Red Dead Online: 10 Essential Tips & Tricks You Need To Know
10. Join Story Matchmaking
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If you're not particularly fussed about Red Dead Online's story, you could do a lot worse than to queue in a matchmaking lobby and partake in issues out of order. The latter stages of the game will net players payouts in the region of $100-ish dollars, as opposed to the earlier levels, which can fetch as little as a measly five bucks, or about 12 carrots for your horse.
Of course, the main issue here is that, once you've completed these missions, you won't get paid again. Whereas before players could repeatedly play story missions in GTA Online to net a quick and easy profit, they'll now have to look elsewhere.
It is, like many things in Red Dead Online, needlessly frustrating. However, the story missions are pretty enjoyable, and take between 10-15 minutes to complete. As a result, they should be every player's first port of call in looking to strike it rich in the open world.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
