| Red Dead Redemption achievement and trophy Friends in High Places | |
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| Description | Use the Pardon Letter with more than $5,000 Bounty in Single Player. |
| Gamer Score | 10 
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| Trophy Type | Bronze 
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Friends in High Places is a gameplay achievement/trophy featured in Red Dead Redemption.
Description
Use the Pardon Letter with more than $5,000 Bounty in Single Player.
Acquisition
An easy way to achieve this trophy is following these steps (read the notes too before starting):
- Start getting a bounty at the MacFarlane's Ranch. A good strategy is to hide in the barn and kill lawmen from there
- Once the town is cleared and you have a good sized bounty, go to Armadillo (possibly during the morning, when more people are around)
- Climb on the roof of the train station and hide behind the sign that faces the main road in the town
- Start shooting people until the lawmen arrive
- Kill all the lawmen but leave at least one alive, otherwise the bounty won't rise (it's better if the last one goes inside the station under you, where he can't harm you). At this point you should already have a bounty of about $500 - $1000
- From behind the sign, shoot a few people walking around and move the camera 360°. This should make 1 - 5 people appear around the dead bodies
- Kill them, move the camera and repeat
- Once you get a bounty of $5000+ (every civilian killed gives you $20 more, so you will have to kill about 150-200 of them), just sit right behind the sign and don't move. The "Wanted" sign will start fading away;
- Once the "Wanted" sign is gone, jump down the roof and use the pardon letter at the station.
A quicker (yet more risky) way to achieve this is to go into Blackwater and find a suitable 1-exit room. Shoot several passers-by to gain the attention of the lawmen in the area. Over 50 lawmen will spawn in one shootout, and they have a higher bounty than civilians. Additionally, vandalizing any property in Blackwater will net more bounty.
Trivia
- This achievement's title may be a reference to the Garth Brooks song, "Friends in Low Places". However, "Friends in High Places" is also a term used to describe having powerful friends who can get you out of bad situations.
- It's recommended not to have the highest Fame rank, because player's Bounty will be halved.