RDO Next Updates Speculation & General Chat (Part I)

[SGT-WD]

 

OH MAN R* USED @Tez2 PICTURE.

TEZ IS A PLAYABLE CHARACTER NEXT DLC CONFIRMED

[AdamNortonUK]

Be careful when collecting 'Collector Collectibles' gifts from your lockbox, I just did a collect all as forgot about the 'gifts from Rockstar' and all of the items didn't increase in my satchel and 4 of them are items I actually have 10 of, so they've been removed from my Lockbox but I haven't been awarded them as the values haven't increased on the items I didn't have 10 of either.

Edited February 23, 2021 by AdamNortonUK

[StyxTx]

1 hour ago, AdamNortonUK said:

Be careful when collecting 'Collector Collectibles' gifts from your lockbox, I just did a collect all as forgot about the 'gifts from Rockstar' and all of the items didn't increase in my satchel and 4 of them are items I actually have 10 of, so they've been removed from my Lockbox but I haven't been awarded them as the values haven't increased on the items I didn't have 10 of either.

Have they fixed that greyed out "collect all" glitch yet? Most of the time I got the option was by scrolling down that loooooooooooooooooooooooong list to find an item I needed to get. Didn't used to be that way.

Edited February 23, 2021 by StyxTx

[Tez2]

Just saw this video from RockstarGuides, worth watching.

 

Decided to look it up and found a text file that contains most of the strings for these telegram missions, some of which are generic, like "You finally arrived" text that's used across all missions, while some are very specific. So, keep that in mind, as you may label a text that's already said within the game as something coming soon.

https://pastebin.com/raw/yhkBWz7M

Plus, there's this in-game text within the Satchel file that mention posses.

Quote

0xB15688BD = You must be the posse leader to access telegram missions.

 

From what I can see, it appears we have three more telegram missions.

One about bringing in bounties, one about looting up boats and the other is about bringing in multiple wagons.

 

Notice the similarity between those three? Multiple objectives that implies the necessity of multiple players. So, it's likely that those remaining telegram missions are the Posse ones and it makes sense if you think about it that way. Introduce the batch of solo missions, followed up by the posse missions.

Edited February 24, 2021 by Tez2

[Potter145]

Now I wonder if they'll be dropping before or after OP5? 

[BUT THE BENZ]

posse bullsh*t?

/pass

[Bigglo145]

I really hope we get a blackhand mafia themed dlc. They are already in the game

[rollschuh2282]

 

[Franula]

21 minutes ago, rollschuh2282 said:

 

Does it mean something special?

[roggek]

Something i have noticed recently is that the spawn points now are "randomized" on the map (bear, wolves, cougars, ambushes) to places that i never had any issues before.
Seems that R* doesn't like "Jeanropkes cheating map" anymore...

 

One example was in Valentine at the corner at the Gunsmith: 4 revenue agents was controlling the intersection, i mauled them all...

Edited February 24, 2021 by roggek

[Danish Crusader]

1 hour ago, Franula said:

Does it mean something special?

Yes, that the quality of the support you will get during that time, will not be interupted like other game company maintenances would.

[Nerfgoth]

58 minutes ago, roggek said:

Something i have noticed recently is that the spawn points now are "randomized" on the map (bear, wolves, cougars, ambushes) to places that i never had any issues before.
Seems that R* doesn't like "Jeanropkes cheating map" anymore...

 

One example was in Valentine at the corner at the Gunsmith: 4 revenue agents was controlling the intersection, i mauled them all...

 

Eeee? What? Always felt that animals was somewhat random.

 

That R* don't like the map I'm not surprised. It threw a wrench in their business.

[AdamNortonUK]

6 hours ago, roggek said:

Something i have noticed recently is that the spawn points now are "randomized" on the map (bear, wolves, cougars, ambushes) to places that i never had any issues before.
Seems that R* doesn't like "Jeanropkes cheating map" anymore...

 

One example was in Valentine at the corner at the Gunsmith: 4 revenue agents was controlling the intersection, i mauled them all...

 
 

All items on the map come directly from the game files, so they’re correct, some things just down spawn in when you want them too, but every ambush, animal locations etc are data from the game files which aren’t changed much and if they are it’s when we have an update that adds new content, and these are updated on the map within hours of the update.

 

I contribute towards both of Jeanropke’s maps amongst other things such as the Free Mode Event lists on both maps as well as at best keeping the Free Mode Events websites up to date. So I can tell you that the maps shouldn’t be wrong  Oh and the black version of the map was done by yours truly which took a while, only 9000+ map tiles I converted haha.

 

Oh and if you haven’t already you can check out my version of the Collectors / RDO Map as I’ve merged some of the items onto one map at https://rdomap.xyz and check out my Daily Challenges site at https://rdodailies.com which may come in useful, if you’re not a follower of the sticked Daily Challenges thread on this forum! I seem to have my hands in everything to do with Red Dead Online it would seem haha! Except actually being Rockstar!

[Shane_Dbns]

Y'all think we'll hear anything about Upgraded Red Dead 2 at Sony's State Of Play tonight? 

[Potter145]

31 minutes ago, Shane_Dbns said:

Y'all think we'll hear anything about Upgraded Red Dead 2 at Sony's State Of Play tonight? 

 

I don't think a State of Play is the best venue for such an announcement. 

And the next thing we'll hear from Rockstar outside of the respective online worlds is probably for GTA5 E&E.

 

A new Red Dead 2 seems like something for 2022 to be honest.

 

The question will always be how far they want to go with it though. Do they want to make it a full new 70$ purchase with exclusive new single player and online content, including Mexico, and other improvements? 

Or do they simply want to give the existing Xbox One and PS4 version a 60fps patch for their NextGen consoles? 

[roggek]

10 hours ago, AdamNortonUK said:

 
 

So I can tell you that the maps shouldn’t be wrong  Oh and the black version of the map was done by yours truly which took a while, only 9000+ map tiles I converted haha.

 

I seem to have my hands in everything to do with Red Dead Online it would seem haha! Except actually being Rockstar!

 

Then you have to work hard in the future to update the map since there is lot of errors atm...
There is nowhere on the RDO map that you get ambushed by wolves north of Thieves Landing...

 

So I still are convinced that animal ambush spawn points is "dynamically randomized", no matter what the "game files" states...

 

Edited February 25, 2021 by roggek

[WanteD1]

https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/red-dead-redemption-2-on-pc-twice-as-popular-as-on-consoles/z22dff

[TagoKG]

8 minutes ago, WanteD1 said:

https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/red-dead-redemption-2-on-pc-twice-as-popular-as-on-consoles/z22dff

But RDO in pc is more dead that consoles

[Potter145]

18 minutes ago, WanteD1 said:

https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/red-dead-redemption-2-on-pc-twice-as-popular-as-on-consoles/z22dff

 

Misleading headline as it only accounts for sales numbers this past month and not actual active player numbers.

 

Most people on console who wanted already bought the game a long time ago (most copies sold in total are on console) and you can assume that RDO active player numbers are higher on console or on the same level. 

Edited February 25, 2021 by Potter145

[StyxTx]

34 minutes ago, Potter145 said:

 

Misleading headline as it only accounts for sales numbers this past month and not actual active player numbers.

 

Most people on console who wanted already bought the game a long time ago and you can assume that RDO active player numbers are higher on console or on the same level. 

Exactly. Those numbers come from the sale and most console players already have it. I still have yet to hear R* mention how many of those players are still playing. If those huge new numbers were still active you can bet they'd be announcing it every chance they got. "Record number of active players".

 

The other thing is that if it is true there were more players on PC than both consoles combined, the number of console players is a lot lower then anyone suspected.

 

I also don't buy that a lot of console players wanted to jump to PC knowing how bad the modder problem is plus PS players going after PS5. I guess the graphics on the newest Xbox are similar to PC? I don't have the Xbox so I don't know. But if so then why would Xboxers want to switch to PC for graphics?

 

1.6 million new players. According to them the most new players than at any time since release. That says a bit about how relatively few players there has been overall and how many are still playing.

 

I don't know, at a $5 price I wouldn't be bragging about only 1 million new players worldwide. They have to know that if they raise the cost to the $20 they claim the regular price is the number of new players will fall to a drip. On the other hand, their number with the $5 price isn't very good either. RDR2 and RDO has pretty much peaked.

 

 

Edited February 25, 2021 by StyxTx

[TimoJ]

1 hour ago, StyxTx said:

Exactly. Those numbers come from the sale and most console players already have it. I still have yet to hear R* mention how many of those players are still playing. If those huge new numbers were still active you can bet they'd be announcing it every chance they got. "Record number of active players".

 

The other thing is that if it is true there were more players on PC than both consoles combined, the number of console players is a lot lower then anyone suspected.

 

I also don't buy that a lot of console players wanted to jump to PC knowing how bad the modder problem is plus PS players going after PS5. I guess the graphics on the newest Xbox are similar to PC? I don't have the Xbox so I don't know. But if so then why would Xboxers want to switch to PC for graphics?

 

1.6 million new players. According to them the most new players than at any time since release. That says a bit about how relatively few players there has been overall and how many are still playing.

 

I don't know, at a $5 price I wouldn't be bragging about only 1 million new players worldwide. They have to know that if they raise the cost to the $20 they claim the regular price is the number of new players will fall to a drip. On the other hand, their number with the $5 price isn't very good either. RDR2 and RDO has pretty much peaked.

 

 

RDO has peaked, from now on Rockstar can't rely on releasing the game on PC or a standalone version anymore, and they need to bring more constant and bigger updates if they want to keep a bigger playerbase. Though, RDO does have the biggest playerbase ever, before the standalone it was around a couple of hundreds of thousands of players, and after the standalone 1.6 new players started playing, as well they sold 2 million copies of singleplayer, and online apparently never had more than 2 million players at the time, but i could be wrong. Either way, they also were looking to hire new employees for both RDO and GTAO for their succeses, so that should be enough to see how well Rockstar did with both of these game, despite the lack of content RDO got this year

[4eyedcoupe]

3 hours ago, roggek said:

 

Then you have to work hard in the future to update the map since there is lot of errors atm...

 

WHAT???  gtfo

[StyxTx]

4 hours ago, TimoJ said:

RDO has peaked, from now on Rockstar can't rely on releasing the game on PC or a standalone version anymore, and they need to bring more constant and bigger updates if they want to keep a bigger playerbase. Though, RDO does have the biggest playerbase ever, before the standalone it was around a couple of hundreds of thousands of players, and after the standalone 1.6 new players started playing, as well they sold 2 million copies of singleplayer, and online apparently never had more than 2 million players at the time, but i could be wrong. Either way, they also were looking to hire new employees for both RDO and GTAO for their succeses, so that should be enough to see how well Rockstar did with both of these game, despite the lack of content RDO got this year

That's a good point about them not having anything left to rely on as far as attracting new players. These new players are just replacing the ones they lost and a huge majority of them won't be around long. Then the question will be what will they do to replace those people? You're right, they have to now start putting real, quality content in the game more than once every year or two. Otherwise the game is doomed.

 

Unfortunately they have done a dreadful job of retaining players and, in fact, actively chased them away. It will take something really major to bring them back.

 

 

Edited February 25, 2021 by StyxTx

[Retro_Causality]

they unpinned the telegram tweet

[BUT THE BENZ]

LANDLORD role incoming. get ready to waste gold on PROPERTIES!

[Franula]

47 minutes ago, BUT THE BENZ said:

LANDLORD role incoming. get ready to waste gold on PROPERTIES!

Source? If it's joke, please, don't give me hope. 

[BUT THE BENZ]

got no sauce, just that feeling in my gut.

[Bigglo145]

I hate landlords, me and my homies hate landlords. I dont want to kick tenants out that cannot pay their rent

[AdamNortonUK]

18 hours ago, roggek said:

There is nowhere on the RDO map that you get ambushed by wolves north of Thieves Landing...

 

These happen anywhere throughout the game map, especially in the location you speak of.

[StyxTx]

8 hours ago, Bigglo145 said:

I hate landlords, me and my homies hate landlords. I dont want to kick tenants out that cannot pay their rent

Then kill them. You're an outlaw!

22 hours ago, roggek said:

 

There is nowhere on the RDO map that you get ambushed by wolves north of Thieves Landing...

 

 

How much time do you spend north of Valentine, along the northern path in the Grizzlies and up around Little Creek River? Happens a lot.