Be Excellent To Each Other

“It reeks of miracles in here!”

Brilliant.

Aye, I'm past all that. After you've parted company with Landon Ricketts, there's quite a long stretch in which De Santa is the only person you can go to. It's no big deal, really; I probably shouldn't have done all his missions in one sitting.

Time to slow down and take a few sidequests, methinks.

Ah, OK. You clearly have stormed ahead, I have no idea who any of the people you're talking about are.

Shhh. Ahm huntin' wabbits.

I like that drinking moonshine refills your Dead Eye meter and stops it from depleting for a while.

I got to the bit with Welsh that Malabar was tweeting about. That was amusing, boyo.

My horse just collapsed and died

It got shot a bit in a shootout, and must have died from blood loss a mile up the road

Can't you do field repairs like in Battlefield 1943?

No. I tried throwing a box at him but he refused to do anything. Then I tried electrocuting him, but he didn't wake up.

Hit it with a spanner then.

Or make glue & dog food.

You know what does annoy me in this game? Getting onto my horse, running into an ambush and popping dead-eye mode to deal with the brunt of the situation, only to find my character wildly swinging his knife, then getting stuck on his horse until death. I always have my rifle equipped. Stop unequipping it, game.

Aside from that, it's brilliant.

cant you feed the horse apples and stuff or give horse pills if its injured?

Top tip: get on down to the Great Plains and break yourself one of the black horses there. These are American Standardbred horses, and they're as fast as fuck.

The Great Plains area seems to be inaccessable for me at the moment. I take it this unlocks after a certain mission? I've so far only just got to Mexico.

Oh, aye, probably. I only started exploring that part of the map after I'd done all of Reyes' missions in Mexico, so maybe it's closed off until then.

Damn, I've gone and finished the main story. I must have been doing loads more missions than I thought, unless the game's fairly short anyway. Now I have a load of challenges to complete, outfits to unlock and probably a couple of strangers left to find and help out, and I can't be bothered because it feels 'over'!

My brother came in to have a look at this game today and, upon discovering the poker games you can play, decided it was high-time he taught me how to play (I've never previously played or understood any form of poker, so have always avoided it in these games).

Oops. It's a lot more fun than I expected it to be. Now I'm thinking he might have to show me the game outside of the virtual Old West.

Amusing glitch last night. I sprinted up to a wall under enemy fire, hit RB to get into cover, and flew hundreds of feet up into the air. It was less amusing when I came back down, died, and had to reload though.

Same here. I've never played any card game more than once, or for longer than ten minutes, and I remember feeling like a gibbering idiot a few years ago when some friends tried to get me involved in a poker game at a barbecue, and had to re-explain the rules to me at almost every turn.

I like Liar's Dice, though. That'd be fun to play over a few beers.

Not at $200 a pop.

That bloody mission cost me $400 and netted me a $14 reward.

Still not had chance to play this a lot but I've already seen a couple of riders trapped in the scenery with just their heads poking out, walking but unable to move yet still politely doffing their hats at me.

Also I'm never too sure on what constitutes a crime. I saw some bloke outside the saloon stabbing a prostitute so I ran up and drew my gun, at which point the fucker ran off, so I chased him and shot him in the knee and he instantly died but somehow the game decided that I was the dishonourable prick in all of this.

Did you try kicking it?
Punching it?
Yelling at it?

I think I would quite like this game.

I know! I lassoed lassod tied up a preacher who was being shouty, and dragged him behind my horse through a cactus-filled wasteland until he died of massive trauma, and I ended up with a price on my head!

Nope. Skinned it, though. I may have teabagged it, too; can't remember.



Really? I've won every game so far, by a long way. It's really, really easy

The game I won was ridiculously easy. The others were ludicrously hard, oddly. The AI players were never wrong.

Playing Horseshoes is fucking annoying.

Yeah it seems to be pretty much impossible to get any better at.

Fuck my hat, if you thought cougars were bad, wait until a family of fucking bears sprint at you from behind in complete silence, kill your horse in a single swipe and maul you shortly after. And you were only picking flowers.

Does that involve throwing horseshoes at a spike in the ground? It's dam tricky in real life.

It's actually really simple when you get the hang of it. I found it immensely frustrating at first. Tips:

1. Always aim, for every throw. Aim so the spike is pretty much in the centre of the horseshoe from the zoomed in view.
2. Pull the right stick back and push it forward with a decent pace. Let go when the metre hits the middle line.
3. Profit

I'm at a re-enactment this weekend and usually set the game up. I'll try using your tips: only got it once this year (when nobody was looking, as usual)

It's just the "decent pace" bit that's eluding me. It's too tricky to get right. The opponents seem to be even worse, though.

Has anyone ...

@Itsallwater:

Yes and yes

Forgive me Father, for I have sinned.

I just went to a monastery, caught and hogtied a decent number of nuns, made a good-sized pile out of them, then set them all on fire.

Am I going to hell?

Yes. Very much so.

I completed the treasure maps last night. A bit sad, as they were definitely one of my favourite parts of the game. Of course, I've still got the gathering, hunting and shooting challenges to do, lots of stranger missions, all the random encounters that pop up, outfits to complete, gang hideouts all across the land, jobs... oh, yes, and and the story missions to complete. Phew.

I'm looking forward to playing the single player campaign ..really need to hurry up & finish Final fantasy xiii

Anyone fancy making a posse tonight and doing the multi-player stuff and chievos?

If you see me online give me a shout matey.

I'm a bit lost on the multiplayer every session I have been on everyone is running around just shooting each other, no-one sets up a game.

I'll be online at 9pm so give me a shout

I haven't even been able to get on the multiplayer yet. It just won't connect for me. I gather this is quite a widespread issue.

Annoyingly I finished the single-player last night too and this has upset me somewhat. Why did it have to end?!?

Yes I think there is a title update out soon, which should fix the multiplayer issues. I will try again tonight if it does not work I'll fall back to BC2

I've just got to Blackwater - how close am I to the end of the story?

about 15 or so missions.

Oh, that's not too bad then.

As for connectivity issues I ended up plugging in my xbox straight from the modem and it sorted it out straight away. Although its in no way ideal.

I got onto a multiplayer session yesterday just left it on free roam & completed some of the basic easy challenges like kill x deer or collect x herbs. Got to a gang hideout & got a lot of xp by killing them all. Then ran into a firefight with some other players and got my arse kicked. Great fun will be online again this evening 9pm if anyone wants to posse up

I'm convinced I've done the rank 5 sharpshooter challenge at least 3 times now (kill two types of wild animal in one dead-eye meter) but it refuses to give it to me.

So give up, dig out R6V2 and play coop with me.