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XtReMz98 Apr 19 @ 11:34am
Replaying for Gold Mission?
Hello,

New to RDR world here. Going through the different tabs, I've stumbled upon a mission tabs where I could see accomplished missions with various medals (mostly bronze and a few silver). Is there any point of replaying these missions to achieve a gold medal or is this asking for useless pain for no reward?

I know that there is an achievement for achieving gold on a combat mission, but I don't quite see the point of shooting for gold on any other missions....

Cheers!

Edit: I did "Political realities in Armadillo" with Gold outcome, got the related achievement and +25 fame. Unsure if that Fame is worth the hassle of being restricted through time limit/headshots/accuracy/etc.
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Quiet Bushi Apr 19 @ 1:00pm 
Other than the extra fame, it's really just for that added sense of completion—though of course, all gold medals aren't required for the 100% game completion achievement.
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XtReMz98 Apr 19 @ 1:03pm 
Originally posted by Quiet Bushi:
Other than the extra fame, it's really just for that added sense of completion—though of course, all gold medals aren't required for the 100% game completion achievement.

Do you need a fair % of Gold completion to reach maximum fame?
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Quiet Bushi Apr 19 @ 1:20pm 
Originally posted by XtReMz98:
Do you need a fair % of Gold completion to reach maximum fame?
You don't have to get any gold medals if you don't want to, but they do help speed it along. As for percentage I couldn't tell you. I swear it was easier to get fame back on the 360, but now with all gold medals I still had to grind some duels and rob folk to reach max fame.
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XtReMz98 Apr 19 @ 1:34pm 
Originally posted by Quiet Bushi:
Originally posted by XtReMz98:
Do you need a fair % of Gold completion to reach maximum fame?
You don't have to get any gold medals if you don't want to, but they do help speed it along. As for percentage I couldn't tell you. I swear it was easier to get fame back on the 360, but now with all gold medals I still had to grind some duels and rob folk to reach max fame.

Yikes.... and here I'm playing on hardcore, compounding the difficulty of getting gold (no aim assist and lower dead eye regeneration)....

Should I just play the game to completion and wrap these before/after the final mission? It seems I also get "penalised" with a generic loadout on those reloaded missions as opposed to using my current gear.
Last edited by XtReMz98; Apr 19 @ 1:35pm
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Quiet Bushi Apr 19 @ 1:43pm 
Really up to you. No matter when you decide to do them you'll always have the preordained weapons. I also played on hardcore and just rushed through them after the first completion.

Using Golden Weapons also nets you more fame with each kill, but not sure how much.
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XtReMz98 Apr 19 @ 2:34pm 
Originally posted by Quiet Bushi:
Using Golden Weapons also nets you more fame with each kill, but not sure how much.

Oh, I saw this option, but I thought it could be a "cheat", disabling achievements so I left it off. No drawbacks putting it on then?
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Quiet Bushi Apr 19 @ 2:39pm 
No, you can use them. This was DLC released back in the day. The cheat tab (you unlock cheats by doing certain challenges) inside Stats or whatever is the only thing that disables achievements.
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XtReMz98 Apr 19 @ 4:21pm 
Originally posted by Quiet Bushi:
No, you can use them. This was DLC released back in the day. The cheat tab (you unlock cheats by doing certain challenges) inside Stats or whatever is the only thing that disables achievements.

Ok thanks for all these insights. I guess I'll just play the story until I feel like I want to grind fame up a bit. I see little point of shooting for gold from the get go since cutscenes do count for anything time related, which is silly, but I don't want to skip any dialogues on this playthrough.

Thanks again my friend :)
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Quiet Bushi Apr 19 @ 4:38pm 
Have fun playing! :BL3Thumbsup:
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XtReMz98 Apr 28 @ 5:46pm 
Originally posted by Quiet Bushi:
Have fun playing! :BL3Thumbsup:

Sorry for necroing my own thread, but I just got the Max Fame/Honor achievement. At game's end, I had roughly 2/3 of that last bar left to do (Gunslinger tier prior to getting Legend) despite clearing every missions on Gold and doing a lot of side content. Seems like the half fame you get on Hardcore is a huge penalty towards getting max fame.

The quickest way to max Fame is actually NOT to do any missions on Gold, but rather to wear the Elegant suit, cheat at poker, get caught cheating and in the subsequent duel aim to disarm your opponent (aim of the arm). It nets +50 fame and is quicker than anything else I've done otherwise. It felt like I had to do roughly 25-30 duels solely to reach max fame.

I've loved the game btw! The characters were great and the story pretty compelling despite the clunky UI.
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