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Red Dead Online Standalone Now Available, $4.99 till Feb 15, 2021
- Thread starter gitrektali
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It's also worth noting that the RDO player base is like the polar opposite of the GTAO player base. Almost every time you encounter another player they're friendly. Granted, that will probably change now with the $5 online-only. It's always new players who are crazy aggressive, but since you get more OP the higher you level, they're usually put in their place pretty early on by the veterans.
In my 200+ hours playing, 98% of the time that I find another player we greet each other and move on to do whatever we're doing.
The price cuts make sense when you aren't bundling the online portion with a 60 dollar game.
GTA Online, like RDR Online, is only now getting a separate installer.
GTA Online, like RDR Online, is only now getting a separate installer.
At launch it was like trying to play a chill RDR fishing session in the middle of a Battlefield game, but these days it's chill.
There are some events that mark you as a target, and other players can stop you from doing it, but for the most part they'll leave you alone because they don't really gain anything from screwing you over.
Imagine if all this work they put into RDO they put into Story DLC or RDR1 remake. Ooo lawd.
I just cannot get past all the mute characters of RDO, it takes me out completely.
If I have this on disc but wanna spend the $5 to not have to put the disc in, do I have to redownload the whole 100+ GB? And since I feel the answer is yes, is there a way to only install the single player from the disc? Don't really want this to take up 200+ GB if some of it is redundant.
Pretty sure it's the same client as the full game and just bags you to unlock the full thing.
It could be free and I'd still would rather play GTAO instead. I have no idea how they fucked up this multiplayer so bad after years of experience, I was really looking forward to shelving GTAO and play this instead, but damn if it isn't mediocre. Not good, not bad, just mediocre.
Does the check boarding still look horrible? I played through single player on X1X, but I just picked this up since I only have a PS5 now.
EDIT: 109GB download!
EDIT: 109GB download!
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They all require R* launcher so its pretty much up to preference really.
As for meeting players in the open world, I spend 300+ hours in RDO. Almost everyone I meet is busy doing their dailies and hunting animals. They don't care about PvP.
Players with high hostility are marked in red on the map and can be seen from a long distance. Just stay away from them.
Low hostility players are blue and they only show up on the map when you're close to them. Those guys are chill 99% of the time. I've had good voice chat conversations with many players. That's at least on PC. Not sure about the console player base.
The single player has much much more assets, especially audio and dialog. The install size should be smaller but I guess they include the singleplayer files in to make the transition instant for people who decide to buy it.
Players with high hostility are marked in red on the map and can be seen from a long distance. Just stay away from them.
Low hostility players are blue and they only show up on the map when you're close to them. Those guys are chill 99% of the time. I've had good voice chat conversations with many players. That's at least on PC. Not sure about the console player base.
The single player has much much more assets, especially audio and dialog. The install size should be smaller but I guess they include the singleplayer files in to make the transition instant for people who decide to buy it.
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I tried with RDO. There's a lot to love there, but the grind is simply too much. The idea of Rockstar further reducing gold rewards is laughable.
I get that people are mad about the daily loop being reset, but that just ended up pissing me off anyway. I truly enjoyed playing that game routinely, but I take one day off and I'm back to pitiful challenge rewards? Can't handle it.
Single player is still the best experience I've probably had with a video game, though.
I get that people are mad about the daily loop being reset, but that just ended up pissing me off anyway. I truly enjoyed playing that game routinely, but I take one day off and I'm back to pitiful challenge rewards? Can't handle it.
Single player is still the best experience I've probably had with a video game, though.
Can someone highlight what it is you actually do in the Online portion? Just fight others in the world? Is there a story? Can you like build a house or anything and like have a base of operations of some sort?
I never really got into GTAV Online so not sure what the goal is in the world.
I personally need to go back to story RDR2 and complete some achievements but wouldn't mind starting Online afterwards if there's good reason.
I never really got into GTAV Online so not sure what the goal is in the world.
I personally need to go back to story RDR2 and complete some achievements but wouldn't mind starting Online afterwards if there's good reason.
I've picked RDR2 back up on Series X and am mopping up some post game stuff.
As much as I'd love to try it, there's no way I'm touching the multiplayer unless there's a Next Gen update. The idea that they'll happily take people's money without doing anything to better the game experience (from what I've read they've added cosmetics for people to buy and that's about it?) is insane and deplorable.
As much as I'd love to try it, there's no way I'm touching the multiplayer unless there's a Next Gen update. The idea that they'll happily take people's money without doing anything to better the game experience (from what I've read they've added cosmetics for people to buy and that's about it?) is insane and deplorable.
My Xbox character did not come over even though I was using the same rockstar account, so I do not believe so.
i played this when it launched and it was jank as hell, the onboarding/tutorial was painful and i never touched it afterward. sounds like i'm not missing anything since then.
Have they announced any new gen updates coming for this or are we stuck with backwards compatibility mode?
It's more of the same, and that can be good or bad depending on what you dug about single player. If you like experiencing that world, you can theoretically accomplish that in the open world map. There's lots of professions, and goals, and missions, with a bit removed from the immersion (you can't talk to NPC's, which it took losing to realize how much I missed it). I basically played it like RDR single player with a female, silent protagonist. Problem is, the grind has gone from excessive to theoretically abysmal with the changes to gold rewards after this change. Professions, which offer the best experience, cost gold, which either has to be bought or grinded. If you're willing to shell out well over five bucks for your enjoyment, you could have fun. But the grind was too much for me to handle, and I absolutely love Red Dead, and I wasn't willing to fork over cash for gold bars to keep the fun flowing. Hope this helps.
It will be BC mode for a while. Rockstar create content at a fucking glacial place for GTAO and RDO especially. They couldn't even promise a next gen version of their multi billion dollar cash cow u til next spring at the earliest, so I can't even imagine how far down the list a next gen RDO is.
yep, blurry and soft as shit
Spring? lol they said the second half of 2021.