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A Honest Mistake Walkthrough | Red Dead Redemption 2

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In A Honest Mistake Walkthrough of Red Dead Redemption 2, Uncle will tell you about a payroll shipment heist. In A Honesh Mistake, you have to loot the shipment and save yourself from pursuers. A Honest Mistake Gold Medal requirement: 20 Headshots, and Complete mission with 80% accuracy and without taking a health items.

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In the previous mission Advertising, the new American Art, Arthur and Hosea tried to sell the stolen moonshine liquor to the Braithwaite family. But things do not go well, however Arthur and Hosea were able to save themselves from the Lemoyne Raiders. For the mission A Honest Mistake find Molly. She is sitting near a tree in the camp area. Uncle will interrupt and he will drop info on a heist that will reward a good chunk of money. Along with Arthur, Bill and Charles also agreed for the robbery.

A Honest Mistake Walkthrough

A Honest Mistake Walkthrough

To earn Gold Medal get 20 headshots, and complete it with 80% accuracy without taking a health items.

Talk To Molly | An Honest Mistake

While talking to Molly Uncle will interrupt you and tell you about a heist. You, Uncle, Charles and Bill join you. You will be stalking from a payroll shipment. Arthur will finally get agreed on the tip off and follow Uncle for the heist. Once you reach your spot equip your bandana.

Payroll Shipment | An Honest Mistake

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Equip your Bandana first. You will see Uncle, Bill and Charles will stop the shipment. The driver will tell you that the shipment belongs to Leviticus Cornwall and he will not happy if it gets stolen. Charles will search the wagon and he will ask you to help him. Go to the back of the wagon, press Y to search and you will find a pretty hefty amount. But as you rob another wagon will drop in with pursuers.

Escape The Pursuers With The Gang | An Honest Mistake

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You will have to escape the pursuers. You can press R3 to look behind. But with that you will also manage your pace. So if you see a straight line, you can look backward and drop a dynamite to blow up the pursuers. They will shoot you, if you finding hard to look back keep following your gang who will draw you away from the pursuers.

Escape The Pursuers With The Gang | An Honest Mistake

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The gang will stay hidden till the night, in the cutscene you will see a few men moving with torches into the house. Peek through the holes to see what is going on. Two men will approach the barn to check, stay hidden for a while and let them approach. One of them will enter the barn and other will stay out. One of your friends will shoot the man that will break a firefight.

Survive The Fight | An Honest Mistake

You and your gang will be surrounded by lot of enemies, you have to stay low and shoot them. Use a rifle here, it will help you to kill the enemies faster. Enemies hiding in the dark can be spotted through the bullet fire. After killing all the enemies go outside as the barn will catch fire. Uncle will break away from the back, follow him and go out. Run into the trees with them.

Your gang is still in the range of attack, follow others till you reach deep in the trees and walk slowly. Two enemies will be searching in the forest, hide with uncle, behind the rock. Equip your knife and stealth kill them once they are close enough. Uncle will be in trouble help before he got killed. Rejoin your friends and take down the rest of enemies following you.

Once again equip your rifle and keep shooting the left enemies. Once you are done withal there will be a cutscene where the gang will plan to split up and escape. You can loot the bodies here and this completes the mission. There will be lot of valuables things you will find while looting.

For the next main mission Horse Flesh for Dinner, you will have to find Gray at the entrance of plantation. For similar guides, tips and updates on the game do have look on our Red Dead Redemption 2 Wiki guide.


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