Otherwise, if you need to heal your health instantly, use a health tonic, which can be purchased from the General Store, or obtained via an upgraded medical station. If you’re about to die, try to hide behind distant cover and let your health regenerate a bit. In Red Dead Redemption 2, your health bar will slowly regenerate over time, but your health core needs to be rested or restored via provisions and tonics (or rest). Keep in mind that the law may consider this an attack with a weapon, which is different than an unarmed attack, and eventually if you kill the person, murder. You can also swing your knife around as well by equipping it via the weapon wheel (L1/LB), and then following the same instructions above. Lastly, press Square/X to block, which if done correctly, and followed up with a punch, may trigger a counter punch or uppercut. Keeping L2/LT held down will keep you locked onto a specific enemy. Just press Circle/B without a weapon equipped and you’ll start swinging. Melee attacks in Red Dead Redemption 2 are simple enough. This is done by pressing Square/X while standing over the body. Get right up behind someone while crouched, and then press Circle/B when the prompt appears in the bottom right-hand corner.įinally, you can also pick up and move bodies so that witnesses have a harder time finding them. If you’re trying to get up close and personal with a stealth takedown. To stealth kill, you can either use your knife, tomahawk, throwing knives, or a bow and arrow. Remain out of their line of sight at all costs, otherwise, the gig is up. Next, pay attention to your mini-map and look to see where enemies are looking and located. That makes it so that as long as you don’t fire a weapon, whistle, are generally loud and remain out of the line of sight of an enemy, you shouldn’t be detected. First off, if you’re trying to not get instantly caught, make sure that you are crouched. Stealth gameplay is pretty easy in Red Dead Redemption 2. At first, you can only select targets with the analog stick, but eventually, you’ll be able to manually paint where you want to shoot by pressing R1/RB. You can switch weapons by holding L1/LB, and then select the weapon you want to use with the analog stick.įinally, to enter dead eye mode, press in R3 while aiming. Then, you can aim your weapon by pressing R2/RT. Let’s start with the pulling out your gun in Red Dead Redemption 2. We also have a whole guide dedicated to Dead Eye.īut like we said, it’s important that you first get the basics down before moving into more advanced territory. That’s detailed enough to fill out a whole separate gun guide, but we will hit you with the basics here.Ĭheck out the weapon guide if you want to learn about getting new weapons, upgrading weapons, and more. We’re going to touch on just about everything except for going super in-depth about weapons. This guide will walk you through all the basics of combat in Red Dead Redemption 2. But let’s also be real, there’s going to be a lot of bloodshed as well. This loadout is specifically designed to mitigate your Dead Eye bar drain without having to keep chugging bottles of Snake Oil (Snake Oil will refill your Dead Eye meter to full, while regenerating a little bit of Dead Eye core).Red Dead Redemption 2 can be peaceful a lot of the time, especially while just exploring and enjoying the wilderness. In the meantime, I threw together a basic loadout for those who are new to the Paint It Black ability card. There are several other tips in the above video, but I’ll let you discover them for yourself.
It’s a hefty cost, but you should definitely pay it up. That’s a really powerful upgrade, though Tier II will cost you $350, and Tier III will cost you an additional $500.
Dead Eye, however, is activated by pressing L2 to aim your weapon, then R3 to trigger the Dead Eye view (on PS4).Īdditionally, upgrading the Paint It Black card to Tier III will prevent other players from using PIB on you. Eagle Eye is activated by pressing 元 and R3 simultaneously (on PS4), and it allows you to hunt for clues, track animals, search for collectibles, and so on. Note that Dead Eye and Eagle Eye are two different, though similar, things. If you can mark a headshot with this, you’ll be popping off enemies like wild. The Paint It Black skill allows you to mark an X on an enemy while in Dead Eye, then fire your gun directly at that spot.