CosmoKramer

Turns out you can lose your daily streak without changing your appearance (me) and change your appearance without losing your daily streak (my brother). Fun and games eh? Today’s gotcha was doing a showdown but not being credited for it.

Nope, not my isp - one time was bsod game crash, twice the game hung on trader cutscenes and I couldn’t do anything to recover control, and the others were the good old disconnected from R* servers. Was thinking after I saw one of your other posts maybe Xbox is less affected by such problems, partly due to the lower player count maybe. You were on 1gb per challenge because it was double reward for the last few weeks leading up to the update. That ended on Monday, 0.5gb Is again the maximum you can be receiving if your streak is 21+ days or so.

Yeah, luckily I had read that somewhere. But I haven’t changed my appearance. Logged a support ticket for what it’s worth.... I like the faster looting, although getting close enough to do it sometimes takes as long as the old way, but I wish they would have sped up stowing things on the horse. Press & hold button > wait a moment then character takes a Soup-Nazi-Kitchen step sideways > stow animal animation > wait while character ponders what he’s just done, staring into space for a moment.

The Last Of Us?? Yeah that was Naughty Dog, same company as Uncharted. Excellent games.

Oh great, another thing that's just me then.

I realised this the other day when I had a map at the post office that I couldn't collect as it was a duplicate. I've been holding onto treasure maps for ages because I cba to to them. Been running around doing all my maps the past couple of days - got me up to about $2800.

Those saying they got Collector free without playing GTA or collecting the playing cards - to be clear do you mean you got the bag without paying 15gb or just that Collector role was unlocked? Update - ran into Madame Collector by chance yesterday and I was able to get the bag for 0gb. The 24 hour thing is still ridiculous (especially if people were getting it free on launch day without doing anything), but sorted now at least.

Its more than 10 once you rank up enough to unlock the role based challenges I think (I'm not there yet, just on 10). Just a shame they decided to reset streak so I'm back to a measly 0.2gb per challenge.

What I'm not clear on is whether a complete carcass fills the meter more than just the skin/feathers? Given Cripps won't accept butchered meat or a skinned carcass, does he actually take anything more from an animal himself than just the skin? I'm a bit disappointed they didn't do more with the trader, its very simplistic and repetitive. I was expecting different goods to have different yields and that there would be a menu of items Cripps can produce like the camp butcher in story mode. Would have given more focus to hunting rather than the same as before - kill everything in sight and bring it to Cripps rather than the butcher and then make a delivery run for the same money regardless of what you hunted. I'm not even convinced I'm making better money than the old way, I'm just doing it the trader way to rank up so I can get the hunting wagon.

How the hell have you found enough time to play the game to reach those levels and not had multiple game crashes halting your progress??? I haven't worked out how many tokens I need to unlock all the stuff I want so have only unlocked the stew pot so far. And I have a dog.

Rockstar has always had a strong relationship with Sony, as has Naughty Dog. That's part of the reason I chose PS4 over XBone, though I have owned consoles from both Sony & Microsoft in the past. Some games are so exclusive they don't even cross platform at all!

Sorry, but level playing field talk in respect of the companion app is nanny state bullsh*t in my view - it was available to everyone, whether or not they could use it was a choice. Same as bonuses for ultimate and special editions or PS4 exclusives and early access. I have no problem that I’m missing out on ultimate edition exclusive items - it was my choice not to pay the extra money to have them.

My overriding first impression is sadly - in short, lipstick on a pig. Yeah the new roles are interesting and hell i might even enjoy them if I could play for a reasonable time without a crash or being kicked from the server. But a whole load of bugs and nuances that were fixed seem to have come back along with a host of new issues. And then there’s the taking away of features like the companion app map and resetting daily challenge streak without warning or explanation. Perhaps the only sadder thing is that I’ll keep logging on and regrinding the same old grind hoping the situation will improve.

Its not about knowing the map its about not having the inconvenience of going into the on-screen map. I really find the on-screen map a chore especially just for setting and clearing waypoints. Not sure it really worked for griefing people since the proximity update as kean_1 says but it was awesome for getting the lay of the land for NPCs at hideouts and when people were coming to attack you. It also gave you eyes in the back of your head when you were fishing. If it was proving to give an unfair advantage to griefers then I'm sure there could have been a solution other than just taking it away completely. edit: It was also a tool to combat players needlessly starting duels with each other (probably the real reason R* removed it) . When I would play in a posse with my brother (I had app, he didn't) he'd think every player dot appearing on the radar was out to grief on us but I would be able to see more clearly what they were doing on the app with the larger scale - 99 times out of 100 they were doing their own thing and had no intention of coming anywhere near us. Now it'll be shoot first, ask questions later.

Just spotted this in the release notes: "Map functionality of the RDR2 Companion App no longer works with Red Dead Online" Seriously Rockstar, WTF?? 😡😡😡

That’s really f**ked up. If I hadn’t gotten the Bounty Hunter licence free I may well have believed I could only get 1 free and bought the others. Don’t understand the need to wait 24 hours. Further on in that thread someone says dailies reset if you change your character - anyone know if this is true, and do they give any warning? Hell, why am I surprised, this is Rockstar.

At 11gb that’s wise forward thinking! I managed to do the same earlier so it was ready to go when I was able to play.

Thanks for the update. I have my doubts though that this necessarily fixes collector as it’s not mentioned specifically and the qualifying criteria was different. i might just have checked it out if my game hadn’t just crashed (again) doing a trader mission...

Anyone been able to start as collector for free having done the playing card task in GTAO? I unlocked Trader free then went to collector but it wanted the 15gb. So I was thinking maybe you can only unlock 1 role for free but then went to Rhodes for Bounty Hunter and got my licence free. So collector seems bugged? I had the game confirm I’d done the GTA task last week when the splash screen was coming up for today’s update. Seems like the revolver problem all over again. 😡

I just jumped straight in with the trader role from the online menu - it started me out in St Denis. Post Office was highlighted in gold so I went there, read the letter and went over to the general store and met up with Cripps.

Rank 129. Gold 340. Cash $1500. Only been logging on to do dailies for last couple of months so gold has been building well but haven't been stockpiling the cash. Last night I had a server all to myself so grinded about $500 in 1 session. Cash level is a bit irrelevant as I still have ability cards to upgrade and clothing to buy for the achievement etc.

I dunno, I’ve read a lot of stuff on here recently from people wanting ultra-realism in red dead. Agree with you about the real reasons for R* adding multiple wagons tho, $$$.

I was talking from a video game perspective, not reality. If the blood stains can wash themselves out of my clothes and off my horse’s back then a cart should be able to clean itself up well enough.

Yep, TLDR Didn’t expect they’d be 2 types of wagon so once I read the first line I thought that was it for wagons. Not entirely sure why different wagons are needed...

Another slight concern about trader being what we all hoped for - it talks specifically about it being a ‘delivery’ wagon. Will this mean it won’t be something we can use for hunting? IIRC the delivery vehicles in GTA weren’t available to you except when making a delivery. How much effort is required to collect the cards in GTAO to save the 15 GB for the Collector role? Not that gold is currently a problem but I’ll be getting the other roles started for free so it’d be nice to have a full house...