r/RedDeadOnline • u/[deleted] • Jan 19 '19
Semi-Slow Grind: Hitting these 3 Gang Hideouts & Ambush will grant you good loot, honor, and the chance of frequent Treasure Maps
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Jan 19 '19
What's the point of higher honor? Just better prices on vendors, or what?
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u/emesria Jan 19 '19
The only discernible difference I've observed is that NPCs are either generally rude or generally polite when they talk to you. For example, people stare a lot more and say nasty things when I walk into the saloon with max dishonor.
Yes, there is a stat somewhere that says like "Shop Discount: X%" but as far as I can tell it currently is not being applied. Always says 0 for me, no matter my honor level.
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u/BsGa Jan 19 '19
Your Honor also effects how the story missions are played I belive. I went through all the missions available to me at start and then I helped my buddy who has as low as Honor possible do his missions and instead of helping law men and excetra we were giving a whole new set of quests where we hijack trains and hunt down rival gangs. Which were a set of quests I've never even seen before
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u/emesria Jan 19 '19
True, I tend to forget about that honor-wall considering story mission content encompasses all of 2 hours of playtime. Looking forward to more of those too!
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u/reboot-your-computer Bounty Hunter Jan 19 '19
Part of me wants to believe it’ll be implemented when the anti-griefing update drops. Another part of me doesn’t believe Rockstar would do anything to offer us discounts on any items in game and it’s only listed online because the menu system is the same system they use in singleplayer. It just hasn’t been removed.
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Jan 19 '19
I like having a high honor, i just added that in for those trying to raise it up. Or you can simply pop a hole into the Gang Leader, your choice. At the moment theres really no significant of having a High Honor, im sure that will come to play later with Rockstar implementing new stuff (someday)
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u/SuperChargers90 Jan 19 '19
My camp is always in the middle of this area. It’s my favourite location. Lot’s of herbs, different birds, deer and other stuff to hunt when travelling from one spot to another.
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u/robsko Jan 19 '19
Never found any good loot in the hideouts. Is there anything else then the dead to loot?
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u/scriggle-jigg Jan 19 '19
Treasure maps are rare but I found two and I am a level 27
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u/kastrick Jan 19 '19
Same. Level 30 now, but a few levels ago I got two almost back to back. One from a body in a gang ambush while on my way to the Six Points gang hideout, where I found another on a body there.
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u/Impossible_Phase Jan 19 '19
I'm level 60 and I haven't found a map after a hideout/ambush since like level 20. I feel cursed
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u/robsko Jan 19 '19
Did you find them on the leader?
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u/scriggle-jigg Jan 19 '19
The first one I found was literally in the very first hideout you do in the tutorial. It was in a random chest. The second was at about level 23 (I remember because my friends were certain it was my map for every 5 levels). But I found it on a random bandit I milked in the hideout. I just kept imagine the fury of my friends when I told them I found a map since they were certain it wasn’t possible. Granted the map I found only gave me like $80 and .75 gold but still better then noting.
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Jan 19 '19
Ive manage to collect 4 just by doing this route this week. Give it a shot, hopefully, you have luck in obtaining more. Usually dead bodies will have pretty ok jewelry that goes for a decent price at the Fence
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u/neutronknows Jan 19 '19
How’s a shit ton of XP for loot? Go for your challenges. Kill 50 guys in a row with the same gun. Burn enemies to death. 6 kills with a revolver without reloading. Anytime you complete a challenge that’s 500 XP with 50, 100, and 250XP benchmarks on the way to that. Bonus if it is a resettable challenge and you get .2 gold just for doing that.
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u/wolfgeist Trader Jan 19 '19
Yep, also shoot people with hipfire in Deadeye mode so you can get the hipfire and deadeye challenges.
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u/robsko Jan 19 '19
Yea, XP is not loot :) I Agree that you get a lot of XP, but you kan get the same effect standing on a roof shooting everyone that moves.
I feel that the hideout is anticlimactic when there are no chests or weapons or anything to take.
Just my opinion. :)
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u/CoyoteWhite305 Jan 19 '19
Occasional little loot boxes in front of certain tents and wagons and canned food/tonics on some tabletops or crates.
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u/iampeterskin Jan 19 '19
I've never actually gotten a treasure map from clearing a gang hideout. Is there somewhere in particular I need to look? Or do I just loot all the bodies?
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u/SierraGolf98 Jan 19 '19
It’s pretty much a lottery but, looting all bodies and checking loot boxes insures you don’t skip any chance of missing it if by the slim chance it does spawn
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u/Noah__Fecks Jan 19 '19
Last night I cleared a hideout and a dude rolled up as I was looting and said "I come in peace I'm just here to loot the bodies and see if I can find a treasure map" so I killed him and he started whining about how he came in peace. I feel like I did all the work and it's technically my loot so I defended it. I may not be in the right but whatever, he should've just killed me right away and then taken it instead of announcing it.
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Jan 19 '19
No you were right. It's yours to share or defend/keep. If someone's in a gang hideout don't roll up with intentions to help. No one needs help slaying NPCs. If you roll up be ready to try and steal it. Few players in hideouts are looking for help.
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u/Noah__Fecks Jan 19 '19 edited Jan 19 '19
That was my thought as well, I eventually just left that server because I couldn't handle all his complaining over chat. He never attacked me but he followed me around and after I left he told me to enjoy my day because him and his friends are going to report me for being a griefer. I told him thanks and to enjoy his night. I liked his response "enjoy your last night here I have connections at Rock Star that will ban you"
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Jan 19 '19
If i stumble upon someones GH session i usually help them kill the gang and NOT loot the bodies, maybe some chest or items laying around, but never the bodies
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u/wolfgeist Trader Jan 19 '19
"I come in peace I'm just here to loot the bodies and see if I can find a treasure map"
Haha, that's pretty funny. I think he was trolling you.
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Jan 19 '19
Its pretty much at random, the reason for these 4 individual spots is that their near each other and if you wait for their spawn time, youre doing Gang Hideouts more frequent and up-ing your chance in obtaining one. Good luck
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u/lonewolfncub3k Jan 19 '19
Is anyone else having a problem with clearing hideouts? I've killed everyone but never get the experience bump and clear the hideout at the end it's happened twice recently, also stranger missions don't start... seems to be an issue since the update.......guess I'll go hunting?
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Jan 19 '19
So this is likely due to lag in the lobby, or simply lag on the servers part, where perhaps more enemy are meant to spawn yet they are not, this means you officially have not completed the GH. Usually leave the Gang Leader alive last to be sure
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u/labo012 Jan 20 '19
I prefer doing the 5 hideout loop start in shady bell then to the one with the boat north then to the one just across the bridge to the swamp town then to the one north of that and circle back around.
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Jan 20 '19
Thats actually a neat route, how your success rate on that?
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u/labo012 Jan 20 '19
Probably get two spawns per run. I’ve now decided to add in hunting the panther so when I’m done with the boat I sell that and then go to the next spot. This also allows decent time to let the next one spawn up ahead. And it’s 20 bucks a panther
Today though I completed probably 15-25 hideouts across the entire map and didn’t get a single treasure map which is really annoying. Still trying to figure out if i should do something different with the leader.
I have never gotten a map directly from a looted leader or loot box in the camp (Nor a road ambush) So I don’t think sparing or killing him does anything significant so I’m going to start killing everyone at will to see if it changes up my success.
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Jan 20 '19
For this run i posted i usually get 2 Gang Hideouts and the Ambush, the 3rd GH (location not being the issue) will take its time, given why i titled this post: Semi-slow grind
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u/labo012 Jan 20 '19
Yeah I just did your run a few times and got decent spawn rates for the hideouts and it seems like they are all “large” with a lot of enemies so both work. I do mine because it has higher amount of locations and one or two ambushes. Plus if people are around I am able to keep the route going around them and maybe skip one or two
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u/gusterrhoid Jan 19 '19
Is there a fourth hideout nearby? If I remember correctly there’s a non-resettable buckle for doing four hideouts in a day.
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Jan 19 '19
Depending on which way you want to go, you have The Loft, which is a Military Tower in the hills and theres Cumberland Falls which all you do is follow the river going SouthWest.
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u/gusterrhoid Jan 19 '19
Sweet, thanks!
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Jan 19 '19
Theres also the burned town South of Valentine near the Dakota River but that hideout rarely spawns for me, not sure if youll have good luck there also
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u/BrotherToof Jan 21 '19
This was my main method of leveling up from around rank 30 to rank 100. Completed most of the sharpshooter awards and got around 30-40 treasure maps along the way. The primary reason for why I did this method was because I get disconnected about every 5-15 minutes and disconnecting makes you lose progress in awards. So this method allowed me to quickly do 1-2 hideouts (+ambush) and then join a new session, rinse and repeat. Manually disconnecting / joining a new session saves your award progress. It was fun, got me good amounts of gold and money, and allowed me to complete awards = win.
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u/obie1514 Jan 19 '19
No route will get you a better chance at frequent treasure maps. It’s an RNG drop, any other opinion is speculation.
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u/Googly_Chief Jan 19 '19
I think he's suggesting this route because of their close proximity, not because of increased map probability.
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Jan 19 '19
Beyond that, clearing multiple hideouts in a single session helps. Speculation? Maybe, but I never get a map on my first hideout in a session. It's always 3rd or 4th including being wayleighed on the road.
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Jan 19 '19
Thats a good theory, im really not sure however. Treasure Maps will always remain random in any case.
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Jan 19 '19
Ive garnered 4 this week by doing this route, these are the closest Gang Hideouts in this Region including the Ambush (which ive collected 3 Treasure Maps at this ambush before). You're hitting more Gang Hideout than usual which can up your chances in obtaining one
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u/Thron3d Trader Jan 20 '19
I just ran the one west on the map at 9 in the am so Im not so sure about certain times of day.
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u/FreedmF1ghter77 Jul 11 '19
How many treasure maps have you gotten from this gang hideout circuit? Is it often or every once in a while?
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u/shadowlarvitar Jan 19 '19
It looks a bit troublesome due to the terrain in that area tbh
Don't get me wrong the first two look close enough, it's the one all the way up there I'm talking about.
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Jan 19 '19
All the terrain through Cumberland forest is easily navigated. Just hills, no real cliffs. You can cut easily through the woods from either southern location towards Ft. Wallace, and from there the roads will get you that in less than a minute.
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u/Sonny_Jim_Pin Jan 20 '19
You probably already know this/have worked it out already, but the closer together the contour lines on the mini map are, the steeper the gradient.
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u/McNusson Bounty Hunter Jan 19 '19
Been trying out some gang hideout routes, without consistent spawns. How do you do this one. Just a circle, or do you reload free roam between? Night/daytime? I think you get my question.