RDO Next Updates Speculation & General Chat (Part I)

[DentureDynamite]

10 hours ago, darkmaster234 said:

More like overestimating Rockstar care about cyberpunk which is another type of game.

It is quite different, but if its multiplayer is good, it appears to offer a -ton- of freedom and open world elements that R* has consistently denied their gaming community in both GTA Online and RDO.

 

Though I personally don't care for the wildness of the setting (seems more like Saints Row), it has the potential to set a new standard for open world games that put R*'s efforts to shame.

Edited October 28, 2020 by DentureDynamite

[Buddy Hightower]

12 hours ago, Tez2 said:

Cyberpunk 2077 releasing in December, I guess I'm gonna drop early F in the chat for RDO "engagement levels".

I was hyped for that game until I heard it is first person only - now I've lost all interest in it.

[Nerfgoth]

1 hour ago, Buddy Hightower said:

I was hyped for that game until I heard it is first person only - now I've lost all interest in it.

Same here!

[IamCourtney]

First person only is a bit of a bummer but I'll probably still play it.

[RyuNova]

And old issues are starting to grow like f*cking weeds again.

 

Infinite black screens, infinite loading, Bounty missions not loading but remove all icons from the map and game, Bounties not ending etc. Its pretty obvious that the high player counts are to blame.

Edited October 28, 2020 by RyuNova

[RS123]

14 hours ago, Tez2 said:

Cyberpunk 2077 releasing in December, I guess I'm gonna drop early F in the chat for RDO "engagement levels".

There is a chance we get the RDO update on Nov 17th or 24th since the Halloween pass ends on Nov 16th. If they weren't planning on releasing an update till the second week of Dec why not just keep the Halloween pass active till then?

[rollschuh2282]

so guys, i have now with 65h of playtime all the roles except the naturalist one...and i am at 15 gold bars.

and now i ask myself...should i waste it for the halloween pass, or get the 5 extra gold and get the naturalist role?

 

[*Lola]

9 minutes ago, rollschuh2282 said:

so guys, i have now with 65h of playtime all the roles except the naturalist one...and i am at 15 gold bars.

and now i ask myself...should i waste it for the halloween pass, or get the 5 extra gold and get the naturalist role?

 

Naturalist role has dailies for it.

 

[IamCourtney]

3 minutes ago, *Lola said:

Naturalist role has dailies for it.

 

And the majority are quick and easy, good for when you can only play a short session or need one or two more for 9/9

[fryday]

1 hour ago, rollschuh2282 said:

so guys, i have now with 65h of playtime all the roles except the naturalist one...and i am at 15 gold bars.

and now i ask myself...should i waste it for the halloween pass, or get the 5 extra gold and get the naturalist role?

 

 

go for the naturalist

its not an exciting role, but the halloween pass has not much to offer. its mostly skins and clothes, definetly not a good option for a low gold player like you...

 

[Tez2]

2 hours ago, RS123 said:

There is a chance we get the RDO update on Nov 17th or 24th since the Halloween pass ends on Nov 16th. If they weren't planning on releasing an update till the second week of Dec why not just keep the Halloween pass active till then?

That's what I thought at first, but I soon realized it's just cause that's about 28 days away which is a whole month. So, I believe it's just a marketing move, "look, we giving ya a whole month to try out this new limited pass".

Edited October 28, 2020 by Tez2

[Leftover Pizza]

On 10/27/2020 at 4:24 PM, ALifeOfMisery said:

If it wasn't for the attachment to the game world I got from SP and most of the people here I genuinely don't think I'd play, probably would've moved RDR2 to an external drive. 

 

I logged on, played the Panther mission, checked the catalogue on my phone while the mission was loading, did 4 dailies and logged off.

 

I was really back into RDO while everything was working, now I've very little enthusiasm for it.

 

I haven't even checked out the legendary moose from weeks ago. If the reward for getting them was better (not the silly coats, for sure), I'd probably have been more active hunting them. 

RDO is back to 1 or 2 easy dailies that don't require much traveling. 

 

[Potter145]

16 hours ago, Emilie said:

I feel like you all overestimate the impact one game has on another in terms of player numbers. People will play more than one game at a time if they feel like it.

 

Look at the stats. This is just your feeling. Look at what happened to Titanfall 2 when it launched between Cod and BF. 

 

Games compete for audiences, not everyone is hardcore like us and spends money on multiple games. 

There are big audiences that will buy CP2077 in December and therefore will not touch RDO or spend money on Gold, otherwise they would have. 

 

This is something R* will consider. 

Remember when R* announced the Oct 26 date for RDR2 and that's why Activision released B04 in early October instead of early November. 

 

This stuff matters. 

[RS123]

30 minutes ago, Tez2 said:

That's what I thought at first, but I soon realized it's just cause that's about 28 days away which is a whole month. So, I believe it's just a marketing move, "look, we giving ya a whole month to try out this new limited pass".

Part of me agrees with what you are saying but here is what I am thinking. If they wanted to do a full month for marketing and were not planning on ending it right before the next update why not make it from Oct 6 (first tuesday of Oct) to Nov 2 (first monday of Nov)? People are usually in the Halloween spirit the entire month of October and as soon as Nov 1st hits many people begin moving on to either Christmas or Thanksgiving (depending where you live). Making a Halloween pass last well into Nov doesn't make sense unless they are buying time and want it to end as close to OP4 as possible. Also the pass was added with the naturalist update so it's not like they needed more dev time on it, it's been ready since July 28. Or at least that is what I think their plan was when they released the Halloween pass, you never know what sort of internal delays could happen.

20 minutes ago, executor404 said:

 

Look at the stats. This is just your feeling. Look at what happened to Titanfall 2 when it launched between Cod and BF. 

 

Games compete for audiences, not everyone is hardcore like us and spends money on multiple games. 

There are big audiences that will buy CP2077 in December and therefore will not touch RDO or spend money on Gold, otherwise they would have. 

 

This is something R* will consider. 

Remember when R* announced the Oct 26 date for RDR2 and that's why Activision released B04 in early October instead of early November. 

 

This stuff matters. 

I agree with you and that worries me. Originally Cyberpunk was supposed to come out Nov 19, R* couldn't have known it would be delayed so they might have scheduled their release for Dec (a few weeks removed from cyberpunk) but now with the delay R* has 3 options (if the original date was Dec for the update), either rush it and release in late Nov, stick with your Dec release date or push it back till January. I honestly think R* is more worried about what they are gonna do with their "biggest ever" GTAO update for the end of the year. I honestly think they will push the RDO update whenever it is ready and not care too much, one of those situations of "if it does well that is good, if not GTAO profit will cover for it" kind of situations.

[pj9000]

Im not expecting major support for RDO until the next gen version comes out. I just know that's what they're waiting on. And if that's not the case, and the shiny new version is still updated like this one ...then I'll comfortably declare the game dead. 

[Potter145]

21 minutes ago, RS123 said:

Now with the delay R* has 3 options (if the original date was Dec for the update), either rush it and release in late Nov, stick with your Dec release date or push it back till January. I honestly think they will push the RDO update whenever it is ready and not care too much, one of those situations of "if it does well that is good, if not GTAO profit will cover for it" kind of situations.

 

If we disregard the development situation I think the smartest move would be to release RDO update between Nov 24-27 and GTAO update between Dec 1-4. Best time window this holiday for R*. Everything else is too early, too late, or too close to major releases. 

Edited October 28, 2020 by executor404

[rinzu]

Imma be pessimistic af and say there ain't no content update dropping this year. After the Moonshiner drought I just lost hope, and after looking at naturalist content I became the "man who lost all hope meme"

[AltiMetro]

3 hours ago, rollschuh2282 said:

so guys, i have now with 65h of playtime all the roles except the naturalist one...and i am at 15 gold bars.

and now i ask myself...should i waste it for the halloween pass, or get the 5 extra gold and get the naturalist role?

 

for me there's a huge gap in value, between the halloween pass and naturalist role.

Legendary Animals are great for materials I give to Cripps, there's always some easy role daily challenges, and it's fun to find a Legendary Animal in free roam every now and then.
The Halloween pass doesn't have a lot of stuff I find interesting or need. I bought everything I need and want, the vouchers don't do anything for me. Some of the cosmetics are nice (the shine shack theme is excellent), but not super important for me.

[RyuNova]

Just of note, the load times on GTAV, with all the splash screens removed, is fourteen seconds on the next Xbox. Bodes well for the RDR2 load times but then again, the load times where never an issue as it was connecting to the servers that clogged the "loading" down.

[TagoKG]

R* will release the dlc in december, they know cyberpunk will be delayed again to 2021 

[Potter145]

1 minute ago, TagoKG said:

R* will release the dlc in december, they know cyberpunk will be delayed again to 2021 

4D Chess

[AltiMetro]

38 minutes ago, rinzu said:

Imma be pessimistic af and say there ain't no content update dropping this year. After the Moonshiner drought I just lost hope, and after looking at naturalist content I became the "man who lost all hope meme"

R* officially announced there would be a role expansion update at the end of this year.
That's not a guarantee, it's R* , Covid is still going on, so who knows if it'll happen or not.

But I have to believe R* knows too little content has been added this year. Their player numbers aren't expanding, are they? They'll want to hold on to their player base, bring new players in or old players back.
They can't afford to not keep their promise

[RyuNova]

It all depends on when the GTAO update is released. That's gonna be the big moneymaker for R* so they won't want it overshadowed by any game releases or DLC including RDO. They will want all eyes and news outlets on that DLC so it will be at least a week between GTAO and RDO and GTAO will come before when them pockets be heavy with Shark Card money.

[rinzu]

46 minutes ago, AltiMetro said:

R* officially announced there would be a role expansion update at the end of this year.
That's not a guarantee, it's R* , Covid is still going on, so who knows if it'll happen or not.

But I have to believe R* knows too little content has been added this year. Their player numbers aren't expanding, are they? They'll want to hold on to their player base, bring new players in or old players back.
They can't afford to not keep their promise

Source? I thought the update coming "later this year" was the Halloween pass?

Edited October 28, 2020 by rinzu

[AltiMetro]

30 minutes ago, rinzu said:

Source? I thought the update coming "later this year" was the Halloween pass?

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

[rinzu]

7 minutes ago, AltiMetro said:

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

Aight thanks. I'll keep my expectations in check though.

[Nerfgoth]

5 hours ago, RyuNova said:

And old issues are starting to grow like f*cking weeds again.

 

Infinite black screens, infinite loading, Bounty missions not loading but remove all icons from the map and game, Bounties not ending etc. Its pretty obvious that the high player counts are to blame.

Had a session before they updated the player count to what we have now where we had invited a lot of friends and it worked fine. So I don´t think it is the player count but the merging of lobby's that is at fault!

But even when we had small amount of players in the lobby I sometimes lost framrate around some parts of the map when players was around.

[CB101683]

I dont know what cyberpunks multiplayer component is going to be like but if they plan on something like GTAO I will be hyped. Purely because that means rockstar will FINALLY have some competition and start to kick it into gear. Thats one of the biggest issues. Rockstar has ZERO competition so they get complacent and feel they dont need to do much at all. Having someone there to steal there moneymakers will put the pressure on and Im all here for it

[darkmaster234]

2 hours ago, executor404 said:

 

If we disregard the development situation I think the smartest move would be to release RDO update between Nov 24-27 and GTAO update between Dec 1-4. Best time window this holiday for R*. Everything else is too early, too late, or too close to major releases. 

That would only work if they release a sort of mini christmas pack that actually worth the gold, so people buy  it 100% and they dont loose money on the date regardless the release of the main update... i think you are all wrong, that you are overstimating rockstar by miles... they are lazy, lack creativity and are greedy as f*ck... they are not getting apart from the christmas tree for more than 2 weeks... in no way... i want them to hamfist my asserts so hard though.

[Nerfgoth]

10 minutes ago, darkmaster234 said:

That would only work if they release a sort of mini christmas pack that actually worth the gold, so people buy  it 100% and they dont loose money on the date regardless the release of the main update... i think you are all wrong, that you are overstimating rockstar by miles... they are lazy, lack creativity and are greedy as f*ck... they are not getting apart from the christmas tree for more than 2 weeks... in no way... i want them to hamfist my asserts so hard though.

If we get a pass for x-mas before first of December. It would have been cool instead of xp to rank up, you rank it up by logging in every day. But can only rank one level per day! Leading up to a grand final on the 24.....