New update first impressions.

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19 hours ago, CosmoKramer said:

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.

Hmm I havent had any connection issues are you sure it isnt on your end or on your isp maybe? I am not hearing a lot of people saying they are being disconnected.

Either way Im sorry to hear it that stinks man.

7 hours ago, CosmoKramer said:

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.

Yeah I agree, I was getting 1 gold bar per daily challenge I did, now I am back to .5 so that sucks, but with more to do its fine, I will get it back.

I was at day 88 or 89 I think.

5 hours ago, HuDawg said:

New content is fun.   Love playing the BH missions and hunting.

 

R* speeding up the gun mechanics/player movement up, nerfing head shots, buffing body shots is a huge step backwards.   Especially with auto aim and PIB, the game is now beyond easy.    

 

Ruining Slippery Bastard is complete bullsh*t, especially while they leave PIB untouched.

 

And adding one silly free aim pvp game is kind of a slap in the face for people who want free aim for everything.  R* tossing a crumb on the floor? 

I didnt know they nerfed Slippery, what exactly did they do ?

I stopped using it months ago so meh, I really dont care, but I am curious what changed.

4 hours ago, Vaderspupil said:

My streak didn't get reset. I'm still pulling in .5 gold per challenge.

Well, I was getting 1 gold bar per challenge up until Tuesday, now I am getting .5 and it does show I am still on like day 88 or 89 consecutive days but the payout went down.

It wont take too long to build it back up though so no worries, and now with more challenges available it will add up fast, I already made back over 35 gold bars since Tuesday.

[CosmoKramer]

1 hour ago, HuDawg said:

My streak got reset after using change appearance.    So watch out using it.

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. 

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4 hours ago, Vaderspupil said:

Has anyone else noticed trains are now running in New Austin. I was down there collecting a bounty for the role daily challenges as well as searching for collectors items when when a train came and stopped at Macfarland's Ranch. Prior to than I had never seen a train in New Austin.

So excited when I saw that!! yay trains in New Austin again, lovi'n it!!

1 hour ago, HuDawg said:

My streak got reset after using change appearance.    So watch out using it.

Hmm, I reset my characters appearance, my daily consecutive streak still shows I am on day 88 or 89 that hasnt reset, although the payout is .5 now where it was 1 gold bar, so I am not quite sure why.

1 hour ago, Madrigalian said:

I do not like most of the sped up settings now in the game.  I like the faster weapon reloads, mounting horses, and looting I guess.  What I don't like is the much faster walking, running, riding, moving, aiming, etc.  It seems like they just went to a master switch of some kind and said "double speed on everything".   Someone said it above, and I heard someone else say it yesterday too. The game feels a lot more Arcade-ish.  What attracted me to RDO2 in the first place was the more immersive nature of just interacting with the world and "feeling" like you're out on the range, living the life of an outlaw.  You know, Roleplaying.  It feels like, (and I know, we're only 3 days in) but it feels like the game is more closely related to Mario Cart now, than to an immersive MMORPG.  At least in terms of mechanics. 

I suppose I will get used to it.  But I don't much like it. (To me HuDawg, this seems like a PVP focused speed play, more than anything)

As for the rest, I'm a big fan.  The new roles and encounters and all of that are so much fun!

Where are the other Dog breeds?!?!?  I want an Aussie!

    

Well, I think trying to balance the story mode mechanics with pvp was a challenge as in story mode time slows down and in game obviously it does not, so they had to do something to balance it a little, I havent played any pvp yet, not even sure that I will, I wasnt a big fan of it anyway, after they nerfed Never without one, I never played again.

1 hour ago, MrPicard said:

I'm really enjoying the update. I've chosen the Trader role and OMG it's perfect. It lets me remain in Defensive Mode and when I sell something I don't have an entire bunch of griefers after me like it happens on GTA. This is what I wanted, EXACTLY. I've also tried some bounties and a few collectors missions but they're just not for me, I'll stick with Cribbs, my camp dog and FINALLY, a weapons locker. I was so happy when I could just put all those unused guns in there - no more endless scrolling through weapons!

I'm also glad that looting is now faster AND that it actually comes up with decent results, unlike before.

Nice!! Im glad to hear such a positive review, thats great.

I havent seen hardly any trolls in the past 6 weeks, I did see one Tuesday but other than that one guy it hasnt been an issue.

Matter of fact I keep my headphones half plugged in in case I see a player in range, I am able to plug in quick and say hello, I have gotten a ton of positive comments and met a bunch of friendly people, I helped a kid the other day for about an hour, this morning I met a guy just in passing, etc. I do not miss all the trolls.

It is nice they fixed the remember your mode settings, so now if you were in passive mode when you left, you re spawn next time still in passive mode and I do like that.

I had created a group specifically to hunt trolls and griefers and then suddenly never saw another, lol.

I think now that EVERYONE can find stuff to do there arent as many bored angry players out there, even the noobs arent going around looking for cheap thrills it seems like 99% of people I meet are into their roles and work.

[Vaderspupil]

7 minutes ago, lumper said:

Hmm I havent had any connection issues are you sure it isnt on your end or on your isp maybe? I am not hearing a lot of people saying they are being disconnected.

Either way Im sorry to hear it that stinks man.

Yeah I agree, I was getting 1 gold bar per daily challenge I did, now I am back to .5 so that sucks, but with more to do its fine, I will get it back.

I was at day 88 or 89 I think.

I didnt know they nerfed Slippery, what exactly did they do ?

I stopped using it months ago so meh, I really dont care, but I am curious what changed.

Well, I was getting 1 gold bar per challenge up until Tuesday, now I am getting .5 and it does show I am still on like day 88 or 89 consecutive days but the payout went down.

It wont take too long to build it back up though so no worries, and now with more challenges available it will add up fast, I already made back over 35 gold bars since Tuesday.

The double gold bonus we were getting on daily challenges was supposed to end on Sept 2nd but it ended up going a week longer and ended when the update dropped.

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3 minutes ago, Vaderspupil said:

The double gold bonus we were getting on daily challenges was supposed to end on Sept 2nd but it ended up going a week longer and ended when the update dropped.

I see, ok, well they didnt reset the  counter, I am still on day 88 or 89 and counting, I wonder if I can build it back up or is that over now, we are just going to get the same payout for gold no matter how many consecutive days?

Thanks for the info

Edited September 12, 2019 by lumper

[CosmoKramer]

5 minutes ago, lumper said:

Hmm I havent had any connection issues are you sure it isnt on your end or on your isp maybe? I am not hearing a lot of people saying they are being disconnected.

Well, I was getting 1 gold bar per challenge up until Tuesday, now I am getting .5 and it does show I am still on like day 88 or 89 consecutive days but the payout went down.

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.

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4 minutes ago, CosmoKramer said:

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.

Man, Im sorry to hear that you are having issues with disconnects and stuff that really blows man.

Hopefully they will patch it or find a cause for you.

I think you might be right about the xbox, I just never have issues or hear about others very often that do.

when I play the servers typically have 23 to I dunno 32? players, they are often nearly full it seems.

Sometimes if I spawn in to one area, fast travel to another, then do it again to a third area, etc.. sometimes, I check the list and I am in the server with 4 or 5 other players, but when I first come in, it is alwasy 23 or more.

I think there are fewer xbox players but there are still millions. 

 

Also I noticed they added free aim pvp servers, hopefully they will add solo servers or invite only servers or free aim free roam servers too and that will break it up a little, I am thinking maybe they need to get the regular player base numbers up first otherwise with so many options you might find near empty servers and the way they designed the game I think they envisioned full servers with everyone working on stuff, some peole trying to prevent them from working on stuff and everything in beetween.

I dont miss the trolls or players who do play to stop missions, I mean it is part of the game and all I just dont miss that part much, lol.

Edited September 12, 2019 by lumper

[Vaderspupil]

23 minutes ago, lumper said:

 

I didnt know they nerfed Slippery, what exactly did they do ?

I stopped using it months ago so meh, I really dont care, but I am curious what changed.

They changed it so that you can now auto aim and lock onto someone using slippery bastard. They just reduced the accuracy of the shot. The same effect applies to the person in slippery bastard mode.

Edited September 12, 2019 by Vaderspupil

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9 minutes ago, Vaderspupil said:

They changed it so that you can now auto aim and lock onto someone using slippery bastard. They just reduced the accuracy of the shot. The same effect applies to the person in slippery bastard mode.

LOL, well whats the point then?

I guess being slippery meant hard to hit, and before it was nearly impossible to hit a moving target with slippery on, so I think making it hard but doable is a good change, especially if the slippery guy can also now somewhat lock on.

Again, I never use it, it was only useful for a few things, running those games like capture the flag type games or avoiding being trolled in some cases and of course others used it for trolling people.
I liked it sometimes to avoid new players that were trying to grief me from being able too, there is a guy Mossy SParks I think who made a serious of videos about griefing griefers and that was his whole method, go into slippery, and run straight at them, then at the last second taking it off and shooting them.

there is another guy who uses it to avoid being locked on and he plays essentially free aim and 99% of the time hip fires, he does really well, people accuse him of cheating and stuff but he just got used to shooting while in slippery and people hate that, lol.

Anyway I am not sure how I feel about it, like I Said I dont use it, I never really got trolled from people trying to use it and when I did I used dyna arrows so for me, it isnt an issue.

usually with Rockstar, after some backlash things get tweaked so we will see what happens.

heck, Im still pissed they changed never without one, lol I paid 950$ for that card and 25k xp so once they made it so it doesnt even work, I just gave up and stopped playing pvp.

Edited September 12, 2019 by lumper

[Vaderspupil]

4 minutes ago, lumper said:

LOL, well whats the point then?

I guess being slippery meant hard to hit, and before it was nearly impossible to hit a moving target with slippery on, so I think making it hard but doable is a good change, especially if the slippery guy can also now somewhat lock on.

Again, I never use it, it was only useful for a few things, running those games like capture the flag type games or avoiding being trolled in some cases and of course others used it for trolling people.
I liked it sometimes to avoid new players that were trying to grief me from being able too, there is a guy Mossy SParks I think who made a serious of videos about griefing griefers and that was his whole method, go into slippery, and run straight at them, then at the last second taking it off and shooting them.

there is another guy who uses it to avoid being locked on and he plays essentially free aim and 99% of the time hip fires, hee does really well, peole accuse him of cheating and stuff but he just got used to shooting while in slippery and people hate that, lol.

Anyway I am not sure how I feel about it, like I Said I dont use it, I never really got trolled from people trying to use it and when I did I used dyna arrows so for me, it isnt an issue.

usually with Rockstar, after some backlash things get tweaked so we will see what happens

I hated slippery bastard and I'm glad they nerfed it, even though I knew how to deal with it. All you had to to was tackle them.

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2 minutes ago, Vaderspupil said:

I hated slippery bastard and I'm glad they nerfed it, even though I knew how to deal with it. All you had to to was tackle them.

Yep, if you could  get close enough, like I said dynamite was a good deterrent too.

 

Edited September 12, 2019 by lumper

[HuDawg]

37 minutes ago, Vaderspupil said:

I hated slippery bastard and I'm glad they nerfed it, even though I knew how to deal with it. All you had to to was tackle them.

Alls you had to do is shoot the guy.  Slippery Bastard was a non issue.  

I used it the correct way.  At range, to avoid lock on when people attacked me for no reason.  To engage hostile NPCS and use free aim against them.

 

Now its sh*t.

The fact that they nerfed it because a few people can't aim or refuse to use PIB.  While leaving PIB as is, is complete bullsh*t. 

 

I can kill everyone in seconds with PIB.  SB made gun fights take longer.

Edited September 12, 2019 by HuDawg

[Vaderspupil]

6 minutes ago, HuDawg said:

Alls you had to do is shoot the guy.  Slippery Bastard was a non issue.  

I used it the correct way.  At range, to avoid lock on when people attacked me for no reason.  To engage hostile NPCS and use free aim against them.

 

Now its sh*t.

The fact that they nerfed it because a few people can't aim or refuse to use PIB.  While leaving PIB as is, is complete bullsh*t. 

 

I can kill everyone in seconds with PIB.  SB made gun fights take longer.

When it becomes the meta in many of the showdown games it's a problem. It sucks all the fun out of it. I'm glad they nerfed headshots too, putting more reliance on body shots. I couldn't stand getting headshot from a varmint rifle from 100 yards away, it was BS. I hate PVP with a passion. Too many cheaters. I only begrudgingly participate in it for daily challenges.

[Kean_1]

1 hour ago, lumper said:

Hmm I havent had any connection issues are you sure it isnt on your end or on your isp maybe? I am not hearing a lot of people saying they are being disconnected.

Either way Im sorry to hear it that stinks man.

There have been quite a few folks with the error which isn't unusual after updates in the past.  

Luckily, this is already a known issue according to R* Support and they are working to fix it.

[The_Liquor]

Wow... my first hot topic...

[Kean_1]

1 minute ago, The_Liquor said:

Wow... my first hot topic...

You're a star.  🔆

[Ragee503]

So far I am very pleased with update.  Got some bugs yet but all and all it seems much more fun.  Now if they can keep adding new content on a somewhat regular basis it will keep me here.  Otherwise I will just go back to another game for a few months until they add the next one.  I think this is gonna be another long lasting game like they did with gtao .   

[The_Liquor]

im Sure after this new update gets a little play and feedback and fine tuning  we will start seeing more regular updates and content releases.

[Vaderspupil]

My one disappointment is that they didn't add any new story missions. I want to continue the adventures of Jessica and Horley.😉

Edited September 12, 2019 by Vaderspupil

[Antonia]

Update is cool. I only started Collector's path and it's good. Makes you wonder the map, switching eagle eye here and there. But i experienced something weird and i wanna know what is that. One of the collections is about rare alcohol bottles. I found one and i drunk it cause today's Collector's challenge was about drinking a rare booze. Then i found another one and when i checked on my progress screen i saw 1/9 found instead of 2/9 cause i drunk it. Moreover the 2 bottles i found appeared lit but only one was ticked. So will i find again the one i drunk or is this a bug? Anyone else with this issue? Also sadly i have those disconnections and crashes after the update. Pity, cause i had to reach Rank 2 in support 2 months ago to fix this.

[Saffron]

Large wagon sale 625 dollars and I just got over 3000 role xp plus alot more.it definately pays well.hunting wagon is excellent.bounties get higher the higher the rank you are.and some bounties are very hard.they adapt to how many you have in the posse.much to do and overall it's an excellent update. All satchel upgrades make so much difference aswell.20 feathers 30 big game meat and so on.dont sell feathers to cripps.be careful hes not taking stuff from you that you will earn more at a butcher.

[Madrigalian]

3 hours ago, Vaderspupil said:

My one disappointment is that they didn't add any new story missions. I want to continue the adventures of Jessica and Horley.😉

I could be wrong, but I see a point in the story coming where our "good friend the Marshal" is on the hunt for a grieving widow who's gone on a murder spree to avenge her dead husband....  so, now what do you do?

 

*SPOILER*  Do the mission twice and get both positive and negative honor depending.  (my guess)

[parkenman]

II like the new stuff.   I was wondering about the collections.  If you look at a collection on screen, it shows you the value of the entire collection.  Is it best to wait until you have an entire collection before you sell the items to Nazar?  

And I've noticed something weird going on with the Daily Tasks.  After the update, it showed there were 10 available before you opened the list, but then the list would only have 7 as usual.  Today I completed all 7, and it shows there are 2 left before you open the list, but when I open the list, it just shows all 7 with check marks.  I guess the 7/7 completed would account for the 8th task, but where are the other 2?  And last night, I gave Cripps two bird carcasses.  I guess one of them was considered medium sized because after I gave it to him, a message flashed on the screen about a daily task saying I had given Cripps 1/3 medium sized animal carcasses, but that task was not on yesterday's list.

[Ragee503]

1 hour ago, parkenman said:

And I've noticed something weird going on with the Daily Tasks.  After the update, it showed there were 10 available before you opened the list, but then the list would only have 7 as usual.  Today I completed all 7, and it shows there are 2 left before you open the list, but when I open the list, it just shows all 7 with check marks.  I guess the 7/7 completed would account for the 8th task, but where are the other 2?

there  is a tab on your daily screen.  You probably have the other 2 tasks on the tab for your roles

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1 hour ago, parkenman said:

II like the new stuff.   I was wondering about the collections.  If you look at a collection on screen, it shows you the value of the entire collection.  Is it best to wait until you have an entire collection before you sell the items to Nazar?  

And I've noticed something weird going on with the Daily Tasks.  After the update, it showed there were 10 available before you opened the list, but then the list would only have 7 as usual.  Today I completed all 7, and it shows there are 2 left before you open the list, but when I open the list, it just shows all 7 with check marks.  I guess the 7/7 completed would account for the 8th task, but where are the other 2?  And last night, I gave Cripps two bird carcasses.  I guess one of them was considered medium sized because after I gave it to him, a message flashed on the screen about a daily task saying I had given Cripps 1/3 medium sized animal carcasses, but that task was not on yesterday's list.

Once you open your daily challenges, on xbox use your right bumper, not sure on ps4 and this will switch to another screen, it used to be the daily challenge summary, but now they added a screen with the role daily challenges, I found one for each role, so 10 in all.

Hope that helps.

 

[parkenman]

Cool.  Thanks, guys!  Will check that next time I play.

[The_Liquor]

8 hours ago, Antonia said:

Update is cool. I only started Collector's path and it's good. Makes you wonder the map, switching eagle eye here and there. But i experienced something weird and i wanna know what is that. One of the collections is about rare alcohol bottles. I found one and i drunk it cause today's Collector's challenge was about drinking a rare booze. Then i found another one and when i checked on my progress screen i saw 1/9 found instead of 2/9 cause i drunk it. Moreover the 2 bottles i found appeared lit but only one was ticked. So will i find again the one i drunk or is this a bug? Anyone else with this issue? Also sadly i have those disconnections and crashes after the update. Pity, cause i had to reach Rank 2 in support 2 months ago to fix this.

We’re they the same kind of liquor? I found two goose eggs but they only counted as one find Firth’s collector...

[Zui]

I can’t use the metal detector while driving my hunting wagon, which sucks.  My 60+ streak reset to Day 1, and does so every single day, since update.  I’d tell rockstar but I’m too busy playing lol.

[Antonia]

5 hours ago, The_Liquor said:

We’re they the same kind of liquor? I found two goose eggs but they only counted as one find Firth’s collector...

yes i found those eggs too. i found 4 and count as 1. but the alcohols were different. maybe i'll take a screenshot and i'll edit here.

 

edit: here is the pic

as you can se now that i've found 3 bottles the 2 of them are ticked and the one i drunk is not. so will i find again this london gin? i wonder

Edited September 13, 2019 by Antonia

[Zui]

42 minutes ago, Antonia said:

yes i found those eggs too. i found 4 and count as 1. but the alcohols were different. maybe i'll take a screenshot and i'll edit here.

 

edit: here is the pic

as you can se now that i've found 3 bottles the 2 of them are ticked and the one i drunk is not. so will i find again this london gin? i wonder

Yeah there’s multiple bottles around, along with the other collectibles.