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As horses are vital to the game, here are some things I've learned from controls to controlling the horse. Please add to if you have information. 1. you can toggle your horse from a slow walk (recommended in town) to a trot. Then to full a full sprint. Many of us already know to press A (for XB1) in time with your horses gallop to use less stamina. It looks like this: walk-->trot-->run-->full sprint 2. To go from running back down to a trot and to walking, press the RB button (XB1). This is especially handy as you are coming into town or accidentally start running in town. This has been the single most important part of handling my horse in the game. 3. When taming a new horse, ensure you stay with it at all times. Instruct your main horse to follow you and never leave the new horse behind. I have a tendency to find a new mount while hunting, and it comes in handy to have two horses (side note: each horse can carry 1 large animal like a deer/pronghorn, and 2 small animals such as a rabbit/duck). 2 horses are great when you are out hunting, but they are difficult to control. Your new horse will run off if you do not get your bonding level to 1 and you wander off from it (or it is scared off). 4. Wash your horse by running it through water or clean it using the brush. Clean horses are happy horses. 5. Feed your horse often to ensure it stays at a proper weight. If you are on a main story quest, it's a good thing to fortify your horses stamina; good chance you're going to need to make a heck of a break for it. 6. Upgraded tack items can provide small speed boosts. 7. DO NOT RIDE IN HEAVILY FORESTED AREAS QUICKLY. It's a good way to plant yourself and your trusty steed into a tree. 8. Careful going down steep slopes, your horse can and will slide down. 9. BUY A HORSE RESUSCITATION POTION. You're going to have a horse shot out from under you. If you survive, you'll want to rez the ol' sucker. Nothing worse than losing your fully bonded horse. 10. Horses no like big drops. 11. When you think you're going to be in a firefight, or you're unexpectedly jumped by rival gangs, sprint through the contact, find a place to put your four legged friend, and then take cover and return fire if you are going to fight. Personally, I recommend breaking contact and sprinting through ambushes. That said, DO NOT return to your camp. You've likely figured this out if you've been playing over the past week. This way, your horse doesn't turn into your cover and become a bullet cushion. 12. You can have 4 horses in the stable, and I've personally had 3 horses in camp. 13. Your horse will show up at your next stagecoach/train destination. Magic.

I just accidentally discovered that you can ride backwards by double-tapping R1

It’s up to you; my experience with other PS4Pro upscale games is that they are gorgeous and sharp. RDR2 just seems to have a bad implementation of upscalibg. For good examples, check out Assasins Creed Odyssey and God of War. Hope they patch this because it has the potential to lool as great as it does on the OneX

Talking to customer or tech support isn’t helping. We are getting generic answers.... we have to make a stink and be annoying and spam the hell out of ALL R* social media. THIS IS PATHETIC. This should’ve been an xbox1x EXCLUSIVE. Because either it wasn’t ready.... or the PS4 just can’t handle it at all and it’s maxed out (I don’t believe that) seriously my worst video game experience... and I played E.T. For the Atari 2600... I’m old school.

If you're using multiple horses, it's usually best to ride the new one and let your primary follow, it continues to build a relationship with your new horse - don't forget to load up on weapons before you do this, and whistle for your primary horse often so it keeps following and you don't leave it somewhere. I agree with one of the poster's above that it's best to leave the horse during engagements and find cover, then whistle for the horse, mount, and run as needed to avoid having your horse shot out from under you. That said, there are also strategies that can be very effective from horseback - like using a sawed off shotgun and using your horse to close quickly and drive right into the middle of a crowd of enemy. The sawed off shotgun does wonders at such close range, many headless bodies can result in a very short time. If you get separated from your horse, at a close distance, say for example you slide down a hill and your horse won't follow after repeated whistling even when it can hear you, simply set up camp and magically it will be beside you. Useful if you end up on the bottom of a cliff, on the other side of a body of water that you can't cross, a chasm, etc. This "trick" (cheat) saved me a huge amount of walking to regain my horse in the mountains after I slipped once. Don't wander away to the restroom, kitchen, etc, while sitting on horseback on a railroad track lol. When riding with the gang, double tap "X" (ps4) to move up in the formation. Pushing down on L3 (ps4) to calm your horse if there are snakes, predators, etc, and to give some warm snuggle love to a new horse to increase your bond. Press "O" (ps4) to have Morgan kick left or right while mounted, it's fun to kick enemies from horseback! lol.

My only complaint with the game, after moving into Chapter 3, is all the Leftist/SJW story lines. I mean between rescuing or taking up the causes of every minority group on the map, punishing racists, caring about everyone ... unless they are white rednecks, or white southerners, or white rich people .. and ... helping the women's suffrage movement ? REALLY ? I mean who the hell wrote this story line, the Southern Poverty Law center ? Next paragraph has spoiler ... The story line is starting to run like some Millennial / SJW / Antifa wet dream.

maybe we should ask for a refund all together to sony!

start the game and look on your screen. This is what I saw. sharpness or blurriness is dimming up and down. Motion Blur is producing a very blurry image on turning around with the camera. On fast horseriding all looks messed up. I become a headache and tiring eyes since 1 hour of gaming. Turn off hdr or using 1080p mode is not a solution for me. The TAA blur is to agressive too. All my other major PS4 Pro titles looking really clean. Here are some of the titles. Spiderman, Uncharted 4, Assassins Creed Odyssey, Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War and many more. This is how he should look. This is previous footage https://www.youtube.com/w This is what I think the combination of too much TAA instead off SMAA and checkerboard rendering and too much agressive motion blur and depth of field, destroy the image quality on PS4 Pro totally. It outputs blurry Textures and blurry surroundings and cutscenes. It is miles away from the XBox One X Version. Why is the sharpen slider only in the 1080p resolution? Is it a bug? This is what I wrote in the official Forum and in a ticket. This is what I want: The sharpen slider in 4k mode A button to turn off motion blur smaa instead of taa I wrote in the ticket, that this is not a problem of our hardware, our tv´s I put the link of this thread into my ticket. I hope this must help too

Got a second response from rockstar with this, acknowledging the problem and it went on to state ways I can try and make the issue better until they fix it.

I rarely post on forums to discuss problems with a game, such as the problems with RDR2, but I have been waiting on this game since I played the original RDR back in college and was amazed by how ahead of its time it was. To start with the technical details - I'm running the game on a PS4 Pro CUH-7115B and a Sony X900E. I've had my TV calibrated using CalMAN and a Klein K10-A colorimeter. I know what I'm doing, I'm also familiar with graphics and 3D rendering. Secondly, RDR2 is a gorgeous game. The attention to detail is amazing. But it's a blurry mess on the Pro 4K mode... All other PS4 Pro Enhanced titles that I've played (GoW, HZD, Spider-Man) which are using a reconstruction method to output to 4K look absolutely great on my TV, as other forum members have already stated. The softness of RDR2 in '4K mode' on PS4 Pro is a multifaceted issue, but so far, I believe it can be contributed to mostly: - Reconstructing horizontally from only 1920 pixels. - Adding an aggressive temporal anti-aliasing (R*'s TAA) solution on top of that reconstruction to 'soften' things even further. So far, this will be enough to ruin the texture quality and sharpness of some objects for some scenarios and quite badly so. Then, we add other graphical engine features that can soften the image even further and we've got a blurry image as a result. I think on their own they add to the game's visual quality but having to work with only 1920x2160 (this is essentially 2 times less the resolution of the One X), they are actually detrimental: - Per-pixel motion blur in high movement moments. - Generally high-quality depth of field. - A ton of volumetric fog and lighting. This is partly why I always go for FXAA or SMAA on my PC and reduce or completely disable motion-blur, especially if it's badly implemented. There's motion blur, then there's motion blur and then there's the poor man's motion blur, like back in the 2008-2012 days. HDR doesn't have anything to do with all of this, but since RDR2's 'HDR' implementation is actually not HDR, it washes out the colors and takes away the color 'pop' that even some SDR games can have. This means that, allegorically, some if not most people playing RDR2 in 4K mode with HDR (especially if you follow their ridiculous recommendation of 100 nits for LCD TVs) will feel like HDR makes the image even softer. So, is there a problem? Yes, there is. Have Rockstar acknowledged it? No, they have not. Are they doing anything about it? We don't know, unfortunately, unless someone has insider information. I found a single post about this blurry/soft image on PS4 Pro problem on the official forums from the 26th of October and it was downvoted and ignored: I stopped playing the game after about 4-5 hours in, because my eyes hurt. I've never had this problem with any other game and I have good eye-sight, just as some other dudes here were pointing out. I can't enjoy it properly and it's an unpleasant experience.

Go to this location on the map, kill the people that are in the house, and the Double-Action revolver is under the bunk bed by the fire place.The weapon will be in a case, and you have to inspect it to open it. Hope this helps! 😎

LOL once I finally figured out that pressing 'O' was the problem, I started investigating... and now that I look back and watch the video, it seems like the horse is actually kicking sideways somewhat. In any case, I also found that riding my horse and hitting the O button came in handy if you ride by an NPC you can kick them LOL and you are correct, I got into a fist fight and ended up stomping on them with the O button. Not gonna lie... That button is becoming one of my favorites now hahaha and while my wife was playing tonight, I told her to hit the O button while she was standing beside her horse... She was not overly impressed, but damn it was funny!

Maybe this will people help to dont think the law system is broken just because they ride like rambo through the town and wondering why everybody is shooting at them.

Hi everyone, here's some quick, initial tips to take into account before you get started playing the game. What do you wish you'd known when you started? Feel free to post your own!

I feel like either I am missing something completely or Rockstar really dropped the ball when it comes to the carriages. I see all of these carriages,carts, etc being hauled and I think to myself man, wouldn't it completely make sense to be able to have our own cart so that we could haul animal corpses, extra pelts, maybe a storage box to put our extras so that we don't have to leave behind important tonics, food, etc because we have too many on us at that moment. I just feel like this was a HUGE miss from the developers. I mean it makes total sense for this to be an option to at least haul around multiple animal carcasses that we have killed. Hell, at least 4. I find myself wanting to go on this huge hunting run but I am limited to what my main horse and a spare horse can carry. Sure, they can carry a bit but they can only carry one medium/large animal per horse. Not really griping here, I just feel like this is an awesome feature that Rockstar should have had and its like it completely went over their heads that having a use for these carts would be super important and cool to have in the game. The carriages/carts are absolutely pointless as the game stand right now. They serve no purpose except to block the damn paths. I really hope they at least implement some use for them in Online besides just racing.

I just feel you have a lot more control over where you aim. If you really think about it, it's just one extra step... For PS4 people like me, clicking on L1 where you want to shoot... Usually in the face or sometimes if I want to be a jerk, I aim for the groin LMAO I have to admit also... In close encounters, using a sawed-off shotgun and blowing off a limb is pretty damn cool hahaha

Hi everyone, I experience a similar issue, although it may be of a bit different nature. In my case, it's not just blurry graphics, but the whole image gets severely distorted when camera is moved left or right. So. the picture is more or less crisp only if I stand still or move straight ahead. Any slight movement of camera to the side, and I can barely see anything: "double image" effect and a blurry mess. The faster the movement the bigger the distortion. This is partly because it is a 30 FPS game and TV is not very fast, although I use the Game mode, but this game is definitely much worse at this aspect than others. After 10-15 mins of play I get a headache and I cannot enjoy the game when the image is so bad during movement. I've recorded a small video of this. I use a PS4 Pro on a 1080p TV. Tried enabling/disabling supersampling - didn't help. Also tried to connect the console to my fast PC monitor - a bit better there, however the issue is still present. The only thing that helps with this is switching to any other non-game mode on TV and enabling the smooth picture setting (that adds frames), but that causes terrible input lag, so not an option for me either. Hope they'll address this soon. The game is great apart of this poor technical implementation. Update: replaced the video with a better one, recorded directly from PS4.

Hi! In one of the scenes arthurs mustache was glitching out

I have the same especially when using the M1918 Automatico. The magazine size was only 25 and it spat them out in about 2 seconds so reloading was constant. Got to the point where I didn't even realise I was doing it, then when I switched to support I'd accidentally reload a LMG and have to wait 20 seconds for it to finish.

Here at rockstar support you can open a ticket: https://support.rockstargames.com/categories/115001624507?step=0f0c394b

I didn't realize how important the horse would be to you in this game, especially given how you generally completely disregard vehicles in the past R* games I've played. Once I adjusted to it, I never, ever, let my horse get to far from me. To the point that I have begun to figure out if I am going to get into a firefight, I position my four legged friend not only to be safe but also in a spot that can give me a solid get away.

No. I won't belabor the point (okay I probably will belabor it a little bit), but you are obviously a young person if you believe what you wrote. You are taking a very postmodern point-of-view and overlaying that on actual history to arrive at a kind of caring, compassionate anti-hero who has a soft spot for modern day leftist ideology. I doubt you would be able to see that because you've probably grown up in it, but people didn't always think the way you think, or hold the beliefs you probably consider foundational. I'll give you an example - the entire idea you wrote that people are introspective, searching, and "torn", is a VERY modern concept, it arises out of the human potentiality movement in the mid 20th century culminating in the "self-help" and new age movements of the hippies into the 1980's. In politics that took off in the form of the Reagan and later Clinton (and Thatcher) revolutions to make a government that catered to the happiness of it's citizens as individuals. NONE of that has ANYTHING to do with the reality of the early 20th century. The idea of a "progressive" didn't even mean the same thing then as it means now - back then it was a movement to apply science to government and civic institutions to make them more efficient so they could serve their purpose better, it had almost nothing to do with the modern idea of "progressive" thought, about equality of outcomes, oppression, identity politics, etc, all of which is warmed over Marxism that didn't enter the U.S. public's consciousness until later. Even very basic things like the whole idea of making Arthur's outfit "unique" is a modern idea, up until advertising became a thing post World War 1, everyone basically dressed the same - same hats, same shoes, same clothes, they ate basically the same foods, cooked in the same ways, it was a very pragmatic, simple existence, and it was only the very rich that had any concept of "self-expression". Today's individual simply didn't exist, not in the sense of feeling you have to "create a unique identity". The idea that Arthur Morgan, a killer, and thief, would wander off to the beach to sit and stare out over the horizon in an attempt to resolve his inner conflicts about the way women and slaves are treated is such a &^%$ing modern millennial / leftist way of looking at the world it makes us older people cringe. This kind of thinking didn't even become a cultural archtype until about 40 years ago when you started getting movies like "fern gully" (later to become the story line for "Avatar"), and just before that at the end of the 1960's when hippies started wandering out into the wilderness to "find themselves". Ultimately the entire story line of Arthur and the rest of the gang trying to find "freedom" out in the West away from modern civilization so that they can live the lives they want as individuals is a totally modern concept, born of movies like "easy rider" in 1969, all a product of the hippie era. I hope, as Poggy said, that eventually this nonsense passes. There are glimmers of hope, but not much of it.

Another fresh article ! https://segmentnext.com/2018/11/03/red-dead-redemption-2-ps4-pro-graphics/

Hey thanx and sorry about that....

It doesn't change anything for the blur it still happening regardless of any setting.

Now I'm not that sure if it works or not... If that improves the image I don't realise about it, at least in my case. The setting appeared but I see the game as usual. Same as you I'm spending more time trying to solve the problem than playing. I think I'm getting paranoid with this game.

OMG it's like you know me so well

You essentially cannot run with any amount of speed through the woods. It's kinda like that in real life.

Found this on gamefaqs. I’m no longer near my PS4. Can anyone try it and see if it works? 1. BEFORE starting the game, set PS4 Pro to 1080p2. While ingame, set PS4 pro to 2160p RGB3. Go to Display Menu (notice a new setting called sharpness that was not their before)4. Enjoy the game how it was meant to look

It’s not there for me still for some reason. Weird that it shows up after switching back to 2160! Any chance you could attach a screenshot? I swear that when I switch to 1080 and then to 2160 it still doesn’t show up for me and could be another bug to report to R*

Thanks for providing us this information. I'm not clear about Rockstar's reply. Boost mode is only for 1080p TVs right? I do not understand why they say that when the problem is when we are playing in 4K...

MN32410 Red_&_Dead, I PM'ed you. I'm not an expert, not at all, but I don't think there's any user controlled settings that can help with our problem. Sure, 1080p with PS4 Pro's super-sampling disabled does look a *bit* sharper, but that's not a real solution. We can make enough noise and hope R* notices, if they haven't already. Btw: If you manage to stop a video capture of RDR2 at the exact frame after a loading screen or a cut, you'll notice that it's quite less blurry due to the fact that the TAA hasn't kicked in yet (no temporal information from previous frames); it is still somewhat muddy though.

Was it my life?

https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/360011310774/Accessing-the-Double-Action-Revolver-in-Red-Dead-Redemption-2

Ah I see, yes I think I will restart the story myself at some point and do the same. All passed in a bit of a blur for me.

"If you can't treat people with respect, what's the point I say?" - Arthur Morgan

The best way around this is going back to an earlier save and doing this for every one of them cause sometimes they get away for no reason. Had a few just disappear on me. Likely down to glitches/bugs that Rockstar forgot to test and patch.

I spent a fair deal of time complaining about the bugs elsewhere so I am a bit drained out on the topic but I will say that I agree with Benjo... The game was delayed, they had plenty of time for testing so there isn't much of an excuse here for them to rely on.

Any game is going to have bugs and glitches, even huge AAA ones. This shouldnt be a surprise at all, patches will fix it.

Awesome tips, I enjoyed the read. Thanks for sharing!

I couldn't have said that better.....BoomBazookaJD.

The reason people are experiencing different results is simply due to distance to TV. I dont notice it at all cause i sit 3-4 meters away. But go close to the TV and you will see how insanely blurred it really is. Then put on another game that uses Checkerboard 4K like Horizon or God of War and see how insanely detailed and sharp it looks. It looks native 4K. So RDR2 is doing something completely wrong with theyre checkerboard 4K........

So that people come and contribute to the forums at least a small amount, otherwise we'd just get groups coming, dropping their post with a link, and then never returning.

Agree with some of the others, the most important thing imho is to just take it slow, really, really slow. Almost forget about the story, and do story elements as you feel like doing them, try not to be all "type A" about reaching "the ending". This is a game to be enjoyed, and think of the story "ending" not as a reward, or a puzzle to be solved, but as something you'll reach someday after you've enjoyed all the game has to offer. Focus on exploring, studying the animals, learning to hunt, fish, take care of yourself, think of it more as going out for an evening ride after work on your horse to take in the sunset, and pick up a few herbs, maybe shoot a rabbit along the way. Just experience it and take it in. There is no hurry to "finish" this game. Most games have goals, you might want to acquire as much money as possible, or as much resources ... but in RDR2 I don't feel that is really the point. There are a ton of technical tips about doing specific things that could be talked about, but my tip in general would just to be opportunistic - as someone above said, loot when you can, and always be aware of the things you need to progress in any category. There will be all kinds of objectives that you can have, but instead of working towards a specific one, my advice is to just enjoy the game and always have all of the next steps to your objectives in mind so that you can be opportunistic and take advantage of situations as they arise. Maybe you need a certain kind of animal to progress at something, or maybe there is a certain action you have to take to advance a skill, or a challenge to gain some resources, my advice is don't be so driven to "complete a project" and just have all of your projects in mind and enjoy finding pieces to the puzzles as you run across them.

Don't mention this to R* support. Otherwise, aside of the usual check HDMI/turn off HDR/restart/dance with wolf's skull you'll also get a suggestion that the blur is actually our eyesight getting worse with age) On a serious note tho, I've booted the game yesterday to run a check - at dusk game-time I saved a screenshot using the 'Share' option and the image became a lot better - got to read distant street signs and overall detail has slightly changed. Weird thing is - opening a saved screenshot had the level of detail of the original game (before pressing 'Share').

Violence with grace, the perfect combination.

I would like to visit Greece or maybe Italy. I have never left my country ever unfortunately.

Best on Xbox one X, red dead redemption 2 on xbox one look terrible and bad resolution, looks extremely blurry

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I'm more curious why your text is almost the same color as the background making it very difficult to read. Almost as bad as Rockstar and their settings when you 1st load up the game.