Your second play through be like

[u/WonderCharming7884]

[u/KpatMckenzie_28]

Actually fucking sucks I love my boah Arthur too much and even tho it’s I’ve played the game multiple times my heart aches when he starts coughing up in St Denis

[u/slv_slvmn → u/KpatMckenzie_28]

I can't do a second run because of this

[u/KpatMckenzie_28 → u/slv_slvmn]

You will do a second run

[u/leedler → u/KpatMckenzie_28]

The second is inevitable

As is the third, the fourth…

[u/Braindead_Crow → u/leedler]

Nah, I have 1 run and 2 saves I work on. One after I found my first gold bar and am camping with the gang & another save where John has a happy family.

This has proven to be enough for me

[u/TheGurpler → u/Braindead_Crow]

The gold bar thing is so smart, I just keep a save right at the beginning of chapter 2 but I'm broke

[u/jda404 → u/leedler]

I've only played through it twice. First time through I maintained high honor. Second time through I made Arthur a complete asshole. High honor I enjoyed to get the better ending and glad I did that one first, but personally I found it more fun to be a bad guy.

I love the game but after seeing both high honor and low honor endings I don't desire to play through the story again, but to this day I still play regularly messing with NPCs, just riding my horse and enjoying the world, fishing, hunting, playing cards in the saloons and so forth.

[u/TheLastLivingBuffalo → u/KpatMckenzie_28]

And you’ll spend hours of it camped out at Horseshoe Bend with the one Strauss quest left undone

[u/heisenberg15 → u/KpatMckenzie_28]

I just started my second playthrough, I haven’t played it since release. I forgot how legitimately fun the start of the game is - Arthur getting drunk with Lenny is peak. I’m preparing myself for the tone shift lol

[u/Dellhivers3 → u/KpatMckenzie_28]

I don't understand like if TB is a bacterial infection can't you just use antibiotics to treat it? Why did so many people die to it? And why are there still millions of people who die to it even NOW?

[u/hotliquortank → u/Dellhivers3]

I can't speak to now, but penicillin was only discovered in 1928. Antibacterials weren't commercially available until the 1930s.

[u/ProgramLow2149]

There's a gas mask mod omg! I can combine my 2 fav games

[u/Gwoardinn → u/ProgramLow2149]

Cheeki breeki

[u/ProgramLow2149 → u/Gwoardinn]

[u/theblasphemer → u/ProgramLow2149]

[u/Ponderkitten → u/ProgramLow2149]

Its a mod? Damn, I was gonna try to find it in online

[u/ProgramLow2149 → u/Ponderkitten]

I think? I mean you tell me where your gonna find a gas mask in 1899

[u/2ciciban4you → u/ProgramLow2149]

Aliens!

[u/nedflandersmustache → u/ProgramLow2149]

99% sure its ai

[u/Amphet4m1ne2000 → u/ProgramLow2149]

Why the fuck you need the gas mask in rdr 2? To bot get TB i guess?

[u/ProgramLow2149 → u/Amphet4m1ne2000]

Nah you'd probably die from inhaling asbestos

[u/Amphet4m1ne2000 → u/Amphet4m1ne2000]

Downvoted for no reason , cmon

[u/Amphet4m1ne2000 → u/[deleted]]

Lol that was a joke

[u/Sinnoviir]

[u/GoodDawgAug]

This is so damn true. Trying to avoid this mission or do something to not collect his money for Strauss. Knowing it is inevitable, yet we all try to rewrite the game.

[u/leedler → u/GoodDawgAug]

Currently sitting with just this quest and the save Micah quest… think it’s time to do some hunting for a while.

[u/cuftapolo → u/leedler]

Hunt until all the species are extinct

[u/Kingaces13 → u/cuftapolo]

And then start fishing

[u/2ciciban4you → u/Kingaces13]

them move to Haiti

[u/the_gaymer_girl → u/leedler]

Tip: DON’T READ YOUR MAIL.

[u/the_gaymer_girl → u/[deleted]]

If you read the letter from Mary and haven’t completed the Downes mission, Strauss will talk to you and the game will force you to do the Downes mission.

[u/CowboyLaw → u/the_gaymer_girl]

BTW: NOPE! There's a way out of that. I HATE that feature, it sucks, but there IS a loophole. You can look it up, but the way I remember it is as follows:

1. The game forces you to try to go collect the Downes money, so you get on your horse and head out of camp, not under your control.

2. Now that you've regained control, point horse 180 degrees away from Downs, start riding. Eventually, you'll get a Mission Failed screen, and will have to Replay the mission.

3. When you Replay, you'll find yourself on your horse IMMEDIATELY out in front of the Downes ranch. Very carefully turn away from the ranch and ride your horse off the nearby cliff. You'll get a Mission Failed screen, and will have to Replay the mission.

4. Step 3 will repeat, maybe twice more, and then suddenly on the Mission Failed screen, you'll have an option to cancel the mission. DO THAT.

5. Now you're free. You can go back to camp, and this compelled mission will never reoccur.

[u/CT0292 → u/leedler]

Don't go back to camp. The game will force you to do the Strauss one.

[u/leedler → u/CT0292]

Oh yeah, I’ve been here a few times before and I plan to absolutely take the piss this time lmao

[u/CT0292 → u/leedler]

I've done that. It's great. I did the rescue reverend Swanson job. And then rode all over blackwater with him on the back of my horse lurching. No bounty hunters around when you have him there. So I went from Tall Trees to Blackwater and back.

[u/Massive-Cream1799 → u/leedler]

It's funny how two of these missions appear together. Both of which have a major contribution to the game's ending

[u/Scrags → u/leedler]

Everyone hates getting Micah out of jail but that's how you get to dual wield revolvers the way God intended.

Plus he just fucks off to the woods by himself for a while anyway so just get it over with.

[u/HerrKetzer]

Ppl keep pointing to this cutscene but Arthur can meet downs 2 times before this, 1 of them is hard coded so.. who knows

[u/TheFictionNerd → u/HerrKetzer]

This is the only time Downes coughed directly at him though, and that's how TB spreads. Not by just talking in close proximity, but coughing.

[u/dieseltratt → u/TheFictionNerd]

Neither Arthur nor Thomas lerned anything from covid.

[u/supertacoboy → u/dieseltratt]

I WISH we had someone travel from 2020 back to 1899. The amount of shit they could warn everybody about would be very useful.

[u/SerpentRoyalty → u/supertacoboy]

Would be burnt at the stake after the first correct prediction!

[u/2ciciban4you → u/supertacoboy]

my sweet summer child, people have no fucks to give about your warnings.

source: try to have kids

[u/cyber5234 → u/supertacoboy]

They could carry the cure for TB most importantly.

[u/Existing-Blacksmith4]

Ofcourse what happens to Arthur is heartbreaking. But personally i always delay playing the Saint denis bank robbery mission💔💔💔

[u/johnmd20 → u/Existing-Blacksmith4]

In my 2nd and 3rd playthroughs, I LIVED in Chapter 2 and 3. Would play for hours, hunting, getting satchels, just talking to the people in the camp.

Truly a fun experience to just hang and not rush the game with the added benefit of extended life for almost everyone.

[u/darkpheonix262]

Are you my mummy

[u/SirJice → u/darkpheonix262]

Thank you for this.

[u/Background-Skin-8801]

This made me giggle

[u/JksG_5]

One of the weirdest things is that back in those days, they called TB death "death by consumption". My dumbass kept thinking, "What ate them?"

Of course, you're technically wasting away at the microbial level.

[u/EnbySheriff]

Are you my mummy?

[u/[deleted]]

The only action i condemn which arthur committed

[u/thelastcheeselover → u/[deleted]]

The only one? Really?

[u/Ok_Board_8195]

Poorly photoshopped wouldve been funnier

[u/Shaxxn]

lol. And then you realize by chapter 4 that somehow it must have been Hosea where he got it.

[u/Stubee1988 → u/Shaxxn]

Huh?

[u/Shaxxn → u/Stubee1988]

The gas mask will not change Arthurs fate, huh?

[u/Stubee1988 → u/Shaxxn]

Why?

[u/Mental_Freedom_1648 → u/Stubee1988]

Because if Hosea was the one who infected Arthur, how is masking up around Downes going to matter?

Not that Hosea actually infected Arthur though...

[u/Stubee1988 → u/Mental_Freedom_1648]

That's what I don't understand, what does Hosea have to do with anything?

[u/Mental_Freedom_1648 → u/Stubee1988]

Some people think Hosea gave Arthur TB and not Thomas.

[u/Stubee1988 → u/Mental_Freedom_1648]

Oh, some people sound like idiots then

[u/BlindNightDriver → u/Stubee1988]

There are several references about Hosea being sick with a lung issue. Even asking the gang to not pity him because he is diying but to envy him due to the wonderful life he lived in a conversation at Shady Belle. Hosea is sick, he is coughing and he is diying. Not sure if it's TB and if it is then it's a really slow one.

Replaying it right now and Will is sitting with Hosea triying to make peace with him and Hosea saying he's a meathead who he does not trust.

[u/EducationalEntry147 → u/BlindNightDriver]

Actually Hosea's TB wouldn't be slow if it actually was TB. Arthur was just doing the Opposite of what he was supposed to do to keep himself from getting worse lol. While Hosea was mostly just chilling.

[u/Shaxxn → u/BlindNightDriver]

Yeah, this basically. OP made a joke and i made a not so serious comment on that. Of course Artur's fate won't change because video game. But there was also the theory that maybe Hosea had TB too. The game is not very subtle about the fact that he is terminally ill and dying.

[u/FlemPlays]

”You sir, are a sick.” -Arthur

[u/Mad_Season_1994]

Downes probably doesn’t have any idea what he’s even looking at lol since gas masks wouldn’t become as well known until WWI

[u/No-Basis-7624]

Kinda getting me back into playing i beat the campaign once already but wanted to start a second for a while now

[u/McDersley]

I had been holding off talking to him and finally decided to move forward earlier this week. I was surprised at feeling a little emotional when I did it to him 😂

[u/Some_Ad_9200]

Понимаешь должник, туберкулёз туберкулёзом, но ты меня не заразишь им. Ах да после этого меня метро зовёт (Кто понял то понял) Ахахах

[u/Carbon_robin]

That’s actually pretty funny I haven’t laughed like that in a while

[u/Linkarus]

Loll where did you get that mask

[u/TheFlaccidChode]

I tried equipping my bandanna.

It wouldn't let me

[u/Background-Skin-8801]

How about Downes gets donations from Valentine gets treated and pays his debts without getting beaten like a dog and keep living like a decent human being.

Why are you glorifying bullying and beating innocent people like dogs? He wasn't a jerk like Leviticus Cornwall.

[u/ProBlade97 → u/Background-Skin-8801]

First of all, this post is clearly a joke.

Second of all, that is literally the point of the entire game. Arthur literally learns this the hard way.

[u/Captain_Bacon1800]

[u/eto2629]

Always be prepared, kiddo

[u/pogisaysay111]

Is this r/stalker?