What can you do during / after the epilogue?

[Lord von Games]

What can you do during / after the epilogue? (Note: I haven't complete the Epologue, if that's possible... I've been intentionally holding off, in case it limits my options).

I tried robbing a train... and was surprised to find my identity immediately recognized... maybe I was just sloppy in my handling, but hmmm. I guess it was a freight train... no passenger, and the cars only had goods. I know RDO doesn't have passenger trains, is that the case in the Epilogue? I hope not... biggest bummer in RDO, no passenger trains to rob and no bank stick-ups... and I've yet to find a Coach carrying anything other than passengers.

Any notable changes during the epilogue in what you can and can not do, compared the main story?

Don't worry about spoilers with any of your feedback... though warning to any who read this threat, spoilers may be contained.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

The epilogue we complete things that werent possible as Arthur to complete.
Access areas we couldnt before.
There is quite a few quests, I found and especially like find all the gravestones.
Any I hadnt finished as Arthur were still available and triggered others.
Spoilers maybe contained as it lists all we can do. I love the epilogue still havent finished it.
Have you seen the epilogue quests
Post Game Guide: Side Quests, Collectibles, and Things to Do After You Beat the Game
https://www.ign.com/wikis/red-dead-redemption-2/Post_Game_Guide:_Side_Quests,_Collectibles,_and_Things_to_Do_After_You_Beat_the_Game

[Bad 💀 Motha]

There is no point to robbing the freight trains. If you want to rob passenger train properly, buy a train ticket to Annesburg. Manual saving before you do that, of course.

I did it more then 5 times with full success quite easily as Arthur, however yes the first few attempts I had tried around the time I'm going through Chapter 2, it was a disaster and racked up such a Bounty, none of it was worth it. It wasn't hard to then learn how to do it properly without ever getting a bounty and without any Lawmen after you at all.

If you want me to detail it out, I can or you go find some online videos that would explain it and show you.

RDO doesn't need passenger trains. Money is very easy to make in RDO.

You never actually need to rob a train outside of the story as a means to get money, jewels, etc. There are plenty of houses, shacks, loot boxes all through-out this game world where the items re-spawn time and time again. Most loot boxes will re-populate their items simply by moving far enough away from them, then coming back to them. Houses and Shacks and such that you loot re-spawn those items over time just like how all of the unique flowers and all of the available herbs re-spawn.

Only reason I worked on doing the train robbery thing was to beat the available Challenges that you have. And I wanted to beat as many of them as possible before playing as John. Some things you simply can't complete until you play as John because they require going through New Austin in order to finish them.

[½Pete]

Half of the map opens up that Arthur cant travel to in the main story, the rest of the map again changes as it does a few times as you play as Arthur as well. John has a quite a bit of missions and story, much more than I imagined before I got to it, personally it's my favorite part of the game. The epilogue itself never ends, you just continue living in the game world and larping as John with his family as you wish, continuing on with your western rpg simulator.

It also heavily ties into the beginning of RDR1 of course.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

What do you mean "the map changes" ?

Where your main camp is or where you call home may change but the game map never changes.

If you want to explore the map fully you can do that as Arthur if you are willing to mod the game. You can also play around in RDO which takes place before Arthur and Van Der Linde gang. RDO was cool in its own right, as it allowed me to see some characters that either you only saw very briefly during Arthur and John time in that region and time period, or you hearing about a certain character due to the fact that they've been killed off by the time or sometime during the time you see things as Arthur and John.

Overall, yes there is plenty for your do once you do play as John in RDR2

Rockstar Games seems to have this trend where you missed stuff if you somehow only play the game through one time. Games like GTA SA, 4, 5 and also RDR 1 and 2 have periods within their game world where if you miss doing something a certain way at a certain time. Once you progress in the story far enough, you miss the chance to do something that was available, like a side quest perhaps or random interactions and such.

[½Pete]

The map physically changes in some areas over the course of the game. Not many players notice it.

[Lord von Games]

Originally posted by ½Pete:

The map physically changes in some areas over the course of the game. Not many players notice it.

Like the plague...

[Bad 💀 Motha]

A few changes here and there to buildings over time isn't really what I'd consider changes in the map. Many of you also don't see how some of the game world is prior to the RDR2 story, during the time of RDO.

[½Pete]

There are entire areas of the map that get deforested, have expansive farms built upon them, and entire rail road bridges and railways completed. Jesus christ. Pay attention next time. You weren't supposed to rush through the story.

The farm John works on and the area it exists in is entirely different in Arthur's chapter.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yea I get all of that and know about every change like that. It's not worth mentioning though as if the game world goes through some drastic changes. Course if you ask me, this game should have had Tornado's in it. That would be realistic.

Of course some things change. There are changes that occur from RDO (1898 or so) through the time you play as Arthur (1899) and then as you play as John (1907)

[½Pete]

Imagine being a dumb ADHD zoomer who states flat outley that no map changes whatsoever are made throughout the story of RDR2, and then when it is pointed out to him with specific examples that the map does in fact change, he does his best to not acknowledge it.

God, you people really are worthless.

[Lord von Games]

Originally posted by ½Pete:

Imagine being a dumb ADHD zoomer who states flat outley that no map changes whatsoever are made throughout the story of RDR2, and then when it is pointed out to him with specific examples that the map does in fact change, he does his best to not acknowledge it.

God, you people really are worthless.

Now now... it is worthless to rage / demean against the world for such things... especially when usually it is just a way of thinking or remembering, and then justifying one's own perspective.