Sombody Please help me

[Riggity Roo]

So, 8 hours in. I do the legendary Bear quest. I kill the bear. On my way back home, I slightly bump into a group of horse riders. No big deal. Then they shoot and kill me. ♥♥♥♥. Also no big deal. I'll just respawn with my bear skin and go home again. Nope. I respawn without the bear skin. I go back to kill the bear. The bear is already dead. I go back to load up a auto save. It auto saved after I died. I go to restart the mission. 30 minutes later, after I hunt down the bear. the Quest ends, and I have not killed the bear. The bear is gone. I could restart the chapter, But I don't want to do 3 hours of game play again. Someone please help me before I kill myself out of frustration.

[ant_sh]

If you die the legendary pelt will be at the trapper. If you didn't kill the bear it will respawn in several days.

[Riggity Roo]

Thanks. My first few hours with this game have been a living hell, so It's nice to finally know something is going right.

[Ellorien]

Doing this mission has nothing to do with actually killing the bear. You should make a manual save before starting any mission.
You don’t need to kill the bear right after the mission but if you lost the pelt then you lost just a few dollars you could earn by selling it to the trapper. The pelt itself will be at the trapper anyway. You still have the bear claw, though, which should be sold to a fence in order to craft a talisman. Don’t sell any parts of legendary animals to a butcher.

Keep in mind that the Bear is a legendary animal so you need to actually track it by activating deadeye and finding the clues (dung, fur, broken branches etc.).

[Clancy]

Originally posted by Riggity Roo:

Thanks. My first few hours with this game have been a living hell, so It's nice to finally know something is going right.

The guides on this site were a huge help back when I first started out, they have just about all the info you need to get going in the right direction . . .

https://www.rdr2.org/guides/single-player-index/

Also, if you want to avoid endless misery, I'd suggest turning off auto-save and using only manual saves from now on . . . save often, and especially before every robbery/fight/mission, it will keep you from getting screwed just because it auto-saved right after your horse died/you died/you did something dumb.

Good luck ;)