Yeah I'm all pre loaded and the launcher doesn't give a countdown, pretty shoddy.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 11:55 |
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Apparently it's not live in New Zealand yet :-/ (currently 12:20am on November 5)
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 12:21 |
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I played through the single player on PS4 but never played multiplayer. My goal for the PC version is just to wander around the beautiful world while listening to podcasts, and I'm not sure whether I should do that in SP or Online. SP has some chill goals like looking for dinosaur bones and cave paintings, does Online have stuff like that? Does Online have any extra stuff added to the map like interesting little locations and huts etc? If Online is going to keep adding new stuff then it sounds like the place to be, but again, my goal is just relaxed traversal of the map with occasional stumbling upon something interesting. The thing about not having any Arthur / Player dialogue while wandering around in Online sounds like a bummer... How do I say howdy to NPCs?
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 12:45 |
ApparentlySome Games Website posted:We have received confirmation from Rockstar that Red Dead Redemption 2 will unlock at 5am PT/ 8am ET / 1pm GMT on November 5th globally. This will mean Red Dead Redemption 2 won't unlock until 2am on November 6th in New Zealand, for example
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 12:47 |
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fuf posted:I played through the single player on PS4 but never played multiplayer. There's the collector role for online, which allows you to find collectible items while out in the world. Completing a collectible set can net you a let of money. Pretty much all of the neat little locales and whatnot are in the online game too. There's emotes and you can tap them to do actions such as waving at NPCs, who will generally respond with a greeting of some kind.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 13:02 |
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1am here in Australia and still nothing. I tried verifying the game cache a couple of times and after the checks it said "ready to play" which got me rather excited, but just a false alarm. Fingers crossed for the morning!
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 15:12 |
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So is there an epic store preload?
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 16:43 |
i must compose posted:So is there an epic store preload? that feature literally doesn't exist You could preload Borderlands because Epic had Gearbox do it
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 16:48 |
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fuf posted:I played through the single player on PS4 but never played multiplayer. Online is the same world so you can still wander around and find neat places there, and it sounds like the Collector profession is what you’re looking for. that said, for sure SP is much more lived in to this point in terms of character interaction. Being a mute in Online is always gonna be more limiting than being able to literally converse with every NPC as Arthur in SP. Though most people don’t know, NPCs in Online actually do react to your emotes the same way they respond to Arthur’s greet/antagonize in single player, if in a more limited fashion. No robbing and whatnot yet though. For full immersion, SP is definitely still where it’s at. They continue to evolve and add to Online though and from the interviews they did earlier this summer it sounds like they’ve got a pretty ambitious content roadmap planned out towards expanding the role playing experience. Talk of adding roles, expanding the current ones in their natural evolution, player property and player to player businesses and storefronts, etc. Edit: I missed the thing about wandering around listening to podcasts. Feel like Online is better suited to that, more mindless immersive activities and loops, less active story you’ll have to turn down the podcast to participate in
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 17:04 |
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Uh, I've preloaded and am ready to be a cowboy. I don't consoles so I'm going into this raw and uncut and am excited for the online mode the most tbh
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 17:15 |
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fuf posted:SP has some chill goals like looking for dinosaur bones and cave paintings, does Online have stuff like that? Does Online have any extra stuff added to the map like interesting little locations and huts etc? If Online is going to keep adding new stuff then it sounds like the place to be, but again, my goal is just relaxed traversal of the map with occasional stumbling upon something interesting. Transmogrifier posted:There's the collector role for online, which allows you to find collectible items while out in the world. Completing a collectible set can net you a let of money. Pretty much all of the neat little locales and whatnot are in the online game too. This is pretty much how I am playing the game. So long as you aren't trying to grind as fast as possible (which you can do if you want to look at an online map) collecting because a chill way to explore and pass the time and eventually get enough stuff for a big payout. Hunting for the trader role is also a lot of fun for exploring (and the two go well together) so long as you avoid the regular bug of Cripps packing up your camp. I do think that there could be more cool online stuff and I am looking forward to the additions. I dunno if there are dinosaur bones and cave paintings but I haven't been out looking for them. Maybe I should. I have run into a bunch of random encounters which is fun.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 17:15 |
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I look forward to organizing some fun goon social events half a dozen times before I burn out realizing (again) that goons just want to grind.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 17:24 |
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Alright I think I'm gonna try Online first! Will be fun to play fresh content rather than replaying the prologue etc. again anyway. Thanks. I'm definitely gonna get an SP save going at some point too though because I miss Arthur.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 17:35 |
Is there a discord for online?
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 18:39 |
If you need a discord for online and there isnt one, let me know. I can add a channel to the one I admin.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 20:09 |
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Oh man, I'm unbelievably tempted to buy this right now. I've been dying for a proper open world cowboy game on the PC since GUN failed to live up to my expectations. Is the pacing really as slow as people say? I've heard that the entire first chapter is pretty much just a walking simulator with some unexciting activities to do. And how excessive is the survival stuff? I'm not a fan of needing to manage hundreds of different meters just to stay alive for 40 ingame minutes.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 20:20 |
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Deakul posted:Is the pacing really as slow as people say? I've heard that the entire first chapter is pretty much just a walking simulator with some unexciting activities to do. It takes a while to open up properly, but not that long, maybe a couple of hours max. Just think of it as building atmosphere. It's worth it. Deakul posted:And how excessive is the survival stuff? I'm not a fan of needing to manage hundreds of different meters just to stay alive for 40 ingame minutes. It's fine. It adds flavour but you can ignore it all. The combat is (too) easy so it's no big deal if your meters are low. You don't actually die or anything.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 20:27 |
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Another thing to consider is that there is a lot of cinematic cut scenes in the game too, especially in the beginning. A lot of your time is spent watching a movie.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 20:38 |
Rockstar confirmed the 8 am et release time in a tweet.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 20:42 |
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What is the Red Dead Online sandbox like? I really enjoyed some of the single-player activities like the hunting, minigames, the bank-robberies (ESPECIALLY the bank robberies) and the weird misc stuff. Is that stuff in RDO too? I'd be buying the PC version basically entirely for that. I assume the PC version will be cheater and griefer central but I'd be willing to put up with that if I got to rob banks and poo poo.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 20:45 |
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fuf posted:It takes a while to open up properly, but not that long, maybe a couple of hours max. Just think of it as building atmosphere. It's worth it. Alright cool, how about things like... animations for doing any little thing? Do they get faster the more you do them or are you watching Arthur painstakingly skin a deer rear end every single time?
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 20:48 |
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Pierson posted:What is the Red Dead Online sandbox like? I really enjoyed some of the single-player activities like the hunting, minigames, the bank-robberies (ESPECIALLY the bank robberies) and the weird misc stuff. Is that stuff in RDO too? I'd be buying the PC version basically entirely for that. There are missions where you can do things like jailbreaks, rescues, and other stranger missions you could encounter in single player. There are no bank robbery missions since it would mean money galore. There are unique missions available only if you're at dishonorable, if you're in offensive mode, and/or if you're in a posse too.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 20:49 |
Does that mean no unique missions if you are honorable?
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 20:52 |
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Transmogrifier posted:There are missions where you can do things like jailbreaks, rescues, and other stranger missions you could encounter in single player. There are no bank robbery missions since it would mean money galore. There are unique missions available only if you're at dishonorable, if you're in offensive mode, and/or if you're in a posse too.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 20:54 |
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Pierson posted:That's a good answer, thanks! Even if you can't rob banks I assume you can do 'normal' stuff for fun like robbing stores and doing train robberies? If it isn't obvious I really like causing chaos in these games. I've never robbed a store but I wouldn't be surprised if you still can because it's not a huge payout. You can definitely still rob folks though.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 20:55 |
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Game preloaded, releases at 1pm here, and after work my wife is out until late The only thing that makes me sad is that having been released for a while, it might be well polished. Oh well here's hoping for some PC-exclusive glitches
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 20:59 |
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This must be your first Rockstar game. The only polish they have are named candy and holly and they're paid for by the money we gave to the benzies.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 21:23 |
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Deakul posted:Oh man, I'm unbelievably tempted to buy this right now. The beginning is very railroaded but it's still over faster than like any JRPG's slow opening.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 21:27 |
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cheesetriangles posted:Does that mean no unique missions if you are honorable? No it just means you have to be a goody goody for some of them and a right bastard for the others. There is a dude you can pay to change your rep as needed. Its hard to keep dishonourable actually. Almost eveything you do gets you positive honour, even feeding your horse.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 22:24 |
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gently caress yeah lets do this thing.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 22:36 |
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Great so I can’t play until I get home from work on the 6th. 😭
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 22:40 |
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I decided to go ahead and adopt an old Discord server for Red Dead shenanigans. If you need some channels made for your posse, let me [Hennessy] know. https://discord.gg/yRkJgbk
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 22:44 |
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I’m mildly annoyed that the release isn’t until 8am ET (which makes it midnight on the 6th here), but why the gently caress couldn’t they tell us this days ago. It was 7am on the 5th when that tweet appeared 🙄
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 23:16 |
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This week's legendary bounty is another one that did nothing wrong and should be a quest giver.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 23:23 |
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Zigmidge posted:This must be your first Rockstar game. The only polish they have are named candy and holly and they're paid for by the money we gave to the benzies. I played lemmings and gta 1 from when they were DMA design actually, all through gta 5 and that's exactly why I do expect jank and would be disappointed if everything ran smoothly Haven't been keeping up with modern consoles though so I am going in fresh hopefully the story lives up to the hype.
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 23:24 |
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Capn Beeb posted:This week's legendary bounty is another one that did nothing wrong and should be a quest giver. That plus I don't give a gently caress about helping Leviticus Cornwall
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 23:26 |
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poo poo I forgot they made lemmings dma/rockstar has been in my life even longer than I realized
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 23:26 |
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Zigmidge posted:poo poo I forgot they made lemmings They ruined many a child's life Just as I wish to do with my lasso, stealing their young mothers as a good criminal must
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 23:29 |
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Deakul posted:Alright cool, how about things like... animations for doing any little thing? Do they get faster the more you do them or are you watching Arthur painstakingly skin a deer rear end every single time? they sped them up in online but no they stay the same speed in SP. they’re really not that long though, you’re not gonna be skimming so many deer asses in a row that it’s likely going to be any real imposition. but it is important to realize the game is designed to be played at a very deliberate pace, and attempts to play it faster or idk gamier the way you would fly from waypoint you waypoint in an Ubisoft game are going to result in frustration just enjoy the game as it comes to you. if skinning poo poo is too tedious nothing stopping you from just eating general store canned goods or candy until Arthur plumps up like a big goon
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 23:33 |
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Would it not make sense to use the Red Dead Goons discord server for pc also? or has the moderator of that jumped ship?
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# ? Nov 4, 2019 23:34 |