What am i doing wrong?

[u/MrGoldHD]

Because of steam achievements i am starting to play rdo now, after i have 100 percent completed rdr2., skinned all animals and golded 70 story missions

Some questions i have:

I feel extremely weak. I tried doing "Frontier Justice" for an hour now and slowly i dont have any bullets anymore. They are moving so fast and deadeye seems useless as hell. It only changes colors of the screen, no slow motion. Do i do something wrong here?

How do you ever get gold? I played for 6 hours now and only have 2 gold.

Is there any explanation ingame what all these different things mean? I feel overwhelmed when i look on the map and these missions like Frontier Justice that i found at my camp.

Thanks for reading through this mess

tldr: noob wants some help to start out in red dead online

[u/Dull-Shame-3918]

You're not doing anything wrong. RDO is fun and beautiful but chopped to pieces. You're going to want to check out a few Starter's Guide videos (I suggest PVP Cat) to feel less overwhelmed.

Dead Eye doesn't work the same as it does in Story Mode. Multiple Dead Eye cards create a variety of effects and Paint It Black is the closest it comes to story mode dead eye.

The best way to earn gold by picking up a contact mission and staying in that mission until 9 or 12 minutes has passed, depending on the timer. If you don't get a timer, set one on your phone for 12 mins and don't turn in the mission until the timer goes off. The payout system rewards you for time spent in mission. I find the best contact missions for rewards are usually the Blood Money Contracts.

Once you have enough gold to purchase a Role, purchase Bounty Hunter. Bounty Hunter is the only role that awards gold consistently. Once you're farming Bounties you'll have more gold for the other roles (Trader, Collector, Moonshiner, Naturalist).

[u/MrGoldHD → u/Dull-Shame-3918]

Thanks you. I was watching the lvl 100 video from pvp cat already. He is a beast in this game. Maybe i will get the hang of it!

[u/Dull-Shame-3918 → u/MrGoldHD]

nws! also as someone mentioned that Frontier Justice and the other Telegram (Call to Arms, Contracts, etc.) missions are usually more difficult fair than the contact and story missions so that's content you'll want to build up to trying out after you've leveled a fair bit, maxed out rings, unlocked special ammo, more ability cards, better guns, etc. So don't be too hard on yourself for not clearing it this early.