Redemption Multiplayer

This place is a mess, looks like some bandits came by again. We'd really like you to help us out by cleanin' this mess up.

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 cooperatively 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 for players to take advantage of. From there, players can establish player parties with other players, called Posses, or choose to participate in various game modes via an ingame menu or various entry points around the game world.

A mexican standoff

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.

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.

Game Modes

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Red Dead Redemptions multiplayer menu

There are several game modes in Red Dead Redemption's multiplayer:

• Free Roam: Free Roam is the entry point into multiplayer where you are free to go nearly anywhere in the game 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.
• Shootout: The objective in a shootout is to kill as many other players as possible. The winning player is the one who reaches the score limit first or who has the highest score at the end of the time limit. There are both Free-For-All and Gang based versions of this mode.

Capture the Bag (Competitive)

• Gold Rush: The world is populated with a number of bags and chests and the objective is for each player to capture as many bags as possible.
• Hold Your Own: Each team has a bag which they have to guard from being stolen by the other team.
• Grab the Bag: Both teams go after one bag. Bags that are dropped may be picked up by other players. Players are capable of carrying two bags at one time, but carrying the bags will slow you down. A player or team wins by having the highest score at the end of the time limit, or by reaching the score limit before time runs out.

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 exp 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.)

While the two above hideouts are reported as the fastest hideouts, it is more common for newer players to be doing repeated runs of Pikes 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

See also: 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

See also: 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 (Buffalo)
• Albino Buffalo (Buffalo)
• Super Bull (Bull)
• Zebra Donkey (Tijuana Zebra)

Note: 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. This can be taken and ridden, but will not respond to a whistle.

Challenges

See also: Challenges (Multiplayer)

See also: Challenges (Single Player)

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 are 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.thumb|right|300px|Video explaining everything about the Legend mode.

Ranks

See also: Ranks

See also: Table of Levels and Unlocks

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 challege 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, with the Legendary mounts being poorer than the American Standard Bred in terms of speed/agility.

Weapons (Multiplayer)

See also: Weapons

See also: 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 (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. 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.

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
2	150	Weapon: Repeater Carbine Title: Dude
3	510	Weapon: Throwing Knives Title: Pilgrim
4	1080	Mount: Lusitano Nag Title: Tenderfoot
5	1860	Weapon: Volcanic Pistol Title: Colt
6	2850	Title: Mail-order Cowboy
7	4050	Title: Pistol
8	5460	Weapon: Winchester Repeater Mount: Turkmen Title: Short horn
9	7080	Weapon: Schofield Revolver Title: Gringo
10	8910	Title: Journeyman
11	10950	Weapon: Pump Action Shotgun Title: Cowboy (Legendary 1 to 4) Mount: Cleveland Bay
12	13290	Title: Wrangler
13	15930	Weapon: Springfield Rifle Title: Burro
14	18870	Title: Frontiersman Character(s): Tony Gallows, Wayne Daniels, Gaptooth McGee
15	22110	Playlist: Hardcore Gang Matches Weapon: Dynamite Title: Gristle heel (Legendary 2 to 4) Mount: Hungarian Half-Bred
16	25650	Title: Forty-niner Character(s): Fred Everts
17	29490	Weapon: Double Action Revolver Title: Old timer
18	33630	Weapon: Sawed-off Shotgun Title: Long horn
19	38070	Title: Old hand Character(s): Quick Tom Candle, Sanisuni Wagi, Knobby Tim Alwin
20	42810	Weapon: Rolling Block Rifle Title: Rustler
21	47850	Title: Outlaw Character(s): Michael Reese, Big Bob Moorcock
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): Ramon Zapata, Rowan Babcock, Carrie Boudicca
24	64770	Weapon: Semi-Automatic Pistol Title: Quick draw
25	71010	Title: Gun shark Character(s): Nicole Louise
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
28	91530	Weapon: Carcano Rifle Title: Cabron
29	98970	Title: Road agent Character(s): Bo Schram, Frederick Littlefield, Arlene Dunn
30	106710	Playlist: Hardcore Free-for-all Title: Hold-up man
31	114810	Title: Bandito Character(s): Mark Rafael, Heath Michaels, Allie Dickey
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
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
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 Dautista, Conor Callaghan
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, Jefe Rocha (Legendary 1) Character: Ezekiel Hogey (Legendary 2) Character: Mescalero Mike (Legendary 3) Character: Theo Crenshaw (Legendary 4) Character: Christy Weller

Characters

See also: 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. It is not known whether this is a glitch or intentional. Not only is the skin the same, but the voice speaks Spanish for both as well, regardless of which list you choose the skin from.

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. The characters that are available from level 1 are as follows:

• Earle Martin (Miner)
• Jarred Vaughn (Miner)
• Guy Percival (Miner)
• Al Wolfscreed (Dutch's Gang)
• Mala Yawetch (Dutch's Gang)
• Hank Shiyani (Dutch's Gang)
• Pat O'Flanagan (Walton's Gang)
• Benjamin Earl (Walton's Gang)
• Mac Backman (Walton's Gang)
• John Kelby (Cattle Rustler) - also the default character model
• Ian Connors (Cattyle Rustler)
• Slick Nick Funtz (American Army)
• Tall Trees Ty (American Army)
• Jose Felotico (Federales)
• Gustavo Anderes (Federales)
• Cristo Francisco (Federales)
• Seth LaValley (Lawman)
• RJ Peart (Lawman)
• Madam Hernandez (Misc Woman)
• All Rebels
• All Misc Mexicans (except Jefe Rocha)
• All Misc Criminals

Downloadable Content

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

-"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.

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.