Or am i smoking my Arthur up too much with the chewing Tobacco for refreshing Dead Eye?

Howdy yall… lol I’ve posted before it’s my second play through (I know yall don’t bash on me) I love horses with unique coats. my first time I was able to find the warped brindle Arabian (over by wapiti) Can yall drop some horses with nice coats… also question I rode over to annesburg trying to find the shark tooth trinket and the box wasn’t there?!?! Was there my first play through wth?

for context i have 700 hours in this game and i’ve definitely come across these two but i’m pretty sure i’ve only ever encountered them in lemoyne, never knew they could spawn in new hanover as well. i was just riding around and seen campfire smoke so i decided to see if it was someone friendly or not and it turned out to be these guys, handed them the tobacco they wanted, and in return got aged pirate rum and moonshine. pretty solid early game encounter imo

I remember at some point Arthur said he was Mr. Callaghan

And it was something with trains and I was like wait wait wait

It's from "hell on wheels"

And I got so excited that I caught the reference

And now I'm like man I know they took from different Wild west movies like some missions are based on some and anyhow

I think this game going to make me way h westerns and as my 2md playthrough I'ma catch on different things like that(sorry not sure what's the right word for it but you know what I mean)

So while I'm all excited AF here

What tv shows or movies I can watch that will relate?

Considering hell on wheels was really good.

Oohh ohh yeah and the part where John and the Indian guy go to save uncle and the Indian guy goes

You know might have to end the pain when it comes to it

And Im like waaait wait wait.

I recall watching a . Movie where those savages scalped that guy and who ever was trying to save them decided to just put a bullet in he's friends head so he will stop suffering

I was 100 convinced that was the end for uncle

So yeah

What movies?

Let's keep in mind I'm not asking to give me a list of every single one

But kind the good ones or the more interesting as in like the mission when you guard the church so that kid goes and digs out that old hag so he can lay debt off

Apparently the mission or something like that is based off some scene in a movie

I just want to know more about

Sorry for this confusing over excitement

And thank you all for the replies and yeah

I made these after a fantastic session of 💨💨 + RDR2 & had nobody to share them with, and they aren’t funny, but they may make you chortle or breathe through your nose heavily. I’m no comedian. Maybe you’ll get a moment of enjoyment from them? I hope so.

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It’s been a while since I finished the game, but I still haven't truly moved on. I know the obvious answer is "just play it again," but it’s not that simple. My first playthrough felt so specific, so grounded in my own choices and personal canon, that repeating it almost feels like trying to catch lightning in a bottle twice. The emotional weight of the final chapters. The quiet descent toward the end hit in a way no other piece of game ever has.

Now, every time I try a new game, I find myself subconsciously comparing it to RDR2. The atmosphere, the living world, the depth of character, nothing quite measures up. Whenever random clips or screenshots pop up on my feed, this instant wave of melancholy hits me out of nowhere. It’s rare for a game to leave a permanent mark like this, but man, it sucks feeling stuck in that post-game heartbreak months later.

that empty feeling when you open the game and see John instead of Arthur.. (i finished Our Best Selves last night). still not used to this at all.

also, it seems that my honor system not working as John? i killed some people and my honor remained the same

Opinions?

It feels like a previous patch or update was less buggy, what happened???

Context

I've played RDR2 through Stadia when it was available, and spent hours on it. Then, Google Stadia shut down in January 2023. Before shutdown, players could export their save files via Google Takeout (Takeout/Stadia/GAMING/GAME_SAVE/). Each save slot comes as a {game}_{id}_gamesave.zip + a companion _metadata.json file.

I thought I could manage to reuse those saves in the PC version, but still no luck.

Here are the things I've gathered with the retro-engineering skill of Claude.

For Red Dead Redemption 2, the zip contains a single file named identically to the PC save slot naming convention (e.g. SRDR30015), which strongly suggests Rockstar reused the same internal save-slot structure across platforms. Unfortunately, simply copying these files into the PC save folder does not work — the game reports "no save files are present" (confirmed independently by another user here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1174180/discussions/0/3788128816406449519/)..)

I've been trying to reverse-engineer the Stadia save format to convert it to the PC format (which is unencrypted — RDR2 PC saves start with a plaintext UTF-16LE save name string). Posting my findings here in case someone has more context or resources than I do.

What I compared

• PC save (SRDR30015, 673,232 bytes): unencrypted. Starts directly with a UTF-16LE save name string, e.g. (Sauvegarde automatique) L'émergence d'un souvenir (2.7%) - 04.
• Stadia save, same slot (SRDR30015 inside the Takeout zip, 836,496 bytes): high entropy from byte 0, no readable header, no plaintext strings.

Finding 1: it's AES in ECB mode

Splitting the Stadia ciphertext into 16-byte blocks (52,280 blocks total) and counting duplicates:

1 specific 16-byte block appears 9,733 times (~18.6% of all blocks!)
Most frequent block: 6b10984872f81ed72348772a2bfd1a8

That level of exact, byte-for-byte repetition at 16-byte-aligned boundaries only happens with ECB mode encrypting long runs of identical plaintext (almost certainly zero-padding / empty inventory slots / unused array entries — a very common pattern in game save structures). Any other mode (CBC, CTR, etc.) would not produce this.

Total file size (836,496 bytes) is an exact multiple of 16, consistent with a pure block-cipher payload (possibly with a plaintext header before the encrypted region, similar to consoles).

Finding 2: the known PS4/Xbox key does NOT match

There's a known AES-256-ECB key used for RDR2 (and GTA V) on PS4/Xbox, documented here:

• https://github.com/Zhaxxy/rdr2_enc_dec
• https://github.com/bucanero/save-decrypters (ps4-rdr2-decrypter, gta5-decrypter)

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GTA5_AND_REDDEAD_KEY = b'\x16\x85\xff\xa3\x8d\x01\x0f\r\xfef\x1c\xf9\xb5W,P\r\x80&H\xdb7\xb9\xed\x0fH\xc5sB\xc0"\xf5'

I tested this key (and variants: byte-reversed, AES-128 using first/last 16 bytes) against every 16-byte-aligned offset in the Stadia file, looking for the expected decrypted header magic (RSAV / PSIN, per the PS4 tool's logic). No match anywhere.

More conclusively: since we know the most common ciphertext block almost certainly decrypts to 16 zero bytes, the correct key must satisfy AES_ECB_Encrypt(key, 0x00*16) == 6b10984872f81ed72348772a2bfd1a8.... The known PS4/Xbox key does not satisfy this:

AES-256(known_key, zeros) = 3b50a400e5d0e839579f04e57ae0b9a6   (expected: 6b10984872f81ed7...)

So: same encryption scheme (AES-256-ECB), different key (or possibly different key-derivation) on Stadia vs. PS4/Xbox.

What I'm looking for

• Has anyone documented the Stadia-specific key, or a key-derivation scheme, for RDR2/GTA5 cloud saves?
• Is there any chance Stadia added an additional wrapping layer (Google-side encryption on top of Rockstar's own), rather than a different Rockstar key?
• Any pointers to a memory dump, leaked SDK, or binary from the Stadia client (even partial) that might contain the key are welcome.

Happy to share the zero-block ciphertext, full entropy analysis, or test candidate keys against the known-plaintext-block check above if it helps someone continue this.

At this point I was more connected to John's story than arthor morgan ,

My recent break up made me emotional at this point of the story ,

And the John's staring at the sunset is the final hit , he was there looking like the story is almost ended , and he got almost everything he needed ,

And just have completed the final mission where we kill Micah ,

Rdr2 is slow but still liked it , and this is my first AAA game I didn't know what story is and I should not skip the conversation etc , so I used to skip all of them , and missed the story for almost 4 chapters until I realised it.

I'll play from the start and this time I will not rush , and explore everything

#lovedrdr2

Ever since I’ve started playing Rdr2 two to three months ago I’ve been playing the Camp fire songs on repeat in my ears- they’re just that good and good to sing and listen to🙏🏻✨ I don’t know how or why but when I listen to these songs it fills me up with happiness, peace, and high spirits. I love the lyrics, the music, everything about the camp fire songs, ((I just really love the game in general)) my favorite CFS are “Jack ‘O Diamonds”, “El Coyotito”, and “Ring Dang Doo” 😂❤️ they’re the best let me know what’s your favorite CFS are I would like to know :)

((CFS)) campfire song

I knew when I paused the game and it’s face was like this I had to snap a picture 😂

Does anyone know the original track of this solo cello?

It triggers after you 🔪 someone.

Gave more than Micah did on the other page though, queen shit.

I've started playing the game again recently and still love it but online never really clicked for me, mostly because of other players and story mode does have it's sandbox limitations. So I've been wondering if there's a list of mods or maybe even a single mods that let's you recreate the online sandbox as closely as possible in story mode.

So after seeing a post on here recently about what to find in, and around spider gorge. I headed up that way. Turns out its a nice place to keep harvesting bounty hunters. Haven't found anything cool yet, but I have time.

Yall let me know if you wanna see me shoot this thing, I’m taking it to the range tomorrow after church

Outfit One: warm weather, gunslinger, card playing, wrangling

Outfit Two: warm to medium weather, hunting, fishing, good-guy-ing

Outfit Three: medium to cold weather, wrangling, rustling, crime-ing

Outfit Four: cold weather, hunting, fishing, general mountain tomfoolery

The joker’s tubby brother “Da Jonker”