RDO Next Updates Speculation & General Chat (Part I)

[TagoKG]

they get rid of condor egg event ?

[AmyStone]

Just now, TagoKG said:

they get rid of condor egg event ?

Hope so. It was rediculous.

[ALifeOfMisery]

3 minutes ago, AmyStone said:

But the cycle seems to have changed too. 

Really? Like a different pattern of days or completely mixed up?

[TagoKG]

2 minutes ago, AmyStone said:

Hope so. It was rediculous.

nah easy 1k

[IzzyBlues]

@ALifeOfMisery Welcome to Buddy Hightowers ignore list. Whatever will you do!?

Edited July 29, 2020 by IzzyBlues93

[4eyedcoupe]

5 minutes ago, TagoKG said:

they get rid of condor egg event ?

No....Times are different from adding 2 new events.  Yesterday Condor Egg happened for me at 3:52pm EST which was supposed to be trade route.

[ALifeOfMisery]

Just now, IzzyBlues93 said:

@ALifeOfMisery Welcome to Buddy Hightowers ignore list. Whatever will you do!?

I guess I'll have a great day...

 

I've let the mods know a little housekeeping might be in order and apologized for taking this kids bait.

[IzzyBlues]

6 minutes ago, ALifeOfMisery said:

I guess I'll have a great day...

 

I've let the mods know a little housekeeping might be in order and apologized for taking this kids bait.

Good. You have my full support in that regard as well, dude is a relentless troll and does nothing but antagonize people in these threads for no reason. He reminds me of a regular "Karen" that I have to deal with at work that pretty much comes into my workplace for the SOLE purpose of having a bone to pick with someone. Among the staff we all know her to be a god awful person. Kind of reminds me of a few select people amongst ourselves here.

Edited July 29, 2020 by IzzyBlues93

[4eyedcoupe]

@ALifeOfMisery I agree with the housekeeping.  That person in particular needs to heed their own advice and look in the mirror as they advised you to do LOL.  Laughable

Edited July 29, 2020 by 4eyedcoupe

[Caffeination]

Well fellas, I am in dire need of financial advice for my illicit business in my cowboy simulator, please help a pardner out.

[DentureDynamite]

^^ Steal/loot Buy low, sell high? Oh wait--that's in another future "massive" update.

 

Some real advice/news is that you can now actually get small valuables from the chests in the back of select NPC wagons.

 

Yes. It actually works!

Edited July 29, 2020 by DentureDynamite

[ALifeOfMisery]

1 minute ago, Caffeination said:

Well fellas, I am in dire need of financial advice for my illicit business in my cowboy simulator, please help a pardner out.

I meant to reply to your Moonshiner question earlier.

 

I think the upgrades are worth it, you'll rank up faster and make more money iirc.

[Caffeination]

Just now, ALifeOfMisery said:

I meant to reply to your Moonshiner question earlier.

 

I think the upgrades are worth it, you'll rank up faster and make more money iirc.

Any idea of how long each batch will take once I unlock the perk that cuts down on production time?

 

I’m getting the message the high quality moonshine is the most profitable.

[IzzyBlues]

6 minutes ago, Caffeination said:

Any idea of how long each batch will take once I unlock the perk that cuts down on production time?

 

I’m getting the message the high quality moonshine is the most profitable.

It takes 48 minutes for a high quality batch to brew IIRC, although you do spend $50 on the mash refill.

 

Personally I don't have the patience or time to run back to the moonshiners shack if the list of sellers resets soon, so I just flavor the moonshine with whatever I have on me and hope for the best, and do something else to kill time. You'll either end up making $94 - $194 depending on your luck with the flavouring, this is after forking out the $50 for the mash refill.

Edited July 29, 2020 by IzzyBlues93

[Chingachgo0k]

30 minutes ago, Caffeination said:

Well fellas, I am in dire need of financial advice for my illicit business in my cowboy simulator, please help a pardner out.

Moonshiner : order a batch -- listen to Marcel crap --- "pick your nose" for 48 Minutes --- listen to another Marcel crap --- drive 5 minutes --- get 225$ --- repeat

 

Collector : 3,5 hour session with using Jeanropke and going for Jewlery, Coins and Arrows only = 2.200$ + you see parts of Map you never had......

 

VBR

Laudan

Edited July 29, 2020 by IanLaudan

[Mik73]

Not to belabor a discussion that had worn out it's welcome a couple pages ago...but I'm not too depressed about the Collector changes. Probably should have been randomized from the outset.  As long as a map can tell me "something will probably exist at that location, go check it out" I will deign to spend my precious online gaming time pursuing that role every once in a while. It's boring and repetitive with little real immersion, but it's a thing to do. The less soul-sucking and random it can be the better. Because none of us are getting younger and there are a lot of other games (or money-making tasks in RDO) out there.

 

Because when you get down to it, the online map is basically not much different then kids like me back in the 80s busting out our graph paper to map Kylearn's tower (good luck with that), or Deathtrap Dungeon (f-u Bloodbeast) or whatever. We'll use whatever means at our disposal to make a challenging aspect of a favorite game a little less menacing, time-consuming, more profitable, etc. It's all part of 'succeeding' at playing that game.

 

But this isn't the 80s anymore. Modern game companies are using every predatory means at their disposal to turn games in to services. More money for them for less work. Sound familiar? This usually means compromising the fairness of the 'game' or 'immersion' aspect to favour the 'grind' or 'spend all your time painstakingly doing this task for mediocre pay and rinse repeat until bored, rich or frustrated enough to buy our pay-2-win currency'.   Modern players are simply following suit, forgoing their own graph paper and HB pencils for the tools at hand: Online forums and sites with maps, codes, walkthru's etc.

 

It might still be sketchy to use an out-of-game tool to mitigate the 'grind' of an in-game activity. But that's on R* for how they designed the Collector role in the first place. Players were always going to have to note down where they found items if they had any hope of completing collections with anything resembling value-per-time-spent. But there is no in-game tool to mark 'hot spots' on the map short of 10 measly custom waypoints. So rather then 1 million players wasting time doing the exact same task of marking up graph paper, printed-out-maps, or what-have-you...presto change-o the 21st century solution presents itself: The online map. 

 

If the Online map were rendered completely useless, with fully random locations on no set schedule pattern....the Collector role itself would become useless and obsolete. Because exactly no one will wander around a map picking up stuff at random hoping that by doing this hours a day they may fill a collection a month or two down the road for $250. Not when Trader/Moonshiner/Bounty Hunter are right there.

 

It's on R* they made it grindy. It's on R* they made it non-random which invites 'mapping'. It's on R* they made the payouts what they are. Just as it's on R* they made Daily Streaks as effective as they are at accumulating gold.  R* have a track record of borderline incompetence or 'bad faith' in how they set up their in-game economies and the payouts for tasks vs risks / time spent. Short of exploits/cheats (and simply making a map to item locations is neither), it's never on the players for ruining in-game economies. It's on the company for not doing their due diligence, failing to understand player behavior, or just getting their payouts all wrong.

 

I don't begrudge them randomizing Collector a bit. But not to the point of obsolescence.  It's probably in a better spot overall now with this latest change.  A properly designed role would have had fully randomized locations, but would present you with gameplay missions that let you find specific items or categories, or the mission reward would be one of those Collector treasure maps.  Having players pay money for them was a ridiculous decision from the outset. 

[Retro_Causality]

welp hope for next DLC

[MrHarlow]

When collector was first released I just enjoyed running around the map looking at hidden locations for items. That was the most fun I had with the role. The map was nice to use but it just turned it into a chore. 

 

The role was obviously supposed to be random from the start.

[lowriderlife63]

On 7/28/2020 at 11:09 AM, happygrowls said:

Hey guys, I found some interesting audio in the files for the new patch.

 

Zombie-Like Noises and Ambience.

 

I really do hope zombies get added, even if its a limited event for Halloween only. Would be better than nothing! 

[BUT THE BENZ]

about that "collector role nerf". I'm doing coins/arrows/jewelry today...so far I just get different items in the known locations but seemingly piece after piece is there. when you do a whole set/category, how can you not pick up every piece of the set in the end?! or do I get double items in 1 day?!? did I?

I just watched closely for the coins and even the lousy quarter popped up, near van horn where the draped busted coin usually was found, on a day1 cycle

[happygrowls]

did some digging.

 

Found some Halloween Pass Images

 

Spoilers for the pass below:

 

The rest of the items are "Spoopy" (actual filename) backgrounds in the photo booth. Also three horse masks.

[GEИESIS]

11 minutes ago, happygrowls said:

did some digging.

 

Found some Halloween Pass Images

 

Spoilers for the pass below:

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

 

The rest of the items are "Spoopy" (actual filename) backgrounds in the photo booth. Also three horse masks.
 

 

 

Hopefully it is Undead Nightmare

[RonDutch]

11 minutes ago, happygrowls said:

did some digging.

 

Found some Halloween Pass Images

 

Spoilers for the pass below:

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

 

The rest of the items are "Spoopy" (actual filename) backgrounds in the photo booth. Also three horse masks.
 

 

 

Woah, nice job. 

[Commander S]

22 minutes ago, happygrowls said:

did some digging.

 

Found some Halloween Pass Images

 

Spoilers for the pass below:

 

 

Ooh, noice...

 

Just out of interest, have you seen anything relating to upcoming drip-feed items? There are placeholder settings for new clothing options and the like, but nothing currently available that fits those descriptions, so it'll be interesting to see what else they've got coming...

[Potter145]

On 7/26/2020 at 10:27 PM, executor404 said:

@Fun 2

 

I remember earlier this year the community found 8 legendary animals in the files.

At this time you said this was legit, but you thought there will be 10 of them that could be dripfeed.

 

Do you still think there will be 10 or do you think the door is open for 16 now like in Story mode or even legendary fish?

There are already 7 legendary animals with 3 subspecies each in the game and R* promised more in the weeks to come.

Technically we will get even more than in Story Mode.

Great News!

I also think they've done a great job in the implementation and integration in Free Roam.

 

Since Monday before the update dropped I haven't read this forum at all and I didn't even start the role yet, too much work.

 

Just wanted to share this

 

Enjoy the update guys!!!

Edited July 29, 2020 by executor404

[Caffeination]

Why do you guys think we’ll ever get an undead nightmare 2? I’m sure this is for a future meme mode, like that one they had last year where you play as a pagan demon beast of some sort, which was just a more nuanced rehash of Beast vs Slasher.

[RS123]

44 minutes ago, happygrowls said:

did some digging.

 

Found some Halloween Pass Images

 

Spoilers for the pass below:

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

 

The rest of the items are "Spoopy" (actual filename) backgrounds in the photo booth. Also three horse masks.
 

 

 

I am LOVING this Halloween pass idea, hopefully we get zombies but even if we don’t we are getting a pass at most 2 weeks after this one ends. The drought is over! 

[jackedbanan]

so what changed in collector role? can I still complete a full set of jewelry and coins (39 items for about 1900 dollars) using jean ropke's map? there's some randomization mentioned, does that have anything to do with the locations?

[Piro]

1 hour ago, happygrowls said:

did some digging.

 

Found some Halloween Pass Images

 

Spoilers for the pass below:

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

 

The rest of the items are "Spoopy" (actual filename) backgrounds in the photo booth. Also three horse masks.
 

 

 

I'm getting Daredevil vibes

No one found zombies? I guess they could just use dead bodies they already have in the game.

Edited July 29, 2020 by Piro

[Retro_Causality]

Watch it be another 7 months for..... drum roll.... photographer role