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For me, it's all about the co-op. .....playing with friends and experiencing the game together. There are story missions, side missions and all the various activities you can do.

Never knew that about that movie but then again, I had my first White Russian long before it ever released.

I currently have $2000 and about 20 GBs. I just don;t have anything to spend the money on right now (that I want) except ammunition, hay, etc. I'm not complaining though as I see this as being an advantage when (or if) properties are ever implemented, businesses, etc.

Me too. I guess I need to start collecting so I can see how much mine are. RDO is kinda funny in that I never found it really hard to buy what I needed in the game. I don't mean cosmetic things but weapons, ability cards and such that really make a difference. I would grind for the money and by the time I leveled up, I was able to buy that gun, etc. that I needed. RDO is much easier in that respect than GTAO IMO. At lvl 71, there isn't much else for me to strive for in this game to be honest. I got pretty much everything I need except for maybe explosive rounds.

I usually pick up on this stuff since I'm getting feeds but I've been sick the past few days so haven't really been paying attention. Yeah, as @The_Liquor mentioned, there really is no advantage since it's not cross platform. Even so, I never really found big payouts in treasure maps. In fact, I still have 4 that I need to go collect. I usually just wait till I have a few and then make a session of it then it seems more worth my while.

Thanks for posting this Moosh. I'll add it to the stickied list of news and updates. I shortened the title a bit (hope you don't mind).

I'm going to move this to the RDR2 General forum as it's not exactly an introduction and seems to be more about advice. ....btw, there are a lot of us here that are over the half century mark so you're not alone.

A few years ago I might have been interested but to be honest, I only ever play the campaign in these types of game and the "on rails" action just doesn't appeal to me these days. I prefer open or semi-open game worlds. I can't stand their twitch-like multiplayer where it's more about people running and gunning rather than tactics. For my "realistic", tactical, PVP and co-op shooter fix, I'm waiting for Insurgency Sandstorm also releasing this year. I loved GRW and how they went back to being more modern than "advanced" or "future". I didn't like Ghost Wars because of the way they abandoned what made the core gameplay of GRW so good. Instead, they followed the typical playbook of other popular shooters and included classes, higher TTK, special abilities, various markers, tech, etc. ....and the drones / radar marking was over the top IMO / IME. They were also too stubborn to include a hardcore mode in PvP forcing everyone into a "one size fits all" Quick Match. .....and the Custom Match was a half hearted attempt to appease their HC fanbase as it didn't even include public lobbies until more than a year later when everyone left. Even then, it still was poorly executed. The campaign / co-op was relatively untouched though which was just fine in my book as that was the best part of the game. Fast forward to GRB's announcement and we see that not only have they integrated the campaign/ co-op into PvP but also all of the elements of it including classes and other RPG components. ....and they not only included more drones and tech but they doubled down on it. The TTK also seems to have increased as you are now fighting machines and heavily armored, mini gun wielding targets, etc. GR is seemingly moving toward a Division-like game. They seemed to have listened to some of the feedback to include a few requested mechanics / items but then totally ignored the rest. The mood on GRB forum is a far cry from the general excitement and enthusiasm I remember in the GRW forum when that game was under development. I'll cross my fingers that GRB isn't as bad as I think it is. Hopefully we'll learn more during E3. .....but Ubi may have just killed off another franchise for me.

I'll agree that R* is most certainly a business. .....a publicly traded one at that. I know some folks hate MTXs but the GaaS model is where it's at and one thing is for certain........ R* has one of the most successful examples of it in the industry. ....and that kind of success isn't realized without the customer base to back it up so they must be doing something right. Personally, I don't have a problem with it in GTAO or RDO up to this point.

I didn't realize they had sashes. Is that part of another clothing item (e.g. pants) or something sold by itself? ....and if so, what category is it under? Thanks.

I went ahead and deleted the last post from this thread. I think @DylBandit would agree that the topic is being blown way out of proportion by some and we certainly don't need this to steer into a political argument or politically aimed insults as that was never the intention. There was nothing in the creation of this thread meant to insult American Indians / Native Americans. .....quite the opposite actually.

Here's the link: I'm going to go ahead and close this thread to avoid two discussions on the same topic occurring. .....so I won't have to merge them later.

For this website? It isn't for me. It's just as fast for me as any other.

I'm not saying it won't change. .....but since they implemented the GB system and have been introducing "exclusive" GB-only items, it hasn't been that way. I prefer to judge things like these on the here and now rather than speculation of an MTX strategy counter to what they have shared and what we know now. If they do go down that path of locking a lot more things behind GBs especially ones that affect gameplay, etc., then my opinion might change. I don't either. I guess you missed the part of my post where I mentioned just how much time I spent in GTAO and just what I've been able to amass without my fingers falling off. Sure, there is a grind but that's no different than a lot of games like this. The difference is whether or not the activities in the game that allow you to collect the things you need (e.g. in-game cash, loot, XP, etc.) is entertaining enough to keep people playing. I've already got 1/3 the time in RDO than I do in GTAO over the course of 4+ years. .....I even walked away from RDO for a while. To be honest, it's really not that hard to collect money or gold for that matter especailly wit hthe freebies they've been giving out and the increase in gold nugget payouts. I also took advantage of the 1GB per lvl last week as I leveled up from 65(?) tpo 70 dduring that time. There are a lot of others who have put much more time into this game than I ever will. There are a whole lot of things you're not factoring into the mix here including expenses to cover a company consisting of over 2000 employees..... Associated costs of properties, employee benefits, payroll, taxes, marketing, customer support, contractors, legal, etc., etc. Sure they made a profit on GTAO and RDR2 but without ways to continue to make revenue on a game, support for it will not continue. A game can be successful upon release but it needs to continue to bring in revenue to support it and all the overhead associated with that. .....and still maintain a profit. The only reason games like GTAO (and hopefully RDO) continue many years after release is because they are still profitable.

I understand what you're saying. This is one of things where I think it sounds better in theory than in practice. .....but when it works, it works. IMO/IME, I find that either people refuse to communicate or they do something that forces me to have to mute them (e.g. eating, background noise, play music, bad quality comms, shout expletives/racial slurs/insults, etc.). A lot of times I simply find most randoms that use the mic really annoying. I will say however, that there are moments when it all comes together and you have a really good experience with it. .....but those moments are too few and far between to warrant the use of it most times for me. Hell, even it games where it really should be a "must have" (e.g. small, squad based tactical shooters), I still run into the same issues and most will revert to party chat with just their friends. ......the rest of the squad are on their own.

.....folks are simply sharing their own ideas/feedback on the topic FreeBird. Kinda what these forums are all about, eh?

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Like @Parzival said and in fact, that's spot on. The RDR2 locations even roughly coincide with general regions in the U.S. The deserts of the the SW, the Rockies in the NW, the Great Plains, Appalachians in the E/NE, the swamps of the South and various stuff in between. As for Annesburg, it could represent a real town or any one if the many coal mining towns found in the Appalachian region. You can tell that the placement of locations in RDR2 coincide with regions found in those same areas. .... N, S, E, W and everything in between.

Hi Kiara and welcome to the forums. I'm going to go ahead and move this to the main online forum as the recruitment forum is really just for those trying to find others to play the game with. If no one else has advice as to how to fix your problem, I would do as @DNMNetTech said and contact R* Support to see if they can help. https://support.rockstargames.com/categories/115001624507?redirect_lang=en_us&_ga=2.252956873.1333748777.1559670190-13204521.1559670190

Have to go with Vader on that one. I only use party chat. The sound quality is better in my group and 99% of the time I don't really care what a random has to say to me.

No worries. Just wanted to make sure I didn't come off as being annoyed by the bump or anything like that.

HI Ham and welcome to the forums.

Hardly what I would consider a fix because frankly, it isn't. ......but glad you found your own solution through the purchase of a different console. ...and welcome to the forums by the way.

I generally don't like PvP in an arcadish game like this but yeah, I also found this frustrating because of the 1 or 2 specific events/modes I did find somewhat entertaining, I have to be forced to play all the others I don't.