Red Dead Online

My game is absolutely unplayable on PC. Every time I join, under less than 10 minutes, people start using exploitation and kill me on an instant. It ruins my gameplay and quite frankly I'm getting sick of it.

I want to clarify in the beginning that you should not look at this game through the lense of online multiplayer. The "online" component of Red Dead Online is utter garbage. It is a well known fact that the game is overrun with hackers. Such characters can easily crash your game or worse. There is no adequate communication between players, the game doesn't support simple chat system, only voice. And even then, why would you communicate with anyone? Half of the players just grief your business deliveries or hunt you for the rest of the game unless you get away from them or bite back. The servers are dog ♥♥♥♥♥, you or your friends can easily lose connection or crash while waiting for a mission to load. For some strange reason, even after a successful job you may not get the payout, it happened to me a couple of times while playing with my friends. The partakable activities that the game can offer are not that engaging or fun either. For a time, sure, but they get old pretty quick, the game is abandoned after all. Where it does shine, is quote unquote singleplayer. RDO Lobby Manager allows you to host your own private lobby accessible only to you or your friends. With this installed, the game quickly turns into relaxing freeroam with meditative gameplay. RDO is a simple stub of RDR2, but it has couple advantages that make it a more preferable open-world game to me. You are allowed to go anywhere and everywhere from the start with your personal character you've created, no preset personality. You are not bound by any questline that forces you to move from one point of interest to the other. Hunt where you want, complete stupid radiant quests in any fashion you like, etc. In this regard, RDO is similar to STALKER Anomaly or GTA 5 Los Santos Red mod. It is pretty easy to sink lots of hours playing like this. I know i will. [b]Pick this game on a BIG discount or buy standalone RDR2. [/b] F you rockstar. This could have been much more.

Setup a private server and you won't have to deal with stupid hackers. Otherwise hackers are everywhere, ruining the game.

[h1][b]Greed Dead Online[/b][/h1] I’m writing this in conjunction with my VERY positive RDR2 review just because I feel I need to get this off my chest. Ignore the number of hours it says I have, I've played this garbage for dozens of hours on my full copy of RDR2. I like 100%ing games, which in my book means getting all the achievements on Steam. It’s my thing and I enjoy it, but every now and again that fixation of mine forces me to submerge myself in fecal matter such as this abysmal excuse for an online mode. [h3]Unfinished story[/h3] If you were excited to play this for its storyline or to further expand RDR2’s stellar universe then you’re ♥♥♥♥ out of luck. The story of this game mode, as half-assed as it was from what I’ve seen, was completely abandoned and unfinished in favor of R* other money printing machine; GTA5. [h3]♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ servers/dev support[/h3] The servers suck ass and will kick you out of your session or change your session for seemingly no reason. This is common knowledge in the RDO community and is basically an accepted part of playing the game like “oh yeah the servers just do that sometimes, you get used to it.” This is not to mention that the devs do absolutely nothing to combat cheating, hacking, exploiting and the like. You are basically on your own. This brings me to my next point. [h3]A community of griefers and exploiters[/h3] This community of no-life having dweebs and cringe merchants have taken to using cheats and exploits to make other players miserable in a desperate attempt to find some kind of enjoyment or meaning in this piece of ♥♥♥♥ game mode that they have sunk so much time, effort and (most likely) money into. They will use the items and superior equipment they grinded for to bully new-comers and use exploits to lock them out of online mission completion. This comes in many forms but just as an example, players will kill you, steal the item/satchel you’re trying to deliver and hand it over to a non-interactable NPC. This basically means the mission is soft-locked and you’re stuck in an inifinite time loop of fighting the griefer until they get bored. I’ve had also had multiple encounters with unseen hackers that can grief you by controlling the game, detonating explosives on you, spawning infinite wild animals on you, setting you on fire, killing your horse, spawning loot chests for you, and if they want to, dropping your FPS to single digits and crashing your game. R* does nothing about this. This game mode is straight up ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ designed to be a greedy cringe fest so it’s no wonder it attracts pathetic people like this. [h3]Pay to win[/h3] You are objectively at an advantage over other players in this game mode if you have money, whether that’s the regular in-game currency or the online mode currency (gold bars). You go into online PVP matches with all your amassed fortune, weapons and consumable items, which give you an advantage over other players. A player will one tap you with his Carcano rifle that he bought (either by grinding for it or pay2win) and you are forced onto an uneven playing field because that rifle is locked behind a level requirement and an in-game price tag. Deadeye makes or breaks online shootouts and if you have a huge stockpile of consumables to keep your deadeye topped off then you’re basically unkillable, and if you don’t then good luck to you. [h3]Weaponized tedium[/h3] R* knew exactly what they were doing when they designed this piece of ♥♥♥♥ online mode. Everything costs money just like in the story mode; Ammo, consumables, equipment etc. Normal horse breeds have been nerfed into the ground and elite horse breeds have been nerfed to be passable. The weapons you start with are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and all the decent weapons are locked behind level requirements and price tags. Even clothing to avoid the cold/hot debuff that drains your cores has to be purchased and your not given a winter outfit by default. The problem is that making money is a miserable slog. Online missions are boring and repetitive and barely give any currency. Gold bars can be earned by clocking in for your shift on a daily basis and doing the most mundane meaningless tasks disguised as “daily challenges” just to receive a whopping 0.1 gold (not a joke). The real way to earn good cash and gold is to grind one of the trader roles (bounty hunter, collecter, trader, etc) and all of those are also locked behind a gold bar entry fee. All of this is happening while the micro transaction page is winking at you to just pull out your wallet. All prices for almost everything can simply be bypassed by throwing IRL money at the problem. Either that or embrace the grind and treat the game like a day job. This isn’t a video game anymore, this is OnlyFans without the tits. [b]TL;DR[/b] Boring mundane unfinished mess full of hackers and exploiters with bad servers, zero dev support and zero anti-cheat. Mode is designed in a way that pressures you into paying extra money just to try and enjoy yourself. A cancerous tumor of unbound greed trying to attach itself to one of the best games of all time. [i]“This place ain’t no such thing as civilized. It’s man so in love with greed, he has forgotten himself and found only appetites.”[/i] [b]- Dutch van der Linde, Red Dead Redemption 2[/b]

---{ Cheating Problem }--- ☐ Clean ☐ Once in a year ☐ Infested ☑ Apocalypse (Try to play solo, check on youtube how) ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☑ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ 1 / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10

Brilliant game ruined by modders and hackers having full reign over it. There's no simple "Friends only" mode either, you legit just have to deal with terrible losers who get a kick out of ruining your time.

awesome game, shame yall abandoned it. the game is amazing if you get rid of the fragile masculinity some of the men in game has, if ur a woman and choose the female skin, be prepared to be brutally harrased, love the game otherwise

One of the best games, but littered with people who use god mode or mods that spawn explosive on you or go invisible. Like why? In a game that lets you use a parley system, or play in a passive state...I dont get it. Mothers are out here raising b*tches. Put your tiny ego down and play a wild west game the way its supposed to be played. Console has cronus user problems, plus they boot you if you still beat them smh. This game is easily a 5 star if people actually played without all these hacks.