Renascent

Yeah not gonna lie, the free aim in this game feels clunky and unnatural. I have it at the lowest setting as well. I can free aim when needed but I know I'll likely never be as good as I am in other games. Only weapon that I'm still good at as far as free aim is the bow thanks to months of playing The Forest. I challenge myself by going first person free aim in showdowns. I'm getting better, slowly lol. Although with my sight issues, it's difficult. (can't see at all or very well anything that isn't directly in front of me, so I look at the mini map a ton)

that isn't totally the fault of the player but of Rockstar for lumping everyone into one server. But if you can't smarten up and avoid being killed then I don't know what else to tell you.

Then why are you getting your panties in a bunch over someone killing you outside of a free roam mission?

If you didn't want to make plans and use your brain then next time you load up red dead, press L1.

So you basically don't want to have to look out for yourself? I mean God forbid that you have to plan a route to the butcher or whatever. I've only ever been killed twice at the butcher because I'm not dumb enough to just run straight in expecting people to be nice and honorable. It's the wild West, even they were wary back then. Rockstar effectively created that feeling.

Just because one gang may be honorable doesn't mean they all are. Look at the O'Driscolls, the Skinners, the Murphree brood. Not everyone is gonna be a good villain. Again, griefing is all down to perspective. Where as I feel I've only been griefed a handful of times, you and many others consider everything short of looking in your general direction as griefing. I've been randomly killed many times for no reason, griefing? Nope. Just part of the game. It's when they go out of their way to follow you around and across sessions is when I consider it griefing.

It really boils down to what people define as "griefing". Most people are softies and any shooting they don't "consent" to is considered griefing to them. Hell I got reported the other day for interrupting some posse's mission. They felt that because of my rank that I was griefing them (I'm 181 and they were in the 40s-50s, 3-4 of them). When you got people like that, it's hard to pinpoint what's actually going on because everyone's perspectives is vastly different.

Lemme strap ya up on the back of my horse and ride around to all the spawns. Sometimes they don't wanna spawn tho, so I have to keep cycling between them.

I've noticed the amount of animals increased and they don't glitch out to where there's none at all after 20-30 minutes. Idk what's up with everyone's intense need for constant new content/updates. Like if something new doesn't come out every week then people get upset.

Sure worked to draw out a panther I was looking for. And some coyotes before that.

There is no best gun to carry, just different setups depending on your situation and what your wanna do like most have mentioned. Hunting: bolt action/Springfield rifle, varmint rifle, double sawed off shotguns. Free roam missions: Springfield rifle, double sawed off, bow with dynamite arrows loaded Showdown (generally): double Scofield revolvers, either Springfield or bolt action, repeating shotgun. Varies a little depending on my card set up too.

Yeah when I noticed that I was just shooting everything and was just quietly screaming YAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!

I've noticed that there seems to be more animals. Or rather the instance of them not spawning randomly after awhile has been fixed? I was having to switch sessions every 20-30 minutes because there would literally be no animals except crows and wild horses. Was extremely frustrating.

Yeah: Renascentc Was taking a nap but I'm up now lol.

Pssst, I'm awake and home. Shoot me a message or whatever.