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Post by Jägerbomber on Jan 30, 2020 23:39:13 GMT
Fullscreen this: (and unfortunately I can't embed) https://www.reddit.com/r/reddeadredemption/comments/ettnfo/by_far_the_finest_volumetric_clouds_ive_seen_in_a/
Also, supposed GTA 6 playtester leak, who... I believe is talking about all the way back in 2014? idk
But if that was when he's talking about, that was a loooong time ago...
While I'm still really for game worlds getting bigger (and even feeling confined by RDR2), it's the side/secondary/fringe details that Rockstar doesn't commit on that worry me, as well as annoy me (currently). And I'm not talking about map details (much anyways). Why does does the food and stamina system exist in RDR2 if you can still do and complete everything at your lowest possible health? (And the 1-time permanently maxed out stamina meter in GTA Online STILL amuses me. Like.... Why they fuck was that a thing if you were not willing to commit to it??....) And that sadly you still cannot play through their games (even RDR2) without on rare occasions not being able to see the specific spots it wants you to go (mission task circles) if you have the minimap disabled. And other side things like how extremely difficult it is to find a male Moose in RDR2 (it took me literal months) while the Legendary animals are marked out for you.  ugh......... |
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Post by Jägerbomber on Feb 4, 2020 22:20:55 GMT
Dan Houser, one of the 2 Rockstar founding brothers is leaving the company.
I STILL haven't gone online in RDR2 (not that I haven't wanted to), but apparently a lot of the time animals have not been spawning for months now and just now R* is saying they're looking for a fix:
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Post by spaceboy on Feb 6, 2020 1:52:50 GMT
Had some fun a few times online rdr2 with my older son and daughter. Was pretty fun, but nothing major making us want to go back to it much.
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Post by Jägerbomber on Feb 6, 2020 6:55:48 GMT
So believe or not, after over a year, I just now went "exploring"/wandering through New Austin. California Quail info said that's where they were and apparently over my year of playing, I've actually killed 3 (probably ran over with my horse), but never picked any up.  Ended up walking along the shoreline and ended up getting a Desert Iguana, which there are a crapload of there. Brought it back to the Tall Trees Trapper (which is becoming a pain), came back over the bridge into the grassy fields, as much new intention was to a Pronghorn, but I wasn't paying close enough attention and didn't realize that American Pronghorns spawn in those grassy fields, while the desert ones only spawn beyond the cliffside, even though they're both part of "New Austin". So that was a wasted trip back to the Tall Trees Trapper. Next time I left my horse up in the grassy area (because I felt like it) and continued on foot down into that canyon, that only part I had previously explored on that 1 final mission with Sadie Adler. Kept going and eventually found Armadillo, which..... is run down with most everyone sick. Saved the Sheriff, who then proceeded to leave town, and then a posse proceeded to ride in, because R* is weird about pacing dynamic events, and took them out, but as John commented, the town was too out of it to care. Speaking of pacing things and things you might miss.... The other night I just met the black guy who sets up camps asking for herbs. And I've met him/completed his tasks like 3 times in the last 2 days. These things make me really wonder what doesn't appear for me because I never pay my bounty and always seem to have a small bounty (that doesn't get me pursued) because I've accidentally pissed of somebody with my horse at some point.  Do things not occur if your reputation is somewhere in the middle, or even a little positive, or just have a little bounty at all? That is frustrating. But I have been getting the moonshiners throughout still. Anyways, in this last trip through New Austin tonight I decided to not check my map, plus I was on foot. After the Armadillo stuff, I literally found those new Pronghorns right on the edge of town. Skinned one and I believe decided to take the South road out of town, rather than the East one I came in on. SOMEHOW I got lost along that way.... again carrying a pronghorn skin on foot. I also encountered sandstorms for the very first time, a few times. Hell, I was extremely close to just walking off the massive cliff that.... were I believe were West/SouthWest of Armadillo? How the hell did I end up there?? and on top of them even. lol Finally believed I got my bearings once the current sandstorm ended there, which I did. I finally, and barely, got a glimpse of the river, which I had wandered along on the first trip, but I had to get down the cliffs and cross the big valley instead. That was long... and yet even so I had already been walking for longer than that beforehand. I haven't even looked at the map again fully to see just how much I "explored" with all that, though the map does fill in rather generously around you. |
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Post by spaceboy on Feb 7, 2020 1:40:27 GMT
Ha! Sounds like a fun meandering trip around the area there
It's a pretty map to explore that's for sure. Our most fun came from killing each other around some dilapidated fort, then trying to chuck our dead bodies over the top onto a barrel or something. Also when my 2 kids ganged up on me and chased me around the map etc.
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Post by Jägerbomber on Feb 7, 2020 6:15:37 GMT
Oh man, that last part reminded me of chasing my sisters around Midnight Club.
And Midnight Club 2 had the best cheats out of the series - missile launchers and Ghost Rider motorcycle rider. They weren't in 3 (or DUB), but I was kind of amused when they finally added a vehicle with those missile launchers in GTA Online.... years after launch. It was in like one of the first sets of extra crazy vehicles.
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Post by Jägerbomber on Apr 7, 2020 4:36:32 GMT
Btw, if you find that water snakes are nearly impossible to track or study in RDR2, use your binoculars. They actually work.... at least in this case.  They don't work on fish, though. |
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Post by Jägerbomber on Apr 15, 2020 18:47:32 GMT
kotaku.com/18-months-after-red-dead-redemption-2-rockstar-has-mad-1842880524In terms of Online, I thought they were already doing Moderate Releases.  Again, I STILL have not entered RDR2 Online, but I want to (though I don't know how well I can "solo" it (which is what I like to do, but want to see other player around), with how poorly GTA Online handled solo players). The big backlash really quickly for RDR2 Online right at the start was that there was nothing to do. I genuinely don't know what the player count looks like, but I fear that it could be dead before it "got good" or before I even get to it.
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Post by Jägerbomber on Apr 25, 2020 5:33:43 GMT
OMG....... It's so easy to get out of the map, it's not even funny. Ok, it is funny. You go to a cave at the edge of the map, pass out drunk, and you're out of the map. That easy..... And guess what! YOU CAN EVEN GET BACK TO GUARMA!!!!! Like holy crap. I found a different and easier, way of entering Guarma than the old video guide I used, and possibly longer since I went ALL the way around the outside of New Austin and then some, but the original way that they use to get out of the map which points more East was patched out, as far as I can tell. Anyways, I kept it safe and didn't get very close the actual map so I wouldn't have a chance of falling in, though I probably could have been a lot closer and might do that next time. I stayed more towards the outside and watched the border of the "blurry lands" while not falling into it, until I need to. The original exploit let you take your horse with you, but that no longer works. But the guy did show a route to some horses you can grab. Believe it or not, animals do spawn in places out there (to an extent), but they are all locked in place. I found a full pack of wolves hiding in a bush and watched as they snarled at me, then I walked away. I really should have gotten one of those horses because the trip around one of the outer edges out of bounds around New Austin is LOOOOONG on foot. If you're paying enough attention, Guarma borders the map somewhere east of New Austin, which itself sticks out (including its out of bounds) farther south than the rest the map. The thing is, Guarma don't look like Guarma, it looks nearly like all the other blurry lands outside the out of bounds. But if you're thinking and looking at it, you can kind of guess which one it is, which is still nervewracking at least the first time even when the game tells you you're in Guarma already by checking. This specific point is actually in the middle of the ocean outside of the tiny playable Guarma area. You don't see water (btw that river in New Austin does just end in a dead-end canyon, which luckily I could walk way around). But right after you nervously jump into the blurry zone, you soon die, at least at this location, in the middle of the ocean, but seemingly not from drowning. In the demonstration video which used a different location, they kept falling and used a save to load into Guarma. The funny thing is, I made a save, but my quick death loaded me in Guarma anyways. And so will your future deaths. The really good thing though (because I feared that maybe I couldn't get back now) is that loading a save brings you back to the mainland. Not sure how their save got them into Guarma if that's the case, but I didn't need it. But yeah, loooooong walk tonight. I gotta find those horses. I should have said this earlier, but you can unfortunately permanently miss a lot of the animals in Guarma if you don't get them the first time, or get back to Guarma this way, though some of them spawn on one of the islands near the mainland, the ones exclusive to Guarma do not count towards completion/skills, but it does leave those blank boxes in your compendium. So that's why I went back to Guarma, but I'm gonna have to take another trip (hopefully with a horse) to get the rest because it's too late at night. Also, I saw a teaser for killing a Turtle that is unlisted in the compendium, though I'm not sure yet how he did it because it's actually difficult to get to the water. There's zones, some not even marked, where you get shot at from invisible entities (and there's some actual guards as well) and also the gate in the cave into the compound is permanently unopenable even though it's visually unlocked. But I did sneak in anyways, though it was pointless - just messing around and killing time at night because there's no damned birds then. Also, IT WAS STORMING A FRICKIN' CRAPLOAD!...
You know... I don't actually know how the progression with being able to replay the story missions actually works? You would think that could maybe get you the animals, but I haven't seen anyone say to do that? 
One other thing I wanted to say the previous day, unrelated - Unlike the other animals in the compendium, even though the Oxen and the Bulls share the same first names, they are not grouped together in the compendium. That sent me places that I didn't need to be at anymore. And the Devon Bull specifically was annoyingly rare, even though I learned the Bull spawns.
Oh and of course when trying out the first now-patched method of getting out of the map, I found maybe my 2nd or 3rd Bull Moose ever.... They do run away pretty early, compared to other animals it seems.
Oh yes, maybe I'll see the screenshot eventually (I took many), but one moment that amused me while marching along the looooong completely barren edge of the map was "You can find Treasure Maps in the world. Keep a look out for Treasure Hunters or buy them at a Fence."  ok yeah |
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Post by Jägerbomber on Apr 26, 2020 6:23:47 GMT
So it turns out it is possible to get into Guarma with the snipers disabled. I just wish I had known that before my trip today, which could be my last, perhaps.
Yeah, being out of the map is fun to do the first time or so and you can probably get more neat screenshots than I'm willing to put the effort into, but otherwise it's pretty tedious being out there, even though it's so easy to do.
The trip from where I exit the map to start the trip to Guarma is VERY long, even on horse. I guess there may be ways of doing it shorter, but eh.
As for entering Guarma with no snipers, I wonder if that method will work in my location for entering, which again I wish I had known before today because it might just be passing out drunk once again rather than jumping into the abyss. whoops. not completely sure though.
The last snake in Guarma is a massive pain in the ass and I wasted way too much time on it. There's probably less than a 1% chance that it'll spawn near the 1 location the boas spawn. But there is indeed a second area which is in the front sugarcane field. The person in the video couldn't confirm exactly where it might spawn before just finding its track and chasing it down, but I might have pinpointed where it spawns (maybe). Ugh, so much time.....
As for being in Guarma without snipers, if I were to do it, that allows for much more exploration, including more potential to go out of bounds.
There's a sea turtle that does not show up in the compendium but which you can still study I believe and throw and axe at. The crazy guy also found a shark that has a chance of beaching itself at the very SouthWest corner of the map, which is a pain to get to and requires swimming and wallhugging, and then climbing over a massive boring mountain.
I do wonder if you can get up to the island castle again over the bridge or if there's actual guards there (or do they not spawn either with the no-sniper method?)
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Post by Jägerbomber on Apr 28, 2020 5:30:06 GMT
Ugh, of course the last Legendary Panther won't even spawn unless you've completed the hunting challenges (which have to be done in order, btw). That's bullshit! Just let me play damned game! Make it more immersive, don't over-gamify it.
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Post by Jägerbomber on Apr 29, 2020 0:46:24 GMT
And now I'm regretting selling all the jewelry and things I've gotten throughout the game (at least not to a Fence?) because you need those for all of those trinkets.
Hell, for at least one of the trinkets you have to get the reward for completing one of the Card Packs... Frickin' hell.......
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Post by spaceboy on Apr 29, 2020 17:47:21 GMT
Well I never did much of the challenges in RDR2, just story and some side quests. Really enjoyed it. That does sound like a pain in the butt though with those requirements. LOl at all that getting out of the map!
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Post by Jägerbomber on May 3, 2020 5:43:59 GMT
Randomized Wallpapers in Windows is weird. I have an insanely massive Wallpaper folder and it's already giving me one of my RDR2 Out-of-Map screenshots: I think it generally gives more recent ones.
The right side is the "blurry lands" which is actually a void you drop into. (This here I believe is heading East from the SW corner of New Austin w/ the end of the river on your left). If you drop out of the map in the right spot, you'll die and spawn in Guarma. Crazy.
At the end of the river here, the map doesn't extend much further, but other places, especially North of New Austin (and the SE corner of it as well kind of) it's massive, including multiple other mountains going way up West Elizabeth's Northern distance/Western side, but all blank and unpolished including plenty of ground spikes to be wary of not getting stuck in, potentially. More spikes south of New Austin as well (actually some nasty ones are in the ravine up ahead, but you can't see them from here), and even some spots that might resemble a place that would have sand dunes, too, from a distance, but don't actually. (- beyond these hills)
Guarma is placed East of New Austin, south of the rest of the map, but you gotta trek north up the east side of New Austin first and then turn east again for a bit, then you'll come to another weird outward corner that sticks into Guarma's ocean, which does not look like ocean from your point of view, but you can check the map. What you see is 2 sections of green blurry land. I know the left side of the corner gets you into Guarma. I'm not sure about the right. (there's a dividing line) It might do the same.
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Post by spaceboy on May 4, 2020 11:23:24 GMT
So you can explore all that out of map area? I mean until an invisible wall or something, but there is a lot of space to roam? Crazy.
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Do things not occur if your reputation is somewhere in the middle, or even a little positive, or just have a little bounty at all? That is frustrating. But I have been getting the moonshiners throughout still.
ok yeah