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5:00 Refined binoculars can be useful for bounties, when you are trying to identify which is the bounty target among a group of enemies from far away, so you don't accidentally kill them.

i don't regret buying random sh1t because grinding is rdr2 is somewhat easy, but at first i really thought i need the most expensive  horse to ride faster lol..

Most new players: I have a repeater and a cattleman revolver, this is all I need to destroy all!

Me as a new player: I shall be the most stylish cowboy to grace this land.

Bandoliers and gun belts should not just be a cosmetic. It should have stats like bandoliers should increase ammo capacity and reloading speed of rifles and repeaters and gun belts should do the same for revolvers and pistols. Because some bandoliers are like $300 and it just doesn't make sense spending that kind of money on it if it doesn't have any useful stats associated with it.

"Take the Pain Away" and "Come Back Stronger" have such cool art, its sad that they're not good

I was waiting for the lock breaker to show. It's nice to have in the actual game, but not online.

Refined binoculars are awesome for hunting. Go stand on a hill. Whip out you binoculars and scan in a circle. You will see dozens of prey. Choose the one you want and go forth and kill. They are great for finding bounties, collectables, herbs, treasure, seeing in the dark and just plain fun. Everyone hates on them, but they are the BEST! I have spoken.

Iron sights allow aim down sight in first person to add realism. It DOES make it more accurate in first person but will ruin your view as you aim.

The Double-action Revolvers aren't bad. Sure a single one is lack luster, but if you pair up two of them and use the Gunslinger's Choice passive ability card, they become incredibly accurate. The bloom circle is always closing after you fire a shot and closes fast enough that when you fire the second shot, you have nigh perfect accuracy.

To be fair the iron sight upgrade is more useful if you decide to actually use them while in first person (aim and press down on the D-Pad. If you have a scope it doesn't work.)

My worst purchase was investing an insane amount of time grinding out this dead beat game that’s neglected

Ability cards depends on your play style...I fight a lot from horseback...Horseman was good for my style, especially when escorting NPCs and player sell missions, fighting off ambushes, defending camps hunting from horseback etc...

I've thought Capitale is completely useless since it was added to the game. I don't bother to even go after it now, I occasionally loot NPC bodies that have these useless pieces of paper but that's it. I bought a lock breaker ages ago and I've rarely used it, I did find one locked door a while ago with two options, use a lock breaker or kick it open. I was annoyed so I kicked the damn thing open :-)

LOL. Early in beta I bought a Belgian Draft horse. I did this because I saw one in free roam. I thought, Christ that is one big bastard. I wonder how many animals he can carry.

I didn’t realize I would have to buy a new stable slot and a new saddle if I wanted to switch between horses. I took nearly all of my money. I was kinda pissed off at the time because he still held one large and two medium animals. Hoss and I ended forming a tight bond. I was broke af after that for a long time. Now I love Hoss, he is my tightest homie in the game. I can’t ride most other horses now because I feel like I’m on a raggedy ass baby horse.

The binoculars depends on the type of player.... They are pretty good for bounty hunting or trader which requires lots of hunting... Trust me I rather use than that using eagle eye every few seconds... It's like a longer eye so if you use that a lot it's a good purchase

Sadly, you have described all of my purchases in RDO so far...

Iron sights basically just zoom in more when you aim.

"maybe someday rockstar will fix it" man that's some top tier comedy right there

Started a second character a couple weeks before blood money, just to see how it was for a new player..  But having those years of experience taught me SO much about what NOT to buy..  Sad thing is, by 3 months in I had all roles fully ranked, was well over rank 100 with plenty of extra gold and cash saved up for the update that wasn't, by December I had over 300 gold, nearly 40 thousand cash and nothing worth buying.  Its like rockstar isn't even TRYING to monetize this game, my primary character has over 3 thousand gold and 700k in cash..  I doubt i will ever get to spend much of it