Hacked Lockboxes

[AngloSwagxon]

Opened some lockboxes which I think were results of hacks/cheats. Got about 32 bars of gold and 2600 bucks. Tried to make two reports to Rockstar Support, but not getting any response/acknowledgment of either. Would resetting my character be the best option to avoid a possible (even if unlikely) ban? I’m a new player so it wouldn’t hurt that much to restart.

[phatjesus36]

even if they got back to you over it they cant help you. they dont know what they are doing at rockstar. i just bought the game a few days ago and everytime i do a mission that requires you to match make to do it with other players at some point during the mission i get booted from online, error code 0x21002001 wich is a connection issue on their end that they cant seem to fix, they told me they will get back to me when the issue has been found, this was after makeing run through a list of fixs multiple times. the story mode is great though i love it.

[Shrinkshooter]

I wouldn't expect to hear anything good about this.

Lurk around the forums for a few days and you'll see plenty of posts about people complaining Rockstar simply doesn't care about online. They don't, they're over it. I've never touched it, never will, so RDO doesn't matter to me, but evidently they care so little that there are people asking around whether anyone knows if they plan to shut RDO down sometime soon. That's how much they don't give a F.

[AngloSwagxon]

I understand that people believe Rockstar has abandoned the game, but most bans are probably automated. I still would like to avoid the ban if at all possible.

[Grim Reaper]

Worse case scenario is that you get banned. R* is aware that cheaters, commonly people using mod menus, will spawn treasure chests in random places to entice people to open them. Some players have been banned, some are reset while the mod menus users continue to plague the lobbies.
Take this as a lesson, unless you have an active treasure map, do not open random treasure chests. Also, be wary of allowing randoms into your posse or joining random posses, taking random legendary animals from people, skinning and selling any animals that are spawned by cheaters. It is a laundry list of things new players must be on their guard for.
Best of luck in the game!

[Grubbs008]

Originally posted by John Knox:

I understand that people believe Rockstar has abandoned the game, but most bans are probably automated. I still would like to avoid the ban if at all possible.

Bans are automated. It resets on Tuesday's their time. So tomorrow est-mst. If you have not got banned, or a warning by tomorrow. You are more than likely fine.

Just don't make a habit of it, they tell you on the site about hackers under their help, not to open loot boxes that look out of place or were spawned, as they will not be held liable by banning you (Because it's all automated).

[AngloSwagxon]

Originally posted by Grim Reaper:

Worse case scenario is that you get banned. R* is aware that cheaters, commonly people using mod menus, will spawn treasure chests in random places to entice people to open them. Some players have been banned, some are reset while the mod menus users continue to plague the lobbies.
Take this as a lesson, unless you have an active treasure map, do not open random treasure chests. Also, be wary of allowing randoms into your posse or joining random posses, taking random legendary animals from people, skinning and selling any animals that are spawned by cheaters. It is a laundry list of things new players must be on their guard for.
Best of luck in the game!

Originally posted by Grubbs008:

Originally posted by John Knox:

I understand that people believe Rockstar has abandoned the game, but most bans are probably automated. I still would like to avoid the ban if at all possible.

Bans are automated. It resets on Tuesday's their time. So tomorrow est-mst. If you have not got banned, or a warning by tomorrow. You are more than likely fine.

Just don't make a habit of it, they tell you on the site about hackers under their help, not to open loot boxes that look out of place or were spawned, as they will not be held liable by banning you (Because it's all automated).

Thanks for the info from both of you, I guess I will see how it goes.

[XeX Weiss]

Originally posted by Grubbs008:

Originally posted by John Knox:

I understand that people believe Rockstar has abandoned the game, but most bans are probably automated. I still would like to avoid the ban if at all possible.

Bans are automated. It resets on Tuesday's their time. So tomorrow est-mst. If you have not got banned, or a warning by tomorrow. You are more than likely fine.

Just don't make a habit of it, they tell you on the site about hackers under their help, not to open loot boxes that look out of place or were spawned, as they will not be held liable by banning you (Because it's all automated).

Source for this?

[Silhouette]

Gold bars and money are shared across characters. If you delete your character and make a new one you’ll still have the cheated money/gold.

A few years ago In GTA Online I had cheated money “rained” on top of me. I knew roughly how much cheated funds were added to my account so I reached out to Rockstar Support and asked them to remove it (I also had concerns about getting banned).

The process was a pain in the neck; however, after some back-and-forth’ing Rockstar removed the cheated money. My character never got banned.

Rockstar Customer Support can be difficult to work with sometimes. It can take a day or two before you hear back and often you’ll just get a useless bot responding to your ticket.

If the reply doesn’t contain a support representative’s name, you got a bot. Specify in your ticket that you want to speak with a human. If that person can’t help you, ask to be connected with a Support Lead or Supervisor. Eventually you should get connected with someone who can help you.

[Silhouette]

Regarding whether or not you’ll get banned for opening cheated chests it’s really hard to say.

Early in Red Dead Online’s life there were a ton of threads about players getting banned for opening cheated chests, or donating cheated animals to Cripps/Butcher.

Nowadays, you really don’t see those threads anymore. Has Rockstar given up on trying to control cheating, or are there just far fewer players online now so the likelihood of someone posting about their experience is far less? I’m not sure.

Personally, I would contact Rockstar Support and try to get the cheated funds removed. Let them know you were tricked into opening the chests and would like your character reset to a time before you opened them, or you would like the cheated funds deleted.

At least that gives you a “paper-trail” so if your account does get banned, you can show them you made an honest effort to set things right. :/

[AngloSwagxon]

Originally posted by Silhouette:

Regarding whether or not you’ll get banned for opening cheated chests it’s really hard to say.

Early in Red Dead Online’s life there were a ton of threads about players getting banned for opening cheated chests, or donating cheated animals to Cripps/Butcher.

Nowadays, you really don’t see those threads anymore. Has Rockstar given up on trying to control cheating, or are there just far fewer players online now so the likelihood of someone posting about their experience is far less? I’m not sure.

Personally, I would contact Rockstar Support and try to get the cheated funds removed. Let them know you were tricked into opening the chests and would like your character reset to a time before you opened them, or you would like the cheated funds deleted.

At least that gives you a “paper-trail” so if your account does get banned, you can show them you made an honest effort to set things right. :/

I tried to reach out to them in two ways, first I made two cheater reports in the RDO section of their support tickets. I never got a confirmation that they had been sent like you might with a normal ticket. There's no support option concerning what I need done, so I tried also separately emailing their support email. Of course their support email does not take in-coming emails. I do not know what else I can do :/.

[AngloSwagxon]

Originally posted by Silhouette:

Regarding whether or not you’ll get banned for opening cheated chests it’s really hard to say.

Early in Red Dead Online’s life there were a ton of threads about players getting banned for opening cheated chests, or donating cheated animals to Cripps/Butcher.

Nowadays, you really don’t see those threads anymore. Has Rockstar given up on trying to control cheating, or are there just far fewer players online now so the likelihood of someone posting about their experience is far less? I’m not sure.

Personally, I would contact Rockstar Support and try to get the cheated funds removed. Let them know you were tricked into opening the chests and would like your character reset to a time before you opened them, or you would like the cheated funds deleted.

At least that gives you a “paper-trail” so if your account does get banned, you can show them you made an honest effort to set things right. :/

Was able to submit a support ticket on their site for "Gameplay Progress" hopefully they can roll back my acct.