2732

Okay, bounty hunting is actually pretty challenging and fun. Hoping to score my first player bounty tonight. Players have to rack up a $20 bounty, which requires a fair amount of shenanigans, to get their poster on the Wanted board.

2733

Can you have multiple characters for the online game? I’m not sure I want to be just one role all the time.

2734

The roles can be pursued concurrently, so no need for multiple characters. Only limitation is you can’t hunt a bounty while on a trade mission, or start a trade mission while hunting a bounty (although you can still hunt and turn animals into Crips for production). You can also hunt collectibles and do random encounter quests while trading or bounty hunting.

But if you want to have multiple characters anyway, you just set up additional profiles, which is what I did at one point when I hit a high level.

2735

Just so I understand this correctly, choosing to become a bounty hunter, collector, or trader costs 15 gold bars?

2736

Pretty much, but you can unlock Trader on PS4 for free, Collector with ~50 or so GTAO playing cards, and Bounty Hunter with an Amazon Prime account. Edit: whoops, looks like the twitch offer expired, even though twitch still lists the BH permit as a reward for linking.

Rockstar also gives away free gold like crazy if you’re playing on a semi-regular basis, and there are lots of ways to earn it fairly quickly. Or just buy 25 gold bars for $4.99.

2737

Yeah, it’s probably a bug. But maybe …

2738

I’ve gotten this game to a set state I’m going to leave it in. I call it “Everything Is Beautiful, And Nothing Hurts”. Spoilers below.

The gang is at Horeshoe overlook. The gang is all together, Sean is rescued, we had our party. The key mission to really open things up is the story mission “Fisher Of Men” which is when you take little Jack fishing. This mission unlocks after both “Pouring Forth Oil” and the imfamous night out with Lenny. Once you have done this you can fish, hunt, and get the Legendary Fish map (you already have animals). The whole map is open, there are tons of stranger missions and sidequests open, like bounty hunting and all the find missions and challenges. You can gamble, take in a show, hunt, get in gunfights…

And as a bonus, Micah is in jail forever! Don’t go spring Micah, let him rot. Don’t collect that last fateful debt.

Now Arthur can live in peace and happiness, hunting and fishing and cowboying, never having gotten sick and with the camp and gang family happy and content.

I’ll stop with the story here, and pretend the bad times never happened. No regrets.

2739
2740

Well, there goes another month of gaming. And will be the second platform I have the game on.

2741

Here’s the surprising thing: the Steam version won’t be available until December.

So Nov. 5th for Rockstar’s Launcher, Epic Games Store, Green Man Gaming and the Humble Store but December for Steam.

The only thing surprising about that these days is that Steam doesn’t have to wait a year, but just a month. Hopefully I can hold out long enough.

2742

Month is fine, I prefer Steam for its functionality so I can wait…particularly since I will probably not do a replay straight away, I want to forget more of the story before doing that. The MIB style memory eraser would be handy.
In any way great news, hopefully the PC version will feature some sweet raytracing as well as good general optimization.

2743

GMG and Humble will almost certainly be selling keys for the Rockstar launcher. So really it’s just launching on Rockstar and Epic in November.

I don’t know why they’re delaying Steam at all. Surely Epic didn’t pay them for a single month of exclusivity, and R* games don’t run the Unreal engine. If it’s just the store cut, their own launcher takes a cut of 0.000%.

Frankly it’s surprising it took them so long to launch on PC. This isn’t about box sales, it’s about their online game. GTA5 Online prints money.

2744

They know idiots like me will double dip. If it had come out on all platforms at the same time I would have just gotten it on the PC and been done with it. Jerks.

2745

They are sweetening the pot of you get it from Rockstar launcher: (via ARS)

Rockstar is using the marquee release as a promotion for its new proprietary PC game launcher. Pre-orders on that platform—which will begin on October 9—come with a free upgrade to the Premium Edition, including a number of story-mode DLC bonuses and 50 Gold Bars for use in the Red Dead Online mode. Those pre-orderers will also receive two free legacy Rockstar titles from the following selection:

  • Grand Theft Auto III
  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
  • Bully: Scholarship Edition
  • L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition
  • Max Payne 3: The Complete Edition

For PC players who don’t want to use Rockstar’s launcher, the game will also be available via the Epic Games Store, Green Man Gaming, the Humble Store, and GameStop on November 5. Pre-orders on those platforms, starting October 23, will include 25 Gold Bars for Red Dead Online.

2746

I will double dip on the PC version, but it will be on Steam. :P

2747

Rejoice!

I’d also give em another $60 to have the original as DLC to play right after the epilogue.

2749

Cool. Been wanting to try this but don’t have a console.

2750

I hope this comes to PC at some point.

2751

You PC players are in for a treat. It’s a superb game.

2752

Surely? Surely that seems like the only sensible reason why they would do that.