You can fly an eagle in Red Dead Redemption 2 PC with a simple save edit

Ever wanted to soar like an eagle over the world of Red Dead Redemption 2? Well, thanks to the PC port, you can - quite literally, as editing a few save files allows you to fly as an eagle to your heart's content.

Over on Nexus Mods, a set of files uploaded by user TanyaeNorth provide the data required to swap out Arthur's model for a range of different people and animals. While not all of the models work (crabs are invisible, unfortunately), I managed to have some success with a panther, and also an eagle. To my surprise, flying actually works fairly easily, and after a couple of false starts (one fatal) I was soaring across the landscape. The controls are inverted, so use S to ascend, and try jumping to get off the ground. My eagle's claws did clip through the body a little, and the bird itself looks quite fuzzy, but the view itself is pretty stunning.

Players have previously managed to fly by modding the console version of the game, but editing the save files on PC is a far easier way to do things - opening up the skies of Red Dead Redemption 2 to more players than ever before. If you can take off correctly, that is.

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