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- Early on, during the tutorial phase of the game, you'll come across a legendary bear. After defeating the bear, you'll gain a legendary bear skin. Legendary skins are for crafting clothing and so long as you've killed the legendary animal you're good, so you don't actually need to keep them around.
- Legendary animal parts can be used to craft talismans and trinkets that unlock permanent bonuses, but they're all honestly really mediocre upgrades.
- If you have a bounty and surrender to the police, the game deducts the value of your bounty from your wallet. If you have a bounty worth far more than you're willing to pay, spend all your money or donate all your money to the camp funds and then surrender. This will clear your bounty.
- You can gain access to the fast travel function from your camp by upgrading your lodgings.
- Your main horse will show up at your destination if you fast travel via coach or train.
- Always carry a bottle or two of horse reviver. They can be bought at a stable or general store.
- Wear a mask out of sight before committing crimes—for both free roam and during missions.
- The deadeye ability becomes upgraded through story progression.
- If you already have a handgun and still see it available in the gun catalogue, it's because you can buy two of each handgun for dual wielding purposes. The two guns can be separately customized and are denoted by a diamond and spade symbol after their name.
- You can sell looted valuables at the fence. There's one in Rhodes, south of Valentine.
- During chapter 3 you'll rob a bank in Valentine. After this mission, money won't be a problem for the rest of the game.
- High honor gives store discounts and access to new outfits. Low honor increases the loot from dead lawmen and increases the drop rate of deadeye replenishing items. Other than that, it doesn't do anything.
- Always carry a warm outfit on your horse.
- The White Arabian, the best horse in the game, can be found on the west bank of Lake Isabella to the north. You can tame this horse right from the start of the game after you clear the tutorial.
- If you focus on an animal, you'll find dots next to the animal's name. The number of dots tells you the quality of the animal's pelt where three is perfect condition. Study the animal to know what type of weapon to use. Kill the animal with a single shot using the correct weapon to get a clean kill and preserve the animal's pelt quality.
- You don't need a clean kill on legendary animals to obtain their drops.
- Camp upgrades provided by Pearson are all cosmetic.
- Satchel upgrades provided by Pearson double your carrying capacity of a certain set of items, but it's rarely needed.
- Fishing can be boring, but it's ridiculously profitable for the minimal effort it takes.
- If you call out to a passing wagon or coach, you can ask for a ride into the nearest town.
- Sneak up on someone while unarmed to perform a non-lethal takedown.
