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Red Dead Redemption 2: Guide to Crime, Wanted System, Bounties, Robberies and more

Here is a full guide to everything yous demand to know about Crime and Punishment in Ruby-red Expressionless Redemption 2, including Wanted Level, Bounties, Gangs, Robberies, Loansharking, dealing with witnesses and more.

Bounty & Wanted Arrangement

Whilst you are wanted by the constabulary in Red Dead Redemption 2, a WANTED text will announced in the height right of your screen.

While wanted, you can lose your pursuers past escaping the region, killing all nearby lawmen, or hiding and staying out of sight until they call off the search.

The red circle on the radar will indicate the direction of where the law is currently looking. If yous are spotted past law enforcement you will become fully wanted over again.

If you commit more crimes while the police force is chasing you, more and more than savage constabulary officers will show upward to pursue you. If you have committed serious crimes before y'all have lost the local constabulary, they volition rent a posse to chase later on you across the wilderness. Commit enough murders and the local lawmen will call for the big guns - the Usa Marshals - to hunt you down.

When law officers approach you, you have the opportunity to surrender to them. Yous must exist on foot, and have your weapon holstered, to give up.

If yous injure an officer of the law, or shake out of an arrest attempt, then the police force volition no longer attempt to capture you alive - they volition shoot to kill.

The next time y'all commit a crime, your state Bounty will include all crimes y'all have previously committed in that land. Lawmen and bounty hunters will attempt to runway you down unless you find a telegraph operator at a post office and pay your debt to society.

As you lot commit more crimes in a region, lawmen and civilians become more vigilant, eventually placing the region on Lockdown. This turns the region map reddish and prevents use of local shops and events until enough time passes or your bounty is paid.

Gangs

The West is home to many rival gangs of outlaws and misfits. Gangs vary in size and structure, simply each has their own territory, and none of them are likely to welcome Dutch's Gang onto their turf.

Yous'll notice enemy gangs' camps and hideouts throughout the land. Attacking a hostile hideout can be extremely dangerous, simply yields valuable boodle if you pull it off.

Gangs that you lot've encountered volition be added to the Compendium. Hither you tin can see a tape of your rivalries.

Robberies

There'due south no shortage of targets - some easier than others - for you and Dutch's Gang to rob. Expect out for banks, shops, homesteads, and camps on your map, and draw your weapon once inside to threaten the occupants. Some shop and home owners will fight dorsum, or involve the law.

Yous tin hold up stagecoaches and trains loaded with valuables. Attempt talking to people who work at stations to see if they have tips to share with you.

Rustling

Cattle and horses can be rustled from some ranches and farms. Look out for fellow gang members who may invite you to join rustling jobs.

Loansharking

Loansharking is an important source of prepare money for Dutch'southward Gang, and encouraging reluctant debtors to pay upward is Arthur's specialty. Find Herr Strauss in the gang's camp to accept on new loansharking jobs.

Individuals who owe money to the gang will exist marked on the map with $. Seek out the debtors and recover the money. You can't track debtors while you are being pursued by the law.

Compensation Hunting

Each town has a noticeboard at the depot or sheriff's office, displaying suspected criminals in the surface area. Retrieve compensation posters from these boards to get the details and hunt downwardly bounty targets for rewards.

Fences

Certain shopkeepers won't trouble you lot with questions about whether items were legally caused. You tin sell stolen horses at stables, though they will fetch a lower price than legitimately endemic ones.

Disguises

Once you've been witnessed taking part in criminal activity in an surface area, law enforcement will brand a annotation of your physical clarification. Make yourself harder to recognize by changing your clothes and facial pilus, or wearing a mask.

Dealing with witnesses

If a civilian spots you committing a offense, they will try to tell police enforcement. When an bystander reaches a law officer, law enforcement officers volition come after you and place a compensation on your caput.

You can threaten the witness by pressing L2+Triangle to attempt to affright them into silence. Bear in listen that non all witnesses answer well to threats.

Any bodies found will be reported and lawmen dispatched to investigate. Hide or dispose of bodies to avert unwanted attention.

Minor crimes brand the victims and witnesses aroused. They may take matters into their own hands and come to fight you rather than getting the police force involved.

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