:Online: Red Dead Redemption 2

todays update looks interesting..

Got gold from all the offers. That 9 bullet revolver with a secondary barrel with a single shotgun shell looks good, hope it's in SP too.

Great they added poker, hope they don't stop there.

Jerichoholic wrote: »

Are the subhuman griefers still allowed to ruin your game?

its harder for people to grief others now
you can set your player to defensive mode which disables auto aim on you among other things
plus the mini map only shows people that are within 100 feet (i think) of you

Jerichoholic wrote: »

Will there be a passive mode like GTA so you could possibly enjoy the online missions?

Players in Defensive mode will be indicated by a shield icon, will take reduced damage from enemy players, cannot be lassoed, melee attacked, executed or targeted with auto-aim. Defensive players will also be excluded from being targeted in PvP-related missions such as Player Assassination. Those who attack Defensive players receive hefty penalties via the Hostility system, while players who initiate conflict while in Defensive mode will be instantly pulled out of Defensive mode and also receive similar Hostility penalties.

You can view your current Hostility level through the Player Menu. As you become more hostile, you become more visible on other player’s radars at longer distances and will respawn further and further away from your point of death – at the highest level of Hostility, you will respawn in a different region.

It's not as abuse-able as passive was. Unlike GTA there's no flying rocket cars so even the reduced radar and spawning hostile players further away from their death would have done a lot.

For those interested.

Since it just went live I assume this guy was like me and low hostility. I moved as far away as i could before he disappeared from the map, and then moved back. You've under a 10m buffer, so if you just spot them you can move away 10m before they disappear again.

so this should give a idea of range on the radar, if you're a non hostile player this is about as far as you'll be seen.

It's about the size of valentine or the main area of backwater.

You can turn defensive mode, you're protected from most player damage unless you kick yourself out of it. Game will turn it off temporary dependant on what you're doing.

Having same issue with trade, got to level 5 and can't wait for the hunting cart to unlock. Posse up if you can as it doubles collection speed and while you do share selling reward you still get full so and it's all faster.

Unlocked the mid sized sales cart but need to save a bit for it still.

Doing bounty hunting while I wait for delivery and you get collectables off enemies for collector.

weiland79 wrote: »

Looking for people to play with on PS4. Stick your Tag up here if you wanna play and I'll add tonight. I'm currently lvl 27. My Tag is the same as here.

Hey man, I'll be picking this up tonight but will be playing Division 2 for a while in hopes of bouncing between the 2. Haven't played online since the beta so i'm guessing I'll have to get used to it again with the new stuff. What way do posse's work now? Do I have to pay to join? Is there still a small limit on posse numbers?

EARN A TREASURE MAP
Complete 5 Daily Challenges this week and receive a Treasure Map as a reward for your diligence and determination. You can pick up your Treasure Map from the Camp Lockbox or Post Office within 48 hours of completing the Daily Challenges.

RECEIVE A 50% ROLE XP BOOST
Moonshiners will receive a 50% Role XP Boost on all Moonshiner Sell, Story and Bootlegger Missions, which they can access by talking to Maggie and Marcel in their Moonshine Shack.

SIGN UP FOR THE OUTLAW PASS
Signing up for The Outlaw Pass No. 2 by March 8th will net you 10 Ranks’ worth of Club XP right off the bat. Club XP Rewards will be delivered to the Benefits section within 48 hours of upgrading to the Outlaw Pass No. 2. The Outlaw Pass No. 2 closes on March 10th.

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TWITCH PRIME BENEFITS
Connect your Social Club account with Twitch Prime to get:

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The Polished Copper Moonshine Still
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Rewards will arrive in the Benefits section within 48 hours of playing.

PLAYSTATION PLUS BENEFITS
Playstation Plus members will receive a new benefit for playing between now and June 1st. Log in to Red Dead Online to get to select 3 Ability Cards of their choice, free of charge.

Rewards will arrive in the Benefits section within 48 hours of playing.

Check Rockstar Support for details and limitations.

Not sure if this is know but the weekly discounts and bonuses start each Tuesday.

Unless you're almost done the Season pass it's probably too late to finish it off, a week of higher than normal play would probably do it but don't think that'd be too fun.

Sign up for a Twitch prime trail (free tail is a week) and remember to cancel it but in the meantime you get the collector role free.

Moonshiner role is expensive but it's also got a weekly bonus and the twitch bonus.

Zero-Cool wrote: »

So the outlaw pass is finishing in a week but they say if you buy before the 8th, you get rank bonuses. Is it pointless buying it if you can't spend proper time on it? I have 40 gold bars and 400 dollars. Not sure if i should try the outlaw pass or wait for the next one?

You earn season pass ranks even if you don't have the paid version, there some free rewards too on the free version but nowhere near as much as the paid version.

You could play the game and see how high you'd get and then decided before the 8th, if you got near 90 then it'd be a good idea. Someone else could be rank 90 already, buy the pass and then get the bonus ranks and hit 100. The bonuse takes up to 48 hours so maybe a bit earlier than the 8th if you wanted to be safe.

Problem is that 40 gold is a lot to earn in a week, you'd get the 3 day steak and get more from the challenges but you'd not get the 7 day or the higher ones. I say 40 is a lot to earn and ignore the 40 you already have as you'd want most of the gold you already have to get the roles, otherwise you'd be earning less XP and gold without the roles, and without the roles the base game isn't as interesting. it'd be very grindy to hit high season rank with just the base game.

If you get the twitch trial that's the collector for free and then the bounty hunter and trader are about 10 gold each (can't remember), the Moonshiner is like 35 gold. I'd say leave Moonshiner until next season and see how far you can get with the 3 original roles, that'll cost 20 Gold and in a week maybe you'd be near the rank 90 and maybe you'd have earned the other 20 gold back.

If you get a decent amount of the the daily challenges done a day ( like half) then that's ~10-15 gold, and you get small amounts of gold from other things while playing but earning the 20 back in a week will be hard starting from scratch. There's 2 groups of challenges, the normal base game ones (like 7 of those) and then role challenges (19 of those), you won't have moonshiner so you won't get all 19 of the role challenges.

If starting from scratch I'd say sign up for the twitch prime trial, buy the 2 other cheaper roles and see how far you get by the 8th.

Had a quick dip yesterday, loaded up my level 8 character from the beta. Very overwhelming but love the amount of stuff I have to do now. I checked roles and it said Moonshiner cost 5 gold or unlocks at Trader level 5. Does that mean I can just buy it now for 5 gold and how much will it cost if i get Trader to level 5? The rest of the roles tell me to just go to a point on the map but I take it they will then tell me how much each role is?

Gonna spend my gold on the roles anyway and just leave it build back up naturally and if I have enough, will go for the next season pass. I mistakenly spent 50 dollars on changing my camp flag to green. I thought it was free ffs, definitely gonna have to keep an eye on costs.

New rewards for online

https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/61483/Rank-Rewards-and-Benefits-For-Red-Dead-Online-Players?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rdo-bonuses-03102020&utm_content=newswire

I've lost a few bottles of moonshine as they're fragile and every bump or bang can damage it, but I've never lost anything with pelts for the trader.

The 4 player story missions are just match made, and similar to any of the GTA ones. There's not much to them, no real need to coordinate if playing on normal.

I've had very little PVP trouble, and anytime it's usually a big rumble in town so people are choosing to join in. I've died more to randoms head one horse collisions with other player when we're both in cinematic travel mode or whatever it's called. Fact that you can't see people on your radar until they're near means that even hostile players who'd want to fight can't really do so as they either can't see you and if they've been attacking people they show up further away on others radars.

Jordan 199 wrote: »

Just to be 100% sure, is there any solo mode in RDR2 online like there is in GTA online?

No.

You get put into private servers during story missions but that's it.

You also can't mess with your internet settings to get put in your own server like you can in GTA online either.

Kenjataimu wrote: »

Might give this another go.
Take my mind off all the covid talk.

Has it got any better lately?

What counts as lately, load added since the beta and since the proper launch. New stuff being added soon but I think covid has delayed that.

Taken forever but managed to find the random drop for the poison poppy moonshine.

Rockstar seemed to have had to sorted the server issues, game was unplayable when so many people were on after lockdowns started all over.

Time to reinstall this as big update dropping Tuesday. New role to find 'the secrets of naturalism'. Could be the rumoured photographing wildlife which doesn't appeal to me at all but leaked info shows a new location will be added, could be Guarma as the pic in the link looks like a jungle.

New Outlaw pass as well which I'm looking forward to as i missed the first 2.

https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/61639/GTA-Online-and-Red-Dead-Online-Updates-Coming-Soon

While there's private lobbies for GTA online you can't do most of the stuff as they need to be in public, so Rockstar adding useful private lobbies is unlikley.

That being said in RDO needing to play solo isn't an issue, the map is so large and the limited radar means you can see someone before either of you is on the others map. This means there's no players hunting each other down across the maps while they'er doing anything. Hostile players also show up upto 3 times further away to peaceful players so they can be avoided.

I've maxed out all the roles and most of them put a big target on your back but since the radar changes I've not next to no hostile interactions. I've had more head on crashes with other players when we're both in auto travel mode as we'e just appeared on each other maps, and then the more common thing to happen is someone revives your horse for you.

40 Gold for the outlaw pass, and as normal if you make it to max rank (in this case 80) you'll have gotten all 40 gold back.

25 gold for the new role.

Edit: Not needed to start the role but like the metal detector there is a new camera which is $540 or 22 gold.

I've got about 120 gold and a little under $50 left, not much you're really pushed to spend gold on in the game. If you do the dailies gold adds up quick, after I spent most of my previous gold I made that over about 3 weeks with only logging in for under an hour each day. Some of the daillies are done in five minutes, unless it's the dancing/music one which literally only takes 1 minute.

If someone was playing the game and managed to do the other roles then changes are they've more than enough gold, and if they haven't then the other roles are cheaper and that's plenty of content to work though at the end of which you'd have bought the new stuff.

Only reason I've so little dollars is I bought multiple sets of stuff so I'd not have to move saddles between horses, and I bought a load of cosmetics for random stuff. $250 is like 1 load of sold moonshine so I do that once and a legendary bounty or 2 and I've got the dollars for the new equipment.