What's the point of masks?

[GoreTiger]

I wear a mask both bandana or the full one to rob a place, and i still get a bounty. I change my clothes after i'm done being wanted, I still have a bounty.
So what's even the point of hiding my identity if I still get a bounty?

[Mansen]

You need avoid witnesses and get out fast. If you stick around you WILL be recognized and will get a warrant.

[Legion313]

thats not the point, he try to disguise him self but why game still detect him. i kind of agree with you, bandana and changing clotches should lower or remove bounty..

[Mansen]

That's the thing - If you're a career criminal people are going to start recognizing you, even if you wear clown makeup and a costume.

[GoreTiger]

Originally posted by Mansen:

That's the thing - If you're a career criminal people are going to start recognizing you, even if you wear clown makeup and a costume.

If you have good karma and you wear a mask, people shouldn't reconize you then.

[Mansen]

If you keep doing crimes? Absolutely you should...

[GoreTiger]

Originally posted by Mansen:

If you keep doing crimes? Absolutely you should...

This was my first robbery, period. I robbed the activity in the medicine shop in valentine, racked up a $135 bounty even tho i was almost fully covered with a full mask as well.

[Mansen]

How in the nine hells did you manage a 135$ bounty from robbing a store? Talk about a botched job.

[GoreTiger]

Originally posted by Mansen:

How in the nine hells did you manage a 135$ bounty from robbing a store? Talk about a botched job.

For some reason it made my bounty go up for every one of the odriscouls I killed inside the secret shop. Then I killed a few lawmen to escape.
Doesn't matter tho, my point still stands nobody should of reconized me and i shouldn't of been wanted still after

[Ptaoh]

you're right Gore, it's a flaw in the game....

[Maxovo]

i think its because so they wont know your face so next time you come to the town, Sherrifs patrolling wont recognize even your face after changing clothes

[Delicia Suprema]

Still get a bounty ? Wow, even in bad karma i dont get any bounties on me using the bandana.

[Gorgonite]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzWQOVCm4Ts&t=67s

[DargonBlak]

Originally posted by PtaoH:

you're right Gore, it's a flaw in the game....

Yup - game omniscience is a bit extreme. and "The Law" is just stupid unfair.

The following is for SP.

For random acts, it does seem dependent on how well you are known in a given town/area. Killing all close witnesses and getting away quickly is very important, and very hard in a town. Clothing and horse are not as important as the game tips imply.

For certain quests, like shooting up a small town after breaking someone from jail (in a town you've never visited) or robbing a train full of tourists from New York, you will Always get a bounty. Obviously just part of the quest. (stupid, imo, but there it is)

In a fantasy story perspective, we can all rationalize why these things are true (to some extent), but the game omniscience basically makes it Not Worth It - since you can very easily end up with a bounty that exceeds your take And "The Law" Never Stops Coming

For example about "The Law", i killed all the town folks that wanted to stop me, and then "The Law" just kept coming... after killing 7-8 waves of "The Law" (50-60 of them, after 20 towns folk) i finally realized it was pointless - the game is basically designed to make it worthless (not worthwhile) to commit crimes in towns.

And robbing someone and leaving them alive is plain stupid (but it's what the game expects) - in stand-alone shops, shoot the shopkeeper, rob him and walk away - no one notices. But i don't know if he respawns, so hopefully you don't need anything from him in the future. :)

[frotico]

Ikr I just did the rescue mission in strawberry, even the game tells you to wear a mask there. ofcourse I still got a 235$ bounty, while everyone is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dead

[RexCaine]

Sadly the game has the same ♥♥♥♥♥♥ police system as GTA V did, so they recognize you even if you use a mask, there are other flaws with them as well, like when you rob a train in the middle of nowhere and somehow they know about it so you get a bounty, i hope that someday someone is going to release a mod to fix this, similar to how gta has mods that fix the police.