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......looks like you miss TLOU2 as well then. TLOU was one of the few "on rail" story games I didn't mind. ...along with the Uncharted series. I may pass on the 2nd iteration though.

Most of these services now including Netflix, Amazon Prime, Google Play Music, etc. allow you to download the music / movies so you don't have to use any data. With Google, it's also a way to get around the 1 subscriber limitation that only allows one person to stream at a time which is fine by me. My wife and I have several playlists we have created and then downloaded on our own devices. It's like Siruis XM except that I have chosen the music I prefer vs. just the genre. So I have 80s, jazz, more modern music, kids music (for my son), etc. ....and my wife has her stuff too. The cool thing is that you can choose the quality of the downloads and even at the highest setting, it doesn't take hardly any room. Sounds great and I have hundreds of songs at my fingertips. I have XM in my car but after the initial free subscription and then a killer deal the year after, I never touched it again. I guess they allow you to stream to from devices now but again, they choose the music while you're just choose the type which doesn't appeal to me.

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I don't see it that way but yeah, ok. I'm not getting the advantages of using it anymore either and I'm going to miss it. I'll probably even submit feedback to R* about it. ....maybe even suggest the minimap is included on the screen when fishing as I think that makes people excessively vulnerable during that task.

Well, don't torture yourself. Maybe it's time to explore another game for a while. A lot of these updates have had bug issues but luckily, they've also had hotfixes to help sort out some of them. I had two crashes last night too. If this becomes a trend, I may shelve the game again until they are addressed. ....after reporting them of course. The loss of the map on the app wasa bummer but with the changes they have made over the months, some of its usefulness was already stripped away. I'm not big on fishing but that's a good point as the app really helped given the minimap disappears during this activity. I know there were a lot of folks out there who either didn't use the app or couldn't because their device was not compatible. I'm ok with everyone being on a level playing field in this case as no advantage is given to anyone in this respect. Well, here's hoping they get the bugs / crashes addressed sooner rather than later and as always, I encourage folks to report any problems and feedback they have to R*. The more people who complain about an issue, the better our chances are of seeing it fixed. https://www.rockstargames.com/reddeadonline/feedback?redirect_lang=en_us

Good to know about the defensive mode and longer delivery destinations. I'm also curious to put those wagons into practice to see how they change things up. I'm guessing you can execute more bounties out in the field with the bounty wagon before you head back in.

Alive will definitely pay out more. The Springfield was definitely changed and mentioned in the patch notes. So were other weapons in relation to distance I believe and how they are fired (e.g. from the hip, through a scope, etc.) . Yeah I noticed that too. Nice change.

The ability to change your character’s appearance without resetting progress You access it by going to the online menu (left d-pad IIRC) and it should be under online options (change appearance).

As far as the trader, the difference between the long and short deliver locations is the risk vs. payout. You get more for delivering to more distant drop-offs but you risk more by exposing yourself longer. This is similar to how some of the businesses work in GTA like the garages where you stole and then delivered cars. You had similar choices when delivering.

I have bought all of my games as digital copies for the last few years. I rarely get any in physical form. I'm comfortable with that though. I also don't buy music and prefer a service. ....which is Google Play Music at this point. We use it in the cars, at home and everywhere in between. I used to use it in the office back before I retired. To me, it's not unlike Netflix.

Yeah, it doesn't lock you into the roles but simply opens up new opportunities and activities unique to those roles so you have more that you can do. Once I get all 3 going for myself, I can certainly see bouncing between them when I want to grind out money, get in a little action, explore, etc. I'm guessing then I will begin to see the random events from all 3 as I travel around.

I stopped playing the Breakpoint beta on Saturday. There were just too many things that irked me about the direction(s) they took this game. Haven't heard from my friend yet but he'll likely follow my lead on this one given how we tend to like the same things in games. I'll be playing the MW beta this weekend though.

We didn't get a lot of time with the new mechanics and to be honest, a good bit was spent on trying to get used to the controls again. However, I dig the new roles so far and can see this adding more activities to keep me busy. We hooked up with the trader and collector roles and bounty will be next. .....the latter seems like it might be the most exciting of the 3 but I can still see plenty of value in the other 2. I like some of the changes to the animations except for the reloads. I thought those needed to be slowed down, not sped up. Still getting used to the damage adjustments as we weren't really in any firefights except a quick one (random event on the side of the road). Hope to delve in a little deeper tonight.

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I could get over the cocking animations but reloading is beyond ridiculous and always has been. I didn't see a need to speed that up and actually would have preferred to see it slowed down.

It was essentially gone once the proximity blips came into play. The app map only provided a little bit more detail for those just outside of the radar but you can still see them on the edge of your radar. The only real advantage was being able to look at the map and plot routes while on the move. .....which does give the player using it a bit of an advantage in that respect.

Yeah. I was bummed about that too. It lost part of it's usefulness when the proximity blips became a thing but was still really handy to plot paths and such. I dunno..... Maybe they thought it was an unfair advantage to those who used it and wanted to level the playing field.

I'm going to go ahead and shut this thread down for obvious reasons.

I'm semi retired and home most of the time so I just checked back every once in a while until it was done. It was a slow download perhaps in part due to the traffic?

Yeah.... I haven't even tried it out myself yet. I'll be logging on later tonight. I just turned on the system earlier today just to make sure the update was downloading.

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This may not even have anything to do with your issue but I figured I would update you just the same from my earlier post regarding R*'s Tweet: Rockstar Support @RockstarSupport · 2m Replying to @RockstarSupport All eligible accounts can now claim the Bounty Hunter License free in Red Dead Online. Thank you for your continued patience.

FYI............ The latest from R* on Twitter: Rockstar Support @RockstarSupport · 2m Replying to @RockstarSupport All eligible accounts can now claim the Bounty Hunter License free in Red Dead Online. Thank you for your continued patience.