no i agree, the instant lock on is good enough most of the time. times that i use it are for v.long range shots that seem to hit more with the dead eye method, and also for cougar attacks.
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Sunday, 30 May 2010 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
oh and of course when shooting stuff that it won't lock onto, like hanging ropes
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Sunday, 30 May 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I find the instant lock isn't really good enough when you need to take out a huge group of people before being killed, or trying to hit really small game (like armadillos) as they run away.
― Mordy, Sunday, 30 May 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
You tend to need it on the Free Roam gang hideouts, because you're outnumbered by a bunch of pissed off guys who are much better at hitting you in the head than the single player grunts.
― MPx4A, Sunday, 30 May 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
and peoples hats
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Sunday, 30 May 2010 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
the problem i have with people's hats is that it tends to paint the guy's face before i can move it to the hat. i can't wait for it to shift to manual paint, cause i've killed so many people while just trying to shoot their hats off.
― Mordy, Sunday, 30 May 2010 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't wait for it to shift to manual paint
?
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Sunday, 30 May 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i've yet to come across a sniper rifle, which i'm gagging for too.
I think in Mexico, the auto aim starts to slacken a tetch. I would also kill a man for a snipe rifle.
― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 30 May 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
slight spoiler
i killed the water diviner, because when i finished the mission (and he complained that i'd gotten blood on the deed) he was using binoculars. so i thought that if i killed him i'd get the binocs. it didn't happen but at least i got the deed back, not sure i can use it for anything tho.
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Sunday, 30 May 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I too have not noticed the fame or honour meter popping up anymore either.
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Sunday, 30 May 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
lol. I was doing a live bounty and the goons chasing me killed him while I was transporting him. Epic save-your-friend failz.
― Mordy, Sunday, 30 May 2010 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
And there are three dead-eye stages. The first is you hit dead-eye and then you can target while the game has slowed down. The second stage you just roll the cursor over targets and it paints on little target things. Then you hit trigger and you can shoot like 6 people at once. The third stage (which I'm not at yet), you actually hit a button to paint on targets, it doesn't auto-paint. So you have a lot more control over your targets.
― Mordy, Sunday, 30 May 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
lolxp
ah i wondered why the painting only appeared halfway through my game. thanks, that explains it. yeah that last stage sounds crucially useful.
has anyone done many of those close up kills? they are fucking brutal graphically, oh man.
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Sunday, 30 May 2010 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
is there any snow in this game? i thought i saw some on the trailer, but i can't find anywhere on the map
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Sunday, 30 May 2010 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
So is there an achievement for buying every rentable house? Cause I've got the money for it, but I can't really see any use for having a house/apartment in every town.
― Mordy, Sunday, 30 May 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Btw: I have high hopes for Fallout New Vegas, but this is (so far at least) my favorite game of the year by far, and maybe my second favorite game of the contemporary era (this gen consoles) after Fallout 3.
― Mordy, Sunday, 30 May 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
the mexican map looks gorgeous, there's some amazing towns - it all reminds me of being on holidays.
haha i'm helping some dude to build a plane. Loved the cut scene dialogue "..I'll get you that stuff for yer, because I just HAVE to see you jump off that cliff"
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Sunday, 30 May 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i played this today sat real close to the screen in my beanbag, to admire the beautiful graphics. just love riding along in the storms.
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Sunday, 30 May 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
there is some to the northwest of where the boars are, north of the macfarlane ranch, but there is nothing of note in the area
just some snow
― jeff, Sunday, 30 May 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
the third unlocked territory after mexico has mountains and snow.
― goole, Sunday, 30 May 2010 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Ugh. Had three boar tusks for the challenge (and a bunch of other animals, like half an hour of hunting + skinning) and a cougar came out of nowhere, hit me, I rolled down a hill and couldn't stand up to deadeye before he finished the job. Meh!
― Mordy, Sunday, 30 May 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
cougars are totally the blue shells of this game
― forksclovetofu, Sunday, 30 May 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
rrr it's telling me i've only been to 44/45 new austin areas, but they're all showing on the map.
― goole, Sunday, 30 May 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
the game must get confused between locations you've been to and those you've unlocked with maps -- just bought a map for an area i'd been and it gave me the unlock.
― goole, Sunday, 30 May 2010 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, so wearing the bandana stops any fame and honour amendments. shit a brick i've been playing most of the game with mine on!
my horse just collapsed under me, i have no idea why.
and i now have my third level of dead eye
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Monday, 31 May 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
rattlesnakes!
― goole, Monday, 31 May 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, so wearing the bandana stops any fame and honour amendments
ohhhhh
― |8 l) u_u (bnw), Monday, 31 May 2010 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i actually quite dig the cougar thing, it's pretty hairy just getting off your horse in the arse end of nowhere having to keep your wits about you.
gives the game an edge
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Monday, 31 May 2010 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
riding your horse over tiled floors makes a sweet clip clop sound
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Monday, 31 May 2010 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man, has anyone else seen some of the graffiti? there are phrases written on walls here and there -- apparently those are the cheats
― goole, Monday, 31 May 2010 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i played with forks. he shot me in head. o:(
― |8 l) u_u (bnw), Monday, 31 May 2010 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.c95.com/files/u20/how_rude.jpg
― Clay, Monday, 31 May 2010 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahahah, it was totally an accident!We were storming the fort and when we won, you fired in the air and I tried to do the same! And then I domed you.
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 04:59 (thirteen years ago) link
it was fun playing! I just wish we could've communicated.
Mexico is amazing
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 09:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i was just about ready to launch my assault and unlock mexico but my horse died right before the big race - the one i'd spent hours getting to know! so fuck - i spent a good while looking for the kentucky saddler but never found him so finally i just went on an all-night hunting binge, levelling up enough to buy the kentucky saddler outright
something happened while out hunting that sums up this game, and all its nonsensical, fabulous breathlessness
1 - trying to kill a coyote i somehow ended up aiming straight down into my horse and pulled the trigger (!)2 - my horse was still alive but my honor dropped and suddenly lawmen were on my tail3 - trying to outrun them, i heard the sound of a train and realized one was headed past right in front of me4 - i managed to race the train and dart just in front of it, cutting off the lawmen and saving my sorry ass!
total movie moment
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 11:17 (thirteen years ago) link
cool. could you not have just jumped onto the train, giving the lawmen the bird whilst you steam off into the distance?
― Don't look at the finger (Ste), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 11:22 (thirteen years ago) link
The first mission you do for the establishment side in Mexico has similar potential for cinematic train chaos. Had a guy and his horse get ground up by one last night, which I thought didn't happen.
After having to kill so many people to get to Mexico I tried to make my first act there shooting some coyotes that were trying to eat a guy, but I popped him by mistake. Then some bystanders opened fire on me from behind and I had to deadeye them to not die, then went on a chain of trying to silence 2-3 other witnesses because I thought the Mexican police might be a bit heavy. Then in the course of fleeing I saw a random event I hadn't seen before with three Mexican army guys about to execute a crying peasant guy in a quite sinister looking way, but when I shot them I got in trouble. Try to do a good deed: end up a serial killer.
AN' THAT'S LEYF.
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 11:31 (thirteen years ago) link
If you pull level with a train you can press X to jump onto it, yeah.
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link
The other day I was watching these two guys cross the rails when I heard the train come in the distance. I paused to look for a bit as one of the two guys rode onto the track and then waited. The train came. The man was crushed. I lol'd.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link
As for snow, you can find it in the north of Hannigan's Stead, as far up as you can go, by the mountain. I was up there hunting boar, it's quite cool, you can see your footprints in the snow. The view across the valley is amazing. I was looking out and a fierce breeze blew through the trees. I thought, a storm is rolling in. And one did. So epic.
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
srsly want to play this
― gbx, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Some people invited me to be in a posse
I went to the hideout they were working on and helped them
Then one of them shot me and they rode off
I chased them down and shot all four of them in about ten seconds
Then they voted to kick me
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I am determined to stay at 0 honor, no matter how many nuns (-100) it takes. are there any children anywhere?
xp yeah that is about the standard multiplayer exp afaik
― |8 l) u_u (bnw), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
democrazy!
xp
― cozen, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
the joke was on them, because I needed to go bed
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
100%
― goole, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
u crazy
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
u R crazy, dang
― fuck it we're going to Applebee's® (Z S), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link