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Poggy

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  1. Yes.  In this game, without using any guide, that would literally take you months of solid playing and would be very, very difficulty. To see every cutscene, hear every line of dialogue, trigger every stranger mission variable, loot every box, see every time sensitive Easter egg, collect every collectible, get every award and every trophy - my life, it be a full time job! :)

    And even then, it's better to go through the story missions having FUN, and not redoing them again and again then and there, coming back to them later and fresher after doing other FUN stuff.  Trying to hit Gold every time, first time, or before moving on, is a recipe for frustration.  Imagine doing that with other areas of the game - every time you miss a perfect hunting shot reloading and trying again??  Seems a bit OTT.  

    Clearly the lack of goals prior was to encourage a RPG mindset to missions, with gamist/completist mindsets to be left until after you've 'told the story' and 'played the character'.

  2. The guide notes that special tonics (like moonshine and aged pirate rum, can be gained either as rewards, random drops in specific encounters, looted in specific stranger encounters, or found in certain hidden locations (for rum).

     

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    Rum: at foot of small shack SE of Shady Belle mansion

    I've been pretty lucky finding these all over in bandit camps, moonshine camps, home robberies, deserted shacks and ghost towns, stranger encounters, loots, lock boxes etc.  If you free roam enough you accumulate all kinds of stuff fairly easily.  Good luck!

  3. It obviously has tokenistic diversity NPCs and political agenda-heavy stories and things.  You're right.  It's a shame.

     I've kinda gotten used to this sort of stuff in media these days and mostly just block it out and try to enjoy the characters and missions regardless of the SJW spectre in the background.  If I got annoyed at every PC storyline a tick box character in modern media, I'd either have to give up all cinema, music, TV and games or explode :)

    One day I think the whole SJ fad will go away.  Until then, I just try to have fun regardless.

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  4. I suggest only doing minimal free roam until chapter 3.  Do some, definitely, to get used to the slower pace of the game.  But mostly missions and side missions.  Chapter 1 is tutorial; Chapter 2 unlocks stuff.

    And I thought a number of missions for chapters 1 and 2 were great fun and quite engaging :)

  5. 23 minutes ago, Skysaw said:

    This is a good explanation. Took me ages to figure this stuff out myself. Some of the mechanics really should be explained better in-game.

    Totally agree!  This is why I put 'get the guide' at the top of my recommendations for new players - it saves a lot of trial and error, wondering, and hassle about even the basic stuff! :)

  6. It's true that people might be quick to call something a bug - but this is because there's already been so many bugs found/reported in combination with there being a lack of detailed explanation about in-game mechanics easily available as you play.  I agree people are too quick to label things as glitches or broken mechanics, but that atmosphere could largely have been avoided if the game have so many genuine issues at release.

    It'll settle down over the next month, I reckon.  I hope!

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