Things you do that nobody else does in RDO.

[fryday]

On 9/21/2020 at 8:04 PM, Assblaster said:

That's dead on how I play. Easy does it...sometimes I work, sometimes I play, sometimes I hunt down some bounties, or rob a few dastardly-looking fellas with potty mouths, other times I vacation far off, visit old friends. Then there are times I hunt and fish. Role-playing in this game, with everything functioning right and all the NPCs and wildlife and random events spawning well, is about the best there is across all genres at the moment, in my opinion. 

 

Love this game!

Same Here. Perfect Game for a saturday morning to Wake Up, get some Coffee and enjoy the fresh morning idling around your Camp.

[bonafidebaconbit]

Decided not to be a typical cowboy. Currently role playing as a British big game hunter on vacation to the colonies. Specify what I do, how I make my money, and what I invest my skills and money into with this mindset. 
 

character loosely based off “The Most Dangerous Game” novel

Edited September 23, 2020 by bonafidebaconbit
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[Failed Again]

On 9/17/2020 at 3:51 PM, Direwrath said:

I revived him once, never again..

 

My husband is reckless with his horses, runs them into and off of every tree or cliff he can find so I have to be very lenient with him, but he does a better job of not shooting npc horses than I do.

It seems my problem is that I love riding up beside them and blasting the npc off the horse with the shotgun, and sometimes I miss my mark and end up getting them both. So I can't be too unhappy with him.

I'll admit to cringing when I have to destroy the wagons though, those poor carriage horses.

 

I have to add sometimes I ride my wifes horse, she hates it if I go too close to cliff edges, or take Cough shortcuts down semi rugged terrain

Women help us be better men

[IamCourtney]

I charge myself $75 per death to keep things interesting.

[Failed Again]

5 hours ago, IamCourtney said:

I charge myself $75 per death to keep things interesting.

Can I be your Bagman?

[IamCourtney]

1 minute ago, Failed Again said:

Can I be your Bagman?

It all goes to Harriet so if you can work out a deal with her, I have no objections!

[ALifeOfMisery]

I doubt that no one else does it, but I play the game without any background or ambient music.

[IamCourtney]

1 hour ago, ALifeOfMisery said:

I doubt that no one else does it, but I play the game without any background or ambient music.

It's funny, I mute the music in a majority of games I play for feeling too artificial and overbearing to the action at hand. If you narrow it down to similar open-world roleplaying games then RDO stands alone in having the music on, it just feels organic and complimentary in a way I rarely find elsewhere.

[Dark Spark]

I have the music turned down to near-subliminal levels. It's quite distracting otherwise.

[Direwrath]

On 9/23/2020 at 12:26 PM, Failed Again said:

I have to add sometimes I ride my wifes horse, she hates it if I go too close to cliff edges, or take Cough shortcuts down semi rugged terrain

Women help us be better men

Yep, men and their "shortcuts".

My husband is not allowed to ride my babies for that reason, usually, unless it is a dire emergency.

[kcole4001]

13 hours ago, IamCourtney said:

It's funny, I mute the music in a majority of games I play for feeling too artificial and overbearing to the action at hand. If you narrow it down to similar open-world roleplaying games then RDO stands alone in having the music on, it just feels organic and complimentary in a way I rarely find elsewhere.

For the most part I agree, except for the odd dissonant noise I usually hear around Annesburg.

That doesn't fit at all, I find it quite annoying.

[4eyedcoupe]

15 hours ago, ALifeOfMisery said:

I doubt that no one else does it, but I play the game without any background or ambient music.

One of my playstations has the setting set that way for RDO, it's always a pleasant change when I switch and play on that one.

[DentureDynamite]

9 hours ago, Direwrath said:

Yep, men and their "shortcuts".

Easy now! RDO's 'GPS' is notorious for sending you on ridiculous routes designed to time-sponge your game play.

 

Sometimes the GPS is spot-on, but there's a lot of benefit to learning new terrain/routes, and that carries risk (rocky, sloped terrain especially). lol

 

Last night I was dodging dense trees trying to run over turkeys for the daily challenge.

 

There are times when I gulp down an antique alcohol bottle and minty big game so I can "hug/fall/slide" down a cliff and save myself a fair amount of time. 8-D Makes a good evasion tactic when fighting lawmen and even griefers.

Edited September 25, 2020 by DentureDynamite

[IamCourtney]

Crossing east to west (or vice versa) over Great Plains is notorious for ridiculously circuitous road routes where the cross-country option is mostly safe and much quicker but has a some sudden and hard to see bluffs and boulders that are just enough to wreck a wagon if you aren't reading your terrain properly on the minimap.

[Direwrath]

10 hours ago, DentureDynamite said:

Easy now! RDO's 'GPS' is notorious for sending you on ridiculous routes designed to time-sponge your game play.

 

Sometimes the GPS is spot-on, but there's a lot of benefit to learning new terrain/routes, and that carries risk (rocky, sloped terrain especially). lol

 

Last night I was dodging dense trees trying to run over turkeys for the daily challenge.

 

There are times when I gulp down an antique alcohol bottle and minty big game so I can "hug/fall/slide" down a cliff and save myself a fair amount of time. 8-D Makes a good evasion tactic when fighting lawmen and even griefers.

Lol, that's true!

 

One of the things I love to do in RDR that many may not do is try to invoke portions of my real life through game play. Many times, it comes with some truly sad consequences. Like when every wagon that I commandeer becomes a moving pile of trash like my Oldsmobile Alero is in real life.  

 

[IamCourtney]

3 hours ago, Direwrath said:

Lol, that's true!

 

One of the things I love to do in RDR that many may not do is try to invoke portions of my real life through game play. Many times, it comes with some truly sad consequences. Like when every wagon that I commandeer becomes a moving pile of trash like my Oldsmobile Alero is in real life.  

 

How'd you manage to get it to just fall apart like that? Just hard riding? I can't say I've ever ridden a non mission-provided wagon for very long but I like to steal those fast two wheeled cart from Saint Denis and ride them off jumps until they're destroyed. For me it always comes down to the horse dying or at least detaching before the cart itself fails.

Edited September 26, 2020 by IamCourtney

[Direwrath]

1 hour ago, IamCourtney said:

How'd you manage to get it to just fall apart like that? Just hard riding? I can't say I've ever ridden a non mission-provided wagon for very long but I like to steal those fast two wheeled cart from Saint Denis and ride them off jumps until they're destroyed. For me it always comes down to the horse dying or at least detaching before the cart itself fails.

This is actually the second one I've had fall apart like that on me. I think it might have been how long I was driving it? I had stolen it near Armadillo and just wandered around with it to see how long I would be able to keep it, heck it made it nearly to Emerald Ranch so that's not too bad. The wagon wheels started to look wobbly after I came out of the Dakota river so maybe the rocks are what did it in?

[ALifeOfMisery]

On 9/24/2020 at 11:46 PM, IamCourtney said:

It's funny, I mute the music in a majority of games I play for feeling too artificial and overbearing to the action at hand. If you narrow it down to similar open-world roleplaying games then RDO stands alone in having the music on, it just feels organic and complimentary in a way I rarely find elsewhere.

Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy most of the in game music, it's the mission music I'm not a fan of. If there was a way to disable only that, I would. 

[RyuNova]

Never trust the "GPS", always use the map and the railway lines. Railway lines are designed to be the fastest way to anywhere and are always flat.

[Dark Spark]

The thing I do that nobody else does? Decide that it'd be fun to restart a Level 301 character. I do tend to do stuff like that-- start fresh to break out of a rut.

[IamCourtney]

I give all my horses French names to suit Bernadette's backstory, and I name each new one "Charle le Magne" as a placeholder until I've spent enough time with them for some notable event occurs or a personality quirk emerges to suggest a permanent name for them.

[Cutter De Blanc]

Well, I never really play, but my character has never left New Austin and I never intend to

[Dark Spark]

8 hours ago, IamCourtney said:

I give all my horses French names to suit Bernadette's backstory, and I name each new one "Charle le Magne" as a placeholder until I've spent enough time with them for some notable event occurs or a personality quirk emerges to suggest a permanent name for them.

Tourbillon is the name of my silver Turkoman mount. Not because he rides with the ferocity of a whirlwind, but because he has this troubling tendency to spin around in circles when I don't want him to!

[Rev. Gnash]

10 hours ago, Cutter De Blanc said:

Well, I never really play, but my character has never left New Austin and I never intend to

*respect*

[Non Funkable Token]

12 hours ago, IamCourtney said:

I give all my horses French names to suit Bernadette's backstory, and I name each new one "Charle le Magne" as a placeholder until I've spent enough time with them for some notable event occurs or a personality quirk emerges to suggest a permanent name for them.

 

Similar to this: I give my horses the name of historical characters that suit the horse's breed origins. Like Saladin for my 1st Arabian, Curro for my Andalusian, Selyuq for my Turkoman, Anne for my Breton, etc. I do the same with my camp dogs.

 

My char is a former library rat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Direwrath]

I like to antagonize lone wolves...

 

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[4eyedcoupe]

On 9/26/2020 at 8:04 AM, Dark Spark said:

The thing I do that nobody else does? Decide that it'd be fun to restart a Level 301 character. I do tend to do stuff like that-- start fresh to break out of a rut.

I've never reset a character other than first starting out, but I did start two other characters at different points to "break out of a rut".  It can be refreshing to take what you have already learned from the game and apply it to a new character in a different play style. 

[DentureDynamite]

On 9/27/2020 at 12:51 AM, Direwrath said:

I like to antagonize lone wolves...

lol! Look what you've done--now I've got to try that too! 8^D

 

Thanks to AmyStone(?), I now kick chickens when no-one is looking. lol

Edited September 28, 2020 by DentureDynamite

[BulletFly]

Harriet doesn't like the scarf I've made for her

 

[yeezy203]

2 hours ago, BulletFly said:

Harriet doesn't like the scarf I've made for her

 

Hands down one of the best pics I've seen on here. Legendary.