Red Dead Online: 7 MAJOR Issues Rockstar Must Address
6. Other Players Can Ruin Your Fun Easily
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Towards the latter stages of GTA Online, most of the game's content revolved around active missions taking place in the open world. This was fine, for a little while, until it became apparent that the missions could only be completed in a lobby full of other players who could net their own little reward for pretty much ruining your own fun.
The same mechanic returns for Red Dead Online, and it's about as frustrating as you can imagine. Instead of having any sympathy for their fellow players, dishonourable outlaws will make it their number-one priority to make sure you don't complete a given stranger encounter, whether that be delivering cargo, picking up mail, or just something else entirely.
It's frustrating, if not entirely predictable, but it is an issue. Having a posse full of people is an effective deterrent, but not everyone who hops into Online will want to link up with other players, and certainly not when they're just getting to grips with the mode's mechanics.
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.
