Skins disappear after picking up.

[Tatanka Blanca]

My skins are disappearing after I pick them up aftering skinning. I receive any addition materials. however whatever is in my characters hands disappears.

[thefire225]

Same thing was happening to me and a friend as well. We relogged and that seemed to fix the problem. Its a shame too we were doing a hunt stranger mission and the mission required bear pelt vanished from my friends hands and left us with no way to finish the mission.

[rubba.chikin]

I'm experiencing this too in online mode.

Eg. large pelts just vanish out of my characters hands after skinning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UrgGNISy3s&feature=youtu.be

Same thing randomly happens with medium animals like pronghorn/deer as well.

Fairly certain it is a server side problem as the issue comes and goes as I go into missions/gameplay modes and exit back to free roam. I've opened a case with Rockstar but the only suggestion so far was to re-verify the game files which made zero difference.

I've had some limited luck with dropping the pelts immediately after skinning them, but it's hard to tell if it's just random or not.

[kY0geN]

игра топ а вам кака игра ???????

[Dale]

I have the same thing happening every single day at least 75% of the time. I try to go sell the few pelts I have to try and change areas (log to another server I hope) to get away from that server (some are saying it's hacks stealing pelts) and suddenly all the butchers disappear so I have to wait half an hour for them to come back. I like the online game and was going to even buy gold to get a good start and support the dev's/game, but I'm not spending a dime on this unsupported mess as I have found reports of this exact problem dating to July 2019 and still there is no fix much less any word from the developers.

[AliceAMcGee]

Seen this too... I reverted to picking up the whole carcass and bringing it to the butcher or more often Cripps' table.

[jasonw]

I saw this issue just today.

[Dale]

I just did some testing as someone suggested they could work around it by immediately dropping the pelt after skinning, then it would be there to pick up. I tried this multiple times on a fresh login to free roam and all disappeared in the same exact amount of time from skinning (as I tried to drop them they went poof never to hit the ground). The only luck I have had is to park my horse on the carcass to get an instant skin, then perfectly time the 'R' key for STOW to get it on the horse before this amount of time lapses. I tried dozens of times to only get a few on the horse so certainly not a work around.

[InQuisition]

im really happy this isnt just me, but every "fix" ive tried doesnt work and this bug is basically a gameplay killer.

[rubba.chikin]

Dael - that's my current go to now which seems to be the most effective.

Park your horse on the carcass to force the quick skin bug and as soon as "press R to stow" appears do that immediately. Sometimes it looks like it is going to glitch and vanish but it glitches onto your horse instead.

I have seen hacks mentioned in a few posts too which is plausible. That would fit the behaviour of it coming and going as you move between game servers and have different players sharing your session.

However what I have also noticed is that when it's really really bad and almost every pelt is vanishing is that 30-60 sec later as you're riding around you'll see an inventory add notification of the pelt that just vanished.

An educated guess here is that the server is probably just getting hammered with too many transactions in the world and can't keep up (probably doesn't have enough compute to handle the number of players connected). So the pelts vanish on the client side as it's out of sync compared with what the server has registered on its side.

[Capgemini Adam]

Rubba. I would say the server is possibly the problem too but from what I understand, there are no servers. The games "servers" are hosted between all the players that are currently connected in a session so I tend to think it is something to do with the data that we are sending is not being accepted by the "server" so eventually it updates our local game to be the same as the "server" and it makes the pelt disappear.

The only fix that I have found that is VERY consistent, is to download a VPN, I am using ProtonVPN than just connect to literally anywhere and the problem seems to disappear. I think it is something to do with our modems.

[Ageha]

This has been happening to me. No help from Rockstar support.

[JHarlequin]

Rockstar doesn't believe it is happening yet. They want video proof now and that will probably just have them giving you credit for the skin which we already have, won't we don't have is the skin to sell.

And yeah, for about two weeks now, any large animal skin just disappears most of the time. A few people are saying they get it to work, but I have not seen any situation where it works currently.

For me, the skins it is effecting are the skins of animals that can not be picked up. If there is no pick up option then when I skin it, it gets the parts, picks up the skin, and then poof the skin disappears. A few moments later on the right side of the screen the faded warning for dropping or losing an item will show up for the skin.

I have tried several things including Rockstars initial troubleshooting and the first support option they offered. (refresh profile). Now they are asking me for video and I am working out the hassle of running any form of capture just to show rockstar that they are morons.

[rubba.chikin]

Yep I gave them 5 video examples both of medium and large animals.

JHarlequin - if you're running an Nvidia card just use the Alt + Z in game overlay and record before you skin, then stop it afterwards. They show up under: C:\Users\<username>\Videos\Red Dead Redemption 2\ then you can just grab them, upload to Youtube and publish as an unlisted video.

Their next suggestion was to sell all animal parts out of my inventory... which I'm already doing already anyway... to make money/create trading goods... ya know... kinda the entire point of skinning things in RDO...

I seem to have pretty good success with skinning medium animals by doing the stop horse ontop of carcass quick skin + immediate stow method. Most of the time the stow animation is cut short and it just pops onto the horse but I at least get to kept the pelt.

I don't seem to have the same luck with the large animals and lose almost all of those.

[Crusty]

Originally posted by rubba:

Their next suggestion was to sell all animal parts out of my inventory... which I'm already doing already anyway... to make money/create trading goods... ya know... kinda the entire point of skinning things in RDO...

Of all the lame ass excuses for help. They make the game, then suggest bypassing critical mechanics (skinning and hides) as a workaround to THEIR bug. That takes the cake, or hide, your choice.

[rubba.chikin]

I've now reached Tier 2 Rockstar support...

The latest is to try changing my outfit, which again made absolutely no difference. Even tried stripping everything off possible down to default starter pants and default belt/holster.

I've supplied them with more video evidence so we'll see what else they come back with.

For anyone struggling here's my current method of stopping the horse on the animal to successfully keep the pelts:
https://youtu.be/OThUQU42MZo
https://youtu.be/Kz_J6jOpkUE

You'll notice that even the stow animation looks rushed/broken when it works successfully like this. You can also block the ability to skin if you're completely on top of it.