Vaderspupil
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They nerfed the hell out of the prices of the most lucrative carcasses for hunting. The price of deer, buck and rabbit carcasses has been cut in half. Haven't been able to confirm the price of cougar or panther carcasses yet. The price of pelts appears to have not changed. Herons appear to only yield one plume per carcass now, but the price of plumes hasn't changed. Don't know about spoonbills. This sucks big time. It was hard enough to grind out money. Now it will take twice as long!🤬
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5 minutes ago, The_Liquor said:
Speaking of butchers in this game, does anyone else find it odd that visiting the butcher is about the most dangerous thing you can do in the west?
That's why whenever I'm hunting in the Lemoyne/Roanoke area, I'll look at my map to see whether it's safer to go to the Saint Denis or Rhodes butcher. In extreme cases, I'll even make the trip to Valentine. Same when I'm in West Elizabeth. I'll use the map to decide if I should go to Strawberry, Valentine or Blackwater. I wish carcasses and pelts stored on your horse passed through fast travel. It would make things so much easier.
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29 minutes ago, Kean_1 said:
I'm almost level 60 and I can't believe I never knew that.
Just another one of those things Rockstar makes you figure out for yourself.
17 minutes ago, Darkvicar said:Has anyone managed to break down big fish?
You can't. It's like a deer carcass only there's no way to skin it to collect its meat.
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9 minutes ago, HairyWelshman78 said:
I Want The POTENT predator bait so that if there are any animals in the vicinity I can attract them.
Also I have bluegill fish but cant seem to break them down into gritty fish.
Highlight it in your satchel and press x to break it down.
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I love,love,love my Springfield and never go anywhere without it, using it for hunting, clearing enemy hideouts and self defense from both NPC ambushes and griefers. Because of it I find repeaters to be obsolete. I have duel wielded Schofields for when I feel like being more of a gunslinger. I do have a pump action shotgun but I hardly ever use it, only when I know I'm going to be encountering lots of cqc.
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I find herbivore and predator bait(especially the predator bait) to be completely useless. It won't make animals appear out of thin air. You have to know that they are already in the area. When it comes to predators, usually by the time you know they are in the area, they've already spotted you and are charging at you. I find it easy enough to hunt and kill animals as I encounter them. I use a predator charging at me to my advantage. It's a straight on headshot with a Springfield or bolt action rifle.
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The last treasure chest I opened wasn't empty, but it only had $50 in it. I wasn't impressed!
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How much does it cost for a dynamite arrow pamphlet? I just got the fire arrow pamphlet and that was $700. I can pretty much bet that the dynamite arrow one is going to be even higher than that.😑
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They love to attack me when I'm vulnerable skinning animals, picking herbs or looking at my map.
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20 minutes ago, madfretter said:
Ok, I've done this mostly in Lemoyne, give it a try there. I've never done it with anything else but a 3* deer/buck so I can't confirm the other animals.
Works for me with a 3* gator, either the pelt of a large or the carcass of a small.
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9 minutes ago, jnaron_ngc said:
Animal was not skinned
3 star animal
Snapping Turtle, Alligator, Pronghorn
Mostly in Lagras
Skin your animals. You get more for selling all the parts(carcass, pelt, meat etc) separately. I skin mine right on the spot. The only time I wait to skin it is if I already have a carcass on the back of my horse. I'll lasso the unskinned animal(you can't lasso a skinned one) and drag it on horseback to the butcher. I'll then skin it in front of the butcher, put the pelt on my horse, pick up the carcass and sell it along with everything on my horse.
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2 minutes ago, YodaMan 3D said:
And let's not forget the MOST important question. How lucky are you? RNG doesn't work the same for all and part of this is pure, unadulterated RNG.
With maps at least yes. I got lucky the other night finding one while using this technique. I haven't found one since, even though hideouts continue to spawn when carrying a 3* carcass on the back of your horse.
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23 minutes ago, Harlock1796 said:
I can see that.
However, I'm a big fan of not being dead. In my experience, I'm most often dead because someone has shot me in the head.
If I can be shot in the head once and still be alive, that gives me all sorts of options that wouldn't be available to me if I was dead.
I'd rather not be taking the extra damage for not having a hat, but the next thing that's going to kill me is probably another headshot anyway, so who cares about the extra damage?
Body shots I can kinda cope with, because a combination of those big Springfield slugs and strange medicine replenish health pretty quickly.
If I'm hatless in what is becoming a protracted fire fight, I'll duck behind a rock and swap out NWO for Landons Patience, which is the only other card I have at level 3.
I've to be honest. I have yet to use my setup in a pvp situation(mainly because I hate to waste dead eye), only against NPCs while clearing out enemy hideouts. It works wonders for that. Usually when I get headshot, I'm at my most vulnerable, either, skinning an animal, picking herbs or looking at my map. Doesn't bother me too much unless I've got some really valuable cargo on my horse from hunting. Either way as soon as I spawn back in, I'll make a bee line right back to them to make sure they get 5he message that I'm the wrong guy to mess with.
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18 minutes ago, Harlock1796 said:
I can't get on with Slippery Bastard, so have reverted to Slow and Steady. My settled load out is:
Slow and Steady
Peak Condition
Strange Medicine
Never Without One
there is a real synergy between S&S and NWO - the first shot comes in, takes your hat off, which is the hint to go into dead eye so that the next one doesn't kill you either.
For any PvP situation I tend to use a Springfield with HV ammo. That, with peak condition, is more or less guaranteed a 2 shot body kill at any range (should I miss the head for some reason) and strange medicine is feeding health back in while the first 2 incoming head shots are failing to finish me off. If I'm not using the Springfield it's probably because things have got up close, in which case I'm probably shotgunning (usually pump action, but just switched to double barrelled for style points!). Either way, its all about the high damage output, so Winning Streak has never featured in my setup - if my first 2 shots with whatever I'm holding haven't put 'em down, the plan's out of the window anyway!
I can see that if you're playing a different style, with a quick repeater or dual wielded revolvers/mausers, say, WS might make more sense.
Other play styles are available!
The thing I don't like about NWO is you're pretty much restricted to fighting on horseback, if you want to have a hat available to you at all times. Without a hat you take more damage. This can be negated by going into dead eye with S&S, but then you are essentially taking normal damage.
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My preferred combo when going into battle is slow & steady, unblinking eye, cold blooded and eye for an eye. Slow & steady will prevent headshots while in dead eye and reduce damage taken, unblinking eye extends dead eye and eagle eye time, cold blooded will refill some of your health bar for 5 seconds after you kill an enemy and eye for an eye restores some back to your dead eye bar for a successful headshot. Now before you go into battle, pop a minty big game meat, a thyme big game meat and some tonics to reinforce your dead eye and health bars and you can pretty much stand out in the open absorbing bullets like a sponge and mowing down enemies with headshots and keep it going for quite awhile.
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3 minutes ago, Kean_1 said:
Worse case scenario, we'll at least have an idea how far the mini map's diameter covers once the update hits. We know strangers won't be visible until they are 150 meters out so we can simply do tests with our friends to see when they begin to show up on the radar & map.
The main map screen really needs a scale on it. What respectable map doesn't have a scale?
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16 minutes ago, The_Liquor said:
I just bought a pair of sawn offs... i was riding out of Rhodes, I pulled them out to blast at nothing in particular... and as I’m firing off four shots I notice it’s suddenly right at another guy riding into town at a gallop. He rode on by, so if I hit him at least I didn’t kill him. But oops. I swear I wasn’t trying to kill you LOL. I wonder how many griefers are actually just normal players that just made a goof up like that then went into defensive mode...
I once accidentally got into fist fight with a guy at the butcher when I was just trying to stand next to him in order to access the butcher myself. I won the fight and killed the guy. I felt bad.
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9 minutes ago, Kean_1 said:
Anyone know a way to determine just how far 150 meters is in this game?
I would like to know game distances myself. I just got the gold buckle last night for traveling 1889 miles. I've played online since the week it came out and I travel in game a lot. I'm too cheap to fast travel most of the time. I would have thought I would have got that award a lot sooner. I would like to know the distances between towns, how long I'd have to ride the train to get that award etc.
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2 minutes ago, Renascent said:
Must be very unlucky cuz I've only spawned in once where there was a posse leader and one other nearby but they rode past me fortunately.
It is gonna make me a little more paranoid when I go into town with pelts though. I'll have to break out my ultimate sneakin tactics.
I don't spawn right next to them, but I'm close enough to be weary of their presence and want to get my ass out of there asap.
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16 minutes ago, BropolloCreed79 said:
Oh, I disagree. You aren't likely to see many folks in the northern parts of the map, stretching from north of Strawberry to West of Annesburg. That entire wilderness is open 99% of the time, at least in sessions I've been in.
It's funny. I usually select free roam in Ambarino so I spawn in away from everyone else. I still end up with other players in my general vacinity.
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1 minute ago, Kean_1 said:
Yeah, that is another bit of good news too.
That is by far and away the biggest frustration when it comes to griefers. When my horse is empty, kill me all you want, I just pop right back in. But if you cause me to lose a perfect buck carcass or worse, a perfect cougar/panther and a couple of spoonbills, I'm going to be super pissed and will come at you with fire and fury to make you pay dearly for my loss.
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I think the part that excites me the most is that they are working on potentially not losing the pelts and carcasses you have stored on your horse when you die or at the very least, reducing the circumstances.
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43 minutes ago, madfretter said:
Ok, so I tested this throughout the weekend and I'm pretty certain that having a hi level carcass on your horse makes hideouts and outlaws spawn more frequently. The first time I tested this I went to 10 hideout spots without an animal on my horse and one hideout spawned. I then joined a new session and went to the same hideouts and 4 spawned with an ambush as well. The second time I stayed in the same session, repeated the test and found 0 spawned without the deer and with the deer I got 3 hideouts/2 ambushes. I also looted 2 treasure maps as well. It's also worth noting that both times I spawned in tumbleweed and fast traveled to Rhodes, so my side of the map wasn't filled with other players.
I tested it myself last night. I was hunting in the Roanoke area with a 3* large gator pelt on my horse. I got the hideout up near Brandywine to spawn as well as the one a little south of Annesburg along the Kamassa River. I got a treasure map out of it as well. That's awesome!😎
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12 minutes ago, BropolloCreed79 said:
I'm never going to get there at the rate I'm going. I might be level 15, and I lost a whole weekend to The Division 2 beta this past weekend. Still had a better connection to their beta servers than I do R*'s which just reinforces my assertion that the disconnect issue is on their end, and how they interface with some ISPs.
I've got no life, so it's pretty easy for me to level up. I've been doing it mainly with hunting, clearing enemy hideouts and resetting awards. I've stopped with pvp and doing missions. PVP got too frustrating and missions got too repetitive and my friends have all stopped playing for the time being until some more substantive content comes out that provides more options of stuff to do.
February 26th Update concerns & discussion
in Red Dead Online
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I noticed this myself. It seems to be more in line with th he NPCs in single player now, a lot more of them and friendlier. Before the update, the majority of them you passed on the road were assholes. Whenever any of them drew their gun on me as I passed(and many of them did), I would immediately turn around and blow their head off. Post update I'm unwilling to do that given the new bounty system, but so far the situation hasn't come up.