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***OFFICIAL Red Dead Redemption 2 Thread***aka AHRN'S MURDER HOBO ADVENTURE: HUNTS ELK AND PLAYS POKER (1 Viewer)

Love the updates, mission experiences, and general tips/tricks/info -- keep it coming, good boahs!

I have really been slow playing the #### out of this game, taking my time and exploring. Still on CH2 with (I think) two missions to go to get into CH3. Really wanted to deeply explore the areas unlocked to this point, without roaming too far afield as I imagine some areas of the game are part of cut scenes in missions so I think experiencing them that way is preferable to me. Weird, I know, and I may break this if I find it prevents me from finding some key legendary animals I want to find before moving on, but that's how I'm rolling. 

Trying so hard to avoid spoilers, but it's pretty hard especially perusing Reddit. I think a pretty key element of the endgame was spoiled just because someone didn't respect spoiler tags/texts in titles, but there you are. And now every post is about online, which I really don't understand -- what's the fun in playing in such a huge open world online and getting shot in the back every two steps? Maybe it's because I'm a geezer, but don't understand the appeal.

Anyway, FWIW (and it's not worth much, and maybe sharing just for the sake of sharing), here is what I've done so far and some things I want to do (if possible) before moving to CH3:

  • Max out Horseshoe Overlook camp. As I understand it, the posse is nomadic in terms of campsites, so it may be a waste of early money if we're potentially picking up and moving (do all the things you buy move with you, or is there a need to upgrade a whole new camp if you move?), but so be it. I want my crew happy now. I think all I have left is to upgrade horse storage and a coop.
  • Legendary Grizzly, Coyote, and Fox are down. So is the Legendary Chain Pickerel (was actually surprised how small it was).
  • Want to find and kill the Legendary Buck just to get the trinket that provides higher animal skins/parts. Having that early should really help improve hunting and crafting for everything else. I like the ideas of hunting down the legendary Elk and Panther for trinkets that improve loot yield and dead eye duration for the same reasons, but I think I can wait on those.
  • Definitely want to polish off the Legendary Bison as it appeared on my map when exploring around the area after hunting down the Legendary Griz. And while I'm at it, nab the White Arabian, as I believe it's in the same general area. 
  • Finish off The Noblest of Man, and a Woman mission and defeat all gunslingers. I think to firmly end this stranger mission, it may require advancement to future chapters.
  • Find at least one more dino bone (already found one to kick off A Test of Faith mission), one rock carving and one dreamcatcher -- without cheating. I imagine these are going to require a lot of cheating as they seem impossible to find
  • Found some treasure -- Chick's, and started on the path of the Jack Hall Gang treasure (I think that's the one you buy from a stranger that is on a mesa with a rock face that looks like, well, a face.)
  • Finish off some homestead robberies (already did the one at Aberdeen Ranch and the one mentioned a few pages back with the drunk gambling dad -- have a suggestion for that latter one based on what I've read, but don't know how to type spoiler text in this board).
  • Try and find some items for my campmates to get the Errand Boy achievement. Not sure if I need to unlock or visit areas I haven't been to yet to do that, though.
  • Try to explore some more nooks/crannies around the mission-unlocked parts of the map in case there are any more stranger missions or interesting things to find/see/d
Essentially, I just want to avoid moving on and missing out on content, as I've heard that some missions are no longer completable once you move into a new chapter. Would be great to understand which ones those are before I move on. Would also be great if R* didn't do that, as it seems it could completely happen without you being aware, thus losing out on some great content and fun/excitement.

Excelsior, boahs!

 
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For those aiming to supplement their time between gaming sessions with immersing yourself in similar Western themes in other media, in addition to watching the classic spaghetti westerns, I highly suggest hightailing it over to Netflix and watching the Coen Bro's latest:

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Fantastic script, incredibly talented cast giving off amazing performances, and just a good ol' time reminiscent of tooling around RDR2. 

 
Finished up the main last night.

Really really enjoyed the game story and game itself minus some clunkiness.

I have a couple questions I'll post in a bit but want to check online first.

This is the first game in a long time I was this invested in the characters.

 
belljr said:
Finished up the main last night.

Really really enjoyed the game story and game itself minus some clunkiness.

I have a couple questions I'll post in a bit but want to check online first.

This is the first game in a long time I was this invested in the characters.
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I finished yesterday too and am guessing I have, at least, one similar question.  I'll hold off posting here too as I do not want to spoil anything.  Terrible parenting, I basically told my college as son to blow of school so he can finish the game; so we can talk about how it ended.

 
I'm still in Chapter 4, but I realized I was losing the zeal for the game last night.  Guess I need to get cranking on the main story now.  So far when I've started getting bored of the hunting and random stuff a few main (yellow) quests pulled me right back in.  Same thing last night.  

Oh, I spent a bit of time last time starting my online character last night (in case there was some reason to start it during the Beta later).  I just don't see the appeal right now.  I did enjoy GTAOnline once I got into a friendly/active crew, but after the heists were done it turned into grindfest.  I'll give RDRO a shot once things settle down, as there are some missions and stuff, but I have no desire to enter that wasteland right now.  

 
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Even with web help the high stakes one took me 3 hours.  I'm not dedicated enough to try to find that ish w/out help.
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I wonder if it's an age/generational thing.  I was struggling with that one when I got the first clue.  My 22 yr old daughter (who has finished Far Cry 3-5) and my 20 yr old son were watching.  My daughter nailed the map points for me and my son helped with where to find the maps or loot.  We did it all without any online help.  

 
cockroach said:
Mmmmmmmm, that wasn't my experience.   I think there's 8-10 story missions online where you play 2-4 player co-op and are totally off the map to other players.   You can always posse up as well.  They didn't have GPS in the wild west, but you bet your bhole you didn't want to be running around solo.
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You are correct. It wasn't story missions; it was stranger/side missions. And yes I was in a posse.

Anyway I played again last night. And I'm done with online. It's beyond trash. The players at Reddit have calculated that just to customize the color of the crappy starting pistol requires approximately 96 hours of grinding out gold bars. The greed of the big gaming publishers is truly amazing.

On the bright side, at least the single player campaign is pretty good.

 
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Stompin' Tom Connors said:
  •  Max out Horseshoe Overlook camp. As I understand it, the posse is nomadic in terms of campsites, so it may be a waste of early money if we're potentially picking up and moving (do all the things you buy move with you, or is there a need to upgrade a whole new camp if you move?), but so be it. I want my crew happy now. I think all I have left is to upgrade horse storage and a coop.
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You keep the same set of upgrades after the camp moves so they are not lost, but they may add new ones for the new location.

 
technicaldifficulties said:
Any dominoes tips? I spent 6 hours yesterday trying to win 3 games in a row
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I only played the All Fives game.  Had never played dominoes before in my life, but worked out some strategy.

  • Only the first double played (the "spinner") can be played in all four directions, and it can only be played off the ends once both sides have been played off.  
  • If you take a lead, try to keep the total low.  If the ends will add up to 7, or 18, based on which you play, usually play the 7 to limit them getting big scores against you.
  • Sometimes a domino can be played in multiple locations and you have to d-pad left/right to see the other locations. Sometimes the choice can literally win or cost you a game.
  • When you're near to going out, try to engineer situations where both numbers on your final tile have options so no matter which your opponent uses, you can still go out.
  • There's 2 strategies.  Increasing your score with the edge being multiples of 5 on each play.  Making your opponent draw a bunch of dominos and then you go out and get his domino total rounded to the nearest 5 in points.
  • For the latter, sometimes it is helpful to look at the dominos already played to guide your placement.  For example, exposed tiles are a 1 and a 4 that I can play off.  I have 1-4 to play so I can leave all 1 or all 4 as the only things that can be played, depending on where I play it.  I look at the board first and see how many tiles with the "1" are played already.  Maybe 1-1 was played already as were 1-2, 1-3, and 1-6 and I have 1-4.  So the only tile left he can play if I leave 1's exposed is 1-5.  If he doesn't have it already he's going to have to keep drawing until he finds that one domino.  But if I look at tiles already played using "4" maybe only 2-4 and 4-4 have been played (plus my own 1-4), so there are 3 dominoes he might have that could play off a 4.  So I want to play my piece so only the 1's are exposed.  Doing this, I've gained like 30-35 points as I went out and my opponent had almost the entire stack of dominos in his hand. 
  • Generally you want to aim to get multiples of 5 to score, but when that isn't a factor, getting rid of your highest sum dominos (i.e. 6-4 adds up to 10) helps so if the opponent goes out first, you aren't stuck with lots of points he gets to add to his score. 
  • Look ahead and leave yourself options to be able to go out first.  Same comment on looking at tiles already played.  If the Spinner is 5-5, there's 4 different tiles with 5 on it that can be played off of it.  If there's one still exposed and all the other tiles with "5" have been played except the one in your hand, that spot is safe to be played on whenever you want to, so you could save it for last or until it will make a multiple of 5 to score.
  • Opening with something like 6-4 or 5-5 to score points is usually better than opening with 6-6. Exception would be applying what I said above of looking ahead to help yourself go out... if you have 4 other tiles with "6" on them you might really want that 6-6 to be the spinner so you have 4 places to play a "6".
 
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Sometimes events just build on their own in this game.

Needed perfect moose pelt  -> 
Accidentally aimed at guy while looking for moose  -> 
Killed guy when he started shooting at me  -> 
Intimidated witness unsuccessfully  -> 
Killed witness when he started shooting  -> 
Killed second witness when he started shooting  -> 
Intimidated third witness and ended the string of witnesses  ->   
Save/reloads to try to spawn moose  -> 
Dead horse (no idea where it came from, I didn't kill any witness horses) keeps spawning right by moose spawn point, but no moose  -> 
Wonder if horse carcass is preventing moose spawn so try to push dead horse into river  -> 
Can't push horse carcass so start throwing dynamite at it  -> 
Dynamite horse carcass into river and towards deeper area, when train passes on bridge above during explosion ->  
Train stops and they call guards  ->  
Screw it, train is sitting there idle so I hop in and take off  ->
Kill 2 guards on train  ->
Stop train on bridge with law swarming uphill and down but can't get to me  ->
Rob people and safes, made a couple hundred dollars  :excited:  ->
Alternate horse had followed me, and falls in from above and I'm able to revive him  ->
Drive train to state line and then bail onto Alternate horse, with $160 bounty  ->
One lawman follows, ditch horse and hide in a bush until he leaves  ->
Only path to Post Office through non-bounty areas is riding across entire top of map and down to the station north of Strawberry  ->
Riding along when it suddenly turns 25 degrees, and I'm in warm clothing and can't change clothes on Alternate horse, so go to Cinematic travel so I don't freeze to death  ->
What felt like 2 hours since moose hunt started, pay off bounty, ride back to camp and summon primary horse back

 
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I gave online a try, had no clue what I was doing, got bored and gave up.  Free roam offline seems way more fun at the moment.  I have set up a stable of (4) awesome horses.  I stuck with the method of naming them by the numbers.  My Original, The Deuce (aka Numero Dos due to the language filter), Trey and Susie Quatro were all offed in Mission mode and Beethoven's 5th bought it early in the Epilogues before I could even get to a stable for proper renaming.  Nikki Sixx is my best horse and I am being careful to try to not put him in peril.  Se7en and Crazy 8s are expendable so I use them during greater risks and I just got one of the painted lassoed and broken and he has become Gordie Howe.  I have so much random stuff to encounter that I skipped during the story, I can go 10-15 minutes before something pops up, FUN.

 
The one treasure map I found the first clue accidentally. I was like hey this looks like my map.

Found the next map and didn't bother

 
a few questions that I feel like I should know by now, but don't. 


When there's a witness to a crime, can you successfully scare them into silence?   I always kill them.  which sometimes leads to a 5 or 6 murder-daisychain until I can run away unseen. 

How exactly does the legendary buck trinket manifest.  Is it just a chance at a single bump in pelt quality when you harvest?   Sometimes I see it and sometimes I don't -- wondering what the trigger is there.  Just chance?  something else?

What's the exact deal with "wanted dead or alive"?   I am WDoA in several areas in the southwest and have no problems crusing around in there.   But step one foot in Blackwater and I get ambushed by 900 cops.    

 
AhrnCityPahnder said:
How exactly does the legendary buck trinket manifest.  Is it just a chance at a single bump in pelt quality when you harvest?   Sometimes I see it and sometimes I don't -- wondering what the trigger is there.  Just chance?  something else?
 
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I just think more animals show up with 3* pelts

 
AhrnCityPahnder said:
When there's a witness to a crime, can you successfully scare them into silence?   I always kill them.  which sometimes leads to a 5 or 6 murder-daisychain until I can run away unseen. 
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Some you can intimidate and some you can't.  Townsfolk without guns seem more likely to give in to intimidation.  Cowboys in the wilds that are armed are more likely to draw their gun on you.  Though sometimes they'll back down.

Another option is rope and hogtie them.

 
AhrnCityPahnder said:
How exactly does the legendary buck trinket manifest.  Is it just a chance at a single bump in pelt quality when you harvest?   Sometimes I see it and sometimes I don't -- wondering
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shadyridr said:
I just think more animals show up with 3* pelts
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I've killed a bunch of 2 star animals and received 3 star pelts from them. But of course not always.

What I suspect is happening is the animal pelts have a randomly generated number on maybe a 100 point scale when the animal spawns. Depending on what range the number falls in, the animal is assigned one of the three star ratings.  If you get a clean kill no points are removed, but if you kill it the wrong way, depending on how destructive you were, points are subtracted and will likely bump it down into a lower rated range. But when wearing the trinket, you will also get an auto bump of some unknown number of points, which can potentially bump you up into the next range, or give you more room for error when making the kill outside of the recommended method.

So a 2 star clean kill will sometimes get you a perfect pelt. Naturally I have no proof of all of this but it's my best hypothesis of what is going on behind the scenes, based on my observations from experimenting quite a bit.

 
technicaldifficulties said:
Any dominoes tips? I spent 6 hours yesterday trying to win 3 games in a row
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In addition to Greg's advise.  Try to go to the All-5's table when there's only 1 guy there.   A lot easier to win 3 against one person than against mulitple opponents.   And I didn't try it, but you could probably sleep inbetween wins to get a save point and then bail and reload if you lose. 

 
AhrnCityPahnder said:
What's the exact deal with "wanted dead or alive"?   I am WDoA in several areas in the southwest and have no problems crusing around in there.   But step one foot in Blackwater and I get ambushed by 900 cops.    
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I'm wondering this myself. I'm pretty sure the Blackwater situation is an artificial gate system to keep Arthur out of the areas they don't want you to have access to, for story reasons.

But like you said, I've also had that status in other areas without too much of penalty. Except for when I get trigger happy with the "howdy misters" and accidentally say it to a law man. Oops.

 
cockroach said:
In addition to Greg's advise.  Try to go to the All-5's table when there's only 1 guy there.   A lot easier to win 3 against one person than against mulitple opponents.   And I didn't try it, but you could probably sleep inbetween wins to get a save point and then bail and reload if you lose. 
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All the tips I've read online say to abuse the save and reload system in order to maintain a winning streak. Apparently this was one of the more frustrating challenges for most people.

 
-arcK- said:
All the tips I've read online say to abuse the save and reload system in order to maintain a winning streak. Apparently this was one of the more frustrating challenges for most people.
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Ah, yea, that's good.  It was pretty tough... but I wasted time playing all 3's because there was a guy solo playing that, but I don't know the scoring as well...  I actually play dominoes in real life occasionally, but have only seen the 5 scoring.  The tougher gambling one, to me, was getting the 5 wins at blackjack where you took 3 or more hits

 
cockroach said:
Ah, yea, that's good.  It was pretty tough... but I wasted time playing all 3's because there was a guy solo playing that, but I don't know the scoring as well...  I actually play dominoes in real life occasionally, but have only seen the 5 scoring.  The tougher gambling one, to me, was getting the 5 wins at blackjack where you took 3 or more hits
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Ouch that blackjack one does sound tough. I only made it about halfway through most of the challenges, on average anyway. I found most of them tedious and I prefer to just do the things that are fun.

 
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Ouch that blackjack one does sound tough. I only made it about halfway through most of the challenges, on average anyway. I found most of them tedious and I prefer to just do the things that are fun.
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Finally got the domino win. That blackjack one took a while, too. Now, just one more level to go. Seems not so bad

 
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I've killed a bunch of 2 star animals and received 3 star pelts from them. But of course not always.

What I suspect is happening is the animal pelts have a randomly generated number on maybe a 100 point scale when the animal spawns. Depending on what range the number falls in, the animal is assigned one of the three star ratings.  If you get a clean kill no points are removed, but if you kill it the wrong way, depending on how destructive you were, points are subtracted and will likely bump it down into a lower rated range. But when wearing the trinket, you will also get an auto bump of some unknown number of points, which can potentially bump you up into the next range, or give you more room for error when making the kill outside of the recommended method.

So a 2 star clean kill will sometimes get you a perfect pelt. Naturally I have no proof of all of this but it's my best hypothesis of what is going on behind the scenes, based on my observations from experimenting quite a bit.
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thanks.  this is pretty consistent with what I've seen so far, too.  

 
Perfect moose pelt, this guy's location works.  Though doing it exactly how he says is very hit or miss for me.  I have gotten 2 perfect moose there though, both in the morning, and both involved some amount of save-reloads.  In one case I kept spawning just on the south side of the tracks right by the moose icon.  I'd walk up to the tracks, no moose, turn and walk back down to the gravel, then back up to the tracks where I'd just been a second ago, and there'd be a moose.  That happened 3 times (two 2-star and then finally a 3-star that I bagged).   Also have tried coming from the direction he has, but I get a lot of cowboys riding through and ruining it.  That was the place I had the above encounters that turned into a train robbery.

Edit to add it is also a great location for cougars.  I got 5 perfect cougars in the time I got the 2 moose.  They seem to frequently come at me right after a reload from south of the railroad tracks, between the spot he camps in the video, and the river.  There are black bears in that area too.

Perfect snakes I hated at first, could rarely one-shot them with the bow when they were on the run.  Then I got the idea to go after water snakes instead. MUCH easier to headshot, just you have to make sure they are in shallow enough water you can retrieve the corpse. 

I suggest the iguana island out in the lake.  2-3 water 3-star snakes spawn in that central lagoon each time and they don't bother running from you.  Just make sure they are somewhat near to the sides so you can retrieve the corpse.  Only the very middle is swimming, so it's pretty easy to get them where you can wade in.  After killing them, I don't know if it's time or distance dependent but most every time I went to one far corner of the island, then back to the other, then back to the lagoon, there would be 2-3 more in there.  I got 10 perfect snake pelts there in maybe an hour and a half.  And loaded up on crab, bird feathers, iguana, etc, in between.

Edit to add:  Camping while on that island will move you back to the mainland, so only camp when you are ready to leave. And that's your way off when your boat disappears on you.

Stupid muskrat ran up out from out of nowhere and bit my ankle.  I declared war on them and have been sticking them with throwing knives whenever I see them now.

I finally had an alligator charge me outside of the photography mission.  I was trying the water snake thing but over in a bayou and I took out the gators first so I could safely wade in after snake corpses. I killed one, and another gator close by went red and charged me.

Oh, and if you've never tried, the little gators have smaller pelts that you can fit an infinite number on your horse, unlike the big gators whose pelt gets treated like a full on carcass.

 
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GregR said:
Some you can intimidate and some you can't.  Townsfolk without guns seem more likely to give in to intimidation.  Cowboys in the wilds that are armed are more likely to draw their gun on you.  Though sometimes they'll back down.

Another option is rope and hogtie them.
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My hogtie resume is very thin.  Dumb question follow-up:. If you hogtie someone and run off, do you have to find  a new rope?

 
AhrnCityPahnder said:
My hogtie resume is very thin.  Dumb question follow-up:. If you hogtie someone and run off, do you have to find  a new rope?
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Nope, you never run out of rope.

I want to say, after you hogtie a witness if they say they won't turn you in, that you can let them go and that will be the end of it.  Though I'm not 100% positive so be prepared to grab them again if you try it.  Pretty sure I've done that, but often I just leave them and gallop off.

 
Jumped on online and although it's typically not my cup of tea, just wanted to tell everyone it ran smoothly, even on some seriously slow internet in this remote locale I have holed up in for the Winter.  I thought the concept made sense and the pick up group I was paired with was quick and painless, although not one person spoke outside of me hearing some cowboy with a nasty cough the whole time,  lol. 

I'll definitely stay on the offline. Like a few others have mentioned, I'm purposely slow rolling this game to the extreme and I dont Want to risk spoilers but I saw one I didn't want to see and it makes me wonder how I'll continue to play freely after a certain point.   But it's great and I'm loving it. 

 
If you need birds, either to study for compendium completion, or if you need feathers for Trapper clothing... the river valley northwest of Annesburg is amazing for bird species.  On the map, south of Brandywine Drop where it says Roanoke Valley.  Start from about the E in Roanoke and work your way down the river to the crossings and back up.  Aim at the tops of the rocks ahead of you and you'll find all kinds of birds there, plus a few on the shores or in the water in a few places.  So far have seen:

Woodpeckers
Blue Jay
Robins
Cardinals
Crows
Loons
Ducks
Geese
Songbirds
Bald Eagles
Vultures
Orioles
Sparrows
Hawks
Owls
Cormorrant

ETA:  By the way, if a bird takes off, I find it's easiest to go into Eagle vision to slow time, before trying to aim at them up in the sky.
ETA2:  Watch out for wolves, bears and cougars.
ETA3:  Owl/eagle/hawk don't sit on the rocks, but came after other corpses I left lying around.  Better places to hunt those.    Added Cormorrants, there's often two by the last rock before the pool by the waterfall.

 
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I’m into the Epilogue... ####, what a game. I had never been past Blackwater the whole time. Just wasted another two days figuring out there is an entire desert in the south. Wish I would have gone down there earlier but I heard the bounty hunters were ravenous.

 
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I’m into the Epilogue... ####, what a game. I had never been past Blackwater the whole time. Just wasted another two days figuring out there is an entire desert in the south. Wish I would have gone down there earlier but I heard the bounty hunters were ravenous.
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Yeah, the game clearly doesn't want to let you into that desert area until post-game.  I've been Wanted Dead or Alive in other places, and I can basically come and go as I please, never seeing a bounty hunter.  But set one foot in Blackwater and I've got SEAL Team 6 after me.  I'm in Chapter 6 now and I'm looking forward to finishing the main story to see how things end.

 
I caught the last of the 13 legendary fish last night after almost 3 days of searching and fishing.  And, I admit, I have to consult the internet to find the 13th and final fish as I thought I had looked everywhere.  The companion app on an iPad was a huge help.  As the "you've entered legendary fish yada yada" popped up so did a fish with a crown on the app map.  

It seemed like if I cast near the crown on the map, I was able to hit the legendary fish on the first cast.

Some I landed with relative ease, others, like to sockeye salmon took almost an hour of hook, lose, re-hook and repeat.  I am not a big fan of hunting, but really enjoy fishing; my diet is HUGE on omega 3s.
 
Someone tried to rob me. I surrendered until the last second and pulled my sawed off shotgun out and blew her ####### head off at point blank range. Head exploded and then I looted her headless corpse. First time i did that. 

 
just bought this.  I finished the original, but mostly I just play games on the switch with my daughter.   dusted off the xbox one and went through literally hours of updates and connection issues since I haven't used it since I moved, and I'm on a different network.  finally got to the point of installing the game and it is deathly slow to install.   went to bed and it finished disc 1 overnight.   disc 2 has been installing for an hour.

anyway, I'll try to read through some of this thread once I get going.   anyone got a good suggestion for a link to beginner tips?   controller setups?

 
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just bought this.  I finished the original, but mostly I just play games on the switch with my daughter.   dusted off the xbox one and went through literally hours of updates and connection issues since I haven't used it since I moved, and I'm on a different network.  finally got to the point of installing the game and it is deathly slow to install.   went to bed and it finished disc 1 overnight.   disc 2 has been installing for an hour.

anyway, I'll try to read through some of this thread once I get going.   anyone got a good suggestion for a link to beginner tips?   controller setups?
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Be psychologically prepared for the fact that the first chapter is highly linear, too long, and kind of boring.  And there is no getting around the fact that the controls are highly idiosyncratic and will require some getting used to.

This is a phenomenal game that needs to be up toward the front of "Game of the Generation" discussions.  It just doesn't seem like it during the first few hours.  Stick with it.

 
Found a pirate hat on a shipwreck. Proceeded to attempt to hijack one of the boats you see cruising around on open water. 

Good news: you can actually board it.

Bad news: you can't get inside.

Worse news: I forgot you can drown from exhaustion. RIP Pirate Cowboy.
 
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Got my final pelts until I can get into the southwest part of the map.  Figured out some bits how the game works on spawning animals.  Here's a tip for getting perfect moose pelts but it probably applies more generally though I'll talk specifically about the very northeast of the map and the moose there.  

There is a moose that spawns just to the left of the "C" in Willard's Crest.  That picture doesn't show it, but my map actually has a moose image there.

When I am across the river to the west, the area respawns at 6:30 am exactly.  Hit pause to see your pocket watch and check the time.  I always look away before that time just to be sure, but I've had deer spawn on my side of the river 15 feet away from me while I was turned.

About 40-50% of the time a moose spawns.  Of five spawns today, three were 2-star and two were 3-star.

So the trick is to get there a little before 6:30, and if you don't get one, reload a save and get back to just before 6:30.  However... if you save anywhere from about 6am on, if you reload that save it will load you at 9am.  Too late.  So you need to make a save the night before so you can reload back to there and then sleep until morning each time.

So what I do is:

Ride near Doverhill (see map image in link, further west of moose spot) sometime in afternoon or evening.  
Save there.
Ride to the Doverhill building, to a cart just east of it.
Make camp there.
It always puts my camp over on the dark elk silhoutte further east of Doverhill (closer to the moose).
Sleep until morning and you wake at 6am.
Immediately get up (you don't need to break camp, just leave but make sure you have your rifle off your horse) and sneak-run east towards the ford.  You should get there about 6:15.
Hide in the bushes near the tree stumps nearest the river.  Eagle eye and if you don't see a moose across the river (I never did) then look away and wait until past 6:30.
Look back and hopefully the moose spawned.
If he did and he's 3-star, I sneak across the first branch of river, onto land on the right, move around the rock, and that gives you an angle to shoot the moose in the eye while it's grazing.

If he didn't spawn, then reload your save which should return you to the day before.  Ride back to Doverhill, camp, sleep, etc.

I saw someone elsewhere mention after killing an animal like this, that he'd leave the area for a few days until the carcass was gone.  I couldn't seem to get any more to spawn so I slept an extra day in the trading post southeast of Doverhill, came back with my normal camp-sleep thing and killed another 3-star on the decayed corpse of the first.  So not sure if the extra day of sleep mattered or not, but could try it if they dry up after one.

 
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Someone tried to rob me. I surrendered until the last second and pulled my sawed off shotgun out and blew her ####### head off at point blank range. Head exploded and then I looted her headless corpse. First time i did that. 
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I had some Murfee hicks come up to my fire and sit down and just try to intimidate me.  They didn't fight and they didnt want anything.   

Somehow that was creepier than just getting ambushed.  #### those hillbillies <_<  

 
Another stupid but hilarious first for me:  I was running on my horse and tried to zoom in with my rifle scope -- and proceeded to clothesline the #### out of myself on a treebranch.  The horse was completely fine, but it scared the snot out of me.   

 
Couple of random actions/activities:

-I was riding Into the mountains to get the last of the gunslingers  for the noble men and woman Mish and a guy called out for help. As I offered him a ride he attempted to steal my horse.  I allowed him to take off and then simply whistled for my horse which immediately bucked him off.  Didn't have to kill the guy and saved ho or (if that's important to people).  

-playing the honorable outlaw and being. Ice for the most part, I notice I get discounts when buying and I always get quite a long time before anyone except rival gang members will draw on me.

-I've noticed (maybe coincidence, not certain), that every time I am travelling to confront someone, there is a random issue where an animal attacks or a trouble maker stirs up trouble.  If I deal with the problem silently, I always get a comp,eye surprise on the target vs. Them being out patrolling, etc.  As if they heard me coming possibly or were tipped off.

-I have no idea why the game makes you drop a weapon I. Order to pick up a better one but then will put that stock weapon back on your horse but it came into play tonight.  I was carrying a unique weapon when I had the opportunity  to pick up another unique weapon.  However, in order to do so, I had to drop the unique I was carrying.  Not wanting to do that, I called to my horse, stowed the unique and retrieved my stock weapon and dropped it.  Does anyone know if you drop a unique, will it stow in your horse cargo as it should?

-anyone know if there is more than meets the eye to Pleasance?   I know that place was in the first game too but don't know the story enough to know the tie in.

-I've noticed if you see a dog taking a poop, they face north, which real dogs normally primarily do also.  It's the little details like this that make me say "wow" over what are small things but collectively make this game so awesome.   I play the game with headsets just to appreciate the sounds drift in and fade out so perfectly.  

 
Just made the upgrade to 4K last night, and this game looks jaw-droppingly spectacular at the higher resolution.  I thought it was gorgeous in 1080p.  

 
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