Everything you need to know about the honor system in Red Dead Redemption 2
Want to learn more about the Red Dead Redemption 2 honor system?If you start shooting at random civilians inRed Dead Redemption 2, you’ll lose honor. However, helping out the folks you meet while exploring will increase your honor score and make you an upstanding citizen. Your honor score determines your honor rank, which comes with lots of benefits and rewards for those who focus on doing good. However, it isn’t always clear what rewards and benefits you earn from each honor rank.
In this guide, we’ll explain how to gain and lose honor in Red Dead Redemption 2, along with a full breakdown of every honor rank and their respective rewards.
How to gain or lose honor
This is pretty simple and works as you’d expect. You’ll earn honor for actions that are perceived to be, well, nice. Rescue strangers from danger, stop a coach from being robbed or turn a criminal into the law and you’ll earn honor points.
On the flipside, you’ll lose honor ranking for committing criminal acts or actions that are considered dishonorable. Harassing and killing innocents, or looting innocent bodies will all lose you honor points. If you want to commit heinous crimes without losing honor, check out ourRed Dead Redemption 2 mask locations guide.
As you spend time with the game, you’ll naturally earn or lose honor based on your actions. Either you’ll encounter something while out in the open world, or you’ll be forced to make a decision in a story mission. Sometimes, missions don’t even give you a choice and you’ll lose honor when events transpire and things go south, so to speak.
What will earn you honor
What will lose you honor
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Imagine your honor is on a sliding scale. Every time you accrue honor points, you’ll move up the scale (+). Conversely, if you lose honor, you’ll slide down the scale (-). Play it neutral and you’ll be at 0.
There are certain honor milestones in the game which you’ll achieve at a specific rank. You’ll receive certain benefits if you earn honor, but if you start sliding down the scale you’ll lose them.
The sliding scale begins at the lowest honor ranking of -8, and extends all the way to the highest honor ranking of +8.
At -8 honor rank, you’ll be sitting at -320 points. A rank is gained by earning +40 points. So, those at honor rank -7, will have -280 points. Those at honor rank -6, will have -240 points and so on. Someone with the highest honor rank at +8, will be sitting pretty at +320 points.
Here’s an overview of what benefits you can earn with your honor ranking:
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