The Bounty Hunter General Thread

[OrionSR]

 

I FINALLY managed to succeed on the "Four guys, way off in the winter area up north." Boy, that one is a bear. 

That's an awesome mission. Tough too. A sniper, gun turret and lots of defenders riding in to a complex environment. Definitely not the mission I'm after for a challenge to finish quickly.  My current strategy: kill one, lasso another, and drag him after the runner. Hogtie and stow one alive and drag the other to the prison wagon. Hopefully the target I left alive hasn't escaped. I figure if I balance the kills 50/50 then I won't have to brush my horse to get maximum honor again.

 

My strategy for leveling up the bounties was to always keep up with the role challenges, they provide a nice XP bonus. Instead of grinding one mission after another I would try to maximize the gold earned by mixing bounties with collections so the total time of the mission would be at least 9 minutes, and hopefully not much more than 15. The strategy seem to maximize bounty XP as well, but more importantly, broke up the monotony of the grind.

[Leftover Pizza]

I've always found this role a true torture to play and never progressed beyond rank 3 (including the 1K XP bonus of late) and decided to progress on my intention to reach at least rank 7 for the EE+ perk. Not gonna lie, it's gonna be a struggle of mainly boredom and grinding my way there. Did about 3 Legendary Bounties and a whole bunch of normal ones..... just barely made it into rank 5 this evening. 

Sadly, it's the only activity in this game I can make any progression on for the coming months. 

[CaliMeatWagon]

1 minute ago, Leftover Pizza said:

I've always found this role a true torture to play and never progressed beyond rank 3 (including the 1K XP bonus of late) and decided to progress on my intention to reach at least rank 7 for the EE+ perk. Not gonna lie, it's gonna be a struggle of mainly boredom and grinding my way there. Did about 3 Legendary Bounties and a whole bunch of normal ones..... just barely made it into rank 5 this evening. 

Sadly, it's the only activity in this game I can make any progression on for the coming months. 

What is is that you are struggling with? 

I find the bounties to be extremely enjoyable and have done over 400+, so maybe I can help. 

[Leftover Pizza]

1 minute ago, CaliMeatWagon said:

What is is that you are struggling with? 

I find the bounties to be extremely enjoyable and have done over 400+, so maybe I can help. 

I find them very not enjoyable. That’s my biggest struggle. They are easy to do. The struggle is me, doing a role I don’t like, but also can’t tolerate a non maxed statistic on my list. Nothing anyone can help me with. Thanks for offering, btw. 
 

[CaliMeatWagon]

Just now, Leftover Pizza said:

I find them very not enjoyable. That’s my biggest struggle. They are easy to do. The struggle is me, doing a role I don’t like, but also can’t tolerate a non maxed statistic on my list. Nothing anyone can help me with. Thanks for offering, btw. 
 

Have you considered doing them coupled with other activities? 
When you grab the bounty you have ~20 minutes to get there (unless you or another player triggers the radius). That is plenty of time hunt and find collectibles. Plus the targets and friends tend to have collectibles. And so do the areas that they are at. 
I like to do this going from town to town. Dropping off the bounty in a different town that I picked it up from. 

[Leftover Pizza]

12 minutes ago, CaliMeatWagon said:

Have you considered doing them coupled with other activities? 
When you grab the bounty you have ~20 minutes to get there (unless you or another player triggers the radius). That is plenty of time hunt and find collectibles. Plus the targets and friends tend to have collectibles. And so do the areas that they are at. 
I like to do this going from town to town. Dropping off the bounty in a different town that I picked it up from. 

 

Yeah, I have been doing that, but will soon start a grind to get it over with as quick as possible.  

[CaliMeatWagon]

38 minutes ago, Leftover Pizza said:

 

Yeah, I have been doing that, but will soon start a grind to get it over with as quick as possible.  

Well hopefully this helps: 

XPpM: XP per Minute
XPpH: XP per Hour

Edited January 13, 2020 by CaliMeatWagon

[Leftover Pizza]

44 minutes ago, CaliMeatWagon said:

Well hopefully this helps: 

XPpM: XP per Minute
XPpH: XP per Hour

 

Thanks. That will help. I'm counting on about 7 bounties per level, so it's not gonna be that bad. So far I've brought them all in alive. Closing in on rank 7 soon. 

[CaliMeatWagon]

1 minute ago, Leftover Pizza said:

 

Thanks. That will help. I'm counting on about 7 bounties per level, so it's not gonna be that bad. So far I've brought them all in alive. Closing in on rank 7 soon. 

Just keep in mind that the timer you see on screen and the timer used for dictating mission pay are not the same. 
The mission timer starts as soon as you pick up the bounty and you get the loud "BONGGGGG" and text on your screen. The timer ends when you drop it off and you get the same text. 
For Cash, Gold, and XP, the best time is 9 minutes 10 seconds to 10 minutes 10 seconds. (They payout switches somewhere around 8 seconds after the minute) 

[Leftover Pizza]

This is a very very bad XP role. fecking 37 XP for bringing in one dead. Might as well give me nothing instead. I'm close to Rank 7 and after that, feck this role. feck this role in the asshole with a big rubber dick. Then break it off and beat it with the rest of it!

[Dexter_Raminus]

On 1/13/2020 at 2:32 AM, CaliMeatWagon said:

Just keep in mind that the timer you see on screen and the timer used for dictating mission pay are not the same. 
The mission timer starts as soon as you pick up the bounty and you get the loud "BONGGGGG" and text on your screen. The timer ends when you drop it off and you get the same text. 
For Cash, Gold, and XP, the best time is 9 minutes 10 seconds to 10 minutes 10 seconds. (They payout switches somewhere around 8 seconds after the minute) 

Appreciate the work you do, but when I see a big spreadsheet wall of stats like that my brain goes blank .  I'm primarily doing the Bounty Hunting for fun and as a fairly reliable source of gold (not worried about cash or XP, doing fine for xp and got my Lvl 20 in Trader for cash) - am I right in thinking the gold reward isn't tied to dead or alive status it is primarily linked to time spent in mission from the point of activation? Also am I right in concluding it is better to do two bounties in 10 minutes each for 0.24 gold per run (total 0.48 gold) rather than letting one bounty tick up to 20 minutes for 0.40?

[CaliMeatWagon]

48 minutes ago, Dexter_Raminus said:

Appreciate the work you do, but when I see a big spreadsheet wall of stats like that my brain goes blank .  I'm primarily doing the Bounty Hunting for fun and as a fairly reliable source of gold (not worried about cash or XP, doing fine for xp and got my Lvl 20 in Trader for cash) - am I right in thinking the gold reward isn't tied to dead or alive status it is primarily linked to time spent in mission from the point of activation? Also am I right in concluding it is better to do two bounties in 10 minutes each for 0.24 gold per run (total 0.48 gold) rather than letting one bounty tick up to 20 minutes for 0.40?

Yep, gold is tied to time like the others, but isn't tied to difficulty or if they are alive. Just on bounty completion. The chart is color coded so it should help, best is green, worst is red. For gold, best would be 9 minutes level $ bounties. 

[Dexter_Raminus]

2 hours ago, CaliMeatWagon said:

Yep, gold is tied to time like the others, but isn't tied to difficulty or if they are alive. Just on bounty completion. The chart is color coded so it should help, best is green, worst is red. For gold, best would be 9 minutes level $ bounties. 

Brilliant. Thank you. This is music to my ears. I can play like a proper Dr King Schultz or William Munny and bring em in dead for the gold then

[kcole4001]

I just unlocked the reverse spin pamphlet, but it won't check off in my list, I've 'read' it many times and it's still unchecked.

Is it broken for anyone else?

[BUT THE BENZ]

15 minutes ago, kcole4001 said:

I just unlocked the reverse spin pamphlet, but it won't check off in my list, I've 'read' it many times and it's still unchecked.

Is it broken for anyone else?

The mechanics will be unlocked, but there's a couple of those pamphlets which just won't check off. Try not to bother

[kcole4001]

9 hours ago, BUT THE BENZ said:

The mechanics will be unlocked, but there's a couple of those pamphlets which just won't check off. Try not to bother

The spin doesn't work either.

It should be double tap Tab (holster).

[BUT THE BENZ]

7 hours ago, kcole4001 said:

The spin doesn't work either.

It should be double tap Tab (holster).

Oh, the mechanic itself doesn't work?! You on PC eh? Sorry I just know of pamphlet duplicates and some just not checking off after reading them 100+ times. You should probably hit support with that!

[OrionSR]

I thought that the only gun skill that is checked is the one that is currently active, but I'm not sure how to change which is active.

[kcole4001]

17 hours ago, BUT THE BENZ said:

Oh, the mechanic itself doesn't work?! You on PC eh? Sorry I just know of pamphlet duplicates and some just not checking off after reading them 100+ times. You should probably hit support with that!

Now it works, probably just a session-wide glitch, since resupply missions were busted also.

[Tha-Jamz]

On 1/13/2020 at 1:45 AM, Leftover Pizza said:

I find them very not enjoyable. That’s my biggest struggle. They are easy to do. The struggle is me, doing a role I don’t like, but also can’t tolerate a non maxed statistic on my list. Nothing anyone can help me with. Thanks for offering, btw. 
 

Just do the legendary bounty's as much as you can to speed it up, i liked those more instead of the repetitive bounty posters from the boards.

I did 1 or 2 posters and then a legendary, 1 or 2 posters, legendary etc etc.

It will speed up progression and mixes it up a lill.

I really like the Barbarella Alcazar  one, so i did that one 6 or 7 times and gives some more challenge up to 5 stars.

 

Im glad i maxed out the Bounty hunter role because of the stuff i wanted and the awesome Steel Grey Breton horse that i named "Bad News"

[Chrismads]

Sorry if this has already been answered, but I can't scroll through 23 pages.

 

Has anyone ever successfully extracted a bounty from a hideout unoticed?

Like choking them unconscious and sneaking out with them.

[RyuNova]

On 2/16/2020 at 12:44 AM, Chrismads said:

Sorry if this has already been answered, but I can't scroll through 23 pages.

 

Has anyone ever successfully extracted a bounty from a hideout unoticed?

Like choking them unconscious and sneaking out with them.

 

Tried many times and nada. Some automatically spot you as you get close and others get alerted as soon as you kill someone even if if its a knock out or knifing.

[Rockett800]

@Chrismads @RyuNova

I've actually managed it, but only once. It was a camp spawn, the one north of Tumbleweed with the overlook that the bounty walks to. There's a spotter at the top of the cliff that the Bounty talks to, then walks away from.

 

What I did was arrow the lookout, then sprinted up behind the bounty and tossed off the corpse. Came around, got behind the bounty on their way back up and knocked him out from stealth with fists. Picked him up, ran to my horse and left.

 

Now, I haven't been able to replicate this since. I know you can't tie up the knocked out bounty, that's a camp alert; and sometimes the bounty just knows you're behind them, but it can be done.

[Rev. Gnash]

Sound bounty hunting advice.

 

[JumpingKentFlash]

I’m still only at 15. I’m doing it only to get the level 20 steel grey Breton 

[Hiply]

I've discovered that if a) your bounty is driving an oil wagon and b) you decide that dynamiting said wagon is your preferred path to ending the bounty hunt expeditiously then c) the Valentine Sheriff is not impressed with your ingenuity and reduces your reward for bringing him the charbroiled remains of the wanted man.

[Hiply]

On 4/4/2020 at 3:08 AM, JumpingKentFlash said:

I’m still only at 15. I’m doing it only to get the level 20 steel grey Breton 

Yes, I'm not particularly motivated to push BH - I keep wanting to just slaughter the mark and their entire entourage.  I have the L20 Moonshiner mount and absolutely love the L20 Roadster so I'm in no rush to get the Breton.

 

[JumpingKentFlash]

15 hours ago, Hiply said:

Yes, I'm not particularly motivated to push BH - I keep wanting to just slaughter the mark and their entire entourage.  I have the L20 Moonshiner mount and absolutely love the L20 Roadster so I'm in no rush to get the Breton.

 

Same here man, though I want the Breton because it looks cool. I have a level 20 Roadster too, not to mention a Kladruber, two Shires, Ardennes, Turkoman and a few others 

[Hiply]

Just decided...as I've 20'd the other three Roles...to continue some work on BH.  Didn't last long, just until I brought in a bounty dead - quite within the stated terms of the wanted poster - and lost honor.  Seriously?  The Law said get 'em dead or alive...

Edited May 3, 2020 by Hiply

[Hiply]

Ok,  I gave it another shot and...I simply want to keep killing them all.

Given the Alive/Dead XP ratio I can't see pursuing this path any further since that voice in my head saying "Kill 'em all, they're going to swing anyway" keeps shouting over the other voice saying "But mah XP!"