How to do almost everything In Red Dead Redemption 2! (Keyboard)

Howdy! This is a guide on how to move/do things in Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) with a keyboard.
This game is huge, and you want the best of it, to catch on a bit quicker heres some tips/info on how to move around/ do things. I will also make this spoiler free, as for the people who want to find out themselves. I might say, "This will be good information for future quests in game.".

Hope this helps!

How to move. (Player only)

Howdy! This part is how you move on foot.
To walk, you use the key 'W', this will allow you, the player, to move forward. To move backwards, use the key 'S', this will not let you move your camera, but it will move the player. To Move Left, hit the 'A' Key, this will move the player left, same goes for the key 'D' that will turn you left.
To run, Hit the key 'W' twice in a row, this will not work with the other keys, 'A,S, and D'. This has always worked for me, if it does not work, then hold the 'W' Key and hit 'Shift'. To sneak, hit the 'Control' key, this will make it harder for most animals to see you.

How to move (Horseback)

To move, You will once again use the 'W, A, S, and D' keys to move your horse. (We will assume your going forward.) hold down the 'W' key to move, this will take you in a basic walk. Continue to hold down the 'W' key and hit shift, your not going to trot just yet, but your horse will do a more extended walk (More forward.). Now lets go a little faster than a walk, hit the shift key again and your horse is trot, this will again have two to three stages, normal, faster, extended, this applies in canter and gallop also. When in Gallop, your horses stamina will go down, make sure to let them canter for a little bit or your up for a treat. To slow down, hit the ' Control ' key to slow down, you can also do this by releasing you 'W' key, this will quickly slow your horse down (Non of these will slow your horse into a instant stop.). (When you bond with your horse you will do an instant stop in gallop, at level three bonding.) If you want to back up, double tap the 'Control' Key, this can only be done from a stop.

How to interact with items.

In most of the quest, you will be interacting with lots of things. So heres the best help I can give.
When picking up items, the game will make you use 'R', sometimes it makes you use 'E'. You can use the key 'R', to pick up something as simple as a can of beans, or your fresh new deer kill. You do not need to repeatedly hit the 'R' button when collecting items, you can just hold the button down and you will collect them as soon as you face it. This will apply to all most all items. (More will be shared soon.)

How to open your inventory, (and Satchel).

When your in a shot out, you might want your gun so you can come out alive. To open your inventory hit the 'Tab' button, everything around you will slow down, use your mouse to find your gun, lasso, your bows, almost anything you can find. Another way to do this is to scroll with your mouse. Lets say your a little further in the game and your out on AMO in one of your guns, to find another, (You should be holding tab for this.), you should hover your mouse over you gun (with no AMO or another gun you don't like.), and hit 'E' this will move to the next gun you can use. But lets say you don't like this one and want to change back, just hit the 'Q' key and you will move back.
What are the saddles for? You may notice that theres a saddle in your inventory when mounted/next to your horse. This will be your saddles weapon(s). If you hover over it and hit the 'E' key your will move to one of your shot guns/bows.
Now when holding the 'Tab' key, if you press 'R' you will move to a different screen, this will be your food/medicine inventory. You can do the same thing by hovering your mouse over one of the options, you can hit 'E' to find another thing to use.
I almost forgot, if you hit the key 'B' you can open your satchel. (It will look different.)

Hunting, (There will be some tips.)

Hunting is something you haft to do if you want to make, or save money. When hunting use one of your bows, or guns. Hit the key 'Caps Lock' to turn on Eagle Eye when not aiming your bow/gun. When you are getting close, try sneaking this will allow you to get closer to the deer and get a better shot. When you think your close enough, aim, then your are going to hit 'Caps Lock' again, (Make sure your aiming), this will slow down time (Just like Eagle eye), but it will show you the animals vitals. This will also work with people, (Not the sneaking part though.).
Little tip when on horse back, if you get your lasso out, you can save dead eye, just by doing a little chase, follow your deer and get it will the lasso, but be careful! Stamina will not always be on your side. (You can also run over smaller animals like birds and bunnies on horseback.)
You can also skin all animals, when you get a kill, walk over to it, (Make sure its dead) hitting the key 'E' will make your player start to skin it. You can put this skin on the back of your horse by Pressing R. But lets say you can pick this one up. If you can just call your horse over a hit 'R' to stow it to the back of you horse. Having any type of animal will take down your horses stamina faster.

Small things you can do in game.

Bonding with your horse, if you pat them with the key 'G', they will slowly bond, as you bond more with your horse you can do more things, like rear and move sideways in gallop.

If you want to drawl your gun out faster, hold right click and the hit left click, this will bring your gun out the fastest.

If you right click next to a NPC, you can insult, greet, or callout, to them.

Find out the rest in game! Have fun finding out a few other things you can do, this is mostly a sand box game, so have the fun the you now need from reading all this. :D

Finally, just some quick facts.

I did not put all the controls because I want you to explore and have fun finding out some things you can do. I really do have a few of the basics to at least survive. As the game goes on it will tell you how to play, but these are a few steps you might want to know before the game.


I hope this helps.

Good Bye now!!

[Milk_Bottle12]

@稚兔小奶怡 it should be whatever it is to put your gun away but just double tap it. :D

[祈小怡无忧♡]

what's the spin weapon buttons on controller?

[ToeFungus]

w guide!

[RGOATs]

you can spin your gun by double pressing TAB but theres no other way besides that unless you use mods

[red dead redemption 3]

using keyboard and mouse

[red dead redemption 3]

how do you spin your weapon

[祈小怡无忧♡]

Controller player since day 1 here XD

[Dentopi]

This is very helpful and amazing, thank you so much for this!

[不吃竹笋的大熊猫]

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