Online review:

Bugged to hell.

-Camp sometimes doesn't spawn, can despawn in a session
-Changing sessions has always lead me to infinite load screen
-Sometimes starting trades/missions leads to infinite load screen
-Sometimes doing trader missions to collect supplies has the supplies "lost" from the start. I've had it occur during a hunting one where I drop off the animal and supplies are lost while i am staring at the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wagon
-The free bounty hunter license is bugged and does not unlock rank 1, leading to no xp gain, bounty gold and money can still be earned
-Sometimes it doesn't pay you for a bounty


merry christmas

+++Rockstar Support finally fixed my license after a month. After contacting support and waiting a few weeks I was told they were working on a fix. A week later people said contacting support could fix my license. I opened a new ticket and got my license fixed a few days later.
-not sure if caused by a recent patch by AMD or Rockstar, but my game will ctd after a few minutes with the Vulkin API, forcing me to use DX12 (which for me gives 10-15 less frames)

happy new years

11-14

Game isn't ♥♥♥♥♥♥ as much; I don't randomly disconnect and the few times I change lobby doesn't lock me in an infinite load screen. Only had one crash in the past few months. Overall the online is a lot more playable. Well done, Rockstar, Well done.

HOWEVER

Content has been feeling lacking. Naturalist in my opinion wasn't very fun; knocking out animals for samples and legendary hunts is basically all that has been done. It was disappointing the sedation rounds didn't work on players/human NPCs. A new bow is alright even though I don't use it much. The elephant rifle doesn't feel like something I would use ever for hunting or combat. Though the main focus of Naturalist is being "one with nature" the hunting half was more interesting and I would have preferred more on that side allowing some syngery with the trading business.

Right now I still wouldn't recommend playing online unless you've got friends to start it with.

Happy Thanksgiving i guess


I am not rebuying the standalone to move my review cause ♥♥♥♥ giving them more money.

New bounty hunter update. 10 levels and a weekly(?) changing legendary. I like the max rank outfit cause I look like a WH witch hunter; gunbelt is neato, more gun spins are fun. Also introduced segmented bounties where you have to catch multiple people but they are separate missions. Issue with this is the cooldown on doing a bounty at each poster.

No more gold streaks going forever. At 28 days you are reset and get an amazing $100 RDO wowwee. Pay out of gold is cut in half; making .1 gold per daily up to .25 gold per daily by the final streak. I could understand this since making gold was ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ easy. Reseting streaks basically lets me ignore having to play this ♥♥♥♥ daily to keep it so good on Rockstar battling addictions.

Battle pass 4; nothing too interesting. Cartoon animal belt buckles for the furry community. Unless you buy it within the first week you will actually get a netloss to gold this time (cost 40 earn 30 from ranks). Not too much else on here that is very interesting except increased ammo carrying capacity per gun type. Rank 100 has the outfit Arthur wears at the start (winter coat) and it is nice but really hate that having a closed coat isn't a toggle feature (along with the hoodie not having a toggle hood).

BUGS and new issues - fixed now but posse members weren't able to maintain guns. Took about a week and was slightly annoying. One day I kept disconnecting but hasn't happened since.

I have to go into my Sound mixing settings in Windows now as RDR2 is setting to 24/100 every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time.

Playerbase increased a lot; I actually have a lobby list I need to scroll through. With it comes more hackers; and not the good kind that spawn 200 legendaries for you to skin or infinite chests of gold. I generally have to swap lobbies twice to escape getting blown up or cougars spawning behind me.

I hope you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ looking at standalone RDO are reading this as for $5 you are basically being suckered into thinking that spending money on gold will be a sound investment, until you realize how shallow the game is. Rockstar probably doesn't put much development into this anymore as they most likely don't profit as much as GTAO which got a real ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ update today. However how can you expect anyone to want to spend money on grindy and generally boring content.

Also need those private lobbies really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad, or some real anti-cheat software.

Merry Chrimbus

Christmas 2021

Games ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dead; go buy It Takes Two, very fun game.

Merry Chrimbus

Online review: Bugged to hell. -Camp sometimes doesn't spawn, can despawn in a session -Changing sessions has always lead me to infinite load screen -Sometimes starting trades/missions leads to infinite load screen -Sometimes doing trader missions to collect supplies has the supplies "lost" from the start. I've had it occur during a hunting one where I drop off the animal and supplies are lost while i am staring at the fucking wagon -The free bounty hunter license is bugged and does not unlock rank 1, leading to no xp gain, bounty gold and money can still be earned -Sometimes it doesn't pay you for a bounty merry christmas +++Rockstar Support finally fixed my license after a month. After contacting support and waiting a few weeks I was told they were working on a fix. A week later people said contacting support could fix my license. I opened a new ticket and got my license fixed a few days later. -not sure if caused by a recent patch by AMD or Rockstar, but my game will ctd after a few minutes with the Vulkin API, forcing me to use DX12 (which for me gives 10-15 less frames) happy new years 11-14 Game isn't fucked as much; I don't randomly disconnect and the few times I change lobby doesn't lock me in an infinite load screen. Only had one crash in the past few months. Overall the online is a lot more playable. Well done, Rockstar, Well done. HOWEVER Content has been feeling lacking. Naturalist in my opinion wasn't very fun; knocking out animals for samples and legendary hunts is basically all that has been done. It was disappointing the sedation rounds didn't work on players/human NPCs. A new bow is alright even though I don't use it much. The elephant rifle doesn't feel like something I would use ever for hunting or combat. Though the main focus of Naturalist is being "one with nature" the hunting half was more interesting and I would have preferred more on that side allowing some syngery with the trading business. Right now I still wouldn't recommend playing online unless you've got friends to start it with. Happy Thanksgiving i guess I am not rebuying the standalone to move my review cause fuck giving them more money. New bounty hunter update. 10 levels and a weekly(?) changing legendary. I like the max rank outfit cause I look like a WH witch hunter; gunbelt is neato, more gun spins are fun. Also introduced segmented bounties where you have to catch multiple people but they are separate missions. Issue with this is the cooldown on doing a bounty at each poster. No more gold streaks going forever. At 28 days you are reset and get an amazing $100 RDO wowwee. Pay out of gold is cut in half; making .1 gold per daily up to .25 gold per daily by the final streak. I could understand this since making gold was buttfucking easy. Reseting streaks basically lets me ignore having to play this shit daily to keep it so good on Rockstar battling addictions. Battle pass 4; nothing too interesting. Cartoon animal belt buckles for the furry community. Unless you buy it within the first week you will actually get a netloss to gold this time (cost 40 earn 30 from ranks). Not too much else on here that is very interesting except increased ammo carrying capacity per gun type. Rank 100 has the outfit Arthur wears at the start (winter coat) and it is nice but really hate that having a closed coat isn't a toggle feature (along with the hoodie not having a toggle hood). BUGS and new issues - fixed now but posse members weren't able to maintain guns. Took about a week and was slightly annoying. One day I kept disconnecting but hasn't happened since. I have to go into my Sound mixing settings in Windows now as RDR2 is setting to 24/100 every fucking time. Playerbase increased a lot; I actually have a lobby list I need to scroll through. With it comes more hackers; and not the good kind that spawn 200 legendaries for you to skin or infinite chests of gold. I generally have to swap lobbies twice to escape getting blown up or cougars spawning behind me. I hope you fucking looking at standalone RDO are reading this as for $5 you are basically being suckered into thinking that spending money on gold will be a sound investment, until you realize how shallow the game is. Rockstar probably doesn't put much development into this anymore as they most likely don't profit as much as GTAO which got a real fucking update today. However how can you expect anyone to want to spend money on grindy and generally boring content. Also need those private lobbies really fucking bad, or some real anti-cheat software. Merry Chrimbus Christmas 2021 Games fucking dead; go buy It Takes Two, very fun game. Merry Chrimbus