Exploding players, immortality, or unfair money scams – the modders in Red Dead Redemption 2 Online can be really annoying. This issue is already known from GTA 5.
What’s going on in Red Dead Online? If you look on YouTube, Reddit, or Twitter, you often find situations where modders/hackers disrupt the game of Red Dead Online.
In GTA Online, this has been a problem, at least on PC, for years. With this ridiculously large transformer, modders eliminated players in online sessions. Again and again, you encounter annoying modders on PC who force you to switch sessions.
It seems that since the PC release of Red Dead Redemption 2, cases have also increased here.
Some teleport across the vast online world and suddenly appear in places they were kilometers away from moments before. Others really annoy their fellow players by setting them on fire or making them explode again and again. It has even rained burning boats in the game.
One example shows the video by SpyderDarts. Explosions keep appearing near his online character. He states in the video description that this is one of many encounters with cheaters in Red Dead Online.
“As soon as you ride with your horse, you will be teleported to the cheater.”
How do the modders do this? There are various ways to use cheats and mods in Red Dead Online. One of them is called mod menus. This effectively makes players nearly all-powerful.
They spawn vehicles, make themselves immortal, remove their wanted level, give themselves infinite money, can change the weather for every player in the world, and can even spawn a group of bodyguards to protect them. Not even locked doors can stop them.
If you search for mod menus for Red Dead Online on YouTube, you will find an astonishing number of results.
Some of the mod menus charge users a fee to apply the cheats. Some even cost players their virtual money in a lobby. In the following video, YouTuber Zerdical shows how modders suck money from him in a session of Red Dead Online. He is repeatedly charged the camp fee of $1.
In GTA Online, hackers used this trick to steal players’ money.
Others report that modders spawn animals on the map like crazy. Sometimes to farm their pelts. But sometimes just to annoy players.
On the Twitter account @galacticteeth, there is a video where a hacker spawned about 30 bears in Saint Denis. This also happened in a lobby with PC players.
What is Rockstar doing about it? It seems that the developer is already taking drastic steps against cheaters. In a forum, some players report that they were banned. They claim they used cheats like “infinite stamina and deadeye”, “one-shot kill”, or even “troll menus” (via unknowncheats.me). There was apparently a large ban wave with which Rockstar is going against the cheaters.
We are curious whether the situation will calm down soon. The Steam release of Red Dead Redemption 2 went well:
