Red Dead Online Frontier Pursuits - RDR2 Title Update 1.11 Patch Notes

RDR2 & Red Dead Online Title Updates
  • Release Date September 10, 2019
  • Platforms PlayStation 4Xbox One

The next step in the continual evolution of Red Dead Online introduces Frontier Pursuits, an ongoing series of Specialist Roles for players to inhabit, each with a wide array of themed activities, unique items, skills and more to earn.

In addition, this Red Dead Online Summer Update comes with a variety of new content, features and gameplay improvements aimed at enhancing the world of Red Dead Online, whether within roles, competitive modes or simply exploring free roam.

This includes dramatic improvements to player control with quicker and more responsive movement and combat; the ability to redesign your character's appearance without resetting progress; greater damage resistance while in the Defensive playing style; new Ability Cards; new Daily Challenges and Daily Role Challenges; more Dynamic Events happening across the frontier; a slew of new items and much more.

Frontier Pursuits Roles

  • The first three Specialist Roles have been added to Red Dead Online as part of Frontier Pursuits:
    • Bounty Hunter: Track down wanted criminals and capture them - or kill them, depending on how honorable you are in your pursuits.
    • Trader: Turn your camp into a burgeoning business by sourcing materials for Cripps to produce into sellable goods
    • Collector: Explore the world searching for valuable treasures, such as lost jewelry and rare arrowheads
  • Each Role comes with its own specific content including new themed gameplay and activities, Free Roam Events, Daily Challenges, Awards, unique customization items and more.
  • Players can choose to play and progress across all three Roles simultaneously or choose to focus their efforts into the Roles of their choice.

For more details on all Frontier Pursuits Roles, see the the Guide to All Specialist Roles in Red Dead Online.

The Wheeler, Rawson & Co. Club

  • The Wheeler, Rawson & Co. Club has been added to Red Dead Online. Club membership is automatic and free, giving players rewards as they play between September 10th and November 18th.
    • Just by playing you'll receive new clothing and accessories, a special gun wrap, bonus cash, free tonics and more
  • The Outlaw Pass: For 35 Gold Bars, The Outlaw Pass is an upgrade that offers even more rewards at a heavily reduced cost, including exclusive clothing, distinctive styles for your armaments, adornment for any campsite, special vouchers and much more.
  • Club Rewards - Progression will unlock a wide range of unique items, even more when you purchase the Outlaw Pass. These items include:

    • The Larkin Gloves: A fashionable pair of soft leather gloves with a gathered wrist and comfortable strap. (Outlaw Pass)

    • Death Ram Mask: A ram's skull mask for your horse. (Outlaw Pass)

    • Veteran Outfit: A scruffy uniform for Cripps.

    • Cash: A fistful of RDO$.

    • Eagle Camp Flag: A Graphic flag for your camp featuring an eagle. (Outlaw Pass)

    • Leather Gauntlets: A hand-stitched and dyed pair of leather gauntlets. (Outlaw Pass)

    • The Cordell Outfit: A hardy outfit, sure to catch the eye. (Outlaw Pass)

    • Goldwing Spurs: A unique set of spurs with 6 point rowels, tooled leather boot straps and a bald eagle design.

    • Gold: A pile of gold bars. (Outlaw Pass)

  • Progress through all 70 Ranks to take advantage of every benefit including bonus Gold Bar gifts amounting to 35 Gold Bars.
  • Everything you unlock and acquire during that period will stay with you permanently.

New Weapons

New Weapons have been added to Red Dead Online, as exclusive items for players pursuing the Specialist Roles:

Melee Weapons

Thrown Weapons

Melee Weapons

Melee Weapons

Thrown Weapons
  • Visual variants have been added for five existing weapons in Red Dead Online and can be unlocked through Role progression. Once purchased, these can be applied to existing weapons through the Customization Menu at any Gunsmith store:
  • One new type of ammunition has been added to Red Dead Online, and can be unlocked through progression for the Bounty Hunter Role:
    • Tracking Arrow: Drains target Stamina and allows better tracking while in Eagle Eye
  • Four additional weapon style modifications have been added to the Gunsmith in Red Dead Online, and can be unlocked through Club Rewards

New Horses

Three new Horse Breeds, each with 6 coat variations have been added to Red Dead Online and can be purchased from any Stable or the Handheld Catalogue. All of these must be unlocked through Role progression:

Multi-Class

Multi-Class

Multi-Class

More Red Dead Online Content

  • [September 17, 2019] The first of 10 new weekly Legendary Bounties have been added to Red Dead Online. Licensed Bounty Hunters can access a Legendary Bounty wanted poster at any Bounty Board.
  • Vehicles have been added for purchase from Stables in Red Dead Online, and can be unlocked through their respective Roles:
    • Bounty Wagon: The Bounty Hunter’s Established Kit gives you access to a Bounty Wagon for securely retaining multiple bounty targets
    • Hunting Wagon: The Trader hunting wagons to bring in bigger hauls. A sturdy wagon fit for carrying multiple carcasses, hides and pelts.
    • Delivery Wagons (Medium and Large): Upgraded wagons that can hold more goods for transport
  • New Free Roam Events themed around Roles have been added to Red Dead Online, and can be unlocked through Role progression:
    • Manhunt
    • Day of Reckoning
    • Salvage
    • Trade Route
  • New Dynamic Events to encounter across the world.
  • A new set of Daily Challenges have been added into rotation, as well as additional Daily Role Challenges available for unlocked Roles
  • New Awards have been added, including new sets of Role-specific Awards
  • New items and variations of Clothing and Outfits have been added for male and female characters in Red Dead Online, and can be purchased from any General Store, Tailor or the Handheld Catalogue.
  • Eight new beard styles have been added for male characters in Red Dead Online and can be purchased and applied at any Barber. Three of these beard styles must be unlocked through Role progression.
  • Eight new hairstyles have been added for male and female characters in Red Dead Online and can be purchased and applied at any Barber. Three of these hair styles must be unlocked through Role progression.
  • Three new items of kit have been added to Red Dead Online, and can be unlocked through progression for the Collector Role:
    • Metal Detector: Reacts when the player is close to some types of Collectibles
    • Refined Binoculars: Triggers Eagle Eye by default allowing players to see collectibles/animals/targets etc. at a much greater distance
    • Pennington Field Shovel: Allows you to dig up buried Collectibles in the world
  • Eleven new emotes have been added to Red Dead Online, and can be purchased from any General Store, Tailor or the Handheld Catalogue. Some can only be unlocked through Role progression or Club Rewards.
  • Several new items and variations of Horse equipment have been added to Red Dead Online and can be purchased from any Stable or the Handheld Catalogue. All of these must be unlocked through Role progression:
    • Saddles
    • Saddlebag
    • Horse Lantern
  • Several new Camp upgrades have been added to Red Dead Online and can be purchased from the Wilderness Outfitters at your Camp once unlocked:
    • Deluxe Campfire
    • Stew Pot
    • Camp Flags - Unlocked Through Club Rewards
    • Cripps Outfits - Unlocked Through Club Rewards
    • Camp Songs - Unlocked Through Club Rewards
    • Bucher Table
    • Weapon Locker
    • Camp Dog American Foxhound - PS4 Early Access
  • Three new Camp themes have been added to Red Dead Online and can be purchased from the Wilderness Outfitters at your Camp once unlocked:
    • Bounty Hunter Camp Theme
    • Collector Camp Theme
    • Trader Camp Theme
  • Two new Walk Styles have been added to Red Dead Online and can be set through the Online Options section of the Player menu once unlocked. These must be unlocked through Role progression:
    • Veteran Walk
    • Easy Rider Walk

New Ability Cards

  • Nine new Passive Ability Cards have been added to Red Dead Online, and can be purchased from the Abilities menu:
    • Sharpshooter: While using a scope, you deal more damage and take less damage
    • Kick in the Butt: Whenever you take damage, a proportion of it is added to your Dead Eye
    • Live for the Fight: You regenerate Dead Eye slowly over time
    • Friends for Life: While mounted, you and your horse take less damage
    • Fool Me Once: You take less damage each consecutive time you are shot. This effect ends if you are not shot for 10 seconds
    • Iron Lung: Your Stamina regenerates faster, and you take less damage depending on your current Stamina level
    • Strength in Numbers: You take less damage for every nearby ally, up to a maximum of three allies - PS4 Early Access
    • Gunslinger’s Choice: While dual-wielding, you deal more damage and are more accurate - PS4 Early Access
    • Ride Like the Wind: Whenever you take or deal damage while mounted, a proportion of it is added to your horse's Health and Stamina - PS4 Early Access

Roles Skills & Upgrades

  • The following skills/upgrades are available to learn through the Bounty Hunter Role progression:
    • Focus: Highlights bounty targets red and along with a red trail in Eagle Eye
    • Gun Spinning: Learn tricks that can be performed when double-tapping and holding the holster button
    • Tonics Satchel Upgrade: Upgrades the capacity of certain items in this pouch by ten
    • Eagle Eye+: Allows Eagle Eye to remain active while running, sprinting or galloping
    • Kit Satchel Upgrade: Upgrades the capacity of certain items in this pouch by ten
    • Ducking: Take cover by ducking to the side while aiming on horseback to break enemy lock-on
    • Perception: Increased distance for detecting nearby Bounty Missions against player targets
  • The following skills/upgrades are available to learn through the Trader Role progression:
    • Ingredients Satchel Upgrade: Upgrades the capacity of certain items in this pouch by ten
    • Awareness: Increased distance for detecting nearby rival Traders selling goods
    • Canine Warning: Your Camp Dog will warn you of impending raids on your Trader business
    • Efficiency: Perfect animal carcasses donated to the business now contribute more materials
    • Materials Satchel Upgrade: Upgrades the capacity of certain items in this pouch by ten
    • Protection: Reduces the chance of raids occurring on your Trader business
  • The following skills/upgrades are available to learn through the Collector Role progression:
    • Divination: Increases distance for audio and vibration clues when near Collectibles
    • Provisions Satchel Upgrade: Upgrades the capacity of certain items in this pouch by ten
    • Potential: Disturbed earth piles with buried Collectibles will be highlighted in Eagle Eye
    • Intuition: Search areas shown by Collector’s Maps are reduced in size
    • Equine Assistance: Allows picking of herbs and plants while remaining on horseback
    • Valuables Satchel Upgrade: Upgrades the capacity of certain items in this pouch by five

Balancing and Improvements in Red Dead Online

  • Players can now change the appearance of their character through the Online Options section of the Player menu. All characters created before this update will receive one free appearance change, and further appearance changes can be made for a fee.
  • The Photo Studio in Red Dead Online can now be used to capture a Posse Portrait, taking a photograph with every member of a player’s Posse. Additional group poses and backdrops can be unlocked through Club Rewards.
  • Ambient bounty hunters will now attempt to arrest players before killing them and players can surrender in order to pay off their bounty through jail time
  • Improvements have been made to the detection of self-defense during conflict escalation with members of the ambient population. This means that the player will no longer become wanted if they did not start the fight.
  • Ambient passengers of trams in Saint Denis may now enter and leave the vehicle when the tram is stopped

Movement and Combat Improvements

  • The following movement changes have been made for players in Red Dead Online:
    • All on-foot movement (such as running, swimming, jumping, climbing and vaulting) is now quicker and more responsive
    • Players will now recover quicker from situations like ragdolling, combat diving and slope sliding
    • Animations and movement speeds have been reworked in first person camera view to provide a better gameplay experience
    • Player movement speed is now maintained when vaulting fences, climbing up objects/ladders and when aiming weapons
    • The on-foot auto-follow camera behaviors have been retuned to be less aggressive and more player-friendly, but still helpful when sprinting or engaging in combat
  • The following combat changes have been made for players in Red Dead Online:
    • Directional damage indicators have been added, which will display around the edge of the screen when the player is hit. They can be turned off in the Display section of the Settings Menu.
    • All gun weapons can now be aimed, cocked and reloaded quicker, increasing responsiveness during combat
    • All gun weapon aiming cameras have been reframed, making it easier to clearly see and target oncoming enemies
    • Thrown weapons can now be equipped, aimed and thrown quicker
    • Cover entry and transitions are now more responsive, reducing cases where the player takes cover against the wrong object
    • It is now harder for other players to remain locked onto you while in cover, making it a more viable tactic during combat
    • Aiming and firing weapons while in cover is now more responsive, and cameras have been reworked to give a better view of the player’s surroundings
    • Weapon reticle sway is now reduced when aiming while crouched
    • Enabled a small amount of aim assist while using weapons with scopes, making it easier to reliably hit targets
    • Aim assist for weapons is no longer disabled while Dead Eye Ability Cards are active
    • Players can no longer aim weapons while they are on fire
  • The following melee changes have been made for players in Red Dead Online:
    • Grapples, tackles, and breakouts are now quicker across the board
    • Difficulty of grapples and tackles is now based on the attacking player’s direction to the target. Tackles and executions are more likely to succeed when approaching from the rear or sides, and victims can reliably counter the grapple if attacked from the front.
    • You can now shove other players when sprinting towards them and tapping R2/RT. This will knock them to the ground while you remain standing.
  • The following interaction changes have been made for players in Red Dead Online:
    • Looting enemy bodies is now quicker and does not require you to pick up the body
    • Reviving downed players now takes less time, making it more viable while still engaged in combat
    • Animations for hog-tying, breaking out of hogtie, and cutting free from hogtie are now shorter
    • Hold button prompts have been shortened for many actions, including picking up animals, stowing pelts and looting cabinets
    • Picking up weapons during Showdown Modes is now more responsive and will not slow the momentum of the player
  • The following horse and vehicle changes have been made for players in Red Dead Online:
    • Animations for mounting horses in non-combat situations are now quicker
    • Animations for entering vehicles now have more consistent timings and are slightly quicker in general
    • Longarm weapons can now be aimed and fired while sitting in rowboats and canoes
    • Entering, aiming, and firing mounted weapons is now more responsive

Inventory and Economy Improvements

  • Players can now purchase up to five additional slots in the Stable, increasing the total number of owned horses to ten
  • Players can now carry a maximum of 50 animal pelts in their Horse Cargo
  • Players can now save up to seven custom outfits in Red Dead Online
  • Players can now can name their saved outfits
  • The sell price of valuable items that can be looted, such as jewelry and watches, has been greatly increased.
  • Additional valuable items can now also be looted from enemy corpses (occasional Gold Tooth), and throughout the world, like containers in ambient wagons
  • Chests and Lockboxes on vehicles and hidden throughout the ambient world may now be filled with additional loot and valuables instead of being empty

Play Styles Improvements

  • The following improvements have been made to Hostility and Playstyles in Red Dead Online:
    • The preferred play style will now be remembered after exiting and re-entering Red Dead Online Free Roam
    • The amount of Hostility that players receive when a Defensive player presses charges on them has been increased
    • The player versus player damage resistance applied by Defensive Mode is now greater. This damage reduction also applies to a player’s horse while they are riding it.
    • A Defensive Mode icon has been added to players’ overhead UI to indicate if a player is in Defensive Mode
    • Improvements have been made to forgive unintentional or minor horse collisions while in Defensive Mode in Red Dead Online
    • Improvements have been made to minimize players ability to intentionally remove others from Defensive Mode, by running in front of a horse being ridden by a Defensive player

Weapon Balancing

  • The following weapon balancing changes have been made for player vs. player combat in Red Dead Online:
    • Damage has been increased for all bullet weapons, speeding up combat and now requiring fewer body shots to kill another player
    • Damage fall-off is now applied to critical hits when not using a telescopic sight, meaning that long distance headshots are no longer guaranteed to instantly kill another player. Using High Velocity ammunition will increase your chances of landing a critical headshot at range. This reduces reliance on headshots as the primary kill method in PvP
    • Repeater weapons now deal slightly more damage when at very close range to a target player
    • Damage fall-off has been retuned for the Springfield Rifle, now dealing less damage in long range combat with other players
    • Sniper rifles now have no aim assist when hip firing and bullet travel time has been sped up to make hit detection more reliable

Free Aim Improvements

  • The following Free Aim improvements have been made for players in Red Dead Online:
    • Control stick sensitivity curves have been retuned in Free Aim mode to give the player smoother aiming and allow more accurate small adjustments
    • Made improvements to aim assist detection and stability that makes it easier to hit moving targets while using Free Aim mode
    • Fixed problems that could occur when trying to reliably talk and interact with the ambient population while Free Aim mode is active
    • Weapon accuracy spread now reduces quicker after aiming when using Free Aim

Showdown Mode Improvements

  • The available Showdown Series have been reworked to group game modes by Playstyle rather than player counts. The following Showdown Series are now available from the Landing menu, Quick Join on the Player menu, or Markers placed in the world:
    • Shootout Series
    • Takeover Series
    • Elimination Series
    • Race Series
    • Featured Series
  • Players will now be dynamically matchmade into a new Showdown Mode lobby if the game detects there are not enough players for an ideal play experience

Ability Card Balancing

  • The following balancing changes have been made to Dead Eye Ability Cards in Red Dead Online:
    • Increased the initial amount of Dead Eye consumed when activating all Dead Eye cards
    • Paint It Black: Amount of Dead Eye consumed by each shot has been increased
    • Slow and Steady: Damage reduction while active has been increased
    • Slippery Bastard:
      • This card no longer prevents player lock-on when activated
      • When locked onto a player using Slippery Bastard, weapon accuracy spread will be significantly increased, and fired bullets will be pushed towards the edge of the reticle
      • The same penalty effect also applies to the player using Slippery Bastard when attempting to lock onto other players
  • The following balancing changes have been made to Combat Ability Cards in Red Dead Online:
    • Hangman: Now deals a fixed amount of damage to lassoed enemies
  • The following balancing changes have been made to Recovery Ability Cards in Red Dead Online:
    • The Gift of Focus: No longer has a penalty to damage dealt while this card is equipped
  • The following balancing changes have been made to Defense Ability Cards in Red Dead Online:
    • Hunker Down: Damage resistance while in cover increased, and now applies to all types of damage received instead of just bullet damage.

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