Red Dead Online: How To Play RDR2 Online - Push Square

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How do you play Red Dead Online? Red Dead Online is the online component of Red Dead Redemption 2, allowing you to engage in multiplayer free roaming as well as a selection of PvP matches. As part of our Red Dead Online guide, we're going to run down how you get into RDR2's online mode.

Red Dead Online: How to Play RDR2 Online

Red Dead Online How to Play Online Guide RDR2 PS4 PlayStation 4 2

To play Red Dead Online, boot up your Red Dead Redemption 2 game as normal. You'll be met with an information screen, with the option to skip in the bottom right. Press X to continue to the main menu.

You'll now see that you can select either Story (the regular, offline game) or Online by pressing L1 or R1. Highlight Online and press X to initiate Red Dead Online.

It's worth noting that you need to play through a mandatory few missions when you begin playing online. After you've created your character, set up your first camp, and acquired your first horse from the mission Honor Among Horse Thieves, you'll have access to all that Red Dead Online has to offer.

While in Free Roam, pressing left on the d-pad will bring up a menu. From here, select Quick Join to join a variety of different competitive missions and events. Alternatively, if you pause the game and select Online, you can select from all the various ways to play in a more comprehensive menu screen.

Have you played much RDR2 Online yet? Take a look at our Red Dead Online guide, and let us know in the comments section below.

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See Also

Red Dead Redemption 2 Guide: Wiki and 100% Collectibles Walkthrough
Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4) Review
Red Dead Online Guide: Tips, Tricks, and Where to Start

Stephen has been part of the Push Square team for over six years, bringing boundless enthusiasm and a deep knowledge of video games to his role as Assistant Editor. Having grown up playing every PlayStation console to date, he's developed an eclectic taste, with particular passion for indie games, arcade racers, and puzzlers. He's also our go-to guy for Sonic-related matters, much to his delight/chagrin.

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Flender
Fri 30th Nov 2018

Played it for a few hours and I don't like it (in its current beta form at least) it feels like the complete opposite of everything I love about the main single player experience.

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dellyrascal
Fri 30th Nov 2018

Played with a group of seven of us and yeah its struggling to hold the attention at the moment, barring murder, it's pretty boring at the moment.

The open world is very bereft too, which is expected. Ended up jumping off as we all kept falling through the world in St.Denis, so some work needed, but will definitely come back when there is a bit more going on...

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JohnnyBastos
Fri 30th Nov 2018

Yeh, it's pretty boring innit.

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Mad001
Fri 30th Nov 2018

Yawn tried this and its just like online games i find boring .I don't do online.Offline campaigns are for me.Besides i like how online joins in on the watchdogs campaign game peoples gaming environment joins each other no change to story mission triggers. Anyway cross play is important here for players who are into online xbox servers and PlayStation servers can have player interaction. So your not waiting on players to join online missions. Thanks for the read

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eltomo
Sat 1st Dec 2018

Bit expected, but need PS+ to play online. Was hoping as its Beta, maybe they'd give a bit of free online to convince people on PS+.

Don't need PS+ when single player experiance on PS4 is so good at the mo.

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Title:

Red Dead Redemption 2

System:

PlayStation 4

Also Available For:

Xbox One

Publisher:

Rockstar Games

Developer:

Rockstar San Diego

Genre:

Action, Adventure

Players:

1 (32 Online)

Release Date:

PlayStation 4

26th Oct 2018
26th Oct 2018

PlayStation Plus Extra (Subscription)

13th Jun 2022 until 20th Sep 2022
21st May 2024 until 19th Nov 2024

Series:

Red Dead, Red Dead Redemption

Also Known As:

Red Dead Redemption II, RDR2

Reviews:

Red Dead Redemption 2 - Rockstar's Best Ever Game

Guide:

Red Dead Redemption 2 Guide: Wiki and 100% Collectibles Walkthrough

Official Site:

rockstargames.com

Wikipedia:

en.wikipedia.org

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