Red Dead Redemption 2

[Buffalo716]

1 hour ago, shrader said:

 

 

I had one show up relatively early and haven't run into it again since then.

It’s an interesting secret mission

[Deranged Rhino]

21 minutes ago, shrader said:

 

I did find a random body hanging one time.  I stopped to check it out but then some crazies ran out of the woods and attacked me.  I'm guessing it wasn't part of the serial killer quest.

 

I haven't been able to play in awhile but I found that one too... Not sure what I was supposed to there, so I killed the people who attacked me and then took a bunch of selfies with the hanging guy (to document the crime scene of course lol) before cutting him down and searching him. 

[BillsFan4]

2 hours ago, shrader said:

 

I did find a random body hanging one time.  I stopped to check it out but then some crazies ran out of the woods and attacked me.  I'm guessing it wasn't part of the serial killer quest.

Lol. Same thing happened to me. I stopped to check out the guy hanging from a noose and 3 painted up crazies ambushed me. Caught me totally off guard. 

[shrader]

2 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

I haven't been able to play in awhile but I found that one too... Not sure what I was supposed to there, so I killed the people who attacked me and then took a bunch of selfies with the hanging guy (to document the crime scene of course lol) before cutting him down and searching him. 

 

3 minutes ago, BillsFan4 said:

Lol. Same thing happened to me. I stopped to check out the guy hanging from a noose and 3 painted up crazies ambushed me. Caught me totally off guard. 

 

I wanted to stop and check it out after I killed those idiots, but I wound up wanted and had to hightail it out of there.

[/dev/null]

4 hours ago, Buffalo716 said:

Anybody catch the serial killer???

yes

[/dev/null]

3 hours ago, shrader said:

 

I did find a random body hanging one time.  I stopped to check it out but then some crazies ran out of the woods and attacked me.  I'm guessing it wasn't part of the serial killer quest.

 

Random gang encounter. 

 

Remember the crazies you cleared out of a cave to move into Beaver Hollow?  They spawn every once in awhile with a corpse hanging from a tree or a camp massacre

[shrader]

2 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

 

Random gang encounter. 

 

Remember the crazies you cleared out of a cave to move into Beaver Hollow?  They spawn every once in awhile with a corpse hanging from a tree or a camp massacre

 

I'm blanking on their name right now, but I've been having them show up a bit more lately (currently in Chapter 4).  My personal favorite was when I started a camp fire to craft something.  You walk up and threaten me?  Yeah, that always ends well.

[4merper4mer]

14 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

yes

Did you fashion a trap from licorice whip?

[RaoulDuke79]

I'm so pissed. I spent about 2 hours this morning making my way up north to hunt the legendary moose. I stopped and collected all the cigarette cards and dinosaur bones and all stuff along the way. So I finally get to the moose and shoot him. He proceeds to run into the river and die thereby preventing me from skinning him and harvesting any of the items.

[/dev/null]

18 minutes ago, RaoulDuke79 said:

I'm so pissed. I spent about 2 hours this morning making my way up north to hunt the legendary moose. I stopped and collected all the cigarette cards and dinosaur bones and all stuff along the way. So I finally get to the moose and shoot him. He proceeds to run into the river and die thereby preventing me from skinning him and harvesting any of the items.

the trapper will recover your pelt

 

https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/360011467353/Unable-to-skin-Legendary-Animals-or-losing-their-pelts-in-Red-Dead-Redemption-2

[BillsFan4]

Anyone else feel like the poker games are rigged at times? 

 

There are times when I play and just get crap hands over and over (sometimes I even get the same cards 2 hands in a row). It’ll seem to just keep dealing me low number cards. 

 

 

[RaoulDuke79]

23 minutes ago, BillsFan4 said:

Anyone else feel like the poker games are rigged at times? 

 

There are times when I play and just get crap hands over and over (sometimes I even get the same cards 2 hands in a row). It’ll seem to just keep dealing me low number cards. 

 

 

I felt the same way about blackjack. If I have 15 and hit I bust nearly every time. If the dealer has 15 he usually hits 2 or 3 times and generally ends up with 20 or 21.

[/dev/null]

1 hour ago, RaoulDuke79 said:

I'm so pissed. I spent about 2 hours this morning making my way up north to hunt the legendary moose. I stopped and collected all the cigarette cards and dinosaur bones and all stuff along the way. So I finally get to the moose and shoot him. He proceeds to run into the river and die thereby preventing me from skinning him and harvesting any of the items.

One more bit of advice on the Legendary Animals, especially the large predators.  You can one shot kill anything with a dynamite arrow

[shrader]

On 1/20/2019 at 2:41 PM, RaoulDuke79 said:

I felt the same way about blackjack. If I have 15 and hit I bust nearly every time. If the dealer has 15 he usually hits 2 or 3 times and generally ends up with 20 or 21.

 

I was messing around with some of the challenges (gambler, hunter...) and one called for winning blackjack 5 times after doubling down.  The thing that drove me crazy there was how slow the damn thing was.  At least with poker you can skip the hand if you fold.  Blackjack?  You're forced to sit through the whole thing.  I wound up doubling down on basically every hand just to speed up the whole thing.  Hell, one time I split queens and then doubled down on both of those hands.

 

My other adventure this weekend would have people very worried.  One challenge called for killing a bunch scavengers as they picked on a corpse.  The problem was that you had to actually shoot them in mid-bite or else it wouldn't count.  I wound up killing two deer near a pond, then walking back and forth between the two picking off the vultures and crows.  I wound up with a massive pile of dead birds at each spot before I finally got enough.

 

Then a little later I had to do another challenge of killing 8 consecutive animals with small game arrows.  I circled around that same pond a few times taking out any duck I could see.  There were so many dead birds around that pond once I was done.  Arthur is going to grow up and become a serial killer if I have to keep doing stuff like this.

 

There was one other one that called for killing 5 cougars with arrows.  That one was a serious pain in the ass.  Cougars only seem to show up in one single spot.  Once you actually find one, you're in a quick scramble after being thrown from your horse to quickly spin the camera, find the cougar, then get an arrow off.

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Two questions. Again, I'm taking my time just fooling around, so haven't progressed much in the game. 

 

One: I've only played blackjack in Rhodes. Do other tables show up with higher stakes? 2¢ - $4.00 maximum bet isn't that much.

 

Two: Everything I kill is one star. Is that because I'm killing them with a shotgun, or do the higher valued animals come later in the game. 

 

Another one that doesn't really bother me, but I did notice. There wasn't a tutorial for the poker, at least not that I remember. I know how to play, as any guy who was 15-40 in the mid 2000s went through a poker phase, but are those that don't know how to play just destined to make stuff up until they learn? 

[shrader]

27 minutes ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

Two: Everything I kill is one star. Is that because I'm killing them with a shotgun, or do the higher valued animals come later in the game.

 

It's probably the shotgun.  You need to check out the animal ahead of time to see the quality and then get them with a headshot.  There's an almost endless supply of perfect pelts as long as you use the right weapon and land the right shot.

[/dev/null]

4 hours ago, shrader said:

 

There was one other one that called for killing 5 cougars with arrows.  That one was a serious pain in the ass.  Cougars only seem to show up in one single spot.  Once you actually find one, you're in a quick scramble after being thrown from your horse to quickly spin the camera, find the cougar, then get an arrow off.

Cougars spawn in the western part of the map and also in the Northeast around the waterfall.  When you reach the epilogue and Blackwater / Beechers Hope and New Austin opens up there are a few other spawns.  I've been attacked right outside Beechers Hope a few times and the most consistent spawn Ive found was near the Trapper at the very western edge of the map.

 

If you care about the pelt quality, kill the cougar wit a poison arrow.  Hit them in the sweet spot and it will wander off and die.  If you don't care about the pelt or harvesting resources, dynamite arrows will one shot anything.  Fire arrows also work and you get to watch it run around on fire.

 

[shrader]

1 hour ago, /dev/null said:

Cougars spawn in the western part of the map and also in the Northeast around the waterfall.  When you reach the epilogue and Blackwater / Beechers Hope and New Austin opens up there are a few other spawns.  I've been attacked right outside Beechers Hope a few times and the most consistent spawn Ive found was near the Trapper at the very western edge of the map.

 

If you care about the pelt quality, kill the cougar wit a poison arrow.  Hit them in the sweet spot and it will wander off and die.  If you don't care about the pelt or harvesting resources, dynamite arrows will one shot anything.  Fire arrows also work and you get to watch it run around on fire.

 

 

I just needed the arrow kills and the quality didn't matter.  That spot near the trapper was the only place I've ever run into them.  Fortunately it is pretty consistent.

[shrader]

Does anyone know if your honor level can change the cut scenes at all?  I've tried to keep mine pretty high and that matches pretty well with Arthur's general demeanor in most of his interactions (other than when he announces his return to camp).  I'd love it if he would instead be a dick in a lot of the cut scenes if he had low honor, but I'm sure that's tough to program into the game.

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

On 1/15/2019 at 3:30 PM, RaoulDuke79 said:

Whats the deal with the dude locked in the gunsmiths basement in Rhoades? I talked to him, and it made it look like I needed to help get him out, so I shot the gunsmith, but cant figure out how to get the guy out of the basement. I'm not ever sure he's there anymore.

Finally found this yesterday. First thing you gotta do is go up to the basement window. When you're there, you'll hear "Hey mister." Go talk to him. Then go into the gunshop. Hold the gunsmith at gunpoint, but don't shoot him, and he'll unlock the basement for you. Then some messed up stuff goes on, then you can kill him. 

[RaoulDuke79]

5 minutes ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

Finally found this yesterday. First thing you gotta do is go up to the basement window. When you're there, you'll hear "Hey mister." Go talk to him. Then go into the gunshop. Hold the gunsmith at gunpoint, but don't shoot him, and he'll unlock the basement for you. Then some messed up stuff goes on, then you can kill him. 

I got it squared away. My issue was, instead of just tapping RT to aim your gun I think I held it and shot the guy the first time. 

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

What are good ways to bring up your honor quickly? Mine is really low because when I first started, I enjoyed shooting people just for fun, not knowing there were long term effects. I greet everybody I pass which sometimes seems to help. And started the random side missions with people who are broken down on the road and stuff.

[RaoulDuke79]

7 minutes ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

What are good ways to bring up your honor quickly? Mine is really low because when I first started, I enjoyed shooting people just for fun, not knowing there were long term effects. I greet everybody I pass which sometimes seems to help. And started the random side missions with people who are broken down on the road and stuff.

The only ways that I found were to help out people who are in trouble i.e. bitten by a snake, getting robbed, caught in a bear trap....etc.

[/dev/null]

2 hours ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

What are good ways to bring up your honor quickly? Mine is really low because when I first started, I enjoyed shooting people just for fun, not knowing there were long term effects. I greet everybody I pass which sometimes seems to help. And started the random side missions with people who are broken down on the road and stuff.

as you are walking around town, just greet random people friendly.  if they are rude to you select the diffuse option.  it's slow but it builds up

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

1 minute ago, /dev/null said:

as you are walking around town, just greet random people friendly.  if they are rude to you select the diffuse option.  it's slow but it builds up

I've been doing that. Also, sometimes random people come up and punch me. Or I legit knock into them by mistake, and they fight me, and it won't let me diffuse. I don't have time for BS, so I usually just pull out my gun and shoot them.

 

Also, I saw a cop chasing a suspect in Saint Denis the other day. I shot the suspect, thinking it would get me in good with the cops, but then the cops came after me. How am I supposed to deal with this situation?

[RaoulDuke79]

2 hours ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

What are good ways to bring up your honor quickly? Mine is really low because when I first started, I enjoyed shooting people just for fun, not knowing there were long term effects. I greet everybody I pass which sometimes seems to help. And started the random side missions with people who are broken down on the road and stuff.

I helped a bartender kill rats in his place in St. Dennis and also helped a guy free his wife from robbers outside of St. Dennis tonight and it helped. I get 10% discount at stores and I'm about 2/3 into the white on the meter 

[BillsFan4]

20 hours ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

Finally found this yesterday. First thing you gotta do is go up to the basement window. When you're there, you'll hear "Hey mister." Go talk to him. Then go into the gunshop. Hold the gunsmith at gunpoint, but don't shoot him, and he'll unlock the basement for you. Then some messed up stuff goes on, then you can kill him. 

Does anyone know - Can you do this side quest while at the start of chapter 3? (while Dutch has asked the gang not to create trouble in Rhodes)

 

edit - you can. I didn’t shoot the shopkeeper though. I let him live. Not sure what would’ve happened if I shot him. 

Edited January 24, 2019 by BillsFan4

[/dev/null]

9 hours ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

Also, I saw a cop chasing a suspect in Saint Denis the other day. I shot the suspect, thinking it would get me in good with the cops, but then the cops came after me. How am I supposed to deal with this situation?

I got mugged in Saint Denis, chased the punk, hogtied him and carried him to the police station...and the cops went after me

 

Also tried taking the Vampire to the St Denis police station, but nobody noticed i brought in somebody that had killed several people

Edited January 24, 2019 by /dev/null

[RaoulDuke79]

30 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

I got mugged in Saint Denis, chased the punk, hogtied him and carried him to the police station...and the cops went after me

 

Also tried taking the Vampire to the St Denis police station, but nobody noticed i brought in somebody that had killed several people

Ha....maybe they were busy trying to pin crime on Lenny.

[teef]

not to derail this puppy, but is anyone pumped about resident evil 2 coming out?

[Not at the table Karlos]

23 hours ago, shrader said:

Does anyone know if your honor level can change the cut scenes at all?  I've tried to keep mine pretty high and that matches pretty well with Arthur's general demeanor in most of his interactions (other than when he announces his return to camp).  I'd love it if he would instead be a dick in a lot of the cut scenes if he had low honor, but I'm sure that's tough to program into the game.

My honor is as low as it can go and the attitude in cut scenes seems the same all the way through the game. 

[CommonCents]

The storm troopers outside of St. Denis killed my white stallion. Those guys have some real fire power, I was under heavy fire and had a few dogs on me/her. When I respawned all I could get was my saddle and my crappy back up horse. 

[shrader]

33 minutes ago, CommonCents said:

The storm troopers outside of St. Denis killed my white stallion. Those guys have some real fire power, I was under heavy fire and had a few dogs on me/her. When I respawned all I could get was my saddle and my crappy back up horse. 

 

Thats when I reload my most recent save point

[BillsFan4]

6 hours ago, teef said:

not to derail this puppy, but is anyone pumped about resident evil 2 coming out?

 

Im not real big into the horror games anymore. My nerves don’t handle all the scares as well as they used to... lol 

 

I might throw it on my GameFly rental list though, just to try it. 

[teef]

1 hour ago, BillsFan4 said:

 

Im not real big into the horror games anymore. My nerves don’t handle all the scares as well as they used to... lol 

 

I might throw it on my GameFly rental list though, just to try it. 

Honestly...the same thing has happened to me as I get older. The early resident evils are more nostalgic to me than anything else. 

[BillsFan4]

I did a bank robbery last night and managed to get out of it with only a $5 bounty. 

 

It was getting late so I saved and figured I’d ride to a post office to pay the bounty today. So I load my save just now and the bounty has somehow jumped to $120!

 

Wtf is that? lol 

[shrader]

I ran into the hanging victim trap again last night.  So it's something far more disturbing than those Murfree people.  The attackers looked like zombies.  This time I was able to stick around and shoot down the body.  It had a note talking about a group of people called the Night Folk.  I hope I run into them again because there's potential for creepiness there.

[/dev/null]

Just now, shrader said:

I ran into the hanging victim trap again last night.  So it's something far more disturbing than those Murfree people.  The attackers looked like zombies.  This time I was able to stick around and shoot down the body.  It had a note talking about a group of people called the Night Folk.  I hope I run into them again because there's potential for creepiness there.

 

Night Folk hang out in the swamp north of St Denis.  Go out at night (obviously) and look for a weeping woman

[CommonCents]

8 minutes ago, shrader said:

I ran into the hanging victim trap again last night.  So it's something far more disturbing than those Murfree people.  The attackers looked like zombies.  This time I was able to stick around and shoot down the body.  It had a note talking about a group of people called the Night Folk.  I hope I run into them again because there's potential for creepiness there.

I got attacked by three of those zombie guys, took them all out but I didn’t get anything for it. 

[shrader]

31 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

 

Night Folk hang out in the swamp north of St Denis.  Go out at night (obviously) and look for a weeping woman

 

I had one strange thing happen in that swamp the other day.  I'm assuming it was tied into them, but I have no idea what actually happened.  I was fishing for the legendary in there and when I left, my horse was suddenly spooked by something and a strange single mysterious note played.  Arthur said something like "...was that", but when I looked around, I didn't see anything.  It was super foggy too, so it's very possible I just missed something.

 

Oh, and I bagged the legendary jaguar yesterday.  That was a serious pain in the ass.  Damn thing must have killed me at least ten times without even getting a single shot off.  Somehow I actually managed to sneak up on it the last time.  I wasn't messing around at that point, so I blew it's head off with the only explosive rifle round I had.  I enjoyed seeing that headless jaguar on the back of my horse as I took it to the trapper.