

The 1907 version of the area has no graves with a date-of-death after 1899, and the games files include 1899 & 1907 versions of each shopkeeper - the final game only ever uses one of these models for them.The credits also show a brief shot of Pearson having a photo of the gang in what appears to be New Austin (Although it's most likely meant to be a stand in for another state out west, considering the fact that John tells Bonnie that the gang never made it to New Austin). Some pre-release material showcases Arthur and the gang in NA, the official guidebook mentions the book Jack left behind in the pre-Blackwater camp is in New Austin, and a now patched glitch allowed players to explore the region before it opens up, revealing that Arthur has dialogue and journal entries for the content there, and that the collection sidequests that can seemingly only be beaten as John could be beaten with Arthur as well note This could be a case of Developer's Foresight.New Austin, while absent from the leaked map from 2016, may have had a larger role before being cut down significantly - there's a lot of content and files that suggests that even if it were Out of Focus in regards to the main story, it was still going to be accessible before the epilogue.There seems to have been plans to have about twice as much playable area than in the final game.
