Rockstar’s cowboy simulator Red Dead Online is getting a class-like Roles system with its next update. Well, Rockstar has to spend all that Grand Theft Auto Online casino cash somehow.
The most exciting of these classes to me is the Collector, a gatherer of rare loot and lost items from across the frontier that is eventually able to unlock a metal detector.
“A metal detector in a cowboy game?!” I hear you ask – the same question which led me to spend the last 20 minutes on Wikipedia looking at the early design and implementation of metal detector prototypes for gold prospecting in the 19th century. It’s still a bit of a stretch, but they existed. And you’re probably not playing Red Dead Online for total historical accuracy anyway.
