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Can someone give mea reason for playing RDR2 on-line. I am very happy off-line but want to know what I might be missing.

Does any one else feel uncomfortable discarding empty bean cans in the pristine wilderness. How about a trophy for caring for the environment?

I am very new to RDR2 and am wondering whether it is possible to befriend one of the stray dogs, other than merely a passing pat, so that one may accompany me on my many and extended trips to the wilderness.

Must try a white Russian. Harking back, Buttlint, I think 'malice' is too strong a word for my irritation with Dutch. I can't fault his correction of bullies and racists but nor can I help seeing a degree of manipulation in his constant stress on 'loyalty' - not unlike Tesco's 'Loyalty Card" that sullies an otherwise admirable virtue with commercial/political interest. I am still making a dog's dinner of all my set battles, never knowing what my targets are, where I am supposed to run to and so on. I hope I am right in thinking that the perfect run-throughs I see on You Tube are the result of many many repetitions? I don't watch them now, preferring to blunder blind into these confrontations and suffer the inevitable dire consequences.

Good advice Buttlint. I have indeed suffered from gummed-up eyes and headaches after several 14-hour stints and consequently cutdown. I guess my 'second life' in RDR2 is in many ways preferable to my first-life outside of the game. What are White Russians? On 'malice', my alter-ego Arthur Morgan and I both set great store by loyalty and as the Blind Man told us in the wilderness that which is your strength is also your weakness and Dutch's comment got under our skin. It is remarkable how my own personality traits become part of Arthur's - irritation at the sloth of other camp members when I am diligently doing chores and contributing as much as I can, and a flavour of anti-authoritarianism in my relationship with Dutch. Not helped by his casual acceptance of the pipe I took great trouble to obtain for him.

Thanks so much for your words Buttlint. Good to know I am not alone in skulking in the woods for days on end avoiding confrontation. I have been so long out of camp that I believe AI sent people out to find me (Charles) . I had an idea that the Ai wanted me dead because it sent a pack of wolves to attack me while I was at the counter in Valentine station trying to pay off a bounty before I was captured. I am a very new gamer (first game Resident Evil 4 at age 73) and take a long time to feel easy with the context-dependent controller functions. Still not sure whether Dead eye and Eagle eye are the same thing or not. A question - would it be OK for me to kill Dutch? I don't like him all - especially after he prophesied that I would betray him in the end because " I am the type". Yes Buttlint who else but 'Boomers' would be able to spend so much time in the splendid world of RDR2? (average 8 hours a day for me). I have never engaged in any forum before and am much gratified to actually get such helpful, intelligent and interesting responses.

Foxtrot this was really useful. I planted a marker in the fog near Annesburg and as you say, when I arrived the map in the area had cleared. I can now go for the treasure and legends there.Many thanks. I would be really lost, figuratively and actually without all the excellent advice I find on-line. No doubt I will have more requests for help.

Thanks Foxtrot. I'm looking forward to a second play through. Only just beginning to use DeadEye properly. I am concerned, though, that large parts of the map where treasure and legendary animals are found are still fogged out for me - eg North-East of Hanover. I am hoping the areas will unlock at some point.

Many thanks for the responses to my query about the age of players. I have only played Resident Evil 4 and 5 before, starting after age 70. The difference between those games and RDR2 is the moral element of the latter - it is definitely different killing zombies or multi-headed monsters. I am so emersed in RDR2 that all my emotions are engaged - guilt, shame, (collecting debts from the likes of the Downes family) embarrassment (at my incompetence) and joy and wonder at the wilderness and wildlife. I am an atheist but it seems to me that the AI acts as a kind of Creator with an ethical agenda non-existent in the non-gaming world. The minor key music that swells up after particularly emotional moments swallows me up at times. And always after I have committed some atrocity accidentally - punching my beloved horse, shooting a woman I meant to help home, arresting a man who pleaded for forgiveness and redemption because I didn't know what else to do to progress, and because the function of some buttons mysteriously changes. There are many lessons for life in this 'game' that is not a game at all but a very real part of my life and search for my own redemption.

Hi Friends, I am half way through Chapter 4 and only just discovered how to Take Cover. A lot of the time, especially in major battles, I am totally confused and quickly killed. I am wondering whether I am too old at 75. Any other senior citizens enjoying RDR2 as much as I am? Sapper.