r/RDR2

Ahhh man, i cant wait to get off work and play some RDR2! iv been kinda burnt out in games then i decided to hop on rdr2 after owning it for a few months but not playing much.

The place i left off was right before you hunt the deer at the very start of the game. I got on and as soon as i really started to care about what everyone was saying, that's when it clicked. "Oh this is really relaxing, listening to them talk while just chillen on a horse, taking it slow" i was really immersed in the game for the first time.

I'm more of a competitive gamer so FPS games are my go too. I tried to get into BG3, Cyberpunk, deathstranding and some others but i couldn't really get "immersed" in the world.

But as of a few days ago im really enjoying RDR2, like way more then i ever thought. Iv played the online mode, i liked it but got burntout quick because it's so grindy. Same with gta 5.

Then i got out of the prologue and man, the vast amount of people you can encounter and their "stories" are so amazing. I met the photographer that was trying to capture a picture of wildlife, went through his small event and was pleasantly surprised, not because i got a cool piece of gear or lore but simply because i was interested in his story.

I think thats the draw to the game i did not get before.

They are the story.

So, I'm probably halfway through chapter 6 on my first playthrough. Unfortunately I already know Arthur's going to die no matter what I do (still don't know if it's by illness or if he gets killed) and that if I have Buell with him, I won't have Buell as John. But ignoring that detail, does it make more sense story wise to go get Buell as Arthur or as John? Don't explain why, as I don't want to get anymore spoilers please. I just want to know which one is more impactful. Thank you

Just thinking about possibilities here, and I don’t recall seeing this mentioned before, but what if it was based on the O’Driscoll’s .. a prequel to the prequel.. you’d still have younger Dutch (Hosea, John, Arthur) and possibly others such as Mac, Davey, Sean… etc etc, but they’d be opposition to you playing as Colm’s 2iC.. make a story about their side/point of view on the feud

Thoughts?

I have been hunting and donating at Pearson, but the three bars at the top are still red, and supplies and ammunition thing are showing at the map but I can't access it. Can anyone guide me without spoilers

So as is pretty well known by now, Herbalist 9 is technically not achievable as Arthur. “Technically” because you need to glitch into New Austin.
But maybe one of the glitches some of us use is by design: “The Carcass Head”

I started a new play through last week and have been going about Chapter 2 hammering out Challenges, trying to find the most efficient way to do them. I’d gotten to Herbalist 7 and realised that I needed the Special Miracle Cure Pamphlet - which is on the side of Mount Shann up behind Vetters Echo.
Well, there’s a guaranteed Grizzly Bear in Vetters Echo - so Herbalist took a backseat to Weapons Expert.

Anyway, Herbalist 8 (craft 6 poison weapons using Oleander Sage). Need the pamphlets, no problem. But the interesting thing is that the challenges are set so that by Herbalist 9, you have poison weapons - importantly, Poison arrows - which are INSTRUMENTAL in the carcass head glitch.

I’m probably overthinking it.. but makes for an interesting theory