RED DEAD ONLINE UPDATE COMING SOMETIME BETWEEN NOW AND SEPTEMBER THE 23RD

[FrikkenZz]

Im looking forward to trader most. Not because of the business. But the hunting aspects and the feeling of living out in the wild as a trapper. I want to play the other two roles as "side jobs" tho. Hoping that I can learn the eagle eye ability from the bounty hunter role, and use it while I hunt when I do trapper stuff.

 

I dont really want to own a store in a town either. But having a sort of business in my camp and feel like I am living the frontier life, that fine by me. 

Edited August 19, 2019 by FrikkenZz

[XxJazzy42xX]

1 minute ago, ALifeOfMisery said:

Me too. 

 

I'd really like to know what the long term plan is for each role, I know R* would never outline their long term plans for the roles, I wouldn't expect that, but it would be nice to know all the same.

 

I'm drawn towards the Trader role, as it seems it would suit my play style, but from the interviews that have been given it looks as though that role may end up with our character owning a big business, but after years of businesses in GTAO that doesn't really interest me. 

 

The Bounty Hunter role doesn't interest me initially and thinking about where that could go, with our character ending up as a Sheriff or a Marshal, that doesn't interest me much either.

 

As for the Collector role, I could get into that, but again, what would be the end game? Owning a store? Maybe. But it seems like it could be the one role, out of the initial three, which could keep our character out there, in the wilderness, searching for things, rather than owning a business or having the monotonous (to me) gameplay loop of hunting down fugitives.

 

After some thought I'll probably try to maintain both Trader and Collector roles to start with and see how they develop over a couple of updates before dropping one.

 

Hopefully at least one of the these initial three, and maybe future roles will allow our character to stay out in the world, untethered by some form of business to maintain.

What concerns me about the Bounty Hunter role is how much is PvE and PvP type gameply and if it is PvP how would that work.

 

Lets be real about these roles though. We've already done some things in the free roam that would classify as a job for any one of these roles(killing mass griefers, looking for treasure maps, hunting for skins, etc.) 

 

None of the roles are something I'm super excited to play though. If I'm being honest I'm more curious than excited. Another thing is this Character Redo, because they make it sound like you can't edit the current character, but you can rebuild one from scratch. 

[Waldbear]

I go for a unbonded lifestyle what’s, by time after time, conectect by different Posse Camps, when this fits by a Collector.

 

We NEED more info R*, i’m hungry!!

[XxJazzy42xX]

1 minute ago, Waldbear said:

I go for a unbonded lifestyle what’s, by time after time, conectect by different Posse Camps, when this fits by a Collector.

 

We NEED more info R*, i’m hungry!!

.........then eat something.......

[Potter145]

Is this a sign?

 

My original RDR just got a 600MB update on Xbox One (you know the digital backwards compatible version).

[Failed Again]

whats Canada/?

[ALifeOfMisery]

1 hour ago, XxJazzy42xX said:

What concerns me about the Bounty Hunter role is how much is PvE and PvP type gameply and if it is PvP how would that work.

 

Lets be real about these roles though. We've already done some things in the free roam that would classify as a job for any one of these roles(killing mass griefers, looking for treasure maps, hunting for skins, etc.) 

 

None of the roles are something I'm super excited to play though. If I'm being honest I'm more curious than excited. Another thing is this Character Redo, because they make it sound like you can't edit the current character, but you can rebuild one from scratch. 

I think the roles will be mostly PvE, looking at the changes R* have made to freeroam so far, it wouldn't make much sense for them to take a heavy turn towards PvP.

 

I think the PvP connected to the Bounty Hunter role will be as simple as what has been teased so far, if you're close to a player with a bounty over a certain amount you'll be notified and you can go and kill them to claim the bounty should you choose to.

 

I think the PvP involved overall, across the three roles will come down to proximity and how players choose to play. I don't think we will be made to directly compete with one another, but if another Bounty Hunter sees that body over the back of your horse, or a fellow Trader sees you with a Cougar, they will be able to kill you, take it and claim the connected reward for themselves.

Edited August 19, 2019 by ALifeOfMisery

[happygrowls]

7 minutes ago, executor404 said:

Is this a sign?

 

My original RDR just got a 600MB update on Xbox One (you know the digital backwards compatible version).

this is a seriously far stretch

[DEADWOODZ]

5 hours ago, joshua969 said:

Here's hoping.  I just jumped in a couple weeks back and looking forward to it.

Good to see you, man!

[XxJazzy42xX]

1 hour ago, ALifeOfMisery said:

I think the roles will be mostly PvE, looking at the changes R* have made to freeroam so far, it wouldn't make much sense for them to take a heavy turn towards PvP.

 

I think the PvP connected to the Bounty Hunter role will be as simple as what has been teased so far, if you're close to a player with a bounty over a certain amount you'll be notified and you can go and kill them to claim the bounty should you choose to.

 

I think the PvP involved overall, across the three roles will come down to proximity and how players choose to play. I don't think we will be made to directly compete with one another, but if another Bounty Hunter sees that body over the back of your horse, or a fellow Trader sees you with a Cougar, they will be able to kill you, take it and claim the connected reward for themselves.

Yeah that makes sense, because of Dead or Alive bounties seem doable for npcs, but not Players. Players breakout the lasso too quick for them to have Dead or Alive bounties.

[ALifeOfMisery]

5 minutes ago, XxJazzy42xX said:

Yeah that makes sense, because of Dead or Alive bounties seem doable for npcs, but not Players. Players breakout the lasso too quick for them to have Dead or Alive bounties.

Another reason dead or alive player bounties would never work is that even if you could hogtie players for long enough to turn them in, with the new re-enforced lasso perhaps, players would just change session/close app before you could get to the drop off point.

 

Even if something like the re-enforced lasso was supposed to work in that way, it would be abused as f*ck by griefers.

[Waingro]

On 8/18/2019 at 1:11 PM, ShadowlessDevil said:

Why do you need invite only lobbies? People don't grief as much anymore. 

 Yup, they will most likely release the trailer when the update drops..just like they did last time.  I still think it will be the 20th...The 2 week bonus event was suspicious. 

Summer ends on September 21st..not October 1st   I highly doubt they would wait that long to release the DLC...It's either on the 20th or the week after. 

Rockstar Timeline joke meets impervious reading comprehension:   the last day of Rockstar, and only Rockstar's, summer calendar. 

[*Lola]

On 8/18/2019 at 10:11 AM, ShadowlessDevil said:

Why do you need invite only lobbies? People don't grief as much anymore.  

For me, it's more for the disconnection problems.

I played flawlessly in GTA with invite only lobbies.

Now that I'm forced to play in public lobbies, I get the disconnected errors often. They mainly happen when coming out of a story mission back into the public lobby. GTA didn't do that to me because I came back into my invite only session.

 

[ShadowlessDevil]

1 hour ago, ALifeOfMisery said:

Another reason dead or alive player bounties would never work is that even if you could hogtie players for long enough to turn them in, with the new re-enforced lasso perhaps, players would just change session/close app before you could get to the drop off point.

 

Even if something like the re-enforced lasso was supposed to work in that way, it would be abused as f*ck by griefers.

 Why bother bringing them, I'd just kill them on the spot 

[Stupidis]

On 8/18/2019 at 8:36 PM, Jason said:

Pretty much all of the Grizzlies is completely useless in online, there's maybe two or three things there at most, it sucks really.

 

Hoping the new roles gives us reason to go up there, finding bounties hiding out in the mountains, finding rare treasures etc.

 

I really like the Grizzlies. But they should divide it into two separate areas, west and east. If you want to move your camp there it's alway a gamble if you need to traverse half the map just to get to it.

[ALifeOfMisery]

16 minutes ago, ShadowlessDevil said:

 Why bother bringing them, I'd just kill them on the spot 

If R* could make Dead or Alive bounties work against player targets, they can't, but in the hypothetical scenario that they could, I'd guess that some players would like to role play as an honourable Bounty Hunter, a John Ruth from The Hateful Eight type character for instance.

 

But as I said before, even if R* could make it work, targets would change session rather than being taken in alive.

[XxNinjaDemonxX]

So are we looking at tomorrow August 20th for the update ?

[XxJazzy42xX]

20 minutes ago, XxNinjaDemonxX said:

So are we looking at tomorrow August 20th for the update ?

Possibly. Don't throw all your chips on the table for it though.

[Viewbob]

i hope its tomorrow, and they are just releasing the trailer with the update because i want to wake up to an update and not a red and black feather hat

[Tasty_Pasta]

57 minutes ago, Stupidis said:

 

I really like the Grizzlies. But they should divide it into two separate areas, west and east. If you want to move your camp there it's alway a gamble if you need to traverse half the map just to get to it.

I like the Grizzlies, but getting there is a massive pain just like New Austin.  It's so far away from everything and there are so few ways in.  I tend to stay around the middle of the map just because it provides so many options.

[GEИESIS]

1 hour ago, Stupidis said:

 

I really like the Grizzlies. But they should divide it into two separate areas, west and east. If you want to move your camp there it's alway a gamble if you need to traverse half the map just to get to it.

I go up to Grizzlies just to explore and I really love the snows, other than that there is nothing to do up there. I usually never leave the Lemoyne and New Hanover unless there's dailies I need from some other state. Rhodes is the best when you want to do grind Free Roam Missions since missions are really close to each other, and you can also hunt in Lemoyne while grinding the missions.

[Stupidis]

8 hours ago, GEИESIS said:

I go up to Grizzlies just to explore and I really love the snows, other than that there is nothing to do up there. I usually never leave the Lemoyne and New Hanover unless there's dailies I need from some other state. Rhodes is the best when you want to do grind Free Roam Missions since missions are really close to each other, and you can also hunt in Lemoyne while grinding the missions.

 

Nothing to do? The Grizzlies is huge with lots of potential for hunting.

[Pocket Fox]

For role-playing and fun, Bounty Hunter.

For what is actually going to be useful, Trader.

[GEИESIS]

20 minutes ago, Stupidis said:

 

Nothing to do? The Grizzlies is huge with lots of potential for hunting.

It does have potential but for now what it is barebone. Not much going on up there except few missions. Hunting is fun and all but I don't want to waste time by going up there hunt when the closet butcher is in Strawberry or Valentine, its long way trip back. R* needs to add more stuff there since there is nothing to there other than just few missions and hunting. People aren't gonna waste time going there and hunt when they know they can make way more money around Lemoyne. 

[Pepperjack]

24 minutes ago, GEИESIS said:

It does have potential but for now what it is barebone. Not much going on up there except few missions. Hunting is fun and all but I don't want to waste time by going up there hunt when the closet butcher is in Strawberry or Valentine, its long way trip back. R* needs to add more stuff there since there is nothing to there other than just few missions and hunting. People aren't gonna waste time going there and hunt when they know they can make way more money around Lemoyne. 

You can just fast travel with animals on your horse now, not sure how much closer one would be though

[GEИESIS]

5 minutes ago, Pepperjack said:

You can just fast travel with animals on your horse now, not sure how much closer one would be though

Not worth it when servers bugs out and degrades the 3* carcass to 1* sometimes.

[ALifeOfMisery]

14 minutes ago, GEИESIS said:

Not worth it when servers bugs out and degrades the 3* carcass to 1* sometimes.

If you make your horse flee, wait until it is off the map, fast travel then whistle for your horse the pelt quality isn't affected.

[GEИESIS]

2 minutes ago, ALifeOfMisery said:

If you make your horse flee, wait until it is off the map, fast travel then whistle for your horse the pelt quality isn't affected.

Thanks, didn't know that

[ALifeOfMisery]

2 minutes ago, GEИESIS said:

Thanks, didn't know that

I don't use fast travel very often, but that method has worked for me.

[GEИESIS]

10 minutes ago, ALifeOfMisery said:

I don't use fast travel very often, but that method has worked for me.

Same, I don't use it very often since I just like to ride my horse the enjoy the scenery and appreciate just how beautiful this game looks.