Red Dead Online Blood Money Wastes Opportunities Potential

Red Dead Online: Blood Money Wastes Opportunities’ Potential

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Red Dead Online: Blood Money’s Opportunity missions are too short and simple to add any real value to a game desperately in need of new content.

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Red Dead Online Blood Money Wastes Opportunities Potential

The Red Dead Online: Blood Money update’s announcement brought plenty of optimism for new, replayable content, something the game desperately needs. Rockstar Games’ online frontier has been devoid of many compelling things to do for most of its existence. It’s been seven months since Red Dead Online’s last content update, and even that was just another underwhelming role update.

Blood Money appeared more significant, with a new Crimes and Opportunities system that seemed like it could finally bring GTA Online-like heist missions to RDO. Sadly, fans’ optimism was misplaced. The only Opportunity available at launch was a mission to steal the Covington Emerald. The new mission sets up plenty of promise, but the hype quickly dies in brief, uneventful missions with very little strategy or planning required. The same can be said for the second Opportunity, which sees players steal the Ember of the East ruby.

From Rockstar’s earliest announcement of Red Dead Online, many fans hoped for a Wild West version of GTA Online, filled with epic bank robberies and train heists. In the RDR2 campaign, players get a sizeable dose of this, but RDO lacks any sort of grandiosity. The water-downed version Blood Money brings is disappointing, especially on top of the lackluster new “Crimes” missions required to reach Opportunities. Players plod through dull missions with only a few exceptions to build enough Capitale for each Opportunity, which itself takes far less time, effort, and focus than needed to access it.

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Red Dead Online: Blood Money’s Disappointing Opportunities

The first Opportunity tasks players stealing the valuable Covington Emerald, which is aboard a train leaving Saint Denis. The mission instructs them to find a way onto the heavily guarded train, and there are a handful of ways to do so, from riding up to the train, guns blazing, to using a wagon to block the tracks and stop the train. But there aren’t multiple stages or specific pre-heist tasks players can do to expand on the experience, like in GTA Online’s heist system. Whichever approach the player chooses, the content is over far too quickly.

Whether aggressive or stealthy, once on the train, players simply work their way through the cars until they find the chest containing the emerald. They then quickly bail, hop on their horses, and ride off to the delivery spot, just like countless other Red Dead Online missions. Even relatively inexperienced players likely won’t need more than 15 to 20 minutes to complete the mission on the normal difficulty setting. While the harder difficulties add some more challenge, they aren’t worth the reward of a little more pointless cash when there are so many simpler, more rewarding alternatives.

The second Opportunity, the Ember of the East, does add a bit more variety to the approach, but it still highlights the weak points in the overall system. Players get the same cutscene as the first Opportunity, with only the tail end swapped out to describe the ruby instead of the emerald. If players haven’t already done the Covington Emerald job, they can jump right into the ruby mission, so there is no setup or carry-over between jobs, as there is for the prep missions in GTA Online. Once in the mission itself, players have to locate a lockbox in Annesburg by sneaking around to overhear conversations about where it could be, finding keys to offices where it may be locked, or just aggressively kicking open doors to find it in one of three possible locations. Regardless of the approach or location, though, the mission is still brief and uninspiring.

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Most fans likely weren’t expecting something on the scale of GTA Online’s Cayo Perico, but Blood Money isn’t even on the level of GTA Online’s very first heist update. This was a chance for Rockstar to deliver content Red Dead Online fans have wanted since before the game launched, but players only got a small, lackluster taste of the game’s potential.

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