ALifeOfMisery Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) GOLD BONUS, GUN RUSH LOBBY IMPROVEMENTS AND MORE Gold Bonus Thank you to dedicated Red Dead Online Beta players worldwide for your continuing feedback as we work together to refine the game experience. As a token of our gratitude for your support and understanding throughout this Beta period, we are rewarding this weekend’s active players with a bonus of 5 Gold Bars. Play the Red Dead Online Beta between today Friday January 25 and Sunday January 27 to qualify for the bonus, which will be delivered to your account by Tuesday January 29. Gun Rush Feedback & Matchmaking Improvements Following the launch of the new Gun Rush mode, we identified a few matchmaking issues, some of which we have addressed with short-term improvements and all of which we are working towards more permanent and proper fixes for in the longer term. The minor improvements should help generate fuller lobbies and we will add more fixes in upcoming title updates. Gun Rush is best experienced with as many competitors as possible, so if you had any issues with smaller lobbies around release, we strongly encourage you to give it another go this weekend as we are already regularly seeing much fuller matches on both PS4 and Xbox One. For those who haven’t tried it yet, Gun Rush is a tooth and nail, Western style battle-royale fight to the death for up to 32 players that can be played either with Teams or as a Free For All. Players compete in an ever-shrinking battle zone with horses for quick transport (and associated risks). Skirmish for weapons ranging from Mauser Pistols to Repeating Shotguns to Fire Bottles and Dynamite Arrows – as well as for valuable, hard to obtain armor like the headshot-thwarting Ned Kelly Armor to help you survive to the end. We also updated our official Feedback page to now include dedicated sections for Gun Rush. We of course want to know what you like, don’t like, suggestions for improvements and changes to this and other modes and types of gameplay – so please do keep it coming! More to Come Our teams are currently working on lots of fixes, changes and improvements to the game based on player feedback including the quality of life improvements that we detailed in our last status update: Proximity-Based Player Blips, Parley Changes with quicker access to Feuding, Law and Bounty Improvements to discourage griefing while introducing a new Freeroam dynamic between bounty hunters and criminal rogues, plus Daily Challenges with gold nugget rewards and more. We are currently planning to have these and other improvements to the game included in a Title Update scheduled for release in the coming months – we’ll provide more information as we get closer to the date. Newswire Edited January 25, 2019 by ALifeOfMisery Fatsanchez, Lonely-Martin, IamCourtney and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IamCourtney Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) "In the coming months" ahaha, see y'all in March I guess. R*'s glacial update pace might work in GTAO which launched with far more on offer and has years of content accrued but it's a comically absurd way of doing things in such a barebones beta as this... We have more or less the same amount of content now as we did on launch day. Surely there's not much left to be tested. Surely a beta test period would be better utilized with a steady stream of small additions to be tried, tweaked and tested again? Edited January 25, 2019 by IamCourtney Saiyam, SPECTER II, DentureDynamite and 30 others 33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLKnives Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Saw this just now on FB. Yawn, go back to what I was playing. Lonely-Martin, Reeced, jje1000 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALifeOfMisery Posted January 25, 2019 Author Share Posted January 25, 2019 More Coming Soon™ lol. Karlitoz-E, 4eyedcoupe, DentureDynamite and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpkin Zone Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 What an absolute joke of a newswire entry. "Please play Gun Rush, a mode where you get 1/10th of the money and experience you would get playing normal showdown modes. But we won't fix spawns, the Varmint Rifle, your horse constantly going back down to Bonding 1, or any other problem you might have for another few months. Here's 5 gold bars though." Holy F*ck TableTennisChamp, Saiyam, tonko and 28 others 31 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostsoap01 Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) I read the title of the newswire post and saw lobby improvements, and got my hopes up, until I re-read it and realized it meant lobby improvements for Gun Rush matches. At this point we may as well stop hoping for lobby types. Plus waiting several months for some basic fixes and improvements? RIP RDRO. Edited January 25, 2019 by ghostsoap01 ALifeOfMisery, Lonely-Martin, Happy Hunter and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stupidis Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Who the F cares about Gun rush? Fix all the free roam bugs first. DeadEyeAdler, IamCourtney, ShmowzowKapow and 25 others 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Semaj 2JZ♢ Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 In December: Title update in January. End of January: Title update in coming months. Come on R*...Just admit you gomers have no idea what you are doing or how to go about doing it. Further pushing back of any real updates that are desperately needed, and this game will die. areyouchappin, Saiyam, jje1000 and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Assblaster Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Somebody at R* just doesn't have a f*cking clue. Moronic management if ever there was lmao. No game fixes, no content, no improvement, just the same ole "please bear with us as we run this game into the ground a few more months". Miketv, Happy Hunter, ALifeOfMisery and 17 others 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunterrrr Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 This is laughable. RDO will be dead before the updates drop. Also copying and pasting the last newswire post and calling it an update is pathetic. Ayesha, Shane_Dbns, areyouchappin and 21 others 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane_Dbns Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 They are already bribing people with gold to play online. This game might be dead by the time they actually fix the bugs and add content. TableTennisChamp, Happy Hunter, Boozey St John and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostsoap01 Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 Just now, Hunterrrr said: copying and pasting the last newswire post and calling it an update is pathetic. My thoughts exactly. Nothing in the "more to come" was actually new, other than the vague release window of "coming months". So is that end of March, or end of June r*? Lonely-Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALifeOfMisery Posted January 25, 2019 Author Share Posted January 25, 2019 As I was reading this Newswire I instantly thought this will p*ss players off more than saying nothing. I don't want R* to stop updating us, but they need some actual content to update us about. Laughable. DentureDynamite, Happy Hunter, Sam Doe and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafae S Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 sigh DeadEyeAdler, ALifeOfMisery, Lonely-Martin and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostsoap01 Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 2 minutes ago, Shane_Dbns said: They are already bribing people with gold to play online. This game might be dead by the time they actually fix the bugs and add content. Yeah that's what they've been doing recently with GTAO, which is years old. The fact that they have to do the same with a new release certainly doesn't bode well. AUScowboy, jje1000, Lonely-Martin and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan5252 Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 1 minute ago, ALifeOfMisery said: As I was reading this Newswire I instantly thought this will p*ss players off more than saying nothing. Except MrBoss and his fellow YouTube "colleagues". They will be making more 10 minute EXCLUSIVE WOW videos. Drop a like and hit that button. tonko, DentureDynamite, ALifeOfMisery and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stupidis Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 They could also make the bug report site much more user friendly. Gave up when I realized you have to fill in sh*tloads of boxes, provide your username etc. Two boxes should be enough. One with subject line and one with content. tonko and DentureDynamite 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLordMarvel Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 lordbancs, Lonely-Martin and tonko 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 "coming months" yikes DeadEyeAdler, Lonely-Martin, DentureDynamite and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saiyam Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 27 minutes ago, ALifeOfMisery said: in the coming months I have heard that before rip online DeadEyeAdler, Lonely-Martin, jje1000 and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLordMarvel Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 I'll take the extra gold though. I do like my gold. Waldbear, Saiyam and Tails Prower 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non Funkable Token Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) Not paying real money to re-subscribe me to online just for 5 gold bars. No real new content, no subscription Edited January 25, 2019 by Fluffy Sock 5.7 and Saiyam 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miketv Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 A handout and "improvements" to a game mode that no one gives a damn about it. Yay! ALifeOfMisery, Lonely-Martin, Amy Vinewood and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowfennekin Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 "Coming months" lol Well I guess I'll put in the disc to qualify for the free gold. I'll just go hunting for an hour this weekend before putting my rifle back on it's shelf until a real update areyouchappin, DeadEyeAdler, Saiyam and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadEyeAdler Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 This is almost as laughable as Fallout 76 right now. No roadmap, no sense of direction, no nothing... Lonely-Martin, ALifeOfMisery, jazzbone and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) 29 minutes ago, Sammionna said: This is almost as laughable as Fallout 76 right now. No roadmap, no sense of direction, no nothing... It's baffling, it really is. Obviously they're creating a lot of these new features from scratch and I understand this takes time... but where's the bug fixes? Balancing changes? Every 2 weeks now they post an update and it's all stuff that is seemingly months away. We're pretty much at the two months since launch point now and the game has had one economy balancing pass (and it's still not great) and zero gameplay bug fixing or further balancing updates. Maybe they do have a plan or an internal roadmap or something but they need to be transparent (which they probably never will be) cause the only message players are getting from Rockstar right now is "come back in a few months". It's straight up the most mishandled launch of an online game of this type that I've ever seen. I'm almost getting the impression that the vast majority of Rockstar are no longer working on anything Red Dead related and are instead going all-in on getting GTA VI (and GTAO2) out before next-gen or something. Edited January 25, 2019 by Jason ALifeOfMisery, DentureDynamite, Lonely-Martin and 17 others 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waingro Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) Gonna go out on a limb and suggest they, again, revamp the whole system into more of a "world" build with strong rpg elements (literal role playing not Zelda). Maybe even with static servers or something and permadeath. GTA with horses is not working, it feels antithetical to what storymode was. Singleplayer was Westworld, and now we're back to free for all pvp match mode for online? Really? It's juvenile, save that for GTA. Edited January 25, 2019 by Waingro Smokewood, DentureDynamite, DonnieVega and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DentureDynamite Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) I suspect the reason why RDR2 was as successful as it was is due to the fact that (as usual) a third-party entity wrote the script--and the game had to be designed to fit that story. But(!) with RDO, and no Leslie Benzies this time to set direction and ask the tough questions from the player's standpoint, the fail is strong, and it's showing... Edited January 25, 2019 by DentureDynamite Rafae S, coach_wargo, Boozey St John and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarksunDaFirst Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 (edited) I have been as optimistic and forgiving as it comes... BUT FFS, get your sh*t together R*. You're making yourselves look almost as bad as Bethesda and Activision at this point. Do us all a favor and send us our complimentary garbage bags with your logos on it and call it a day. Back to NBA Playgrounds 2 for me and breaking some n00b ankles... Edited January 25, 2019 by DarksunDaFirst John McCabe, StuntCurry707, Sam Doe and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YNNEL Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 They’ve basically said we know your all pissed off here’s some free gold now leave us alone for a few months lol. If your gonna buy my patience it’s gonns cost you at least 20 gold lol Nugsy, Lonely-Martin, DentureDynamite and 17 others 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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