Frequently asked questions

No. Red Dead Online is its own game mode with its own character and progress. It is included with Red Dead Redemption 2 and is also sold on its own.

Online overview

It is a long game with a lot of optional content. We do not publish a play-time figure because Rockstar has not stated one and it depends heavily on how much of the side content you do.

Cores, camp and your horse. Your three cores drain slowly and are refilled by food, tonics and sleep. Camp gives you supplies and honor, and bonding with one horse pays off for the whole game.

Start here

Yes, except where a page says otherwise. Only the chapter guide contains story spoilers, and it is folded closed. Page titles, descriptions, search results and previews never reveal story events.

Spoiler policy

In the chapter guide, behind a warning on the page and a second warning on each folded chapter. A few safe pages link to it when a detail needs a chapter reference.

Chapter guide

A specific list the game tracks under Progress, Total Completion: 107 story missions, any 10 stranger strands, any 5 bounty hunter missions, 25 random encounters, 6 gang hideouts, a set of compendium targets, level 10 cores, horse bonding level 4, all 90 challenges and more. It is not everything in the game.

The checklist

Almost nothing on the 100% list is missable on its own. Companion activities, gang item requests and some mission strands end with each chapter, but none of those is required. The chapter guide lists what ends when.

What ends with each chapter

Sixteen in Story Mode, each once per save, and you only need to kill any five for 100%. Red Dead Online has its own, separate set.

Legendary animals

The community ranks Arabians highest for Story Mode stats, but the stat bars are not everything. A horse you have bonded with will stay calmer in a fight, and a war horse suits a rider who wants steadiness over speed.

Horse guide

It does a little. High honor gives store discounts, low honor gives better loot from the dead, and honor shapes some scenes and the story's final stretch. You do not need to plan around it.

Honor and law

Chaos Engulfs the Frontier as Halloween Approaches, running through November 2, 2026. Rockstar posts a new event each month, and this site says so on the event page when the dates pass.

This month

There is no wrong answer, but the roles connect: Moonshiner needs a Trader sale or Trader Rank 5 first. Collector is the simplest to try, and Bounty Hunter starts in Rhodes.

Specialist roles

Rockstar still posts a Red Dead Online event every month in 2026. Those posts are bonus events, discounts and returning clothing rather than expansions, as far as we can tell from the posts themselves.

The 2026 posts

On the Rockstar Store on October 1, 2026: $59.99 for Story Mode with Red Dead Online, $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition, and $19.99 for Red Dead Online alone. Prices change, so check the store.

Editions and prices

Rockstar's current minimum is Windows 10 64-bit, an Intel Core i5-2500K or AMD FX-6300, 8 GB of memory, an Nvidia GTX 770 or AMD R9 280, and 150 GB of storage. See the PC guide for the recommended specs.

PC guide

Rockstar Support suggests updating your graphics drivers, switching the graphics API from Vulkan to DirectX 12 in the advanced graphics settings, and disabling fullscreen optimization for the game's executable.

The steps

Rockstar's own pages come first. When Rockstar does not document a mechanic, we check a long-running community reference and label the fact as Community. Each page lists its source labels and the date it was checked.

Sources and method

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