People really dislike going along with the motions and instead try very hard to manipulate the situation in their favor. Not to mention all the simpery and white knighting makes everything seem like a reddit community put into a video game.
Someone needs to make one where you interact with the world and players as if it was the base game with perhaps just bank robberies and bounties added. No shit with failed RP instant ban. Make the bank robberies a little more as if it was like the Valentine or Saint Denis robbery mission, if the law arrives too late they arrive too late. That also prevents people being held hostage for 15 minutes.
the problem is that there are WAY too many rules and the rules are too strict, roleplay servers can be very or extremely fun it is that the creators of those servers attempt to make everything PERFECTLY balanced so that nobody has a advantage over other people. Most of time when you do things you have to look at rules to see if you are not breaking any and that is not fun
The concept of RP in general is good. GTA, RDR or even DayZ roleplay are on paper extremely fun, but are ruined by massive applications, buggy non polished systems, no tutorials, the playerbase or the rules of the server. If someone made a good server with polished systems and tutorials for new players with a small and very lenient form to join, it would probably be awesome, but that's not the case.
Very professional. Hogtie a guy at gunpoint literally inside a town, kidnap him to the next town and have him lie down and witness you rob a bank. At first I thought they’d use you as a hostage, but no-one literally seemed to care. Great roleplay, very realistic.
was thinking the same thing. like, how the fuck is it possible to kidnap someone in the middle of a town and then ride to another town where a bank robbery is going on and no one seems to care. why do you even need a hostage from fucking valentine if your robbing in rhodes. and the sheriffs or whatever they were just let them steal everything and peacefully ride away from the crime scene? i dont know much about the wild west, but i do know that rp servers do not depict the wild west in any way
@@Oskrrr I know, it’s incredibly laughable. I don’t have a PC but I host some roleplays on PS4/PS5 with my friends and some other guys we meet in our server and we do some historically accurate roleplays and follows along with a story, outlaws and such, similar to story mode. It’s fun
@@gm_edits738 Roleplay has the potential. But is run by the wrong people unfortunately. Roleplaying in a controlled enviroment like you do sounds more the way to do it
It's also borderline rude, could have ask him, you wanna play pretend bank robbery? (Your're the moron getting tied up doing nothing and we pretend to rob a bank while the guard pretends to defend it!)
the RD and GTA rp servers are ran by a bunch of reddit mod type people, the only way to enjoy your time there is if they give you permission, that's why the bank heist you saw looked friendly because they all know each other if randoms pulled it off they would be jailed for an hour or banned for "failed rp" . most of these server just prefer to stand around and talk all day than actually rp that's why its mostly empty
yeah youre better off modding the shit out of ur game to make it 10x better than redm. as a former redm player if u dont just sit around and talk all day u will get attacked, and if u win, banned.
@@personguy2694 What's crazy is I still enjoy playing vanilla-no mod PS5 RDR2 it is still one of the purest forms of escapism, in the Wild West especially.
@@retro_today I get the point with Banks, Arma 3 I played a server called Asylum as a cop and them banks was a war zone and was fking amazing, GTA n RD have negotiations and mostly just a chase n they repeat that chase 100x over when they hit the bank again in 30 mins and is so unserious the cops n robbers are so buddy buddy and can' even act like they aint best friends
I tried it before. It was a good server. I was a Wendigo Worshipper. Used cult like outfits and talked all raspy and hushed. Made a story about how my character got a cursed satchel that if I take it off - I’ll get racked with bad luck. It was fun. But I stopped playing after the guys I was playing with in the game (A sort of mafia family thingy) got into a whole heap of trouble, and I got caught in the crossfire and was considered and outlaw. Honestly, it made the game more enjoyable at times. I was a wendigo worshipper, so staying away from towns and roam around forests fit me. Then when I realized that the social aspect of RP would be null and void cause of my status - I left. The server died soon after, I don’t know why.
Was in a similar situation on a server where a group tried to hold me hostage and I shot someone once I felt threatened and got banned immediately lmfao
Yes because that would be classed as NVL ,if a group has guns on you and they put numbers you more than 2:1 then you don’t really have a chance in walking away alive .
What the fuck 🤣 I hogtied a mf when I was stealing his carriage , FAHHHHHHHGOT had me banned 1 day bc I left his dumb ass tied up next to a rock head in water of a stream 🤣
This happens even in the so called WL servers, simply because they don't know how to roleplay, and ruin the game with stupid rules. It also happens that the same ones who play as marshals or sherif are the same ones who play as robbers, and at the same time, they are part of the server staff. In short, it's boring and predictable, you often get banned for improvising, and the most sadly of all, you get a lot, and i mean A LOT, of power abuse from the administration. You're doing well to get out of there. It's trash.
We could make a server for non morons with mental rigidity stuck in an anal phase more than I would want to know. Actually it would be cool to have a proper bank robbery where you gotta defend, or a camp or fort Wallace or whatever, but for doing choirs all I need to do is ask my wife she'll find something for me to do.
I think the Red Dead community(more specifially, the RDO community) as a whole is kinda to blame tbh. Considering the fact that if you kill someone in RDO, they'll spawncamp you for an hour, I don't really see how it's surprising that the rp servers are full of power abuse. Not saying that there aren't decent people on online and rp, just saying that with the way the RDO community acts most of the time, it'd be hard to expect anything else.
Nice profile picture, Rust is a very well written character. I can see with that and your insightful comment that you got a good taste for quality stories
i rather get griefed by cheaters on vanilla than spending 3 hours farming just to make 20$ on a roleplay server that btw being afk half an hour in a legendary bounty in vanilla nets you 250$
I love how they told each other how many was inside/outside of the bank lmao….. and I loved the “they left because you said there was too many” lmao talk about killing immersion
As a arma 3 server hoster I saw a comment saying “they are reddit moderators” and it’s not wrong. Most gta rp or rdrp servers are ran by reddit/discord mods, wannabe hood rats, or real life leo or other public service officials doing GTA/rd2 stuff on Off-days.
It's not that far it's only like 5 minutes There is even a challenge in the story mode to go from Valentine to Rhodes in under 5 minutes imagine she took him from Annesburg to Blackwater
@@lewisofthehoood yeah that would be even worse but in the context of the rp why would they take someone from an entirely different town to be a hostage in a bank robbery?
RDR2, GTA and Arma RP generally suffer from the same problem: The owners and the surrounding team become almost despotic, start getting upset if anyone points it out to them and then they fall into some sort of death spiral that will one day befall every single RP server. I've seen it so much that I can smell symptoms before they even occur.
Wildrp is probably the best for actual roleplay as most the folks there actually know how to roleplay and create interesting scenes/narratives. It's also probably the hardest to get into for that reason but might be worth it.
It’s very gatekept. Applications can only be applied once a month, reasons for denial are not specified. If you try to ask, perma ban. It’s just not worth it. Especially considering the application needs to be very long with specific language or you’ll get denied. And if you do pass, you’ll have to go through an interview. It border line feels like I’m applying for a job.
All the servers you played on use Teamspeak and Saltychat, not in-game voice. The reason why you can hear some players is because they also have the in-game chat enabled and are essentially double talking through Teamspeak and In-Game chat. Also, most of those servers are copy pasta of each other - the character creator is a dead giveaway. The only servers with some originality are Dakota River Bend (made by actual RDO players, uses in game voice and is controller friendly) - WildRP (elite quality RP, very good developers, albeit with no controller support at all) - Ranch RP (similar to Wild, but not as ‘elite’)
Calling wildRP elite😂 I’d call them “snobby”. Never have I ever encountered a server that wanted clips of you voice acting to get in. Or a server that REQUIRES your mic to be one of those wild desk mics. They’re so far up their own ass.
@@Mannysnr1 There's morons in every server. Making your entry application not only obtuse and difficult, but to the point that they require you to have a specific mic? Fuck that. You drive away twice as many good people as you do the bad.
Had a bit of this spill into console RDO once after a Moonshine sale in Blackwater Guy tried asking me if I knew a criminal gang, but I was riding off to do a legendary bounty (the board was very close) and he started firing at me - long story short I killed him first and I apparently ruined his roleplay after I popped him and his buddy
For the robbery, I think it's the rules that require the law to let the outlaw to have head starts for couple seconds, because otherwise people would just be shooting each the second there's bank robbery and will discourage people to rob a bank. So, hey at least have a chase first then you can shoot. I get it they sound to friendly when talking to the outlaw, but that's what you get for playing on public server. Which is why server like WIldRP require you to at least able to do voice acting
90% of hardcore role players cant even roleplay. they act as if it is life and have 0 improv skills to go along with any situation that will arise, they are just bland ppl
That's still a better experience than I got. My first time around was: make a character, listen to the main plot, go out, get shot, come back to base, walk outside, survive long enough to go into Valentine, get shot, pop back into camp, go back to get my stuff, get shot before I even make it into town, go back to camp, go back into town more stealth like, make it to where I died last, find the guy that shot me, shoot him 3 times before I get shot, pop back into camp because I died like 3 times, turn around, go somewhere else, see a long road of nothing till I get shot again, pop back into camp because I got shot 4 times now, poke my head out of camp, get shot, gave up, and never played the game again.
Reminds me of Star wars the old republic. I finally decided to join a rp server and this basically sums it up: You have to fill out a form, YOU MUST JOIN THEIR DISCORD, You can't be (Whatever the admins decide.) You can't have (Whatever the admins decide) And when you finally get to the roleplay? Its just people standing in a room typing at each other.
I RP in a server that was on screen at 11:27 and I have so much fun. From a serial killer in Valentine to coal miners being stopped and searched on the way to make a delivery, there’s lots of people who take it seriously enough to make simply riding around and interacting with people really fun.
The main issues with Roleplay servers are toxic server owners who prioritize quantity over quality, biased staff who favor their friends, and players who can't separate RP from real life. I've experienced this firsthand. I play on WildRP now, but before that, I was on these problematic servers. The experience was awful. People don't understand the basics of RP. Instead of playing a character from that time period, they bring in a version of their real-life self. They stand around, mess around with friends, bully others (because they're weak in real life), and ruin the reputation of RedM. This behavior ruins the experience for those who genuinely want to enjoy RP
I guess it's hard to strike a balance between being despotic or immersive. (Usually people of good will do well without problems, but you have the trolls too, that's why the mods then become neurotic with anyone)
I tried to get into RDRP and even had a friend join with me. We found a server that didn't have too many rules and had a decent population. But earning money was a slog, if you didn't work for a player run business your only other option was hunting. Sheriffs were always assholes who didn't participate in rp. Most of the server had regulars who were good roleplayers but they were extremely cliquey and wouldn't involve new players or anyone they didn't know. Gunfights were rare and sucked when they did happen because third person didn't have cross hairs and you were limited to bad guns if you didn't have money for better ones. Finding decent jobs was hard due to the before mentioned cliquey behavior and other jobs were downright mindless slave labor. For instance a group was running a massive farm in the emerald ranch, but they required their farm hands to wear a uniform do mindless work where you'd plant, water, harvest for hours while making low but steady wages. All while being at the emerald ranch the whole time away from all the good rp. I eventually learned from a player about graverobbing that paid better but had a risk of getting caught, however the player wouldn't reveal where the npc fence was and instead acted as a middleman where we'd have to get a cut from him, also some sheriffs would camp grave sites. I did have some fun times role playing as a chivalrous Knight of Ohio, I even wore the Ned Kelly armor from the multiplayer mission to sell the knightly look. However the sheriffs were always assholes and demanded that I never wear my helmet which like wtf I'm a knight? I did equip my horse with a mask and jokingly asked the sheriff if the horse had to take off his helmet too (wouldn't you guess it the sheriff wasn't amused)
Imo roleplay and progression systems dont work together. A server with a progression system is basically admitting they don’t have the knowledge or maturity to self regulate their roleplay
My grandfather told a story about his grandfather, where he had to defend himself from being taken hostage. He shot one of the criminals before being taken to the box by the admin. Very sad story. 😢
The mentions of Arma 3 roleplay really makes me miss it there was nothing better than doing a bank robbery and ending up having too fight the entire of the Altis police and coming out on top of them
Some of the issues you’ve mentioned are very valid across most of RDR RP, however most of the whitelist servers that float right around 240 people are very worthwhile. I myself have spent a little over 1,500 hours on RanchRP and love it
Servers like Ranch that allow ERP are massive no-gos. That sort of allowance invites the worst kinds of people. Degenerates should not be given a place to thrive in their hedonistic filth.
Sometimes I like to go on twitch and watch people rp on red dead (Skoog, specifically) whenever I watch his streams (Which are always sooo long) there is always something going on and its fun to watch, although, it is one of those rp servers you have to spend awhile to fill out an application, and create a character with a good enough backstory. But from what ive seen, if you want to go into it long term its definitely worth it.
I did have a blast on WWRP, despite its long application process. I was on it for a year and had a lot of fun, but ended up being banned because some admins had their delicate egos shattered. Honestly, EVERY Red Dead RP server has at least one flaw; bad design, poor UI, buggy gameplay, power-hunger staff ... the list just goes on. 😔
@@Niko_Bellic2 They have a free set of tokens per day so you can generate like 5 songs I think? But you can also pay for a sub which gives you like 2500 tokens a month
They gatekeep the crap out of it. To a degree I get it as it can get A LOT of trolls in your game but asking for frekin applications and making you take a ton of extra steps JUST TO TRY THE SERVER. Is insane.
Funny thing about this is that a youtuber made a video about trolling in RedDeadRP, and the guy was just sitting there minding his business and everyone just got mad at him for no reason 😂
I play on a whitelist one and I vastly prefer it over the regular RDO. But I think it highly depends on the type of player. I enjoyed the entire process of crafting a backstory and doing slow tasks. The fact that I can go for a trail ride, build a shop, own a cabin, hunt/fish, without the RDO experience of a tomahawk or shotgun to the back with no lead up
Tried Syn County for longer than I'd like to admit, and yeah, unless you knew people you never really saw people. Back when I was around there was a group pretty notorious for suckering in new players to basically be their drug farmers for dirt cheap, because new folk didn't know better. Owner of the group had some sort of staff connections, which was a pretty open secret. Though that's not really a story unique story to Syn, stuff like that happens on all sorts of RP servers across the board.
I've been playing Gilded RP. I didn't think I'd like it much but I'm still playing. Seeing these other servers makes me grateful for the server I'm on. These look so soulless and empty. The cards in Syn county make me want to vomit. Things aren't perfect, but it's fun enough, especially with friends.
My friend, gilded sucks major. Its one of the most slop servers out there along with gold rush. The only thing on gilded thats better than gold rush is that its actially stable performance wise.
Some good serious RP servers - - RanchRP - WildRP (Best) - WildWestRP - Highstakes Atleast these are some i have experience with and like from watching others RP.
I tried to join a red dead rp and put out mutiple aplications for diffrent servers multiple times and never could get in. I gave up after 2 months of trying. Big sad
I personally play on Dakota Riverbend due to its ease of access to get into and the people there are great to roleplay with! If you find Mr. Whittle in rhodes give him a shout
11:20 Discord servers that are WL only with a backstory are like HardRP servers where u need to RP eveyrthing like in realife. That's why they need people who will literally make a whole backstory of a character you are going to be.
I never did red dead roleplay but would role play on the regular servers. Having the ability to craft camps, work jobs, etc sounds really cool. The original game didnt even bother to make it that immersive 🙄 but that bank robbery interaction looked ridiculous
I got denied from one because i wanted to gain a deep understanding of the rules and if you get denied from thrre you cany try again haveing to join there discord though is not that big of a deal
I hate those servers that oblige you to join their discord and take a test, like wtf. I’m currently playing on rose county and just mind my own business, because I treat it like a survival/realistic server. I sure had some interactions, but nothing that surpassed my ability to “pretend”. My only complaint is that it’s not actually “realistic” as I wanted to be and some mods don’t even work (like fishing).
The unfortunate part about Red Dead's roleplay scene is that it could be so much, the game has an incredible structure perfect for a roleplaying scenario, that's why so many admit to roleplaying solo in the singleplayer campaign because it's just so much fun, there's so much you can do with it, yet these RP servers suck so hard. They truly are the most boring, most un-intuitive and the most hypocritical roleplay servers in any videogame. With ALL the tools at their disposal, this is all they can conjure up? Missed potential I hope one day someone can rectify.
Just not worth roleplaying, I signed up to a server once - waited a long time for the process. And the finally thought I'd get in and was refused for making a character they happened to not like despite spending a long time working on a background to fit the altered world story they had. They didn't care to explain further or allow any more chances, despite the effort and waiting I put in. I miss the days me and my friend would just hunt and roleplay by ourselves, RedM RP is miserable.
people have always asked for rdr undead nightmare 2, though its always just been right infront of them the whole time, rdo and rd roleplay (quick side note the games them selves are good, e.g. functions, and concept, but the players ruin it)
Rockstar roleplays seem to have a BIG problem with people just doing Cops/Robbers I've joined plenty of FiveM servers (besides NoPixel, I ain't waiting long queues) and it was all pretty much this > Join > Have no money for anything, cheapest car is like 15k and you have 3k > Go to work (pay is shit) > Get robbed > Buy a gun to protect yourselves > Get robbed anyways, coz you're not really thinking you're suppose to be ready for a quick draw during any interaction with another player > Try crime > Get scammed ("im a criminal so I can rob you") > Try crime by yourself > Get arrested by cops > Want any job cooler than delivery driver ? Gotta apply on forums/discord Yeah, safe to say I'm just playing GTA Online, coz it's less frustrating
ST-RP is the only text server if you prefer text instead of cringe voice. Still requires you to make a whitelist on the forums but thats just to weed out the shitters and all that.
you know, I have the same background as you, Arma3 RP and DayZ and Idk man, it could be that these games were too chaotic and toxic but in RedM people just want to literally "RP-talk" everything, but at the same time I also want to experience some crime, shootings, etc... I want some wild west but haven't seen a single server like this for RDR2
To have *fun* in RP's you need to know someone that has a high role on something 15% of players work until they get a role that have an actual gameplay
@TheFloodFourm will that is what RP means make a fake character in a fake map with a fake story with a fake goal We all got this in real life so no need for RP anyway
I tried fivem and got bored real quick. GTA Roleplaying servers should be like gta samp where if you broke law no talking your way out but get chase down and that’s fun.
I read that some blacksmiths are skilled to shoe horses so maybe the ones that do and are fond of horses, keep them as treats. Which is odd because why not sell it at the stable? Horses love biscuits/ cookies
we have a mute friend that RPs all the in fiveM we get her on one day on redM on forgotten trails and they ban her for under age and for being medically mute. "All admins and mods have the right to make ANY decisions on the server" You must be 18+ to be able to play and also have a mic to voice (set on Push to talk) and speak english on the server. this is the rule they are talking about it says be able to dose not say mandatory.
to me it seems like the problem here is that they're using a game that is 90% open fields and 10% actual town so players are hard to actually find. plus some servers just having terrible mechanics that drive players away some people talk about server rules but. rules make an rp server. without rules you could just shoot a guy and run away without saying a word which is horrible for actual rp, but is something i feel like these people *actually want* for some reason.
If I can say, don't know how much this will be listened to, but the red dead PC rp scene is much different than the Xbox scene. There's definitely some connections you can spot in these rp servers, but in Xbox you constantly feel like you're missing era's worth of story's, split between million of mini groups, all working near the same ideas because the game doesn't give them much to work with.
I used to play on Syn County about a year ago (before they removed the whitelist) and I loved it. There were things that were frustrating, like how robbing people was op and getting robbed left you feeling frustrated with limited ways to get your stuff back or retaliate but finding a gang or group of people helped a lot. I can say that most of the people on there were great role players and cultivated rich stories that I still think of fondly today. Shout out to the McGavins! No group on the server was perfect but yall were so welcoming and helpful, riding out to back me up or helping guide me when I needed help. -Mabel Bee (the horse trainer/doctor and her husband Seabass the Blackwater Fisherman)
I’ll also say that there were so many different things for your character to do, it made it easy to diversify. I did many things, like bird training, horse training, bounty hunting, I wrote a book about bird training, befriended two stunt brothers, a time traveling schemer and his gang, had a whole arc with a serial killer, sold pies under the table to different gangs, went on police raid ride alongs, and was a doctor. Each thing was so much fun! Being silly made it so much fun. Shout out to the guy who lost his legs getting run over by a horse and joyously appreciated the donkey legs swapped his real legs out for from a dead donkey nearby. It ended up becoming a key part of his character. When you find a server with people who appreciate it and want to rp for the sake of rping, it can be so damn enjoyable.
The concept of Red Dead roleplay is really good but the players make it extremely bad
People really dislike going along with the motions and instead try very hard to manipulate the situation in their favor. Not to mention all the simpery and white knighting makes everything seem like a reddit community put into a video game.
Someone needs to make one where you interact with the world and players as if it was the base game with perhaps just bank robberies and bounties added. No shit with failed RP instant ban. Make the bank robberies a little more as if it was like the Valentine or Saint Denis robbery mission, if the law arrives too late they arrive too late. That also prevents people being held hostage for 15 minutes.
the problem is that there are WAY too many rules and the rules are too strict, roleplay servers can be very or extremely fun it is that the creators of those servers attempt to make everything PERFECTLY balanced so that nobody has a advantage over other people. Most of time when you do things you have to look at rules to see if you are not breaking any and that is not fun
literally it could be one of the coolest roleplay concepts ever but people decided to be lame
The concept of RP in general is good. GTA, RDR or even DayZ roleplay are on paper extremely fun, but are ruined by massive applications, buggy non polished systems, no tutorials, the playerbase or the rules of the server. If someone made a good server with polished systems and tutorials for new players with a small and very lenient form to join, it would probably be awesome, but that's not the case.
Very professional. Hogtie a guy at gunpoint literally inside a town, kidnap him to the next town and have him lie down and witness you rob a bank.
At first I thought they’d use you as a hostage, but no-one literally seemed to care.
Great roleplay, very realistic.
was thinking the same thing. like, how the fuck is it possible to kidnap someone in the middle of a town and then ride to another town where a bank robbery is going on and no one seems to care. why do you even need a hostage from fucking valentine if your robbing in rhodes.
and the sheriffs or whatever they were just let them steal everything and peacefully ride away from the crime scene? i dont know much about the wild west, but i do know that rp servers do not depict the wild west in any way
@@Oskrrr I know, it’s incredibly laughable. I don’t have a PC but I host some roleplays on PS4/PS5 with my friends and some other guys we meet in our server and we do some historically accurate roleplays and follows along with a story, outlaws and such, similar to story mode. It’s fun
@@gm_edits738
Roleplay has the potential. But is run by the wrong people unfortunately.
Roleplaying in a controlled enviroment like you do sounds more the way to do it
It's also borderline rude, could have ask him, you wanna play pretend bank robbery?
(Your're the moron getting tied up doing nothing and we pretend to rob a bank while the guard pretends to defend it!)
@@Oskrrr Goes to show how hard it is to instigate a spirit of corruption and power within a group.
the RD and GTA rp servers are ran by a bunch of reddit mod type people, the only way to enjoy your time there is if they give you permission, that's why the bank heist you saw looked friendly because they all know each other if randoms pulled it off they would be jailed for an hour or banned for "failed rp" . most of these server just prefer to stand around and talk all day than actually rp that's why its mostly empty
Gta rp is over all alot better then red dead rp
@@CountHasting I disagree. GTA seems to be even worse actually
@@Jan-jc4rx red dead is just onlne with more in it and bigger loser player base
@@Jan-jc4rx gta actually has roleplay and good roleplay
SAME WITH GMOD
I just roleplay in single player now.
Yeah im literally John Marston
yeah youre better off modding the shit out of ur game to make it 10x better than redm. as a former redm player if u dont just sit around and talk all day u will get attacked, and if u win, banned.
@@personguy2694 What's crazy is I still enjoy playing vanilla-no mod PS5 RDR2 it is still one of the purest forms of escapism, in the Wild West especially.
Role playing online in rdr seems very fun, but the reality is apparently disappointing
@@BenthewildchildE750 yeah no doubt. if rdr2's online wasnt infested with online daters, it would be a genuinely fun time
I tried Red Dead RP once. Turned out the owner of the server was a massive hypocrite.
Happens a lot with RP servers. We had issues all the time when we played ARMA 3 RP on some of the servers
@@retro_today I get the point with Banks, Arma 3 I played a server called Asylum as a cop and them banks was a war zone and was fking amazing, GTA n RD have negotiations and mostly just a chase n they repeat that chase 100x over when they hit the bank again in 30 mins and is so unserious the cops n robbers are so buddy buddy and can' even act like they aint best friends
Prodigy RP brother, great community and overall chill RP, not so sweaty and toxic.
@@SirLucian2st nobody wants to join your shit server bro stop replying to every comment
I tried it before.
It was a good server.
I was a Wendigo Worshipper.
Used cult like outfits and talked all raspy and hushed.
Made a story about how my character got a cursed satchel that if I take it off - I’ll get racked with bad luck.
It was fun. But I stopped playing after the guys I was playing with in the game (A sort of mafia family thingy) got into a whole heap of trouble, and I got caught in the crossfire and was considered and outlaw.
Honestly, it made the game more enjoyable at times.
I was a wendigo worshipper, so staying away from towns and roam around forests fit me.
Then when I realized that the social aspect of RP would be null and void cause of my status - I left.
The server died soon after, I don’t know why.
Was in a similar situation on a server where a group tried to hold me hostage and I shot someone once I felt threatened and got banned immediately lmfao
Because in Wild West, you cant defend yourself apparently. You better just watch some Tarantino movies instead of playing this nonsense.
Yes because that would be classed as NVL ,if a group has guns on you and they put numbers you more than 2:1 then you don’t really have a chance in walking away alive .
What the fuck 🤣 I hogtied a mf when I was stealing his carriage , FAHHHHHHHGOT had me banned 1 day bc I left his dumb ass tied up next to a rock head in water of a stream 🤣
@@kharngotrekson1726or just play the regular game lol
This happens even in the so called WL servers, simply because they don't know how to roleplay, and ruin the game with stupid rules. It also happens that the same ones who play as marshals or sherif are the same ones who play as robbers, and at the same time, they are part of the server staff. In short, it's boring and predictable, you often get banned for improvising, and the most sadly of all, you get a lot, and i mean A LOT, of power abuse from the administration. You're doing well to get out of there. It's trash.
Hell, these ARE the whitelist ones, installed redm last night to find almost all servers were whitelist and didn't bother as I don't like fivem rp
We could make a server for non morons with mental rigidity stuck in an anal phase more than I would want to know. Actually it would be cool to have a proper bank robbery where you gotta defend, or a camp or fort Wallace or whatever, but for doing choirs all I need to do is ask my wife she'll find something for me to do.
I think the Red Dead community(more specifially, the RDO community) as a whole is kinda to blame tbh. Considering the fact that if you kill someone in RDO, they'll spawncamp you for an hour, I don't really see how it's surprising that the rp servers are full of power abuse. Not saying that there aren't decent people on online and rp, just saying that with the way the RDO community acts most of the time, it'd be hard to expect anything else.
Nice profile picture, Rust is a very well written character. I can see with that and your insightful comment that you got a good taste for quality stories
@@ti2218 ;)
7:04 most polite kidnappers ever
💀
i rather get griefed by cheaters on vanilla than spending 3 hours farming just to make 20$ on a roleplay server that btw being afk half an hour in a legendary bounty in vanilla nets you 250$
I love how they told each other how many was inside/outside of the bank lmao….. and I loved the “they left because you said there was too many” lmao talk about killing immersion
As a arma 3 server hoster
I saw a comment saying “they are reddit moderators” and it’s not wrong.
Most gta rp or rdrp servers are ran by reddit/discord mods, wannabe hood rats, or real life leo or other public service officials doing GTA/rd2 stuff on Off-days.
Sounds a lot like the gta rp servers tbh. Even the bank heist went down like most gta rp
Gta rp over all is alot better
That chick took him all the way to RHODES from Valentine?!?!? Do these people have nothing better to do?
Aint no way they went THAT far
It's not that far it's only like 5 minutes There is even a challenge in the story mode to go from Valentine to Rhodes in under 5 minutes imagine she took him from Annesburg to Blackwater
There playing red dead rp no one who is not a youtube who plays has to life
@@lewisofthehoood yeah that would be even worse but in the context of the rp why would they take someone from an entirely different town to be a hostage in a bank robbery?
Ye and "can you hop of the horse please"...ye wasn't born y-day. She's getting an insta bullet to the face.
As soon a game ask me to join a discord, I'm deleting the game,
So based on
Discord is for degens
@@aidonger42069 based on the fact it's asking me, don't need no other reason.
@@chriscollins550 I think he meant to say "so based ong" but forgot the G lmaooo
@@sulkissulking lol
RDR2, GTA and Arma RP generally suffer from the same problem: The owners and the surrounding team become almost despotic, start getting upset if anyone points it out to them and then they fall into some sort of death spiral that will one day befall every single RP server. I've seen it so much that I can smell symptoms before they even occur.
The same story with the same characters (tards)
Wildrp is probably the best for actual roleplay as most the folks there actually know how to roleplay and create interesting scenes/narratives. It's also probably the hardest to get into for that reason but might be worth it.
Cringe
I guess the best is improvising stuff on the fly
It’s very gatekept. Applications can only be applied once a month, reasons for denial are not specified. If you try to ask, perma ban. It’s just not worth it. Especially considering the application needs to be very long with specific language or you’ll get denied. And if you do pass, you’ll have to go through an interview. It border line feels like I’m applying for a job.
I second this, WildRP is run by wonderful folks at least in my experience with them
@@aidonger42069you have 420 69 in your username, don't be throwing stones in a glass house
the Takeshi's castle replay caught me off guard lol, love it
Having seen a playlist of it on TH-cam it may have been stuck in my head
All the servers you played on use Teamspeak and Saltychat, not in-game voice. The reason why you can hear some players is because they also have the in-game chat enabled and are essentially double talking through Teamspeak and In-Game chat. Also, most of those servers are copy pasta of each other - the character creator is a dead giveaway.
The only servers with some originality are Dakota River Bend (made by actual RDO players, uses in game voice and is controller friendly) - WildRP (elite quality RP, very good developers, albeit with no controller support at all) - Ranch RP (similar to Wild, but not as ‘elite’)
Calling wildRP elite😂
I’d call them “snobby”. Never have I ever encountered a server that wanted clips of you voice acting to get in. Or a server that REQUIRES your mic to be one of those wild desk mics. They’re so far up their own ass.
@@daks5122Thats so retarded 😂
Teamspeak is crazy 💀
@@daks5122You're right but if you don't do that then you end up becoming one of the servers in this video soooooo...
@@Mannysnr1 There's morons in every server. Making your entry application not only obtuse and difficult, but to the point that they require you to have a specific mic? Fuck that. You drive away twice as many good people as you do the bad.
Had a bit of this spill into console RDO once after a Moonshine sale in Blackwater
Guy tried asking me if I knew a criminal gang, but I was riding off to do a legendary bounty (the board was very close) and he started firing at me - long story short I killed him first and I apparently ruined his roleplay after I popped him and his buddy
Did you skin the legendary geeks?
For the robbery, I think it's the rules that require the law to let the outlaw to have head starts for couple seconds, because otherwise people would just be shooting each the second there's bank robbery and will discourage people to rob a bank. So, hey at least have a chase first then you can shoot. I get it they sound to friendly when talking to the outlaw, but that's what you get for playing on public server. Which is why server like WIldRP require you to at least able to do voice acting
These RP players must be from the US, theres no way any other country could host these people
Woah man, don’t group us all into them 😭
Yup they all talk 🏳️🌈
I could only imagine a British one of these, I bet it would be glorious
@@Darko2007yea no
They from cali or portland
their intelligence level sounds questionable
after that experience i'd not get close to anything roleplay related
Glad to see I'm not the only one who remembers Takeshi's castle
based comment goated show.
The bank heist rp was genuinely funny as fuck
If the challenge do a bank heist, I want to do a bank heist
hardocre roleplayers are the funniest like they spend half ther day into a game and cry when someone doesnt roleplay
And half that day consists of standing around waiting for someone to break the rules
90% of hardcore role players cant even roleplay. they act as if it is life and have 0 improv skills to go along with any situation that will arise, they are just bland ppl
That's still a better experience than I got. My first time around was: make a character, listen to the main plot, go out, get shot, come back to base, walk outside, survive long enough to go into Valentine, get shot, pop back into camp, go back to get my stuff, get shot before I even make it into town, go back to camp, go back into town more stealth like, make it to where I died last, find the guy that shot me, shoot him 3 times before I get shot, pop back into camp because I died like 3 times, turn around, go somewhere else, see a long road of nothing till I get shot again, pop back into camp because I got shot 4 times now, poke my head out of camp, get shot, gave up, and never played the game again.
Reminds me of Star wars the old republic.
I finally decided to join a rp server and this basically sums it up:
You have to fill out a form,
YOU MUST JOIN THEIR DISCORD,
You can't be (Whatever the admins decide.)
You can't have (Whatever the admins decide)
And when you finally get to the roleplay?
Its just people standing in a room typing at each other.
*Born to experience the freedom of the west*
*Forced to be kidnapped by outlaws to impress their girlfriend*
I RP in a server that was on screen at 11:27 and I have so much fun. From a serial killer in Valentine to coal miners being stopped and searched on the way to make a delivery, there’s lots of people who take it seriously enough to make simply riding around and interacting with people really fun.
What server is it?
@@BoominGame Dakota River Bend
@@syngibbs thx
@@syngibbsI play on that one too! Great server with many people actually looking for interaction
The main issues with Roleplay servers are toxic server owners who prioritize quantity over quality, biased staff who favor their friends, and players who can't separate RP from real life. I've experienced this firsthand. I play on WildRP now, but before that, I was on these problematic servers. The experience was awful. People don't understand the basics of RP. Instead of playing a character from that time period, they bring in a version of their real-life self. They stand around, mess around with friends, bully others (because they're weak in real life), and ruin the reputation of RedM. This behavior ruins the experience for those who genuinely want to enjoy RP
This is anpretty fair assessment
I guess it's hard to strike a balance between being despotic or immersive.
(Usually people of good will do well without problems, but you have the trolls too, that's why the mods then become neurotic with anyone)
I tried to get into RDRP and even had a friend join with me. We found a server that didn't have too many rules and had a decent population. But earning money was a slog, if you didn't work for a player run business your only other option was hunting. Sheriffs were always assholes who didn't participate in rp. Most of the server had regulars who were good roleplayers but they were extremely cliquey and wouldn't involve new players or anyone they didn't know. Gunfights were rare and sucked when they did happen because third person didn't have cross hairs and you were limited to bad guns if you didn't have money for better ones. Finding decent jobs was hard due to the before mentioned cliquey behavior and other jobs were downright mindless slave labor. For instance a group was running a massive farm in the emerald ranch, but they required their farm hands to wear a uniform do mindless work where you'd plant, water, harvest for hours while making low but steady wages. All while being at the emerald ranch the whole time away from all the good rp. I eventually learned from a player about graverobbing that paid better but had a risk of getting caught, however the player wouldn't reveal where the npc fence was and instead acted as a middleman where we'd have to get a cut from him, also some sheriffs would camp grave sites. I did have some fun times role playing as a chivalrous Knight of Ohio, I even wore the Ned Kelly armor from the multiplayer mission to sell the knightly look. However the sheriffs were always assholes and demanded that I never wear my helmet which like wtf I'm a knight? I did equip my horse with a mask and jokingly asked the sheriff if the horse had to take off his helmet too (wouldn't you guess it the sheriff wasn't amused)
Imo roleplay and progression systems dont work together. A server with a progression system is basically admitting they don’t have the knowledge or maturity to self regulate their roleplay
I have no words for the logic of robbing a bank while the doors are open with someone hogtied in the doorframe lol
I remember my first time trying Red Dead rp, and i got stuck permanently on a bench. 10/10 bench gameplay.
My grandfather told a story about his grandfather, where he had to defend himself from being taken hostage. He shot one of the criminals before being taken to the box by the admin. Very sad story. 😢
The mentions of Arma 3 roleplay really makes me miss it there was nothing better than doing a bank robbery and ending up having too fight the entire of the Altis police and coming out on top of them
0:40 this is quarter chub at best
Dope thumbnail!
THIS WAS SO LONG AGO LMAO. I was one of the Law in the rhodes bank
Haha, that clip was recorded just over a month ago!
@@retro_today "so long ago", maybe for some a month is a year.
You look exactly how I’d expect RP server lawmen, to look in real life 😆
It’s really like finding a diamond in the rough, it is fun, you just have to find that one server
Which one do you play on
@@sowpmactavish I found an Xbox server that is relatively friendly, but I have had my fair share of experiences with wildrp which is great aswell
which one
@@Cyclopeantreegiant check out wildrp
Tell us which one buddy
“Rockstar is Dutch and we’re all in the oven”
-how I would have written that title in the opening
Some of the issues you’ve mentioned are very valid across most of RDR RP, however most of the whitelist servers that float right around 240 people are very worthwhile. I myself have spent a little over 1,500 hours on RanchRP and love it
Servers like Ranch that allow ERP are massive no-gos. That sort of allowance invites the worst kinds of people. Degenerates should not be given a place to thrive in their hedonistic filth.
Sometimes I like to go on twitch and watch people rp on red dead (Skoog, specifically) whenever I watch his streams (Which are always sooo long) there is always something going on and its fun to watch, although, it is one of those rp servers you have to spend awhile to fill out an application, and create a character with a good enough backstory. But from what ive seen, if you want to go into it long term its definitely worth it.
I did have a blast on WWRP, despite its long application process. I was on it for a year and had a lot of fun, but ended up being banned because some admins had their delicate egos shattered. Honestly, EVERY Red Dead RP server has at least one flaw; bad design, poor UI, buggy gameplay, power-hunger staff ... the list just goes on. 😔
10:41 nobody gonna talk about how those biscuits that are definitely not made out of steel eight 3 lbs
2:02 what's the AI you used to create this song?
Suno AI
@retro_today Oh, thank you! Didn't expect you to reply tbh so it's quite the surprise, but thank you!
Haha no worries! I try and respond to most comments in some way but it’s been pretty busy!
@@retro_today is it free or does it cost money or subscription?
@@Niko_Bellic2 They have a free set of tokens per day so you can generate like 5 songs I think? But you can also pay for a sub which gives you like 2500 tokens a month
They gatekeep the crap out of it. To a degree I get it as it can get A LOT of trolls in your game but asking for frekin applications and making you take a ton of extra steps JUST TO TRY THE SERVER. Is insane.
Funny thing about this is that a youtuber made a video about trolling in RedDeadRP, and the guy was just sitting there minding his business and everyone just got mad at him for no reason 😂
I play on a whitelist one and I vastly prefer it over the regular RDO. But I think it highly depends on the type of player. I enjoyed the entire process of crafting a backstory and doing slow tasks. The fact that I can go for a trail ride, build a shop, own a cabin, hunt/fish, without the RDO experience of a tomahawk or shotgun to the back with no lead up
Maybe don’t let me and everyone else sneak up on you in RDO
Tried Syn County for longer than I'd like to admit, and yeah, unless you knew people you never really saw people. Back when I was around there was a group pretty notorious for suckering in new players to basically be their drug farmers for dirt cheap, because new folk didn't know better. Owner of the group had some sort of staff connections, which was a pretty open secret. Though that's not really a story unique story to Syn, stuff like that happens on all sorts of RP servers across the board.
The main issues with gta and rdr roleplay is that 90% of players have main character syndrome
I've been playing Gilded RP. I didn't think I'd like it much but I'm still playing.
Seeing these other servers makes me grateful for the server I'm on. These look so soulless and empty. The cards in Syn county make me want to vomit.
Things aren't perfect, but it's fun enough, especially with friends.
My friend, gilded sucks major. Its one of the most slop servers out there along with gold rush. The only thing on gilded thats better than gold rush is that its actially stable performance wise.
Some good serious RP servers -
- RanchRP
- WildRP (Best)
- WildWestRP
- Highstakes
Atleast these are some i have experience with and like from watching others RP.
I tried to join a red dead rp and put out mutiple aplications for diffrent servers multiple times and never could get in. I gave up after 2 months of trying. Big sad
Full chub? Brother, you just admitted to having a micropeen.
10:06 that icon for medical is the bandage icon from 7 Days to Die.
I personally play on Dakota Riverbend due to its ease of access to get into and the people there are great to roleplay with! If you find Mr. Whittle in rhodes give him a shout
My big issue is that with the bank heist (the one interaction he got), he could have been replaced with a NPC and it wouldn't have made a difference.
11:20 Discord servers that are WL only with a backstory are like HardRP servers where u need to RP eveyrthing like in realife.
That's why they need people who will literally make a whole backstory of a character you are going to be.
We all gonna ignore that piano??
11:29 reminds me of servers for The Isle. spend 5 minutes just reading the body down rule.
The Frontier and Dakota River Bend is the only two I had a good experience for US servers.
I never did red dead roleplay but would role play on the regular servers. Having the ability to craft camps, work jobs, etc sounds really cool. The original game didnt even bother to make it that immersive 🙄 but that bank robbery interaction looked ridiculous
You know when hammering a nail in the game is harder than in real life, its going to be a bad time.
Join the dark side, become the troll.
how hard is it to make a few rules and some Addons and just have normal workers Robberies and stuff
My only guess is they put in the free work to get the server running than start feeling entitled
I got denied from one because i wanted to gain a deep understanding of the rules and if you get denied from thrre you cany try again haveing to join there discord though is not that big of a deal
I hate those servers that oblige you to join their discord and take a test, like wtf. I’m currently playing on rose county and just mind my own business, because I treat it like a survival/realistic server. I sure had some interactions, but nothing that surpassed my ability to “pretend”. My only complaint is that it’s not actually “realistic” as I wanted to be and some mods don’t even work (like fishing).
The unfortunate part about Red Dead's roleplay scene is that it could be so much, the game has an incredible structure perfect for a roleplaying scenario, that's why so many admit to roleplaying solo in the singleplayer campaign because it's just so much fun, there's so much you can do with it, yet these RP servers suck so hard. They truly are the most boring, most un-intuitive and the most hypocritical roleplay servers in any videogame. With ALL the tools at their disposal, this is all they can conjure up? Missed potential I hope one day someone can rectify.
Just not worth roleplaying, I signed up to a server once - waited a long time for the process. And the finally thought I'd get in and was refused for making a character they happened to not like despite spending a long time working on a background to fit the altered world story they had. They didn't care to explain further or allow any more chances, despite the effort and waiting I put in. I miss the days me and my friend would just hunt and roleplay by ourselves, RedM RP is miserable.
people have always asked for rdr undead nightmare 2, though its always just been right infront of them the whole time, rdo and rd roleplay
(quick side note the games them selves are good, e.g. functions, and concept, but the players ruin it)
Rockstar roleplays seem to have a BIG problem with people just doing Cops/Robbers
I've joined plenty of FiveM servers (besides NoPixel, I ain't waiting long queues) and it was all pretty much this
> Join
> Have no money for anything, cheapest car is like 15k and you have 3k
> Go to work (pay is shit)
> Get robbed
> Buy a gun to protect yourselves
> Get robbed anyways, coz you're not really thinking you're suppose to be ready for a quick draw during any interaction with another player
> Try crime
> Get scammed ("im a criminal so I can rob you")
> Try crime by yourself
> Get arrested by cops
> Want any job cooler than delivery driver ? Gotta apply on forums/discord
Yeah, safe to say I'm just playing GTA Online, coz it's less frustrating
exactly at 8:00 you could see a guy arriving with an invisible horse
ST-RP is the only text server if you prefer text instead of cringe voice. Still requires you to make a whitelist on the forums but thats just to weed out the shitters and all that.
3:50 Fucking gwent cards wtf
Yes, its an IC custom made version of gwent using iconic personalities and characters of long time players in the server and other server aspects
Bruh british man turned into a hostage lmfao
rdr2 rp on xbox when i was like 12 was funny because there was no rules or mods and we'd just vc with eachother and rp as insane crackheads
Your character looks like dr shuiltz from django unchained
you know, I have the same background as you, Arma3 RP and DayZ and Idk man, it could be that these games were too chaotic and toxic but in RedM people just want to literally "RP-talk" everything, but at the same time I also want to experience some crime, shootings, etc... I want some wild west but haven't seen a single server like this for RDR2
why would i play on a server with issues within the first 30 minutes? if anything they failed to retain a new player lol
To have *fun* in RP's you need to know someone that has a high role on something
15% of players work until they get a role that have an actual gameplay
I prefer my fun to just be fun, not work. Wish players didn’t need fake progression to motivate themselves to have fun
@TheFloodFourm will that is what RP means make a fake character in a fake map with a fake story with a fake goal
We all got this in real life so no need for RP anyway
I tried fivem and got bored real quick. GTA Roleplaying servers should be like gta samp where if you broke law no talking your way out but get chase down and that’s fun.
song on 2:33 by Dragonforce trough the flames and fire
if it was me i would ve yelled THEY DRAGGED ME HERE ALL THE WAY FROM VALENTINE FOR THIS SHIT when they untied you
I have the same issue with the voice chat and I usually fix it by turning voice chat off and then on.
I just use mods to add all the online items and features to singleplayer and it is so peaceful
nice vid. got my sub
I read that some blacksmiths are skilled to shoe horses so maybe the ones that do and are fond of horses, keep them as treats. Which is odd because why not sell it at the stable? Horses love biscuits/ cookies
we have a mute friend that RPs all the in fiveM we get her on one day on redM on forgotten trails and they ban her for under age and for being medically mute. "All admins and mods have the right to make ANY decisions on the server"
You must be 18+ to be able to play and also have a mic to voice (set on Push to talk) and speak english on the server.
this is the rule they are talking about it says be able to dose not say mandatory.
3:50 they used the Witcher card Game templates for their loot boxes lol
Try WildRP, it’s probably the best red dead RP I’ve played so far
The thing is, the roleplay groups are very hit or miss. Either they’re very good servers, or really bad.
My biggest issue with rp is just how buggy it is. Especially when trying to make a character.
It’s a small thing but that funny song about subscribing was so random it actually made me laugh. Take that sub bro you earned it 😂
I love how polite the woman was
to me it seems like the problem here is that they're using a game that is 90% open fields and 10% actual town so players are hard to actually find. plus some servers just having terrible mechanics that drive players away
some people talk about server rules but. rules make an rp server. without rules you could just shoot a guy and run away without saying a word which is horrible for actual rp, but is something i feel like these people *actually want* for some reason.
If I can say, don't know how much this will be listened to, but the red dead PC rp scene is much different than the Xbox scene. There's definitely some connections you can spot in these rp servers, but in Xbox you constantly feel like you're missing era's worth of story's, split between million of mini groups, all working near the same ideas because the game doesn't give them much to work with.
The skip to the piano had me dying 😂😂😂
I used to play on Syn County about a year ago (before they removed the whitelist) and I loved it. There were things that were frustrating, like how robbing people was op and getting robbed left you feeling frustrated with limited ways to get your stuff back or retaliate but finding a gang or group of people helped a lot. I can say that most of the people on there were great role players and cultivated rich stories that I still think of fondly today.
Shout out to the McGavins! No group on the server was perfect but yall were so welcoming and helpful, riding out to back me up or helping guide me when I needed help.
-Mabel Bee (the horse trainer/doctor and her husband Seabass the Blackwater Fisherman)
I’ll also say that there were so many different things for your character to do, it made it easy to diversify. I did many things, like bird training, horse training, bounty hunting, I wrote a book about bird training, befriended two stunt brothers, a time traveling schemer and his gang, had a whole arc with a serial killer, sold pies under the table to different gangs, went on police raid ride alongs, and was a doctor. Each thing was so much fun! Being silly made it so much fun. Shout out to the guy who lost his legs getting run over by a horse and joyously appreciated the donkey legs swapped his real legs out for from a dead donkey nearby. It ended up becoming a key part of his character.
When you find a server with people who appreciate it and want to rp for the sake of rping, it can be so damn enjoyable.
3:49 ARE THOSE GWENT CARDS??