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You're mostly wasting your time trying to report players. Especially ones that are AFKing in races.... I mean, you're basically trying report someone whos not doing anything. Also what does targeting mean? You can't report people for attacking you or being a di*k. That's just part of the game.

Dead Eye isn't a crutch. Its a core game play mechanic. But relying on it too much can seem like a crutch. I mean, I can hold my ground fairly well without tonics or dead eye. But, with Tonics and Dead eye become a beast. So if two players of equal skills fight each other, the player using Tonics and Dead Eye will eat that other player alive. As far as riding and shooting goes.. If you're using free aim. Stop your horse and then shoot OR use Paint it Black and paint your target. Also... Paint It Black isn't just for target painting targets. It can also be used to quickly tighten your aim when shooting if you press fast in between shots. Not sure if you know this. But when you aim, theres a circle around your aim dot. That circle represents where the bullet may hit. The tighter the circle the more accurate your shot. Using Paint It Black as quickly possible by tapping it on and off in between each shot makes that aimer circle 100% accurate. ^That is basically the fastest and most accurate way to shoot in both Auto Aim and Free aim. So basically. 1.) Aim. 2.) Turn on PIB the moment your aimer is at a target. (Don't turn it on early, literally right at the target) 3.) Shoot. 4.) Turn in off. Do all of that in under a second^. Hell, try it while shooting at trees until you get the rhythm down. It should be an instant thing. Don't leave PIB on. Just bing! BANG!

PVP in this game is basically down to a few things. Ability card load out and knowledge of how cards work. (also checking to see what the player you're fighting against is using for ability cards) Being able to access healing items really fast like food and tonics. Understanding how auto aim works. Use of the environment. And being good with free aim. Best thing you can do is join PVP game modes and engage as many players as possible. The more you fight players... well. When you encounter them in free roam it will much more easier.

Sure it could work. Hell, most of what you said sounds like fun. But auto aim in this game ruins everything.... So anything PVP related, as long as auto aim still infects Red Dead Online, there's np point adding it.

The pvp is this game is an after thought. They have put zero focus or effort in PVP. Its just sort of there... As far as fashion goes. IMO R* has already went waaaay over board with it. Theres to much. Also the pink and bright colors. Females, in the wild west did not all wear white. Theres plenty of images online of wild west females. The wear a lot of black.

They have been turning their backs on their actual player base for 'new players' for a while now. Even more so the last 3 months. Funny enough, at this point. Players who started playing 3 months ago are probable are probably starting to feel like us. "What? rank 10?" Rank 10 takes a few hours of play time. You're basically rank 5-6 by the time you finish the RD O start/tutorial.

This is amazing. Good Job R*. Can't wait to reach rank 10...

I was a day one GTA O player.. I played GTA O for over 5 years. Was part of a racing crew with some of the fastest racers in GTA O. So I know how R* works. Only reason I quit playing is because GTA O became too cluttered with too many absurd OP vehicles and weapons. For me, the best time for GTA O was before the next gen version and heists where released. No animals in RD O would be like no vehicles in GTA O. And R* leaving it in that state for over half a year. On top of that. GTA O has all the basic feature that RD O doesn't, yet should have. Which if it did have, id still be playing RD O.

Even tho the game has assisted aim. Its not a hard lock snap on like R* games uses. So it really doesn't bother me much at all. Honestly, if R* got rid of the snappy hard lock on and just kept the aim assist, id be cool with it.

Me too. Friend of mine kept preaching about SWBF2, I just laughed it off. But.... Saw it on sale. Grabbed it. Got instantly hooked. Having so much fun. Plus the new update today is great.

*tin foil hat on. R* is not in a hurry to fix their game. Because all us day one players made tons of money and gold. So they have turned to new players. Gave them slight discounts. Kept the game half ass playable with barely any animals. Broke newbs + Gold Bars 4 Sale = Profit. Could be wrong tho… But that does sound like a Take Two type of move.

Except this feels like a slap in the face to people who actually play the game and paid for items in game at full price. Seems to me this more a move by R* to keep player numbers up to appease their investors, as most of us day one players are basically giving up on the game in its current state. Game breaking issues are not something that should be 'kicked on down the line' till the next update. Minor issues, sure... I mean, what happens after next 'big update'.. And it gets worse? Do we wait till the end of summer for another fix? Also their twitter hasn't really change. People are still blasting R* on twitter. I should know, im one of them...lol 50% ? More like 5%. Glad your happy with what R* is doing tho. To each their own I guess.

Le Sigh. Le Moan. Did they already give up on trying to fix the game? These constant discounts seem aimed more toward new/oblivious players to log in to maintain the illusion of a good player count to appease share holders. That can only go on for so long. Burning a candle at both ends type of thing.

Well the thing is this game works perfectly with limited amount of players in the lobbies. Simple solution for the time being is doing just that. And Private lobbies.. and more lobby types would also help players pick and choose. Splitting the player base up as it should be based on play preference. I mean, R* needs to make a choice. Whats more important? Packed lobbies with randoms, that they HOPE will be hostile towards other players in hopes of hindering players earning, so they buy "GOLD". OR a functional, fun game. Honestly, I don't even blame R* anymore. IMO the people running this sh*t now is Take Two. Its only a matter of time now till Take Two fully controls R* anyways.

Probably because they themselves don't even know it if will work or not....lol Here's a link.. https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/360042861654/RDR2-Title-Update-1-17-Notes-PS4-Xbox-One

...3 gig update that is supposed to fix animals fixes nothing....lol They might as well add the beta tag back to this game. This game actually worked better during the beta. Since the update. I had 3 loading screens get stuck while joining free roam. And 3 games I joined had ZERO gators in the swamps. At this point, R* should not allow players with strict or moderate nat settings, slow internet speeds and wifi users from joining free roam. This game relies heavily on good internet with open nat settings for this game to function properly. OR actually add dedicated servers...

Buying their games isn't the issue. Its spending money in their online mode is whats doing it. I think this chart kind of shows what I mean. I terms of their releases anyways.

Benchmarks.. Like only releasing 2 games in 10 years. And milking GTA O for all its worth. GTA O is a mess. Really wish players would stop playing the damn thing. Flying bikes, flying cars, rocket strikes from space. Its become a parody of itself in a strange way. That success of GTA O has basically made R* turn its back on supporting single player in both GTA and Red Dead. Hell, its made R* stop releasing games.

25 Bolas ain't no Joke. But R* needs to stop with these updates that cater to new players only. Would have been better to have 2x payouts on bounties for the week instead.

Ahh srry.. My bad. Im stil half a sleep. Long shift at work dude. Might as well delete this topic then.

I thought I was dreaming when I read this comment from R* on their twitter page. But... still. This makes want to head butt a wall. NO R*. Theres no animals.. PERIOD! When in in lobbies with high amount of players. Its got nothing to do with "LOW" animal counts. I love how they respond to someone who basically has no idea whats going on. When most of us know full well whats going on and have been telling R* for months. Well, on the bright side.. R* finally seems to have woken up and started working on a fix. Hopefully they add it soon, instead of waiting till their next update in spring or summer.

If it was up to me id put this right on the main Red Dead Online section. Sticky'd to the top. Since this is not really an issue that can be fixed by players, theres really no point on it being in trouble shooting. This is more along the lines of players finally coming together and trying to get R* to do something. I think the more people see this petition.. The more people will sign it. The more noise it will make. Its currently up to 13000+ sigs. Its up to you dude. Since you're the man.

No problem with the merge. But I don't think this should be in the off topic section. This is about as on topic as RD O is at the current moment. And I would like to ask you to please sticky this in the main RD O section. Everyone should get on this.

I have no problems dealing with the games issues.. if theres a problem, and it might take a while to fix. R* can simply come out and say it. Also, If this game has this many issues and needs a lot of time to fix, then give players private lobbies. But they say and do nothing. For months now.. Instead R* is coming out and giving broke/new players discounts and free sh*t while patting themselves on the back for how many players have logged in. That I think was the boiling point. This petition is gathering up speed. Hopefully, game jounos and popular youtubers pick it up.

Maybe it will, maybe it won't. But Take Two loves to suck the toes of their investors. Its why they consider daily/weekly/monthly log ins by players a 'good thing'.. At the same time, take two (And R*) down play all the issues of the game. To basically keep their investors invested. Take Two puts investors 1st and players last. So a petition like this could make some noise. Which is really the only point of it. If investors start seeing this, they will start pushing back too.