The roles of Red Dead Online are at their best when things go wrong

While my friends were having fun looking for treasure and picking up skins, I chose the bounty hunter's path. This is the simplest profession of the three: I get a bonus, I collect the premium death or alive (but hopefully alive), I hand over the premium.

Simple, no? It is indeed possible to play Red Dead Online as a Hitman game – enter, stealthily, kill all those who are on your way and get your hands clean. But me and my group play a little more messy … and we have fun while experimenting. We may not be the most knowledgeable crew of the West, but we are certainly the ones who laugh the most when my stupid big horse Hayseed mows in a camp full of bandits.

Hit the road

The current Frontier Pursuits system contains some bugs and flaws that make things a little strange. It seems that Rockstar has corrected and corrected many of the visual errors that were causing me. The cuts are cut across the board and the clothes are more snug. The cheekbones of my character have naturally returned to the place, and his skin has a less perspiring brilliance as soon as the slightest light hits his face. The basic game feels more polished, which makes smaller things stand out more.

For example, the bonus table system started giving us rehearsals. In a particularly memorable case, my boyfriend and I were tasked to bring Tarcer "Tuggs" McGrath three times over the course of a day. At the third time, we were pissed. This had staff.

"We come for you, TUGGS! We screamed as we climbed a hill. "You do not escape this time, Tuggs! "

Paying attention to bonus tips and adopting this devilish attitude is perhaps a pleasure for us. At one point, we read the bonus of a woman who had entered a cemetery and pissed on the graves of her in-laws. No, we will not pursue it. Absolutely not.

The couple who murdered the spouses and abandoned their children? We grabbed this bonus in one second and, while my buddy Jake stuck the face of the target in the mud, he shouted, "You had a boy! And you have it ABANDONED!

We had not played for a few months, but the fire was burning in our veins and we had recovered our character.

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Wild, Wild West

We were in character and saddle, but we were not quite expert bounty hunters that we wanted to be again. At our very first bonus as a full-fledged gang, my friends slipped silently on a hill. I checked my daily challenges and realized that I had the gift of trampling the enemies with my horse. So, Hayseed and I loaded right there, and my friends all started screaming after me. In chaos, our generosity slid off a hill and paused in the plains of West Hanover.

Another time, a bonus took a break in the woods. We made sure to kill his accomplices for not having resistance, and then we went back to see … our bounty had died somewhere in those trees.

"Huh," I said. "I wonder what happened there."

As I walked through the woods, I realized what had happened very quickly: a huge grizzly crouched on our bounty. I shouted, Hayseed screamed, and I was rid of my saddle, left to become another meal for this bear.

Maybe that's why I was a bit nervous when we later discovered a bonus claiming to have a domesticated bear by its side. We laughed sensibly at that one. Who tames a bear? Later, when we crossed his camp, something big and furious struck my friend and yelled with terror. It was just a pig, but at the time, I did not know it. I thought it was this ugly ursine, back for revenge.

Also, do not ask me how I found this one, but you can not deposit bonus on a moving train and get the bonus to keep it alive. It's incredibly embarrassing to have to bring back a corpse without arms.

Listen, I'm trying to understand all that, okay? It's not a crime, and I would know it. I am an expert in crime solving.

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Overlay of updates

The best moments of Red Dead Online occur when the events and random opportunities of the world overlap. Sometimes, when we travel, we stop looking for arrowheads or hunting deer for our camps. The long periods of having little to do have been replaced and we are focusing on many small scale goals.

Random events on the road had already changed the game, but the Frontier Pursuit update has added new ones, and it's justifiably hilarious to see how they can perform on a bonus hunting mission. At one point, I was going as fast as possible after a bonus, only to see a man scream for help. His wife was in a carriage pulled by horses in panic. I had to choose between trying to stop my target and save the woman, panicking and finally having no goals. The bonus ran off while the mourning man watched his wife sneak over a fence and descend into a canyon. Nobody was happy with me!

Another time, we were chasing a jewelry thief when a friendly dog ​​approached us and barked at us. We decided that it was worthwhile to interrupt our hunt to verify this. Surely a dog would not we mislead? We followed the dog out of our way … and then we realized that we had been ambushed while bandits came out of nowhere, arms pulled.

This is the moment when I can say that it made me appreciate the new update of Red Dead Online. Instead, the frame allows you to create a dozen smaller moments at a gaming night with friends. I have some stuff to do, and the game leaves me enough ground to stay interesting. It is a glorious cacophony of chaos, where many small goals must be achieved … and branched out into organic stories and opportunities for chaos. Red Dead Online is not a game yet. I've been to solo for too long, but with a few friends I've had a blast.