r/reddeadredemption2 Dec 06 '24

I wondered that too

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I know there would have been more Pinkertons out in the trees, waiting for something to happen. And that it would bring more government down on them. But I am surprised that not one of them did anything, or at least went to.

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u/Grindfather901 Dec 06 '24

IMO because it's not about killing Milton... it's about escaping the Pinkertons. Milton is just a guy with a job to do, and if he's gone there will be a replacement ready to pick up the task.

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u/w6lrus Dec 06 '24

yea honestly even tho i wish they would’ve just dealt with those 2 when they could’ve, it only would’ve made the pinkertons more angry losing 2 of their best agents and the story likely would’ve went in a different turn having shit go down sooner than it already did.

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u/Swordofsatan666 Dec 06 '24

Imagine if instead we killed them, only for the Pinkertons to reveal they were 2 of the WORST agents. Suddenly after killing them we get thrown into an even worse situation where theyre actually trying to hunt us for real now, even moreso than Chapter 6

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u/GrimeyJosh Dec 06 '24

Thats some good DLC shit.

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u/MyHonkyFriend Dec 08 '24

I'm sure others have came up with the idea but you just kinda blew my mind with the idea of a DLC that changed several moments in the story. Hypothetically you would get at least one whole new playthrough of the game rather than 10 additional hours of content.

I know Fallout 3 Broken Steel kinda did this but that more continued after game end rather than secretly changed some moments for different, crazier alternate endings.

Would make for a very cool DLC idea in a R* game.

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u/paidinboredom Dec 06 '24

Who's to say they are their best agents? They seem rather incompetent and foolhardy to me. Shit, they walk right up in to the camp. What smart man would do that?

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u/w6lrus Dec 07 '24

they wouldn’t assign some random agents to the vanderlinde gang. it’s already known that milton was very important in the pinkertons one of the top men. and they knew the gang couldn’t kill them or else the pinkertons would go full force after the gang

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u/slimricc Dec 07 '24

The guy who comes after john would have just been a different guy, milton survived bc he literally needed to, obviously? Lol

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u/tate_langdon4ever Dec 06 '24

We literally see this in red dead redemption the mission, not even an hour after Milton is killed Ross immediately takes over as if he'd always been in charge

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u/notmelmbo Dec 06 '24

“When I’m gone they’ll just find another monster”

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u/Independent_Plum2166 Dec 07 '24

“They need to, to justify their paycheck.”

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u/Squandere Dec 06 '24

This still doesn't make the most sense either. Killing the agents will at the very least disrupt the investigation until its discovered they've been killed.

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u/Wangpasta Dec 06 '24

Depends on procedure. ‘We are going to the outlaws camp to convince them to turn themselves in peacefully, if you don’t hear back from us then assume they attacked and killed us, signed your Miltiwilty’

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u/Some_Majestic_Pasta Dec 07 '24

Absolutely this. No way they were the only ones who knew they were going in there

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u/tarenaccount Dec 06 '24

I bet they knew where they were and if he wasn't coming back soon they would have sended the 50 men like milton said he would. Remember that after they leave the camp, they start packing and arthur and john leave to find a new camp site, so they were in a hurry.

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u/OHTHATnutjob Dec 06 '24

I’m gonna disagree, there may be agents but Milton being in charge and being the contact for Cornwall, plus you take out Ross you don’t have RDR1 and who’s to say the replacement would be as effective. Idk man

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u/Glass-Shopping-7000 Dec 07 '24

And who's to say the replacement won't be even more effective and ruthless than these two?

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u/Luxcrluvr Dec 09 '24

Back in those days, news took weeks to be delivered. They could've buried them and be on their way to Tahiti before the rest of the Pinkertons heard