Red Dead Redemption 2

adolf hamster said:
There are a couple of tips, stuff that i tend to do after first playthrough to make things quicker and easier, but i'll spoiler tag then incase you/others don't want me ruining the exploration aspect:

1. Get rich quick(ish)
Once you have free roaming, you want to be going to the west/southwest of the map and in the west of big valley look for an obelisk on the hillside, inside there will be a map for the landmarks of riches treasure trail that will give a decent amount of valuables that can be sold to a fence probably the single most profitable side quest.

You can either google a guide to the further locations or just encounter them whilst exploring through the rest of the game

2. More dakka
In the northeastern portion of big valley there's a shack with an old lady, just walk right in and go to the basement to get a semi-auto shotgun.

3. More dakka (and some cash)
Whenever you see a home burglary side quest objective with javier, do the mission and when finished make sure to explore the site, there's a pump action shotgun in one of the buildings which imo is one of the best guns in the game

4. More dakka (handgun edition)
One of the first side missions in the game is in valentine (the saloon at the top end of town) asks you to go and interview a bunch of famous gunslingers, it's worth doing because a few of them drop decent handguns so you can get your hands on a (slightly debuffed over the regular version) mauser pretty early in the game. Pretty sure the locations pop up on the map so you don't have to blindly stumble around looking for them.

Other than that, as captainrave suggests you can just beeline the story quests, things like camp upgrades (apart from unlocking fast travel by upgrading arthurs wagon (at least i think that's the specific thing you need to buy)) can reasonably be skipped, as can most side quests, stranger encounters, hunting/fishing challenges and random encounters.

That said, the wide variety of things to do is kinda the point of the game and beelining the plot means missing out on a lot of what the game has to offer.
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Thanks for this!

Josh said:
Would be great too see, but I'm not holding my breath.
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That would be amazing, I hope it comes true.
 
Jono8 said:
Ive never played RDR1, but i thought RDR2 was a masterpiece and probably one of the best games ive ever played.

I would LOVE to play the first one with it using the RDR2 engine/features etc.
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It's probably doable as they both use different versions of rage don't they?
 
Jono8 said:
Ive never played RDR1, but i thought RDR2 was a masterpiece and probably one of the best games ive ever played.

I would LOVE to play the first one with it using the RDR2 engine/features etc.
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The latest rumours point to the inclusion of a Switch port which would suggest more of an upscale than a full blown remake. Would love to be proven wrong though.
 
Just in case this is useful for anyone else. I have been having lots of trouble with this game crashing and rebooting my pc, tried lots of things and I have worked out what was causing it was Smart Access Memory being turned on, I have disabled it and no more crashes
 
It’s just a shame they are so focussed on trying to replicate the business model of gta5 online.

There is so much potential with expansions. I’ve not spent a penny on online ‘cosmetics’, ever. But would happily part with cash for some good story expansions.
 
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