Going to Blackwater with Arthur

[LiteraryPanda]

Can i go to Blackwater with Arthur for Legendary animals and treasure map?

[Rewski]

only with mods yes

[Lokiator]

You can try... But you'll be constantly swarmed with sharp-shooting bounty hunters the whole time. I wouldn't recommend it.

[LiteraryPanda]

That too bad... thank you so much

[Shaken_Widow]

you can go to blackwater, but as soon as you step into new austin you will be shot at by the invisible sniper.

there is a video on how to do it with a buggy due to how the sniper works tho btw, but the reason for it is to do the herbalist challenge.

doing the legendary animals would require leaving the animal so that the trapper automatically gets the skin and such in a way that would ultimately make it hard as all get out to do.

[LiteraryPanda]

i get it its a bit pain in the ass but allright

[Shaken_Widow]

Originally posted by Jager:

i get it its a bit pain in the ass but allright

js it is possible without mods

[Bad 💀 Motha]

What's the point even?
The game world opens up once you play as John and then you complete all the challenges and such then.

[Shaken_Widow]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

What's the point even?
The game world opens up once you play as John and then you complete all the challenges and such then.

people want max health, stam, and deadeye as arthur so they can keep him alive without completing the game.

there's entire tutorials on it for a reason.

[Gunter Severloh]

You'll want these mods:
https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/887
https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/877

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Shaken_Widow:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

What's the point even?
The game world opens up once you play as John and then you complete all the challenges and such then.

people want max health, stam, and deadeye as arthur so they can keep him alive without completing the game.

there's entire tutorials on it for a reason.

I used do that, before mods existed for this game. However it's just more frustrating then anything. If you complete more side challenges as Arthur that leaves less and less to do at your leisure as John. You're going to finish as Arthur at some point if you want to move on and wrap up the game overall.

If you really going to go to New Austin as Arthur then get the mods that gets rid of the Wanted Dead or Alive status and also the invisible sniper.

You will see some YT videos of players grabbing a horse cart and running through New Austin in order to get the Legendary Animals and the rest of the Plants and things like that. But it's dumb to even try to play that way since you'd have to do everything from the time you get that horse cart onward, without saving your game progress.

As for Challenges as Arthur it's possible to finish them all except for Herbalist (without mods or exploits).

Once you come back from Guarma there really shouldn't be much more side stuff for you to do if you had been exploring and doing random stranger quests that pop-up from time to time as you move around and explore the map and such.

I wasted a ton of time with Arthur because I figured since I had the Legendary Satchel with the 99 items per slot that I could fill those up for John. This doesn't work at all because when you switch over to John, the game devs seemed to write it in a way that assumes you don't yet have the Legendary Satchel, which is rather dumb. It has a few of the items I saved for John but only some and only like 3 per slot for ones it did carry over which again wasn't much, which I really dont understand why it's like that. As with John you have to play through Epilogue Part 1 without your weapons, which you don't yet need. Once you get a certain mission/event, that will then allow you to have the Legendary Satchel and all of Arthur's already purchased guns + ammo and continue onward from there. You also have to wait til playing as John before Mrs Hobbs comes back from vacation to resume those hunting requests. Which will be needed to complete the achievement, 'It's Art'

[maldorf]

In the epilogue you can go to Blackwater and beyond. I think you might be able to hunt legendary animals then. Ive not been messing with it though.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by maldorf:

In the epilogue you can go to Blackwater and beyond. I think you might be able to hunt legendary animals then. Ive not been messing with it though.

What you mean "THEN" ?

You can hunt lengendaries all along as Arthur. Big Game and also Fish.

It's just that a few of them happen to be in the New Austin area is all.

The entire Compendium can't be completed until you play as John, naturally. Otherwise what would have even been the point of the New Austin area at all.

Overall, you can actually complete approx 90% of everything there is to do in the game, as Arthur before playing John, if you wish to play that way.