Wow, that was quick – shortly after Take-Two announced the Red Dead Online beta would end within the next two months, it’s happened. The game is leaving beta today, and is celebrating with a major new content update that introduces new co-op missions, expands Free Roam, and (importantly) adds poker. You’ll never adventure outside the gambling room again.
In Rockstar’s update post, the developer thanked “everyone who participated during the beta period”.
“Your feedback has been instrumental in helping us fine tune the game so far with many of your suggestions implemented in today’s update, and we will continue to implement more of your feedback in future updates to come.”
So, what’s in this one? Alongside an overhaul of the hostility system to reduce griefing (which we already knew about), players can expect to see expansions to the Jessica LeClerk story campaign with both honourable and dishonourable missions. On the good boah path, players battle the Del Lobos gang and help Tom Davies save Valentine, while the path of evil leads to a highway robbery and bank theft. Either way, you wind up at Blackwater “with a dangerous adversary”. I don’t know what this says about morality.