Red Dead anti-griefing patch released

By Robert Purchese Published 5 August, 2010

Redemption for law abiders.

Rockstar has trotted out a patch to tackle griefing in Red Dead Redemption multiplayer.

While in Free Roam, anyone that achieves a kill streak of six or more will now become a Public Enemy and be stamped with a $1000 bounty. And if you're killed three times within 80 seconds of respawning, you'll be given the option to spawn at another location on the map.

Alongside those inventive counter-measures are a handful of general fixes.

Shoulder buttons can be swapped around, games can be saved with cheats activated and you can now have two horses - one to ride and one on follow. Also, thankfully, sliding doors no longer attach to the heads of bandana wearers, and drunken stupors are no longer accidentally permanent.

Further v1.03 details can be found on the Rockstar website.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Hunam #1 2 years ago

    "Occasionally, the player would not recover from being drunk."

    Is there a fix for this in real life?

  • Ron_Justice #2 2 years ago

    That's actually a pretty decent patch. Although the MP was, for me at least, a big draw when I bought the game I've shunned it, almost completely, due the being raped each and every time I entered a lobby - Faster Horse, Better Guns, more time getting to grips with the controls, being a cunt = bad times for low lvl noobs :(

  • spiritsnake #3 2 years ago

    WHAT?

  • Brodie #4 2 years ago

    I try to only ever "grief" players who have griefed me first.

    Sure I'll shoot someone as I ride past, but I won't then circle the area on purpose looking for them to respawn. Unless they've been doing it to me. As soon as I can break the cycle and take them out, it's their turn to get hassle for a few goes, then off into the sunset I go.

    Guess it won't matter now with this patch though, easy enough to scarper off after three deaths. Just annoying!

  • metalangel #5 2 years ago

    Maybe if you weren't forced to play with other random people to get levels and such, this wouldn't be an issue? But then they need other players to be around given how lifeless the map is compared to singleplayer.

  • ZizouFC #6 2 years ago

    You are just as bad for shooting someone as you ride past.....

  • BoffBoff #7 2 years ago

    ZizouFC is right. Why not just ride past?

    CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG???

  • Brodie #8 2 years ago

    99% of times I've tried riding past and doing the honorable thing, i get a headfull of lead for my troubles.

    Started out playing it that way, leaving other people to their own devices (and still try to leave others alone when in posse with my mates), but if nearly every other player seems intent on shooting you, may as well get them first, and not have to worry about the griefers.

    Clearly I'm the bad man here. I repent! I REPENT!

    *hangs up his six shooters*

  • gman7714 #9 2 years ago

    Me and my mate have had a proper nightmare trying to get that most wanted achievement, we were on for nearly 5hrs one evening and every time griefers would come and bollock it up for us and always just as we were about to try and escape the po po.

    I doubt this patch will make much difference to our particular problem. The cunts will still try and spoil it for us!

    Oh well its only one achievement. :)