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Post by LankyLefty17 on Nov 6, 2018 4:34:58 GMT
I'm loving the fishing minigame. Rode out into the bayou to get all the special lures, now I'm reelin em in like a pro. I still can't wrap my head around the hunting though. I see 3 star animals, I kill them, I get poor pelts. Is it because I'm not tracking them first? I haven't managed to get one perfect pelt yet, and I wanna upgrade the satchel so bad. Also, I'm trying to play as honorable as possible. I haven't robbed anyone outside a story mission, and haven't killed anyone unless they shoot at me first. My honor meter is almost full :D I haven't even had a bounty yet except for that one mission where you bust Micah out of jail in Strawberry. That fucker forced me into a gunfight with the whole damn town and I had to pay off a $300 bounty when all was said and done. I was super pissed but at least he gave me another holster so I can dual wield pistols. For hunting, you need to use the correct weapon and go for headshots... vermit rifle for smaller guys, bow and arrow for medium (deer and such), rifles for the big boys. Clean one shot kills to the head will get you a quality pelt. |
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Post by Wonderland on Nov 6, 2018 4:39:01 GMT
If you're an avid bow hunter, you can even craft improved arrows to take down big game (from what I understand, haven't tried shooting one yet). As well as arrows for small game. So you can stick to bow for all hunting looks like, which is a pretty great option to have.
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Post by Wonderland on Nov 6, 2018 7:46:46 GMT
Oh sweet lord and the holy mother, the hunters among us are in for a treat. Disclaimer: I haven't tried this myself yet, but apparently you can have not one, but two horses follow you and your own horse around on hunting trips to carry all those carcasses and pelts. This will make for some high stakes trying-to-stay-alive so as not to lose those goods moments while making your way back to town or camp to sell them off. Not to mention riding in like a fucking boss with three horses and tons of meat.
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Post by OrochiGeese on Nov 6, 2018 8:30:41 GMT
Oh sweet lord and the holy mother, the hunters among us are in for a treat. Disclaimer: I haven't tried this myself yet, but apparently you can have not one, but two horses follow you and your own horse around on hunting trips to carry all those carcasses and pelts. This will make for some high stakes trying-to-stay-alive so as not to lose those goods moments while making your way back to town or camp to sell them off. Not to mention riding in like a fucking boss with three horses and tons of meat. Oregon Trail just got jealous! 🥩 By the way, does anyone else have a second horse? I'm not sure how I managed to get one but somehow I have a horse that the map refers to as a temporary horse (or some similar phrasing). I think it happened during a mission when my horse and I collided into an NPC on its horse. My horse survived but I didn't realize it so I took the horse of the deceased NPC and finished the mission. When I rode back to town, I noticed on the map that my main horse was alive and well and was waiting for me. I rode the temp horse to my main horse, switched, and rode back to town. But my temp horse has been in that same location ever since. I'm not sure if I should address this horse controversy or just see how long that horse will wait for me. |
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Post by TheDenizen on Nov 6, 2018 12:40:37 GMT
once you do a certain mission with Hosea in chapter 2 you gain access to stables and can have up to 4 horses. You can stable or sell any temporary horses you acquire, or buy additional horses.
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Post by Nth on Nov 6, 2018 12:55:52 GMT
I've found solace up in the Grizzlies, the only territory where I don't have a bounty on my head. So I know it kinda sucks that when you save/load or set up camp, it doesn't end up at the exact spot you initiate. But far as camping, the plus side is that it sets you up nearby enough and usually in a particularly perfect and beautiful location. It's like they were made for camping. Twice now I've set up camp near legendary animals and both times I was spawned into heaven. I spent days in each location. Currently logged out camping at the lake near legendary bear, where I caught my first big fish at a whopping 19 lbs and change, it took a while!
This is apparently getting fixed in a patch according to Rockstar, as some other forums have said. There is another camp fix they are working on now dealing with disappearing characters.
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Post by mbxfilms on Nov 6, 2018 13:08:24 GMT
I really hope there is a way to cheat in Poker like the last game somewhere. Half the time I play the game it's sitting at the Poker table.
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Post by LankyLefty17 on Nov 6, 2018 17:49:25 GMT
So last night, this happened... I had been spending all (game) day hunting a legendary coyote, practicing my bow along the way and loading up on a good variety of decent pets. Finally, just before nightfall I found the fucker and shot him right between the eyes. Proud of myself I skinned the beast and learned that on top of his pelt being something you can craft into a unique item, he also will produce a "charm" or other wearable item that gives stat boosts. Knowing there was a local "Fencer" (I think that name is correct?) I was able to get a cool coyote tooth necklace. Now SUPER proud of myself I decided to head back to camp since it was on the way to the nearest town I could sell my assortment of pelts, and then from there I'd go to a trapper to see if my legendary pelt could be turned into anything cool. That is, until on my way to camp I hear a man yell out. Figuring it was an attempted robbery I could thwart and maybe loot myself a little extra coin, I investigated. Out of nowhere a cougar pounces on my back and kills me before I even know whats going on. All those pelts, the legendary one includes, gone to the wind. The lesson here folks, don't help people- it only ends in you getting eaten by a cougar.... (also save often) |
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Post by Wonderland on Nov 6, 2018 22:29:58 GMT
I'll take that lesson to heart. Through my butt. I've had two encounters with cougars myself. One left me on the edge of death, the other over it. Both left my pants stained. Sneaky fucks really do get you outta nowhere. Gonna be interesting working up the courage to actually go after them some day. And I love that feeling of having all those valuable pelts on board, knowing they'll be gone if you slip up. Last night, I finally came back down from the Grizzlies after camping for weeks up there exploring and hunting. Fat stack of perfect buck, elk and deer pelts, plus a legendary wolf and legendary bear to boot. The whole vibe changed once I crossed the border into New Hanover.
My first stop was similarly a fence, greasy fella at Emerland Ranch. In the middle of transacting, the fucker shouts out "hey, don't be bringing the law here!" God damn it they found me already. I ride away from the ranch to prevent my black market contact from getting collateral'd , find a nice quiet creek bed to hunker down for the night.
The morning brings with it those trackers, with hounds and all. I didn't want to kill them. But when you got five, six guns riding around your camp shootin at ya while you're trying to have breakfast, and these mean hunting dogs nipping at your ankles, well... I survived, my hunting bounty survived.
A perilous trip west to the trapper followed, always looking over my shoulder, never comfortable hanging around one place too long. Well, I did run into a camp of old civil war vets and hid in the bushes while their leader told some rousing tale of bravery and perserverence to cheer up his men with low morale. They we're standing around a campfire, and as he finished and started to sit down, he caught a bullet through his eye patch.
The hail of gunfire grew into a storm. My old friends had caught up with me again. Now I'm putting down grays and bounty hunters, and it gets pretty hairy but when all said and done... Got some good loot from that camp and moved on.
It took a while yet to get to the trapper, mostly because I got myself turned around a few times (finally got the lay of the land of starting area enough to sort of get around with just landmarks, but not perfect). I knew he was over by a train station, following along the track from a safe distance, trying to stay mostly hidden among trees or whatever other low cover near the track. I ended up too far north at the wrong station, no trapper, had to double back, gunfight among the trees later, I finally offloaded those pelts that weighed so heavy on me.
I could live in this forever. I hope I can. |
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Post by TheDenizen on Nov 7, 2018 5:22:39 GMT
Still haven't managed to get a perfect pelt (I've been focusing more on treasure hunting and gambling challenges :P), but I did bag me the legendary big horn ram. I sold the pelt and meat to the trapper, but he didn't seem to have anything he could craft with it. Is that something I need to talk to Pearson for? I also found one super creepy easter egg came across what looked like a dead body next to a washed up boat on a beach somewhere. Went to loot the corpse, and the guy was still alive, scared the shit out me. He gave me a letter and begged me to deliver it, and then he died. I read the letter, and it was a love letter to Bonnie McFarlane, apologizing for screwing up their relationship. I thought it was pretty cool, until I realized that this guy was on old geezer, and Bonnie, who claimed to be 27 in Red Dead would've been 15 years old in 1899. Perv. I chucked his corpse into the lake. |
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Post by Wonderland on Nov 7, 2018 6:17:40 GMT
Still haven't managed to get a perfect pelt (I've been focusing more on treasure hunting and gambling challenges :P), but I did bag me the legendary big horn ram. I sold the pelt and meat to the trapper, but he didn't seem to have anything he could craft with it. Is that something I need to talk to Pearson for? Legendary pelts are definitely for the trapper, check out his outfit section for what you can craft with them (but also need other pelts to combine with). Meat is just meat far as I know. But there should be another bit of animal, probably his horn I'd guess, which goes to a fence for trinkets that provide permanent bonuses. Speaking of, you should consider going after the Legendary Buck because the trinket you get from that improves the quality of pelts you obtain. :) |
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Post by TheDenizen on Nov 7, 2018 20:26:38 GMT
cool, thx for the hot tip, Wondy. Oh and also for the help with RDR2 :D
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Post by Wonderland on Nov 7, 2018 21:23:05 GMT
BOAH
Saw this post elsewhere and it's brilliant.
I am now the master of bait. The master baiter!
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Post by El Marsh on Nov 8, 2018 3:37:46 GMT
So how's the gambling?
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Post by TheDenizen on Nov 8, 2018 4:48:59 GMT
4 games: Poker, Blackjack, Dominoes and Five Finger Filet. No Liar's Dice, sadly.
Blackjack is pretty lame and slow (to be fair, I hate Blackjack IRL), there's no way to skip the AI players turns, and the number of times I stuck on 20 only for the dealer to make 21 seemed absurd....like to the point where I started to wonder if the game was legit fixed, and there would be a mission for me to uncover their scam (there isn't).
Poker is pretty good, largely unchanged from RDR, except there's no way to cheat (that I've found yet, anyways). You can always skip to the next round if you fold, which speeds things up admirably. The AI isn't anything special, kind of loose-aggressive, so it's easy to clean out multiple players if you catch a strong hand (some AI players will call huge bets with nothing more than Ace high). One nice touch is the increased level of shit talking between players.
FFF is mechanically pretty much as you remember, but in a couple of locations they play slightly different variations. ie) compete to perform as many rounds as you can in 20 seconds, instead of just the fastest clean round.
I haven't played Dominoes yet.
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