Redemption Multiplayer

thumb|right|300px|The main Multiplayer mode in Read Dead Redemption.

A posse in Red Dead Redemption.

First look at multiplayer in Red Dead Redemption

Multiplayer in Red Dead Redemption consists of multiple game modes, and allows players to play co-operatively or competitively through an online connection.

Red Dead Redemption multiplayer does not have a traditional "game lobby": instead, it starts out in Free Roam mode, with the entire map open for exploration, along with Hunting areas and Gang Hideouts of which players can take advantage. From there, players can establish player parties with other players, called Posses, or choose to participate in various game modes via an in-game menu or various entry points around the game world.

A mexican standoff

Game Modes

There are several game modes in Red Dead Redemption's multiplayer, some of which must be unlocked by achieving certain ranks:

Free Roam

Free Roam is the entry point into multiplayer where you are free to go nearly anywhere in the world with up to 15 other players. This is also where you can pick your unique character, mount, and title in the Outfitter. Players are also able to band together and form posses of up to 8 players. In these posses you can take on other posses and have a gang fight. In Free Roam you can take part in gang hideout's, one of the quickest ways of ranking up in online multiplayer of Red Dead Redemption.

Competitive Modes

In competitive game modes, the gameplay begins with either a mexican standoff in Free For All, with all the players beginning in a circle, or a team face-off, with all players in their respective team's line facing the other team. There will be a short countdown, then a firefight will commence, in which all the players will all start shooting at once. Most players will die right off, allowing the remaining players to find a choice location (such as a sniping spot) to fend off their attackers. Once the standoff ends, and everyone from one team dies, the actual game you are playing (Gang Shootout, Hold Your Own, Grab Bag, etc.) starts.

Gang Modes

During "gang" matches players will be assigned a player model, but during free for all and free roam matches players will be allowed to use their chosen model. The player's selected mount is only usable in some game modes, and in team based matches all players will be assigned one type of horse as to keep it fair. Guns are also assigned to any game type except "Free Roam", in any competitive game mode players are assigned a random set of guns for the round, to get an idea of what guns you will receive, look to the dummy in the pre-game lobby. If you unlock a gun by leveling up it will be available to you in free roam.

Cooperative Mode

Cooperative play was introduced with the Outlaws To The End DLC, and you must download it to be able to play this mode, the DLC is free however.

In Cooperative mode a group of up to four players will work as a team through one of the six missions available. If a players health drops to the point of dying they will simply be injured and unable to shoot or move, they will have a certain amount of time, as represented above their heads, before they bleed out, during this time a team mate may revive them. If a player dies they will be out of the game and forced to spectate a teammate until the next checkpoint, which are usually frequent. Players choose a loadout in the pre-game lobby as their weapon set, there are four sets of weapons (Miner, Soldier, Marskman, Gunslinger). Players walk up to a gun set, represented by a dummy, and select the one they want, they will be equipped with those weapons throughout the mission, however they can pick up weapons from fallen enemies as well. Players retain their selected player model.

If the player beats all six missions, they will unlock Advanced Cooperative Mode, this mode has expert targeting, players take more damage easier and bleed out faster. However Advanced Cooperative Mode has the "No Holds Barred" loadout, which allows the player to use all the weapons they have unlocked by leveling up throughout mulitplayer.

Gang Hideouts

Main Page: Gang Hideouts

Gang Hideouts are regarded as the fastest method of gaining experience while in free roam. The faster the player completes a hideout, the more XP is gained. Other factors also go into the player's XP gain. Gang hideouts can be completed alone or with a posse. The most common gang hideouts that are played in multiplayer are Solomon's Folly and Twin Rocks. These two are regarded as the fastest and easiest hideouts to complete, resulting in a fast XP gain. After the patch released on June 12th, however, XP awarded for gang hideouts has been drastically decreased.

(You can clear your Xbox 360's cache, which deletes all patches, and use system link to gang hideout farm. And for PS3 just go into "Game Data Utility" delete the patch, start up the game, decline the update, and play multiplayer using LAN. You wont need to sign-in on PSN)

While the two above hideouts are reported as the fastest hideouts, it is more common for newer players to be doing repeated runs of Pike's Basin. This is due to how close it is to the starting areas of Armadillo, MacFarlane's Ranch, or even Thieves' Landing, as well as being a relatively easy hideout giving a minimum of 2000 XP per run (between 1.4-1.6k minimum if done with 2 or more people).

Titles

Main Page: Titles

During the multiplayer game experience, whether in Free Roam or structured game modes, players will be able to earn titles corresponding to criteria met during play. This can be anything from a certain amount of experience accrued to completing certain actions and a number of times or in a specific way. Titles, once selected, will appear above the player's name on their in-game icon until the player decides to change it at anytime.

You keep all your titles when you pass into legend.

Mounts

Main Page: Mount Unlock Requirements

In the multiplayer of Red Dead Redemption the player can customize the mount their character summons/rides in Free Roam and some competitive matches. The player changes their mount by visiting the Outfitter in the Multiplayer section of the pause menu. Different mounts become available only after achieving various online ranks. When the player ranks up and unlocks a new mount for use, their old mount will be replaced by the new one even if the player hasn't visited the Outfitter yet.

In successive legend modes, mounts are generally unlocked earlier as there are more mounts to unlock.

Mounts that can be unlocked are:

• El Señor (Donkey)
• Lusitano Nag (Horse)
• Turkmen (Horse)
• Cleveland Bay (Horse)
• Hungarian Half-Bred (Horse)
• American Standardbred (Horse)
• Bonzo (Bull)
• Buffalo
• Albino Buffalo (Buffalo)
• Super Bull (Bull)
• Zebra Donkey (Tijuana Zebra), AKA Zonkey

Several non-unlockable horses, such as the Kentucky Saddler or the Infested Ardennais can be found in multiplayer, in the wild or ridden by other people. These horses can be taken and ridden, but will not respond to a whistle.

This table shows the levels that you unlock each mount

Copied from Prima's Official Guide.

Mount	Normal Unlock Rank	Legend 1	Legend 2	Legend 3	Legend 4
El Señor	1	1	1	1	1
Lusitano Nag	4	4	4	4	4
Turkmen	8	8	8	8	8
Cleveland Bay	22	11	11	11	11
Hungarian Half-bred	33	22	15	15	15
American Standard-bred	40	33	22	22	22
Bonzo	50	40	33	26	26
Buffalo	----	50	40	33	33
Albino Buffalo	----	----	50	40	37
Super Bull	----	----	----	50	42
Zebra Donkey	----	----	----	----	50

Challenges

Main Page: Challenges (Multiplayer) and Challenges (Single Player)thumb|right|300px|Video explaining everything about the Legend mode.

In multiplayer, a large selection of challenges are available for players to complete. More challenges unlock as a player progresses through the ranking system. Completing a challenge earns the player experience. The status of a current challenge, found in your Journal, is indicated by a bar that progressively fills up as your challenge is accomplished. For example, if you had to shoot 5 rabbits for a Sharpshooter challenge, each rabbit shot adds to this indicator bar until all 5 have been shot.

When a player reaches Rank 50 and agrees to return to Rank 1 to gain Legend status, all challenges will be reset. Any unlocked Titles associated with challenges previously completed will remain.

Ranks

When playing multiplayer, a player can gain experience by killing other players, completing challenges and clearing hideouts. When the player gains enough experience to be promoted to the next rank, they can unlock new characters, weapons, mounts and titles.

A player can be promoted through fifty ranks. When they reach Rank 50, they have the option to return to Rank 1 to gain Legend status, similar to the 'Prestige' mode in Call of Duty. Legend mode builds towards unlocking legendary characters and mounts. They can do this up to five times in addition to the original ranks, which means a player could progress through a total of 250 ranks to reach the highest level in multiplayer. Once entering the first Legend status, you will be rewarded with a new title, "The Legend" and a new Legendary character, Kyle McGinty.

Once at Rank 50, a player can choose to gain Legend status at any time afterwards. The following confirmation messages are displayed when gaining Legend status:

PASS INTO LEGEND

"Your rank will reset from 50 back to 1 in exchange for the benefits of becoming a Legend. All weapons and mounts you have unlocked through leveling up will be lost and all challenges are reset. Your access to playlists, titles, golden guns and characters will remain the same. Would you like to become a Legend?"

"There is no undoing this change once you commit to it. You will lose your weapons, mounts, and challenge progress, but in exchange will get access to special Legendary characters and the right to earn Legendary mounts. Passing into Legend only occurs in Free Roam. Are you really sure you want to do this?"

As of 12 June 2010, Gang Hideout XP has been severely decreased, up to 1/4 of what it once was. Owing to the enormous amount of XP required to reach Legend 5, it is recommended to remain at Rank 50 once attained as becoming a Legend only gives the variety of different mounts/characters/titles/rank icon, with the Legendary mounts being poorer than the American Standardbred in terms of speed/agility.

However, one mount makes passing into legend worth the player's effort, the Zebra Donkey. The Zebra Donkey, or Zonkey, is capable of reaching the top speed of both the American Standardbred and the War Horse (the War Horse is only available to players with limited edition copies of the game), but the most worthwhile feature of the Zonkey is its ability to travel off road maintaining top speed.

Weapons (Multiplayer)

Main Page: Weapons and Weapon Unlock Conditions

All weapons available in single player are available in multiplayer game sessions. While the hunting knife is available in multiplayer, other equipment such as the lasso, bandolier, binoculars, is not.

When joining a session, players have a set of weapons determined by multiplayer rank and some ammunition for each gun in their possession. Additional weapons can be obtained by picking them up from dead players/NPCs and weapon crates (shown on the in-game minimap as a pistol icon). Increasing a player's rank will immediately place any weapons unlocked into the players possession.

When a player dies in a multiplayer game session, they respawn with all the weapons in their possession when they died. The amount of ammunition in each weapon set to a default amount, similar to if they had just joined the game.

Ammo crates are also scattered throughout the environment (they look like flags on the mini-map).

All unlocks

Template:Spoiler For a list of all the unlocks click here.

Rank	XP Required	Unlocks
1	0	Weapon: Cattleman Revolver, Knife Mount: El Señor Title: Greenhorn Challenges: Sharpshooter PvP Playlist: Free For All, Gang Matches
2	150	Weapon: Repeater Carbine Title: Dude Challenges: Master Hunter, Gang Shootout
3	510	Weapon: Throwing Knives Title: Pilgrim Character(s): Jarred Vaughan, Ramon Paradiso Challenges: Survivalist
4	1080	Mount: Lusitano Nag Title: Tenderfoot Character(s): Mala Yawetch, Benjamin Earl Challenges: Hold Your Own
5	1860	Weapon: Volcanic Pistol Title: Colt Challenges: Lawbringer
6	2850	Title: Mail-order Cowboy Character(s): Ian Connors, Tall Trees Ty Challenges: Shootout, Gold Rush
7	4050	Title: Pistol Character(s): Gustavo Andares, AJ Peart, Fernando Naranjo, Jesse Lange Challenges: Kill Streak I
8	5460	Weapon: Winchester Repeater Mount: Turkmen Title: Short horn
9	7080	Weapon: Schofield Revolver Title: Gringo
10	8910	Title: Journeyman Character(s); Guy Percival, Jaime Garcia, Nick Robbins Challenges: Grab The Bag
11	10950	Weapon: Pump Action Shotgun Title: Cowboy (Legendary 1 to 4) Mount: Cleveland Bay Challenges: Outlaw
12	13290	Title: Wrangler Character(s): Cristoban Borracha, Hank Shiyani, Mac Backman Challenges: Master Hunter II, Kill Streak II
13	15930	Weapon: Springfield Rifle Title: Burro Challenges: Sharpshooter II
14	18870	Title: Frontiersman Character(s): Tony Gallows, Wayne Daniels, Gaptooth McGee Challenges: Survivalist II
15	22110	Weapon: Dynamite Title: Gristle heel (Legendary 2 to 4) Mount: Hungarian Half-Bred PvP Playlist: Hardcore Gang Matches
16	25650	Title: Forty-niner Character(s): Fred Everts, Jesus Eccheveria, Cristo Francisco Challenges: Hold Your Own II
17	29490	Weapon: Double Action Revolver Title: Old timer
18	33630	Weapon: Sawed-off Shotgun Title: Long horn Challenges: Lawbringer II
19	38070	Title: Old hand Character(s): Quick Tom Candle, Kintan Tageyutsi, Sanisuni Wagi, Knobby Tom Alwin Challenges: Kill:Death Ratio
20	42810	Weapon: Rolling Block Rifle Title: Rustler PvP Playlist: Hardcore Free For All
21	47850	Title: Outlaw Character(s): Michael Reese, Big Bob Moorcock Challenges: Grab The Bag II
22	53190	Weapon: Fire Bottle Mount: Cleveland Bay Title: Gunslinger (Legendary 1) Mount: Hungarian Half-Bred (Legendary 2 to 4) Mount: American Standardbred
23	58830	Title: Shootist Character(s): Jeevan Guni, Ramon Zapata, Rowan Babcock, Carrie Boudicca
24	64770	Weapon: Semi-Automatic Pistol Title: Quick draw
25	71010	Title: Gun shark Character(s): Nicole Louise, Gerald Conway, Michael Sustantivo Challenges: Outlaw II
26	77550	Weapon: Semi-Auto Shotgun Title: Badman (Legendary 3 and 4) Mount: Bonzo (bull)
27	84390	Title: Long raider Character(s): Jay Sheeyah, Melissa Rose Challenges: Trickshot
28	91530	Weapon: Carcano Rifle Title: Cabron
29	98970	Title: Road agent Character(s): Bo Schram, Frederick Littlefield, Arlene Dunn Challenges: Trickshot II
30	106710	Title: Hold-up man
31	114810	Title: Bandito Character(s): Mark Rafael, Heath Michaels, Allie Dickey Challenges: Unstoppable
32	123270	Weapon: Henry Repeater Title: Short-trigger man
33	132090	Mount: Hungarian Half-Bred Title: Hired killer (Legendary 1) Mount: American Standardbred (Legendary 2) Mount: Bonzo (bull) (Legendary 3 and 4) Mount: Buffalo Character(s): D R Gosset, Alice Thayer
34	141270	Title: Mercenary Challenges: Revenge
35	150810	Weapon: High Power Pistol Title: Deputized
36	160710	Title: Ranger Character(s): David Anthony, Shep Thomas, Stephen Paul
37	170970	Weapon: Double-Barrel Shotgun Title: Marshall
38	181590	Title: Judge & jury
39	192570	Title: El capitan Character(s): Harvard Coskie, Juan Diaz, Robert Daniels
40	203910	Weapon: Bolt Action Rifle Mount: American Standardbred Title: Colonel (Legendary 1) Mount: Bonzo (bull) (Legendary 2) Mount: Buffalo (Legendary 3) Mount: Albino Buffalo
41	215610	Title: General Challenges: Lawbringer III
42	227670	Title: El jefe (Legendary 4) Mount: Super Bull Character(s): Chief Mangan, Tricky Pat Dempson
43	240090	Weapon: Evans Repeater Title: Searcher
44	252870	Title: The kid Character(s): TJ Laubach
45	266010	Title: The duke Character(s): LS Roberts, Jan Booth
46	279510	Weapon: LeMat Revolver Title: The ugly
47	293370	Title: The bad
48	307590	Title: The good Character(s): Eric Morgenson, Jefe Bautista, Conor Callahan
49	322170	Weapon: Mauser Pistol Title: The unforgiven
50	337120	Weapon: Buffalo Rifle Mount: Bonzo (bull) Title: The legend (Legendary 1) Mount: Buffalo (Legendary 2) Mount: Albino Buffalo (Legendary 3) Mount: Super Bull (Legendary 4) Mount: Zebra Donkey Character(s): The Tudisco Kid, Raudel Diaz, Sean Cobbler, Sarah Grace (Legendary 1) Character: Kyle McGinty (Legendary 2) Character: Ezekiel Hogey (Legendary 3) Character: Mescalero Mike (Legendary 4) Character: Theo Crenshaw (Legendary 5) Character: Christy Weller PvP Playlist: Veteran Free For All, Veteran Gang Matches

Characters

Main Page: Multiplayer Characters

In multiplayer you can choose your character model in the Outfitter. For now, there are 12 categories of characters, each based on characters taken from the single player game:

Note: There is an issue with the multiplayer characters "Jesse Lange" and "Jefe Rocha". Despite their different names and being put in different categories, they are the same character skin and speak spanish as well regardless of which list you choose the skin from. It is not known whether this is a glitch or if it is intentional.

Many of the characters are available from the start (Level 1) which gives the player a good amount of choice when choosing one to start off with. When starting a new multiplayer campaign the player will also be randomly assigned one of these characters. The characters that are available from level 1 are as follows:

• Earle Martin (Miner)
• Alfredo Castaneda (Rebeldes)
• Al Wolfscreed (Dutch's Gang)
• Pat O'Flanagan (Walton's Gang)
• John Kelby (Cattle Rustler)
• Slick Nick Funtz (American Army)
• Jose Falotico (Federales)
• Seth LaValley (Lawman)
• Madam Hernandez (Misc Woman)

• Most Misc Mexicans
• Most Misc Criminals

Marshals (Secret Characters)

On random occasions when starting a new multiplayer campaign, players will be randomly assigned a character from a group collectively known as "the Marshals." These are 8 characters that were originally intended to be part of another category in the outfitter menu but were removed some time before release of the game. It is likely that these characters appear because Rockstar Games removed the category in the outfitter menu but did not remove them from the game files, meaning that they still show up as randomly generated starting characters. Once a player gets one of these characters and then changes them for another character, they can not be reselected because there is no category for them in the outfitter menu. The only way of getting one or another one of these characters is by pure chance and is usually only doable by restarting the multiplayer campaign over and over again.

It is also very apparent they were intended to be in the game and were only removed at the last minute because two of the Marshal characters, Frank Setter and Leon Carowel, are viewable on the flyer found in the Red Dead Redemption case advertising the Outlaws to the End DLC.

It has been speculated that these characters will be added to the outfitter as part of a future DLC although this is appears to be purely wishful thinking on the part of fans.

The only other way of obtaining these secret characters is through the use of a hex editor, which can be used to open the red dead redemption multiplayer save file and select any of the eight Marshalls as the current playable character; however it is impossible to make them actually selectable in the outfitter and this is considered modding.

The following are the names of the eight hidden Marshalls in the order they appear in hex editor,

• Frank Setter
• David Darwinson
• Leon Carowel
• Derek Fultan
• Darren Ward
• Colby Oats
• Charley Burg
• Dillon Metzen

Downloadable Content

Outlaws To The End

Outlaws To The End is a downloadable set of 6 co-op missions that was released in June 22, 2010, completely free of charge.

Missions

-"Walton’s Gold" Walton’s Gang have taken control of a mining camp rich with gold. Fight through the camp and load your mine cart with as much gold as you can carry and get out as fast as you can – Walton’s boys have rigged the place to blow!

-"The River" Ride a raft down river, taking out rebel encampments along the way until you reach the rebel stronghold of Nosalida and a final epic battle for the town’s massive weapons caches. Watch out for Gatling gun-equipped enemy rafts.

-"Ammunition" The Mexican Army has the town of Tesoro Azul under siege. Storm the gates under heavy cannon, Gatling gun and sniper fire to destroy the Mexican artillery placements.

-"The Kidnapped Girl" Another gang has taken over the Fort Mercer stronghold and they have taken a farmer's daughter hostage. You must breach the fort and save the daughter. Then escape to Ridgewood Farm in a stagecoach with several bandits behind you.

-"The Escape" You and your teammates must attack and steal a gold coach along with a wagon and a Gatling gun. Once acquired, you will be sent to turn them in to the American Army and then must clear out remaining resistance in the town of Tumbleweed. After clearing the town, prepare for an explosive standoff that will take you all the way to Mexico.

-"The Herd" Cattle rustlers have taken control of Box Canyon. Fight your way in and wipe out the rustlers, then use teamwork to protect the herd as you lead them home to Armadillo while drawing heavy fire from snipers and reinforcements on horseback.

On top of these 6 missions, the Outlaws to the End Co-Op Mission Pack will also yield additional multiplayer XP rewards, and brand new Achievements/Trophies to unlock. Stay tuned for much more information – as well as release information and pricing on two further downloadable content updates, which Rockstar plans to release over the summer. Both of them will also be available simultaneously for both consoles.

Upcoming Downloadable Content Packs

According to an announcement by Rockstar Games on 8th July 2010, there are several upcoming DLC packs that are due for release for Xbox Live Marketplace and Playstation Network before the end of the summer. The details of these packs are as follows:

• Legends and Killers Pack (Releasing beginning of August 2010)

New active map locations, characters and more:

• 9 New Multiplayer map locations — more than doubling the amount of territories in the Multiplayer Competitive modes

• 8 New Multiplayer characters — play as characters from Red Dead Revolver

• Introducing a new projectile weapon: the Tomahawk, with corresponding Challenges for single player and multiplayer

• New Trophies/Achievements

• Pricing: $9.99 (PlayStation Network), 800 Microsoft Points (Xbox LIVE)

• Liars and Cheats Pack

New Competitive Modes, Multiplayer Mini-games in Free Roam, and more:

• ‘Attack and Defend’ Multiplayer Competitive Mode and Challenges

• New Multiplayer Horse Races complete with mounted combat

• Play as the heroes and villains of Red Dead Redemption as well as 8 additional multiplayer characters

• Multiplayer versions of Liar's Dice and Poker from the single-player game

• Introducing a new weapon: the Explosive Rifle, with associated Challenges available in single-player and multiplayer

• New Achievements/Trophies

• Release date TBC

• Pricing: $9.99 (PlayStation Network), 800 Microsoft Points (Xbox LIVE)

• Free Roam Pack

Delve deeper into the world of Red Dead Redemption with new Modes, Challenges and Gang Hideouts to discover:

• Additional Free Roam Challenges

• New action areas and defensive placements

• Posse Scoring / Posse Leaderboards

• New ‘anti-griefing’ measures in Free Roam

• Release date and pricing TBC

• Undead Nightmare Pack

Ghost towns and cemeteries come alive in a West gone horribly wrong:

• Brand new single player adventure, Challenges and quests

• 8 New Multiplayer Zombie characters

• Additional animals unleashed in the world

• New Dynamic events

• More details to follow...

• Release date TBC

• Pricing: $9.99 (PlayStation Network), 800 Microsoft Points (Xbox LIVE)

Multiplayer Achievements

There are several achievements that can only be completed by participating in multiplayer game modes:

	GO TEAM! 20 gamerscore Silver silver Be on the winning team for four consecutive victories in any team based game in Public Matches.

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	HIT THE TRAIL 10 gamerscore Bronze bronze Get from Blackwater to Escalera before sundown in a single public Free Roam session.

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	HOW THE WEST WAS WON 20 gamerscore Silver silver Reach the top rank for Multiplayer experience.

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	MOST WANTED 10 gamerscore Bronze bronze Become a Public Enemy for 10 minutes and escape alive in a public Free Roam session.

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	POSSE UP! 10 gamerscore Bronze bronze Create a posse and get the maximum amount of members.

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	RED DEAD ROCKSTAR 10 gamerscore Bronze bronze Kill a Rockstar or someone with this achievement in a public multiplayer match.

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	SLOW ON THE DRAW 10 gamerscore Bronze bronze Get 10 assist in a single hideout in Public Free Roam session.

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	THE QUICK AND EVERYONE ELSE... 20 gamerscore Silver silver Be the top scoring player in any three consecutive FFA games in public matches.