Red Dead Redemption
51 Achievements
Friends in High Places
Use a pardon letter with more than $5000 bounty.
2.5%
How to unlock the Friends in High Places achievement in Red Dead Redemption - Definitive Guide
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It has come to my attention, thanks to a comment by Gamer God87, that sometimes the prompt to turn in your pardon letter will come up without having to press Y. So when you go to turn in your pardon letter, stand there for a moment, if nothing comes up then press Y to get the prompt to come up to press B to turn in your pardon letter.
Once you have Blackwater unlocked you can use it.
- You need to climb up on the top of the tall building in front of the Train station
- Stay very near the ladder, you can see many civilians showing up on your 11'o clock and 4'o clock (facing towards station), one by one.
- You can get upto 10 kills per minute, which is close to 500$ in bounty, just by moving LS around in these 2 directions and shooting people there.
- The cops will never climb up but they can shoot you from 5'o clock. You can immediately hit RB to take cover if you are taking hits, or go to Dead-eye and shoot them. Killing cops will fetch you 100$ bounty for each kill.
- Once you get bounty of above 5000$. Make Marston take cover by the duct in the middle of the roof. Wait for few minutes once everything cools down.
- Now climb down and run towards the station
- Enter the office on the left side and show the letter to the clerk there
http://www.youtube.com/user/leadexample
"Once you are able to access Blackwater enter the tower from the west side near the train station. You will see a large brick building which says [Welcome to Blackwater]. There is only one way onto this building, and the AI can't climb. Climb up to the top of the building and start to kill people. If you follow the pattern of this video you will earn $5,000 bounty in no time.
As you start killing people the law will start to arrive. At the start standing at the top of the ladder leaves you open to attack but once there are 7 or so law enforcers they all hang around the buildings. Once you hit this number you will be safe to stand at the top of the ladder, use the camera to spring from left to right, this will produce an infinite amount of AI for you to kill.
Once your bounty hit $5,000 duck behind vent on the roof until your wanted level goes away. Make a run for the train station and use a pardon letter, you should have at least 1 if you have completed the hideouts or all of Seth's missions."
http://www.youtube.com/user/leadexample
"Once you are able to access Blackwater enter the tower from the west side near the train station. You will see a large brick building which says [Welcome to Blackwater]. There is only one way onto this building, and the AI can't climb. Climb up to the top of the building and start to kill people. If you follow the pattern of this video you will earn $5,000 bounty in no time.
As you start killing people the law will start to arrive. At the start standing at the top of the ladder leaves you open to attack but once there are 7 or so law enforcers they all hang around the buildings. Once you hit this number you will be safe to stand at the top of the ladder, use the camera to spring from left to right, this will produce an infinite amount of AI for you to kill.
Once your bounty hit $5,000 duck behind vent on the roof until your wanted level goes away. Make a run for the train station and use a pardon letter, you should have at least 1 if you have completed the hideouts or all of Seth's missions."
To go along with Befallen. You can easily hide out in your room at Armadillo. Just start shooting up the town. I found hiding in front of your dresser...er armoire gives you a clear shot of both doors to your room and the law always seems disoriented when they first enter the room. So Dead Eye makes it like shooting fish in a barrel...if it were the fish who had a gun and was shooting the people trying to come into the barrel...eh anyway.
Every once in a while you will kill all the lawmen in the town and everyone magically forgets you just slaughtered the town. I would just hop on the horse and ride out away from the town and eventually more lawmen will spawn. Just keep it up til you reach the bounty required then head to the train station right across the way from your room and turn in your letter. Edit: You can't turn in the letter while the law is pursuing you. LOSE THE LAW BEFORE TRYING TO TURN IN YOUR LETTER! Don't rush to the station while "Wanted" to turn in the letter as the train station attendent will not be there since he is still running for his life. Do it this way then when the law is off your back you can turn in your letter and you won't be wasting your time like another already did. I have even been able to turn in the letter when the attendent isn't there. It still gave me the option to pay bounty or turn in pardon.
Also if you are not wanting to lose your honor like I did, just save a seperate file to load and wipe out all your bad deeds. You can also use your bandanna if you have it to prevent honor loss as well. Thanks to metrodome934 since some people didn't seem to have the luck I did I guess. Also one thing I'm not too clear on is I did get killed once. I still had bounty but it was probably more than $500 less than it was before I died. Don't know what this means yet.
If you vote negative make to sure give me some tips on what to improve. I can't tell what I'm doing if you don't let me know. I'm not trying to give bad advice here.
here's how i did it:
went to blackwater, stocked up on ammo (used my repeater) and meds and file saved. BE SURE ITS DAYTIME or all the townsfolk will be sleeping. ;) keep file saving until its daytime.
then go to the train station. directly across the station is a red brick building; you'll see painted on the building a Crick's advertisement and a mural of a man's face. To the left of the Crick's ad is a ladder. climb up to the very top of the building (2 ladders); don't stop at the first landing; go all the way up.
Once up there, make sure you are standing at center of the ladder facing the train station and start pecking unsuspecting townsfolk off. if you are in the precise spot at the top of the ladder, you can quickscope and shoot ahead to people at the train station and then toggle quickly to the right facing the courtyard/town hall and snipe people running out of that alley by a wood fence. you can quickly toggle between right and left, quick scope, shoot and there will be an endless loop of AI townsfolk to quickly get your $5k bounty (within 10 minutes max).
if the marshalls shoot you, duck behind cover and use your meds if needed. BE WARY, the townsfolk gentlemen attempt to be heroes and they might try to shoot at you as well. if for any reason you get shot or the AI townsfolk are not spawning in a quick, endless loop, you are not in the precise position at the top of the ladder.
once you have your bounty, duck and hide somewhere on the roof and be sure to face the ladder (sometimes the marshalls get the bright idea to climb up and get you) and wait for the red WANTED to disappear. once it's gone you can turn in your pardon. just make sure you don't call any attention to yourself on the way there.
before i found the sweet spot, i had attempted to duck behind cover and ran around the edges of the building. i would recommend you dont choose this route as it takes 3x as long to reach your $5k bounty (took me 20mins to get just $1k!!), you have to wait FOREVER for any AI to be within shot range, you are more likely to fall off the building or be within their shot range and killed, and i got terribly frustrated with the height of the roof ledges which left only 3 good shooting positions, plus i did it in the middle of the night, so no one was around to kill. duh - me.
**OH and you will notice your Honor depleting, which if you're trying to get the Man of Honor/Chivalry's Dead achv this activity is good for boosting your dishonor. but if you're trying to go for the highest honor rank, dont have fear, thats why i said game save before going for the Bounty achv. just load your game save and your stats are all preserved! =D
hit me up if you need specifics: geegers78
It is quiet easy to shoot them down from their horses (and kill the horses too ;-)). The bounty raises slightly. If you come over 2500 Mexican Dollar, the amount of people raises, so you are just quicker by killing them. Of course you should use your bandana, if you are a "good guy".
Mostly the officers come from the gate "far" away over the marketplace, but sometimes they only appear on the "near gate". While I pushed my bounty, only one officer comes upside to me, but with a short look at the minimap you should see it.
here's how i did it:
went to blackwater, stocked up on ammo (used my repeater) and meds and file saved. BE SURE ITS DAYTIME or all the townsfolk will be sleeping. ;) keep file saving until its daytime.
then go to the train station. directly across the station is a red brick building; you'll see painted on the building a Crick's advertisement and a mural of a man's face. To the left of the Crick's ad is a ladder. climb up to the very top of the building (2 ladders); don't stop at the first landing; go all the way up.
Once up there, make sure you are standing at center of the ladder facing the train station and start pecking unsuspecting townsfolk off. if you are in the precise spot at the top of the ladder, you can quickscope and shoot ahead to people at the train station and then toggle quickly to the right facing the courtyard/town hall and snipe people running out of that alley by a wood fence. you can quickly toggle between right and left, quick scope, shoot and there will be an endless loop of AI townsfolk to quickly get your $5k bounty (within 10 minutes max).
if the marshalls shoot you, duck behind cover and use your meds if needed. BE WARY, the townsfolk gentlemen attempt to be heroes and they might try to shoot at you as well. if for any reason you get shot or the AI townsfolk are not spawning in a quick, endless loop, you are not in the precise position at the top of the ladder.
once you have your bounty, duck and hide somewhere on the roof and be sure to face the ladder (sometimes the marshalls get the bright idea to climb up and get you) and wait for the red WANTED to disappear. once it's gone you can turn in your pardon. just make sure you don't call any attention to yourself on the way there.
before i found the sweet spot, i had attempted to duck behind cover and ran around the edges of the building. i would recommend you dont choose this route as it takes 3x as long to reach your $5k bounty (took me 20mins to get just $1k!!), you have to wait FOREVER for any AI to be within shot range, you are more likely to fall off the building or be within their shot range and killed, and i got terribly frustrated with the height of the roof ledges which left only 3 good shooting positions, plus i did it in the middle of the night, so no one was around to kill. duh - me.
**OH and you will notice your Honor depleting, which if you're trying to get the Man of Honor/Chivalry's Dead achv this activity is good for boosting your dishonor. but if you're trying to go for the highest honor rank, dont have fear, thats why i said game save before going for the Bounty achv. just load your game save and your stats are all preserved! =D
hit me up if you need specifics: geegers78
Horse deeds make perfect save points here. Since the lawmen are infinite, use one to save every $500-$1000 bounty added (alternate 2 deeds if you can't use the same one??) and you don't have to worry about losing progress if you happen to die.
Once you hit $5000, use a horse deed and either try to lose your wanted level or die and load right into the safehouse in the saloon (you will load into wanted status, but you can easily escape).
I shot the driver of the train when it was standing still in the station (I wanted to see if I could drive a train myself, to bad, you can't).
Since I committed a crime, the deputies were alerted and came to arrest/shoot me. But I noticed that they don't enter the train, nor really shoot at me. So I went for the achievement.
That's how I did it. I stayed inside the train, shooting at everyone outside, getting cover from the train itself. I stayed in the passengers wagon, but I think any wagon will do.
If the deputies/sheriffs don't spawn any more (this happens with me every $2000 bounty), just whistle your horse (or save first). Get on the horse, run outside the settlement, but don't go to far (I just went down the hill and back up).
When you re-enter Chuparosa, the train will still be there, the civilians will be respawned and you can start it all over again (bounty doesn't disappear when the wanted level reaches zero).
It was very easy for me, didn't had to rush a thing, never came in real problems or so. When you have the $5k bounty, shoot the remaining deputies/sheriffs, and use the pardon letter.
Oh, it can be a bit tricky if you want to shoot the guys through the windows, since the camera is a bit misplaced here. It seems like you are aiming at your target, but instead you will shoot at the wood next to the window. Use right/left on the D-pad to shift the camera and you'll get a better view.
Hope this helps for those who have a lot of problems surviving elsewhere.
Once you have killed everyone on the ranch (it won't take very long, it usually took me between 3-5 minutes) go and save. Once you reload your save, everyone in the town will respawn, and your bounty will stay what it was the last time you saved. I like this method a lot, because if you die somehow, then you can reload your last save with the bounty you had, so it is more of a checkpoint than anything. It wouldn't be cool if you got all the way up to $5000 and died, because then you'd have to redo the whole thing again.
Once you have killed everyone on the ranch (it won't take very long, it usually took me between 3-5 minutes) go and save. Once you reload your save, everyone in the town will respawn, and your bounty will stay what it was the last time you saved. I like this method a lot, because if you die somehow, then you can reload your last save with the bounty you had, so it is more of a checkpoint than anything. It wouldn't be cool if you got all the way up to $5000 and died, because then you'd have to redo the whole thing again.
It's best to have a fairly decent horse when doing this, just in case you get caught out and need to run further afield but, unless you get sloppy, this probably won't be an issue.
1) From here set your aim to Casual.
2) Pull out your Buffalo Rifle
3) Spin around with the right stick in a clock wise circle
3) Once you are faceing the building next to the train station pull LT and you should auto aim on a civy or a poilce officer
4) Fire
5) Once that person is killed keep spinning and once your facing the court house do the the same thing again. LT then fire
6) Keep spinning in this circle and there should be another person in front of the train station by time you get back to it and same with the other spawn.
Now dont move the left stick or you will fall off the wall. Keep doing this and some times you will get 2 law peeps at each spawn. When i was doing it i never stopped spinning untill my aim was locked on to someone. I got well over the 5k in just a short time. Dont worry if there isnt someone at the spawn just keep spinning and next time you come back to it they should be there.
Also use your horse deeds to save while your on the roof. Cant believe no one has mentioned this yet in all the guilds i have looked up for this. It works like an auto save and is also good to use during mission if your not done with the game yet.
1. Get a wide area and have the law come straight towards you and pick them off, remember that when entering dead eye your ammo refills
2. Have medicine with you, i would carry maximum in case you get close to dying
3.Have a fast horse in case you need to escape
I havent read all of the other guides so sorry i repeated what has been already said
If you're injured, duck into the corridor outside the poker room, and wait for your health to renew, once you reach 5000, either hide and hope for the best, or make a break out of the back door, and kill any chasing bounty hunters to clear your wanted level.
I managed this on my first attempt once i had the route planned out, auto aim helps too.
1. Stock up on medicine
2. Go into Armadillo, Kill all officers
3. Ride out of town, set up camp, transport to Blackwater
4. Kill all officers, ride out of town, transport to Armadillo
5. Rinse and repeat until bounty hits $5,000
I guess it's also worth noting to take the medicine as your health drops, thought it was kind of a given that's what you should do with it though.
Oh, then of course go and use the pardon letter, as that is what will pop the cheevo.
The places I shot up to gain bounty were Armadillo, MacFarlane's Ranch (where you have an easily accessible safehouse) and Blackwater. You don't want to go to Thieves Landing for there is complete lawlessness and you cannot get wanted no matter how many people you shoot.
And as you may expect, make sure you have a pardon letter on hand and that you use it in the same country (US/Mexico) you gained the bounty in.
The places I shot up to gain bounty were Armadillo, MacFarlane's Ranch (where you have an easily accessible safehouse) and Blackwater. You don't want to go to Thieves Landing for there is complete lawlessness and you cannot get wanted no matter how many people you shoot.
And as you may expect, make sure you have a pardon letter on hand and that you use it in the same country (US/Mexico) you gained the bounty in.
Luckily a $5000 bounty can be easily achieved if you keep saving your progress after every $1000 or so. Go to Blackwater and climb the ladder that's behind the Theater, there will be another ladder that you have to climb after that to get to the roof. Once you're on the roof go straight and look to your left, there's a roof of a lower building you can jump to from the ledge, climb up the ledge and jump off it. Once you're on this roof start shooting everything in sight. Make sure you have lots of ammo and create a new save for this as it will bring your Honor down and make everyone scared of you.
You can keep saving your game as long as every bounty hunter is killed so you don't have to get $5000 in one go. Once you've reached a $5000 bounty use a pardon letter at the Telemarket station just down the street from the building in Blackwater, then the trophy will unlock. You get pardon letters every time you complete a gang hideout but you can only have 5 at any given time. When attempting this trophy, you will want to also go for the Heading South on a White Bronco trophy at the same time. You need to kill at least 20 sheriffs before the US Marshals are after you.
Here is a visual walkthrough, credit goes to leadexample:
You will be given your first pardon letter by Seth, instead of using it hold onto the letter and just pay off the bounty instead. If you do use this pardon letter early on, you can earn more by completing the hideout side missions. I suggest you make a new save and attempt this away from your main save file. Once you have completed the requirements you can then load back your original save and continue playing through the story.
Once you have access to The North you can then make your way to Blackwater. On the western side of town you will find a train station. Just across the street is a large red brick building, which has the title "Welcome to Blackwater" painted on the site. Climb to the top of this building and start killing people. You can stand at the top of the ladder and pick people off as you see them. If you span the camera around from the town hall lawn to the train station you will find an infinite loop of AI civilians. Keep killing people until you reach $5,000 bounty. You can now duck behind cover on top of the building and wait for your wanted level to vanish.
Once your wanted level has dropped make a run for the train station and use your pardon letter to void your bounty. Do not shoot anyone as you make your way to the train station, if you do your wanted level will go back up and using the letter won't be possible.
Upon reaching the WANTED amount of $5,000, we wait until they stop looking for us and go down, run to the telegraph office and hand over the pardon document.
Video guide (en).