In Red Dead Online players have found a trick to get into solo lobbies recently. This allows exploring the Wild West without other players.
What has changed in Red Dead Online: If you played Red Dead Online with a poor internet connection, it could happen that you would occasionally get kicked from the game. However, these sudden disconnects are said to no longer occur.
Instead of getting kicked from the game and potentially losing progress, players are now reporting a new feature. They should now receive a notification that they are entering a new game session due to a network error.
Several players are currently discussing the topic. For example, YouTuber “Hazard” explains how such a “network error” now manifests in Red Dead Online:
The special thing: In this lobby, there are no other players present, and you move entirely alone through the game. You effectively land in a solo lobby – a feature that Red Dead Online did not have before.
“Solo lobbies are like heaven, bad internet is your angel”
What the players say: Looking through the comments, many players see more than just a small fix for connection problems in this feature.
To get into these quasi-solo lobbies, players have already found ways to exploit the “disconnects” as a means. For instance, you can adjust the MTU settings on the PS4 to be assigned to such a lobby in the game – a trick that was employed years ago in Red Dead Online’s big brother GTA Online.
Some have apparently been waiting for the opportunity of a solo lobby for a long time – and now see a chance. One player writes: “With solo lobbies, I will play every day” (via YouTube), another writes: “Solo lobbies are like heaven, bad internet is your angel” (via YouTube).
The reasons for this lie, for example, in the fact that some players want to ride through the Wild West in peace, without having to fear griefers and surprise attacks. In solo lobbies, you can move without having to react to other players – but the multiplayer aspects also fall away. Fun role-playing with other players, such as currently on a prison server of Red Dead Online, is then out. However, you also won’t be constantly attacked by griefers.
Griefers are players who make it a point to attack other players repeatedly for fun. What lies behind this has been examined more closely by MeinMMO author Andreas Bertits: Here you can find the interview with a griefer.
