Hunting is the most important way to obtain animal materials in the game. Although hunting may seem simple, there are many things worth noting. So let’s take a look at this Red Dead Redemption 2 hunting experience shared by Frost Knife Kate. You will definitely gain a lot!
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Basic elements, clean kills and Prey quality.
Prey quality:
The quality of prey is represented by star rating. After encountering prey in the wild, you can use the telescope or sniper rifle scope to observe the prey and press L2 to learn the star rating of the prey. (It can also be observed with the naked eye if the distance is close enough), 1 star = poor quality, 2 stars = excellent, 3 stars = perfect, all including camp upgrades, backpack production and special clothing production at the trapper require perfect leather, poor quality and excellent Quality furs can only be sold for money.
Clean kill:
Indicates killing prey cleanly and neatly with the correct weapon. When shooting small animals with too high power, such as rifles or shotguns (all broken!), or shooting large animals with too low power, the prey will not be killed with one shot, and the prey will have to run a certain distance before dying, causing the carcass to be dragged along ( Although I don’t know how running can drag me down) and the number of attacks exceeds one. This will lead to a decrease in prey quality.
PS: It is said that accessories made of antlers can improve the quality of skinning, that is, it is possible to obtain higher-quality materials when skinning (such as perfect skinning from a two-star corpse), but there is a probability, I personally feel that this probability is about 20%-30%. After hunting the legendary deer for antler jewelry, you can get the legendary antlers by skinning them and go to the black goods shop to make them.
PS: The materials for peeling birds are slightly different from animal skins. The materials for birds are as follows: 1 star = 1 feather, 2 stars = 2 feathers, 3 stars = 3 feathers. Also influenced by antler jewelry.
Legendary beasts:
Personally, I think the difficulty of hunting legendary beasts is lower than that of ordinary beasts, because they must appear, and there is no difference in quality, and they do not pay attention to clean kills.
So as long as you look at the map and arrive at the designated location, the upper left corner will prompt you to enter an area where legendary beasts roam. Then open your eagle eye to investigate the golden traces on the ground, then follow the traces, and then Investigate the next golden trace, repeat it a few times, and you'll see the legendary beast. At this time, you just need to take out your most powerful weapon and kill it. Headshots from herbivorous rifles, carnivorous hollow bullets, you can switch to a spray gun at close range and fire Eye of Death, but you will still die after a few shots. Just to be on the safe side, take a healing potion before shooting to increase your health limit to prevent being killed, and chewing tobacco is also convenient. Open the Eye of Death and press O to break free after being caught. After being beaten to death, you can skin the horse and put it on its ass to sell.
It is worth mentioning that even if you lose the fur of the legendary beast for various reasons on the way back, it doesn’t matter. The trapper will still unlock the corresponding materials of the legendary beast, and it is unlimited. Once done Hats can also be used to make clothes, as long as you have other materials. The loss of losing the fur is only the tens of dollars from selling the fur. When peeling the skin, you will also get special props such as teeth and antlers. After obtaining it, go to the black goods dealer to make legendary beast accessories, which will increase various special abilities, such as the legendary deer. It increases the quality of skinning, increases health and stamina, and increases the rate of experience gained by Death's Eye.
Ordinary beasts:
Ordinary beasts are a little more troublesome. The main reason is the quality of the prey and clean killing. The quality of the prey is random, because it can only be obtained from three-star prey. Perfect leather, you can also gamble on your luck with two stars after you have the deer antler jewelry.
A clean kill requires several corresponding weapons, such as rifles for large animals and hunting rifles for small animals (called vixens rifles in the traditional Chinese version). Small animals require small prey arrows made from bows and arrows ( Making small game arrows requires flying feathers and pellet gun bullets. The pellet gun bullets are easy to obtain, so I won’t mention them. Flying feathers need to be used to shoot flying birds, and even turkeys running on the ground will not come out. It is recommended to set the auxiliary aim to wide in the settings. ) Ordinary version players may need to spend some time to earn money to buy it, or give poisonous liquid to someone bitten by a snake in the wild. When you return to the local town, there is a chance that you will meet him to pay for a gun for you (there seems to be people bitten by snakes in various areas) plot, but in some areas people may not buy you a gun, but help you pay for it at the grocery store. In the Valentine area of ??the town in Chapter 2, the people you meet buy guns for you)
Once you are familiar with these, you will be a qualified hunter. Let’s mention the Eastern Legend backpack.
At the beginning of Chapter 2, after setting up camp at Horseshoe Terrace, you can find Pearson to make them. First there are several other backpacks. Each of these backpacks has its own unlocking conditions, but it is not difficult. For example, make three items in the sentry camp ( The sentry camp is the small fire next to the camp. If you don’t know where it is, you can select the sentry camp in the Pearson upgrade option to see where it is.) Upgrade the medicine carriage twice (unlocked after completing Mr. Strauss’s debt collection task) Ledger, upgrade the camp and carriage at the ledger. After upgrading Dutch's camp, you can upgrade Arthur's camp and unlock fast travel)
These types of backpacks only add corresponding supplies, materials, meat and herbs. The storage limit of these has not increased much, from 3 to 5, but the highlight is that after the previous backpacks are completed, the final Legend of the East backpack can be made. The storage limit of all items has been increased to 99, and Arthur's small satchel has transformed into Doraemon's extra-dimensional space pocket can stuff any number of things into it. You can wander around in the wild for ten days and a half. The bag contains dozens of pieces of various meats, gold necklaces, pocket watches, and various medicines. When you come back and sell a lot, you will immediately make a fortune, and you no longer have to worry about the backpack not being enough to hold the things.
As for the materials required to make a backpack, in addition to each bag requiring a piece of deerskin, the others require a variety of materials. A perfect skin of an animal. There is no difficulty in deer skin. There are deer everywhere. Just pick the three-star ones and kill them. I personally think the two large predatory cats, pumas and mountain lions, are troublesome. First of all, it seems that only one of these two animals is refreshed in an area at a time. Whether it is perfect or not depends on your luck. Secondly, you look for other animals. These two brothers look for you. Every time I go to the area where they appear. , I crouched down to look for them, but I couldn't find them. There were no traces on the ground, and I couldn't see them even with the eagle eye on. Then they suddenly appeared behind me and pounced on me. If their health points were low, they would be instantly killed. If I pressed O too late, they would be killed immediately. Instant kill. You can try to take a bath and then go to a place to put bait on the ground, then apply odor eliminator on your body and squat down to wait for the rabbit. You can also put animal carcasses, but it requires patience, and I often put the bait and wait for a long time. If it doesn't come, I stand up and take two steps. Look, it suddenly pounced on me. . .
A more effective way is to take out a rifle while riding a horse, and walk around in the area where it appears. Always pay attention to the mini map. Once a red dot appears around you, immediately open the eye of death, and then shoot the head with one shot. Remember not to bring it with you. A sniper rifle with a scope. Remember to switch it off even if the scope is installed on the rifle. This is a bloody lesson.
As for badgers, there is an abandoned chapel to the south of the Gray Family Manor in the southeast of Rhodes. There are many around there, and badgers not only come out at night, there are also many during the day.
There are a lot of lizards on the small island to the west of the camp in Chapter 3. If you haven’t reached Chapter 3 yet, there is a small island on the big lake in the south of the map. I will add a picture later.
It is strongly recommended that in addition to using a hunting rifle to hunt rabbits and birds, you can directly aim L2 automatically. Killing will not damage the quality. Other prey that need to be headed should be shot with Death Eye. Otherwise, it is safe to shoot. You don't want to experience the sadness and anger of missing your prey and running away with a momentary shake.
Eat meat to restore the Dead Eye core. As a hunter, the most indispensable thing is meat. Original meat plus all cores. Various herbs and spices can be collected on the map to season the meat. Increase Some kind of core recovery amount, but it is not particularly necessary, because the original meat is also added a lot, but as a western gourmet with a sharp tongue, I always have all kinds of spices and herbs. How can you beat me after eating all over the west? .
Attached is the method of brushing three core values ??that I discovered: health value: boating and fishing. Physical strength: Sprint, run and swim. Just keep running and swimming and you're done.
Eye of Death: Cut firewood, dive and skin the crocodiles in the camp. Kill the crocodiles and skin them in the lower right corner of the recommended area. Give them a lot. There are many crocodiles and they are easy to kill. Many crocodiles are lying motionless on the shore. They are like living targets. Just headshot with a rifle and you can skin them. You can get a lot of meat and teeth. You can only bring one piece of leather to a horse. If you want meat, you can get five pieces of meat from a crocodile. If you kill a few, you can get dozens of pieces of meat. You can sell them for dozens of dollars at the butcher shop. You can also sell the teeth. , and you can also pick up crocodile eggs and sell them. The king of poaching in the West, you are the bane of crocodiles!!!
Did you not expect that there is so much knowledge in simple hunting? Remember the key points above and show your skills in the game!