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More Control Over Survival Mechanics

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We recently wrote about how Red Dead Redemption 2’s survival mechanics feel a bit half-baked, and the game would have benefited by allowing players some degree of control over how prevalent they are.

While playing Red Dead Redemption 2, you’ll need to keep Arthur Morgan well-fed and rested to keep his cores up, have him bathe to stay presentable to NPCs,  clean his weapons to keep them powerful, and more. For the most part, these survival and resource mechanics don’t intrude on the game a ton, but they end up being a nuisance that you easily forget about.

The big problem is that they aren’t implemented strongly enough to really feel important, but at the same time you also can’t just forget about them if you choose to. It would have been nice for players to have an option to make the survival mechanics stronger or virtually non-existent.

For players that simply want to explore the world and story at their leisure, it would have been great to have an option to just turn everything off and not worry about it. At the same time, for players that are really into survival experiences, it’d be a good option to let them double down on the mechanics and really get a challenging experience.

Of course, this is something Rockstar could implement in the future, and hopefully, they do.


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A connoisseur of all things RPG related, and always looking for the artistic expression in gaming. His love of Gundam is only matched by his love of Pizza. Playing Games Since: 1991 Favorite Genres: RPGs, JRPGs, Strategy,