How do I maintain high honor while completing bounty missions?

Maintaining high honor while completing bounty missions in Red Dead Redemption 2 requires a balance between fulfilling your objectives and adhering to moral choices. Bounty missions often involve capturing or eliminating targets, which can lead to morally ambiguous situations. However, by following specific strategies, you can complete these missions without sacrificing your honor.\n\nFirst, prioritize non-lethal methods whenever possible. Instead of killing your targets, use the lasso to capture them alive. This not only increases your honor but also often yields higher rewards. For example, when approaching a bounty target in Valentine or Rhodes, equip your lasso and sneak up behind them to avoid unnecessary conflict. If the target resists, use non-lethal weapons like fists or the butt of your rifle to subdue them without killing.\n\nSecond, avoid harming innocent bystanders or lawmen during bounty missions. Accidental shootings or collateral damage can quickly lower your honor. To prevent this, holster your weapon when not in combat and use Dead Eye to carefully aim at hostile targets. For instance, if a bounty mission in Saint Denis escalates into a shootout, focus only on the enemies and avoid firing near civilians or law enforcement.\n\nThird, help strangers and NPCs you encounter during your travels. Random encounters, such as helping someone being attacked by wolves or assisting a stranded traveler, can boost your honor. These small acts of kindness offset any minor honor losses from bounty missions. For example, while traveling to Strawberry for a bounty, you might encounter a person being robbed. Intervening and saving them will increase your honor, balancing out any negative effects from the mission.\n\nFourth, pay attention to dialogue choices during bounty missions. Some missions, like those involving morally complex characters, allow you to make honorable decisions. For instance, in the mission ''The Noblest of Men, and a Woman,'' you can choose to spare a target instead of killing them, which increases your honor. Always opt for the compassionate or just option when given the choice.\n\nFinally, donate to the camp or contribute to charitable causes. While this doesn’t directly relate to bounty missions, it’s a reliable way to maintain high honor. Visit your camp and donate money, food, or supplies to the gang’s funds. Alternatively, give money to beggars in cities like Saint Denis or contribute to the poor box in churches.\n\nBy combining these strategies, you can complete bounty missions while maintaining high honor. Focus on non-lethal methods, avoid collateral damage, help strangers, make moral choices, and contribute to your camp or community. These actions ensure that your character remains honorable, even in the morally gray world of Red Dead Redemption 2.