Complete Guide for Red Dead Online Beginners

Biggest tip from me: At the beginning enjoy the game, mess around and have fun. I’m sure that many veteran players will agree with me on this, but the game is more fun at the beginning.

Even though I aint a beginner, I will watch this. Who knows maybe I will learn something new.

Happy to see you are still making guides for beginners in the unbelievable state of the game the one you made a year ago really helped me out as a low level keep it up really enjoying the content

Another 2 cents for beginners: Be polite, not all players have alot of time to play. If someone is making a trader delivery, a bounty, a moonshine delivery, don't just attack them because you think it might be fun. They just spent real time gathering supplies or whatever and you could botch the whole thing, it's called griefing, not cool. If your not making money, gold or xp your wasting time, which if fine, but don't waste someone elses. Keep it fun folks!

There is not any single minute in video that is useless, thank you for 40 minutes of help. I’m also a beginner, it really helped.

The best tip I can give for beginners is to quit now before you put in 600 hours buy literally everything in the game get emotionally attached to this masterpiece and have your heart broken because they abandoned it. Learn from my mistake.

Big tip: Go unlock the Blood Money missions, go to Anthony Foreman, go to the Stagecoach holdup mission, go to the jeanroke or whatever it is map and turn on the treasure map locator. There are five spots in the Heartlands that make a circle where treasure maps spawn. Once you find it, take it either from the tree or the treasure hunter and immediately close the app. Wash, rinse, repeat.

A trick I did for quickly upgrading ability cards is to equip the ones that need xp right before you get payment for role tasks. Like right before you pull in to the yellow spot with a trader delivery or bounty or right before u sell collectible sets. U can even do it while completing a daily challenge and definitely while you're wandering around collecting. You get a good chunk of xp for every collectible you find too. Especially if u take advantage of a role bonus, it will fill up those cards quickly. And you're making cash in the meantime for the purchase.

"Most other players are friend....." Is that why every single person I come across shoots me in the back while I am doing missions? lmao

I've been playing in full lobbies. There are still millions playing worldwide. This game is still more popular than many would like to think.

A tip on weapons with variants - for example, there is a bounty hunter variant of the bolt action rifle, which has slightly better stats, but prevents you from equipping other upgrades and wraps. Go the variant menu, move the selection over the variant (you will see the stats increase), and press ESC. The model will revert to the standard variant, but it will keep the upgraded stats. Feel free to equip any upgrades after that. Same works for the trader shotgun, and should work for any variant weapon. Also, there are many videos on how to do the Etta Doyle legendary bounty without firing a single shot. If you wait for 30 minutes (just browse the web on the side, but make sure to move a step once in 13 minutes to avoid idling), you get 0.48 gold, a few hundred in cash, 1500xp, 1500 bounty hunter xp. Currently, there's a bonus on bounty hunter, so right now it's 3000 xp each. Easy leveling, and you can repeat it an hour after finishing it. I can second the importance of doing daily missions regularly. Pick the easiest one, get it out of the way, then complete as many others as you like. With the first or second streak level, it really does increase the gold payout to a useful level, and requires about 10 minutes of gameplay a day if you want to keep it to a bare minimum.

The amount of effort put in this video is really admirable❤

i'm very new to RDO, so much so that i kinda gave up a few months back but I have the urge to try again, but wasnt feeling too confident (i'll be doing solo, dont know anyone who plays plus im an introvert.) i'm 2 mins in and already got pen and paper writing notes. thank you so much.

I am lv 400 but really enjoyed it because it brings back the memories when I started.. Such a shame rockstar decided to ditch it, such a great game...

I'm loving the story mode. Doing my first playthrough. But the online version looks more like a grind than actual fun.

I am just here to appreciate the amount of effort Cat put into making this video…

Some useful tips in here even for veterans. Very in depth guide. Funnily enough I'd never actually triggered my two factor authentication all these year's on my account 😅

When I first tried the game in 2020, I got attacked a lot and I didn't enjoy the experience. A few days ago I wanted to give it another try and I simply can't stop playing, it's a really special game. Thanks for the tips, very useful video!

I don’t know why I’ve never played rdr2 properly before , I started this week and god I’ve been missing out this game is absolutely unreal

Just got this game for Christmas so it's all new to me.. nice to see a recent beginners guide! Very helpful as this is all very overwhelming at first, thanks!