Free costumes for Red Dead next week

By Robert Purchese Published 5 October, 2010

Savvy Merchant and Expert Hunter.

Red Dead Redemption cowboys will be able to download a free Hunting and Trading Outfits Pack next week, starting Tuesday, 12th October.

Inside this cloth bundle are a Savvy Merchant outfit and Expert Hunter get-up. The Savvy Merchants among you will be decked out in a suave double-breasted jacket with a bold collar and neat flat cap. When equipped, all guns and ammunition will be half price.

The Expert Hunters, meanwhile, will find themselves with animal hide on head and body. It's the perfect mix of style and functionality, and poor old Bambi won't spot you coming. When equipped, you'll receive double the amount of skins and hides from hunting.

Rockstar will also introduce a new creature: the jackalope. It's a cross between a jack rabbit and an antelope. It looks like a hare with antlers.

The Hunting and Trading Outfits Pack has a compatibility update to allow you to see costumes exclusive to the Liars and Cheats and Legends & Killars DLC. You won't be able to wear them until you buy the DLC, however.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Boomerang #1 2 years ago

    "Killars"?

  • DAN.E.B #2 2 years ago

    Look Capcom! a company that gives costumes away for FREE!

  • Bleh #3 2 years ago

    Not entirely DAN:SOLO,
    The Hunting and Trading Outfits Pack has a compatibility update to allow you to see costumes exclusive to the Liars and Cheats and Legends & Killars DLC. You won't be able to wear them until you buy the DLC, however.

  • JahB #4 2 years ago

    @bleh

    Which means the paid DLC is actually new stuff and not an unlock on the disc you already own. Since this requires a patch for everybody, they throw in free stuff. In an industry stuck between bobby k and online passes, I find this awesome.

  • dirtysteve #5 2 years ago

    They're putting mythical creatures into the game?

  • Sunyavadin #6 2 years ago

    I KNEW I'd seen jackalopes ingame!

    A few of my friends had spotted them before but nobody managed to catch one in time to get a screengrab.

    Good to see those outfits, too.

  • metalangel #7 2 years ago

    Having wowed everyone with some of the best DLC yet seen this generation in GTAIV Episodes, Rockstar decide to take a colossal step BACKWARDS.

  • ulix #8 2 years ago

    The prices for the RDR DLCs are just ridiculous. I really like the game, and would the DLCs cost 5€ instead of 10€ I might consider buying them.

    But if I buy one I want to buy all, which means spending (another) 50€ on the game. No way.

  • Farzlepot #9 2 years ago

    I've got to agree with Metalangel - I'm really disappointed with the stuff Rockstar is pumping out for RDR, compared to their previous efforts. I was hoping for some great new campaigns, or even just a few extra story missions. Not a dressing up game.

  • Bulbatron #10 2 years ago

    Mythical creatures are just for the forthcoming Undead Nightmare Pack.

  • Kazzahdrane #11 2 years ago

    @Farzlepot - the Undead DLC that's coming soon is (mostly) a new singleplayer campaign.

  • SAMagic #12 2 years ago

    True, I wish we had content like GTA 4's DLC for RDR, but I like the strategy of giving away some freebie DLC in the mix, even if it is just costumes. Most companies throw out some one hour long chunk of distinctly average DLC for £10, maybe an unlock code, and leave it at that.

  • NoKamiFujiwara #13 2 years ago

    @ulix

    Seriously, if you think the Liars and Cheats pack is poor value for 800 MS points, you must live in a universe where the ridiculous MW2 map pack prices didn't happen. I agree that the Legends and Killers pack is lacking in new content and is hardly worth the asking price but just think what you get with the newest dlc:

    - online poker and liar's dice (the latter must count among the most relaxing past-time games on Live)
    - an entire new game mode Stronghold with 4(?) new maps
    - multiplayer horse races (forced expert targeting and limited ammo makes them a lot more fun than you'd expect)
    - 7 new gang hideouts
    - 4 new hunting grounds
    - the new weapon explosive rifle
    - 15 new characters from the SP campaign (professor MacDougal WTF)
    - posse scoring and leaderboards

  • kangarootoo #14 2 years ago

    Great a game as this is, I stopped playing it ages ago. I found the same thing with Mass Effect. If the DLC doesn't turn up pretty soon after release, I've finished the game and moved on by the time it arrives.

  • metalangel #15 2 years ago

    @NokamiFujiwara: the gambling, racing, and new player models were all already present in singleplayer, though, it can't have taken much to enable that content for multiplayer.

  • NoKamiFujiwara #16 2 years ago

    @metalangel

    True, true, but some measure of recoding must have been needed nevertheless. Look, I'm biased as hell, what do I know lol. I love RDR. It's probably my western game of the decade, topping the likes of Mass Effect and Elder Scrolls III&IV both rolled into one. Rockstar quite possibly made enough money to cover the development budget in the first week of sales but still, games of this scope deserve more than little extra revenue from DLC sales. Its so good I had to buy it twice (friends list thingie, don't ask :DD).

  • oldschoolsoviet #17 2 years ago

    /PS Store

    /Download history

    /checks

    I downloaded this DLC a month ago, 1/9/10.

    How the hell is this new news ?!

  • metalangel #18 2 years ago

    @NoKamiFujiwara: I hate stupid DLC like this anyway, but what twists the knife here is how great the GTAIV episodes were.

    I can think of at least a dozen 'episodes' that could take place in the expansive yet underused borders of New Austin. The game has so many possibilities given its setting 99 years ago that to just chuck out some half-hearted reskins, enable some stuff that should have been in the main multiplayer game by default, and put in some more competitive MP modes (snore...) seems like a waste of such a well realized and lovingly crafted game world.

    But then, they can't have the resources to make a proper episode or two after firing so much of the team as soon as the game was out...