HACK??? Wild animals keep spawning beside me and random explosions occur

[Pepo]

I died quite a few times because cougars and bears and even a lion keeps spawning bside my character. Then after a few minutes random explosions killed me

[ChoomOfDoom]

ive had the same thing happen. sometimes the animals are even unshoot-able
is there a fix to this?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I'm guessing you are referring to RDO?

[Silhouette]

Yeah, if your experiencing this in the online mode, it's cheaters.

Cheaters are targeting you, and spawning un-killable animals beside you.
They can also make you spontaneously explode.

Cheating is a huge problem in the PC version of this game. :/

There's really only 3 solutions.

1) Stop playing in public sessions and only play in private sessions. This video shows you how:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFd2af8wINE

2) Pick this game up on a newer PlayStation; cheating is MUCH less of an issue.

3) Quit playing.

With all the cheating, the PC version of Red Dead Online is awful. :(

[GBelmont]

Originally posted by Silhouette:

Yeah, if your experiencing this in the online mode, it's cheaters.

Cheaters are targeting you, and spawning un-killable animals beside you.
They can also make you spontaneously explode.

Cheating is a huge problem in the PC version of this game. :/

There's really only 3 solutions.

1) Stop playing in public sessions and only play in private sessions. This video shows you how:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFd2af8wINE

2) Pick this game up on a newer PlayStation; cheating is MUCH less of an issue.

3) Quit playing.

With all the cheating, the PC version of Red Dead Online is awful. :(

better is to record, send to rockstar and keep away from modders. Report and move along.

[ToTeMKallo [FIN]]

Has it gotten completely out of hand? I'm just asking because I was just about to try Online without any particular reason after a a half year break. Hackers were annoyingly frequent back then already but if it has gotten even worse than it already was back in 2022, guess I should save the trouble and regret and just leave it to dust?

I know about the trick to create a solo session and might try it out eventually, it's just so sad if that's literally the only way to play Online anymore.

[channel 27]

Originally posted by KLBSNAKE:

Originally posted by Silhouette:

Yeah, if your experiencing this in the online mode, it's cheaters.

Cheaters are targeting you, and spawning un-killable animals beside you.
They can also make you spontaneously explode.

Cheating is a huge problem in the PC version of this game. :/

There's really only 3 solutions.

1) Stop playing in public sessions and only play in private sessions. This video shows you how:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFd2af8wINE

2) Pick this game up on a newer PlayStation; cheating is MUCH less of an issue.

3) Quit playing.

With all the cheating, the PC version of Red Dead Online is awful. :(

better is to record, send to rockstar and keep away from modders. Report and move along.

Rockstar don't do ♥♥♥♥ if you record and report. The hackers just will just come back sooner or later. Moving to others lobbys don't help either with the amount of immature kids that infest all lobbys that have nothing better to do except ruin your gameplay.

I recommend the solo lobby above. You will get more random events ( NPC and animals encounters )

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by ToTeNKallo:

Has it gotten completely out of hand? I'm just asking because I was just about to try Online without any particular reason after a a half year break. Hackers were annoyingly frequent back then already but if it has gotten even worse than it already was back in 2022, guess I should save the trouble and regret and just leave it to dust?

I know about the trick to create a solo session and might try it out eventually, it's just so sad if that's literally the only way to play Online anymore.

It's been this way since as long as the PC version has been out. It's hit/miss though really. If I play RDO public sessions between 10pm - 2am (EST; GMT -5) I run into all sorts of cheaters and such. But if I play during morning, early afternoon hours for my-time, I rarely see them if at all.

The RDO Private session method does work however. All you need is your own TXT file, paste these contents inside:



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CDataFileMgr__ContentsOfDataFileXml>
<disabledFiles />
<includedXmlFiles itemType="CDataFileMgr__DataFileArray" />
<includedDataFiles />
<dataFiles itemType="CDataFileMgr__DataFile">
<Item>
<filename>platform:/data/cdimages/scaleform_platform_pc.rpf</filename>
<fileType>RPF_FILE</fileType>
</Item>
<Item>
<filename>platform:/data/ui/value_conversion.rpf</filename>
<fileType>RPF_FILE</fileType>
</Item>
<Item>
<filename>platform:/data/ui/widgets.rpf</filename>
<fileType>RPF_FILE</fileType>
</Item>
<Item>
<filename>platform:/textures/ui/ui_photo_stickers.rpf</filename>
<fileType>RPF_FILE</fileType>
</Item>
<Item>
<filename>platform:/textures/ui/ui_platform.rpf</filename>
<fileType>RPF_FILE</fileType>
</Item>
<Item>
<filename>platform:/data/ui/stylesCatalog</filename>
<fileType>aWeaponizeDisputants</fileType> <!-- collision -->
</Item>
<Item>
<filename>platform:/data/cdimages/scaleform_frontend.rpf</filename>
<fileType>RPF_FILE_PRE_INSTALL</fileType>
</Item>
<Item>
<filename>platform:/textures/ui/ui_startup_textures.rpf</filename>
<fileType>RPF_FILE</fileType>
</Item>
<Item>
<filename>platform:/data/ui/startup_data.rpf</filename>
<fileType>RPF_FILE</fileType>
</Item>
</dataFiles>
<contentChangeSets itemType="CDataFileMgr__ContentChangeSet" />
<patchFiles />
</CDataFileMgr__ContentsOfDataFileXml>

PASSWORD

Replace the word "password" at the end of the file with something you'd actually want as a password; like say a 6 digit # for example. You can have friends in the same session if they also use this file and you all use the same password entry in the file.

Then save the file. Then rename it, along with the file extension, as STARTUP.META

Then put the file inside this RDR2 game folder:
\Steam\steamapps\common\Red Dead Redemption 2\x64\data

It's also helpful if you just want to jump into Private Session and check on a few things, do your daily challenges, maybe even make a long delivery run for Trader or Moonshine without having any players bother you, or cheaters blowing you up, etc.

However whenever you and/or friends are using this Private Session method, you can not participate in those random popup events the game service generates, or any event that requires Public Matchmaking; such as the RDO Story Missions for example.

To go back to Public Sessions again; simply exit the game fully, then move that STARTUP.META file to a different location. Then launch the game again and enter RDO.

[jdlikins]

I have my RDO character kitted out as Spencer Dutton so I was delighted when one of these idiots spawned a lion in my camp. I dispatched him with my Holland and Holland and then got the f&%k out of the session.