Next Red Dead Redemption title update hunts down cheaters

while being griefed is never fun and i applaud any effort to curtail it, it does seem kinda ironic since,as joystiq mentions, outlaws are an inescapable part of the Old West.

Thank You!!!!!

so it's a good thing i haven't gotten this game yet. Cheaters like that have kept me away from Call of Duty and Gears of War games

I admit that I did a bit of griefing in this game, but have since repented and have spent the past couple of weeks roaming around in a posse, killing anybody we see griefing.

Although the poor victims occasionally start shooting at us after we save them.

Is it so wrong that I have a habit of killing someone or shooting their horse dead in free roam before switching over to a versus session?

Honestly, this is going to make it more appealing to kill players. There are several challenges that warrant you becoming most wanted - and this will only make it easier to complete those challenges.

I don't see anything wrong with starting fights in Free Roam. Isn't that what it's all about - freedom? Tons of people gang up on me when I'm going for those wanted challenges, and I expect it. That's part of what makes it fun for me.

exactly what is a title update?

I hope this fixes all the glitches in the multiplayer. I gave up trying to play online because every session I would get stuck on a loading screen and have to exit out of the game.

I always do it like this: If someone kills me in free roam I keep killing them until they leave. If no one attacks me I leave everyone alone.

It's about time, I always wondered why you couldn't pick your respawn spot ( well i guess you still can't, but it's a step in the right direction).

It's not so much people killing me that gives me problems, it's just how/where you spawn afterwards.. it's usually like 6 feet away from where you just died... resulting in death over death over death if the other player is being a douche...

yes it makes me rage quit, and yes it's one reason why i barely touch online much anymore.

and yes i am well aware i can play with my friends and avoid these problems, but we all don't have the luxury of having friends with all the same games...

WTF I thought it was "Free" Roam? Now we're going to be monitored and players are going to be babied?

Since when did Rockstar join the casual game market?

Well after an update like this i give it 2 days before we can gamesave again. Have fun rockstar

They should call the updates something like Federal Marshall mandates and could name the mandates something like Rooster Cogburn's decree... That would be pleasantly entertaining.

I think this is a great way to handle "Griefers"... Ahem... Infinity Ward.... Ahem!!

Make the ones who are cheating pay in the game they are playing by calling them out! nice!

I don't get what the big deal is.. shoot back!

I've had griefers come after me a few times.. and it actually ends up being fun. I kill them, they kill me.. back and forth, and when i get bored, i change to a different free roam.. no big deal.

so getting the most wanted trophy is now more easy ... that's not really fair i had to get it the hard way with no boosting and now people who constantly kill and kill and kill you time after time can easily become most wanted, their's even the challenge for getting 10 most wanted and higher and it's just gonna cause more people too kill other players to get the XP from that challenge.


This is a Bad idea things will be more choatic then they are now i think it's a stupid move.

Man how small does your Pen!$ have to be to have or want to cheat or Hack a game???
Go order some of that Smilin Bob stuff... Loser.
Then get a life.

I've never griefed in a game before me and a buddy went on a rampage and camped people in RDR free roam. I know it was a dick thing to do, but I actually felt like a cowboy, hunting down a bounty or something. That being said, I understand why they're fixing it (it was probably miserable on the other end)

R* - Taming the Old West!

First off I've been griefed before on this game, and I have to admit there aren't that many out there, but when you find one you're basically boned, because they will continue to kill you until you leave the session, especially since there isn't any way to hide from them, you appear on the map and you have this huge ass icon over your head, this isn't anything like the real wild west, if that was the case there were far to many outlaws on the loose, seeing all the law would have had to do is open their maps and pow...

As for why this will handle griefers, "earning them a Most Wanted status and wrangling the game's NPCs against the offender. " Having experienced those NPCs I can tell you there better at hounding than Griefers, if they are out in the middle of nowhere they will not last that long because these NPCs are insistent and the only way to avoid them is to be somewhere they can't get to, which means likely you didn't kill the same player 6 times because there are only a couple spots in the game where this is easily done and players know where those spots are and generally avoid them, there are hundreds of other hard to get to spots where NPCs wont find you, but good luck on finding anybody to shoot because nobody goes out of their way to get into these areas.

I could see this being abused by a pair of people who log on and then goes to one of these places the NPCs don't go and then grief one another into Most Wanted to earn the achievement (one at a time of course) but after this is done they'll likely not pull the stunt again because its pointless, other than the fact that it makes it impossible to travel anywhere else.