Limey77

No, I just pulled out the gun and aimed it at the shopkeeper.

I just robbed the last store that you can rob and tested the holding L2 and using R2 method. You hold L2 down and then tap R2 once very lightly and Arthur pulls out his gun and aims it at the shopkeeper.

Just leave R2 alone completely. Head around back to see the business. Enter the front door. Bring up the weapon selection wheel and chose a revolver. Hold L2 to aim it at the doctor. Select Rob Back room. Follow him to the door. Once he is on the way you don't even need to aim the gun at him any more.

Yes, I was, you need to skip every cutscene, including the one where Dutch tells you to search one building, Bill to search another one. Plus you need to be quick catching Kieran and getting back to camp. It's impossible if you don't skip every cutscene possible.

Yes exactly, the main reason to do it this way rather than using the retry button or going in through the replay chapter in the pause menu is resources. Often a gold will require you to be 80% or 90% accurate so you need to use Dead Eye. If you have the Satchel of the East you can carry 99 chewing tobacco or snake oil or whatever so you can basically stay in Dead Eye all the time. But if you do a mission with 99 chewing tobacco and don't get the gold then try and hit the retry button you'll restart with zero chewing tobacco, making it much harder to be very accurate or stay in Dead Eye for long. If you save beforehand and then reload that save as I've suggested then you can retry it as many times as you like with 99 chewing tobacco (for example). Same goes for poison throwing knives, snake oil, food etc. As another example, there's one mission in ch5 that requires you to do something within 4 seconds which is practically impossible without Dead Eye, so if you retry that mission and lose the ability to keep Dead Eye active then you won't get the gold. But if you save beforehand with 4 chewing tobacco, you'll easily nail it.

Once you've seen the illegal business in the back room, just go into the doctors select a gun from the L1 menu and hold L2 to aim it at him. It will then give you the choice to rob the register or the back room. Get ready to run though, because you'll have a load of bounty hunters on you as soon as you start shooting that place up. Grab the cash and the Scofield revolver and run.

No you can't do that at all. Even after finishing the game and using the inbuilt retry method you only have what R* deem suitable for the stage in the game that you were at. There's no way around that, sadly. Many of the missions would be much easier if you could take abilities and resources from later in the game back to.

In the guard cars near the front of the train.

Probably the incestuous couple.

Yes it does.

Exactly, they're also time stamped so you will always be deleting the earliest one.

Yes, the top slot is the autosave spot.

I haven't tried to be honest, I got gold on that the first time, so I don't know. I guess it would make sense though as it is the very first mission. So I guess I'd keep replaying that one normally until you can make a manual save. One other good idea is that once you gold all of the Colter missions, make a manual save after you set up in camp near Valentine for the first time and keep it. That way if you ever want to restart the game for whatever reason then you won't have to do all the tutorial missions once again.

Once you get the gold you delete the save that is in the autosave spot (your original save where you failed to get the gold). Then just carry on with the game and turn autosave on. That way the manual save you made becomes your main save and you just play as normal. All you are doing is creating a save point prior to entering a mission so you can retry it as many times as you like with the exact number of tonics, health items, bullets etc rather than being forced to retry it with what R* deems appropriate.

Chapter 7???? Bounty Hunters have never been an issue in either of my playthroughs. Ignore the bounty until it gets to the $100+ region then just pay it off. Once you clear ch 2 you're never short of cash. I always had $2500+ on hand and never had a bounty over $250, so bounty hunters were never even a slight consideration, let alone a problem.

Today I have discovered that they are NOT gone for good. About a week has passed in game and now Alden has offered me the exact same stagecoach robbery.

Just delete the other save and check under settings>general that autosave is turned on. And it will become your main, active save file.

Regarding plan B, this can work but it needs to be an all in bet pre flop as if you’re bluffing a pair of Aces. Plus this isn’t a guaranteed win, depends on rng.

No need to. Just make a manual save. After you reload the manual save and try again it will give you a message saying something like: ”A file with xxxx already exists in the autosave slot. Do you wish to overwrite this with the current data?” if you got the gold you were after click yes, if not then click no. It will warm you that auto save is being disabled but click ok, then reload the manual save and try again. Mince you get the gold or give up trying, just remember to turn autosave back on!

Pearson will only take pelts for crafting that are needed. So unless your elk pelt was a perfect elk pelt then he will have taken it as funds for the camp. Only perfect 3* pelts are any good for crafting. But if they are perfect then you can give them to Pearson one by one or many at a time until you have enough to upgrade the satchel. You also have to buy the leather workings tools from the ledger for $225 before Pearson is even able to craft anything.

When eplaying missions it makes no difference at all what your current health, stamina or Dead Eye level is, not what inventory of tonics you have. When you retry a mission using “retry” or the chapter select screen you go back in with a predetermined level of everything including dead eye, health, weapons, tonics etc, etc. If you want the best chance of getting gold on every mission then you need to do what I do. Before you start every mission make a new save. Do the mission, see what the goals are and the reload your save and do it again. Keep doing this until you get gold, then make that your main autosave file and delete the other one.

Think Poggy means the printed guide book.

No. Before eaxh mission i ion I save the game then do the mission. If I get gold or silver and don’t feel it’s worth redoing for gold then I just continue. If I think it’s worth retrying to get gold I do not hit the retry button I just reload my save and try again. That way I have all my tonics and chewing tobacco (I use a LOT of chewing tobacco). I keep reloading until I get the gold then carry on from there and delete the other save file.

What Poggy said is excellent. And a perfect answer to this. Regarding Gavin’s friend, I’ve now encountered him in every town at least once and several times out in the wild. Don’t worry, you’ll definitely see him again.

I got the 7 day feee trial of PS Now and had only 20mb broadband and it was absolutely fine. Played through and completed the game - not to 100% or anything. But completed the main story and side quests in the 7 day free trial. Give be it a go OP and then cancel.