The Collector Maps Question

[DaddyJokee]

I have the arrowhead map active, but I can't find any of it, so I'm wanting to swap to a different map, but at the bottom it says that "using this map will DEACTIVATE AND REMOVE the currently active map."

What's that mean? Will I lose the map if I activate a new one, or will it just remove the locations and deactivate the map?

[T3chn1c4L]

Yes, you will lose it permanently.

[DaddyJokee]

oh ♥♥♥♥... thanks

[Erynar]

Once you use a collectors map, you can't use any other collectors map until you've either found all of the items the map points to or thrown the map away. If you swap to a different map, you're throwing the map away, and you can't use it again. You can find or buy another map of the same type which may or may not point to the same places, but that particular map you have will be gone. For whatever reason, they wanted to force you to complete a collectors map before using another one rather than letting you switch between them. It may have something to do with how the collectable items move around every day. If you have a map active, they have keep those items in the same place for you until you find them or discard the map, whereas if you could freely switch between maps, they'd have to keep all of the items referred to by all of your collectors map in the same spot until you found them. So, that may or may not be why they did what they did. Regardless, the result is that you have to complete or throw away a collectors map before switching to another one.

If you're willing to look stuff up online, you can find where all of the collectibles are here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedDeadCollector/comments/d9u2nf/offical_map/

Personally, I've avoided using it thus far, but I also have ended up with a lot of collectibles and very few complete collections. I think that most everyone who's very successful at getting complete sets uses the online map to find them. But you could also just use it to find where the collectibles are in the areas on your collectors map if you're too frustrated at finding them.

In general, I've found treasures far harder to find than collectibles. At least collectibles have both a visual and audio cue about where they are (though sometimes one or both don't show up), whereas the treasures only get visual cues, and they're usually placed in such a way that you can't see them until you're close. It's one area of the game that's easier with a controller, since controllers vibrate when you get close to treasures (and the same with collectibles if you have a high enough rank as a collector).

[DaddyJokee]

I started the arrowhead map without having the special binoculars, and I can't find the dig site anywhere. This being my first dig site too, I don't even know what Im looking for, and it is in such locations that with the snow, it is impossible to see stuff. But I guess I'll just keep at it.

[Erynar]

Originally posted by MrJokee:

I started the arrowhead map without having the special binoculars, and I can't find the dig site anywhere. This being my first dig site too, I don't even know what Im looking for, and it is in such locations that with the snow, it is impossible to see stuff. But I guess I'll just keep at it.

There's a skill for seeing the glow that most collectibles give off coming from the dig sites that don't require the metal detector. I don't know if the special binoculars require that or whether they can do it before you get that skill (you get the skill at one of the collector ranks). Either way, with the snow, it's probably a waste of your time to search for dig sites if you can't see the glow. If you just keep using eagle eye as you wander around, you'll actually find quite a few collectibles. You also get them semi-frequently when looting bodies. So, if I were you, I'd just give up on using your collector map until either the snow is gone or you've ranked up enough in collector to see the dig spots (or bought the special binoculars).

Probably the biggest thing for finding collectibles when wandering around is knowing what the audio cue sounds like. I kept hearing it without knowing what it was, so I was missing a bunch of collectibles for a while. If you don't know what it sounds like, this video showcasing a bug has it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjGmWNvi-L4

Unfortunately, that won't help you find a buried arrowhead though.

[404]

Originally posted by Erynar:

Originally posted by MrJokee:

I started the arrowhead map without having the special binoculars, and I can't find the dig site anywhere. This being my first dig site too, I don't even know what Im looking for, and it is in such locations that with the snow, it is impossible to see stuff. But I guess I'll just keep at it.

There's a skill for seeing the glow that most collectibles give off coming from the dig sites that don't require the metal detector. I don't know if the special binoculars require that or whether they can do it before you get that skill (you get the skill at one of the collector ranks). Either way, with the snow, it's probably a waste of your time to search for dig sites if you can't see the glow. If you just keep using eagle eye as you wander around, you'll actually find quite a few collectibles. You also get them semi-frequently when looting bodies. So, if I were you, I'd just give up on using your collector map until either the snow is gone or you've ranked up enough in collector to see the dig spots (or bought the special binoculars).

Probably the biggest thing for finding collectibles when wandering around is knowing what the audio cue sounds like. I kept hearing it without knowing what it was, so I was missing a bunch of collectibles for a while. If you don't know what it sounds like, this video showcasing a bug has it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjGmWNvi-L4

Unfortunately, that won't help you find a buried arrowhead though.

Tarrot cards are actual magick?!?

[Taran Tatsuuchi]

It may be that the specific arrowheads the map is pointing to are one of the few that require the metal detector to dig up.

As there's a couple of those that need that.

Originally posted by MrJokee:

I started the arrowhead map without having the special binoculars, and I can't find the dig site anywhere. This being my first dig site too, I don't even know what Im looking for, and it is in such locations that with the snow, it is impossible to see stuff. But I guess I'll just keep at it.

You don't need the binoculars for any of the collection items.

I've heard they can be useful for hunting though...
Good visual range, and permanent eagle eye while looking through them.

[Trump G.O.A.T-POTUS]

You arent collecting arrowheads wo shovel and metal detector

[Tanyon]

FYI I bought the binoculars and as far as I can tell they do not find things that are buried as advertised.. I went to three arrowhead locations and nothing.. Once I got the lantern it was easy.. wish I never got the binoculars.. waste of $$ unless you use them for hunting maybe...?

[Trump G.O.A.T-POTUS]

Originally posted by Darth:

FYI I bought the binoculars and as far as I can tell they do not find things that are buried as advertised.. I went to three arrowhead locations and nothing.. Once I got the lantern it was easy.. wish I never got the binoculars.. waste of $$ unless you use them for hunting maybe...?

Works great for me.

[† Living Dead Girl †]

Originally posted by Darth:

FYI I bought the binoculars and as far as I can tell they do not find things that are buried as advertised.. I went to three arrowhead locations and nothing.. Once I got the lantern it was easy.. wish I never got the binoculars.. waste of $$ unless you use them for hunting maybe...?

I haven't found much use for the binoculars either.

[DaddyJokee]

I have the shovel, but if I need the metal detector, I am boned. I am pretty sure I am Rank 1 still.

[Tanyon]

Originally posted by MrJokee:

I have the shovel, but if I need the metal detector, I am boned. I am pretty sure I am Rank 1 still.

You just skip a few of them.. I was only doing eggs, flowers, alcohol bottles and tarrot
cards for the first 4 lvls.. you level up fast with her.

[Erynar]

The binoculars are great when for hunting, because they give you eagle eye. I haven't found them to be particularly useful for collecting, since you usually have to be pretty close to stuff to see it anyway. If it lets you see dig sites before you get the ability to see them with normal eagle eye, then that would make them more useful, but I don't know if they do or not. Either way, it would only be dig sites which don't require a metal detector. If a metal detector is required, the only way to be able to dig them up is to have the metal detector going crazy while you're over the spot. If you know that a metal detector is needed in an area though, it's usually quicker to find a collectible than it is when you have to find it off of the normal audio and visual cues.

As for ranking up collector, it happens ridiculously easy. All you have to do is find collectibles, and by using eagle eye as you wander around, it's pretty easy to find quite a few - that and they're on bodies that you loot fairly frequently. I think that I might have even been collector rank 20 before I managed to get even one complete collection, since it seems like every collection has one or two items that are hard to find.

[DaddyJokee]

Originally posted by Darth:

Originally posted by MrJokee:

I have the shovel, but if I need the metal detector, I am boned. I am pretty sure I am Rank 1 still.

You just skip a few of them.. I was only doing eggs, flowers, alcohol bottles and tarrot
cards for the first 4 lvls.. you level up fast with her.

I bet it will go faster too when I have the "intuition" perk. Or whatever its called on level 3