Red Dead Redemption 2

[Flightwhite24]

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So whats the best way for me to earn 25 gold bars so I can get started as a moonshiner? I don't want to just buy it and I have less then $1 now.

Man I cheated and bought 25 Gold bars during the holidays for $4.99. Wish I had of earned it the legit way.


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[georgiafan]

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I'm torn I like having this to occasional play and do a few things since I put so many hours into the single player. If I spend the $ to buy it I will want to put the other games on the side to get my $ back. If I don't then I likely wont ever play it enough to earn 25 bars.

Man I cheated and bought 25 Gold bars during the holidays for $4.99. Wish I had of earned it the legit way.


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[ehh]

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Really looking forward to tomorrow where Xbone finally gets the patch that includes Camera Mode. I'm going to start a new playthrough just to take advantage of that feature from the beginning of the story.

[aldon_47]

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I'm torn I like having this to occasional play and do a few things since I put so many hours into the single player. If I spend the $ to buy it I will want to put the other games on the side to get my $ back. If I don't then I likely wont ever play it enough to earn 25 bars.

I've been playing for close to two weeks now and I am close to 15 gold bars to buy the first role. I work full time and have other hobbies but I have found that I do have time to get online on a regular basis and still make progress without paying real life money for anything. In fact I refuse to pay for the gold bars, just kind of a personal thing. Between early level treasure chests, stranger missions and story missions, plus daily challenges, I have been making steady progress.


Disconnects are common as well as griefers, so that sometimes cuts into play time, one reason I wont pay real money for anything in game. But it looks like for a few days at the beginning of Feb, they are giving away the Bounty Hunter License (normally 15 bars) so doing that role will also help with gaining gold bars to purchase other roles without buying with real money. Id say its worth dipping your toes into and see if you like it.

[georgiafan]

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Thanks I had 5 gold bars, but I spent them on something to bypass something and then I figured out I still need 25 more bars to become a moonshiner. I don't quiet understand all the language of the online mood since I only dabbled in it.

Yea I need to just play more for a few hours doing random things and see how many gold bars I get. I know I've collected a few bounty people so I think I have that. With all the other games I need to play over the next few months if I spend real $. I will think I have to stop playing those to get my $ out of the gold bar.

I've been playing for close to two weeks now and I am close to 15 gold bars to buy the first role. I work full time and have other hobbies but I have found that I do have time to get online on a regular basis and still make progress without paying real life money for anything. In fact I refuse to pay for the gold bars, just kind of a personal thing. Between early level treasure chests, stranger missions and story missions, plus daily challenges, I have been making steady progress.


Disconnects are common as well as griefers, so that sometimes cuts into play time, one reason I wont pay real money for anything in game. But it looks like for a few days at the beginning of Feb, they are giving away the Bounty Hunter License (normally 15 bars) so doing that role will also help with gaining gold bars to purchase other roles without buying with real money. Id say its worth dipping your toes into and see if you like it.

[VDusen04]

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I just 100 percented this game and I had to tell somebody so here I am.

I love this game but finally hitting 100 feels like a huge weight off my shoulders. Now I feel like I can just go back and enjoy the game as it comes to me. I have no interest in ever completing some of those gambler challenges ever again. And I'd be fine with never again sitting along a streambed waiting for another perfect condition blue jay that doesn't lose its quality after being shot (even with the buck trinket).

As an aside, with some of the things you need to complete to gain 100 percent completion, I'm left wondering how anyone figured this stuff out without a video guide or strategy guide. The one that comes to mind is something that goes missing from your player late in the game (trying not to spoil) and ends up randomly at the top of a mountain somewhere. I could have spent the rest of my life looking for that thing without finding out where it ended up.

Anyway, feels good man.

[ehh]

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Congrats on the 100%. It's way too daunting of a task for me. Hell, getting 100% on RDR1 was almost too much to bear. I can only imagine some of the more difficult things--like what you mentioned--that you have to complete towards the tail end of the game. Do you know how many total hours it took? Was this your first playthrough?

[VDusen04]

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Congrats on the 100%. It's way too daunting of a task for me. Hell, getting 100% on RDR1 was almost too much to bear. I can only imagine some of the more difficult things--like what you mentioned--that you have to complete towards the tail end of the game. Do you know how many total hours it took? Was this your first playthrough?

This was my second playthrough. The Social Club tells me it took 9 days, 2 hours, 27 minutes. Though, I wasn't pursuing 100 percent that whole time. For a lot of that time I was just playing to play.

I didn't seriously consider chasing 100 percent until I realized something I probably should have known a long time ago: you don't have to literally purchase, locate, buy, and/or complete every single thing in the game. Many categories just have thresholds. For instance, you don't need to find all 50-some weapons, just 48. And you don't have to collect every single cigarette card, just at least one complete set. Nor do you have to unlock every trapper outfit or study every animal (though you do have to find one of each type of plant).

I almost gave up when it came to the Exotics quest. The online tutorial was, like, 90 minutes and I didn't think I'd be about that life. But then I decided to just break it all down into digestible chunks and portions and before I knew it, I'd made it through.

All of these side quests really put into perspective how expansive and deep this game and the land it covers truly is. I don't think I've ever played a game with this many fascinating Easter eggs and discoveries. I thought I'd pretty much scoured all the land through the storyline and still had only discovered something like two dinosaur bones and one dream catcher. I can't believe there's that many more undiscovered crevasses that I'd just overlooked or not traversed prior to going for 100.

Crazy, crazy game.

[bhurst99]

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This was my second playthrough. The Social Club tells me it took 9 days, 2 hours, 27 minutes. Though, I wasn't pursuing 100 percent that whole time. For a lot of that time I was just playing to play.

I didn't seriously consider chasing 100 percent until I realized something I probably should have known a long time ago: you don't have to literally purchase, locate, buy, and/or complete every single thing in the game. Many categories just have thresholds. For instance, you don't need to find all 50-some weapons, just 48. And you don't have to collect every single cigarette card, just at least one complete set. Nor do you have to unlock every trapper outfit or study every animal (though you do have to find one of each type of plant).

I almost gave up when it came to the Exotics quest. The online tutorial was, like, 90 minutes and I didn't think I'd be about that life. But then I decided to just break it all down into digestible chunks and portions and before I knew it, I'd made it through.

All of these side quests really put into perspective how expansive and deep this game and the land it covers truly is. I don't think I've ever played a game with this many fascinating Easter eggs and discoveries. I thought I'd pretty much scoured all the land through the storyline and still had only discovered something like two dinosaur bones and one dream catcher. I can't believe there's that many more undiscovered crevasses that I'd just overlooked or not traversed prior to going for 100.

Crazy, crazy game.

I actually try to find things without looking at guidebooks or Youtube. Never been a harder game to find things organically. I've spent hours looking for dream catchers and have barely found any. Same thing with the dinosaur bones and rock drawings. Spent hours looking for cougars to complete an accomplishment. I swear they're hiding on me. Going to have to breakdown and search the internet for everything I haven't completed.

In comparison, I had little issue getting to 100 per cent on RDR1

[VDusen04]

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I actually try to find things without looking at guidebooks or Youtube. Never been a harder game to find things organically. I've spent hours looking for dream catchers and have barely found any. Same thing with the dinosaur bones and rock drawings. Spent hours looking for cougars to complete an accomplishment. I swear they're hiding on me. Going to have to breakdown and search the internet for everything I haven't completed.

In comparison, I had little issue getting to 100 per cent on RDR1

I went the same route initially. Really took my time during my second playthrough and tried to be as thorough of a traveler as possible. Stopping to smell the roses, aimlessly walking and wandering through forests. Getting lost on purpose. And just like you said, even with all that wandering, I still ended up with, like, five dinosaur bones and one rock drawing and dream catcher a piece.

At some point I just had to breakdown and conclude I wasn't going to be able to find everything on my own unless I was prepared to literally pour 100 days of gameplay into it. Even when I switched over to YouTube video guides for the rest it still took me hours and weeks. I'm confident there's many locations and tricks I would have never discovered were it not for help (i.e. learning how re-spawns work, where certain birds more likely respawned, which random tree among a million actually holds the 7th dream catcher).

In contrast, I think I 100 percented Red Dead Redemption 1 four or five times with little assistance from the internet. The one piece of guidance I recall most was learning the trick of dynamiting the cougar up by Fort Mercer by standing along the ledge and waiting for it to spawn below. RDR2 is exponentially more difficult (or at least more time consuming) to complete.

[TheShizNo1]

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i.e. learning how re-spawns work.

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[VDusen04]

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Maybe I used the wrong terminology. I just meant finding out certain strategies to induce the re-appearance of certain desirable or rare animals.

For instance, along the river just west of Annesburg I learned that if you just stand on a rock in the shallow part of the river a bit north of the Elysian Pool and use your binoculars to scan around, birds will often re-appear on tops of nearby rocks. Pivot to the right, see a blue jay, maybe it flies away, pivot around back to the left and see a sparrow, then back right and maybe there's a blue jay there again. Sometimes it might be the same birds, other times it seemed like new birds were spawning or arriving. Even then, it was still annoying trying to find and shoot some of those specific perfect birds that stayed that way after being shot.

Other times, I found that noon seemed to be the re-spawn point for certain animals or needs. If I were looking for certain animals in a locale and shot the ones I found only for them to be "Good" condition, sleeping until noon the next day would seem to be the time where they might begin popping back up in the same spot again (unless they're nocturnal).

[PPerfect_CJ]

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Doing a replay and dealing with how confusing the controls are in this game. L2 is to aim... unless it isn't and in that case, it's R2. Triangle is to get on your horse... but it ALSO attacks anyone standing near to you, which leads to all kinds of chaos when you're in a town. It all just sticks out like a sore thumb when you're coming off a replay of Horizon: Zero Dawn that got everything absolutely PERFECT.

[georgiafan]

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Doing a replay and dealing with how confusing the controls are in this game. L2 is to aim... unless it isn't and in that case, it's R2. Triangle is to get on your horse... but it ALSO attacks anyone standing near to you, which leads to all kinds of chaos when you're in a town. It all just sticks out like a sore thumb when you're coming off a replay of Horizon: Zero Dawn that got everything absolutely PERFECT.

Yea when I occasionally play online it takes me a while to figure out what does what and then I always get disconnected so I end up just playing another game. Its a nice little touch when a games controls are standard when you go back to them.

[canes21]

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Maybe I'm just used to Rockstar games, but I've still never had a moment where I've accidentally attacked someone when trying to get on my horse. The only thing I've done, and it's been like 2 times in however many hundreds of hours I have is aim a gun at someone when I meant to greet them.