@Gremio108 I left the bear well alone when I first met it. Speaking of which, one of the trophies for the game is to survive 18 bear attacks but kill the bear. Sounds terrifying! I saw a vid of a bear attack in first person mode and it is as horrendous as I'd expect.
I have a $ 300 bounty on my head in the whole Big Valley but I still was able to do the bounty hunt mission in Strawberry. Is it normal? I mean, bounty hunters run after me in all the Big Valley, but the Strawberry sheriff and his lawmen talk to me as I'm a polite gentleman... May be related to early chapter 3 event that let you become a deputy?
@Kidfried Sorry to hear that. I was worried about controls and wanted system since early impressions were mixed, but I had no problem at all. The mechanics are a bit intimidating at first, but practice is the best solution. I had the same experience with Project Cars 2 and I'm glad I didn't quit since now I love both.
@Kidfried
I genuinely dont get it.
Its not so hard to hold L1 and see what weapons you carry just before leaving your horse. I do it everytime. For that matter it reminds me I have to figure out what I need and it can vary often.
The crowd, accepting this immediately, assumed the anti-Eurasian posters and banners everywhere were the result of acts of sabotage by agents of Goldstein and ripped them from the walls.
I guess it's difficult to please everyone because honestly some of the complaints you guys have are some of the things I love about the game. That doesn't mean your complaints are invalid, it's just different tastes I guess.
I'm getting toward the end of Chapter 3 now and have absolutely adored nearly all my time in the game world. There's plenty of small gripes I have and little bugs that have annoyed me, but the scope of the game is brilliant.
I don't find cleaning guns, or only being able to carry one animal carcus with me at a time boring at all. I find it rewarding, and I genuinely feel immersed in the game world when I'm playing. When I'm walking round camp and I'm watching the gang interact with one another, I'm in awe of this family they've created and how they've all come together.
I don't feel the need to rush at all so some of the mundane tasks it has you do don't feel out of place for me.
I can definitely see why the game is a miss for many people, but I'm hugely thankful Rockstar have created a game down this path as it's almost everything I've ever wanted from a game.
The crowd, accepting this immediately, assumed the anti-Eurasian posters and banners everywhere were the result of acts of sabotage by agents of Goldstein and ripped them from the walls.
@Kidfried
I think it's just matter of getting used to it. I can understand if you have to stop playing for a while and needs to get back into it. The thing is not every one will favour the same weapons. I hardly ever use the bow, and depending on what I hunt or plan, different weapons are required. I also like having just revolvers like in town or else.
It's kind of a strategic choice for gun fights too.
The crowd, accepting this immediately, assumed the anti-Eurasian posters and banners everywhere were the result of acts of sabotage by agents of Goldstein and ripped them from the walls.
@Kidfried I can understand where you’re coming from. The simulation parts can be great but the implementation leaves something to be desired. I haven’t played it as much as most of you all have, and I honestly still enjoy it, but I do crave a little more simplicity and streamlined gameplay sometimes when I’m playing it so I have taken breaks away from it so as to not get too frustrated. The problem is that the controls are so obscure at times and non-conventional (Square to jump? Really? Why does Rockstar have to go against convention? X is to jump in every other game. Square to reload, not circle....) that I don’t like being away from it too long because the controls get rusty and then I have to take an hour to get used to them again before I get back into a groove. Then a couple hours later I’m ready for a break because I rode my horse across the map for an hour to get to a waypoint and accidentally got a Bounty on me and the law is after me now and so I have to flee and never finished my task anyways. I keep thinking that eventually, maybe by hour 60, I’ll have the mechanics down pat and so it will all come second nature and I won’t accidentally hit my horse, catch on fire, or run over an old lady with my horse. I’m planning to stick it out.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
I've been playing this like it's a Cabela hunting game but it's pretty annoying that I have to keep using the item wheel everytime I want to use the binoculars. Also, I don't see why it's not possible to talk to NPCs just because Arthur's holding the binoculars.
@KratosMD I haven’t played RDR in years and I don’t play GTA games, so I didn’t realize it was standardized across their games. And in Rockstar’s defense, the button schemes can be adjusted in the settings, but I don’t want to change it and then end up more confused because all the guides I’ve seen refer to the default controls.
But it’s fine, every game has stuff that takes adjustment. Even though all the third person open world games I’ve played lately seem to have X to jump, triangle to talk or interact, Square to reload, L3 to sprint, touchpad for map, etc. there are always little quirks. Crouch was different however in each of the last 3 games I played.
My brain just doesn’t rewire as quickly as I’d like.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Kidfried oh, this game is full of frustrations and I've articulated some of them before. The you mentioned is the one I also had. That's why I sold the game after completing 3 chapters. I must admit I feel urge to play it again, so I'll buy it on black Friday sale probably, but regardless, it's a game you want to love but it keeps making that hard with all those little things. Being unable to walk, having to press five times back from some menu to go back ingame or hold back button for five seconds (and what's the difference then), riding for five, ten minutes to get back to camp or quest giver, fast travel obstacles and so on and so forth. Oh, and many times we're like actors in main missions and not players as the games decides where we should stand, how to approach a mission, how to complete it, which way to take etc. We barely have any control in main missions. You stray only a few meters off the predestined path and it's instafail...
But again, I still have that urge to play it and see how it unfolds.
@NecuVise
All your criticism is fair enough. It's funny I feel I had the same frustration when I played RDR original. I didn't like the controls and other things. Someone eventually spoiled the ending for me and I never finished it.
Maybe I personally evolved in what controls I like? In any case I feel this game us much more enjoyable with the controls its helps to tweaks things in the setting too. Ultimately its all personal how you feel but it's a shame to miss out because this is really a game where the devs could achieve their vision as a western game while last gen might have been limited by the hardware. Imo
I would add I feel people may have a different point of view depending on the way they like playing. If they like speed running through the story it's obviously not their type of game since its closer to rpg than action game I'd say.
The crowd, accepting this immediately, assumed the anti-Eurasian posters and banners everywhere were the result of acts of sabotage by agents of Goldstein and ripped them from the walls.
Mapping “speak to person” and “aim gun” both to L2 certainly seems like an odd decision to me. It’s not happened often but people take exception to me pointing a gun at them when they start chatting to me.
The loadout thing annoyed me too to start with. I now select my weapons whilst on the horse and most of the time still have them equipped when I get off.
I did have one random mission where I died and then restarted with only my dawn off shotgun. It was a big shootout which made it rather difficult with only that!
So I’ve been trying to keep my honor (I think that’s the term the game uses) up and play as more of a “good guy.” I’ve got the slider at the bottom about 60-70% towards the right. But when you’re an outlaw, it is tough predicting what actions will be considered good and which are bad. Last night I was wandering around on my way to a quest marker and ran across a random event NPC (which happens more often than I’d like but whatever) and, long story short, the guy attacked me and started shooting me for no reason. I tried to run away but ended up just shooting him out of self defense. Then when I looted his body, because well.. why not, I lost honor points! I guess I was expected to run away and leave the body. I’m think I’m going to try to avoid conflict more and more to be sure I don’t accidentally lose honor. Later an escaped prisoner came up to me and asked for help getting his shackles off because otherwise he would die in the wilderness. I ran away while he yelled “Don’t just leave me! I’ll die out here!”, or something to that effect. I just wasn’t sure what the “right” thing to do was so I just left him. Then I was attacked by a gang on the road for no reason. I ran away — I’m just not sure how the game will interpret my actions sometimes, even if my actions seem justified. Obviously I don’t just rob people or stores or kill people randomly, but I think I’ll have to be a passivist during free roam when I’m not being forced to slaughter and rob people during the story missions 😂. Anyone else have success getting the honor all the way to the right?
RDR2 certainly feels more complicated than it needs to be. Somewhat overwhelming considering how much there is to learn with not much of a tutorial. Non intuitieve is also part of the problem. Like saving outfits and assigning 3 oufits to my horse storage is easy, but how do i access those oufits from my horse? Seems like that should be easy, but i can not figure it out.
One thing that works well and is easy as pie is the infinite gold bars trick i learned from a video. No grinding for me as $50,000 the easy way helps me to overlook some of this games poor features.
My decision now is that with $50,000, and still early in the game, should i quit and wait for a patch that will fix the graphics. The graphics patch should include options to disable: the weird dynamic dof, blur filter, volumetric light and gods rays needs regular, reduced, off options, less or disable dust in the air, and motion blur. At the very least the blur filter that makes the game always look out of focus to some degree needs removed.
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