RDO Next Updates Speculation & General Chat (Part I)

[ALifeOfMisery]

46 minutes ago, waleed675773p said:

maybe they do it like in the bounty hunter you take the mission you should do and for pvp it will be like the bounty for the Player and there are a few missions that you should do in free roam but without affecting other players.

Yeah maybe, but that's kind of my point, how would R* do it without it just feeling like a Bounty Hunter reskin.

[waleed675773p]

15 minutes ago, ALifeOfMisery said:

Yeah maybe, but that's kind of my point, how would R* do it without it just feeling like a Bounty Hunter reskin.

Yes, you are right.  but we can only hope it will be fine.

[RaigeGames]

2 hours ago, Talisman_83 said:

I think an Outlaw role would work better if it wasn't restricted to a Role as such and was just a more open part of the world.

 

If R* added a bunch of new missions, a mixture of freemode and private events, where you could hold up trains, banks, shops, conduct heists etc?

Think that would work better.

 

But then, they got Outlaw passes to sell! Need some way of getting that gold from us, so who knows.

That's what I'd like. Being an outlaw shouldn't be a role, it should be a natural part of the game. Just allow us to rob stores and people, add the passenger trains to online, and maybe add a new/existing character that we go to to plan big bank and train heists. 

 

The lawman could be a role though. Start by adding night watches like in RDR1 and stopping petty crimes in towns then advance to possibly stopping other players during their heists. The lawman role needs to be something other than "fetch this criminal" to keep from being just like the bounty hunter role.

[Direwrath]

13 hours ago, Fun 2 said:

Buck, Rabbit, Boar and Opossum

Raise me up and shoot me down why don't ya!

 

They could've let us at least turn into a rat, so we could see the world through Micah's eyes.

5 hours ago, Rev. Gnash said:

If you choose opossum shape shifting, can you play dead?

 

Biting the sh*t out of Skinner Brothers and running into the bushes, to play dead.  Would be mesmerizing.

Lol, I was thinking the exact same thing!

[waleed675773p]

 

[RS123]

48 minutes ago, waleed675773p said:

 

My favourites are the wolves, I am excited for the spotted panther and the bears!!

[waleed675773p]

 

47 minutes ago, RS123 said:

My favourites are the wolves, I am excited for the spotted panther and the bears!!

My Favorite is jaguar

[Guns a-Blazin]

The Lawman should be a role. If GTAO is getting it then RDO should get it as well. Here are 3 ideas from my DLC concept:

 

• Multiple Sheriff/Lawman Missions (e.g. Stopping trains from being robbed, Escorting and transferring prisoners to Siskia Penitentiary)
• The ability to protect all towns/settlements from Gang Attacks (A useful way to get more Money/XP and a easy way to level up the role) 
• Taking your Dog out of camp and using them as "sniffer dogs" to track down and kill enemies in missions (Could also be used for the Collector role)

More Mission/Freemode Ideas:

 

• Detective Missions
• Breaking-up drug deals in the alleyways of Saint Denis
• Breaking-up Saloon Fights
• Hideout Raids
• Rescue Stolen Horses
• Stopping Assassinations (Saving the mayor of Saint Denis)
• Protecting innocent civilians from hitmen and gangs

 

Can't think of anymore but they're the basic features for a Lawman role. 

 

 

Edited August 27, 2020 by FortifiedGooner86

[Ring Dang Do]

Seems inevitable that it will happen but I really hope it doesn’t. This transforming into animals copy paste from gta just doesn’t belong in this game. Come up with something new rather than constantly trying to paste gta into rdr2 online. 

[hotrats773]

My short "Holy Crap I've Been Cooped Up Too Long" list of ideas:

 

Tie payouts to honor. Tweak the honor system so that it means something rather than a means to unlock other missions (???).

Make honor harder to raise. As it is now, you pet a squirrel and the game practically sh*ts itself to give you max honor. If you have low honor, no soup for you!

 

Make the naturalist role fun by allowing you to use animals against other players (NPC or otherwise) ie., you revive x number of wolves, you get your own pack of wolves to summon on command. Would make things interesting.

[IzzyBlues]

Not to put anyone down or discourage anyone from posting their ideas, but we have a thread exclusively for this already that would make a better home for these sorts of posts.

 

[MusicMan05]

13 hours ago, ALifeOfMisery said:

Yeah maybe, but that's kind of my point, how would R* do it without it just feeling like a Bounty Hunter reskin.

They could implement lockdown mechanics into Red Dead Online, but keep stores open during the lockdown for players that don't have a bounty. The difference would be:

 

- Bounty Hunter = Get an alert when a player anywhere has a bounty greater than $20.

- Law Enforcement Officer = Get an alert that a town has gone on lockdown. Players with any bounty amount within the town lines are visible to all Law Enforcement Officers to apprehend.

 

Law Enforcement gets paid for patrolling until the lockdown is lifted + any bounties they might have collected during the lockdown. If a player with a bounty leaves the town lines, they'll be outside of the current jurisdiction to collect their low bounty and their dot will disappear off the map as normal.

 

Corrupt memebers of law enforcement could also trigger the lockdown to get paid for the patrol... (With a loss of Honor for both committing the crimes to trigger the ockdown and for finishing a patrol for a lockdown they started.)

[waleed675773p]

8 hours ago, FortifiedGooner86 said:

The Lawman should be a role. If GTAO is getting it then RDO should get it as well. Here are 3 ideas from my DLC concept:

 

• Multiple Sheriff/Lawman Missions (e.g. Stopping trains from being robbed, Escorting and transferring prisoners to Siskia Penitentiary)
• The ability to protect all towns/settlements from Gang Attacks (A useful way to get more Money/XP and a easy way to level up the role) 
• Taking your Dog out of camp and using them as "sniffer dogs" to track down and kill enemies in missions (Could also be used for the Collector role)

More Mission/Freemode Ideas:

 

• Detective Missions
• Breaking-up drug deals in the alleyways of Saint Denis
• Breaking-up Saloon Fights
• Hideout Raids
• Rescue Stolen Horses
• Stopping Assassinations (Saving the mayor of Saint Denis)
• Protecting innocent civilians from hitmen and gangs

 

Can't think of anymore but they're the basic features for a Lawman role. 

 

 

The best Idee for lawman

[RyuNova]

If we do get an upgrade to the Bounty Hunter Role I think a good end Role reward would be the ability to "Quick Draw". Target someone with your weapon holstered and activate Dead Eye, this allows you to mark targets and then press fire to whip out your handgun and fire at the marks.

This would drain Dead Eye very fast and not be affected by Ability Cards.

[Wunderlicht20]

had anyone a list with free roam events with time?

[Leftover Pizza]

17 hours ago, ALifeOfMisery said:

Yeah maybe, but that's kind of my point, how would R* do it without it just feeling like a Bounty Hunter reskin.

 

They can't. All the roles are already those of the 'fetch and deliver' type. It's like they can't use another mechanic to create distinctive differences in roles. Get X for Y npc.

 

BH - go fetch the bad guy and deliver at the jail.

Collector - go fetch the shinies and deliver them to Nazzar.

Naturalist - go fetch samples and deliver them to Harriet / fetch pelts and deliver them to Gus. (Massive update, I say. Massive!)

 

2 roles have an additional step (delivery), organised from a user 'owned' location (and we all know how stable that is).

 

Trader - fetch animals (parts) and deliver them to Cripps, fetch (or buy) materials and deliver NPC produced goods.

Moonshiner - fetch ingredients and deliver them to Marcel. Buy mash and deliver NPC produced goods.

 

Still, all roles are no more than 2 step activities; fetch and deliver. None go further than that. Nothing that brings the roles together at some point. Nothing but missed opportunities. 

 

Role rank 1 - you start with fetch and deliver activities. 

Role rank 20 - you still do the exact same fetch and delivery activities, but with a new attire and horse. 

That's where it ends too, btw. No follow ups, no progress in role activities, nothing. Just a rinse and repeat fetch and deliveries. It's actually not even an inch better than insta buying businesses in GTAO. 

 

Are there any role rank 20 activities? Nope. They could do something like escorting Nazzar when she needs to unload her overladen little red wagon to her buyers, in either a coop or PvP event. 

How about raids/heists on rival trading company missions with Cripps on the war path? Could also be coop or PvP orientated. Or choose sides with Gus and blow up Harriet's sample deliveries, which she's doing to some lab with her old west hippy friends? Those missions could be randomly initiated when visiting the NPC's, after reaching rank 20. Although probably still lame, it is at least something they can add to the roles with a certain progression in mind and some cosmetic or character progression rewards. 

 

The way it is now, they might as well put all the role NPC's in a central hub/pacified town, where players can interact with them and leave out the properties we need to buy to start the role missions and charge us 10-15 gold bars for first time interaction. That wouldn't make any difference in playing the roles and the rewards can stay exactly the same too. Neither would it make a difference in 'owned' property customisation, since everyone has the same stuff anyway or no one cares about what the other has or not. Can't remember the first or last time I actually checked out someone else's camp to see what he/she's got that I don't know about. There is no upgraded Wildernis Outfitters wagon for reaching rank 300 or something. 

 

A Lawmen role would be exactly the same as any other role. Fetch and deliver for 20 role ranks and goodies, all in the same open world that never progresses neither. In fact, that's how about any new role will be. Rockstar lacks either creativity, ambition or resources to really create different types of roles. 

 

My speculation for the next role? Fetch and deliver. 

 

 

 

[AStiffBreeze]

4 hours ago, Wunderlicht20 said:

had anyone a list with free roam events with time?

Nobody does. We used to, but they just changed them, and we haven’t caught up yet. More info in the last few posts of the free roam event schedule thread:

 

[FuturePastNow]

this is a Rockstar game, so if they ever add a Lawman role, it will be all about shaking people down and beating confessions out of poor folk

 

Spoiler

that might be a little too realistic though

 

Edited August 27, 2020 by FuturePastNow

[No Homing]

Low populated sessions are back again. Weird.

[DentureDynamite]

^^ Yeah, was thankful for a four-player session the other night when a cheating "modder" stuck me with a "Hostile" label for 15-20 minutes.

 

Felt good getting back into Defensive mode!

Edited August 27, 2020 by DentureDynamite

[Leftover Pizza]

38 minutes ago, No Homing said:

Low populated sessions are back again. Weird.

 

I suspect, and hope, they disabled the lobby merging for a while. It probably caused a lot of networking problems. 

[No Homing]

2 minutes ago, Leftover Pizza said:

 

I suspect, and hope, they disabled the lobby merging for a while. It probably caused a lot of networking problems. 

So if you do a mission for Harriet you get a permanent solo lobby after it?

But why does this keep happening at night and not during the day?

Or they are doing this during peak gaming hours??

I'm so confused.

Edited August 27, 2020 by No Homing

[Leftover Pizza]

20 minutes ago, No Homing said:

So if you do a mission for Harriet you get a permanent solo lobby after it?

But why does this keep happening at night and not during the day?

 

Perhaps, yes. Maybe there aren't that many people playing at a later time of the day and lobbies aren't populated much? I'm in a lobby of 3 at the moment..... 

 

edit: whatever it is, I'm okay with it. It spawned me the Maza cougar. First LA in freeroam in a week.

Edited August 27, 2020 by Leftover Pizza

[nbrlokiro]

Can anyone tell me if this masks are for halloween ? and can we buy them ? i found this masks with Lennys Outfit Changer 

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Edited August 27, 2020 by nbrlokiro

[BUT THE BENZ]

those small lobbies are great. started right with a camp defense, then a hideout followed by a roadblock, followed by a rescue, doing an escort right now. inbetween I ran into that legendary gator whilst collecting a treasure in the marsh. god I hate that region...

 

anyways, game is quite immersive with just a handful of people around

[RyuNova]

No particular reason for this but I really want Invite Only lobbies. I wouldn't even care of they cost one Gold Bar and hour or you buy a Lobby pass for thirty Gold that lasts a month

[kcole4001]

3 hours ago, No Homing said:

So if you do a mission for Harriet you get a permanent solo lobby after it?

But why does this keep happening at night and not during the day?

Or they are doing this during peak gaming hours??

I'm so confused.

I got in a session in the afternoon with 6 others just by loading in.

Later it got down to 2 others, then just 1 other player.

I did a shine buyer rescue (which was glitched out), a resupply, then a shine sale, fast traveled 3 times, no new players joined.

 

This morning it was a normal 23 player session before it crashed out on me.

Edited August 27, 2020 by kcole4001
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[Zapper]

1 hour ago, RyuNova said:

I wouldn't even care of they cost one Gold Bar and hour or you buy a Lobby pass for thirty Gold that lasts a month

Not gonna happen and that gold amount is way too low for Rockstar and I presume they're gonna remove solo lobies in next gen GTAO. They're limiting what you can do in solo lobies for some time and I am curious if they'll do it or not. Of course there'll be backlash, but it's Rockstar.

[GrungeNinja]

58 minutes ago, Zapper said:

Not gonna happen and that gold amount is way too low for Rockstar and I presume they're gonna remove solo lobies in next gen GTAO. They're limiting what you can do in solo lobies for some time and I am curious if they'll do it or not. Of course there'll be backlash, but it's Rockstar.

Everything would be so easier (and fun) if they just remove non hostile player blips.

[ALifeOfMisery]

10 hours ago, No Homing said:

Low populated sessions are back again. Weird.

 

9 hours ago, Leftover Pizza said:

I suspect, and hope, they disabled the lobby merging

It definitely seems as though lobby merging is being deliberately disabled through the evening and night.

 

My local time is similar to No Homing's, and my experience lines up with theirs, what about in the States? Is this happening at the same time for everyone or is this being staggered across time zones?

 

I was on from 9pm until 1am UK time, never had more than 5 other players in a lobby with me and when I quit for the night I'd been in a lobby alone for over an hour.

 

If this is deliberate, or even if it isn't, I hope R* make it permanent (they won't, I know). The game is so much more stable when lobbies aren't constantly merging.

6 hours ago, RyuNova said:

No particular reason for this but I really want Invite Only lobbies. I wouldn't even care of they cost one Gold Bar and hour or you buy a Lobby pass for thirty Gold that lasts a month

R* should just introduce a premium subscription, private lobbies plus monthly perks and giveaways for around the same monthly cost as Netflix, take the backlash and take my money.

Edited August 28, 2020 by ALifeOfMisery