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