new player, first time being harassed by hackers

[titanopteryx]

So I was riding toward my camp when all of a sudden I exploded. Then I respawned and immediately exploded again. This happened like 10 times before I exited the game. Then I went back in and did my first delivery as a trader, or tried to. When I was by Valentine I suddenly teleported to a rocky area with snow. There was a guy there. The was also a giant naked woman. They stole my goods. I shot them but they were invincible. Then he hogtied me and teleported me back to next to Valentine.

Another thing happened last night that I can't figure out. I was at camp and I look over and there's someone with my same name fishing. I named myself after a prehistoric trilobite species so it's not a common name.

Anyway, I'm not sure what to do about being unable to deliver goods because hackers will detect me and teleport me to them and rob me. I can't be a trader then.

[Bonus!]

yep it's going to keep on happening because rockstar doesn't give a ♥♥♥♥ about the online

if you truly what the rdo experience, find/get some friends and have fun in a private session, but warning tho, there isn't a whole ton to do

[Silhouette]

Welcome to RDO on the PC, it’s a cheater-infested hellscape. :/

The only way to avoid cheaters is to stop playing in public sessions. You need to stick to private/solo games.

There’s no officially supported way to spin-up a private game (thanks Rockstar).

However, this video shows you a trick for how to do it:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OFd2af8wINE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcommunity.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title
Hope this helps.

[Lokiator]

When I was working on the RDO achievements, I found there were certain times of day where hackers were far less likely to be online. You may have to play at some odd hours if you want to use a public lobby.

Your best bet is the private lobby trick mentioned already.

If you're just looking for the achievements, try the Collector role. There's not much hackers can do to really interfere with that, since it's just riding around picking stuff up and occasionally returning to sell complete sets at Madam Nazar's. It's easy XP, good cash, and probably the quickest way to level 50 and earning the money needed to buy the horses, stalls, camp upgrades, and other items required for many of the achievements.

[titanopteryx]

Originally posted by Lokiator:

When I was working on the RDO achievements, I found there were certain times of day where hackers were far less likely to be online. You may have to play at some odd hours if you want to use a public lobby.

Your best bet is the private lobby trick mentioned already.

If you're just looking for the achievements, try the Collector role. There's not much hackers can do to really interfere with that, since it's just riding around picking stuff up and occasionally returning to sell complete sets at Madam Nazar's. It's easy XP, good cash, and probably the quickest way to level 50 and earning the money needed to buy the horses, stalls, camp upgrades, and other items required for many of the achievements.

That's good advice. I was wondering about what I could do for money.

[Man o' War]

Yeah the modders are terrible, I've no idea why they do it.

As above - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFd2af8wINE

Give yourself a password and in the future make sure your mates have the same file and password and you're good to go hacker free.

It's a shame it's come to this, GTA V Invite only worked perfectly from what I can tell.

[Man o' War]

Originally posted by titanopteryx:

I was wondering about what I could do for money.

Visit the different post offices.

They have simple tasks like delivering the mail or riding shotgun on a wagon.

Also press "L" and check your daily challenges that can be performed for small but increasing rewards.

[Lokiator]

Originally posted by titanopteryx:

Originally posted by Lokiator:

When I was working on the RDO achievements, I found there were certain times of day where hackers were far less likely to be online. You may have to play at some odd hours if you want to use a public lobby.

Your best bet is the private lobby trick mentioned already.

If you're just looking for the achievements, try the Collector role. There's not much hackers can do to really interfere with that, since it's just riding around picking stuff up and occasionally returning to sell complete sets at Madam Nazar's. It's easy XP, good cash, and probably the quickest way to level 50 and earning the money needed to buy the horses, stalls, camp upgrades, and other items required for many of the achievements.

That's good advice. I was wondering about what I could do for money.

I should also mention that if you do decide to go the Collector route, use this website:

https://jeanropke.github.io/RDR2CollectorsMap/

It's an interactive map showing the location of all the guaranteed collectable items that spawn each day. It'll save you a load of cash compared to buying maps and save you a lot of time compared to randomly searching for stuff. Though after enough time, you'll learn some of the more common spawn locations.

You can also find lots of collectables when looting bodies - usually tarot cards and antique alcohols, but I sometimes found arrowheads or coins.

You will need to invest in a few upgrades along the way (shovel and metal detector), but those pay for themselves pretty quickly as they let you complete the more valuable collectable sets.