Post by TimB on Feb 18, 2021 11:17:11 GMT -5
Hi Lou welcome to the addiction. (at least I'm hooked)
For me when I started online I just played the story missions. Ones with the yellow icons. Then when I had some money I upgraded my guns. I'm level 41 as of today and still prefer the cattlemans revolver and my go to is the pump action shot gun. This thing is a beast and decently accurate. (got an award yesterday for 1000 sharpshooter kills with a shotgun) You will at one point need a good rifle so look at the bolt action. Think you get that fairly early on. Get your horse up to max as quick as you can. Patting it, brushing and feeding it. Check it's stats in the player menu often to make sure it's not starved. A good maxed out horse will benefit you as you can run faster and longer.
When you can, pick a role. Trader, moonshiner or whatever suits your taste. I personally hate the Naturalist role. Takes way too long to level. And sedating animals is a pain in the ass. Like 10 shots with a 22 caliber varmint rifle with sedating ammo to take down a deer. Good luck getting 10 shots on a deer. They are gone after one. Then she likes to get all upset if you kill to many animals just playing the game and gasses you with her spray on acid stuff.
Collector is a cool role. I don't actively look for stuff but run across it just playing the game. You can sell her stuff for really good money. I'm hoarding everything I find until I get full sets. But the full sets of things like tarot cards can get 200 bucks per set. And there are lots of sets to fill out.
One you get going here then you can start to make some decent cash. I have my trader at level 20 and moonshine at level 11 soon to hit twelve. My gameplay loop now is hunt some animals to give to Cripps (trader guy) he then processes them. Once they are ready you take them on a delivery mission. If I max out the amount (100 goods) I can then do a short delivery run and make about $250. I don't do him all at once now. I get him working on some goods. Then go to my moonshine hut, get the guy making some shine, while I'm waiting I go upstairs to the girl and do one of her bootlegger missions. After about an hour the shine is ready to be sold. Another 250 bucks. Head back to the trader, do a delivery, or fill up some animals for him to work on. Then at one point after getting bored of the "loop" go do some stranger missions (the orange icons) make a little extra money, some xp to help level up. Then after a few of those go check on my operations. Thats what I've been doing all morning playing. Taking a little break and going to log back in to do some free roam looking for legendary animals.
Thats the thing with this game there are so many ways to play it. You aren't locked into one thing or another. Upgrades are what suits you best for guns. Some people are real sharpshooters and love the rifles. I miss more than hit with those things.
Sure some of the other folk who play, and have been playing longer (I'm about 2 months in) may have a better loop or suggestions on what to focus on.
Edited to add. As you level up you will start to consider new horses or saddles and stuff. I am still using my original horse that came free as a bonus for the game. Thoroughbred. Has race handling. But have been upgrading saddles a bit. I'm now using the Nagoc (whatever the spelling is) saddle. Has the best drain and refresh rates for core and stamina and Bell something or other stirrups. The over all speed is nearly all bars and acceleration is one below max. I actually tried a stirrup that was supposed to be better earlier this morning and hated it, horse felt slower. I do plan on getting the Missouri Fox Trotter horse soon as I unlock it. Reading some good things about that.
Make sure you get horse insurance. Just in case. I've never need it yet but have had to revive him a few times. So horse reviver is good to have. I've been lucky in that I've been able to get near him when I crash so I can revive him. But if you run off a cliff you may be screwed so the "extended warranty"/insurance is good to have.
And very sorry for the speech. Hard for me to articulate my thoughts/ideas/suggestions without rewriting War and Peace.
For me when I started online I just played the story missions. Ones with the yellow icons. Then when I had some money I upgraded my guns. I'm level 41 as of today and still prefer the cattlemans revolver and my go to is the pump action shot gun. This thing is a beast and decently accurate. (got an award yesterday for 1000 sharpshooter kills with a shotgun) You will at one point need a good rifle so look at the bolt action. Think you get that fairly early on. Get your horse up to max as quick as you can. Patting it, brushing and feeding it. Check it's stats in the player menu often to make sure it's not starved. A good maxed out horse will benefit you as you can run faster and longer.
When you can, pick a role. Trader, moonshiner or whatever suits your taste. I personally hate the Naturalist role. Takes way too long to level. And sedating animals is a pain in the ass. Like 10 shots with a 22 caliber varmint rifle with sedating ammo to take down a deer. Good luck getting 10 shots on a deer. They are gone after one. Then she likes to get all upset if you kill to many animals just playing the game and gasses you with her spray on acid stuff.
Collector is a cool role. I don't actively look for stuff but run across it just playing the game. You can sell her stuff for really good money. I'm hoarding everything I find until I get full sets. But the full sets of things like tarot cards can get 200 bucks per set. And there are lots of sets to fill out.
One you get going here then you can start to make some decent cash. I have my trader at level 20 and moonshine at level 11 soon to hit twelve. My gameplay loop now is hunt some animals to give to Cripps (trader guy) he then processes them. Once they are ready you take them on a delivery mission. If I max out the amount (100 goods) I can then do a short delivery run and make about $250. I don't do him all at once now. I get him working on some goods. Then go to my moonshine hut, get the guy making some shine, while I'm waiting I go upstairs to the girl and do one of her bootlegger missions. After about an hour the shine is ready to be sold. Another 250 bucks. Head back to the trader, do a delivery, or fill up some animals for him to work on. Then at one point after getting bored of the "loop" go do some stranger missions (the orange icons) make a little extra money, some xp to help level up. Then after a few of those go check on my operations. Thats what I've been doing all morning playing. Taking a little break and going to log back in to do some free roam looking for legendary animals.
Thats the thing with this game there are so many ways to play it. You aren't locked into one thing or another. Upgrades are what suits you best for guns. Some people are real sharpshooters and love the rifles. I miss more than hit with those things.
Sure some of the other folk who play, and have been playing longer (I'm about 2 months in) may have a better loop or suggestions on what to focus on.
Edited to add. As you level up you will start to consider new horses or saddles and stuff. I am still using my original horse that came free as a bonus for the game. Thoroughbred. Has race handling. But have been upgrading saddles a bit. I'm now using the Nagoc (whatever the spelling is) saddle. Has the best drain and refresh rates for core and stamina and Bell something or other stirrups. The over all speed is nearly all bars and acceleration is one below max. I actually tried a stirrup that was supposed to be better earlier this morning and hated it, horse felt slower. I do plan on getting the Missouri Fox Trotter horse soon as I unlock it. Reading some good things about that.
Make sure you get horse insurance. Just in case. I've never need it yet but have had to revive him a few times. So horse reviver is good to have. I've been lucky in that I've been able to get near him when I crash so I can revive him. But if you run off a cliff you may be screwed so the "extended warranty"/insurance is good to have.
And very sorry for the speech. Hard for me to articulate my thoughts/ideas/suggestions without rewriting War and Peace.
