Red Dead Online has annoyed many fans with the latest update. The update for the Bounty Hunter class is more expensive and has less content than previous classes. The Battle Pass has also become more expensive and offers less content. Read here on MeinMMO what is currently upsetting the fans.
What has recently happened in Red Dead Online? Since December 1, 2020, you can play the online mode of Red Dead Redemption 2 – Red Dead Online – for a low price separate from the main game.
Recently, an update was released that expanded the Bounty Hunter class and introduced a new Battle Pass, the Outlaw Pass 4. To the dismay of fans, however, both additions fell short of expectations and caused frustration.
And we’re not just talking about the glitch that currently catapults players miles away:
New Bounty Hunter offers less content and costs more
What is the problem with the Bounty Hunter? The Bounty Hunter class already exists. Those who obtain the license can access this class. With the current update, a second license, the “Prestigious Bounty Hunter License,” has been introduced. It includes 10 new tiers for the Bounty Hunter, which can be unlocked for 15 gold bars, equivalent to about 6 euros.
According to Polygon, this is more than what was paid for the two previous new classes of Moonshiner and Naturalist. These two classes offered more goodies, such as a personal bar or special NPCs.
However, with the new Bounty Hunter, the few innovations are hidden behind paywalls once again. According to an angry reddit user, an eye patch costs 15 gold and a variant of a pistol costs 21 gold bars. The new bounty hunter wagon is also just a reskin of the old version for additional real money.
In a video by YouTuber SilentC0re, the frustration is summarized well:
Less gold bars from dailies: With the update, there was a change to the daily challenges. They used to yield a good amount of gold bars. Now this has been reduced to one-tenth of the previous sum.
It is now much harder to unlock the new content with earned gold. According to players on reddit, this step mainly serves to monetize the game even better. One user summarizes the sentiment there:
Remember, they released RDO as a stand-alone and now they have an excuse to treat it like a free-to-play game.
User For_Answer on reddit
New Outlaw Pass annoys fans with fillers and furry belt buckles
What annoys fans about the new Outlaw Pass: The 4th Outlaw Pass is more expensive than the three previous passes. The price of 40 gold bars (16 euros) is the same, but you only get a total of 30 bars back over the course of the pass. Previously, you could recover the full costs in gold.
Now this is only possible if you buy the pass one week after release; then you get another 10 bars as a bonus. However, if you unlock the pass later, you lose a quarter of the value of the pass.
Additionally, the pass overall falls short of expectations. No new costume is unlocked at level 1, which had always been the case before. Instead, there are a lot of filler items, including backgrounds and poses for photo sessions.
The few clothing items that can be unlocked are simply ridiculous in the eyes of many players. Belt buckles that depict well-known NPCs as anthropomorphic animals are particularly controversial.
Such “furry belt buckles” are not well received by some fans, and there are many threads on reddit expressing frustration. In one post on reddit, it becomes apparent that one of the belt buckles essentially shows a Khajiit from ESO:
User Bobemor summarizes the situation well:
The most annoying thing for me is that this would have been just a small joke in a big update that the community could have laughed about and enjoyed ironically. Instead, it is one of the few real items in this pass. It is literally one of the few items that the developers really invested time in. It’s ridiculous.
Furthermore, the new pass includes useful quality-of-life improvements, such as the ability to cook more meat or carry more ammunition. However, these are only available for gold when you purchase the pass.
Many users are therefore less inclined to invest time in the game. Another user wrote in an appropriate comment on YouTube:
“They basically told us to play Cyberpunk 2077.”
With all the frustration currently plaguing the Red Dead Online community, it might be better to replay the good old Red Dead Redemption 2 in single-player mode. A 65-year-old player does virtually nothing else and has already completed Red Dead Redemption 2 30 times.
