Can one play as a woman in story mode?

[suzQ]

And if not, is there an offline option for the Ultimate edition? I just want to play with the horses and the dress-up as a woman, because I'm a woman and bought this game only for the horses...

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Only online offers the charactors customizations.
Story mode is a single player and you play as Arthur. Lots of horses to ctach and train and sell and free :)
Oh and I'm a woman as well really loved the Story mode anyway.

[Red_Spartan_PG(BR)]

maybe you can find a mod for that. You can play online ignoring other people too or at least try it.

[suzQ]

Thank you so much for your replies.. I'll look into mods and if not, try online. I'm downloading the Special edition rn.. do you know if one can upgrade it later to Ultimate (online)?

[Red_Spartan_PG(BR)]

not sure, sorry

[Shodan]

Only in Online mode, but be prepared to spend a lot of time on character creation in order for your character to look... normal. Characters always look horrible unless you spend enough time on fine-tuning every bit of it. There are enough online guides worth checking out because everyone is struggling with this.

Also, there's no point in upgrading to the Ultimate edition and you should really play the Story mode since it's the only reason why this game is one of the top rated games ever. In my opinion, it's definitely the best gaming experience ever. Online, on the other hand is alright, it can be fun sometimes, but that's about it.

[RustyBeans]

The story is literally the main selling point of this game.. the horses are whatever..

[Ares4X]

There are some mods where you can play as Sadie Adler for example.

[suzQ]

Many thanks for all of your help.

Yup, but character creation is one of the funnest things to do imo. I don't want to put 100s of hours into another game playing as a preset character.

Maybe it's shallow but it's important to me to be able to play this as a customized female character. Otherwise I'll just stick to Breath of the Wild as Link with my 10 beloved horses in my 2 accts/games. :p

Ya, I've read terrible things about the online version of this game so that's a bummer. I've just uninstalled and requested a refund for the Special (story mode) edition. Guess that's it. :(

Btw, for anyone wondering.. one can't upgrade from Special to Ultimate, and I can't even install another edition of the game in the meantime if I wanted to until Steam refunds and removes the Special edition from their end. Seems removing it from my lib will interfere with the refund request.

[suzQ]

I'm super bummed over this lol.. Anyway my daughter suggested Skyrim because it has horses.. and catpeople.. :D

[suzQ]

Also Steam has already processed my refund that was fast, so woot!

[Cooperal]

What you want for singleplayer is probably a trainer, which is sure to be found at RDR2s section on nexus. They provide you with an in-game menu that enables you to manipulate the world in many game-breaking ways, but among those options are more harmless ones like the ability to swap your player model.

I haven't tried any of the trainers for myself but I wouldn't count on it being a cover-all solution. I'm sure by the end of it you would probably agree that it would have been a monumental task to have offered the choice of gender with equal level of polish to what Arthur has already been given.

Edit: Since you said that you already own BotW. Link may be feminine already but did you know that there have already been mods made to exchange Link for playable Zelda or a female equivalent to Link named Linkle? Complete with voice swaps, gender specific dialogue swaps, redesigned costumes, even the ability to walk straight into the Gerudo town without obstruction.

It's perhaps possible that you can inject these mods to console but without giving away anything that might upset this boards terms of use, your console might not be the only way to play your copy.

[Spud]

You could always play it as a trans man pre-op butch type of woman.

[GensenPrime]

You should at least complete the story with the main character that you play as. It's important to the story and I believe you'll grow to like the character as you go through the storyline.