Hunting plays a vital role in Red Dead Redemption 2, since the protagonist Arthur Morgan it will be able to use the hunted animals to obtain precious skins and meat to feed on. However, getting skins in perfect condition can be very difficult, especially at the beginning of the game, and will often require the use of power arrows, of which you can find one. full guide here.
Let's go and see how to always try to get leathers in perfect condition.
First, it will be necessary to identify which animals can provide us with perfect skins: to do this, simply observe them with binoculars and, once you have found the animal, hold down R1 or RB to study the animal. This action will give us a description of the creature and, to the left of the name, there will be stars. Animals with three stars can produce perfect skins.
However, we must necessarily pay attention to the capture of the animal, in particular the use of firearms can damage the animal's skin and lower its quality. To know which weapon to use against a specific animal, it will be enough consult the Compendium, found in the menu in the Progress section.
Another fundamental thing will be lethally hit the animal, if this does not happen in fact it will be necessary to hit it several times and, in most cases, this will lead to a reduction in skin quality. Aiming for the beast's neck or head is always the best choice in this case.
Below you will find a list of the weapons needed to kill various animals without damaging their skin.
Smaller animals - You will have to kill them with the bow using arrows designed for small game. This section includes animals such as mice, bats, squirrels, bullfrogs, toads, snakes, cardinals, robins, woodpeckers and other small species of birds.
Small animals - These animals will need to be killed with a varmint rifle with 0.22 ammo. This category includes iguanas, rabbits, armadillos, badgers, opossums, raccoons, skunks, eagles, cranes, hawks, owls and other large bird species.
Average animals - This category can be played with normal arrows, poison arrows, throwing knives, poison throwing knives and all types of rifles except those with explosive ammo. This category includes coyotes, foxes, pigs and beavers.
Big animals - Also in this case it will be possible to use arrows (both normal and poisoned), throwing knives (normal or poisoned) and any type of rifle without explosive ammunition. This category includes turtles, small alligators, wild boar, deer, pumas, panthers, wolves, deer, antilos, goats, and sheep.
Larger animals - Here it will be necessary to use poisoned or improved arrows, poisoned throwing knives, rifles without explosive ammunition. This category includes bears, bison, bulls, moose, oxen, cows and large alligators.
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► Red Dead Redemption 2 is an Adventure-Action type game developed and published by Rockstar Games for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Google Stadia, the video game was released on 26/10/2018 The version for PC came out on 05/11/2019
Version for Google Stadia from 19/11/2019
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