Rockstar Game Tips: Red Dead Cooperative Mission Strategies (Part 1)
(A posse begins a cooperative mission, smartly staying together and dropping enemies from a distance...)
Red Dead Redemption's first and free pack of downloadable content, The Outlaws to the End Co-Op Missions Pack, features six cooperative missions that take place in different areas of the epic open world. Whether it's assaulting Fort Mercer to rescue a farmer's daughter in The Kidnapped Girl, or riding a raft with your posse to rid the land of weapon caches in The River, or going after treasure in Walton's Gold, Outlaws to the End provides a variety of action-packed challenges for you and your friends online.
We recently held a weekend of Red Dead Social Club multiplayer events, playing a few of the missions with gamers worldwide, and we've gathered some general tips that will get you get through the missions and help to keep you alive so that you're able to finish each one as masterfully and dominantly as possible.
- Keep everyone together and appoint a leader. If you want to stay alive and complete the missions with a Gold goal in mind, it can't be every man for himself. Always keep in mind the key word, "cooperative".
- Watch for fallen posse members and revive them if needed. The game will let you know in large letters in the center of the screen when a member of your posse has fallen. Run over to the person and revive them by pressing Triangle on PlayStation 3 or Y on Xbox 360.
- Use cover to regenerate health if your screen turns red. Look for rocks, hills, stagecoaches... whatever you can find to hide behind.
- Be careful when approaching a fallen friend as you may need to take out nearby enemies to avoid the same fate. Your teammate died for a reason, and it might just be at the hands of that enemy that's manning the Gatling gun around the corner.
- If you take the reins of a stagecoach, hold 'A' on the Xbox 360 or 'X' on the PlayStation 3 while aiming. This will keep the stagecoach automatically steering and moving down the correct path, allowing you to concentrate on shooting. This works in both single player and multiplayer.
(While playing "The Kidnapped Girl" during July 13th's Red Dead Social Club PSN event, RedDeadDev3 was able to survey the area and fire his rifle while in the drivers seat by aiming while holding X, helping RedDeadDev4 and Killer_Disease fight off enemies.)
- Choose the right class for the particular mission you're about to enter. For example, while Miner is great for Walton's Gold, it's likely not the best class for The River or The Herd.
- The class 'No Holds Barred' is only available in Advanced Cooperative Missions. In order to unlock Advanced Cooperative Missions, you must first play through and beat each of the six normal Cooperative Missions.
Next time we'll go through some of the specific missions, laying out tips to help you prevail in each one. If you've got great Co-op tips to share, let's have 'em in the comments.
Previously:
Rockstar Game Tips: Hunting Wildlife in Red Dead Redemption (Part 3)
Rockstar Game Tips: Hunting Wildlife in Red Dead Redemption (Part 2)
Rockstar Game Tips: Hunting Wildlife in Red Dead Redemption (Part 1)
Rockstar Game Tips: Red Dead Redemption's Free Roam Challenges Part 3 (Lawbringer and Survivalist)
Rockstar Game Tips: Red Dead Redemption's Free Roam Challenges Part 2 (Outlaw)
Rockstar Game Tips: Free Roam Challenges Part 1 (Hunting & Sharpshooting)
Rockstar Game Tips: Dueling like a Pro in Red Dead Redemption
Rockstar Game Tips: Red Dead Redemption Quick Tips
You guy know what appear in the next Months? A lot of Games with a Multiplayer Mode, and i know that a lot o gamers change from Red Dead to Halo and Co.
Red Dead Redemption is a very good Game, but not the only one. So i cannot understand what dumb Game you play with us.
A small update and we can choose them, whats the problem?
how about sorting it so theres always atleast 10 or more players in a match, i dont have this problem on other games like COD etc so come on ROCKSTAR sort it cos i love this game but would hate to have to get rid cos of lack of online players to kill cheers
@MrsNaveen Check here to order your copy:
http://www.rockstargames.com/reddeadredemption/order
Typically if someone near me is on a streak, i'll follow them around to get their revive if they need it rather than breaking their chain.
1- Turn off the map, unless you've already tried this you've got no idea how much more emmersive the game is with it off. You learn to cross the land using instinct and landmarks, other than constantly having your eye on a 2d road. Thing's become harder but at the same time more realistic, like fighting a group of bandits. You don't instantly know where they are by a quick look on the map, there for you have to use your wits more and skill.
2- Don't break character. Army running through the town's and settlements look's stupid, mainly because the run John has is a pure battle run. When sprinting whilst in battle it look's amazing and so fitting to it's purpose, but sprinting down a street just looks idiotic. If you need to get somewhere, walk, if not, call your horse.
3- Not always the face. My friend tired himself of this game after about 10 hours, because the entire time all he did was go around and shoot people in the face. Sure it's a little fun, but it wears off eventually, and then just completely ruins the entire experience Red Dead has to offer. A face shot every now and then will hold a lot more pleasure than a face shot every time.
Also, as a bit of extra fun I was wondering the other day how it's possible to get bandits to John whilst on a train. After a few hours contimplating I finally figured it out, and it's not actually that hard. Simply get a bounty, go out, kill the bounty, loot his body and instead of returning to collect you prize, head for the train.
The bandits that followed the bounty will constantly attack you until you turn in the mission, that includes being on the train (they don't follow the train into settlements.)
Thank you Rockstar for a great game, I've had many glorious hours playing it, and am still surprised by some of the many amazing features this game holds. I can't wait for the next.
@SenyorJMEZ Ha - yup.
@Gutripper We'll be announcing more regarding the release of the Marshals class in the future, stay tuned.
Time doesn't matter. If you want gold medals then pace yourself and kill plenty of people. Don't rush ahead and get yourself murdered. Took me soooooooo long to get gold on The Escape advanced because idiots would try to get to the end as fast as possible and get slaughtered.
@tuco1980 Thanks, since we haven't announced any info on any other characters, I'm afraid I don't have an answer for you, stay tuned right here on the Newswire for all game announcements.
PLAYER characters cannot have their hats shot off? I quit playing the Mexicans with the big hats because if you are shot in the hat it counts as a head shot. In fact, I quit playing characters with hats period because of this. If the brim of your hat is sticking out from behind cover and some one shoots it, it counts as a head shot.
The other question wasn't about the marshals, I wanted to know if you had any plans for other social club challenges to release any other new characters BESIDES the marshals. In the screens I linked there are plenty of your devs playing characters that are not selectable and NONE of them are the marshals.
The co-op DLC is completely free, go buy it of PS Store or XB Marketplace.
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