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WINTER WEATHER WARNING ON THE FRONTIERPLUS HOLIDAY SHOWDOWN MODES, GIFTS, DISCOUNTS AND MORE

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The holiday spirit has taken hold in the five states. Red Dead Online will be ringing in the holiday season over the next few weeks - with winter weather setting in, limited-time Festive Showdown Modes, decorations at your Camp and Moonshining Shack, gifts and more to tide you over.

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On your travels, you may have heard piano players in the saloons playing festive songs as folk across the country merrily indulge in holiday festivities. Be warned, however, that the changing of the seasons often brings harsh weather to the frontier, with snowfall predicted to arrive as soon as tomorrow. Those keen to make preparations for the winter should be advised that even heavier snowfall may also be on the way, so keep the campfire burning and the stewpot simmering.

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Sharpshooters across the land can put their hand-eye to the test in snow-dusted versions of bloody Showdown Modes like Spoils of War, Up in Smoke, and Overrun, while PlayStation 4 players will get exclusive access to festive variations of Gun Rush, Make it Count and Last Stand. Simply fire up the Series from the Online Menu to dive in through January 6th.

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In keeping with the holiday spirit, players who play Red Dead Online between December 23rd - 25th will receive a special seasonal Gift Chest, packed to the brim with provisions and other goodies - including:

  • The Krampus Double Barrel Shotgun Variant
  • 30 rounds of Incendiary Buckshot Ammo
  • 100 Shotgun Slugs
  • 10 Thyme Big Game
  • 10 Minty Plump Birds
  • 20 Carrots
  • 20 Assorted Biscuits
  • 50 Candies
  • 10 Fine Brandies
  • 10 Special Miracle Tonics
  • 20 Volatile Fire Bottles
  • 2x Creek Plums
  • 2x Agarita

Plus, visit the Benefits section to find Offers for 50% off a Shotgun or Coat during this period.

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A host of seasonal offerings have already been awarded to all players who have logged in and played on or after December 13th. There's still time to claim the following gifts - simply play Red Dead Online by January 6th and check the Benefits section of the Main Menu to redeem the following coupons:

  • 3,000 Club XP
  • RDO$200 for starting a new Role
  • 1x Free Trader Resupply Reward
  • 1x Free Weapon Component of your choice Reward
  • 1x Treasure Map Reward
  • 1x Free Moonshiner Mash Refill Reward
  • 30% off one Stable slot Offer

Playing Red Dead Online between December 31st and January 6th will also reward you with a 1,000XP reward for each of the four Specialist Roles available in Red Dead Online: Moonshiner, Bounty Hunter, Trader and Collector.

And players can continue to take 5 Gold bars off the cost of the Butcher's Table and 25% off the cost of the Medium Delivery Wagon, the Bounty Hunter variant of the Schofield Revolver and the Collector variant of the Lancaster Repeater - all the way through January 6th.

And as always, keep an eye on the Benefits section for the latest Offers, Rewards and info in Red Dead Online.

Collectors can get in on the holiday action between December 24th and 30th by sending the Festive Feast Collection to Madam Nazar for a princely sum. Track down a Goose Egg, Cognac and a Thyme Plump Bird to complete the collection. And between December 31st - January 6th, Nazar will be requesting receipt of the New Year Collection, containing the Ace of Wands, Scotch Whiskey and Platinum Pocket Watch.

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Players who connect their Social Club account with Twitch Prime will receive the Collector's Bag and the Polished Copper Still Upgrade -- both free of charge. To ensure access to future benefits, make sure to visit Twitch Prime and sign up.

Check Rockstar Support for details and limitations.

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Looks like I am going to miss out on the chest, will be out of town Dec 23-25, with no way to play.  The other stuff looks nice, but since I will not likely have a role etc. I wonder if it will be held until I get there.  Just now 25% of download, going to likely be 3+ days to finish it up and actually get in the game.  DSL sucks!

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12 minutes ago, Faelwolf said:

Looks like I am going to miss out on the chest, will be out of town Dec 23-25, with no way to play.  The other stuff looks nice, but since I will not likely have a role etc. I wonder if it will be held until I get there.  Just now 25% of download, going to likely be 3+ days to finish it up and actually get in the game.  DSL sucks!

Sounds like someone needs to take his laptop to Christmas dinner and take a long poop 💩 Break in there...

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10 minutes ago, The_Liquor said:

Sounds like someone needs to take his laptop to Christmas dinner and take a long poop 💩 Break in there...

Mine's a very large desktop, I don't have a laptop that would even begin to play the game.  The desktop is technically not powerful enough either, but I have seen a vid from someone with the same specs playing the game with no issue, and I have been very adept over the years getting things to work.  I have thought of possibly doing a remote login, but don't think it will be worth the trouble and security risk for a few in-game trinkets.

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Except for the fact that as a female character I get to wear my White and Pink winter "GTO style" outfit I care nothing about the snow.  Hope it ain't going to get Blizzard like  "wolfman 5* bounty".  I'm prepared though.  Obviously steps you can take to beat a blizzard.

This is my list of Christmas presents R* has given me since last update (or my wish list of things they would fix)…

Black screen of death.
Moonshine disappears on crash
Unable to enter moonshine shed and immediately after you can't mount or call your horse.
Unable to loot some bodies
Unable to hogtie some bounties that are tied with bolas
Guns show up in wrong slots. Or wrong guns show up in the slots (that one's been lingering since day 1)
Unable to get Cripps special stew to register for challenge
Unable to enter cover or auto aim against Terminator Revenue agents.  (If you going to make me free aim and I need 2 headshots against them at least let me enter cover)
Large pelts/fish (again) and butchers disappear after fast travel.

And NO  *$#+&$%* ANIMALS!

Sorry I'd go "moan" over at Reddit but I need to make a video or funny meme B4 I'd get some traction.  Better yet I'd be quiet if they fixed 30% of this stuff

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With Red Dead Online on PC bringing a whole new audience of players to the game, we encourage everyone to contribute your input at

http://rockstargames.com/reddeadonline/feedback

Let us know your opinions of what you think could be changed, added or removed to improve the Red Dead Online experience.

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/RockstarGames/status/1205590206008745984

 

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16 hours ago, CosmoKramer said:

Sorry R*, I don’t give a **** about snow, pianos playing jingle bells, Xmas wreaths and a free hamper of shitty gifts while there are no animals in the game and I keep losing money hand over fist (and time) trying to play the moonshine content. Bah humbug.

I agree 100% with the assman here ..... I guess in 3 days we can air our grievances huh? Lol 

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For what it’s worth... my camp spawned (not in tall trees wheee I left it. But it was full there from what I could tell). I decided to work through a backlog of treasure maps as I wanted a second Navy Revolver. I travelled all over the map by horse, hunting away. I got two elk, multiple whitetail, multiple sheep, a pack of coyotes, a fox, various critters... enough to fill cripps up (I’d been ignoring him lately). The lowest number of players I observed on the server was 19. Then again, I might be a bad example as I very rarely noticed the animals spawning less...

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Right now I am still playing the "Download RDR2O before you die of old age" mini game. So my question is, with the "winter storm" what effect is that going to have on a new player who isn't going to have winter clothing just starting out?  Also how would a new player claim all these items if they don't have a camp?  Will the items be waiting for them once they level up enough to have a camp, or do we just lose out until next year's goodies?

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16 minutes ago, Faelwolf said:

Right now I am still playing the "Download RDR2O before you die of old age" mini game. So my question is, with the "winter storm" what effect is that going to have on a new player who isn't going to have winter clothing just starting out?  Also how would a new player claim all these items if they don't have a camp?  Will the items be waiting for them once they level up enough to have a camp, or do we just lose out until next year's goodies?

No need to level up for a camp. May need to get through a few initial story missions, don't quite remember, but after that it costs just 2 dollars to set up a camp (and every time you move it) and 1 dollar per game day to maintain it.

As for no winter clothing, it's not too bad, just need to eat a bit more often to refill your health core.

 

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4 hours ago, flu007 said:

No need to level up for a camp. May need to get through a few initial story missions, don't quite remember, but after that it costs just 2 dollars to set up a camp (and every time you move it) and 1 dollar per game day to maintain it.

As for no winter clothing, it's not too bad, just need to eat a bit more often to refill your health core.

 

Thanks for the info!  For some reason I was thinking you had to be a trader to have a camp, don't know where that came from, maybe doing too much research and getting things jumbled together in this old noggin. I got notified this afternoon that our trip to father-in-laws house has been delayed to the 24th due to weather, so can grab the limited time box of goodies too. :)  I have also discovered that the wife splurged and bought me the ultimate edition (she's never one to turn down a sale anywhere, and the sale price was about what she budgeted for the game, so yay me! :D ) and I am thinking the grizzly set (think that's what it's called) might be warm enough once I figure out how to get to the store to claim it, but nice to know I am gtg either way. I had thought she paid for the standard edition, so it's a nice surprise.  With all this good news today, maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket.........

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Made it harder to find yellow chantrelles... and everything  lol  The white background makes all white "herb" dead eye markers harder to see,

It's doable. just less fun to find herbs for a week or so.

Too bad since they took animals out of the game.. At least my horse got to swim for an hour in Lagras looking for a Gator.. hes very refreshed.. still no gator.. but he got a good mile swim in...  Finding herbs is usually an alternate to hunting... gotta stock up sometimes.

The bar music was horrid... unsure if xmas carols makes it better or worse.

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2 hours ago, Darconios said:

Made it harder to find yellow chantrelles... and everything  lol  The white background makes all white "herb" dead eye markers harder to see,

It's doable. just less fun to find herbs for a week or so.

Too bad since they took animals out of the game.. At least my horse got to swim for an hour in Lagras looking for a Gator.. hes very refreshed.. still no gator.. but he got a good mile swim in...  Finding herbs is usually an alternate to hunting... gotta stock up sometimes.

The bar music was horrid... unsure if xmas carols makes it better or worse.

Definitely makes it harder to see certain things in eagle eye when you’re looking at the ground ... lol ... also they didn’t take animals out of the game .... it’s a major bug that will hopefully be fixed very soon.... hard to make money on the trade as well as doing the daily challenges 

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9 hours ago, Darconios said:

Made it harder to find yellow chantrelles... and everything  lol  The white background makes all white "herb" dead eye markers harder to see,

This. Yet another example of R* not really thinking through their latest application of turd polish.

 

In saying that I only refer to tha game as a turd in its form since just before the moonshine update - I actually love the game we had when it functioned properly.

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Anyone whos missing animals...

 

Guess one current work around is starting legendary bounties..and just ignoring the bounty.    You then get a living world to play in.   Its basically a private lobby lite version. 

Spent a few hours doing that last night.   Myself and few friends ended up filling our hunting wagons up. 

 

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3 hours ago, CosmoKramer said:

This. Yet another example of R* not really thinking through their latest application of turd polish.

 

In saying that I only refer to tha game as a turd in its form since just before the moonshine update - I actually love the game we had when it functioned properly.

Agreed 10000%..... love this game so much more when it’s working correctly and the shine deal has loads of potential and the winter weather is awesome..... love that it’s dynamic.... changes like real life and all and they didn’t just blanket the board with snow.... it even slowly melts away ....as much as all the new bugs frustrate me and they do so badly.... I can’t stop playing... I keep hoping it will get corrected miraculously....; I’m hooked on it like Kenny Rogers chicken...... oh I gotta big problem Jerry .... lol 

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