Kormath

That's the one i'm stuck on. I go NW of Strawberry near the trapper, hunt there till i get one, then go do other things. few game days later i'll do it again. I've gotten 3 so far lol.

i think it's just coincidence. But yeah it seems like they thin out when you need to hunt them. They seem to like to run with the deer, makes them sometimes hard to spot. I had 3 or 4 perfect hides and a couple perfect buck hides from them, till i died running into a mob of lawmen. Never eat dinner and ride your horse at the same time when you have a high bounty lol

Nope, same thing happened to me. Headshot is the only way to get a perfect snake skin.

you know what. I restored my game last night, and probably hadn't had the trinket remade again. Just realized that. I'll check tonight and verify.

since I restored my game i have to redo these. Last night i found that Still working on the sharpshooter one. I can get 2 but haven't gotten 3 yet.

must have been the beers at lunch, should have had one more i think

that works for good or better pelts. I have the trinket, and most of the deer i'm finding now even with it are poor. All i need are 2 perfect deer pelts, and all i see are poor, poor, and more poor. Maybe i need to equip the trinket? I thought you just had to have it made for the bonus.

exploiting what? i'm lost there on what i exploited. I did get my legendary back though had to restore my game from the 11th. Which was no big deal, i haven't progressed past the opening of chapter 3 yet in the story line, so i lost nothing there, now i just have to do the fun of the challenges again and hunt down 3 or 4 perfect hides. kinda funny, i felt like i had really done a lot in those 4 days, but then i restore back and hadn't really done much but 6 sharpshooter and 3 bandit challenges and spend money on paying off my bounties lol.

Right, so try inching to the side. This has happened to me numerous times and that's been my fix.

you have to do it after, can't do it during the mission. I don't recall the lantern showing in the satchel, but then i've never really looked for it. Maybe in the Kit satchel with the campfire and stuff?

it does work actually but doesn't completely mask your scent that i've seen, and only for a short time. Go into tracking mode and you can see the scent lines from Arthur are greatly reduced with the cover scent. And just like the bait you have to be in the perfect spot to use it. With the bait when i use it and nothing happens, if you watch Arthur will look at where he wants to place it. Inch that way or turn that way and then it works. Cover scent is the same, but you don't get the visual clue. If it doesn't work turn to the left or right and/or inch to one side or the other and try again.

Terrain will cause this also. try leading the horse away a little. I find this quite often to be the case when I'm out hunting in the hills and need to feed or calm the horse.

Lantern Alternative -

you keep the last 4 hats in your horse satchel, maybe it's 5 hats. something like that. Anytime i've gone into the red area around Blackwater i always get those dozen lawmen and 3 dogs, they spawn right beside you and you have no chance to run away. I'm guessing the $10 fine i also received is for trespassing? only thing i can think of, there's nothing in the crimes list that makes sense for it.

you're right. i typically only use it on the bounty hunter missions.

i saw those too right after i started chapter 3 the first time (had to restore my game to a save on the 11th to get my legendary horse back) Haven't seen them yet, but then i just started chapter 3 again last night and havent' done anything in it yet but hunt for perfect skins to get the couple satchels back i lost and work toward the legend satchel. I have to do the sharpshooter challenges again, so i'm sure i'll run into these guys at some point. great idea with the hog tie, i'll have to remember that and use it

Study the animal, then press RB/R1 to see the details. It will tell you which weapons is best for the animal. Some have 2 weapons you can use to get perfect hides. Headshots are the best way, or when your dead eye is leveled up you can see their vitals. I just do head shots, to easy for me to miss a viral and ruin the perfect hide I been hunting.

ah good to know. i'll check there in an hour when i get home from work. Going to check my settings anyway after clearing the cache and reloading my game back a few days to get my horse back.

awesome post! great info here from all. thanks guys! from my experience, for the walk, trot, etc. I push forward to walk, tap A/X and then hold it down to keep that pace. so from walk to trot it's 2 presses holding the 2nd down to keep that speed. repeat for the next speed, up to full out sprint where tap with the sound of the hoof beats to keep from losing stamina (and usually fail more than i get it timed right) I don't recall having to press RB/R1 twice to back up the horse, i just pressed and held like when backing up a wagon i think. That's cool, didn't know you can do that. i was thinking it would be the select button changes camera views on the horse, must be a button combo to go to horse's POV? i've cycled through all the camera views while on the horse with select and that's not one of them. My stupid lame first horse does that all the time. I found that with it when riding through trees not to control her at all, just keep the speed going by holding the A/X button and let her get through the trees then take control after lol. I pick myself off the ground much less that way. With the Legendary i had i didn't have much trouble hitting trees. But maybe that's because i don't control them as much in the woods and around rocks as i do in clear areas after learning from the dumb first horse. I treat them kinda like a real horse, point them where i want to go and correct it as needed if they stray off to far. I've never had a problem running through town at a sprint. unless you hit someone,you'll get a murder charge, or get to close and they panic and dodge, then you'll get assault charge. They don't charge you with a crime for just sprinting through town, even if you forgot to wear your bandanna/mask and have a $500 bounty.

They should be in your inventory, go to the weapon wheel (RB/R1) and check the throwables (lower left, the lasso i think is default there) the hatchets should be there. Hunter knife will be in the lower right (LT/L1 or RT/R2 to cycle through the items) Hats will be in your horse inventory lower right, but you can only store 4 or 5 in there. The others may be in your wardrobe inventory at camp/hotel.

I put in a ticket about losing the DLC warhorse with R* and about the glitch that took away my Legendary Arabian. Here's their response - Not much help really but that is a cool tip i didn't know to clear game cache. Nothing about my missing Arabian though. But i did find my war horse for sale at lunch today after doing this. Then I emailed back about the glitch-lost Arabian. Nope, i've already studied all the horses in camp, and tried to steal Micah's horse. Unfortunately you can't. Well, i'm not sure about that because I died on Main St. as i call it in Valentine (where the stores are), and my Legendary was left back in the auction area. Hopefully they didn't go kill my horse after they killed me. ummm say what? you have to save your horse in the stable? Yeah so i never saved my Legendary. Insert forehead smack smiley here. Now I feel like an idiot lol. They haven't answer my question if the Legendary did die will it respawn so i can go tame it again. Or if i can go tame it again from the glitch and me not knowing i could, or had to, save it in the stable. This is what i got instead - So looks like i have to reset my game back a few days to a previous save point. No big deal, i'm not that far along anyway, i've had my fun in the world hunting and building up my vilian rep, and the challenges. OMG! the challenges! Is the Legendary horse worth that? hell yeah not to mention i had hella fun doing the challenges. Lesson learned - save your horses in the stables, they will (supposedly) return there if lost/stolen/killed and hopefully glitch-lost.

you can kill with the knife. I've done it many times. Aim first then stab. I shot 4 small game arrows at a crab, missed every one, ran up on it and stabbed it a few times to make me feel better. before i realized the weapon to use was in the animal info i kept trying to stab snakes to get the perfect hides don't recommend it, unless you've stocked up on lots of healing tonics or ginseng plants, and it doesn't work anyway. it damages the hide so they're just good or poor. You also use the knife for the killing blow when lassoing animals

i miss eating rabbit all the ones around here have been parasitic for the last few years. My uncle used to raise them when i was younger. my brothers and I would take turns harvesting one or 2 for dinner each time we went there. I can't even image now what people would think of us stringing a rabbit up by it's hind feet and swinging a baseball at it's head. 30+ years ago when we were kids that's how it was done. now that would probably mean jail time and i'll grow up to be a serial killer. there's almost no fat on rabbit, in survival situations it's bad to just eat rabbit, you can die of lean starvation i think they call it, body needs fat to survive. Back on topic i'll have to check out the skinned vs non skinned carcasses tonight while i'm hunting for the satchels. Not sure if the price difference is worth only being able to carry 1 and run back to the butcher every time. Actually no, it's not, i'm not needing cash that badly.

Also some missions/people aren't available if you're playing the villian and playing for as much red honor as you can get. I'm guessing some of the missions aren't available for the white hat hero in the same way. I have to play through twice just to do both sides. and yes, i'll have to get 100% each time, i'm OCD that way lol.

agreed. My friends and I had a blast playing GTA5 when it came out for hte Xbox One. My son and their son also played wiht us online. It's all on the parents to educate and make sure their children know games and movies apart from reality. Take a look at the kid that wanted to play GTA5 for real, stole the car and and wrecked 2 others? that's a parental failure.