James Hickok_1837

I wouldn't say that the hacker fixed anything. When the problems began with RDR O after the Naturlist patch there were some weird shiet going on in game. There are a lot of reports about an "NPC" that was behaving like a real player running along maps and servers shooting ppl. He couldnt be killed bcoz of god mode. After that ppl started to report a woman NPC doing same thing on servers. https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/mysterious-bald-npc-becomes-a-symbol-of-failed-red-dead-online-up/zf2238 Im not 100% sure if hacking is the case but it could be. R* is unable to fix the players in lobby problem for weeks now and it seems to me that they do it on purpouse to get the game running while they trying to "catch" the hacker. Extortion might be involved.

I actually had a 10 ppl lobby yesterday but the more time i played numbers started to decrease to 2 ppl..... The game works how it should have been from the start but there are no players to interact with and that is a major bummer for me. Im 100% sure that its not because of lower player count. They are having major problems with the game since the naturalist update and havent been able to fix it. Personally i think that they got hacked.

I agree that the game works better hands down. It should work that way with full lobby but somehow R* can't deliver. ATM we are about 3 months before next gen consoles are out and maybe, i repeat, maybe after remaking of RDR2 (im almost sure they will release "Remastered for XBOX X series") the game will work better. Similar to GTA transition for next gen consoles. Time will tell.

Making money in this game is very, very easy. As stated above on the beggining of the game players may become overwhelmed by the vastness of stuff to buy for Gold Bars and rdo$. The trick is not to fall for that. So yes, you need only two sets of outfits for weather conditions. First of focus on exping health,stamina,dead eye bars by fishing, hunting using bow, running etc. It will help you win confrontations with other players if that happens. 2nd Get a decent horse and better weapon. Then choose ability cards to exp and hunt hunt hunt - sell the goods to GUS. Do daily challenges to build the gold bar multiplier and keep the streak going even if you dont want to play - just log in for a min and do one daily. After you accumulate some more money develop the trader role. You can always collect items for madame nazar using the internet map or in game maps. Sell full collections not single items. You will have money in no time. I personally dont spend gold bars for outfits im fine with what i have since beta. I keep my gold bars for property update and other DLC's to come. If you want the details just ask.

The fastest way IMO is a cycle of 3 activities. You start with the trader and top cripps up. It's supereasy now bcoz there are tons and tons of animals. After the naturalist role bird feathers material value was increased and to me its the fastest way to gather the materials for Cripps. You can literally circle around Armadillo and shoot eagles, hawks, vultures and condors and gather their feathers. Mostly you will get 2-3 feathers out of them but they stack up nicely in your inventory. Also in Saint Denis and Van Horn/Annesburg along the coast shoot pelican heards. Dont shoot spoonbils and herons for feathers bcoz they give only one feather each time. Dont bother with cougar spawns and active hunting other than birds. Instead during the making of theese cycles when you spot a herd of big game aim and look if there is a 3 star one amongst them - dont shoot 1 and 2 star animals and dont bother skinning them as well bcoz it takes too much time and not worth it. If there is a 3 star amongst them clean kill it and summon hunting wagon - load up - unsummon and carry on with the cycle. You will have a full wagon of 3 * game in no time. When you do the delivery mission (always do it dont buy the materials) set cripps up for production of 25 goods and go moonshine and do this (ive posted it today in another post) : The most efficient way to do the moonshiner role is : 1. Do a story mission - choose the 3rd one on the boat. This mission is easy, takes about 12 to 15 mins and gives about 1,5k xp 2. Do a moonshiner mission and get back to moonshine shack. This action will reduce the mash cost to 10 RDO$ and deliver 2k xp. 3. Set up the moonshine - i only choose special moonshine when there is a daily mission for it. IMO its not worth to sacrifice a colectible for 20 rdo$ more on the shine. Its better to keep the colectible and deliver the sets to Madame Nazar. If you want to make the best mash everytime tho - choose the one with carribean rum - its the most common to find. 4. When delivering the mash use auto drive as u mentioned but controll the speed especially on bridge enterance or exit. For me slow trot works the best. Keep in mind that the wagon also auto drives when you press and hold aim. This way you can drive and shoot the agents without problems. After you set up the moonshine if cripps still didnt finish the first 25 materials go collect collectibles using the online map for it. The best way is to check which collections take the least pieces to collect then find them on internet map and set ur own markers on the game map (you can make up to 13 i think) and start collecting. When you will get the pop up that cripps needs more materials go to him , take the mission again and top him up a bit with the stuff you have if needed. After that if the moonshine is still not ready go back to collecting. Eventually the moonshine will finish so drop wht ur doing and deliver the shine repeating the refill process i described. After that go back to collecting or if needed go back to cripps. So basically you run the trader and mmonshine role the way i described it and in the meantime do the collecting. This is the fastest way to legitimately exp in the game IMO. I started doing this some time ago and it works great. Im lvl 414 atm and play for about 3-4 hours a day leveling one level each day (its 21800 xp atm) and atm i have about 14 full sets of collectibles for madame nazar to sell bcoz i didnt sell them since a few days and they keep stacking.

The most efficient way to do the moonshiner role is : 1. Do a story mission - choose the 3rd one on the boat. This mission is easy, takes about 12 to 15 mins and gives about 1,5k xp 2. Do a moonshiner mission and get back to moonshine shack. This action will reduce the mash cost to 10 RDO$ and deliver 2k xp. 3. Set up the moonshine - i only choose special moonshine when there is a daily mission for it. IMO its not worth to sacrifice a colectible for 20 rdo$ more on the shine. Its better to keep the colectible and deliver the sets to Madame Nazar. If you want to make the best mash everytime tho - choose the one with carribean rum - its the most common to find. 4. When delivering the mash use auto drive as u mentioned but controll the speed especially on bridge enterance or exit. For me slow trot works the best. Keep in mind that the wagon also auto drives when you press and hold aim. This way you can drive and shoot the agents without problems. After you deliver without breaking you get about 937 xp for the delivery of 2* shine. 5. Repeat the process. Overall moneywise its close to Trader but exp wise better than trader.

Hah ! The problem began a week ago (im on XBOX) and i was amazed that there was no posts about it on the forum. Yes sessions are almost "solo lobby". Sometimes 10 ppl, sometimes 5 ppl and mostly 1-3 ppl. Seems like the community likes it this way bcoz i havent heard the whining. I wanted to make a post about that but i was away from work and enjoying myself. Besides i dont like to post stuff using phone. Personally i dont like it. Sure there are a lot of events now and i managed to kill 7 or more legendary animals but there are no players to interact with. It may be cool for a few hours but no longer. I dont have any words left to describe the incompetence of R* regarding RDR Online. Its a total mess from the start without any logic and vision of a good online game. I wonder how they even made the Story Mode - its like somebody else created the game and gave it for them to run. PLEASE FIX UR SHIET R* !!!!!!!!

So true. I dont get ppl that skip the story mode which in my opinion is a masterpiece and jump on Online then after beeing killed or DC'ed out of a mission label the game BAD. I myself was waiting for the game to finally come out and bought my first console ever (i was a PC guy) just to play this game. I started with Story mode and after completing it went on to online. Sure online has it's flaws but it doesnt change the fact that RDR 2 is and will be one of the best games ever made.

Seems that R* is working on some new updates for us. I knew ill make those gold bars worth it someday ! I have almost 1500 GB's at the moment so yeah im buying the best property out there when it launches.

There is no white arabian horse in online that you can tame. Its only in story mode. Didnt know about the sale tho. Maybe they will add it when they decide (if they decide) to introduce the horse breeder role.

now that is an XP booster but i did the new event y-day (well a afk'ed it bcoz i dont like taking pictures) and didnt recieve 5000 xp .... maybe its in the rewards options. BIG PLUS FOR THE HARDCORE PVP SERIES !!!!!! EDIT: Okay i made 4 open world events yesterday - 2 of them i afked, one of them i was 2nd and last one i was the winner. So i made every possible way of finishing those events and didnt recieve the rewards 100 rdo $ and 5000 character xp. Either they just not here or they are only for low level characters. WTF R*?

I have two fastest horses in game (forgot the name) which i named TESLA and TESLA S and one of them (TESLA) pisses me off so much that i wish i could blast his head with a shotgun. The animation of horses in RDR 2 is the best i have seen so far in any game. I played Assasins creed odyssey for a couple of days and horses there behave like they are made from wood - i actually stopped playing the game bcoz of that lol.

Despite i decided to ignore the naturalist role i came across and killed some of the animals just by playing in free roam public sessions. Never play solo sessions bcoz of lack of other players so i dont know about them Yesterday i came across Tatanka Bison near my camp in heartlands ( i didnt see the icon but i heard the screams of the animal so i went after the sound and after a few steps the yellow question mark appeared) and got a legendary puma skin from the event : protect animal which i won. Since the update i came across: Teca gator, boar, 2 x bison (one in the north where the snow is and he had 4 adds) and fox - maybe not many but i aint looking for them anyway.

I played yesterday for about 4 hours and had only one problem - camp didnt want to spawn i the location i wanted it to be but i just chose another loacation and it spawned and after that i set it up again in my desired location and it did spawn. This happened only once. Other than that no problems at all. No DC's, no freeze, changing servers works fine , starting at camp works as well, missions, pvp, roles everything good. Like never before. So yes i was happy with the patch and made 18 k exp yesterday with 402 level yeah !

Thx Kean as always 👍 And Herta - i started a new Story Mode Game to ease time waiting for the fixes. Also if You want to relax a bit i Reccomend - The Long Night Game on X box. Its a very realistic survival game. You can get it free on Game Pass if you have it. EDIT Got back from work just now and turned x box on. Started to download 3,24 gb patch on RDR. Hopes up! EDIT 2 30 mins in game and everything seems to work fine. Just when i logged in in my camp i was 3 rd in the lobby but affer some minutes the lobby is 24, alot ofanimals, seems good so far! The game even remembered my moonshin from 2 days ago is ready to go and didnt reset it. So far so good!

Same here buddy ! I only like to play RDRO at the moment - have loads of other games but just cant force myself to play them. I miss the wild west. I wonder how come they havent fixed the problem yet or made any ETA's on this. This should be done allready.

I was starting to think that RDRO and R* is under attack by hackers. I mean when they updated the game most of the things worked and when they patched it with the "stability improvement" the game was playable. It started the next day and seems to get worse. NPC's are immortal if they even spawn, horses are crazy they dont want to spawn or dissapear when spawned, no way to enter the moonshine shack, no pvp games total mess. They should just get back to previous game build and in the meantime work on the current one. Finally landing updates without checking them on some kind of beta servers is sooooo unprofessional. I didnt know about the private lobby working tho.

Logged in just now. No fix. Nothing works. Took me 10 mins to summon my horse to Feed him 5 Times for the Daily streak and Logged out. What a mess....

Give this man a beer 😀 IT even messes with cripps resupply mission with the wolves and broken wagon bcoz you no longer can load the wolves to squezze more points out of that mission. And many others. Reloading server means you lost the kills. EDIT : At The moment nothing works. No pvp latches, no moonshine, no story only server with max 5 PPL and no say to shoot another.and im not Talking about loss of auto Aim. Lol rckstr... Hackers?

Only dual Mausers and Only works with PiB but is lethal. Not Only 10 shots each, firing speedbut reloads in a sec. With 10 new bullets. Cant beat that with a revolver.

On the 2nd day after the update (wed) i logged in and came across another player nearby. I always monitor the players movement when that happens to prevent from ganking. When the player dot starts to move in my direction i instantly drop what im doing , pop a strong tonic and pull out my dual mausers ready to go. When he was a couple of meters from me i strted to aim at him and was amazed that i cant get a lock on. It was in the forest and there was a lot of small bushes around so i couldnt see him. After he got out of the bush i still couldnt aim at him so i started to run back still facing him. He had a cougar on his shoulder and was running towards me with lethal intentions. I managed to throw 2 sticks of dynamite before his feet and kill him with it without blasting myslef but it was close. I dont think that this is the free aim glitch but i suspected that somehow having the cougar on his back prevented me to aim at him. He had offensive mode active ofc. Weird.

Never seen some1 with your level. I know that 1000 is the cap but never saw some1 over 700. Back on topic. Maybe you have been banned? Ask the support.

Those weapons are amazing. I would so love to own some of them and im not talking about the vintage ones - a reproduction would be okay. Unfortunatelly its very hard to get a weapons permit in my country and its out of the question. We are not allowed to have guns which is stupid imo. Every citizen has a right to protect himself and his family when the time comes - I think the swiss model is a good choice. But back to springfield. I have to say that its my No.1 weapon atm. I changed it from bolt action and i was sceptic at first (mostly pvp wise) but i mastered it and its a great powerfull weapon. The thing i like the most is the lowest deadeye cost of all weapons. The diference is huge. When you unload 5 shots from bolt action using dead eye you are almost out of it. Five shots from springfield and you barely even started to use it. Its a huge huge thing. And the sound......

Same thing here but not that often. I got it maybe 4, 5 times an yes switching servers works. Then again im having problems switching servers after this update with never ending loading screen and i have to close game and start it up again.

Yeah the new role can be done in days which is very sad..... About the trinkets - yes they do work. The thing is what they did with saddles - they nerfed them for this update. I felt that day one after the update when i realised my Horse started to loose stamina while long range runs - it never happened before with the nachodoches saddle. So the "big brains" in R* made the nachodoches saddle so great that there was no room to upgrade it . What they did ? As i said they nerfed it - but after you get the trinket that lowers the drains and upps the recharge everything goes back to normal. Another thing with the horses - they (by mistake imo) implemented the need to wash your horse in water from time to time and horses overall get dirty so fast that you need to constantly brush them and wash in water in order for the stupid red icon stop to flash. This is story mode mechanic. Similar thing they did with weapons deteriorating - they damage way way faster than before and with the trinket you can feel the change but still they damage more than they used to before the update. I think they messed something with the leather cover for the weapons - system is not seeing them as active imo. At least they reduced the animal spawn rate in the weekend - there are less animals than on tuesday but still too many imo. And they managed to fix the favorite weapon/fast draw so it doesnt change every time you change session or enter pvp or co -op.