Red Dead Online Review (7Beans)
Play this with caution, Modders have complete control in this game. The best equivalent i can make is, every lobby is a gta5 Loose RP server with power tripping Mods. At any point you can be targeted for nothing.
Be me for a sec and imagine this scenario. Im taking my hides to sell them to a buyer. Out of nowhere a guy teleports next to my wagon, kills me, destroys the wagon. after i respawn he teleports over and over again to kill me. "fine, new lobby" *loads up new lobby, plays for 30 seconds, gets killed, realizes he followed me, because all you need in RDR2 online servers is someones in game tag to force themselves into you're lobby*.
the "online" problem for this game is worse than the reviews make it out. Every lobby has at least one cheater, and they OWN THE GAME. For one let start out by pointing out its near impossible to get these guys banned, so long as they take even the most minor precautions. as i said, modders have total control of the game, and have many ways to keep you from reporting. my least favorite is when they crash your game before you can ever finish the report. They can also change names, resulting in others being reported who weren't cheating. plenty of those stories floating around. This game doesn't have dedid servers either, its peer to peer and for those in the crowd that means all the players are basically connecting to each other.... which means without a vpn, all they need is simply to be in you're lobby to get ips, and you're screwed if they so choose. some examples of the endless grief you'll see in this game is: endless tp killing, your horse will never live long enough to see you, you cant retaliate bc they cant be killed or harmed in any way, they can cage you in place, freeze your character, crash you're game, and i haven't even brought up ddos. Just don't bother with this game, unless you just really like being bullied GTA5 RP SissyMod style.
Now id like to address directly to the people who think this is just a salty bs review, and the mod greifing isn't as bad as i making it out to be. Go on YouTube and twitch, and look how healthy the content community is for Online. It ins't healthy, and anyone who does make content has addressed this issue, with much more frustration than I.
Ill wrap this up by pointing out to anyone whose hopeful Rockstar will fix this issue, this has been a problem since release, and they've watched it get worse while doing nothing. no hope for this heaping pile of online grief fest.
Edit: i almost forgot. most importantly, if you do buy the game, under no circumstances, for any reason, not even on opposite day, open a chest you don't know for a fact is supposed to be there. if you find a chest, you better look on YouTube and Google until you can verify that's a real chest. Modders spawn in chests that give you gold.... and a permanent ban. Yeah that's right, Rockstar doesn't ban the cheater who spawned the chest, they ban the level 3 account who didn't know any better for opening it, because Rockstar doesn't care about cheaters greifing, they only care when someones getting premium currency for free instead of paying them.