Dude you're starting to be everywhere

That's the funniest thing about that man

For real. He should have been given a Springfield trap door rifle.

The Springfield trapdoor was manufactured in the 1870s (1871 iirc). The Spencer carbine (the one he has) was manufactured from 1860 to 1869. So it's entirely period accurate to the Civil War.

@@imahoare4742 the Spencer carbine was not very wide spread in the United States military during the Civil war

Just a burning memory...

Or maybe the fact he thinks it’s always 1862. Just a thought.

no shit sherlock

it seems more likely that what he suffer from is antrograde amnesia. it's a condition that stop the victim from being able to form new memory so it would explain why he always say the same date. also fun fact about the condition: while someone suffering from antrograde amnesia cannot make new memory they can still learn skills or improve on those that they allreaady have.

How old must he have been that they assigned him to this outpost all by himself?

Hiroo Onoda is the man you’re referring too.

@@unoriginalhazard Thx

That was a episode from archer

天皇陛下万歳！！！！❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

30 years he thought war was still going

@Optimus Primus oh nah I didn't thanks for that

@Optimus Primus but the man thought he was just exaggerating and he still just didn’t outright say the year

@Optimus Primus Yeah, but the guy thought it was just a figure of speech, not literally 40 years. It's honestly annoying to watch.

The reaction would be the same. I wish you never know this first hand, but no logic, evidence and arguments may break a crazy person's resolve.

Me too

I don't think they forget him, it seems that he is forgetting new information further the day he think it is, kinda like a memory disability of some kind

Well what do you expect from rapist and murderous invaders

Alzheimers or dementia can do this to anyone, for all you know you could end up in a very similar position once your old

@@donaldtrumplover2254 I'd rather just die honestly than live the same day over and over in my mind.

Or they all died in the battle or got captured and couldn't come for him

The general has probably been dead for twenty years tbh. It's safe to assume that this man was in his twenties when he enlisted... Although his weaponry is rather strange. It would most likely have the Springfield or Litchfield as the union mostly moved away from black powder guns and flintlocks, but didn't use a later spencer gun/carbines

@@gageowo9527 True...

@@gageowo9527 might have killed a passerby and taken a functioning rifle if his original broke

@@gageowo9527 I was about to comment that. Would make more sense for him to have a Springfield

My assumption is the man suffers from dementia. He doesn't remember your character.. ever. He probably participated in the fight for Saint Denis, went home. His wife died.. and he ended up just going back to his old post as its the only thing he could remember. It would explain his new kit.

Did you ever even wander on your own or did you just play through the single player mindlessly? Bc I've found almost every encounter and that was because I fuckin just roamed the countryside

@@pyrotechnick420 bullshit some encounters are scripted to certain acts or conditions like the lady in the swamp or the female fortune teller. i roamed a lot and tried to explore every corner possible or point of interest on the map. but in this massive game you are bound to miss something. impossible to find everything just by roaming without having some prior knowledge of some specific conditions

@@tripleh327 whoa chill, you don't know just how long he spent on his first playthrough - he might have got 95% of encounters, where you got 50% - he also could have seen all of the interactions through multiple playthroughs Apparently you don't know how chance works You'd rather just call BuLlShIt and tell someone they're wrong

@@rambo-cambo3581 i am chill i am just reacting to someone accusing me of playing the game mindlessly and assuming i haven't done a vast search even after specifying i spent 300 on a gameplay i call bullshit on somepne accussing others of play the game in a superficial way and taunting to have found nearly everything there was to find on the first try i simply stated that this particular encounter was unknown to me and yet some mighty know all arrived on his white high horse to judge others and i am the villain? yes sure good day to you

@@pyrotechnick420 don’t care didn’t ask loser

Maybe I'm wrong but : Is he the husband of the dead skeleton woman in the cabin up North where you can find a pocket mirror for Molly O'shea ??? There was a letter on her, I think the name " Muriel " was in it. That feller wrote to her, never got back and she died alone !

You’re on one there

When he’s 100 years old he’ll probably say “Huh, must be stress.”

Ok Crosshair calm down 😂

But to be fair, we don't know if that'll even help. What if the next day he wakes up and the war is still going on in his mind? He'll probably forget that we told him the war is over. He just needs someone to take care of him, like a nursing home or something

He's just going to relive the same day again after that.

He has anterograde amnesia - he can't form any new memories. Even if you somehow convinced him the war is over and he can go home, you'd come back the next day and he'd still be standing there waiting for orders like nothing ever happened

.... they do tell him the war is over.... and that it's been 40 years....

But the characters would probrably be asked what regiment their apart of and they wouldn't be able to answer that.

“What is this?! I will not be deceived by Southern propaganda. I’d advise you to move along sir.”

You don't convince a person of anything when they've gone this senile. It's just a game but it really sucks when it happens to someone you know.

@@BradyRamaker Yeah, you just endulge in their musings because telling aunt Hilda her husband is dead when she asks again would just cause her pain, you just tell her he's gone to the shop and allow her to remain happy.

@@BradyRamaker he is not really senile though. he is simply suffering from antrograde amnesia. it's a condition that prevent the victim from making new memory.

Wrong a CPL has one blue chevron on his arm not his shoulder he has the Mark of a sergeant PVTs have no mark and officers have the rank on their shoulder

@@mid1429The army now is different from the army over 150 years ago.

@@mid1429bros forgetting this takes place 170 years ago (1860s)

The VA of John is from Indiana

@BradynLee 1. This was in the late 1800s, so modern accents are irrelevant. 2. What are you even talking about with a thick British accent?

He doesn’t sound texan

​@@mid1429original poster probably is using texan as a blanket term for "Southern accent"

Actually Arthur has Arkansas accent. His common dialogues are sometime saying at the end "i think".

no he isn't. the lemoyne raiders are intentional, aware pieces of shit fighting for racism and slavery. hayden russel is an innocent man suffering from, i would imagine, some combination of senility and PTSD, fighting for his country. their similarities are shallow and few.

@@sydssolanumsamsys The difference is The Lemoyne Raiders are still fighting against actual people. Captain Hayden Russell is camping without moving anywhere forward in front of the same shack for almost 40 years. I think Russell never actually fought in the war. I think he wears the uniform of his dead son who died on the battlefield, most likely.

@@Resident_Legal what does the difference in action matter? if anything, it proves you're wrong to call them exactly the same. and why don't you think he fought in the war? its completely plausible

@@sydssolanumsamsys I'm calling them the same in a satiric manner, on account of them suffering from the same delusion despite being on the opposite sides. Because both Russell and the Raiders still act like the war is ongoing - just to clarify to you because you seem triggered about it. You think just because Russell is wearing a uniform proves that he fought in the war? He could have been a deserter who is trying to convince himself that he is not a deserter anymore on account of being so delusional and wanting to atone for his cowardice, perhaps?! It's just speculations, I'm not saying it's a fact. But we'll never know because Rockstar wants him to remain a mystery in terms of his past.

@Marko Stevanovic he could also be Arthur's son Isaac but it's not very fucking likely is it

Tryhard I guess

@@John_Kramer6 I have been playing RDR2 ever since it came out, went out of my way to check every cabin, etc. that I saw on the map, and didn't know about this encounter at all lmao

have you seen the ghost train or the whispering woods? hehe

@@TheGingusa Yep

It’s pretty hard to find

Yeah but Nothing happens.. 😅

@@AshwinY I wonder what would happen if you brought Lindsey Wofford to him Russel.

"im having a heart attack"

@@piccoloblack69 the encounter doesn't spawn during missions

@@Scared_Yoda I know. Tried it a couple weeks back.

Maybe I'm wrong but : Is he the husband of the dead skeleton woman in the cabin up North where you can find a pocket mirror for Molly O'shea ??? There was a letter on her, I think the name " Muriel " was in it. That feller wrote to her, never got back and she died alone !

@@jemlesvideo no, but her husband is in the game. Her name was Martha, the cabin is called Martha's Swain and her husband was called Garfield, and he's dead and stuck to a tree at Bolger's Glade with a bayonet right through him and a sign around his neck that says coward or traitor or something like that. if you loot his corpse you get a letter from Martha begging him to desert and not fight in the upcoming battle. so it looks like he tried to do as she asked but was caught and his ex-comrades impaled him to a tree in retribution. He's in the little copse of trees immediately north of the ruined church if you want to find him.

@@-yeme- Oh okay, it is clear now ! Thanks.

It’s the best game ever made until now imo

@@TheIrishLad06 i could tell that you aren't from the US hehe

@@cream_pieluver and I can tell you like fnaf lol

@@crazy922blade and I can tell you like the Undertale/Deltarune series

@@Rosenblins and I can tell you are a businesslike skeleton

@@Rosenblins touché lol

I'm not sure he will accept the truth.

I'm sure the man is mentally sick, there would be no point. Arthur and John both realize something is wrong when he says 1862, he didn't just lose track of the time.

@@alpy0 Even if you did, the dude clearly has memory loss.

Keep your Confederate propaganda away!

This guy'll probably read them, and forget all about it the next day, and be back doing the same thing.

it did for me, arthur blew his head off.

now that i know of this guy, i will tie the poor captain up and bring him to the alligators...

What is there to flesh out ? It is clear he has a neurodegenerative disease and can't remember most of the stuff. They live day by day without an idea what they did a few hours ago and repeat stuff. yet in their head all seems fine. They remember long term memory and important parts of their life, which we have seen here by his dialogue regarding family, younger pre-draft years and a few wartime instances. There is no resolution to be had. His brain can't comprehend it. It is done for. We hospitalize or institutionalize people with such advanced Alzheimer's or Schizophrenia in today's society either in a hospital or a nursing home. You can't fix their head when they reach this stage and you can't reverse it. You can only lower the progression in some cases and mitigate risks of contracting it. Things they had no idea about during that time.

pretty sure the new austin area was mostly made for RDO

@@deanrazor9023 Still, not very useful I suppose.

@@deanrazor9023That and I think they wanted to include the whole segment of John building his house on Beecher’s Hope to set the stage for the events of RDR1, but then couldn’t/didn’t want to leave out the rest of the game. I imagine it’d be a bummer to go to Blackwater and try to ride further down south just to get hit with a sudden 40 foot mountain that magically erodes in a few years or a “you can’t go here” message on the top of your screen.

Quick google search of the date leads to Battle of Peralta which was a minor battle in New Mexico which the Union won. Then again you could probably google any random day in the American Civil War and find a minor battle or skirmish somewhere as a lot of the battles were small scale guerilla raids especially in areas like Missouri and Kansas.

@@maiqtheliar789 Yeah, but these small battles are always traumatic to any soldier. Nothing makes you ready for a war. He probably lost his memory, hit his head in the battle or something like that.

Battle of Peralta, 14th of April, 1862, New Mexico. A Union victory only a few dozen combatants injured or killed in the battle however the entire town was reduced to ruble perhaps he was their and witnessed the destruction of the town.

@@williambeisel5686 Then he left to the middle of nowhere awaiting orders to find and attack the enemies. It makes sense, but he's an old man, so he probably has some memory problems and is living the moment constantly. Maybe a bit of trauma too.

after doing those challenges many times now i actlly enjoy them, quite therapeutic.

@@jpiny4854 I believe that is called a gambling addiction

john told him it'd been 40 years but he didn't believe him.

Maybe I'm wrong but : Is he the husband of the dead skeleton woman in the cabin up North where you can find a pocket mirror for Molly O'shea ??? There was a letter on her, I think the name " Muriel " was in it. That feller wrote to her, never got back and she died alone !

@@jemlesvideo the name was Martha, and you can find her husband dead and stuck to a tree in Bolger's Blade.

It is indeed. Poor guy... 😢

Or he could have been in his mid 30’s-50. Remember back then you didn’t have to be 18 to join the military chances are with him wearing a holistic uniform instead of an officer uniform he was a younger guy when he joined out. Could’ve been a 16 year old teenager. Making him like 40.

I will try

Thank you 🖤😊

My very first playthrough I abandoned the game in chapter 4 things in the story got so bad that after the trolley incident I decided to head to the grizzlies the only place I didn't have a bounty and live off the land there. I made a separate save file and that was the ending in my head. By the point you've massacred four small towns and a big city and so many people close to you have been killed off it doesn't make sense to stay. Especially people like Charles or Mary Beth who had only been with the gang a few months before the story started. And witnessed all these massacres. It's why I'm not a big fan of high honor playthroughs and save non story missions for the end of the game.

@@bodhi6769 I like it. Make your own happy ending.

They all bought Dutch's manipulations. Arthur's diary mentions that they at one point had a chance to buy a plot of land from somewhere, but one way or another they couldn't, as a result of Dutch's war against civilization. Even if they somehow made it to Tahiti, Dutch would've found a way to screw them over and join some pirate gang because his only purpose was to fight.

If that were true he wouldn't be so old.

@@drachenpanzer5622 there was a Twilight zone episode where a pioneer from the 1840s ended up in a 1950s road stop. He never aged.

no, her name is Martha and the letter is from a Confederate named Garfield

he's intensely delusional

It’s a Sharps rifle made around 1862, it’s not far fetched that he has it and thinks the war’s still going on

@@thegreatrobin2329 and he's intensly delusional. he's been here for 40 winters and still thinks it's 1862- his fuckin' rifle isn't the biggest issue

@@thegreatrobin2329 Sharps rifle? Sharps rifle is one shot break load gun. Gun this old man have lever like winchester.

Someone should hogtie one and throw them at him

I'd imagine he'd "fill" them with lead on sight

He wont

the game has a slight duality of realism, and this guy resides on the more realistic side. ie, people didnt shoot strangers for irritating them

I mean crazier shit has happened in real life Hell even post WW2 with soldiers stuck on Islands still fighting