RDO dead?

[pedagogiska leksaker]

How is online? Is it completely dead or have the cheaters taken over rdo? Is it even worth trying rdo again after so many years

[DMW]

Sadly enough public lobbies are a truly terrible experience as one encounters lots of hackers/modders/griefers (just look at the countless threads in here about that issue). Many of those go out of their way to mar the gaming experience of everyone else. :(

[BrownSuga8181]

Soooo not worth even trying online?

[Fishin]

Plenty of good groups using private lobbies.

[Silhouette]

A lot of folks turn to unofficial private sessions to keep the cheaters out, but if you're hoping to play in public lobbies you'll probably be happier playing anything else. :(

I wish that wasn't the case, but until Rockstar/Take-Two meaningfully addresses the cheating problem, Red Dead Online just isn't worth playing on PC.

[DMW]

Indeed - as has been said countless of times private lobbies are practically the only way to really be able to enjoy the game together with like-minded players/friends at this point.

(Why the game does not offer a friends-only/private session out of the box is a mystery. Same as it not having a text-chat option. Or why they stopped development and let this insanely beautiful game with such huge potential rot on the vine...) *sad*

@BrownSuga8181 - Do not get me wrong: This game is beautiful and online is great! Just not in public lobbies. Another issue is that there is not that much content to begin with and with development having stopped, we are very likely not to ever see anything new being added down the road :(

[Regine]

i wanted to ask this as well i really wanted to get back into it

[Pecheurman]

not dead at all, a consistent 2000 players for 4 years, can't call that dead in any ways.
but as said, many use private lobby to enjoy.
I would say, when you first get into online, the best is to begin in private lobbies, make money, understand how RDO works, and then when you want to do the online story/mission (which you can't do in private lobby) then go online and enjoy, and when you get tired of cheaters/players go back to private lobby.

and a little disclaimer, private lobby are free, you just need to understand how to do it and you have a guide on steam and couple video about it, it is fairly easy.

good game.

[Fishin]

Originally posted by Pecheurman:

... and then when you want to do the online story/mission (which you can't do in private lobby)

You can do all the online story missions in a private lobby as long as you have friends in the lobby with you.

[frogger1911]

yeah cheaters own public lobbies they have complete access to everything it does't help it being peer 2 peer so they can see everyone's ISP information including location etc so play with a VPN.

[bel]

dont bother, dont give a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ company money

[BiusArt]

Because of the problems with cheaters, my friends and I have been playing on a solo server for 6 months. I think many people have chosen this solution.

[castledevil09]

only with friends