Let us take a magical journey on this dark and cold winter night. Back to a time before the internet. Before gamer guides were so easily avai🌸lable. Before the days of walkthroughs, let’s plays, and step by step guides to help gamers through 📖the trickier scenes in well-known games.
Remember the good old days?ও When the only way to figure out how to maneuver one's way through a game was through good old fashioned trial and error? When you had to play a game for literal hours without advancing in the plot because you got stuck on some silly level and then when you asked your friends about said difficult part the next school day, you found out that it was actually incredibly easy?
You know what, the “good old days” of gaming actually weren’t that good. I love let’s plays. I love walkthroughs. And there are few things that are better than starting up a game and knowing what you’re doing. In a game as expansive and in-depth as Red Dead Redemption 2, players are going to need all of the help that they can get if they want to crack into the game and figure out the mechanics in record time. I have spent the better part of this week gathering as much information as I can in order to create an entertaining lis🎃t of twenty-five tips and tricks that will help you make the most out of your next Red Dead gaming session.
25 ꦍ Better Check The Weather
One of the many realistic and immersive aspects of the gameplay mechanics creat📖ed for this game is the effect that world temperature has on your character. Make sure to pack extra clothes when exploring the world for hotter and cooler temperatures will impact your character. Be sure to dress warmly when the temperature slips and pack a set of summer clothes in order to be prepared for the inevitable heat waves. Press down on the D-Pad in order to view the current in-game time and temperature in order to prepare your character for what lies ahead.
24 The Perks Of Using A Bandana 🤪
If you are planning on committing a concerningly large amount of in-game crimes, make sure that you pack a disguise. If your character dons a lovely little bandana while engaging in a crime spree, their reputation will be minorly protected, in a way. R꧑emove the bandana once your character has travelled outside of the search radius and you will notice that your “Wanted Meter” will clear significantly faster. Remember kids, if you’re going to commit a crime, make sure that no one can pin it on you afterwards.
23 �🐠� The Importance Of Checking The Map
As much as people want to avoid using the in-game map as much as possible, sometimes ไit truly does come in handy. Sometimes I like to see if my natural sense of direction works by testing to see if I can get my character to where I need to go without tracking my movements on the in-game map.
But sometimes, you are going to need to check the map.
And there is a very simple shortcut that players can use to bring u🧜p the map quickly. Simply hold the start button down in order to quickly bri🍒ng up the game’s map.
22 🌳 Clearing That Bounty
The entire game must be💦 populated by elephants because the NPCs will never forget a single thing that you do i෴n front of them. Seriously. If your character is consistently finding themselves in hot water, make sure that they clear their bounty in any given area or town. If they fail to do so, the townspeople will remember the trouble that you got up to the last time that you visited their neck of the woods and will make nonstop comments about it upon your arrival.
21 Giving Them Some Love 𝓰
I am about to reveal to you why Red Dead Redemption 2 is the absolute greatest game of all time. Not of 2018, not of the decade, but of all time. Are you ready for this? Alright, here it comes. Brace yourselves. In this game, you can pat/pet dogs. Any game that includes beau🍸tiful puppers but does not let you make direct contact with the little guys is not worth your time. But any game that allows you to pet and play with those dogs immediately wins my vote for best game ever.
20 🦄 The Impor🎐tance Of Smell
Smell is truly vital within this game. A strong scent coming off of your character can have bad side effects if left unchecked. If your character goes hunting without masking their scent, their prey might be able to catch a whiff of them which will alert tꦇhem of your presence and provide them the opportunity to escape.
And if yo൲u let your character go a bit too long without bathing, people will take notice. If you walk around covered in dirt, grime, blood, or any other from of filth people will take notice and avoid you.
19 ൲ The Properꦐ Way To Hunt
Hunting, both in the real world and its virtua🌃l counterpart, can be incredibly difficult if one does not know any of the tricks of the trade. Prey can so easily slip through even the most adept hunters' fingers if they slip up, even for a single second. In order to guarantee that your prey will not escape you so easily, PlayStation players can lock onto the selected animal. Pressing the ‘square’ button will cause the animal to lift up its head, providing the player with the perfect opportunity♚ to strike.
18 ⛦ Do The Rig🐻ht Thing
Though I love games that give players the ability to choose their own path, very few games truly nail the balance between good and bad choices. Sometimes the options are incredibly obvious as to which way they lean and sometimes they lead you in completely unpredictable directions. In Red Dead, the honor system was created in a way that makes it incredibly subjective and driven by immediate situations rather than a standard and universal l🐷aw of morality. Consider the consequences of each action before making a decision. Sometimes ending someone’s life might actually be the honorable decision.
17 Remember To Unequip ♛ 🐟
If you want to make sure that the public stays in your favour, make sure that you unequip all weapons before striking up a conversation with an NPC. If you don’t, you may accidentally pull one out and the people within the game do not take too kindly to finding themselves in such a risky predicament. Citizens will either react in fear or anger and these reactions will remove the ability to continue conversation with them entirely. Heed my words. Unequip you🐻r weapons.
16 Protec🔯t Your Meat 💞
Som💯e games let you hoard your spoils in order to create a reserve that can be tapped into at any ඣtime throughout gameplay. This is not one of those games.
When hunting for meat, certain precautions need to be taken. First off, make sure to strip the animal entirely. Anythi🐭ng left behind will attract less-friendly animals and the remains will decay as time progresses. Also, be warned. The animals that you take with you will turn if not properly taken care of. This can attract unfriendly animals and alienate you from your peers.