Story mode only. Press F7 (or L3+R3) and Arthur Morgan becomes James Heller from PROTOTYPE 2, his armoured body, his voice, his powers, loose in Red Dead Redemption 2's world. The law, the towns and the people carry on as normal around you. They just aren't ready for you.
What you get
- Heller's body. His fully armoured PROTOTYPE 2 model is drawn in place of Arthur and follows every animation. A setting switches to his military fatigues.
- Six powers, each with a tap move and a hold move, and the real weapon arms from PROTOTYPE 2 on him as you switch:
- Fists: a fast flurry, or one big punch.
- Claws: a fast flurry, or Groundspike, where the ground erupts under your target at range.
- Blade: a cut all around you, or a long dash that slices everyone on the line.
- Hammerfists: a slam with a blast, or a huge ground slam that goes off like a bomb and throws everyone far.
- Tendrils: hurl someone high into the air, or everyone around you at once.
- Whipfist: hoist someone up and hold them there to be shot, or drag everyone in.
- Flight. Charged jumps up to 150 m, then hold jump to fly where the camera points, with sprint as an afterburner. Hold aim to hover, click L3 there for slow motion, and fire for purple laser eyes.
- Grab and throw. Pick someone up, carry them, and hurl them where you aim. They burst on the first thing they hit.
- Guns that take limbs off. Every bullet removes the arm, leg or head it hits, with unlimited Dead Eye at its top level so you choose each one.
- Outbreak. Press F8 and the undead walk: Night Folk, Murfree Brood and worse stagger about, charge anyone living who comes close, and whoever they kill gets up as one of them. They show as red dots on your map.
- Movement. A 50 mph sprint that tears up the ground and leaves a trail of fire, and a hero landing with a ring of blasts that you can run straight out of.
- Consume and disguise. Stab someone, absorb them, then wear their face and clothes so nobody recognises you.
- Gore. Killing hits take the head and every limb off.
- Heller's voice, sounds and rampage music from PROTOTYPE 2, lock-on that guides your hits, regeneration, and optional unlimited health and ammo.
What you need
- Red Dead Redemption 2, story mode. The mod does nothing in Red Dead Online.
- PROTOTYPE 2 installed on the same PC (Steam). Heller's body, weapon arms, voice, sounds and music are read from your own copy when the game starts. Nothing from PROTOTYPE 2 is in this download. Without it you get the powers on Arthur, silent, and the mod tells you so in game.
- Vulkan as the graphics API (Settings > Graphics > Advanced) for Heller's body and the laser beams. On DirectX 12 everything else works and you stay Arthur.
- No Script Hook. Melty installs Ultimate ASI Loader for you.
Controls (keyboard / pad)
| | |
|---|---|
| Heller mode on / off | F7 / L3+R3 |
| Previous / next power | [ ] / D-pad left, right |
| Attack | melee button: tap = light, hold = heavy |
| Jump, fly | jump: hold to charge, hold in the air to fly |
| Sprint | sprint: hold or tap; afterburner in flight |
| Hover, slow motion, laser eyes | in the air: hold aim, then Caps Lock / L3, then fire |
| Grab / throw | G / Y (aim a gun to pick the spot) |
| Consume / disguise | U / D-pad down |
| Outbreak on / off | F8 / R3 + D-pad up |
| Previous / next gun | , . / R3 + D-pad left, right |
| Whipfist | draw your lasso to swing it |
Aim a gun at someone and Tendrils and Whipfist reach whoever is in your sights.
Settings
HellerUnbound.ini next to the game: armoured or fatigues, unlimited health, ammo and Dead Eye, limb shots or explosive bullets, flight or the old glide, laser eyes, the fire trail, the consume camera, the outbreak, and all weapons (off by default, because it changes your save for good).
Know before you play
- Heller's body and the laser beams are painted over the finished picture: grass, walls and people in front of him don't cover him, he has no shadow, and his head and hands don't turn on their own.
- Your attacks, blasts and throws kill whoever is close, story characters included. The sprint's fire trail and the outbreak keep away from story characters, strangers, shopkeepers and your horse. Keep a spare save.
- The game hides story missions while you are wanted. Lose the law and they come back.
- While Heller mode is on the mod raises your Dead Eye level and rank; your own come back when you switch it off.
- Made and tested on game build 1.0.1491.50. On another build the mod stays off.
Credits
PROTOTYPE 2 and James Heller belong to Radical Entertainment / Activision. Red Dead Redemption 2 belongs to Rockstar Games. This is a free, unofficial fan mod, not affiliated with or endorsed by either. Native-call signatures learned from the open-source YimMenu, HorseMenu and RDR-Classes projects. Uses MinHook by Tsuda Kageyu (BSD 2-Clause).
