1. Some hats will be saved under the "found hats" section of the hat menu in your wardrobe. These are the specialty and hidden hats. If you just take a hat that you knocked off someone's head, it's gone when you lose it (except for one specific NPC in Valentine).
Thank you. And yeah I realized that you just need to spend all your money before being jailed and there's 0 consequence lmao.
Chapters 1-4 are the best for that
Try to wrap that all up in Chapters 2, 3 and 4. You can do it later, but it starts to feel completely antithetical to the narrative later on. There are some sidequests that only exist in Chapter 6, to be fair; apart from that, get them done sooner rather than later.
Three per day. Take them, sleep for 18 hours, eat something (you don't want your weight to start dropping off), take another dose of tonics, repeat. There's a chart, which I think is still accurate:
This is a common complaint with the game. I didn't have this issue at all on my first playthrough; on my second, it happened to me more than once. It's annoying, but the loot you get is almost always pointless anyway. Oh goody, 2 dollars and some chewing tobacco. Almost useless. Don't worry about loot in missions; before long, you will have an abundance of money, ammo and tonics regardless.
I already have an abundance of tonics and I have to keep selling extras lol. I need to get some satchel upgrades asap. And yeah I wanna do it before the end of the game even if you can play after but I also want all the convenience, resources and sandbox open to me.Try to wrap that all up in Chapters 2, 3 and 4. You can do it later, but it starts to feel completely antithetical to the narrative later on. There are some sidequests that only exist in Chapter 6, to be fair; apart from that, get them done sooner rather than later.
Three per day. Take them, sleep for 18 hours, eat something (you don't want your weight to start dropping off), take another dose of tonics, repeat. There's a chart, which I think is still accurate:
This is a common complaint with the game. I didn't have this issue at all on my first playthrough; on my second, it happened to me more than once. It's annoying, but the loot you get is almost always pointless anyway. Oh goody, 2 dollars and some chewing tobacco. Almost useless. Don't worry about loot in missions; before long, you will have an abundance of money, ammo and tonics regardless.
Weight is ultimately pointless. A lot of the "realistic" components make virtually no difference at all. You can play the game without eating or sleeping once and you'll be fine. Your aim gets a little shaky, but otherwise you're fine. If you're interested in the role-playing aspect, try to get at least two hearty meals in a day and sleep through the night. The stew Pearson makes in camp is a solid meal option after you've upgraded the chuckwagon.
Wow I had no idea the last satchel upgrades it to 99. That is absurd. Should just be like 10 of each instead of 3 and 30 of each plant instead of 10.
It's definitely sluggish. Have you set your controls to the ones suggested in the OP? The default settings for deadzone and aim acceleration are terrible in conjunction with the massive input lag that you can't disable, but tweaking those improves the experience a great deal. It still never feels snappy by any stretch of the imagination, but it makes it more playable.
Yes. There's no way to stop your hair growing apart from reaching max length.
Yes, once you complete an outfit or any piece of clothing at the trapper, it'll be in your inventory at your wardrobe forever (you can also visit the trapper again and equip anything he's already made you directly).
lmao. I just can't with the male horses either, tried one a bit and it was just too humorous and distracting. I've had a female horse since the start and don't see ever changing her.
Why would you want to sell ammo? It doesn't free up inventory space, and ammo is very inexpensive so it wouldn't even net you more than a few cents.
This is one of my biggest complaints with the game. They aren't unlocked all at once and some of them are incredibly poorly thought out. Some of the early Weapon Master challenges include getting 3 throwing knife kills in 10 seconds and killing 3 birds of prey with a thrown tomahawk. Good challenges, a nice test of skill. Meanwhile, challenge 8 in that category is simply getting 15 shotgun kills, which you can do within the first few missions of the game. Why is that one further down the list than killing 4 consecutive enemies with the same thrown tomahawk? It makes no sense. And some of them (Master Hunter, Herbalist, Horseman and Survivalist) can't even be completed fully until the Epilogue, at which point you have no need for the minor stat boosts they unlock. It is objectively bad game design.
Some are. There are very few that are only available in specific chapters though; usually once they're unlocked, they remain available throughout the game and into the endgame. But best to do them as they become available so you don't miss out on anything.
Thanks for the info but re:ammo because i have like 400 repeater bullets and 200 split point bullets and cant loot any more so i just wanna get sone cash
The game is weird with money. Early on, it seems pretty stingy, then there are a couple missions with a hefty payout and soon you won't want for money again. But if you're interested in quick money, I recommend treasure hunts. They're triggered by getting maps off NPCs in the wild, they're available from the start of Chapter 2 and the payout is really good. Also, they're well designed and it's fun (and completely doable without a guide) to find the landmarks each guides you to, which helps encourage and reward exploration of the map.
Yeah I'll do more treasure hunts soon. I think I'm on like level 3. Just trying to finish up the bandit challenges quickly so I can move past that and max my honor out positively lol.
Have you done the mission with Hosea hunting the legendary bear yet? That unlocks legendary animals which drop legendary animal parts that can be used to craft trinkets at the fence; these unlock special perks. Hunt the legendary buck; the perk makes you more likely to find 3-star animals and makes it so that kills are more likely to give perfect pelts if you get 1-shot kills. Totally worth it if you plan on doing a lot of hunting and crafting.
Got it.
You get everything you need from the legendary animal, even if you happen to lose the pelt. So, for example, when I killed the legendary moose, I accidentally knocked it into water and it floated off. I went to the trapper and everything requiring legendary moose parts was still unlocked as though I had sold it to him. The game won't let you lose out on legendary animal parts.
I found a YouTube video that explains the best technique (major spoilers in the video, so everything else will be spoiler tagged):
