In Red Dead Redemption 2’s story mode, players have to go to “Story” in the menu and then click the save icon from there. However, in Red Dead Online, there is no such option. On the contrary, players have no way to manually save their game, which is pretty much par for the course in an online multiplayer experience. Even so, there are some steps players can take to make sure that they don’t lose any progress in Red Dead Online.
We recommend doing something like completing an activity or mission with friends, changing clothes, equipping an item, or even just sitting in the pause menu for a minute. Then wait another minute or so, and it should be safe to close out of the game without losing any progress. We don’t recommend players quit the game mid-mission or while they’re in the middle of doing anything really, as it’s possible they’ll have to redo whatever they were doing once they jump back into the game later.
Completing an activity in Red Dead Online could be anything from doing a story mission, participating in a free roam mission, or joining a posse. It could also be something like looting items from the game world, such as cash or gold bars.
Gold bars (and the lesser gold nuggets, of which players need 100 to get 1 gold bar) serve as the primary in-game currency for Red Dead Online. Eventually, Rockstar will make it possible for Red Dead Redemption 2 players to purchase gold bars using real world money, but for now, fans of the game simply have to grind to get gold bars in the game.
To speed up that grinding process, we recommend players complete some of the game’s treasure maps, like the Bard’s Crossing treasure map that they will unlock at rank 10. Just be sure not to actually collect the treasure before closing the game.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is out now for PS4 and Xbox One.
