Lending a Hand achievement in RDR 2
This trophy requires you to do ALL optional (=missable) story missions in one playthrough! This includes the debt collecting quests. All of these are quests that you don’t have to do to advance the story, thus they are easy to miss. Some of them are marked with yellow main mission markers, others with white Stranger Mission markers. However, what differentiates them from Stranger Missions is that the “Optional Story Missions” get added to your mission log (Pause Menu > Progress > Story). The “real” Stranger Missions aren’t needed for it.
It’s worth noting that after beating the story you unlock all of these missions in the Story Log and can replay them for medals but that does NOT unlock the trophy! You have to do them in a normal playthrough, it doesn’t count via replay.
Chapter 2 - 20%
Chapter 3 - 20%
Chapter 4 - 40%
Chapter 5 - 40%
Chapter 6 - 100%
*Chapter 2 20%
Chapter 2: Money Lending and Other Sins (I, II, III) – Quest Giver: LS (in camp), only part III gets marked in quest log, but you have to do all 3 debt collecting tasks.
Chapter 2: Good, Honest, Snake Oil – Quest Giver: Sheriff’s Office in Valentine (Skull Icon)
Chapter 2: Pouring Forth Oil (II) – Quest Giver: John Marston (in camp). *Note: not an honor mission and doesn’t count towards this trophy but it’s missable so do it just to be safe.
Chapter 2: We Loved Once and True (I, II, III) – Quest Giver: ML (read letter in Arthur’s tent to start this)
*chapter 3 20%
Chapter 3: The Course of True Love (I, II, III) – Quest Givers: GR & BG (Caliga Hall near Rhodes)
Chapter 3: Money Lending and Other Sins (IV) – Quest Giver: LS (in camp)
*Chapter 4 40%
Chapter 4: Help a Brother Out – Quest Giver: BD (in Saint Denis)
Chapter 4: Brothers and Sisters, One and All – Quest Giver: BD (in Saint Denis, a few in-game hours after doing “Help a Brother Out”)
Chapter 4: Fatherhood and Other Dreams (I, II) – Quest Giver: ML (read letter in Arthur’s room to start)
Chapter 4: Money Lending and Other Sins (V) – Quest Giver: LS (in camp)
*Chapter 6 100%
Chapter 6: Do Not Seek Absolution (I, II) – Quest Giver: ED (requires Honor Rank 4 to start quest with Edith Downes in Annesburg)
Chapter 6: Of Men and Angels (I, II) – Quest Giver: SC (in Saint Denis, talk to Sister Calderon at Church, where the letter “E” of Saint Denis is on map. Only available if you completed ‘Brothers and Sisters, One and All’. Before sister Calderon leaves for Mexico.)
Chapter 6: The Course of True Love (IV, V) – Quest Giver: PB (read letter in Arthur’s tent to trigger this)
Chapter 6: Archeology for Beginners – Quest Giver: RF (in Waipiti Indian Reservation)
Chapter 6: Honor, Amongst Thieves – Quest Giver: CM (during “Archeology for Beginners”, Monroe will ask if you want to help him, accept his request to unlock this as a follow-up mission in Waipiti Reservation)
Chapter 6: Money Lending and Other Sins (VI, VII) – Quest Giver: LS (in camp)
Chapter 6: Mrs. Sadie Adler, Widow (I, II) – Quest Giver: SA (in camp)
Section “Lending a hand”
