4 Things Red Dead Online Needs to Shut Up Fortnite

Multiplayer games like Fortnite and Call of Duty are all the rage in the modern gaming industry, and Red Dead Redemption 2 is about to plunge back into those waters when it reintroduces Red Dead Online at the end of November. The game has already smashed records left and right, and now Red Dead Redemption 2 is going to get even bigger. In order to really stay relevant, however, Red Dead Online is going to need a few special qualities.

Things Red Dead Online Needs to Shut Up Fortnite

Lots of Character Customization

It almost goes without saying these days that any kind of online game needs a healthy amount of customization to help make each player’s experience unique. Considering how many options there are in the main game of Red Dead Redemption 2, you’d expect no less.

With the opportunity to create your very own cowboy you want tons of options, right down to the spurs on their shoes and patterns on their shirts. With how phenomenal Red Dead Redemption 2’s graphical engine is, hopefully, Red Dead Online can provide a robust character creator. Get right down to the nitty-gritty and let players adjust their facial hair, eye size, weight, all that good stuff. It’d also be great to have options for male and female characters.

Customizing guns would be particularly fun in Red Dead Online, and maybe you could even engrave it with your own custom emblem or sigil. If GTA Online was any indication, we’d also want to see a wealth of new outfits, weapons, accessories, and more added in future updates. 

Things Red Dead Online Needs to Shut Up Fortnite

Heists and Robberies

Heists are one of the very best things about GTA Online and part of what makes it so unique. Heists are elaborate missions in GTA Online that require multiple setup missions before taking on one big heist, with lots of rewards for completing it. Of course, there’s usually some kind of small story or narrative attached to these as well.

The world and setup of Red Dead Redemption 2 make it perfect for Rockstar to expand the heist system even more. Imagine taking on a massive train heist with your friends, or robbing a federal bank, or maybe even taking down a Pinkerton headquarters. The heists in GTA Online generally assign a specific role to each player, like driver or gunner. This is something that could still work for Red Dead Online, putting a player in charge of looting and gathering money, while another holds off lawmen, or intimidates witnesses.

There are so many options that Red Dead Online could open up, and taking down epic heists in the Old West with your friends sounds like a fantastic time.

Things Red Dead Online Needs to Shut Up Fortnite

Create Your Own Outlaw Gang and Camp

Red Dead Redemption 2 is as much about the rest of the members of the Van Der Linde Gang as it is about Arthur Morgan, and Red Dead Online will hopefully strive for the same thing. Obviously, one of the things that absolutely has to happen with Red Dead Online is creating your own gang, that can essentially function as clan.

Maybe you could even engage in gang battles with other player’s gangs, bolstering the theme of warring gangs that the single player game establishes. The original Red Dead Online did this to a degree, but with Red Dead Redemption 2 it could happen on an even larger scale.

Another feature GTA Online has that Red Dead should take cues from is player-owned buildings and homes. The camp is a vibrant area in Red Dead Redemption 2’s single player, and it’d be great to have your own camp to call home while roaming the wilderness, with all the amenities you’d need.

Moving past that, hopefully, Red Dead Online eventually lets players purchase their own homesteads or buildings, and decorate them however they want. Again, customization is the name of the game here, and Rockstar’s absurd attention to detail will surely carry over to Red Dead Online.

Things Red Dead Online Needs to Shut Up Fortnite

Varied Game Modes and Battle Royale

All of Rockstar’s multiplayer offerings so far have given players a variety of options to choose from, and Red Dead Online needs to be the same way, if not on an even larger scale. Hopefully, most of the most from the first Red Dead Redemption will make a return like Deathmatch, Gold Rush, Capture the Flag, and Hold Your Own. It’d also be fun to see an alternative mode with zombies introduced, like in Undead Nightmare, even if it doesn’t fit with the main game.

Now, this may seem strange to say, but one way Red Dead Online can stand out from Fortnite is by implementing some kind of battle royale mode. Obviously, Fortnite is a major reason the battle royale genre is what it is today. However, if any developer is situated to bring a unique take on the genre it’ Rockstar. Maybe it’d involve outlaws competing over a robbery target, or even loop in the gang or posse system.

It’s hard to pin down exactly what a battle royale mode would look like in Red Dead Online, but that’s part of what makes it so exciting to think about. Having a wealth of multiplayer options and a battle royale mode? Now that’d really make Red Dead Online something special.