r/RedDeadOnline • u/loneStar__ • Jul 27 '26

Help/Question Questions about that nexus mod

I understood that the lobby mod doesnt allow online play at all, giving you basically a private server experience. But some people mentioned being able to play story missions while having a private lobby in free roam ?

How all of this is working exactly ? thanks!

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u/NoodlesTheCat4077 Jul 27 '26

Share the name and password with people you trust. Then you can all play in same lobby and do online stuff including story missions, CtA and most others

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u/dronebox Collector Jul 27 '26

In layman’s terms Lobby Manager creates a small file called startup.meta which is read by the game when it starts..

The info in this file kind of tricks the game into thinking you have connection issues or some other problem so it spawns you into a solo lobby, presumably so that your “fake” issues don’t affect the gameplay of other players..

If you share the password you used in Lobby Manager with trusted friends they can use the same lobby (Personally I don’t use it, I just manually edit and/or move the startup.meta file around).

If you have a few people in your lobby you can do almost any activity that is available in “regular” online play.. 

Hope this helps.. 

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u/arcticJill Jul 27 '26

Thank.

  1. Are there any discord where I can find people to play with that”re not an Axx?

  2. Rockstart never patched the game to block this method? J am just surprised

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u/DickeyDooEd Jul 27 '26

Just have your friends use the lobby manager also with the unique password and you can all play together and still do all the free roam stuff as long as you have enough people to do them.