Want to join up with friends and form a Posse? This guide will tell you How To Play With Friends In Red Dead Online as while it’s a very simple process, it’s easily missed and can lead to some misleading explorations of the various in-game menus.
Unfortunately, matchmaking still isn’t smart enough to automatically put you in a lobby with players you frequently group with. This can lead to a bit of a struggle trying to find out how to join a lobby with friends and form groups, or Posse’s.
How To Play With Friends In Red Dead Online
Thankfully, it’s simple enough. You need to open the Player Menu. On the PlayStation 4, you just tap “Left” on the D-Pad. For other platforms, it’s the same button you press for the Catalog, you just tap it instead of hold.
Once you are in the Free Roam Player Menu, select “Players”. This brings up a menu of all players in your current lobby. Look at the top of the menu, you will see a button next to “Nearby”. On PlayStation 4, it’s L1 and R1 to rotate through the menu. Rotate to the “Friends” menu and from there you can invite a friend, join their session and invite them to a Posse.
Capitale is a special currency in the Blood Money DLC for Red Dead Online that unlocks special missions. This guide on How To Get More Capitale In Red Dead Online will tell you the basics of obtaining more Capitale so you can unlock the Opportunity missions that promise bigger and better rewards.
Capitale is required to do Opportunities in the Blood Money DLC. This guide on the Fastest Way To Farm Capitale In Red Dead Online will tell you the quickest way to collecting Capitale so you can skip half of the grind and get to doing the Opportunities way faster.
The Blood Money DLC for Red Dead Online introduces a new kind of currency that unlocks special missions. This guide on What Do You Do With Capitale In Red Dead Online will explain how Capitale works, where you can spend it, and what it unlocks as part of the new, free to download, DLC.
Capitale is the new currency used in the Blood Money update for Red Dead Online but it's surrounded by a certain mystique. This guide on How To Check Your Capitale In Red Dead Online will tell you how you can track the new currency as the new Bloody Money Crimes don't do a great job of informing you via the user interface.
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