#seeing 1907 jack broke me in a way i don't think can be healed

[verdemoun]

spoilers spoilers for the love of god rdr2 chapter 6 spoilers.

so turns out the popular belief that arthur is set to be at minimum weight in chapter 6 is not true. through sheer dumb luck and determination i somehow managed to keep arthur overweight (5.25%+ health core) post-tb diagnosis and all the way to the end of the game. no mods i'm an old man i don't know how to use mods

how:

i had him at max overweight during Banking, The Old American Art.

during guarma he dropped down to average (3%+ health)

during missions i would eat a piece of big game meat before starting a mission, after the mission cutscene, just before the end of the mission, and after the mission was completed, which 90% of the time stopped arthur from coughing/choking

for research purposes, here's how some of the story beats hit different when arthur is sick but still overweight.