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Cool script, thanks!

Hello all, I got very annoyed at losing progress in this game by seemingly stupid events (like running a horse into a tree and it finally falling over), or just generally making a mistake of some kind and not being able to roll back progress to a slightly earlier time. This is one of the most unforgiving games I have every played in terms of being able to roll back progress to an earlier time, and also in terms of how limited the manual save is (it rarely lets you save manually). Therefore, I created this powershell script to back up the Profiles folder (which contains save data for the game). Notes The script only backs up files when it has detected a change in any of the save files in the profile folder. So it will not be producing an enormous amount of duplicated files every time it runs. Replace <your username> and <your profile folder name> in the script below accordingly depending on where the profile folder is for you. I make this run every 10 minutes using Windows Task Scheduler. The Task Scheduler setup can be seen here: https://imgur.com/a/Ho80oEZ Save the script below as a .ps1 file and store it in a completely different directory than the profile directory. You can try using your own user account to run the task in Task Scheduler, but I had to use a local admin account I created for this purpose to run the task. Restoring is easy - just delete everything out of the profile folder (<your profile folder name>), and copy the contents of one of the backup folders into the profile folder (<your profile folder name>). Unsure how well this would work if you have cloud saves enabled. Feel free to try with cloud saves, but I had turned off cloud saves. This works quite well for me. Thanks, Andrew # Define paths $sourceDir = "C:\Users\<your username>\Documents\Rockstar Games\Red Dead Redemption 2\Profiles\<your profile folder name>" $backupRoot = "C:\Users\<your username>\Documents\Rockstar Games\Red Dead Redemption 2\Profiles\<your profile folder name>_BACKUPS" $hashRecord = "$backupRoot\last_hashes.txt" $logFile = "$backupRoot\backup_log.txt" # Ensure backup root exists if (-not (Test-Path $backupRoot)) { New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $backupRoot | Out-Null } function Log($msg) { $timestamp = Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" "$timestamp - $msg" | Tee-Object -FilePath $logFile -Append } function Get-FileHashMap($basePath) { $map = @{} Get-ChildItem -Path $basePath -File -Recurse | ForEach-Object { $relative = $_.FullName.Substring($basePath.Length).TrimStart('\') $hash = Get-FileHash -Path $_.FullName -Algorithm SHA256 $map[$relative] = $hash.Hash } return $map } function Load-PreviousHashes($path) { $map = @{} if (Test-Path $path) { foreach ($line in Get-Content $path) { if ($line -match "^([A-Fa-f0-9]{64})\s+(.+)$") { $map[$matches[2]] = $matches[1] } } } return $map } function Save-Hashes($map, $path) { $lines = $map.GetEnumerator() | ForEach-Object { "$($_.Value) $($_.Key)" } $lines | Set-Content $path } function HasChanges($current, $previous) { if ($current.Count -ne $previous.Count) { return $true } foreach ($key in $current.Keys) { if (-not $previous.ContainsKey($key)) { return $true } if ($current[$key] -ne $previous[$key]) { return $true } } return $false } Log "Starting backup check..." $currentHashes = Get-FileHashMap $sourceDir $previousHashes = Load-PreviousHashes $hashRecord if (HasChanges $currentHashes $previousHashes) { Log "Change detected. Proceeding with backup." $timestamp = Get-Date -Format "yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm-ss" $backupDir = Join-Path $backupRoot $timestamp New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $backupDir | Out-Null robocopy $sourceDir $backupDir /E /NFL /NDL /NJH /NJS /NC /NS | Out-Null Log "Files copied to $backupDir" Save-Hashes $currentHashes $hashRecord Log "Hash record updated." } else { Log "No changes detected. Backup skipped." }

Just starte over again, and damn soo funny this game got again, and now when i know wheres the limit for how far the online version goes im gonna take it slowly. But i just like to earn some early cash and come upp to level 25 so i can get my fabourit weapon loadout and outfits, soo i like to get some info on which mission can i grind and level up fastest? i really like the chill part of the game soo im not that exited about the harder bloodmooney and storymissions. and i understand that those are the best payout mission.. So i think my first role is gonne be Collector.. But im not there yet soo if you have any tips, please type me /Ph

This is something that has been bothering me for years. Why do you take a wolf's heart when you skin it, but you don't do that with any other creature in the game? I can't figure this out and it's driving me insane.

What the hell just happened? I was at the Reed Cottage getting the map. I drank the miracle tonic. I was all of a sudden falling from the sky for quite a while. I landed without being hurt but I was back near horseshoe overlook without my horse. There is a red line leading back to Reed Cottage where my horse is on the map.

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Has anyone else experienced these bushes in Valentine popping up in front of you, but ONLY when you're on your horse? If you run up to them, they appear well in advance, but on your horse, even if you're not going fast at all, they just pop in from nowhere. See video here: https://imgur.com/HP8Fm0p They are some kind of bush that you can pick berries off of, so they're not the normal grass bushes, but it's weird how they appear so differently depending on whether you're walking up to them or riding past them on a horse. And nowhere else in the game have I seen something like this. Just wondering is this is a glitch specific to my game or if others have experienced this. Thanks in advance.

I’m an idiot. I did get them mixed up. Not quite sure how, but if you hadn't said anything I never would have caught it. So thank you!🙂

Check out the Dark Pictures Anthology. It's a great collection. Especially Man of medan. It's been a while since I played it, but I think it's possible from one to eight players. But only one player at a time can be going. So I don't know if that's what you're looking for.

I play on PS5, and recently out of nowhere, all my save files got completely corrupted to the point that I had to delete them all. It's generally too painful for me to lose Arthur, so I just can't get to the epilogue. But now I have to. That said, I just wonder if anyone else recently had to deal with this. The reason I’m asking is because (as already stated) this happened out of the blue. My console didn't get knocked around or anything like that. So I'm just wondering if there was a patch or mod that was released that was an automatic update or something. Another issue, was that I lost control in the game when this happened. What I mean by that, is that the game wouldn't respond to my commands through the controller. It didn't happen in any of my other games, so I know it was RDR2 exclusive. Any thoughts or ideas of what the hell happened would be greatly appreciated.

At the time of posting this, RDR2 is seven years old. That said, I don't think those in charge of the possible release care about age. They released RDR1 on Switch, which (obviously) is much older. It originally launched on PS3/Xbox 360. It initially wasn't available on PC but demand got it a PC port. RDR1 was released May 18th 2010. So at the time of posting this, it just passed the 15 year old milestone. While one of the greatest games of all time, it's simply an obscene travesty that it was ported to Switch, as would be RDR2. At least that's my opinion. For me this falls in with my feelings towards online gaming. The mere thought literally makes me sick. If online is your thing, then by all means, hit it. I hope you have a blast. But for myself, I just can't stomach it.

I check every few days just in case I missed any update on this. I have not seen anything new yet either. I mean it is an older game, maybe they don't care to announce it months in advance and will just drop it on everyone a month out from the release.

That is like 90% of builds in Minecraft though to be fair to the creator lol I have never seen a build that looks as impressive from far away as it does up close. Some look really great don't get me wrong but they go from 10/10 to like 7/10 once you are walking around and not flying over them.

I figured this sale was over. I thought it only lasted 10 days but it seems like they jumped right into some other sale and RDR games are still marked down. Well, the story is anyways. I mean it makes more sense to buy the full game than pay for just online.

I have heard this but never witnessed it. I played as a female for a bit as well. Never felt I was targeted any more than when I played as a male character. I am sure it happens but I don't think it happens as much as people think. Just like with any other online game. There will be trolls that just want to make other players' experiences in the game not fun.

I got a good amount saved up but no where near 6 figures. You really don't earn much so even when you grind, you would have to be playing the game consistently to be able to stack cash like that.

I don't recall that being an issue around launch. I think that happened a few years after the fact. Probably when they discounted online. A bunch of trolls bought it just to torment people playing the game.

I feel like they would rather release a new copy of it just to get more money. Like they never seemed to pass up an opportunity to rake in a bit more. I mean there will be plenty of people that would buy it too.

Twice but I am going to play through again. Been having the itch for it. I will probably start this weekend and just take it easy. I'll play it on days no one is on to play online games with.

How soon is soon? I have not seen anything about it yet. I know there are rumors but if they planned on releasing it in the fall, I would imagine we would know by August right?

When does the wild west start in the US? Like the time period in which it kicked off. I think it would be cool to go back to that and to be part of the history that established it.

That doesn't sound like Rockstar to me. lol Like I am fairly certain they don't want ANY mods online. I can't see them making an acceptation for this one. I could be wrong but they seem very strict with any and all mods.

IDK, maybe? I have a friend that plays as a female character in the game and I never heard him complain about it. Is this on console or PC? Or is it both? I mean I wouldn't be surprised. Usually guys that do this are teens and young twenty somethings that are just doing it to be di*ks.

I see a lot of this online. People always mentioned it. I don't mean just women playing the game but guys using female characters as well. I never used on in RDRO, always used a male character so idk. I mean I get targeted a lot but it seems like this is a trend that happens way more with female characters.

The game is... a required taste. I tried to get into it a few times cause some of my friends play but I just can't. It is to slow moving for me and I don't like not having certain things common in other shooter games.