In February, Red Dead Online receives updates. The team is now showing what it entails. Bounties will be adjusted and griefers will be curtailed. Additionally, there will be insights into daily quests.
What’s new? For a few weeks now, the team of Red Dead Online has announced that they want to improve the multiplayer experience. Now, there are details about it.
When is the February update coming? On February 26, a series of updates and features aimed at improving the beta of Red Dead Online will be released.
What is included in the updates? It involves changes to lawmen and bounties, player markings on the mini-map, weapon balance, and daily quests.
Features against griefers: Infamy, Visibility, and Bounties
What was the problem? Griefers are making life difficult for players in Red Dead Online. The rogues can recognize you far across the map and face little consequence for continually killing others.
What changes with the update: The visibility of players on the map will only be shown to other players when you are within a radius of 150 meters together. If you are more than 150 meters away and fire a shot, you will also be revealed.
You will not see players in other towns or regions.
Infamy and Feuds change
This is how the new infamy system works: This new feature is intended to act against particularly aggressive players. As infamy increases, the map position of the player and their posse will increasingly be colored from blue to dark red.
Infamy is increased through vile deeds such as killing or attacking other players or their horses. This only counts outside of events and game modes.
The shorter the time between actions, the faster infamy increases. If you behave well again, the bad reputation will gradually diminish.
Negotiation changes: The “Negotiate” option will appear soon after the first kill. This applies to the entire posse of the attacker. If you prefer to fight, you can soon declare a feud after the first kill as well.
Bounties and the Law
If there is a high bounty on a player and they fall into infamy, bounty hunters will soon be lurking for them.
How does the bounty increase? Your crimes drive your bounty up. The severity of the crime is taken into account. Killing other players greatly raises the bounty. Violence against villagers or animals results in smaller increases in bounty. Looting or theft only reduces your honor.
The higher the bounty, the harder it is to escape from the bounty hunters.
These are the daily challenges
More variety will soon be provided by the Daily Quests. With these challenges, you earn XP and Gold Nuggets.
What kind of tasks are these? As an example, Rockstar Games mentions:
- Collecting herbs
- Selling items to the fence
- Hunting and skinning animals
- Clearing gang hideouts
- Winning feuds
The selection of these tasks is to be regularly expanded, according to Rockstar. There will also be rewards for regularly completing challenges.
Changes to weapon balance and bonus weeks
The weapons in Red Dead Online will also be adjusted. The Varmint Rifle is to become as accurate as other repeating rifles.
More details about the weapon changes have not yet been provided.
Bonus Weeks: Until February 26, you will earn more XP when you play as a posse in Free-Roam missions or events. For the activities, there are double posse XP. Next week, you will earn 20% more XP in all activities in Red Dead Online.
Exact details about this update will be presented next week. What do you think of the changes?
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