Anyone Anywhere Had A Problem With This Startup Meta File?

[Man o' War]

In response to this post - "my friend just had this file installed, and he was banned until January 7 [/quote]"

Has anyone anywhere had any problems with this file?

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

It's been working flawlessly for over a year for tens of thousands of players, I find it hard to believe things have changed, particularly as I joined a couple of pals a few hours ago without issue.

Let me know your thoughts and re-assure new players to online that they have nothing to worry about with this Meta Startup file.

Cheers!

[bigfoot2841]

Greetings Man o'War --

The startup.meta has been working excellent for me both in the past as well as recently the last couple days since I have come back to play. It makes RDO so enjoyable. It's the only way I play.

/Salute

[FafnirChaos]

Nope probably just a modder trying to scare people into going into normal lobbies.

[Clancy]

Just played an online session with it an hour ago, working fine. I've been using it for over a year without a single issue.

It's nothing but a simple xml config file, you can read and easily identify the function of every line, even if you know basically nothing about code. Nothing at all nefarious here, and nothing R* will ban you for, or we'd have all been gone long ago . . .

[frameworks27]

I have been using it for a week now with no issues. Otherwise, as others also mention RDO is rather unplayable, at least for a new player, as I have encountered mostly only griefers, cheaters and hackers...

[BootsOnTheGround]

Been using it for months with no issues at all. You could always make a clean meta file and try again.

[Randomuser2024]

started using it recently and it works perfectly fine.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I've been using it since Nov 2021, no issues to speak of, no bans, etc.

If you or someone you know has been playing in RDO Public Sessions, and then all of sudden gets a ban after moving to trying the Private Session method, the ban in question was probably during their time of playing in Public Sessions, since it does usually take Rockstar some time to take action in such situations. So again, someone just now or very recently never played Private Session all of sudden does that via the startup.meta and then sees a ban in-game or on their account, via Rockstar email; etc. It most likely happened at least a week or so ago.

[baklajan]

Originally posted by FafnirChaos:

Nope probably just a modder trying to scare people into going into normal lobbies.

Dude, you can call me whoever you want, but I'm saying what happened. my friend, or rather my younger brother, bought this game a week ago to play with me. We both used this method to play not on public servers. From the first day he played only in the private lobby and only with me and did not use anything else except this file to play with me. and will you prove to me that this file is safe and you won’t get a ban for it?

[FafnirChaos]

Originally posted by baklajan:

Originally posted by FafnirChaos:

Nope probably just a modder trying to scare people into going into normal lobbies.

Dude, you can call me whoever you want, but I'm saying what happened. my friend, or rather my younger brother, bought this game a week ago to play with me. We both used this method to play not on public servers. From the first day he played only in the private lobby and only with me and did not use anything else except this file to play with me. and will you prove to me that this file is safe and you won’t get a ban for it?

People have been using it for years - the only person who says that got banned for using it is you. there are 3 different versions to it, and everyone who uses it says the same thing - you won't get banned.

If people got banned for using it there would be lots of posts about it - only way to get banned is to play normal lobbies or be a modder/hacker in normal lobbies.

[baklajan]

Originally posted by FafnirChaos:

Originally posted by baklajan:

Dude, you can call me whoever you want, but I'm saying what happened. my friend, or rather my younger brother, bought this game a week ago to play with me. We both used this method to play not on public servers. From the first day he played only in the private lobby and only with me and did not use anything else except this file to play with me. and will you prove to me that this file is safe and you won’t get a ban for it?

People have been using it for years - the only person who says that got banned for using it is you. there are 3 different versions to it, and everyone who uses it says the same thing - you won't get banned.

If people got banned for using it there would be lots of posts about it - only way to get banned is to play normal lobbies or be a modder/hacker in normal lobbies.

You apparently didn't understand. we only played in the private lobby. only in the private lobby, should I repeat that again? I’m not saying that this file is the reason for the ban, but there is a possibility that it’s the reason, even if I’m the only one talking about it

[FafnirChaos]

Originally posted by baklajan:

Originally posted by FafnirChaos:

People have been using it for years - the only person who says that got banned for using it is you. there are 3 different versions to it, and everyone who uses it says the same thing - you won't get banned.

If people got banned for using it there would be lots of posts about it - only way to get banned is to play normal lobbies or be a modder/hacker in normal lobbies.

You apparently didn't understand. we only played in the private lobby. only in the private lobby, should I repeat that again? I’m not saying that this file is the reason for the ban, but there is a possibility that it’s the reason, even if I’m the only one talking about it

I would inclined to believe you if there was more people with said issue - you obviously did something - that or your little brother reported you to rockstar. It's a 100% controlled environment.

[baklajan]

Originally posted by FafnirChaos:

Originally posted by baklajan:

You apparently didn't understand. we only played in the private lobby. only in the private lobby, should I repeat that again? I’m not saying that this file is the reason for the ban, but there is a possibility that it’s the reason, even if I’m the only one talking about it

I would inclined to believe you if there was more people with said issue - you obviously did something - that or your little brother reported you to rockstar. It's a 100% controlled environment.

Maybe
I just want to find out the reason for such a ban, because the reason is not clear to me at the moment

[FafnirChaos]

Originally posted by baklajan:

Originally posted by FafnirChaos:

I would inclined to believe you if there was more people with said issue - you obviously did something - that or your little brother reported you to rockstar. It's a 100% controlled environment.

Maybe
I just want to find out the reason for such a ban, because the reason is not clear to me at the moment

I would do some research there is multiple ways to do the private lobbies - find out the best/easiest one for you - If this is a temporary ban - that means you cannot risk going into normal lobbies. Once your perma banned that's it.

What I would do is reinstall the game - make sure the folder is empty before hand - do all of the research you need for private lobbies - watch video's do whatever it is you need to do to make sure your private lobby is 100% then once your ban is over with - then do it - if you end up in a normal lobby you have the chance at being at the mercy of modders/hackers and could end up perma banned.

[Man o' War]

So when all's said and done the file is 100 percent safe regardless of those who would scare new players against it.

[STACHIO_lolz]

I have been using this for months now with no issues. I even switch back and forth between this and regular online and have had no issues.