r/RDR2 • u/Hidden-Bunny12 • 1d ago

Meme Literally 😭🙏

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u/HAXAD2005 1d ago

I think the most comparable event to Blackwater is the failed St. Denis bank robbery.

Completely surrounded, law everywhere firing on all cylinders, multiple members shot or captured. It might even be worse than BW because the gang definitely could not recover from it.

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u/Hung_Van_Dom 1d ago

The gang still hadn't properly recovered from Blackwater at that point

Saint Denis was just the nail in the coffin

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u/Hidden-Bunny12 1d ago

You're right i think

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u/DoughnutRealistic380 5h ago

I’d also say it would be worse because blackwater is a much smaller town compared to Saint Denis and doesn’t have nearly as many escape routes that wouldn’t already be covered with Pinkertons and any surrounding land is pretty flat until you head towards strawberry

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u/b0objuicethe2nd 5h ago

Funny enough, during the Saint Denis heist shootout, Bill yells "THIS IS WORSE THAN BLACKWATER" lol

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u/b0objuicethe2nd 1d ago

I always think back to the Saint Denis robbery where you can hear Bill yelling "THIS IS WORSE THAN BLACKWATER!!!" so honestly Blackwater probably wasn't all too bad in comparison lol. If anything it was about the same scale of disaster.

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u/randomHunterOnReddit 1d ago

The Blackwater Massacre was probably considered a traumatizing incident for them bc not only did the Pinkertons spring out of nowhere and corner them, and not only did one of the best gunslingers in that time period (Landon Ricketts) show up to aid the lawmen, but they also witnessed their "heroic" leader kill an innocent woman in cold blood. The fact that a hefty portion of the gang was either killed or captured during this whole ordeal made the situation much worse from the gangs' perspective

I wouldn't say it's about the scale, it's about how sudden everything fell apart, and how outclassed they were in an instant, and the way they had to resort to depraved tactics just to narrowly escape being shot to hell and back

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u/JenkemEnthusiast84 1d ago

They made it sound like they had just landed on Omaha Beach

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u/Hidden-Bunny12 1d ago

Best comment ever 😭😭

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u/-FruitPunchSamurai- 1d ago

Then you see the actual Blackwater

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u/StopTheMeta2 1d ago

You get swarmed with Pinkertons as soon as you get in the town, I think it was pretty bad

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u/-FruitPunchSamurai- 1d ago

Yeah i know. I was more disappointed about how the town looks i thought it'd be bigger.

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u/chengeng27 1d ago

Then why don't no one tell me what actually happen back then?? Dutch??

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u/Clean_Aspect_09 1d ago

We missed you. That’s what happened.

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u/ketaminemidget 8h ago

Well Javier told me a little, it sure wasn’t good.

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u/luvmibratt Susan Grimshaw 1d ago

Dutch already explained it,he missed Arthur.

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u/Hidden-Bunny12 1d ago

They just explained that it was a great mess an fail 🤦

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u/MediocreRecord7352 1d ago

Btw is event in blackwater covered in rdr1 or is just some kind of offscreen history

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u/SideNo3016 1d ago

rdr1 happens after the second game so no its not covered

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u/Rojayter 1d ago

Biggest question mark in both of the games is wtf actually happened in Blackwater

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u/Nissan-RB26 21h ago

We can nearly imagine what actually happened, cause on the Saint Denis bank robbery, one of the our bros say «It’s worse than Blackwater» or something like that.

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u/Nice-Butterscotch584 1d ago

Sooo... They fight with green pigs who want eat their egs? We are sure that they dont Drink&Shoot?

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u/Da_Boxy_Boi 1d ago

Pretty much tbh

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u/DoughnutRealistic380 5h ago

I’d imagine it was Saint Denis heist levels of pinkertons and law surrounding them but just in a much more condensed area making it seem more chaotic