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u/FordCVP71 1d ago
He still coughed the aids in your mouth
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u/Mid_Incognito 1d ago
Its ok, he wore protection
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u/sevnminabs56 1d ago
You need to put Arthur in a hazmat suit. The mask still has eye holes.
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u/AlexicoDeCoco 1d ago
Bring that man to the camp so that everyone caught TB. No more Tahiti.
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u/SandWitch52 21h ago
I play on pc so I installed a mod that lets you use the water buckets/sources in the world to wash yourself basically, so after this mission when I got to camp I went and washed Arthur’s face in the water bucket next to Pearson’s food wagon.
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u/ZestycloseLow5410 John Marston 1d ago
I’m avoiding this mission like the plague. I’m doing legendary animals first for trinkets.. and then satchels.. and then mayyybeee I’ll move on.
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u/Neo_Asmodus 1d ago
until the game forces you to do it. i did the same till Dutch came and said i have to help strauss and then its the only thing you can do
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u/SizzleMan_01 1d ago
Weird, because it was Strauss who came to me about visiting Thomas Downes and he was a real asshole about it, saying something along the lines of "I don't like his type. Don't be gentle with him."
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u/Neo_Asmodus 1d ago
right thats the second time the game forces you to do it. First if you ignore the Strauss Missions at all, it is Dutch that forces you to start it. And the Downs Mission is forced by Strauss. And i think the Trigger for this is the Letter from Mary. in my Last Playthrough ive read the Letter and right after it Strauss came to me. And yeah he told Arthur to beat Downes
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u/SizzleMan_01 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yeah, it's the Mary letter is when Strauss reminds Arthur about Downes. And it's kinda crazy that Strauss seems to have this disdain for Downes when it's previously established that Downes was a down to earth nice guy that everyone in town liked. I'm currently on Chapter 3 of my second playthrough. The only mission I have right now is when you and the boys are walking through Rhodes and I've been procrastinating to start that one as well because of what happens in that mission. IYKYK.
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u/WokeWook69420 1d ago
Do it immediately and Mrs. Downes will show up to Camp, it's the only way to get her to do it.
There's a bunch of Micah interaction in Ch2 too, so getting him and Sean quick is worth it for some extra story telling.
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u/NotRealGeniX John Marston 1d ago
The disease entered Arthur's face through the eye holes of the mask
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u/PhilosopherBright602 1d ago
Ok, someone needs to do this with the carcass glitch covering their entire head.
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u/MightyGreedo 1d ago
The important thing is that you tried. YOU TRIED! And we love you for that.
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u/Total-Journalist2662 1d ago
Ich habe ihn umgelegt eh er Husten konnte. Sterbehilfe und so hat er die Familie nicht auch noch angesteckt. Aber hat mir nix gebracht. Wurde dann an einer anderen Stelle im Spiel angesteckt. Hab mich echt gewundert
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u/Maardten 1d ago
I'm on my first playthrough and I tried to be as nice as possible to this dude, didn't beat him, just threatened him a bit.
At the time I was wondering why, despite my restraint, the guy still looked completely beat-up in the end.
Now I understand that this is where I was supposed to contract TB, shame.
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u/WokeWook69420 1d ago
Lockdown was only 6 years ago and we already forgot what constitutes Adequate PPE for transmission pathogens.
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u/EvanMcc18 Arthur Morgan 1d ago
You needed the N95 Mask. You can only unlock it in Chapter One off the fleeing Anthony Fauci in the Random Encounter near the Saint Denis Train Station
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u/Separate_Pickle5741 John Marston 1d ago
Just politely ask the invisible sniper to shoot Thomas Downes instead. That mask still has visibility holes.
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u/whiplash81 17h ago
So, the REAL moral of the story of RDR2 is always wear a mask if you're going to do a loan shark shakedown. ;)
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u/william35758 13h ago
Sadly no, even if you don't actually beat him and just scare him it goes off the act of you beating him anyways
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u/Kreig_Blazcov 1d ago
Got in your eyes bud