Basic functionality wishlist thread

[zPhoenix]

I see a DLC wishlist thread, but one for basic functionality.    This would be it.

 

For best chances that the devs would find it desirable I recommend following these basic rules:

 

- Keep the suggestion simple and clear.  Preferably things that are small and easy to implement.

 

- Do not turn this into a complaints thread.  Avoid complaining.  Just present what you suggest and why.

 

 

 

My initial item for the wishlist:

 

- Display a progress bar visible on screen at all time for timeouts/progress, for the duration of the action, and sticky messages that are visible until handled.  Multiple progress bars/messages would be possible.  Optional to implement - let the user state in the settings which bars they want to see (as long as they are active).

Examples:  

(1) Moonshine progress bar.  If it is onscreen you can do things and don't need to return to the shack to find out when the moonshine batch will be ready.  

(2) Moonshine mission timeout bar.  Lets you know how much longer until you can do another mission.

(3) Naturalist upset timeout bar.  Simple enough, how much longer until Harriet will pay attention to you.

(4) Trader "need resupply run", "run out of materials", "full delivery ready"

 

[GtaHitmanStrikesBack]

Actually being able to load into online past this 50% loading crap. 

[ninkanooob]

A storage for throwable items

[Krommer]

Saving the selections of items, meat, etc. on the item wheel from sessions and when loading into/out of solo sessions/missions.

 

Sometimes into, then again out of, I have to go and switch to potent health, potent stamina and potent snake oil. Then I have to switch

from whatever food it is on to Minty Big Game. It happens when going into showdowns/whatever sometimes too, then again sometimes

when LEAVING such things.

 

It remembers that I have bolt rifle, bow and a pistol and revolver at the top (as well as the ammo, between sessions) in the weapons but not the items.

If it can do it with weapons, it should be a simple thing to do it with items.

 

This has been my #1 "utility quality of life" request since Online began.

 

Agreed on the Moonshine/Trader Delivery progress indicators as well (toggle to shut off too, if someone doesn't like.)

[Danish Crusader]

-Being able to use the old controls.

-Able to store melee weapons, old lasso etc. Basicly being able to store every single item on the weapon wheel if you wanted.

-Be able to remove saddles from horses to make them inactive.

-Able to favorite food/drink to make them appear on the front of the list so you don't have to flip through 97 items to get to the item you want.

-Hat to appear on minimap like it does in Story mode.

 

That's my list and I am sticking to it

[FRIDA_KAHLO]

A clothes vault locker to stash unused clothes unclutter the wardrobe too. Or even to simply discard clothes. ..My dressing room looks like the store I'd like to hide a bunch of it!

Edited July 26, 2021 by FRIDA_KAHLO

[zPhoenix]

Save your pelts and carcasses when you exit the game, timeout or change session.  If the hunting cart can do it... the horse should do it too.

[zPhoenix]

A way to keep played interested in long term play, by enabling a daily challenge streak to continue indefinitely without reset *if* the player spends enough time playing each day.

 

WHY: Most players I know already quit out of boredom.  These same players had stuck around for a very long time when the streak was unlimited, so the concept is already proven.  Obviously the old method of extending the streak by doing a single challenge was easily abused.  So, continue the single daily challenge for the first 21 days, but to avoid the reset after day 21 require a second factor... playing for an hour that day, for example.

[Krommer]

On 7/25/2021 at 11:55 AM, zPhoenix said:

Save your pelts and carcasses when you exit the game, timeout or change session.  If the hunting cart can do it... the horse should do it too.

 

Yes!

Also save them when fast traveling. I found out that if I put carcasses/big pelts on my horse and THEN change my outfit, before I fast travel, then the carcasses and pelts are "saved" and don't disappear after the fast travel (so far out of many times, since trying this.) I'd not try it with a legendary pelt/carcass, but it seems to work. So that shows it is possible to do it automatically, instead of my having to do the outfit step.

Edited July 26, 2021 by Krommer

[CosmicBuffalo]

I wish they would add the ability to lock weapon wheel for the items that you want.  They should add a list of all stranger missions that you can run.  They should fix known bugs when a certain number of players report the bug.  It shoule be impossible for a player to remove another player from defensive.  Running into a player with horse should be completedly removed as way to kick a player out of defensive.  If a player attacks another player, they should not be able to enter defensive for an hour.  There should be mutiple load out for ability cards which can be toggled quickly.  PiB should be free aim.  PiB should have bloom.  The dynamite bow should be free aim and no PiB.

Edited July 26, 2021 by CosmicBuffalo

[GtaHitmanStrikesBack]

i really wish they would remove a lot of the unnecessary animations or at least speed them up. Doing simple actions such as looting, hogite, picking up bounties from the floor just becomes a huge pain after a while and sometimes you have to be standing on that one exact spot just for it to work. It's not even immersive and at times immersion breaking because it reminds you that you are playing a game when it slows the game down. Also remove the ridiculous dialogue anytime you do a trader or moonshine sale. Hearing the same droning dialogue when ever you start a sale mission just becomes very irritating and tedious. And dont even get me started on the amount of times you try to equip a gun and you end up choosing the wrong weapon or the lasso because the menu is so buggy. 

[zPhoenix]

On 7/27/2021 at 7:25 AM, GtaHitmanStrikesBack said:

i really wish they would remove a lot of the unnecessary animations or at least speed them up. Doing simple actions such as looting, hogite, picking up bounties from the floor just becomes a huge pain after a while and sometimes you have to be standing on that one exact spot just for it to work. It's not even immersive and at times immersion breaking because it reminds you that you are playing a game when it slows the game down. Also remove the ridiculous dialogue anytime you do a trader or moonshine sale. Hearing the same droning dialogue when ever you start a sale mission just becomes very irritating and tedious. And dont even get me started on the amount of times you try to equip a gun and you end up choosing the wrong weapon or the lasso because the menu is so buggy. 

Have to agree.   There should be a simple button option during each animation that you can press to stop getting that animation in the future.   A lot of games have it and it makes those games more immersive, might as well grow up into modern game design.

[Krommer]

On 7/27/2021 at 7:25 AM, GtaHitmanStrikesBack said:

Doing simple actions such as looting, hogite, picking up bounties from the floor just becomes a huge pain after a while and sometimes you have to be standing on that one exact spot just for it to work.

 

And skinning, but at least with that you can have the horse stand right next to the carcass and skin it fast; problem is if it kind of steps on it the quality might decrease =/ I also throw them at the horse/Hunting Wagon, so they are right next to it and also get the fast animation.

 

Picking up the bounty is VERY irritating, after hogtie, because most of the time it doesn't pickup the FIRST time I do "X" to pick up (on Xbox One.) This is while people might be approaching to shoot me too, so that is irritating. I'm always yelling at the screen, "NO, PICK IT UP DANGIT!"

 

The more I play RDO, starting in the beta for Online, the more it is VERY obvious that the developers don't play THEIR OWN game; all such very irritating things

would be the first things to be fixed.

 

The funny thing is they actually sped up looting a lot, from what it used to be a LOOOONGGG time ago.

Edited July 30, 2021 by Krommer

[FRIDA_KAHLO]

Ability to check the target condition through the scope

 

It's a little bit jarring and silly putting the Rolling Block away to get a worse look at the thing with another gun for a minute. You know? 

 

 

Edited July 31, 2021 by FRIDA_KAHLO

[awanderers1877]

Store my f*cking regular lasso in my locker 

[zPhoenix]

After 100 hours of gameplay... eliminate all cool down timers. 

 

By that point nobody needs gold or RDO$ anymore, so the cooldown timers become pointless as incentive to make pople buy gold with USD$

Edited July 31, 2021 by zPhoenix

[zPhoenix]

Just thought of a good one.  

 

If a crew (as setup in Rockstar's Social Club) has at least 500 members (or some other number chosen by R*), automatically create a lobby for that crew and place them in it instead of other lobbies... except when they take a step to intentionally play with others like when you choose a PvP action. 

 

This should ensure that R* keeps its servers as full as it wants, but allows different styles of crews to operate "their" lobby according to their own rules, and be able to kick from the crew those that don't abide by the crew's rules.

 

Among other things this would end up protecting large crews from hackers and griefers, give freedom to crews to choose how to operate... some crews allowing full assaults on teammates and other crews defining it as unacceptable.  This would promote "crews", and eventually R* could even come up with crew vs crew PvP and PvE competitions/events that various crews can sign up into, creating a long-term exciting set of activities for those that already "did everything" in the game.

[AltiMetro]

Let us cook 3 tonics at a time

Let us choose if all cooking animations should be as fast as the very first one when we start cooking a batch. 

Give us 3 - 5 ability card loadout slots we can swap back and forth to. Put a cooldown timer in between swaps, 1-2 minutes. 

 

[zPhoenix]

To avoid the server hits from selling items to a vendor without resorting to annoying tricks like sale delays... Allow us to choose how many of an item to sell (or how many to keep), or at least add a button to sell down to half the max storage of the item.

 

Better yet, remember the "sell down to / keep only these many" number we choose last and make it the default for the next time.

 

No rocket science, just common sense and easy to implement.

[FRIDA_KAHLO]

Take their weapons when you loot an armed bounty! (Or, have a "Disarm" choice similar as loot).

[Enchilada]

I always thought about this one. Even collect guns and turn them in for cash at a fence or gunsmith. 
 

my suggestion would be instead of discarding items, you can drop them for anyone to pick up.

[Krommer]

On 8/2/2021 at 6:42 AM, zPhoenix said:

To avoid the server hits from selling items to a vendor without resorting to annoying tricks like sale delays... Allow us to choose how many of an item to sell (or how many to keep), or at least add a button to sell down to half the max storage of the item.

 

 

I asked for/suggested that on the game's suggestion page, as soon as the Online beta came out.

Even a "sell half" would help A LOT, especially for the awards like "Sell at Butcher" and "Sell herbs at Doctor."

 

Currently I just do it until it starts doing that hanging "Processing" thing. Why would they make the game so it worked

like that anyway? It seems so backwards. I was actually buying the pork/prime rib and venison from the catalog in desperation,

just to sell the whole stack to the butcher out of desperation so I did not get caught in "processing."

 

 

On 8/2/2021 at 4:44 AM, AltiMetro said:

Let us cook 3 tonics at a time

 

GOD YES, was thinking this again yesterday while I was going to make some tonics instead of just buying 40 of them in the catalogue

again. It makes NO SENSE the way they do it, since the $ you spend is not "monetized" at all like gold barely is. Also, the animation is

PAINFULLY LONG, that is the worst part; I can make tracking/small animal killing arrows all day pending how much space I have for them

as well as materials, since they have a very fast animation (also, you can just hold down the button to make those, at least on Xbox One.)

They did it for "cook 3 food", which I mainly use for Big Game Meat Minty/Oregano/Thyme, so they could do it for tonics.

 

Again, simple things like that show they don't play their own game; if they actively played, these are the FIRST THINGS that would be targetted

to change.

Edited August 3, 2021 by Krommer

[AltiMetro]

2 hours ago, Krommer said:

 

 

 

Again, simple things like that show they don't play their own game; if they actively played, these are the FIRST THINGS that would be targetted

to change.

I had similar thoughts when the only QoL / functionality upgrade they released with Blood Money is: we can choose which Stranger Mission to play. Nothing else. 
Do they not think there's stuff to improve on? Do they just not have enough people working on content? Do they not care? Are they focussed on other things?  I'd really like to know. 

In any case... I've noticed when changing the qty. of cooked meats to 3, the quantity of raw materials for other things we craft also changes to 3. Tonics, for example. 
When we craft a tonic after cooking 3 meats at a time, the resources that are subtracted from our inventory are correct though. It's just a visual glitch / error. 
Or maybe they have everything programmed, but just haven't pushed the buttom to unlock "Efficient Tonic crafting"

On 8/2/2021 at 1:42 PM, zPhoenix said:

To avoid the server hits from selling items to a vendor without resorting to annoying tricks like sale delays... Allow us to choose how many of an item to sell (or how many to keep), or at least add a button to sell down to half the max storage of the item.

 

Better yet, remember the "sell down to / keep only these many" number we choose last and make it the default for the next time.

 

No rocket science, just common sense and easy to implement.

Fully support your idea. 
I've lost out on $ because I want to keep a small quantity of meats in my satchel at all times, for making stews for the daily. 3 to 5 of each. 
Selling them individually is a pain, so often times I just have a full satchel. 

Having said all that - no one is forcing me to keep all those meats. It's a choice I make. 

[FRIDA_KAHLO]

Switch vehicle/horse lanterns on and off, (with the "O" headlight key described in the key mappings?). Instead of them being always on when it's dark.

 - sometimes it makes for worse visibility

 - sometimes we do not want to be lit up

 

 

Edited August 17, 2021 by FRIDA_KAHLO

[RyuNova]

Being able to check my business levels at train stations.
Being able to send letters/messengers telling my business what to do even if they charge us per letter.

Being able to sell items to shops.

Seriously, who the f*ck thought it was a good idea to disable this from SP? I am not going to get rich by selling crap I loot for one or two dollars per item. I might make a hundred dollars if I clear out my entire inventory that's been clogged up since day one, but it would take me ages to loot another hundred dollars worth of stuff.

 

Being able to create and sell tonics to the Doctor.

 

I drop serious cash on pamphlets and I can't sell what I make? No business paywalls, just let me buy the pamphlets and then sell what I make for a few dollars per bottle.

[FRIDA_KAHLO]

Take a coat on and off similar to a hat or other accessories!

[aaronBLUEeyes]

On 7/25/2021 at 4:53 AM, Danish Crusader said:

Hat to appear on minimap like it does in Story mode.

 

When RDO was released I think it used to be like that in Beta mode.

[aaronBLUEeyes]

For me here are some little things I’d like added to RDO:

• More opportunities to use Lock Breaker: lock boxes with more valuable loot that are actually locked, and be able to break into locked businesses or buildings to steal items — like the single player side-businesses that could be robbed
• Be able to start Fires with matches, cigarettes or cigars
• Be able to drink water for sustenance and wash at water sources to clean-up blood stains/soiled clothing and smell that NPCs comment on
• Be able to access Bath Houses like Single Player
• Increase Private poker buy-ins to $25 and Public poker buy-ins to $100
• Add Blackjack online at the tables used in Single Player
• Add Dominoes, Five Finger Fillet and Liar’s Dice as Camp Activities at the table
• Add more farm livestock to farms, McFarlen’s Ranch is always empty — there’s never any livestock
• Add ALL Rare Weapons from Single Player: like Broken Pirate Sword & Calloway’s Revolver for instance
• Bring Back Animations to light fuses of Molotov Cocktails & Dynamite
• Be able to fish from boats like Single Player
• Apply Legendary Fish to Online
• Make Hunting Wagon be able to hold 10 Large Fish rather than 5, they’re no where near the size of a medium or large land animal
• Add Bullets to Gunbelts, why are they all empty?
• Access Riverboat Casino & Prison Island
• Be able to rob registers and product off store shelves
• More severe penalties for wearing wrong clothing in hot/cold areas of the map
• Be able to kill the KKK Online
• Make Cinema’s and Vaudeville acts an activity Online

[Caffeination]

Is it too much to ask for specific camping spots? In Rockstar’s mind, probably, since it’s not a simple fix to a frustrating mechanic.

[Jammsbro]

Clean all guns option. Either in the menu or whenever I rest at a camp my character will simply cycle to clean all guns.

 

Auto craft. Set all the items you want to craft at camp and press the button. Then your character crafts everything. A timer is set so that if you cancel those items aren't crafted.

 

Rockstar seems to think that online and SP are the same thing and the few dozen times you craft in SP won't be boring after the 500th time doing the same old sh*t online.