I Spent 100 Days in Red Dead Online... Here's What Happened

Storyline / Progression (100 Days in Red Dead Online)

• Premise: The creator spends 100 in-game days trying to “reset” their progress by starting from nearly no money and then grinding back up to major goals.

Starting Rules (Self-Imposed)

• No money/XP/gold glitches or exploits
• No help from friends or an alt account (specifically to avoid advantages in Trader deliveries and Bounty work)

Main Goals by the End

• Complete main story missions, including Land of Opportunity DLC
• Get the “best”/top ability cards and fully max them
• Acquire the best horse setup (best horse + saddle/stirrups) and maximize key upgrades
• Unlock the three original roles, then keep progressing via roles/dailies
• Ultimately hit major role goals, including Bounty Hunter level 20 for the coveted horse, then finish out final role/honor targets

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Gameplay Highlights (What the Player Does Repeatedly)

Early Setup and “Gold Acceleration”

• Creates a character quickly (skips intro cutscenes).
• Immediately grabs a powerful free card:
  • Painted Black (noted as likely the best early ability card)
• Chooses early combat gear:
  • Buys/uses weapons like a bolt-action rifle for early hunting/combat
  • Later learns weapon “bestness” depends on the timing of when gear is acquired/upgraded

Story Missions (Main Campaign Flow)

• Early missions involve meeting sheriffs/Marshal figures and doing escalating:
  • shootouts
  • escort missions
  • fort defenses
• Examples of mission types encountered:
  • Takeout/clear guard camps
  • Escort or deliver captives back to settlements
  • Fort assaults, including fights where a boss spawns after clearing adds
  • Town defense (notably defending Valentine with a multi-player team)
• The creator notes bugs/glitches occur often, including:
  • black screens
  • stuck states
  • odd enemy behavior

Daily Challenges as the “Gold Engine”

• Uses daily challenge streaks for gold.
• A key mechanic:
  • Waiting longer for payouts on many missions (stranger/bounty-type) tends to grant more gold
  • He repeatedly waits for the “red timer”/pay window

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Role Progression and Key Strategies / Tips

1) Bounty Hunter (Main Grind for Gold + Level 20 Horse)

• Gets the Bounty Hunter license after reaching 15 gold bars (via treasure maps + mission grinding).
• Uses:
  • Normal bounties to fill gaps and farm gold
  • Legendary bounties for higher profitability early
• Legendary bounty strategy:
  • Keep the target alive if possible (killing reduces payout)
  • Wait ~30 minutes to maximize reward
    • He fills downtime with herbs/flowers/animal observing/collecting
  • Uses mental timers because there’s no clear on-screen timer
• Additional detail:
  • Farms bounties until reaching Bounty Hunter level 20, unlocking the desired Breton horse

2) Collector (Highest-Effort “Money” Role Without Combat)

• Buys the Collector bag via Madam Nazar after gold reductions help his setup.
• Core strategy:
  • Uses an online map (Google) to find collectibles with daily updates
  • Collects sets (cards/jewelry/underground items) for better returns
  • Upgrades to a metal detector once able to reach higher tiers for underground collectibles
• He describes it as:
  • “No combat” gameplay
  • Extremely profitable once the collection routine is running

3) Trader (Hunt → Goods → Supplies → Delivery)

• Frames Trader as a later, wealth-building engine.
• Trader mechanics emphasized:
  • Don’t sell only skins; instead sell animals in a way that maximizes material yields
  • Cripps converts materials into Goods
  • After enough Goods, you must do resupply missions
• Trader XP tip:
  • You can sell with very few Goods (even 1–2) to get similar XP versus selling large quantities
• Delivery strategy:
  • Repeatedly does shorter cycles and delivery optimizations
  • Eventually pushes to major delivery milestones, including a 100% good delivery

4) Moonshiner (Passive-ish Income + Story Missions for XP)

• Purchases the Moonshine role after Collector/Bounty grind.
• Core strategy:
  • Choose a swamp location for the Moonshine Shack
  • Steal supplies, start batches, then rely on delivery cycles
• Moonshine batch optimization:
  • Drives carefully so bottles don’t break (breaking reduces payoff)
• Moonshine story missions:
  • Fun and described as “CO-OP-ish,” with waves/shooting-gallery style encounters
• Bugs/glitches frequently appear:
  • menu/object glitches
  • odd hitbox issues
  • occasional enemy/object weirdness

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Gameplay/Build Meta Goals

• Ability cards:
  • He focuses on maxing them (including Painted Black early; later tier improvements)
• Horse progression:
  • Uses leveling/bonding to reach top performance
  • Gets the best saddle and later hooded stirrups, aiming for maximum stamina/survivability
• Weapons:
  • Mentions long-term swaps:
    • Bolt-action early
    • Carcano rifle later as the “best rifle”
    • Navy revolver vs Lemat discussion
    • Shotgun choices for close-range, later switching to a semi-auto shotgun for legendary hunting

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Notable Events / Problems Mentioned

• Frequent bugs/hackers/oddities:
  • black screens, weird enemy spawns
  • invisible/vanishing elements
  • mission objective confusion
  • instances where he is killed “by nothing”
  • a moment suggesting corruption from hackers/asset flooding
• Matchmaking issues:
  • Some story/missions fail to start due to no matchmaking, requiring him to return later
• Honor changes / completion requirement:
  • He intentionally performs actions (including rampages) to reach maximum dishonor, enabling late-story requirements

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End-of-Video Sources / Gamers Mentioned

• No specific gamers or external sources are credited by name in the subtitles.
• Only a general “Google online map” is referenced for Collector locations (not a person).