Best way to explore the entire map as Arthur?

[Punished Eric]

Title. I've used the mod to disable out of bounds snipers but towns don't work at all. I really just want to play the open world as Arthur because I don't like playing as John. Has anyone made places like Blackwater and Armadillo full functional when playing as Arthur? Does anyone have some kind of work around?

[sshortguy1]

I liked RDR! better, it had a better gameplay & story, but as stupid as Martson was at the end take his chances with 8 cops, all surrounding him he couldn't even get a shot out before all of them started firing, left him with a bunch of holes for Abigail & Jack to see him, but it's been a very long time ago was it true that Jack grew up to become a prosecutor?

[Punished Eric]

Originally posted by sshortguy1:

I liked RDR! better, it had a better gameplay & story, but as stupid as Martson was at the end take his chances with 8 cops, all surrounding him he couldn't even get a shot out before all of them started firing, left him with a bunch of holes for Abigail & Jack to see him, but it's been a very long time ago was it true that Jack grew up to become a prosecutor?

I honestly never cared for RDR1, the world felt really empty to me, money was basically useless I had 500 dollars 10 hours in and nothing to spend it on. The weapons all kind of felt the same, it really felt like the only thing to do in that game was the story and side quests where I spent hundreds of hours in RDR2 just d'cking around, the bounties from rdr1 are sorely missed though.
I really like the gunplay in RDR1 with the auto-aim, usually I hate controller aiming but rdr1 locks the target on everyone's chest so if you flick the right stick up at just the right amount you can get a perfect headshot every time, insanely satisfying for a controller shooter.
I think the ending of the story where you play as Jack and get revenge is such a kick in the teeth, and genuinely a bad writing choice. John gave everything so his son could have a normal, legal life, only for his son to get revenge for no reason because the wild west is dead by the time Jack kills Agent Ross, it's not like he can go ride with another gang, it's the roaring 20s now. This ending is only made worse to me by this prequel game that shows how much not just John but Arthur sacrificed for Jack, only for Jack to go against the words of the mentor of both of those men "revenge is a luxury we can't afford" In their attempts to make a satisfying ending by allowing the players to get revenge I think they made it much, much worse, go home Jack, it's 1926, have a family, let the credits roll with us knowing that the revenge, the violence of the wild west is over.
I don't think the game is bad I just never particularly liked it, I feel the same way about most GTA titles so I'm just not that into rockstar games, compared to this game which might be my favourite game ever, finally dethroning favourites I've had for years.

[Punished Eric]

Originally posted by WondrinOstrich:

Originally posted by Punished Eric:

...Does anyone have some kind of work around?

It might sound complicated at first, but it is worth the effort, for I ride with Arthur all the map with almost no restrictions but those, I make for myself ;-)

Two mods plus the Scripthook from AB-Software is all you need here,
but beware: playing with mods online might ban you from R*-Services!

1., Lockdown Manager to switch off red zones:
https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/887

2., Disable all out of bound snipers:
https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/877

3., Latest version of AB script hook, needed for almost all rdr2-mods:
http://dev-c.com/rdr2/scripthookrdr2/

- there exist different non-AB-versions of script hooks, but using only this two mods you should need no other than the original scripthook from AB, even the latest one from Nov 2019 works fine, if you are not depending on certain special modifications of the game.

The scripthook download comes with a native trainer too
(no need to use it though, when you need no trainer, you need not copy this file into rdr, scripthook works good without it and the less changes on the game, the better)
and it comes with the dinput8.dll (this library / asi-loader is needed anyway)

Lockdown manager you have to use only once, when you have deactivated your desired redzones and save the game, the redzone-statii will be kept in the following savegames.

Using mods can make the game a lot more immersive in many ways, but it is mandatory
->> to read mod instructions, how to install etc very carefully to avoid game crashes!

Once you've set it up, there is no need to deactivate the snipers on every game-start like you would with a trainer. Works fine with trainers too, but those trainers might be quite overkill for some and they are not needed for this, keep the modifications as low as possible ;-) But that's just my 5c.
Just sayin', no pun intended, ever!

just a few hours before this post I used all of these things you linked as someone in the thread recommended, the key component I was missing was the lockdown manager. It works great! Thank you.

Originally posted by Punished Eric:

as for the topic of the thread I found this mod https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/638/
which is an edited save file. I've yet to try it but I am very eager to do so.

As for the edited save file, it's also a great choice if you want to play as Arthur in the entire open world. It's really a choice as to what year you want to play in, and what home you want to have.

If you want to play Arthur with the gang and the camp in 1899
Download these
-AB scripthook
-the lockdown manager
-Disable Out of Bounds Snipers
Once in game press f7 and unlock all regions. The map is now open to you and you can play the story as well.

If you want to play as Arthur in 1907 with Beecher's Hope, just get the edited save file I linked and put it in Documents/Rockstar Games/profiles/(your profile code)
Uncle, Jack and I think Abigail is there, I think Charles left as the ending credits implied I didn't really look around for them. With the edited save file you shouldn't need the lockdown manager or the NoInvisibleSnipers.asi, but I would still get Disable Snipers just in case.

[sshortguy1]

why would Charles leave, uncle was a useless twit,,, lmao,,, annoying af, but funny, don't get him started with his Lumbaho illness,, lol,,, RDR 1, seen him die after getting shot on John's porch