Anyone might see you in the middle of a field, minding your own business while skinning a deer and send a bullet through your brain. How others behave in your world is up to them. Check your map, and you'll see a bunch of pink shapes that indicate the position of other players in your world. (Shocking, but true.) There’s no way around that. If you’re playing Red Dead Online, you're … online.
In this guide, we’ll explain how the whole multiplayer thing works and how you can use Posses to create Red Dead Online co-op in Red Dead Redemption 2. It’s even better than that with friends who can both scare away aspiring murderers or, failing that, avenge your death.
But it’s better together, as we said in our Red Dead Online beginner’s guide. Sure, you can just hang out and let randos snipe you while you’re picking berries. Red Dead Online is a multiplayer game, but it doesn’t have to be a co-op game.
