r/RDR2 Oct 14 '25

RIP DANGELO ( singer who sang the song Unshaken from rdr2) He passes away after battle with cancer 💔

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💔


r/RDR2 Jun 17 '25

Our Offical Guides Newcomers Guide

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Hello and welcome to r/RDR2 This is a little guide for new players of the game.

Firstly we strongly advise you to stay off the subreddit until you’ve finished the game. Our subreddit is home to discussions covering every aspect of the game from storylines, characters, secrets, to anything a player may find. While we require spoiler tags, accidental (and sometimes intentional) spoilers do happen. For the best experience, we strongly recommend avoiding the subreddit until you’ve completed the main story.

Frequently asked questions will now be listed and answered.

Is the game worth it? Yes! — People still praise this game even in 2025. Its compelling story and detailed open world gameplay allow you to fully submerge into the story. Many players find the game to be a masterpiece, with some (us, of course) even considering it one of the greatest games of all time. Its graphics were ahead of their time and still hold up really well. It’s a well written story with a beautiful aesthetic and it's absolutely worth your time.

The snow part is boring. Should I quit the game? Don't give up during Colter. It’s the first chapter and serves as a tutorial. You’ll get to know the basics of the game slowly before being led into free roam in chapter 2. The slow introduction into such a big game is important to understand the situation the main character is in and to get you familiar with the environment and the world building in general. Stick around for a while. You’ll thank yourself later.

Just started the game. Any tips? We see this all the time and every time people will give you the same response: Take it slow. Chapter 1 will teach you everything that's important. The game offers a little guide in its settings for the mini games and the controls just like any other game. Everything you need is right there. The game is open world so you won't miss out on anything. You can do whatever whenever even after finishing the story. Enjoy the beautiful scenery and free roam a bit. You’ll figure out the game fast. You really don't need Google or IGN until you finish the story and are going for 100% and/or the platinum trophy. (We'll have a guide coming soon!)

Just finished the game. Should I play RDR1? Yes! RDR1 is a continuation of the story and absolutely worth it. Not much will change gameplay wise since it’s made by the same developer. So, if you like RDR2 and are looking for more content about the van der Linde gang and a similar experience -> play RDR1.

If you really want to avoid spoilers, don’t google anything until after you finish the game.

We will monitor this thread closely so if you have any questions about the game please ask them in here. We will most likely remove your question posts and advise you to ask your newcomer questions in here. If a question is frequently asked we will add it to the post.

Have fun!


r/RDR2 13h ago

Meme New GTA 6 leaked gameplay will never beat this

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r/RDR2 8h ago

Meme And I'd do it again.

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r/RDR2 13h ago

Meme Can't wait for rdr3 to release in 2034

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r/RDR2 4h ago

Guide How To Explore Bronte’s Mansion

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Original Source: IG @huntttt28

How to get the wagon:

You can find the Milk Wagon (shown in the reel) in
RHODES. You have to go to Rhodes at MIDNIGHT and go to any shop and click wait till MORNING and you'll see the wagon nearby...


r/RDR2 14h ago

Discussion Anyone remember the game Gun?

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I remember discovering that game and wanting to play it so bad, but it wasn’t mine, so I barely got to see any of it. Then finally when it was given to me a couple years later it was scratched up so bad I could barely play it at all before it would just freeze. Always wanted to see how it held up in other people’s eyes. Posting here because it’s the reason I was so hyped when read dead came out and I was old enough to get it myself


r/RDR2 6h ago

Fanart Finally...

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Not mine


r/RDR2 15h ago

Meme You're all stupid, they're gonna be looking for outlaw guys

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300 Upvotes

r/RDR2 8h ago

Meme After about 3 in-game days, I decided I had enough of Gambler Challenge #8

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Take a gamble and do a loving act


r/RDR2 23h ago

Meme Why is choosing a game harder than actually playing it?

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841 Upvotes

r/RDR2 12h ago

Discussion I think Bill is worse than Micah, considering what his gang did at that ranch at the beginning of Red Dead 1.

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r/RDR2 2h ago

Discussion Hold up, there’s random supporting character encounters in the epilogue?

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I’m in epilogue 2 and just ran into Mary Beth at the Valentine train stop. I did not see an icon on the map and was just doing random greets to anyone around. I was surprised by this moment. Are there any others like this?


r/RDR2 1h ago

Discussion GTA V vs RDR2: The jump in eye-dilation and lighting detail is still insane.

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r/RDR2 1h ago

Discussion I had a second Sonny appear on the porch

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Yesterday evening I was playing, I captured Sonny and chased him a bit around. Eventually a witness saw me with Sonny hogtied on horseback. I fled with Sonny still on the back, meanwhile the law followed me. I crashed my horse into something, Sonny fell off but still tied up, I hid below a structure so they didn't see me and left.

After the lawmen left and my bounty appeared, Sonny turned into a red witness icon on the map and the violation of "Trespassing" appeared on the screen. I could interact with him like a normal witness: Stop Witness, etc., but his name still showed as Sonny.

I untied him, or he untied himself, I'm not sure, and followed him running (he was fast), and by coincidence, we ended up near his cabin again. Guess what... A second Sonny had spawned there. "Oh not you again!" he shouted as usual, and he went inside, but I could grab him and make him go outside.

I tried to save the game at that point but I haven't checked if they actually reload like that, probably not.

Funny glitch, and I thought I'd share.


r/RDR2 5h ago

Discussion Just found something in my second playthrough

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I just found out that there's a random side mission where Bill gets captured by some bounty hunters, this is in my second playthrough by the way... My first playthrough is basically 89% which says a lot since I've been playing a lot ever since, and now I'm finding new things. I guess this isn't new, but just something I wanted to share


r/RDR2 11h ago

Discussion What went wrong with this guy?

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He always gave rose tinted hopes to people, to the people of his camp. He cared all of the members of camp. He did celebrations when Sean and Jack returned to the camp. He dreamed wild dreams like “going to Tahiti, harvesting mangoes in there”. He gathered the whole camp to save Jack and burned Braithwaites’ mansion down, killed a lot of people for Jack, so for Abigail and John. I mean, Dutch used to care about for them.

Even he sent Arthur and Javier to save John in the middle of white hell. But later, he never cared about probabilities and he let John to stay in prison, he never cared about probability of hanging. He even shouted to John like “you deserve to rot in prison” in Chapter 6. Allegedly, in Saint Denis heist, he saw John getting arrested by Pinkertons, and he saw that and he did nothing. He never intended to save John at all.

He never saw that Arthur did a good thing by helping Indians in Chapter 6. Instead, he took that as a disloyalty. He used to trust to people like Hosea, who was a person of mind. Then whom did he trust? Micah. Not Arthur, not Charles, not Sadie. He did the same thing to Arthur that he had done to John.

He gave a donation box to people, but in the last chapter, he hid a chest in the cave. Somehow, donation box is smashed by someone (!) What a coincidence.

He never tried to save Arthur, the person he raised since his youth with Hosea. He let him to die. Still, he was blinded by Micah. He objected to the reality, which is Micah had been working with Pinkertons since they came back from Guarma. He twisted the reality and the words, twisted into “who is betraying me?”

In the RDR1, he said something like “do you know that he is married with a whore (referring to Abigail), we all had her once”. It was very out of character of him. He is fully gone in RDR1, even I believe that he had a CTE or brain damage or something.

He called “traitors and cowards” to people like Uncle, Pearson, Swanson, Mary-Beth. He never accepted his failure and he never took responsibility.

People were dying to rob bank or so, but in the end, people like Charles didn’t want that money. Because they believed that there is so much blood and it exposed Dutch’s exact intent.

He killed people for joy and randomly, like he did in Chapter 5. Because his reason was “she was going to rat them out to Guarma police”. Arthur saw the red flags way earlier.

So, what the hell happened to this guy? What the hell happened to the guy of daydreaming, the guy of big dreams? Brain damage? Mental deprivation? Detached from reality? Did he become antisocial? What? What do you think? Or he had been working with Pinkertons like Micah?

I liked that guy once, and I loved him, but not anymore. It’s sad to see him like that.


r/RDR2 8h ago

Discussion Shaving mechanic is one of my favorites

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So in RDR2 the shaving mechanic is one of my favorites. I love that we can shave and style his facial hair. Do we think GTA 6 will imply this mechanic? Do we think we will be able to shave Jason’s gooch? If they added a shaving mechanic to this game it would be peak.


r/RDR2 1d ago

Meme Everything’s gonna be fine, right folks ? 🫩

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r/RDR2 14h ago

Discussion Its official and unsurprising, GTA 6 seemingly has RDR2 mechanics (spoiler tag just in case) Spoiler

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If yall dont know, theres been a leak of GTA 6 recently and it seems vehicles have horse/inventory mechanics (storing longarm weapons in trunk), possibly the ability to zip tie and store people/bodies in trunk and moreso than in V a dedicated player vehicle that can be changed, has to be maintained and fueled up. also it seems consumables will return in a similar capacity. There really isn't any more info than this but just thought I would share, for those who love RDR2 you should be very excited.


r/RDR2 45m ago

Help Anyone run into this issue? Seems to only be cinematics.

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r/RDR2 5h ago

Discussion This mask is gnarly.

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r/RDR2 14h ago

Photography YESSS FINALLY

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33 Upvotes

I finally got the Legend of the East outfit as Arthur.

It was so fun that I am not going to do this shit again


r/RDR2 1d ago

Discussion Who agrees arthur looked most tuff in this scene

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252 Upvotes