Red Dead Redemption 2: 8 Things It Must Fix From GTA Online
7. Servers For Different Kinds Of Players
Rockstar
Open up GTA Online and, on a bad night, you're likely to spend most of your time outrunning a player jetting around blowing everyone up. The only alternative is to enter 'passive mode', in which case you become a ghost and are unable to participate in any other in-game activities. On a good day, you might be able to get away with a skirmish or two, but - for the most part - the servers were populated with trolls, griefers, and the kinds of people who leave their microphone in and think blurting a non-stop stream of Eminem is considered 'a good time'.
The only way to get around this was to link up with your own pals and enter a server of your own, but as new missions had to be completed in a public server with others, it made it virtually impossible for players to get a stress-free experience.
This is why Red Dead Online should have as wide a selection of servers as possible. Introduce a free-aim server, where those who toggle off auto-aim can test their marksmanship against each other; a Co-Op server, where PVP combat is disabled; or even just do a better job of lumping in toxic players with other toxic players - anything to ensure players can get the most out of their time online.
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.
