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you chose a sad player to show us that defensive mode is trash. well no. since defensive mode started i see less and less players like this zero in the video.

I really wish we could make the facial hair shorter. I adored the #2 length 'tash I gave my Marston. But the full grown version of that same one looks hideous on my RDO guy. Same with two of the beards. Why is it 'all or nothing' in RDO when RDR2 had such a cool hair growth system? I used to love going to the barber after a week long hunting trip to cut Arthur's hair and get him shaved back to sexy cowboy stubble. And cleaning him up for the date with Mary really set the scene. So why can we only be clean shaven or have giant scraggly face growths? (or one stubble option.) Where is the variety in that? Also, several male NPCs have the super-long loose hair that goes down their back; eg Lee from the Montez story mission. Why can't we have that as an option? I'd be tempted to have a second character and make him a native american, long hair, appropriate clothes and weapons, and a cute paint horse to ride. While we are on the subject, what about a long ponytail? Or any other styles? They have a bunch of 'ugly' hair, including a balding comb-over I challenge anyone to want to use in-game. I know they want 'period appropriate' but it's still a game we play for fun, and I want to look good doing it. Come on R*.

I hope RDR3 or whatever the next game will be called, will be set in the real Wild West. No matter if they keep using already known characters or if they to me, preferably will start a new story with new characters in the 1870-1880 era. I just want more of the real Wild West and less of the “turn of the century” or “the end of the gunman era”. I want to play in the gunman era when the telegraph was the newest and most modern way of communication and not the phone.

Don't know why you keep acting like this is some new revelation that only you thought of. Players have been doing this since online first came out. I myself have gone into St. Denis killed an NPC, climbed up a nearby ladder to the rooftops and picked off the lawmen as they funneled up the ladder to get to me. I did this a few times when I was low level when needed to gain a quick level or two to unlock something I wanted, but I didn't do it often. Didn't want to. For the most part, I worked for my xp and I'm almost level 150 now. There's many players who don't want to speed level. They just want to sit back and enjoy the ride.

Wow. I don’t understand why someone at that high of level feels the need to do that. I mean, I get it that they have dominated the game and are probably bored... but doing stuff like that just seems a bit immature.

I'm going to move this to the RDR2 General forum as it's not exactly an introduction and seems to be more about advice. ....btw, there are a lot of us here that are over the half century mark so you're not alone.

Hi Friends, I am half way through Chapter 4 and only just discovered how to Take Cover. A lot of the time, especially in major battles, I am totally confused and quickly killed. I am wondering whether I am too old at 75. Any other senior citizens enjoying RDR2 as much as I am? Sapper.

Problem solved. If it happens again, just tag a mod in the post and request it be deleted

I've sent a suggestion to R* about adding a length selector to the hair and beard styles. Maybe if more people ask for it they may inpliment it.

I think if your that bored you need to find another game to get your interest. The hours it would take to get to level 350 would be an extreme investment of time if they are not a regular streamer.

I agree, I like my character to have tight hair & neat mustache, but as of now he looks so shaggy. Hopefully when this supposed update that let's you redo your character comes out it'll have some new hair choices as well.

Didnt bother ppl when i was new as well and now when im 144. Since the start when i get shot in the back of my head while doing my own business 99% were players <25 lvl A few days ago tho there was an idiot lvl 350 ish in tumbleweed sniping with carcano hidden somwhere on the roofs. That was the first time ive seen such high lvl harrasing players.

For those that need gold to customize your weapons. Do Not forget to do your Daily Challenges. I've been doing the Daily's since day one. I've passed 21 days for my x2.5 gold reward bonus. I get 0.50 / half bar for each Daily objective. I get 5 gold bars a day for completing all 7 Daily Challenges.

I don't get any points for originality, but I do feel at least 25% cooler riding around as Lee Van Cleef. And my horse is named Mortimer.

Reading you are still having fun playing video games makes me look forward happily. Not too far forward mind you tho. Your never too old to enjoy entertainment. Game On!

So, lol I got a little triggered earlier, and just had to rant, I sent Rockstar my thoughts, then I thought, let me rant on the board, and get it all out. So, rant on, lol If you dont want to hear me whine about the game, just skip it. Multiplayer, I hate that you have to select a "series" then you get whatever you get. I hate it!! What bothers me is how awesome the game is, and how stupid this system is, I cant understand how they can get the game so right and then screw up the part that some of us take for granted. I mean it never occurred to me that they wouldnt just make a list of modes for us to chose and then leave us be, watch and see what we do with it, before they decide that wont work, and we want people to try them all so... I have had enough, I am just not paying pvp screw it. Why cant they just put in play a list, these are the game modes, pick the one you want and then go play it? Every other multiplayer game has figured this out, but Rockstar for some reason has some reason of their own that they will not give the players the power of choice and freedom to do what we want. I have no idea why, maybe they feel certain modes wont get any use ? too bad, I am not playing any pvp anymore because I dont like surprises, I hate loading in only to find out it is some mode I dont like and there arent enough people to make it fun anyway. I am not interested in these run around the map with a bow in silence, or run around the outskirts of a map and try to get back to your base, etc. there just dumb, I dislike them and would rather not waste my time with them. I just want it simple, death match, team deathmatch, capture the flag, team capture the flag, etc..maybe a few others, the territory one isnt bad if you are lucky enough to get on with people that actually have a $5 mic and will talk to you so you can work together, which almost never happens, so I give up. I say make me a list, let me select what I want and get out of the way. I sent this same point to Rockstar but I wanted to see who else feels this way, is it just me? Sadly it isnt so much that I dislike all of those, but I dont want to be forced to play them.. Same with these free roam events, fishing events, herb picking event, etc.. wtf Rockstar , make a list, let us chose, F off with these random events that pop up in free roam, if I want to play and event I would go to the multiplayer menu and select it, otherwise if I am in free roam for a reason. I dont want to be taken out of free roam to do anything, I am there for a reason, usually to level up, or make ammo, or craft tonics, etc.. then I go to pvp modes, but of course in this game it is all backwards. Anyway I am just super frustrated that something so great that I enjoy so much is so broken with so many flaws that seemingly are unnecessary. Beta is over stop it with market research and whatever other reasons you have for these crazy ideas, the game is great, stop trying to change every aspect of how we play Multiplayer games. Rant over, flame on.

I didn't get the PS4 for the game. My old one was dying and got the new 1tb drive for anniversary a couple weeks ago. Just was pointing out that the new PS4 didn't help.

Me too. I did this once about 60 levels ago. I was desperate to hit lvl58 (I think) to unlock cool ponies. It works, but it ain't news.

No, he’s not describing RDR online, more like Baulder’s Gate set in the 1890-1910 era, with optional co-op story play ability...

Cowboy action shooting. KC's Corral annual club championship entitled Thunder in the Brush, which was just last month. About 50 people total, 3 posses over a 2 day period. Top picture is my posse and that is me shooting pistols gunfighter category. The Lady in the purple shirt is picking up my rifle casings and shotgun hulls. She was Virginia State Lady's Champion couple years ago, very fast shooter (I can't beat her). She also tutored me in black powder reloading. Her alias is Sassy Shooting Sours, guess where I got my characters last name from. That is her husband behind me holding the timer in his hand. Have got the SASS Virginia State Black Powder Shootout coming up in a couple of weeks. Will try to get more pictures. Most everyone will have the best cowpoke looking outfit they have on.

THIIIIIS!! The female ponytails are hideous. No straight hair ponytails, just curly hair and they both have a giant hair-part right down the middle of the head. For Singleplayer, my Arthur has the swept back style with fading on the sides and set to the shortest or next length (depending how often I take him to the barber). I can't see them adding hair growth to Online especially since they do charge Gold bars for some hair styles, it would be frustrating to constantly spend RDO$ or Gold to maintain a certain look. But there's absolutely no reason why they can't add the length adjustments to choose from.

I have never used defensive mode. I figure that would only let others know I wanted to either be left alone or am scared. It doesn't make them leave you alone so if they want to shoot you they are going to anyway. Why bother?

The map unfogs as you move into the area. You can't get into the south-western portion of the map yet for story-related reasons (it'll open up later in the game), but for the rest, you're free to explore as much as you like between story/stranger missions.

There is a lot of potential about the hair part, and also seeing as the NPC´s have different types of the ones we can choose. i had hopes, that they would have done the hair thing, the same way as in Story mode. It was cool! , and more realistic!

I missed using that feature for a heck of a long time before I found it. And then I used it for everything (gang hideouts, herb locations, animal spawn points, etc.)

Many thanks for the responses to my query about the age of players. I have only played Resident Evil 4 and 5 before, starting after age 70. The difference between those games and RDR2 is the moral element of the latter - it is definitely different killing zombies or multi-headed monsters. I am so emersed in RDR2 that all my emotions are engaged - guilt, shame, (collecting debts from the likes of the Downes family) embarrassment (at my incompetence) and joy and wonder at the wilderness and wildlife. I am an atheist but it seems to me that the AI acts as a kind of Creator with an ethical agenda non-existent in the non-gaming world. The minor key music that swells up after particularly emotional moments swallows me up at times. And always after I have committed some atrocity accidentally - punching my beloved horse, shooting a woman I meant to help home, arresting a man who pleaded for forgiveness and redemption because I didn't know what else to do to progress, and because the function of some buttons mysteriously changes. There are many lessons for life in this 'game' that is not a game at all but a very real part of my life and search for my own redemption.

My Posse versus is all ways grey out. To solve the problem I have to keep switching servers / reform posse / create a camp and see if it works. If it still doesn't. I had to switch servers and try again. I had to switch servers 3 times before it started working. Also, it still might glitch after the 1 race.(Like it did for me) I switch servers again and it started working again. I only seem to get my posse versus (race, bird, herb contest )working in The Heartlands, right under the Heartland Oil Fields.

I’ll keep that in mind next time I run across one of your posts... Advice or experiences unwanted unless specifically stated in the title...

Well, if more people talked, encounters can definitely feel less like griefing and more like role playing a western character... Just saying...

Thanks @lumper. It might be a loosing team, but it’s good to know I’m not the only one on it.

Nice outfits, the colours go together really well. You'll fit right in if we ever get to go South of the border. You can get better shots by taking photos with your in-game camera, you can then either upload them to Rockstar Games Social Club and copy them from there or screenshot/capture them on Xbox while viewing them in your gallery. Here's a few shots of my character in various outfits.

Here's the link: I'm going to go ahead and close this thread to avoid two discussions on the same topic occurring. .....so I won't have to merge them later.

I did this when I wanted to lower my honor so I could play the remaining story missions that you cant play as a high honor player, it was fun. But I made a lot more xp hunting, sometimes I dont even stop to skin them, just shoot everything that moves and mix up the weapons use pistols, arrows, etc.. shoot every bird of every size that you encounter, shoot everything, every Buffalo etc.. shoot everything lol and XP adds up fast. I made 25000 xp today in 5 hours, thats 5000 xp per hour, and I made 11 gold bars in the same time, a combo of hunting, running stranger missions, clearing hideouts, clearing campsite ambushes, running 2 or 3 stranger encounters, and doing 5 daily challenges.

Oh totally man, we need players, and new players are not a nuisance unless they make themselves one, I was just pointing out that most of the issues I have online with other layers, are lower level players lately. I was a new player too, I just didnt bother people or shoot at them and make excuses for it.

.....folks are simply sharing their own ideas/feedback on the topic FreeBird. Kinda what these forums are all about, eh?

Named em Douglas Mortimer.

Yeah, you were one of the individuals I meant when I made that generalization in my post lol. But I do think you are in the minority as well as those that just want to turn free roam into a death match. The majority are somewhere in the middle of these extremes. I mean, the game would loose a lot if I could do whatever I wanted without risk. But at the same time, people aimlessly killing every other player ‘because it’s the wild west’... make it unplayable. I think what we need is a system that makes Player on player violence have some kind of purpose, direction and predictably.

Yeah, I can appreciate that. But other than a few, I don’t think people really want an invincible mode. I see defensive mode as less a protection method and more of a flag saying ‘look, I’m busy. Please leave me alone’. It keeps the semi honest PvP enthusiasts away from you. And it has a little bit of built in protection from low level experimenters. But, much like a padlock isn’t going to stop a dedicated thieving prick from taking your stuff, defensive mode won’t stop a dedicated ass of a griefer from killing you while he makes videos of himself giggling like a prepubescent girl...

Still having them myself. It's funny, too, because back in March, they seemed to have alleviated themselves (finally). Then I took a brief sabatical to play The Division 2. I set aside RDO with the intent that I'd come back to it once it finally left "beta". Flash forward to last week, when the game FINALLY leaves beta: Attempt 1: 90% loaded, "You have been gifted gold from Rockstar" (Badass!) "You have received in-game currency from Rockstar" (That's what I'm talking about! IM SO PUMPED TO PLAY RIGHT NOW, OMFG!!!!!!!) Hit the "X" button to close the message: "You have been disconnected from Rockstar games services for error [insert alphabet soup combo here]. Attempt 2:. Load in, open my catalog to browse and spend my newfound wealth.... BAM!!! "Rockstar wants to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as us. And only then will you feel our pain. We want to eat your children. Also, you have been disconnected because you're ugly and can't read good." Attempt 3:. Login. No errors! Head to Valentine, play some poker.... 25 minutes of sitting through afk isers timing out to folds and finally hit a decent pot. Walk away happy, and.... BAM! 'Shot in the back by Buford Tanner , over a matter of $80." (actually one shot in the back of the head by the player I just beat at cards. Immediately switched back to TD2 for the rest of the night. I only have an hour or two every few days to game, so I'm not overly enthusiastic to play "Service Disruption Simulator 2K19" when I could be blasting fools in the face with modern weaponry.

I think Hosea would have sided with Arthur even though it would hurt him. Near the end I walked in on several arguments between the two of them. And Hosea seemed to be getting near the end of his tether trying to talk Dutch around.

Here are some of our posse characters that have been made. In are Posse/Crew every member eventually receives their own Cigarette Card. The first card is my player.

This is the currently obese Wendel Hunt and his trusty steed Chestnutz. He tends to indulge a little too much in the Minty Big Game hence the expanded mid rift. He is madly in love with Zampen's character but is tragically heartbroken as we are cross platform😍😭

Thats me on the horse, and three buddies I play with.