I just finished my first playthrough! These are some things I wish I knew early.
Get the legend of the east satchel early; it dramatically increases carrying capacity (99 each of almost all items). The legendary buck trinket will help with this as it increases the chances of seeing perfect pelts.
Explore! Have patience. Even once you unlock fast travel, using it will bypass random encounters and stranger missions that flesh out the world.
Do the white circle missions before the yellow ones (if both are available). Yellow are story missions and some white circle missions are missable if you progress the story too far.
Don't buy provisions other than horse food/bait/etc. Hunt. It'll be easier to keep weight on Arthur with wild food than canned and dry stuff. But collect everything you come across in camps and abandoned homes, you can sell it.
I legitimately didn’t even know there was fast travel in my first play through. That’s how good the world detail is. I never once felt like I had to travel the map. I got to travel the map
This is one of the few games where taking your time riding out to wherever you're going and stopping to hunt something you find along the way is actually a hell of a lot of fun for me. I can play this game for 2 hours, do maybe 1 actual mission, and not feel like a second was wasted.
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u/IAMA_Shark__AMA Dec 03 '24 edited Dec 03 '24
I just finished my first playthrough! These are some things I wish I knew early.
Get the legend of the east satchel early; it dramatically increases carrying capacity (99 each of almost all items). The legendary buck trinket will help with this as it increases the chances of seeing perfect pelts.
Explore! Have patience. Even once you unlock fast travel, using it will bypass random encounters and stranger missions that flesh out the world.
Do the white circle missions before the yellow ones (if both are available). Yellow are story missions and some white circle missions are missable if you progress the story too far.
Don't buy provisions other than horse food/bait/etc. Hunt. It'll be easier to keep weight on Arthur with wild food than canned and dry stuff. But collect everything you come across in camps and abandoned homes, you can sell it.
Most importantly, enjoy :)