Red Dead Online Offering Free Gold For Those Who Play This Weekend

Written by Brandon Hofer on January 25, 2019

News: Jump into a game of Red Dead Online the next couple of days and you will be handsomely rewarded next week.

Rockstar has just announced a pretty good deal that Red Dead Redemption 2 players are going to want to take advantage of this weekend. If you sign on to the Red Dead Online beta this weekend (January 25th through Sunday, January 27th) you will receive a bonus of five Gold Bars set to be delivered by Tuesday, January 29th.

In addition to that, there have been some upgrades made to the lobbies of Gun Rush, the latest mode which puts up to 32 players in a battle royale fight to the death in a rapidly shrinking play area full of weapons ranging from Repeating Shotguns to Dynamite Arrows.

There are also some other improvements that are being made to Red Dead Online. Once the new Gun Rush mode was launched, Rockstar identified a few matchmaking issues. Some of these issues have been issued short-term fixes and improvements while the development team works on a more permanent solution. These minor improvements should help generate fuller lobbies, with additional fixes appearing in upcoming title updates. If you had any problems with this mode when it was launched, you might want to try it again to see if your problem has been alleviated.

In case you haven’t tried Gun Rush yet, Gun Rush is a tooth and nail, Western-style battle-royale fight to the death for up to 32 players that can be played either with Teams or as a Free For All. Players compete in an ever-shrinking battle zone with horses for quick transport (and associated risks). Skirmish for weapons ranging from Mauser Pistols to Repeating Shotguns to Fire Bottles and Dynamite Arrows – as well as for valuable, hard to obtain armor like the headshot-thwarting Ned Kelly Armor to help you survive to the end.

Rockstar also revealed that more is on the way. There are items like Proximity-Based Player Blips, Parley Changes with quicker access to Feuding, Law and Bounty Improvements and more that will be available in future updates.

Have you tried out Red Dead Online yet? If not, will this free gold get you to try it this weekend? Tell us what you think in the comments section below.