Getting fed of NPCs getting mad randomly

[Linarkspain]

The NPC programming is pretty bad many times. I've seen NPCs run in panic cause my horse, while i was guiding it BY FOOT, gently touched them. The guy who is building a house and asks you fo help gathering mats suddenly became aggresive (not fully hostile) for unknown reasons while I was talking with him and agreeing to help him gather wood. People in the roads suddenly draw weapons if you get a bit close when they were being gentle 1 second before (when I was at the same exact distance). I help two guys getting robbed, and suddenly NPCs that perfectly saw what happened are calling the sherrif or shooting me.

Loving he game, but seriously, this tends to brake the atmosphere a lot of times.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

People in towns where you've had "bad" activity will be this way.
It can stay this way for a bit after the bad stuff that Arthur has to do early in the game; as least as far as Valentine is concerned. You can do things within that town that to help lower this hostility though. Talk to people kindly, don't run into them, pulling out weapons, aiming around, or being careless with your horse and bumping people and stuff. Petting Dogs helps too believe it or not.

I suggest don't have Horse follow around a cluttered town. Tether it where available. If you need it you can call it and it wont take long for it to reach you.

But yes when you see something go down in the game among NPCs; in real life yes there is honor in helping. In this game, it usually doesn't end well. Yes some bad scripting there, as you should be able to right-fully defend yourself. But that also is a problem in the game. Where if a person didn't attack you unprovoked (if you started it, you can't blame them for becoming an enemy; and the other NPCs will see it this way to; so does THE LAW). But I've had some Pinkertons mess with me in the town, even though they pulled guns and such, I melee all of them and the Town didn't blink an eye much as I was in "the right"