On December 7, Rockstar detailed the mostly restrained, smaller update for Red Dead Online without news of any bigger update on the horizon. My screenshots folder from December 2019 is equal parts stunning views and egregious graphical glitches, and I was constantly sharing both with friends. We pushed through annoying visual hiccups and crashes and posse-joining bugs because there was just so much of Red Dead Online to see. Issues persisted into January, when it launched on Steam. Things were a bit too wild in the West initially. When it debuted on PC via Rockstar's launcher in November 2019, Red Dead Redemption 2 struggled with performance issues, crashes, and bugs. While I'm sure it will wake up in the spring, I just hope that Rockstar is planning to feed this beast again when it does. RDO has settled in to keep warm with all that old content through the lean winter months. A chill has come in on the wind in 2021, though. RDO is majestic and dangerous, full of multiple seasons of missions and rewards.
For those that stick around, Red Dead Online is like those grizzlies up in northern Ambarino. If you're headed onto the trail for the first time, it will last you the same several months that it did us, if not more.
