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If You’re Lucky, You Can Shoot Your Real-Life Friends In ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ Tomorrow

by Amanda Yeo  27 November 2018
Red Dead Redemption 2

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Red Dead Redemption 2, a video game in which you try to hard and get so far but in the end it doesn’t even matter, will soon let you shoot your friends. Though exactly when you’ll be able to rain hot lead on your companions may depend upon the date you started playing the game.

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Developer Rockstar announced today that the early access beta of Red Dead Redemption 2‘s online multiplayer mode will launch tomorrow, November 28, at 12:30am AEDT. However, not all players will have access to Red Dead Online right away.

Rather than flinging open the gates and watching cowboys trample each other underhoof in their race to murder each other, Rockstar has separated Red Dead Redemption 2 players into groups and is rolling the mode out over the next few days. The hope is that doing so will allow them to better manage the growth of players concurrently online, preventing the servers from crashing and giving the beta a smoother launch.

As such, online multiplayer will only be available tomorrow for players who own Red Dead Redemption 2: Ultimate Edition. The next day, Thursday November 29, those who played the game on October 26 according to Rockstar’s records will be allowed to venture online. The cohort who played between October 26 and 29 can join the fray on Friday November 30, and everyone else will jump in on Saturday December 1 — just in time for the weekend.

Red Dead Online will include a character creator, allowing players to customise their character to their preferred play style or, hopefully, create unholy abominations. Online outlaws will be able to form Posses of up to seven players and engage in wholesome Wild West activities such as hunting, fishing, sitting around a campfire, and bloody murder. There will be missions to complete, gangs to fight and treasure to hunt if players so choose, as well as opportunities to compete with other outlaws and Posses in open world challenges.

Or you could just ride about wearing a very fancy hat and instigating unprovoked shootouts wherever you go.

Red Dead Redemption 2‘s map is huge, but any town can not be big enough for the two of us if you just believe.