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No pitchforks from me...just frustration and a need to vent. 🙂 R* has been good about responding to my tickets. This morning I received the following reponse. Here it is (obviously English is not his first language😞 Felipe G. 5617 Answers • 100% Helpful Hello! My name is Felipe. I’m a Rockstar Expert and a Rockstar gamer like you. I’ll be happy to help you out today. =] First, thank you very much for the contact. Many players have reported this problem, me too. Rockstar Games already been informed about the problem are investigating and working to resolve this issue. Sorry for the problem, thanks for your patience and understanding. Games in beta can happen these problems. Thank you so much for your time reporting this issue. You're doing a great job and helping the game get better. February 26th we will have a great new big update with news and fixes. I hope it will be fixed as soon as possible. Best regards, Felipe G. Rockstar Games Expert Felipe G. 5617 Answers • 100% Helpful We Experts are gamer like you, and we have been unable to play, because of that too. We have already submitted your report and of several other players to the Rockstar. It will be fixed soon, it was a big problem on the server. I apologize for the problem. Now it only depends on the repair team to finish the repairs soon.

Bought a new router to see if I could eliminate the disconnect issue...that seems to have worked! Yea! However, now within 10 minutes of spawning my game freezes with a buzzing sound followed by a crash to the Xbox home screen. One issue replaced with another one. New ticket submitted to R*. I still have no horse, no animals, no NPCs...and now the crashes to go along with it all. I think I'll discontinue my testing services to R* until they either give me something for my lost time or they put out a fix that resolves all of my issues. Becoming a grand waste of my time to even launch this game.

Been playing Xbox since 2003. So yeah...Xbox!

Regularly throughout the day.

More info on what's to come next week: https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/60855/Red-Dead-Online-Beta-Update-Arrives-Next-Week In addition to what was previously noted, new games, new guns, new clothing and emotes.

Welcome to the jungle! The no-animal jungle, that is! Lots of us experiencing the same issue for the last couple of days. Submit a ticket to R*...another voice to be heard! 🙂

Let's try to look at this from a different perspective. The game did not come with a guide on how to play it...and I'm glad for that. I'm sure there are a lot of people who hop on and think everyone they meet is a foe. That this game is a shooter. I bet you the term 'griefer', or even the concept, would be pretty foreign to them. For many (not all), I would think they'd regard what the OP has described as simply playing the game...trying to get better...giving it the old college try...never giving up. They don't really get it yet...especially being a lower level. Not everyone has gone on the internet in hopes of learning how to be a better RDO member. Obviously, there are many who also grief for sport. Those are usually much higher levels, though.

The way I see it, we're testing that element, too. We're not forced to buy anything we don't want. Nobody is forced to contribute hundreds of free hours to test this game. We do it because we want to. Any of you can simply decline and wait for the finished product. This is a beta because it's not ready for prime time...and we all know that.

While I'm not happy, I do fully realize that this is a beta. One does not have to partake in it...it's not mandatory. We are all testing this game for them. For the most part, I'm not happy because I really want to play! I have seen how much fun this game is and realize it's potential to be even better. Now, once we're out of beta...then my expectations on R* will have risen.

Glad this worked for you. Doesn't for me. Most times, I can't get my horse. When I do, I'm either disconnected or get stuck in the stable like you noted. No animals or NPC's either. I've submitted a ticket to R* as this game has been mostly unplayable since Feb 18 for me. Up until then, everything was running very smoothly. 😞

The last story mission I played was the one at Fort Mercer. There were 4 of us in the mission. We completed eliminating the enemy in the fort and then just hung around the fort for the next 25 minutes. One of the guys explained that when the mission starts, he sets a timer for 29 minutes. As a result, I received almost $70 and 1196 XP! Holy smokes, have I ever been playing these missions wrong!

If he's on Xbox, he should report them for harassment through the Xbox Live service. No one deserves to be harassed. That's not part of the game.

I'm in the middle of creating a ticket right now. I've had this problem since yesterday. It is so bad that it is basically unplayable for me right now. In free roam mode, very frequent disconnects and no NPCs or animals in the environment. I can play any of the PvP modes (showdown series, PvP, etc) without any errors.

The whole point of this game is to become a more powerful player. You earn xp to rank up in order to have access to more powerful weapons and abilities. You earn money in order to purchase and upgrade more powerful weapons and abilities. The hunting, the fishing , the herb picking, the completion of challenges ALL support you becoming a more powerful player. Is the purpose of this game to simply exist in this world and everyone goes about their own peaceful ways hunting and fishing and herb picking? What a boring game if that's the case. No, this game is a predator-prey game. If you're not hunting, you're being hunted. You're in this world to survive and not just simply exist in a nice little village. Surviving means taking out other players when you deem necessary. Perhaps they pose a threat to YOU, or maybe they're killing all the birds that YOU want to kill, or maybe they're trying finish a mission but YOU need the money in order to become stronger (or not weaker), etc. YOU must dominate in this game if YOU don't want to be dominated. Anyone who feels they should have veto powers on being killed may want to reconsider playing online. Heck, almost every mission in the story mode involved some kind of kill-or-be-killed idea!!! What kind of game did you think this was? What is YOUR purpose for earning xp and money? And just to be clear, I fully support the implementation of anti-griefing measures. However, I think many players griping about griefing are simply those that have been killed by someone else in the game. Words matter. "Griefing" is different than losing some pelts because some player shot you for reasons unbeknownst to you. Griefing is the repeated harassment of other players and that should be taken care of. However, just because you didn't want to be killed does not mean that you fell victim to a griefer. Maybe playing online was not such a good idea for those that think otherwise.

Choose your friends wisely. 🙂

I've had that issue happen to me a couple of times over the last two weeks. Lucky for me, I was searching for treasure one of the times in Lagras and didn't have to worry about the gators. 🙂 A simple change of servers usually straightens things out. Just make sure you sell anything on your horse first. Last night, I kept getting disconnected repeatedly. Enough that it made the game unplayable...and I never have this issue. Perhaps they're readying the servers for the update and it's causing weird issues to surface.

I hope the varmint rifle stays good and accurate for hunting....but I won't be one bit sad if it sucks in PvP. IMO, It is too OP and should not be able to compete with other rifles. I've used it to defend myself in free roam and was astonished at how I could easily take down someone from so far away. It made me feel like I was a superstar....but I really wasn't.

Rainbows are overrated. Now double and triple rainbows are the shiznit!!!

Once I completed the story, all I wanted was more story DLC. I was sad to think all efforts would be spent on the online mode. Now that I've been playing online, I no longer desire ANY story DLC. I'd be fine with none at all and just leave the game as it ended. I want lots and lots of online DLC and improvements now! 🙂

Just to add, I generally will not fire the first shot. But, I do have an itchy finger and a mistrust of anyone close to me! 🙂

I don't have a problem with getting killed this way. Part of the game. The way I see it, if I ride into someone else's territory or they ride into mine...everything is fair game. You have to be radar aware in this game. In my opinion, what you've described above is not griefiing. A griefer kills the first time and then continues to hunt you down over and over again regardless of your desire to engage.

Yes, I found this to be disappointing. I thought a little more could have been done.

I'll check it out!

Damn! PS4? Love this idea and wish it were on Xbox! Cheers to my fellow Canucks.

Thanks for that info, Foxtrot!