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I lost Flacos as well I think…forgot to pick up the others :roll:

You have to cultivate plants? Do you get a rash if you forget to wipe too?

It’s not cultivation as much as just picking them randomly.

And you gotta take baths to avoid the rashes 😉

Man…I don’t miss some of those treasure hunts. A couple of the ones where you have to crawl along a cliff led to major frustrations when I fell off the cliff 😂

Man…I don’t miss some of those treasure hunts. A couple of the ones where you have to crawl along a cliff led to major frustrations when I fell off the cliff 😂

I found the first treasure hunt one, don’t remember the name, maybe the Hill Gang, pretty easy. I saw the first one, and had a pretty good idea of where it was. It took about 15 minutes of searching, and I saw the right rock formation in the distance, then took another 15 minutes to get there and figure out how to get the next map. Map 2 was super simple, I knew where it was immediately when I saw it. Map 3 was also pretty easy, as I remembered the location from a past mission. The Poisonous Trail maps seem much trickier.

I think it was the poisonous trail one that I fell off the cliff on.

I’m assuming you’re referring to the Jack Hall Gang treasure.

There’s a third one that was medium difficulty too.

Just got done with the Weapons Master level 10 last night.

The last challenge for that one….hooooo boy.

I haven’t gotten to play in over a week. Between hockey practice, tournaments and work, I haven’t had time and when I have had time, I fall asleep. Adulting is hard.

Im in the Epilogue…the actual ending of the game was rather unsatisfying so I am hoping the Epilogue fixes it somehow.

Judging by what I know of how you played the first half of the game I think I know the ending you had 😂 the creators scripted two different endings depending on your honor and two more depending on your choice at the end.

It’s tedious and lame…I don’t like this character or the “missions” I have.

Honestly…it is ruining the game.

The first part of the epilogue was very frustrating. Felt a lot like the first chapter or two of the main story.nthe second part gets fun. I promise.

I finished the first part and just started the second. So glad I have a wife who hates me, a job that pays terribly and now owe the bank a bunch of money on a loan! :lol:

It’s just like real life!!

Finally got to 100% completion!!! Wooooo

I figured as much but still! AM > JM!!

Is anyone else surprised that (at least through the point in the game I’m at) Arthur never gets laid? :lol:

Sure, there are the bath HJs, but I figured, based on what I saw in Grand Theft Auto like 12 years ago, and the fact that it was the same company that makes both games, that Arthur would have the option of going to brothels, and they would have him hook up with some of the nasty ass frontier women along the way. Not that it would have really added anything to the game, it would have been strictly gratuitous, but going in I figured that would be in there.

You guys miiiight want to throw those last couple posts in spoilers, for people reading the thread who haven’t finished the game.

Epilogue discussion:
[hide]lol Handy, I wanted to tell you at some point when you said how much bad $h!t you were doing, that it affects which ending you get, but obviously didn’t want to spoil anything :lol:

I had the high honor ending, and I thought it was poignantly done. Especially because of Arthur’s comment earlier in the game about how he wants to go out, he says something along the lines of “just face me to the east so I can watch the sun rise one last time”. And then he gets to go out with a peaceful sunrise after helping John and his family escape. It tied a nice bow on Arthur’s story, I thought.

However, I agree with you that Arthur is far superior to John. There is some interesting parts about playing John and seeing how his experiences might lead up to RDR1. There are some cool moments like seeing the barn at Beecher’s Hope where so much $h!t went down in RDR1.

Also the Epilogue contains the absolute best part of RDR2… The house building montage!! :lol: :lol: :lol: [/hide]

They wont have any idea who Milton is until the Epilogue. Unless they played RDR1 in which case it isnt a spoiler anyways

[hide]My ending was way more dramatic. After escaping the cave with John we climb a mountain in the rain being chased by Pinkertons. I convince John to leave cause I am about 12 seconds away from drowning in my own blood. I hold off the Pinkertons but Dutch and Micah show up. I have a long drawn out fight with Micah, plead with Dutch and get my face cratered as Micah cheers and Dutch does nothing.

Sadie Adler (second best character in the game IMHO) just told me she thinks she found Micah so hopefully I get to kill him. Same holds true for Dutch…Arthur must be avenged!![/hold]

I finished the first part and just started the second. So glad I have a wife who hates me, a job that pays terribly and now owe the bank a bunch of money on a loan! :lol:

Are you also a Whioux fan?

Up to 44% complete.

Probably about half way through chapter 3, but not sure on that, since I have no idea how long the chapter will be. Just burned a bunch of tobacco fields. Spent time yesterday progressing a few of the challenges, and got like 4 of them to the next level. I have no idea how I’m going to win in this 5 finger fillet game, my fingers aren’t fast enough on the controller to win it.

Still haven’t found any more dinosaur bones, those things are fucking impossible. Keep stumbling across dream catchers though, think I have found 7 or 8 of those. Only have found 3 of the rock carvings, and 5 of the legendary animals (bear, white buffalo, coyote, wolf, boar). No legendary fish yet.

So, think I am going along ok. Just that the dinosaur bones suck to find.

Question, for the horsemanship challenge, the first one is the ride from Valentine to Rhodes. Do I need to do anything to initiate a timer or something? Or just I just go to Valentine, then haul ass to Rhodes, and game figures it out itself?

Up to 44% complete.

Probably about half way through chapter 3, but not sure on that, since I have no idea how long the chapter will be. Just burned a bunch of tobacco fields. Spent time yesterday progressing a few of the challenges, and got like 4 of them to the next level. I have no idea how I’m going to win in this 5 finger fillet game, my fingers aren’t fast enough on the controller to win it.

Still haven’t found any more dinosaur bones, those things are f*** impossible. Keep stumbling across dream catchers though, think I have found 7 or 8 of those. Only have found 3 of the rock carvings, and 5 of the legendary animals (bear, white buffalo, coyote, wolf, boar). No legendary fish yet.

So, think I am going along ok. Just that the dinosaur bones suck to find.

Question, for the horsemanship challenge, the first one is the ride from Valentine to Rhodes. Do I need to do anything to initiate a timer or something? Or just I just go to Valentine, then haul ass to Rhodes, and game figures it out itself?

Just go to Valentine and then haul ass. There are a few challenges like that. IIRC there one to go from Saint Denis to Strawberry too. As long as you’re in Valentine and start the ride, it’ll reward you if you get there within the goal.

You’re making good progress on the dreamcatchers. I think I had 3-4 before I completed the epilogue. Then I just spent a bunch of time riding around looking for Easter eggs and doing a couple plant challenges.

There are a couple dinosaur bones that I would never have found without talking to a buddy (who I’m pretty sure looked them up via the Google).

I can’t wait to see the blind fortune teller where he gives me my actual fortune now, especially now that I know how everything happens from beginning to end. Once I got to a certain point (or maybe got enough “prophecies” told to me), I just kept paying him a dollar and he wouldn’t tell me anything anymore. Now that I know what happens I’m excited to see how dumb I was for not paying attention.

Now I’ve got the house building song stuck in my head here at work.

In other news, I finally did complete all the hunts required for the Legends of the East satchel. I think I will do the legendary fishing next.

Now I’ve got the house building song stuck in my head here at work.

In other news, I finally did complete all the hunts required for the Legends of the East satchel. I think I will do the legendary fishing next.

Have you done the legendary panther? I can’t remember if that was needed for the legends of the east satchel or not.

No – I believe that becomes available after you complete 9 master hunter challenges. I did shoot the standard panther in the same area the legendary one will be in.

Now I’ve got the house building song stuck in my head here at work.

In other news, I finally did complete all the hunts required for the Legends of the East satchel. I think I will do the legendary fishing next.

Have you done the legendary panther? I can’t remember if that was needed for the legends of the east satchel or not.

No – I believe that becomes available after you complete 9 master hunter challenges. I did shoot the standard panther in the same area the legendary one will be in.

I need to catch the Florida Panther too, but I did get the regular panther. Those things are tricky.

I think I found my favorite place to hunt — on the trail that runs straight north of Lake Owanjila NW of Strawberry. Boars? You can get 4 perfect pelts in mere moments. Wolves? Yep. Cougars? Yep.. although they still don’t spawn enough for my tastes.. random grizzlies.. and a trapper to sell to.

Now I’ve got the house building song stuck in my head here at work.

In other news, I finally did complete all the hunts required for the Legends of the East satchel. I think I will do the legendary fishing next.

Have you done the legendary panther? I can’t remember if that was needed for the legends of the east satchel or not.

No – I believe that becomes available after you complete 9 master hunter challenges. I did shoot the standard panther in the same area the legendary one will be in.

I need to catch the Florida Panther too, but I did get the regular panther. Those things are tricky.

I think I found my favorite place to hunt — on the trail that runs straight north of Lake Owanjila NW of Strawberry. Boars? You can get 4 perfect pelts in mere moments. Wolves? Yep. Cougars? Yep.. although they still don’t spawn enough for my tastes.. random grizzlies.. and a trapper to sell to.

Yep that’s a great spot to hunt.

I only went there for cougars (as I’m focused on getting the camp everything) and as soon as I arrived, 2 perfect wolf pelts, not long after, 4 perfect boar pelts… I could easily finish the main story at this point, but I’m just messing around getting all the side stuff done.. I already know how this ends, so no big deal.

Again, once I finally do 100% this, I’m going back and being Bad Arthur. Every choice will be max evil.

And I have to say, the Legends of the East satchel is sweet – 99 of everything lol

On to Chapter 4, over the weekend. Also found the treasure for the poisonous trail, that was a bastard to get to. Got a few more legendary animal hunts done, and a few legendary fish. Did a few other side missions, found the serial killer, did a bounty poster mission, found some treasure chest buried on the side of a mountain. Zero fucking dinosaur bones. :lol:

Thinking that the next thing I want to do is a bunch of hunting, to get perfect pelts, feathers, etc. so I can craft a bunch of stuff. I have very few perfect pelts so far, as I haven’t focused on that much.

The Epilogue has kinda hampered my playing of the game. I am probably in my last throws. I dont really care about many of the legendary hunts or any of that jazz. Might try them but doubt I will put a whole heckuva lot of time and energy in them. Got GTA5 on Ebay for like $15 so might start that or maybe Star Wars Battlefront 2 just cause. Also have Playstation Now or whatever so I could go back and play OG RRD…

No I worked all weekend…plan to finish it tonight depending how long it is I guess.

I just dont have the patience to do long term hunting, fishing or treasure hunting. I want to kill people damnit! :lol:

I finished Albert Mason a while back…he was always a good way to break up missions. I fished with Hamish and caught that big monster fish from Grumpier Old Men but that is it. I have one waiting for me.

I shot him in the face!!!

[hide]FOR ARTHUR!! SUCK IT MICAH!!! Should have killed Du to check too…[/hide]

A few random questions

Is there something significant about these places that I’m missing, or maybe just haven’t gotten far enough in the story yet?

The house outside Van Horn that you climb in through the upstairs window with some fucked up shit inside that room.

The roadside brothel, near Van Horn, with the dead lady outside.

The culty cabin, with the bunkbeds and a bunch of skeletons that looks like a mass suicide, northwest of Emerald Ranch.

The “Tesla’s” laboratory, way at the top edge up the map, northwest of Annesburg.

Also, has anyone figured out the Panoramic Map yet? It is obviously drawn from a mountaintop, looking out over the whole map, and it looks to me like it is in the Mt. Shann area. But there is no hint as to what to look for, and it isn’t classified as a treasure map.

There is no Legendary Alligator on the legendary animals map, but there are stuff to be crafted using the Legendary Alligator. Does that show up later in the game?

Lastly, is there a better way to get bird feathers of various birds than just riding around and shooting random birds out of the sky?

A few random questions

Is there something significant about these places that I’m missing, or maybe just haven’t gotten far enough in the story yet?

The house outside Van Horn that you climb in through the upstairs window with some f*** up $h!t inside that room.

The roadside brothel, near Van Horn, with the dead lady outside.

The culty cabin, with the bunkbeds and a bunch of skeletons that looks like a mass suicide, northwest of Emerald Ranch.

The “Tesla’s” laboratory, way at the top edge up the map, northwest of Annesburg.

Also, has anyone figured out the Panoramic Map yet? It is obviously drawn from a mountaintop, looking out over the whole map, and it looks to me like it is in the Mt. Shann area. But there is no hint as to what to look for, and it isn’t classified as a treasure map.

There is no Legendary Alligator on the legendary animals map, but there are stuff to be crafted using the Legendary Alligator. Does that show up later in the game?

Lastly, is there a better way to get bird feathers of various birds than just riding around and shooting random birds out of the sky?

Bird feathers: no not really. Depending on which birds you’re looking for there are some spots I can recommend, but generally speaking, if you’re just looking for feathers to craft stuff, no. If you’re in need of specific feathers, yes there are areas where certain birds are prone to spawn.

Legendary Gator shows up in chapter 4 IIRC. You’re first introduced to him during a main story mission.

The Tesla-style lab is something you’re introduced to first by a stranger mission in Saint Denis.

The roadside brothel, as far as I can tell, just gives you a little statue which you can sell for $ if you want.

The Van Horn house, assuming it’s the one I think you’re talking about, is just a random Easter egg house.

If you’re in the culty cabin late at night sometimes you’ll be treated to a surprise if you have gone to the top of Mt. Shann as the little letter says.

As for the panoramic map: no idea. I spent a lot of time trying to piece things together and couldn’t find anything major. Even resorted to looking online to sooth my mind and nobody on there could find anything either.

I never did any of those. Hell this is the first I am seeing anything about some of them! Every time I tried doing the Tesla one it wouldnt let me for some reason.

Beauner,

[hide]I still dont like that I had to play the Epilogue as John Marston. The whole game you play as Arthur (going all Power Trip on it saying his phrases along with him!) and as weird as it sounds you get super connected to him. Marston isnt even around half the game so I dunno it just seems off. Every time I see Abigail though I say “Abi-GAIL Roberts!” in that Arthur voice though cause it makes me giggle

That said he end of the Epilogue is cool, though I should have shot Dutch too! He let Micah kill the boys and there aint no redeeming that. I assume he doesnt show up in RDR1 so yeah I should have been able to choke the life out of him.

I played Marston pretty straight through the Epilogue (he doesnt seem like the serial killer Arthur is ) Then we got to Micah’s friend in Strawberry and I hung him and literally said “FOR ARTHUR!” out loud! Now that it is over I am going to have him killing some more since I am guess in RDR1 he is not the nicest man in the world. Plus if you had to shovel cattle crap on a farm you would murder Lemoyne Raiders too!)[/hide]

In non-spoiler stuff, is it just me or as you get closer to the end does it not seem the weather takes a turn for the worst? I swear every 12 seconds it is raining no matter where you go. Gets even worse in the Epilogue and after the Epilogue. Friggin monsoons out there riding around!

Related to your spoiler/hidden comments

[hide]I’m pretty sure that in RDR1 the Pinkerton agents (Ross and the other guy, I forgot his name) use Abigail and Jack as leverage and force John into hunting down the surviving members of his gang to spare their lives. Including Dutch.
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As for weather: yes it definitely seems worse in the epilogue.

Hmmm…

[hide]That is weird. Interesting they made the original game start at that point. Killing Pinkertons is always fun though

I better get to kill Dutch…Dutch sucks![/hunt]

Damn, a lot of stranger missions show up once the main storyline gets to St. Denis. I did like 4 missions last night, and 1 was part of the main story.

Is it wrong that I refuse to help that schmuck who is looking for “his mate Gavin”? I fist met him in Rhodes then Saint Denis and I just ignored his stupid ass

Is it wrong that I refuse to help that schmuck who is looking for “his mate Gavin”? I fist met him in Rhodes then Saint Denis and I just ignored his stupid ass

I killed him, so nah not really.

GAVIN!!! GAVIN!!!

I’M LOOKING FOR AN ENGLISHMAN…HIS NAME IS GAVIN!

“HASNT ANYONE SEEN GAVIN?!?!?!?”

Now I want to kill him…

Getting close to giving up. It is f*** impossible to get a woodpecker. I have googled how to do it, and I can’t find one. The instructions all say to use dead eye, but I can’t get it to work. I never use dead eye, because it makes it even harder to kill something, IMO. It won’t auto-aim for me on dead eye, and I can’t keep a bead on a flying bird manually.

Those and the robins were a massive pain in the ass.

The woodpecker is found technically all over the map on the westside of new Hanover and all up and down Rhodes and annesburg. You gotta use binoculars to identify them before they take flight though.

Fort Brennan is where I found a few of those little birds. That or by Downes Ranch.

Go in the fort, walk up on the ramparts, use your binoculars to identify them. Then take out your small game arrow, deadeye, right bumper (or R1 if PS4) to tag it. Then shoot. If you tag them you automatically track it even if it’s in flight.

I’m trying to play GTA V… driving is friggin hard to the point I get annoyed fast and either quit or go on killing sprees. I dont know if it will ever grab me like Red Dead did.

This is precisely why I only made it through about half of that game (GTA V). I’d be driving along and then get in an accident and then get annoyed and go into a rampage. It was supremely frustrating. A slight twitch left or right and all of a sudden you’re flipping your car into oncoming traffic or rolling it into a building.

The characters were great and all, but I didn’t have the patience to put up with all the people driving and stopping in the middle of the road, or the hypersensitive driving controls.

I wonder if I would be able to now.

Getting close to giving up. It is f*** impossible to get a woodpecker. I have googled how to do it, and I can’t find one. The instructions all say to use dead eye, but I can’t get it to work. I never use dead eye, because it makes it even harder to kill something, IMO. It won’t auto-aim for me on dead eye, and I can’t keep a bead on a flying bird manually.

Those and the robins were a massive pain in the ass.

The woodpecker is found technically all over the map on the westside of new Hanover and all up and down Rhodes and annesburg. You gotta use binoculars to identify them before they take flight though.

Fort Brennan is where I found a few of those little birds. That or by Downes Ranch.

Go in the fort, walk up on the ramparts, use your binoculars to identify them. Then take out your small game arrow, deadeye, right bumper (or R1 if PS4) to tag it. Then shoot. If you tag them you automatically track it even if it’s in flight.

What do you mean by “tag it?” When I do dead eye, I aim (left trigger), then press down on both joysticks to enter dead eye, then track to the highlighted kill area using the joystick, and when there, hit the right trigger to shoot. Is that not correct?

If your sights are on/near an enemy or animal target in deadeye you can “tag” your target with the right bumper/R1. If the animal (or enemy) begins to move before your shot your aim will follow along with their movements. Makes getting a clean kill much easier. Especially with a bow and arrow.