RDO Speculation & General Chat (Part II)

[Moonshine Wagon Fan]

There was folk hurling dynamite outside my moonshine shack last night.  I could here it exploding inside the shack.

[JohnMcLoviin]

On 3/25/2025 at 7:40 PM, Moonshine Wagon Fan said:

There was folk hurling dynamite outside my moonshine shack last night.  I could here it exploding inside the shack.

Is Marcel oK?  

[Moonshine Wagon Fan]

1 hour ago, JohnMcLoviin said:

Is Marcel oK?  

 

He is 

 

He was working working very hard for me over the last two days.  He can relax today and eat croissants filled with garlic butter and jellied eel baguettes.

[Moonshine Wagon Fan]

I played King Of The Castle for the first time with Lemoyne Outlaw tonight.  It was intense!

[solitudinarian]

Pretty decent month overall. I didnt play until this weekend due to things, but managed to grind shine wagon sales, and no aggro'd rev agents lol.

 

Anyyyyyway, god I wish they could just give us a teeny QoL soon. I want more stable slots and minigames. Christ.

 

Hope next month will be a good one too. 

[Moonshine Wagon Fan]

7 hours ago, solitudinarian said:

Pretty decent month overall. I didnt play until this weekend due to things, but managed to grind shine wagon sales, and no aggro'd rev agents lol.

 

Anyyyyyway, god I wish they could just give us a teeny QoL soon. I want more stable slots and minigames. Christ.

 

Hope next month will be a good one too. 

 

I always get nervous stopping for the revenue folk.  My  rate goes 

[solitudinarian]

5 hours ago, Moonshine Wagon Fan said:

 

I always get nervous stopping for the revenue folk.  My  rate goes 

lmao same! i've found that at certain times its actually easier to just stop, let them check and maybe aggro and then just leave them. my shack is next to emerald station, and if going to butcher creek/van horn, in the event of them aggroing, i just high tail it as much as i can without breaking bottles. the sharp corner/junction really helps

[Lemoyne outlaw]

I've been watching old videos of red dead online from when it was still new. and it brings me so much nostalgia. then when i go to the locations in game where the videos took place I'm filled with sadness. these places brought us so much fun and great memories. i went to valentine recently in online. and it was a ghost town. no players at all. it felt kind of weird and eerie. usually there's folks on that main strip of town. people standing on the roofs or fighting cops or chilling at the saloons. and it was a full lobby too. it's just sad to see that. come to think of it i don't see many players in towns anymore. i guess people spend more time in the wilderness now. I've also noticed less and less english speakers too. i like to try and make friends on there. but 9 times out of 10 when i message someone i meet. they don't speak english. are Americans giving up on the game now? I've noticed the same in gta online lately as well. 

 

i also just want to thank each and every one of you in the red dead fanbase. you are what make this game great. (aside from griefers and cheaters of course.) whether I've played with you or not. thanks for being a part of this great community and video game series. rockstar might have given up. but those of us that love this game will never stop playing. and i look forward to the day that we can all play the next game in the red dead series together. 

[solitudinarian]

14 minutes ago, Lemoyne outlaw said:

I've been watching old videos of red dead online from when it was still new. and it brings me so much nostalgia. then when i go to the locations in game where the videos took place I'm filled with sadness. these places brought us so much fun and great memories. i went to valentine recently in online. and it was a ghost town. no players at all. it felt kind of weird and eerie. usually there's folks on that main strip of town. people standing on the roofs or fighting cops or chilling at the saloons. and it was a full lobby too. it's just sad to see that. come to think of it i don't see many players in towns anymore. i guess people spend more time in the wilderness now. I've also noticed less and less english speakers too. i like to try and make friends on there. but 9 times out of 10 when i message someone i meet. they don't speak english. are Americans giving up on the game now? I've noticed the same in gta online lately as well. 

 

i also just want to thank each and every one of you in the red dead fanbase. you are what make this game great. (aside from griefers and cheaters of course.) whether I've played with you or not. thanks for being a part of this great community and video game series. rockstar might have given up. but those of us that love this game will never stop playing. and i look forward to the day that we can all play the next game in the red dead series together. 

Yeah I almost never visit towns in an open lobby anymore, unless I can see/hear its empty (no scared npcs, no cops, yelling etc). I'm lucky that most lobbies I end up in are quite calm and friendly, but there's always a chance... and I get so annoyed having to lobby switch cause of some moron. 

 

I've been playing in MTU solo session during moonshine month, and while it's so so peaceful and quiet (apart from all the nag events constantly spawning in, lol), it really feels so ....lonely? In a way? Like. Dont get me wrong, I love the solitairy feeling of just me and the horse in the wilderness, just days on end alone in nature. It feels amazing. 

 

But coming down to a town again, and there is nothing to do.....just NPCs idle and nothing more.

You cant invite an NPC to dance at a saloon. You cant play games with them (poker doesnt count ..lol). I'm talking mini games, like dominos, checkers, card games, whatever. You can just stand or if you're lucky, sit and stare. 

 

You go to your camp after a week in the wilderness and its only Cripps there (and a dog maybe)... He greets you, and that's that. No one to chill with at the fire place. No one to play an instrument with, a game, some dancing, singing. 

 

You go to the moonshine shack, and Marcel and Maggie greets you, sure. But they only ever talk business, if anything. There's no hot meal, no nothing.

 

The pianist is probably the most sociable one. She always sounds happy to see you. So you play an instrument, or dance. But you dance alone. You cant partner up with an NPC to swing you around. There are yet again no mini games or nothing to unwind with. It just feels so, void. Ya know? I love it still, but like, there is no feeling of socialness between player and the (npc) world. When I finally come back after days in the wilderness, I kinda want to socialize, right? 

 

In story mode, I can easily waste a whole night with the minigames. The NPCs and the world feels more alive in that way. You sit for hours at Blackjack and the other players come and go. The feeling of the domino players ushering you to join them as you walk by. 

[Gettin up]

Is there snow today in RDO like past april's? If so I might just re-install.

[Moonshine Wagon Fan]

I was looking at some pictures I took and here is myself and Lemoyne Outlaw in Valentine with the wagon we took on a trip behind us.

 

 

Me on the left and Lemoyne on the right.

[Lemoyne outlaw]

3 hours ago, Moonshine Wagon Fan said:

I was looking at some pictures I took and here is myself and Lemoyne Outlaw in Valentine with the wagon we took on a trip behind us.

 

 

Me on the left and Lemoyne on the right.

yea that was a lot of fun.

[Moonshine Wagon Fan]

It would have been great if you could have produced whiskey in the game and delivered it in a whiskey wagon.  It would be the bestest wagon in the game.

[Lemoyne outlaw]

after watching a lot of red dead online pvp videos lately. I've realized that emerald ranch and the surrounding area is the equivalent of the vespucci beach from gta online. both areas seem to be popular pvp battlefields. and they are both good for sniping. it makes me wonder what will be the popular locations for pvp in gta 6.

[propanecocaine71]

Was playing earlier in the day and had a full poker table, was very fun.

[Moonshine Wagon Fan]

We must play poker soon, Propane.  Wagons, whiskey and poker.

[Lemoyne outlaw]

7 hours ago, Moonshine Wagon Fan said:

We must play poker soon, Propane.  Wagons, whiskey and poker.

yes that would be great.

[Moonshine Wagon Fan]

4 hours ago, Lemoyne outlaw said:

yes that would be great.

 

Maybe myself, you and Propane can team up at the weekend.

[propanecocaine71]

35 minutes ago, Moonshine Wagon Fan said:

 

Maybe myself, you and Propane can team up at the weekend.

I'm off work on Sundays so that would be the best time. 

[Moonshine Wagon Fan]

6 minutes ago, propanecocaine71 said:

I'm off work on Sundays so that would be the best time. 

 

Cool.  I will contact you and Lemoyne about it on PSN.