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Red Dead Redemption 2 It's an absurdly bulky game, full of secrets and hidden surprises. It's possible to learn how everything works while playing, but the early hours can be overwhelming and a little confusing. I am here to help.
I have learned a lot about how it works Red Dead 2 In the time that I have played, then I thought I would take this opportunity to share some of what I learned with anyone who is just starting out. Of course, these tips are far from being a complete guide and there are still many things that I do not know.
Start with a video of the first game to refresh your memory
Red Dead Redemption 2 It is closely related to its predecessor of 2010. Since it is a precedent, it shares a lot of characters with the first game and it's more rewarding if you remember it well. what happened with John Marston. If you do not remember it or if you have time to replay the first game, do not worry, you can watch this entertaining and informative video of Tim Rogers:
Take it easy …
Red Dead Redemption 2 It is scandalously detailed and exceptionally slow. It will ask you to reduce your speed whenever you have the opportunity, so listen to it. Take your time There is a lot to see and do.
… until you want to move forward in the story
That said, there is a moment when the game's story begins to pick up speed. You may want to just go ahead and see how things are progressing. Agree: Most of the side missions you get started on will always be there when you finish the main story. So do not worry too much if you want to start focusing on the story of Chapter 5.
Manually register from time to time
This is never a bad time to manually record, even better in multiple backup files. Then do it. Do not rely too much on automatic backup, because the game is saved permanently and you can cancel a wave of murders or, more likely, recover a fallen horse.
The success rate and the percentage of history are in two different places
If you're wondering how much you've advanced in the story, check out the History tab in the progress menu. When you save the game, you will see a different percentage next to your saved file. This is the overall percentage of completion of the game, which includes collectibles, unknown quests and other secondary items.
Rent rooms in the city to change clothes and sleep away from the camp
In many cities of the game, you can rent a room to spend the night. These rooms are more than a place of rest: you can also change clothes and use them as a home away from your camp. If you avoid quick trips and try to live as long as possible in the open world, it may be wise to rent a room.
Do not buy weapons
You will get almost all the main weapons of the game for free during scenario missions. It is therefore rarely worth spending your precious money on a firearm. Save your money for customizations, which you absolutely must buy, including viewfinders and rifled barrels that improve the performance of each weapon. You must also register to update accessories such as the shoulder bag, which increases the ammo capacity.
Do not worry too much about early money
Arthur is almost ruined in the first part of the game, so everything seems too expensive. Keep playing the story missions and very soon you will have more money to start improving your team. Then the game will open a little because it will be easier for you to pay your rewards and buy what you want in the stores.
Talk to people more than once
Arthur Morgan can interact with any person (or animal) present in the game, which can lead to fascinating conversations and unpredictable interactions. Do not forget that you can talk to people more than once. "Say hello" to someone more than once and the conversation will switch to a new level of exchange each time you press the button, which will usually end after the third. It's great.
To raise your reputation, go greeting people
Arthur's "honor" counter follows what determines whether you are a hero or a villain, and moves according to your actions. Shoot unarmed civilians or steal a stagecoach and your honor may fall. Help someone, and it will go up. Honor has a minor impact on history, altering little things like entries in Arthur's journal and his dreams. I played the game with a high level of honor and I thought the story was going very well. I do not know how it goes if you play like a moron.
If your honor decreases more than you want, you can raise it quickly by walking and greeting people in the street. Whenever you say hello, you get a little more honor. You can also listen to interesting conversations, so it's worth it.
Give your horse a name (and take care of it)
In the barn, there are more types of horses than you know, so take your time to know them all. You can name and change the name of any horse in the "Services" menu of the stable, and I recommend it. I also recommend brushing and feeding your horse regularly, partly because it will increase the bond with Arthur and make the horse perform better, and partly because it is your horse: you must be kind to him.
Stay until the end of the evening
At certain times in history, everyone in the camp will gather for a party. The parties are very well done: people drink, talk, tell stories and sing songs. It's a bit like attending an immersive theatrical production like Do not sleep anymoreYou can walk freely from one area to another and listen to what is happening. This gives the impression that ten or more people went together in the mo-cap studio and improvised a scene. It's curious.
The parties are also a good place to meet gang members and their relationships. Understanding these relationships will help make the most complicated stories of the future more meaningful. The holidays last a while, and you may want to fall asleep and continue the story. My recommendation is to stay until the end. The holidays do not happen so often and they are very special.
Press and hold the menu button to access the map directly.
You might think that the map of Red Dead 2 It's only accessible through the pause menu, but you can get there faster by holding down the options or the Start button.
Travel with the cinematographic camera
When it's time to go from point A to point B, you will usually have to ride a horse and ride. It's a good way to get moving, but it can get tedious. Fortunately, you have a variety of travel options. My favorite is the "cinematic camera" that you can activate by holding down the options button or the trackpad. Add black bars at the top and bottom of the screen so that the game looks more like a movie, but also if you go to a specific point. All you have to do is press the X / A button to keep your horse moving. If you need to go somewhere and just want to relax and enjoy the view, you can set a manual reference point on the map, turn on the camera and relax.
There is a quick travel option that you can unlock in the camp
I have done almost all my non-manual trips in Red Dead 2 using the camera or, occasionally, buying a train ticket. However, if you prefer a faster system in a more traditional open world, you can unlock it as a camp upgrade. First of all, you have to upgrade the Dutch tent, which opens an updated Arthur store that allows you to quickly leave the camp. It's expensive, over $ 500 total, but it's worth it if you want to go faster.
Learn how statistics, hearts and levels work
The game explains the skills and statistics badly, so I'll try to do better. In the lower left corner of the screen you will see three separate attributes, each surrounded by a white symbol and a partially filled ring. The heart is your health, the ray is your resistance and the eye is your dead eye, that is to say it looks at it in slow motion. When you are near your horse, you will see two others with small horseshoes: health and resistance for the horse.
Health is the shots you can receive. Resistance determines your ability to run. If it runs out, you will be out of breath. The dead eye determines how long you can activate the slow motion during aiming.
The icons are the cores. The ring that surrounds each nucleus is the amount that you have left. If you lower the ring a little (for example, you run a bit while exhausting some of your resistance), it will fill slowly when it stops. The same goes for health or idling. But it is the nucleus that regenerates the ring. If you take damage, run or use idle until you run out of the ring, your kernel will also start to run out. If you exhaust the whole kernel, you can not regenerate anything. (If your health kernel is completely exhausted, you will die).
You can fill the rings by taking tonics and even overload them with tonics that give you a complete yellow ring. However, you can fill the kernels only while eating, drinking or smoking (the latter is idling). It's worth taking canned food for that, although the food you cook in the camps will recharge your heart a lot faster. (The same goes for horses, so if your horse falls on the ground, you will have to feed it to quickly rebuild its nuclei).
Finally, your rings are partial because you have a low level. To level up, use the rings. Run to increase your stamina, shoot with precision to increase your dead eye and kill with a bow or a melee (or with dynamite) to improve your health. You can check your progress and what's missing at the next unlock, among other things, in the "Player" tab of the main menu, by selecting Arthur.
I hope it makes sense now. At first I found it difficult to understand, but once I realized it was easy to take advantage of it.
Do not worry too much about camp payments or personal hygiene
You need to do some maintenance in this game, both personal and community. You will have to eat food and keep Arthur clean, but also pour money into the camp to buy new things for the gang and prevent people from blaming you for lack of generosity.
For those who want to focus on the story without worrying about all this, there is nothing to worry about: it is not crucial. You will not be excluded from the gang if you do not contribute too much, and Arthur will not starve if he does not eat. These systems are designed for people who want to interact with them and, to a large extent, they feel optional for me. However…
Eat something, young man, you're skinny like a stick
Even in this case, it's a good idea to eat when you have the opportunity, not only to replenish your cores, but also to maintain a high body mass. If your weight is too low, your physical stamina and regeneration will decrease, and although you probably do not have too much trouble in the game (I had a low weight in most of the time). history), it's never good to have a low weight. Each time you camp, consume a little more food than the basic amount you need to grow your carrots. Arthur is a big guy and he needs food.
Learn how rewards work
Awards in Red Dead 2 they are a little more complicated than they seem, or at least a little less coherent. If you commit a crime and you are seen, the witness will report to you. It will put "Witness" in the upper corner of the screen. Check the map or look around and you can usually find that person. Once you do it, you can shoot them or just scare them so that they escape without reporting the crime. If they denounce you, however, the authority will pick you up. Flee the area and you could be fine. But often, they will reward you.
Once they give you a reward, this only applies in the state where you committed the crime. The bounty hunters will pick you up and if they find you, they could spoil your day (in other words, they could kill you). Get out of the state and everything will be fine, or pay the reward at the post office.
At the beginning of the game, I did not understand what the red borders meant on the world map. I thought that I could not cross this border territory without being attacked. Fortunately, this is not the case. You can easily cross a state border even with a reward; the red box only indicates that they are looking for you in this state. This could be one of those things that only baffled me, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
Change the options for interaction with the trigger
Sometimes, when you are in a small space and want to collect something, the interaction indicator remains fixed on another object nearby. You want to pick up those cigarettes, do not sit down! Fortunately, you can press the right trigger to change the possible targets. You will see a message next to the interaction button, as well as two small white dots indicating the number of options available. Repeatedly pull the trigger to find what you want.
Take the time to review your inventory
By holding down the right button of the crossbar, you can open the bag to see your valuables, documents and other items you have collected. Check your documents in particular, as they have all been carefully prepared and help to develop the world around you. For example, in Valentine, your mission is to find a group of famous shooters and you may not know what to do next. Examine the photos in your inventory and flip them over to find out more about each person. The location of this person will be added to the map.
Play in first person, even occasionally
By repeatedly pressing the remote button on the camera (back to Xbox One, touch screen on PS4), you can switch to an immersive view in the first person, as in the versions of Grand Theft Auto V for PCs and consoles of the current generation. The first person seen from Red Dead 2 It's overwhelming, more than in GTA V, to the point that I've rarely used it in advancing into the story. I also preferred to see Arthur because he helped me communicate better with his character.
However, when I play in an open world, it's nice to go to first-person view and just walk around enjoying the view. If you find that covering or riding a horse in the first person does not suit you, you can disable it in the Options menu. The camera will switch to a third person each time you ride in a vehicle, horse, or shelter.
Do not forget your camera
Arthur is carrying a camera with him and is very fun to use. Access it in the wheel on the right, at the location of the binoculars. You can take pictures and self-portraits. It's hard to explain, but seeing the world through the lens of a camera in the game greatly increases your photorealism.
Clean your weapons
Your weapons get dirty quickly enough, which will decrease their performance. Do not forget to clean them and try to carry with you some cans of oil for weapons, just in case you get caught in a shootout in the desert with nothing but dirty iron. Your weapons will never break, but they will be less accurate and will do less damage, so keep an eye on the "condition" indicator of each weapon's stats.
Hunting rifles are not a joke
If you need to destroy something, take a shotgun.
Stay on the lookout for weapons on the map
Whenever you find a weapon you do not have, it will appear on the map as a small gun icon. Stay tuned, as their selection will definitely unlock this weapon for you. Also, do not worry about dropping the weapon you currently have to take a new one; You can get another version of the one you already have on your saddle.
Do not rule out the option of the double revolver
Soon, you'll unlock a second gun case that will allow you to carry a second gun. I guess it was obvious. I have spent a lot of time with a shotgun cut from this case, but I actually recommend trying a second gun and holding two revolvers at the same time. But cover up before reloading, as it takes a lot of time.
Plunder the corpses
Stealing your dead enemies after a shootout can take a little while, but it is worth it for money and valuables that you can sell at blackjack. Especially in the beginning, when money is scarce. Just keep in mind that if you are on the scene of a crime, you will want to leave before long, otherwise someone will see you and inform you. Monster! What did you do? Why are you pillaging a corpse?
Do unknown missions when you can
If you move and hear someone speak louder than others, that person is probably an "unknown". Strangers are special non-playable characters of Red Dead 2, people with stories often surprising. There are several types and it is interesting to take the time to interact with each one of them.
Lower-level strangers are just people you meet in the world, swap briefly and keep going. They are indicated by a small white dot on the map that appears only as you approach. Sometimes these strangers come back to your story later unexpectedly, but they are still relatively unobtrusive. However, if you see a large white question mark on the map, it is an unknown mission. These are more involved and usually have multiple phases. These are like story missions that exist outside of history.
Get your horse hat
If you drop your hat because a horse has kicked you when you tried to steal your bags by accident, you may not realize it right away. It is possible that someone has pulled a hat, in which case you may not have had the luxury of taking it back. No cowboy should go around without a hat, but do not worry, you can get it back at any time from your saddle. You have your own place in the lower right of the horse's radial menu.
Experiment with the mini-card
Red Dead Redemption 2 It has a very good mini-card, mainly because it offers you many options and allows you to adjust them on the fly. I played the basics of the game using the compass setup, which is a good midpoint between a full mini-map and a map.
But if he had not been in a hurry to finish the game, he would probably have turned off the mini-map more often. The world of this game is extraordinarily navigable itself; There are signs everywhere and the characters will often give you instructions when they tell you where to go. If you get lost, you can always press the D-pad to momentarily see the mini-map if you need it. (All games still use a mini-card: please make it a function!) You can also long-press the D-pad to switch between mini-card sizes on the fly.
You can preview each set and each garment in the stores
The store catalogs are beautiful and ridiculously detailed, but they also require a lot of reading time. If you just want to pick the best outfit and follow your path, you can do it too. Press the "View" button when you look at an outfit in the catalog and you can try the clothes.
In the locker room, you can click on "All Costumes" to browse the other costumes in this store's catalog without leaving the locker room. You can do the same thing with individual clothes and accessories, giving you an advantage over the late 19th century residents who had to choose their clothes based on the illustrations in the catalog.
There are more clothing options than you can imagine
Spend time with clothes Red Dead Redemption 2 because there are fabulous outfits options. The clothes themselves are fantastic and I had more fun than expected with the dress. Managing stored combinations is a bit uncomfortable, but once you do it several times, you will practice. One important thing to remember is that you can press the "Edit" button while you are exploring the clothes and change the collar of the shirt, shirt sleeves, boots and pants.
Once you buy a shoulder strap, you can take it off
Halfway through the story, I finally had enough money to buy a shoulder strap. It allowed me to carry a lot of ammo, but it also meant that Arthur was going everywhere with a shoulder strap. It's good in a "Wild West Rambo" environment, but not so good at any other time. Fortunately, players can change "the team of weapons" at the bottom of the costume tab. Changing these options will not affect how much ammo you have access to. You will be able to get rid of your shoulder strap without inconvenience.
Read the handwritten version of Arthur's diary
Arthur keeps a diary that is updated throughout the game. You can read it at any time by holding down the cross. The game warns you when you add a new entry and it's worth taking the time to read it. If possible (depending on the distance from the screen, etc.), I recommend you read the actual graphic representation of the magazine instead of the easier-to-read printed version that you can invoke by pressing a button. Subtle touches, such as barred errors, underlined words and other marginal aspects, can give a clear idea of Arthur's mental state at the moment he writes.
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