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    High Bounties for nothing

    in Red Dead Redemption 2

    Posted

    19 minutes ago, Poggy said:

    Beginning to sound like a bug.  Its hard to get a high bounty, let alone without knowing what you did!

    Hell, I'm STILL in Chapter 2, (but over 42% completion rate) and the highest bounty I've gotten is $300.  That's after murdering about 100 bounty hunters with a sweet Cheapie Maghee spot in Valentine.  

    But it's difficult to ignore multiple reports about this.  It's probably a bug, but absent a larger sample size with specific detail, it's hard to say what it is or isn't with any degree of certianty.

     

    Any way to check your funds?

    in Red Dead Redemption 2

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, Kean_1 said:

    I wish I could use the companion app but alas, my devices are a wee bit too old as they don't have the latest version of Android that is required for the app.  I don't know why they made it incompatible with previous versions but it is what it is.  .....my phone isn't even that old.  

    I upgraded this past June, and my previous Android was up to snuff, so I keep my old phone as an internet/steaming/app device (loaded with music).  I had to manually update the software, but it was worth it.

    Any way to check your funds?

    in Red Dead Redemption 2

    Posted

    16 minutes ago, Jackthestripper said:

    my mistake was wanting a wife who likes gaming...

    that is not necessarily a bad thing.  My wife will drift in and out of my gaming sessions whenever she needs a laugh, but otherwise she leaves well enough alone.  I have no interest in Grey's Anatomy, and her gaming interest is just as fleeting.

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    Any way to check your funds?

    in Red Dead Redemption 2

    Posted

    On 11/6/2018 at 8:06 PM, Kean_1 said:

    D-pad down should expand the map if it isn't already, show the area, time, temp, amount of funds, etc.  Not unlike GTAV if you're familiar with that UI.

    Literally just figured that out yesterday when I was tinkering with my UI settings to set up a photo of a corpse wall comprised of O'Driscolls.

    I have to say, playing the game with nothing on the screen (not even a mini map) and using the companion app instead is absolutely something everyone should experience.  The immersion is frightening if for no other reason than how gorgeous the game is.

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    So do we need a class action suit for everyone who paid for the Ultimate version ?

    in Off-Topic

    Posted

    Hey everyone, just a quick reminder: discussion that doesn't involve actual game play or topics directly related to it should probably go in the Off Topic forum.   It's a conversation worth having, and I encourage everyone who purchased this edition to continue talking about it.

    I understand the argument for Ultimate Edition owners that the discussion involves the lack of items promised for game play.  If you think we need a separate subforum for legitimate complaints, such as the issue described above, the 4K debacle, bugs, or glitches, please let me know, and we'll look into keeping things a bit more organized.  But for now, I've moved it over here to Off Topic.

    Thanks!

    RDR2 Money Making

    in Red Dead Redemption 2

    Posted

    Just now, YodaMan 3D said:

    Cheating shouldn't be the answer.  Especially there are other ways to earn more then enough money to play.

    Trust me, they'll patch that out when RDR2O launches.  Dupe gold glitches would crash the in-game economy quicker than I can down a pint of Guinness.

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    People acting like loons today

    in Off-Topic

    Posted · Edited by BropolloCreed79

    14 hours ago, dIV4r said:

    I don't get why it has to be such a public thing forced on people either.

    Because of the money.  The Citizens United v. FEC case really opened the floodgates for unbridled political contributions and spending.  If you think back far enough to remember prior to that decision, the ads were nowhere near as bad as they were once that decision was made.

    Literally hundreds of millions of dollars are spent, and everyone wants a slice of the pie.  Special interests have many reasons to pour money into candidates' campaigns: (1) supporting candidates with money grants access to that person once they're in office.  If you want legislation supported or blocked, you can leverage your donations to influence the lawmaker.  (2) Favorable legislation in many industries, including deregulation, can have economic ramifications of BILLIONS of dollars.  Drug companies.  Arms manufacturers.  Special Interests (Big Oil, the NRA, Banking/Investment firms, etc) all stand to gain from favorable legislation.

    Another part of it is people need to feel like they belong to something.  Anymore, everyone has this false sense of connection because of the ubiquity of the Internet.  It's a shallow imitation of real life interaction and relationships--to the point that people willingly become indoctrinated into a political ideology for the express (if not unrealized) reason of belonging to something both greater than themselves, and real.  Elections have consequences, and for folks with an unhealthy relationship with politics, that obsession fills a void.

    I'm personally very interested in politics from an academic perspective.  For me, it's fun to watch the ways in which people of all political persuasions play games with logic and truth to fit a particular narrative or ideology.  It certainly has it's downsides, as extremism and radicalization on either end of the political spectrum has created a toxic partisan atmosphere that most reasonable folks find abhorrent.  I vote, but I make decisions based on individuals, or morals not party allegiance.

    5 hours ago, Jackthestripper said:

    I am just happy the campaign ads are off tv. I can't stand attack ads. Sometimes in one commercial segment I get 4 or 5 in a row. 

    What, you don't miss the slow-motion black and white ads that have the dude with the sinister voice talking in that distinct dialect:

    "BropolloCreed79 likes to eat burritos.  If he eats Mexican food, how can we trust him to secure our borders?"

    And then the woman's voice reading like the MicroMachines guy:

    "ThisadpaidforbyAmericansForBorderSecurityandisinnowayendorsedbyanycandidate"

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    Gambling In Red Dead Online – How Will It Work With Microtransactions?

    in Red Dead Online

    Posted

    1 hour ago, YodaMan 3D said:

    Thin ice.  IMHO, they shouldn't allow real money to be used for gambling.

    I agree, that's why the real money that you pay for Online store currency would be used to purchase in-game funds.  It'd be one thing if the in-game funds could be converted into real world cash, but they can't, and that's why there isn't an issue.  

    The "real money" isn't being directly used for gambling, so there's no issue--from a strictly legal perspective.  That's the workaround for lootboxes: most people aren't buying loot boxes directly, they're ostensibly laundering real cash into online currency which can have multiple uses, like skins, weapons, or emotes--or randomized lootboxes.  It's a fine line, but a very real one.

    How do you get loot from the back of a horse drawn wagons?

    in Red Dead Redemption 2

    Posted

    20 minutes ago, Truth said:

    All that has done for me is kill the horses and prevent me from selling it...

    Glad I stopped bothering with those. I'm having WAY more fun hunting.

    No horse is worth selling unless it's been trained/bonded.  If you look at the trends, you get more for horses that you've "leveled" than rando horses which you haven't.

    Me, I'm going to ride Arnold until I finish the game 

    Spoiler

    or until I get to chapter 6

    Sure, I'll go get the squatty potty horse or whatever people are losing their minds over, but for now, I keep a backup or two in the stable for variety then run with my draft horse. 

     

    And yes, hunting is draining a LOT of my time as well.

    Gambling In Red Dead Online – How Will It Work With Microtransactions?

    in Red Dead Online

    Posted

    41 minutes ago, YodaMan 3D said:

    Cause buying "DLC money and use it for gambling", would make it gambling with real money.  Which there are laws that need to be abide.  To big of a chance of players that would not show restraint and spend what they don't really have.  Already, kind of a problem with players in video games with microtransactions.

    Which is why they'll have a separate currency for online transactions.  If they follow the model used by "The Division" or "The Elder Scrolls Online", the in-game money will stay the same, but you'll have to use a separate currency that you can purchase with real world funds to buy additional "in-game" money. 

    Example: let's call the money you earn in-game from the fence and looting "US Currency".

    Now, let's say the online currency is going to be called "Deadeye Dollars".  You'll log into XBL or PSN with your credit card info to purchase "Deadeye Dollars", which can be used to buy a slew of things in the RDO online shop, from horses to guns and everything in between.  You'll also be able to use it to purchase "US Currency" to use in the game (maybe for gambling in-game).  As long as there isn't a way to convert "US Currency" back into "Deadeye Dollars" there isn't an issue in terms of gambling with real world money from a legal perspective.

    Punching suffragettes promotes violence

    in Red Dead Redemption 2

    Posted

    16 hours ago, Poggy said:

    edit: more detail - punching, killing and then feeding her to pigs.

    From what I read, he did much, MUCH more to her.  He basically built his channel (temporarily) around finding creative and inventive ways to kill her, like putting her on train tracks and tossing her off bridges.

    Not saying it's right or wrong to censor him, but there's more to the story.  YouTube is owned by Google.  Google is a very... progressive company, so I could see them closing the channel for that.

    I don't know.  WIll PETA have enough pull to shut down my channel on YT over the multiple "Suicide by Horse" videos I'll be posting soon?  (I've already started).  I mean, I"m punching the horse on purpose to initiate suicides, but if I don't get too many views, I should be fine.

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