Even in the online mode of Red Dead Redemption 2, there is the ability Dead Eye. However, it works differently in Red Dead Online than players are already familiar with.

Players of Red Dead Redemption 2 know Dead Eye already as a handy ability that simplifies combat. While the ability evolves throughout the story in the single-player mode and players can “level up” Dead Eye through various tasks, in Red Dead Online the system is tied to ability cards.

This is Dead Eye in Red Dead Online

This is how Dead Eye differs in RDO: While Dead Eye slows down time in single-player mode, the ability has been adjusted for Red Dead Online. Since the mode is played online with other human outlaws, time slowing has been removed.

The ability also does not automatically evolve or is leveled up by players through specific tasks. Ability cards now determine how Dead Eye behaves in online mode.

This is how you use the skill in multiplayer: You use Dead Eye in Red Dead Online the same way as in the campaign. While you aim with your weapon using the left trigger of your controller, you can activate Dead Eye by pressing the right analog stick.

If you want to access your skills loadout, which includes Dead Eye, in online mode, select the weapon wheel with LB/L1 and then press Y/Triangle.

There you will see your card slots and can customize Dead Eye with various ability cards. Additional slots will be unlocked at levels 10, 20, and 40.

With these cards, you customize Dead Eye: At the beginning of your online adventure, three cards for Dead Eye are already unlocked:

• Concentrated Fire: While Dead Eye is active, you and your teammates deal a bit more damage. If teammates have the same card equipped, the effect does not stack.
• Crossfire: While Dead Eye is active, you can mark opponents while aiming. Pull the trigger to shoot at all marked targets. Each shot consumes Dead Eye.
• Short Breather: While Dead Eye is active, you gradually restore health. If you take damage, Dead Eye ends.

The respective cards can be leveled up and improved. Three levels are available for each ability.

The cards are improved with XP. The first three cards, which are already unlocked at the beginning of the game, require 10,000 experience points for the next level.

Three more cards will be unlocked as you progress through levels. You unlock the abilities at ranks 24, 44, and 50:

• Rank 24 – Steady Drop: While Dead Eye is active, you take slightly less damage and headshots do not kill you instantly. However, you cannot run or sprint.
• Rank 44 – A True Inspiration: While Dead Eye is active, you and your allies gradually restore health. If teammates have the same card equipped, the effect does not stack.
• Rank 50 – Slippery Bastard: While Dead Eye is active, enemy players cannot target you, but you cannot target them either. You become slightly harder to hit for other enemies. Dead Eye is consumed drastically.

As players level up, they are frequently rewarded with new ability cards. Also, cards that enhance other aspects of the character. In return, some cards, including those for Dead Eye, can also be purchased with in-game currency.

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The in-game prices of Red Dead Online are causing players a lot of frustration. Players are annoyed and are asking Rockstar to adjust these prices. Compared to the single player in Red Dead Redemption 2, some items are even 60 times more expensive.

For a few days now, players can enjoy themselves in the online mode of Red Dead Redemption 2. In the beta phase, players are supposed to get a first impression of the multiplayer. Developer Rockstar aims to improve this along with feedback from the community.

According to fans, there is significant need for change in one area: the in-game prices. These are considered too high, and players have to grind too much. The payment for the performance feels unfair.

How expensive are items in Red Dead Online?

The high prices are among the 10 things that bother players the most about Red Dead Online. In Red Dead Online, there are 2 currencies: dollars and gold.

• Dollars can be easily earned in Red Dead Online. You earn them by completing missions, hunting, selling pelts, or through various competitive game modes in Red Dead Online.
• Gold functions as a premium currency. You can use gold bars to buy cosmetic items, unlock certain items earlier, or reset the player’s honor level.

Gold will be available for purchase with real money in the future. Rockstar has not yet disclosed how much the bars will cost and in which packages they can be purchased. In the current beta of Red Dead Online, players can find gold nuggets. These are rewards for completing missions, finding treasures, or for playing PvP modes.

Once players have collected 100 nuggets, they can be turned into a gold bar. Many refer to the effort required to obtain a gold bar as an unnecessary grind.

On Reddit, countless posts can be found stating that the in-game prices are set far too high and that the rewards are far too low. This combination decreases the enjoyment of the game.

Gold prices – “That’s way too much grind!”

How long does it take to farm a gold bar? Players have already calculated how much time it takes to earn a gold bar. User UnavailableIDs came to the conclusion that it takes just over 8 hours to earn one of these coveted gold bars.

How much do the items cost? Some things can only be purchased with gold bars in Red Dead Online. And some of them are really expensive. On Reddit, a user explains that it costs 30 gold bars to gild all metals of a weapon. With 8 hours of gameplay per gold bar, that would mean at least 10 full days of playtime.

A user remarks: “Really, Rockstar? This is just ridiculous. That I have to pay gold bars to customize my weapons is…just wow” (via Reddit)

The first horse you receive can be insured for free. Future horses will cost a one-time fee of 5 gold bars for insurance. Horse insurance automatically heals horses after they die. Horses without insurance must wait a 2-minute cooldown after death, and there is a small fee to heal them. It’s a practical feature, but it costs a lot of gameplay hours.

The monetary prices are disproportionate

Players also criticize the dollar prices. On Reddit, user ConvictedWaffles writes, “A gold wedding ring is sold for $1.15. A can of baked beans costs $1.50. I think we should give Rockstar some feedback.”

Many players complain about the increased dollar prices compared to the single player. User HassanZ42 asks, “How can it be justified that the Mauser pistol costs $225 in single player and $1000 in online mode?” He would understand raising prices slightly to prevent players from becoming overpowered too quickly. But that a weapon costs 4.4 times more is “damn ridiculous.” He adds, “If no reliable method for earning money or an exploit arises, I see the online mode as dead for me and many others.”

User Arch27 writes: “There’s a plain white t-shirt that costs $5 in single player and $60 in multiplayer. I think a slight price increase is okay, but 12 times the price of single player?”

Ongoing costs are too high: Players also complain about the costs that arise incidentally. The bills for the camp or the stable regularly deduct money. “Automated deductions of around $1.75 or so are made from your account. That’s almost as much as some missions pay. If you are not currently earning money in Red Dead Online, it disappears at a frightening speed,” writes user Dreary_Libido.

Fans draw comparisons to GTA Online

The online mode of Red Dead Redemption 2 is repeatedly compared to the online mode of GTA 5. “GTA Online also has ongoing costs,” it is said, “but these were negligible because you simply possess so much more money.”

In GTA Online, missions and heists pay out thousands of dollars to millions. However, there is no premium currency in GTA Online. Everything is paid for with the same currency. This made it easy for players to develop methods to quickly earn money in GTA 5 Online.  They can then use that to pay for the expensive cars and properties in GTA Online.

Yet players are also dissatisfied with the grind in GTA Online and say that everything is expensive there.

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Will Rockstar change the prices?

Players hope that now, through their feedback, they will get Rockstar to make the in-game prices of Red Dead Online more reasonable.

What do the fans want? There is a general consensus that good weapons should not simply be “handed out”. However, it should be worthwhile to play. Players should not be punished for playing by having camps and stables potentially making them poor.

It is repeatedly mentioned that players should definitely share their feedback with Rockstar. The developers announced that they will improve the online experience based on feedback together with players. The hope is that Rockstar lowers the prices and makes it easier to earn money or gold.

If you have feedback, you can share it with the Red Dead Online team at reddeadonline.com/feedback .

Do you also think the prices are too high, or is it okay to grind for weapons for a long time?

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