So the game is just a storyline mode but it doesn't have an online mode? I am buying this next weekend (late to the party I know) but want to know if there is an online mode to this or not

There will be. Rockstar is holding off the online mode for a little while. Supposed to go live sometime this month.

Jesus. Rockstar playing it smart. Let people get through the storyline mode and then release the chaos of online. Well played

It'll be in beta this month. I'm guessing it'll be a buggy mess like GTA5 Online was. I had to recreate my character a dozen times.

Just reached Chapter 4. wowza

I’m expecting issues but it will be a disappointment if it’s not smoother than the gtao launch. They had to have learned something from that.

It's a free addon.

Question to the players here.

With most of the missions being on an invisible timer SO FAR, has that encouraged you to play faster? Or are you taking your time?

I only ask because I don't remember GTA 5 having many missions involving a time limit to score a gold medal.

Ugggggggggggggggggggggggggh.

I've started the game again. This time I'll go slower and finish more side options. I completed 80% the first go in about a week.

I personally don't care about the medals.

Hey Mister!

No, I suffered the vanishing horse bug 2 times at launch and it hasn’t occurred again. My current horse is the white Arabian.

Howdy, Mister.

After awhile I grew tired of NPCs regulating your every move, Mister, so I take my merryass time completing tasks. It usually leads to redoing checkpoints

What did you just say to me, feller?

Hey what the fuck, Mister.

Aw, calm down mister. I was just kiddin around.

Judging from whispers around the internet, the beta of online mode should be going up sometime next week.

It would have to since Rockstar pretty much guaranteed online mode would be going live in November.

Liked the authentic American flag in RDR1 but it seems like in this one they have 50 stars.

Are you surprised? It also features the ability to confront and beat up some Klansmen despite the fact that the KKK didn't come into existence until 1915.

What are you on about? The KKK was formed in 1865.

Yes, but the initiations and rituals you can encounter are an anachronism within the game as the modern version of the organization didn't come about until 1915 and the game ends in 1907.

The cross burning, you mean? Those were first talked about in the book The Clansman, which came out in 1905.

Seph sure knows alot about the KKK....

Duh. I'm the grand ultra imperial dragon wizard.

I think I'm just gonna stop fucking around and gun it to the end.

Too many distractions left and right I'm getting caught up in.

The other stuff can be done later except for that achievement about "honor" missions and giving the gang all the items they wanted.

Talked about, but never done in 1905, at which point the KKK didn't even exist. The first incarnation was broken up by the federal government in 1871 and it wouldn't be until 1915 that it formed a second time.

In fact, the first burning of a cross in the US was by William J. Simmons at Stone Mountain, GA November 25, 1915 to inaugurate the Klan's second incarnation.

Seph forgets himself. He reports to me, the Super Duper Cereal Grand Ultra Imperial Dragon Wizard.

somebody who knows too much about the kkk? hmmm

The news you've all been waiting for is here.

RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 ONLINE BETA GOES LIVE THIS WEEK STARTING TOMORROW!

BUT...……..

Rockstar is opening it up to certain players each day starting tomorrow. So, you'll get access one of the following days:

Tuesday November 27th: Players who own the Ultimate Edition of RDR2.

Wednesday November 28th: All players (according to Rockstar's data) who played RDR2 on launch day (October 26th).

Thursday November 29th: All players (according to Rockstar's data) who played RDR2 from launch day to October 29th.

Friday November 30th: All players have access.
Thursday

Completed chapter 6 and working my way through epilogue 1, I hate farm life and who I am.

This game made Fignuts laugh so hard he literally blacked out. 5/5.

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I remember the crash, and immediately laughing so hard I couldn't breathe, and then I had no idea where I was or what the fuck was happening, for several seconds.

Jesus this game.

ahaha I didn't see the rocks because I was looking at you running straight at me, and trying to figure out what the fuck your plan was.

Also, I wish I would have recorded on my screen. That vid does not do justice to how much air that stagecoach got. Unfortunately I was too busy cutting all the oxygen from my brain.

LOL Sheer comedy gold. :lol::lol::lol:

My new favorite thing to do is drive-by lassoing people (especially if they're in a posse) and dragging them to the middle of nowhere just to inconvenience them.

And you’re embarrassed of me for saying hello.

I can't even do that shit in off-line. Can't get that challenge done. Did it once but they guy died on the way.

I just want to talk to them.

Can't beat the online mission where you have to hogtie the gang members. Horse always runs out of gas and they escape. Fuck.

horses don't take gas they are not automobiles

So has anyone played the online mode?

Haven't finished it the game yet.

I hear it's got some bugs and there's a chance Rockstar might reset everyone's rank in order to fix things.

Keep in mind, it's in beta stage.

I'm waiting until it's out of beta and is the proper thing. Rumors are that progress might not carry over, so would rather wait.

Unless someone finds some sort of rank up exploit or gold glitch, I dont see why they'd need to go nuclear and reset progress.

Well there is the pig exploit for regular cash. Got about 200 in an hour of doing that.

Damn Rockstar and these stupid challenges they put near/at the end of the chain.

do you need ps plus to play online? haven't tried yet

damn..i wish i would have known about trinkets that i had available to me throughout the story to get. oh well

R* are claiming they are fixing the online economy and balancing issues amongst other things, but still, why would they put the online beta out as it is? A can of beans shouldn't cost more than a fucking gold ring. It also shouldn't take as long as it reportedly does to earn just 1 gold bar.

I guess it's (mostly) stable, at least? I had to recreate my character for ps3 gta online at least 2 dozen times for it to stick.

Wrong gas.

He meant steroids. Need a better supplier, bud.

For those of you doing the online thing, Rockstar has announced that it won't be resetting player progress during the beta...……...anytime soon.

Public Service Announcement:

For all you buckaroos and outlaws who have not yet to venture online, you are going to miss out on some free stuff money.

In light of the recent hiccups to online since launch, primarily the economy, Rockstar is going to give players $250 and 15 gold bars which should go out today and be settled tomorrow. Only catch is you gotta log-in to online mode by Midnight pacific time to get in on it.

To those who have already bought guns from the catalogue or gunsmiths, prices have been lowered on most guns and the difference should be back into your wallet by December 10th.

Maybe we should form a posse eventually? I'm ps4

Won't be seeing me online anytime soon.

Only ran through the introduction just so I can get that free stuff.

I haven't received my gold/cash yet. Just insured my horse Arabian horse though.

I got the gun from the fence and the grizzly outfit but the saddle never came :|

and after I had that typed up, the gator saddle showed up. magic

You not finish the story yet or taking a break?

Still crawling through the story. Good god, they weren't lying saying it was a long campaign. Add in all the stuff I've been doing on the side, taking longer. After like 10 visits to the hunting ground I finally got the Bull Gator to appear.

Trying to finish the story then put it down. God AC: Odyssey and Darksiders 3 downloaded and ready to be played.

Bull gator appeared right away for me and he was surprisingly easy to put down. Now I'm working through the Master Hunter ranks to kill what is supposed to be the hardest animal in the game. I still need to do the New Austin area legendary animals.

Regarding online...not a fan of the camp system at all.

I'd rather have a saloon room to rent that's static...eventually a prefab cabin.

They need to get gambling in soon, too.

You're a convicted murderer on the run. I don't think you can be staying at five star hotels.

you are beyond stupid

There's going to be gambling??

That will be sick

I started playing the campaign mode. Just now skinned the deer so I'm clearly not very far into it at all.

Played online too. I did the horse mission. Do you start to see people in the open world in between missions or no? Is it because it's in Beta? Just confused as to how that works out

How about you look up the term Beta and come back late-ah?

It's PVP in free roam. You can mess with people doing side quests.

Finished of epilogue 2 yesterday and jumped online to give that a try. So far the only annoying thing I'm finding with online is when you try moving camps it doesn't always move it to the one you selected and paid for. I know it's still beta but come on.

The online missions are paying reallllly well right now. I'd suggest everyone do them and pick up a Varmint Rifle and then a Bolt-Action Rifle after you get horse insurance on the special Arabian horse (ps4) before you customize your horse, buy clothing, etc.

I never even go to my camp

Why a Varmit rifle? It's one of the weaker ones in the game as the name suggests. There's even story-mode challenges to kill animals with it because it sucks.

Clean kills if you're looking to skin smaller animals for any missions you may have to do.

It has a really high fire rate. If you're good at head shots you can take out a whole posse in seconds.

Even with the lower damage. Interesting.

Yeah, I meant purely for hunting but that's also good to know.

just bought a bow. next up... a fishing pole in a couple levels.

kobrakaiff is my ps4 id

Goddamnit. Of course I saw this super late. I think I was online the 5th, and haven't fired up RDR2 since for one reason or another.

I got it and snatched up the achievement for updating my digs.

FINALLY made it to the epilogue. If this is on the short side, I'll have thoughts sometime later in the week.

One hell of a game regardless.

No. I steadfastly stand behind my point. Rockstar should never have allowed ANY version of the online component, beta or not, to be released in the state it was released in. Ya know, lest it look like they're aspiring to become the next EA Games?

And speaking of betas...to think, I spent 5 minutes of my time responding to the two biggest ones here because they have no common sense. :nono:

Surprisingly, I logged in anyway when I got home this morning and the money showed up. Neat.

... but the Fortuna expansion for Warframe also dropped on console today, so I was kinda busy there.

I've had no problems playing online except people talking with fake or real southern accents in audio chat. Had to shut that shit off.

I lucked out, then. The few encounters I had with actual people, nobody said shit. And it was glorious. No squeakers or Mr "Got a mic? Got a mic? Got a mic...?"

Yeah had to shut it off when I was called the N word for shooting somebody.

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

YA'LL GONNA JUST TAKE THAT?!

Tangentially related to this: what the fuck happened to the term "beta"? I mean, the last time I remember a public test executed correctly was for the multiplayer component of Halo: Reach that was so far ahead of the finished product, that the beta was actually running under Halo 3's engine. They got feedback well in advance and was able to tweak one particular gameplay type (invasion) multiple times before it was even near its final form in retail.

Ever since then, it seemed like, true to form, other companies (and Bungie themselves) learned "the wrong lesson" on how popular that was on leading to game sales and now everyone is offering "beta" access, which just means either getting to play it a little bit early or just a band-aid on an unfinshed mess that you supposedly have no right to complain about because "it's totally in beta, guys". It isn't to stress test the game under normal, outside world player conditions or see how your servers can hold up, it's a marketing ploy.

The end.

Finally...……...fucking...……….finished.

Came in at just over 91% total completion.

I want to get to dishonorable in online (without visiting Old Man Jones and spending the 3 gold bars) but fuck...it's damn near impossible when everything gives you honor.

Had a nice lure for cops in a hotel.. cap em as they came in but some honorable griefer bastard killed me.

I keep hearing about this game. How does it stack up compared to Mario Kart?

Tonya, I compare all games to the greats: Duke Nukem 3d (PC), Spy vs Spy (NES), Commander Keen (PC), Age of Empires 1 & 2 (PC), Ultima Online (PC), and some other shit.

Mario kart SNES IS GREAT PLEASE DON'T BREAK MY BONES.

Game is updating hmm

and got 15 more gold bars and 250 buck-a-roos.

So, are they going to constantly bribe us every few days? I can get behind that.

Pfft, everybody knows Duke Nukem Forever >>> Duke Nukem 3D. :roll::shifty:

Where's my 2nd batch of gold/cash ? :|

I can't find any news on that one..

Actually know someone who worked on DN Forever into the Gearbox transition. What a fucking shit show lol. All of it.

No second batch. They just announced they gave it well after they gave it.

Paid the 3 gold to go dishonored and did the 2 quests on the evil side. 100% story done now. I hope they add more story quests soon. Replaying them is meh.

Old Man Jones 3 gold was worth it. Getting killed by the cops and paying $2 each time + the ammo used + the time to get down from max honor not so much.

I'm working towards 100%, currently at 86% with the pretty much all the challenges to do.

Killing a wabbit with a knife ended the knife challenge for me. Don't have the patience.

So, I got a second infusion of gold, but not cash.

Also, how the hell do you get friends together instead of a rag-tag group of randos for a multiplayer hoedown?

And why the hell did my camp position randomly change? Hard to get the lay of the land when you jump from a hilltop to a random valley elsewhere.