Red Dead Redemption 2 (October 2018)

[Fandlauer]

Living vicariously through everyone here. I get what I deserve for pre-ordering through f***ing toys r us Canada.

 

[GBHockey]

Keep getting killed by O'Driscoll's when on the way to missions or into town, pop us as random events and then there's about 8 of them all surrounding me and it's game over when I only have my bow and arrow out for hunting!

 

[Rodgerwilco]

I hope the online is good, but I don't have much hope for it being any different than GTA online, which I didn't enjoy once the heists were completed. It just became a grief-fest.

I feel as though this game is going to be a lot less grief-able. The problem in GTA is flying vehicles and Rockets and the like, I don't see how any of those kinds of things that can be game-breakers could fit into this game. I could still see the game being a big money-dump. I don't quite imagine that we'll have the big population of younger kids as GTA5.

 

[Walshy7]

Keep getting killed by O'Driscoll's when on the way to missions or into town, pop us as random events and then there's about 8 of them all surrounding me and it's game over when I only have my bow and arrow out for hunting!

really? ive bumped into the o'driscoll's only once in about 20 hours of gameplay and there was only 2 of them. I may have been inadvertently avoiding their main region though, do they have a main region?.

 

[542365]

really? ive bumped into the o'driscoll's only once in about 20 hours of gameplay and there was only 2 of them. I may have been inadvertently avoiding their main region though, do they have a main region?.

Yeah I've only seen two groups of them. Both times they were blocking a bridge I wanted to cross so I had to turn around and kill them with my rifle from the other side of the bridge. I'm not sure where they usually hang out though.

I pretty much stopped attacking the random camps. Every time I do it I end up being wanted and have a bounty on my head and I don't even get that great of stuff out of them. Maybe I just need to use the bandanna. I bought the Executioner's Mask from a Fence and my guy wore it once but then just started putting the bandanna on again. Does it get removed from your inventory like some weapons do when you ride a horse? Is the full mask better at concealing your identity than a bandanna?

 

[Walshy7]

Yeah I've only seen two groups of them. Both times they were blocking a bridge I wanted to cross so I had to turn around and kill them with my rifle from the other side of the bridge. I'm not sure where they usually hang out though.

I pretty much stopped attacking the random camps. Every time I do it I end up being wanted and have a bounty on my head and I don't even get that great of stuff out of them. Maybe I just need to use the bandanna. I bought the Executioner's Mask from a Fence and my guy wore it once but then just started putting the bandanna on again. Does it get removed from your inventory like some weapons do when you ride a horse? Is the full mask better at concealing your identity than a bandanna?

I always forget to put my bandana up.

I went into one of those black smoke camps yesterday and found 2 guys with a safe, I killed them blew the safe with dynamite and got $100 out of it. so since then I have been going to the camps whenever I see the black smoke

 

[Dolemite]

really? ive bumped into the o'driscoll's only once in about 20 hours of gameplay and there was only 2 of them. I may have been inadvertently avoiding their main region though, do they have a main region?.

That, being wanted by the cops immediately and cougars attacking you quickly are all ways of the game letting you know you’re not allowed to be in that section yet.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

That, being wanted by the cops immediately and cougars attacking you quickly are all ways of the game letting you know you’re not allowed to be in that section yet.

Eh, I don't know about the O'Discoll's being part of that. I've been killed by them 3 times in my ~15 hours so far, all of which have been in relatively close to base camp or Valentine.

Same story as with GBH, I'm hunting with a bow on horseback and get jumped by 8 or so people...by the time I get an appropriate gun out and start shooting I'm dead.

This barely registers as a complaint for me, though. The first time it happened it taught me to be a bit more attentive and the third time happened ~10 minutes after I got in a shoot-out with some O'Driscolls. The second time was the only time I've really gotten frustrated, because I was killed almost immediately.

 

[542365]

@SouthGeorge we're talking about RDR2 in here. This entire subforum might be of interest to you since you seem to like video games along with the rest of us.

 

[The Macho King]

The controls are clunky as hell. Really hampers the enjoyment.

I don't dig open-world games enough to put up with how much I hate the awful shooting and clunky movement.

 

[542365]

The controls are clunky as hell. Really hampers the enjoyment.

I don't dig open-world games enough to put up with how much I hate the awful shooting and clunky movement.

I hate the movement, especially when near interactable(that's a word, sure) items. He either doesn't move far enough or moves too far.

I don't mind the gun mechanics really. DeadEye is fun and the autosnap on target allows you to feel like a wild west badass. At least it does to me.

 

[Walshy7]

I hate the movement, especially when near interactable(that's a word, sure) items. He either doesn't move far enough or moves too far.

I don't mind the gun mechanics really. DeadEye is fun and the autosnap on target allows you to feel like a wild west badass. At least it does to me.

I always get that when im trying to hitch my horse, if it were real life id look like a real twat riding around a hitching post for a couple of mins, to other people watching me.

Dead eye is great, the smoke signal camps when they have a hostage looks real badass when you deadeye the majority of the bad guys then waltz in

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

So I mark the trapper on my map as a waypoint, die on accident, reload my previous save, trapper marker is no longer on the map. It makes no sense since that was the save I used right before marking the trapper previously.

 

[542365]

I always get that when im trying to hitch my horse, if it were real life id look like a real **** riding around a hitching post for a couple of mins, to other people watching me.

Dead eye is great, the smoke signal camps when they have a hostage looks real badass when you deadeye the majority of the bad guys then waltz in

What smoke signal for hostages? What does it look like? I know I came across one super early on in a tutorial-like mission, but how does it look different from the smoke coming off other camps?

 

[Big McLargehuge]

The biggest trouble I've had with the controls was just getting used to riding a horse again...the early hours involved me launching into a number of trees while trying to get the damn thing to stop

I don't think the game does a very good job of explaining a lot of the controls. I had to Google a couple of them, which is never great. A very minor blip on the radar of an otherwise awesome game so far, but given that it's been years since I played the original it definitely took some time to get adjusted with little help.

 

[Victorious Secret]

So I mark the trapper on my map as a waypoint, die on accident, reload my previous save, trapper marker is no longer on the map. It makes no sense since that was the save I used right before marking the trapper previously.

I thought one trapper was semi-nomadic. Travels to his different sites. Maybe the reload is just a rolling of the dice where he's at.

 

[The Mars Volchenkov]

It’s almost overwhelming how much there is to do but I’m trying to take it all in. I’m doing the mission where you try to find the 4 gunslingers for the story and they sure did spread them out so that you see the map.

I’m only playing on my normal PS4 but the game is gorgeous, especially at dusk. It’s the first game that made me wish I had an Xbox one X.

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

I thought one trapper was semi-nomadic. Travels to his different sites. Maybe the reload is just a rolling of the dice where he's at.

Yeah I have no idea, there was a black marker on the map to the south saying he was located there, died, and now the marker is gone. Blah. Want to get rid of that damn bear pelt!

 

[Walshy7]

What smoke signal for hostages? What does it look like? I know I came across one super early on in a tutorial-like mission, but how does it look different from the smoke coming off other camps?

while riding if you look and see black smoke rising there is a quest there usually a little camp. A few times for me it is another gang has a cop tied up as a hostage you kill them all and in return he "turns a blind eye" to you robbing the camp after, another time it was a tax collector.

Sometimes the black smoke is a couple of guys who try and rob you another time it was 2 guys with a safe I could spare them and share the loot (and get a little honor) or kill em and take it all for myself

edit: I think in the wilderness all smoke is a quest

 

[Dolemite]

Eh, I don't know about the O'Discoll's being part of that. I've been killed by them 3 times in my ~15 hours so far, all of which have been in relatively close to base camp or Valentine.

Same story as with GBH, I'm hunting with a bow on horseback and get jumped by 8 or so people...by the time I get an appropriate gun out and start shooting I'm dead.

This barely registers as a complaint for me, though. The first time it happened it taught me to be a bit more attentive and the third time happened ~10 minutes after I got in a shoot-out with some O'Driscolls. The second time was the only time I've really gotten frustrated, because I was killed almost immediately.

That’s what’s been reported by a gaming website. You’re going too far out of the scope of where you’re supposed to be. That’s the way the Developers wrote it into the code.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

That’s what’s been reported by a gaming website. You’re going too far out of the scope of where you’re supposed to be. That’s the way the Developers wrote it into the code.

Weird...one of them happened like 30 seconds outside of the base camp

 

[542365]

while riding if you look and see black smoke rising there is a quest there usually a little camp. A few times for me it is another gang has a cop tied up as a hostage you kill them all and in return he "turns a blind eye" to you robbing the camp after, another time it was a tax collector.

Sometimes the black smoke is a couple of guys who try and rob you another time it was 2 guys with a safe I could spare them and share the loot (and get a little honor) or kill em and take it all for myself

edit: I think in the wilderness all smoke is a quest

I thought the smoke was just a camp to clear and take supplies if you wanted. I didn't know there were quests along with them. Every time I enter a camp I end up getting wanted because I kill a guy from a distance. Maybe I should go up and talk to them?

 

[The Mars Volchenkov]

Weird...one of them happened like 30 seconds outside of the base camp

Yeah same thing happened to me. Went to clean my horse in the river and got crushed. Went back and it happened again.

 

[Walshy7]

Weird...one of them happened like 30 seconds outside of the base camp

same here mine was about 2 mins ride outside camp on way to valentine.

 

[Gardner McKay]

Red Dead Redemption 2 horse riding fails are tragically funny