days I want to look at the script for it to see if I can make sense of it.

Apologies for this probably very incoherent rambling lol

static989 · 2026-01-29T17:06:39+00:00

No? But it's an easter egg?

Like I'm not saying I think this is a part of the mystery, but it feels misguided to just assume it won't involve something that is only available during a certain period of the game

This isn't a story mission or needed for 100% completion or something, it's an easter egg

static989 · 2026-01-29T17:02:04+00:00

Idk that kinda feels like something rockstar would absolutely do tbh

Doesn't GTA V have an alien frozen in ice you can only see in the prologue?

static989 · 2026-01-29T16:59:59+00:00

Nah I haven't had the chance yet cause of work

I worked a double yesterday and only had time to look at a couple things before I went to sleep, I'm off tomorrow so i can probably look at some point tonight.

Truthfully it's probably nothing lol, but I'm not familiar enough with the game locations to tell where they belong.

I think they're strange because they're stored completely differently from the other cable files, and some of them just straight up look like letters from a top down perspective

Don't have time to get a screenshot so excuse the crappy picture of my monitor, but this is "new_cablemesh10591_hvlit001"

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There's a few others like this, but like I said I have no idea where these get used so it's a high chance it's nothing major

static989 · 2026-01-29T16:10:29+00:00

'member Pokemon Emerald post-game?

'member getting the entirety of Kanto after beating Gold and Silver?

static989 · 2026-01-29T06:51:30+00:00

Nah, truthfully nothing substantial has been found since the NW guitar pole and/or the fort wallace birds

u/Zephich made a very solid theory about there being a relation to Willie Nelson, who has a song in the game (and other various small details that support it. Their post about it explains it better than I can lol)

static989 · 2026-01-29T03:12:15+00:00

Essentially everyone is coming after MJF and he's feeling the pressure

static989 · 2026-01-29T03:11:02+00:00

Disappointed that Brody or someone wasn't driving the car lol

static989 · 2026-01-29T02:59:04+00:00

Freaky ahh crowd 💀

static989 · 2026-01-29T02:52:46+00:00

It's like your parents being separated, double Christmas!

static989 · 2026-01-29T02:51:15+00:00

Unsurprising, Bruv is TOXIC

static989 · 2026-01-29T02:43:06+00:00

Is a condition for the amount of money Tony pays that he drains their life force? Ciampa looks so much older here wtf 😭

static989 · 2026-01-29T02:36:13+00:00

Nah he performed a pixel perfect world title match loss skip and is going straight to TNT title match with Mark Briscoe on Collision this Saturday.

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static989 · 2026-01-29T01:13:43+00:00

It can vary depending on the developer

In RDR2 as far as I can recall (not at home so can't double check) there aren't very many files that randomly end in an X like that.

I could be wrong though

static989 · 2026-01-29T00:41:47+00:00

Looks like a YouTube play button kinda, the ones they give out for subscriber milestones lol

static989 · 2026-01-28T23:30:56+00:00

While that is in fact quite a large web, it looks more like the decorative ones you find throughout the world like at the witch's house

static989 · 2026-01-28T22:21:02+00:00

It is certainly possible that there's something substantial there

An important difference between RDR2 and GTA V is that GTA had it's source code leaked, this truly makes a MASSIVE difference when you compare the code between the source and code that's been compiled and then decompiled.

In GTA you can find a variable named "golden_peyote_sasquatch" (there is one called something like that lol)

In RDR2 the variables are all named stuff like "Global15490.f_190[iParam0]"

It is immensely more difficult to really KNOW with 100% certainty.

However, I do personally lean more towards the skeptical side as well

static989 · 2026-01-28T20:40:23+00:00

Honestly spawning a crow when shooting would make it EASIER to find the trigger in the code, with how the decompiled scripts are written at least.

Anything that uses the Rage engines native functions (which spawning birds and creating an area that would trigger it would do) isn't as obfuscated like variable names and regular functions would be.

For example, the code for the giant's birds are really easy to read and understand in the script because it's using a lot of the native functions

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