Oh man. I saw a corpse on a beach south of Annesburg. I looted the body and found
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a love letter to Bonnie MacFarlane!
It was such a random cool thing that I could easily have missed. I'm sure I already have missed a lot of cool random things.
Online has a bit more of this kind of stuff with RDR 1 characters. Spoilers for online and characters.
You can do missions for bonnie and Shakey (irish's poor friend). Bonnie mostly just talks about how much her dad doesn't trust her to do work and says they are about to take a trip away from Armadillo because of a cholera outbreak.
You can also do missions for Tumbleweed. I did notice that Tumbleweed seems to be a town full of black folks, and I couldn't help but wonder if Rockstar explained why the train station mysteriously avoided putting a station there because of that.
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RankenphilePassersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderatormod
So is it everyone else's experience that around chapter three you end up getting a few grand in cash and basically never have to worry about money again?
Cuz now I'm halfway through chapter four and have styled out basically all my gear and I still have two grand plus and no real concern about cash, and it feels really odd, like partway into the game they just decided "fuck it, let's ignore money from now on"
So is it everyone else's experience that around chapter three you end up getting a few grand in cash and basically never have to worry about money again?
Cuz now I'm halfway through chapter four and have styled out basically all my gear and I still have two grand plus and no real concern about cash, and it feels really odd, like partway into the game they just decided "fuck it, let's ignore money from now on"
It plays into a theme to an extent if you want to see it that way, but yeah after a certain point in the game money was not something I wanted for.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
I actually enjoy the early "I have no money" stages of the game a lot, which is good because I've been dicking around in chapter 2 for like thirty hours.
If you really want to get through your cash, big bounties will do the trick. Those add up fast.
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RankenphilePassersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderatormod
it just seemed like it hit that point way early in the game, to me
it's cool, I don't mind being unconstrained by funds, but it does sort of undercut a big motivation for robbing, stealing and cheating. Works great for me, because I like playing the good guy -- or as good a guy as Arthur ever really gets.
So is it everyone else's experience that around chapter three you end up getting a few grand in cash and basically never have to worry about money again?
Cuz now I'm halfway through chapter four and have styled out basically all my gear and I still have two grand plus and no real concern about cash, and it feels really odd, like partway into the game they just decided "fuck it, let's ignore money from now on"
The game addresses this at a certain point, but doesn't quite go far enough with it, imo
it just seemed like it hit that point way early in the game, to me
it's cool, I don't mind being unconstrained by funds, but it does sort of undercut a big motivation for robbing, stealing and cheating. Works great for me, because I like playing the good guy -- or as good a guy as Arthur ever really gets.
It's kind of built into some of the themes in the sense that "the gang doesn't have money" has always just been an excuse. In gameplay terms though, it means that a lot of the mechanisms the game gives you for making money are kind of ignored. Like, by the time you get access to a horse fence, stealing horses is a dumb way to spend your time.
I think the single player economy could use some big adjustments, but I'm not smart enough to have a hypothetical fix
I don't think it's a big deal tbh, and it's certainly not going to get fixed. I don't think being able to afford things ruins the game. The main thing they could do is just reduce some of the bigger mission payouts.
If they were going to make a fix, they should do the thing that I want from every game which is "shops do not have arbitrary unlocks, you can buy things once you have the money for them". If I make enough from hunting or whatever to buy a carcano rifle in chapter 2, just let me fucking do it. Don't make me rescue Micah just so I can buy a decent revolver.
I probably should get on with the story at some point. I'm sure I've put in around 20 hours so far but am still only 9% through the story. I just keep finding something or the other to engage myself with in the open world. The best part is that I'm stumbling onto and discovering things organically, not checking items off a list.
I said Fuck Micah for as long as possible and just got me the free Scofield from the backroom of the Valentine doc.
ffff I already did that backroom, I don't know if I can get back to it again.
I'm fairly impressed by how long you can go without freeing Micah, it seems like you can even do the whole plotline with John's heist without any impediment.
I said Fuck Micah for as long as possible and just got me the free Scofield from the backroom of the Valentine doc.
ffff I already did that backroom, I don't know if I can get back to it again.
I'm fairly impressed by how long you can go without freeing Micah, it seems like you can even do the whole plotline with John's heist without any impediment.
I'm pretty sure I did exactly that because as was stated earlier. Fuck Micah.
Go be Kid Rock Gary Sinese IN HELL!
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Ha something I didn't remember from GTA 5 from a chapter 6 side quest.
The golf course in the game is named Edith Downes Old course." and You can find a newspaper clip out in RDR 2 talking about her opening a golf course among other ventures out west. So another good thing happened from Arthurs money.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Ha something I didn't remember from GTA 5 from a chapter 6 side quest.
The golf course in the game is named Edith Downes Old course." and You can find a newspaper clip out in RDR 2 talking about her opening a golf course among other ventures out west. So another good thing happened from Arthurs money.
What I didn't get is why they do that,
but let Arthur's last experience being her still selling her body. Unless that is the result of a faulty trigger making the video run if you didn't bother to help them, it makes no sense except to continue the relentless cruelty.
Ha something I didn't remember from GTA 5 from a chapter 6 side quest.
The golf course in the game is named Edith Downes Old course." and You can find a newspaper clip out in RDR 2 talking about her opening a golf course among other ventures out west. So another good thing happened from Arthurs money.
What I didn't get is why they do that,
but let Arthur's last experience being her still selling her body. Unless that is the result of a faulty trigger making the video run if you didn't bother to help them, it makes no sense except to continue the relentless cruelty.
Its a screw up of sequencing. The story mission is first in the proper timeline, but most people do the stranger mission first.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Ha something I didn't remember from GTA 5 from a chapter 6 side quest.
The golf course in the game is named Edith Downes Old course." and You can find a newspaper clip out in RDR 2 talking about her opening a golf course among other ventures out west. So another good thing happened from Arthurs money.
What I didn't get is why they do that,
but let Arthur's last experience being her still selling her body. Unless that is the result of a faulty trigger making the video run if you didn't bother to help them, it makes no sense except to continue the relentless cruelty.
Its a screw up of sequencing. The story mission is first in the proper timeline, but most people do the stranger mission first.
Specifically, the issue is that they have two triggers for seeing her in Annesburg; one if you go there first from a story mission, and one if you go to the town normally. But the story trigger always plays even if you finished the Stranger missions.
There was a stability patch out today should fix some loading issues people were having. Hopefully we get a content patch/tuning patch later this week too.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
No matter what, introducing Micah back into the camp is still a real bitter pill to swallow for me. Even if he gets beat up all the time, it sucks that he's even there.
In Chapter 4. I don't actually really get the Micah hate that much. I know he kicks a dog in camp at some point, and that's pretty shitty, but I don't get why everyone just thinks he's by far the worst of all of these tragic lowlifes.
You should have already had to have rescued him from the sheriff's office in Strawberry, at which point instead of getting away before chaos happens, he drags you into a shootout with a body count in the dozens all so he could steal his stupid fucking guns back.
Also all the shit he tries to pull with Abigail in Camp.
And the shit he pulls with Charles, that gets him laid out for being a stupid fucking jackass.
Micah is like hyper toxic masculinity. Like anytime someone has a problem with him he seems to imply its because they aren't manly like he is or they are upset by his manliness. He likes to "pick people up" by tearing them down all the time.
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It was such a random cool thing that I could easily have missed. I'm sure I already have missed a lot of cool random things.
Wow, ok, thank you very much
Online has a bit more of this kind of stuff with RDR 1 characters. Spoilers for online and characters.
You can do missions for bonnie and Shakey (irish's poor friend). Bonnie mostly just talks about how much her dad doesn't trust her to do work and says they are about to take a trip away from Armadillo because of a cholera outbreak.
You can also do missions for Tumbleweed. I did notice that Tumbleweed seems to be a town full of black folks, and I couldn't help but wonder if Rockstar explained why the train station mysteriously avoided putting a station there because of that.
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Oh, good to know. I had no idea what that was about when I found it.
It was nice in the epilogue in the aspect of "This is my time to just do free roam shenanigans" I didn't feel in the main game.
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yeah that part seemed strange when I visited the fence and they were all just waiting there to be unlocked.
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Cuz now I'm halfway through chapter four and have styled out basically all my gear and I still have two grand plus and no real concern about cash, and it feels really odd, like partway into the game they just decided "fuck it, let's ignore money from now on"
It plays into a theme to an extent if you want to see it that way, but yeah after a certain point in the game money was not something I wanted for.
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If you really want to get through your cash, big bounties will do the trick. Those add up fast.
it's cool, I don't mind being unconstrained by funds, but it does sort of undercut a big motivation for robbing, stealing and cheating. Works great for me, because I like playing the good guy -- or as good a guy as Arthur ever really gets.
The game addresses this at a certain point, but doesn't quite go far enough with it, imo
It's kind of built into some of the themes in the sense that "the gang doesn't have money" has always just been an excuse. In gameplay terms though, it means that a lot of the mechanisms the game gives you for making money are kind of ignored. Like, by the time you get access to a horse fence, stealing horses is a dumb way to spend your time.
I don't think it's a big deal tbh, and it's certainly not going to get fixed. I don't think being able to afford things ruins the game. The main thing they could do is just reduce some of the bigger mission payouts.
If they were going to make a fix, they should do the thing that I want from every game which is "shops do not have arbitrary unlocks, you can buy things once you have the money for them". If I make enough from hunting or whatever to buy a carcano rifle in chapter 2, just let me fucking do it. Don't make me rescue Micah just so I can buy a decent revolver.
ffff I already did that backroom, I don't know if I can get back to it again.
I'm fairly impressed by how long you can go without freeing Micah, it seems like you can even do the whole plotline with John's heist without any impediment.
I'm pretty sure I did exactly that because as was stated earlier. Fuck Micah.
Go be Kid Rock Gary Sinese IN HELL!
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The golf course in the game is named Edith Downes Old course." and You can find a newspaper clip out in RDR 2 talking about her opening a golf course among other ventures out west. So another good thing happened from Arthurs money.
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What I didn't get is why they do that,
Its a screw up of sequencing. The story mission is first in the proper timeline, but most people do the stranger mission first.
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Specifically, the issue is that they have two triggers for seeing her in Annesburg; one if you go there first from a story mission, and one if you go to the town normally. But the story trigger always plays even if you finished the Stranger missions.
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And I missed several characters calling him on his bullshit
I think Charles, Lenny and Karen all yell at him, and Charles knocks him out in front of the gang at some point in an interaction? at camp
keep going
Also all the shit he tries to pull with Abigail in Camp.
And the shit he pulls with Charles, that gets him laid out for being a stupid fucking jackass.
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he's a very realistic character
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