The story of the Van der Linde gang is what makes up the bulk of Red Dead Redemption 2’s main campaign. As a prequel story to the first Red Dead Redemption, many returning players were already aware of what would happen, but the specifics of the gang’s slow decline and the events that would set up the first game were as yet unknown.
Red Dead Redemption 2’s story is split into chapters, and each chapter sees the Van der Linde gang setting up a new camp to lie low at. These camps are the primary hubs for the game's story, not only for main missions, but for interacting with fellow gang members and seeing them interact with each other. Red Dead Redemption 2 has hundreds of interactions to see between gang members at these camps, and each one is meant to reinforce and build on the characterization of the individual gang members.
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Rockstar put a great deal of effort into making each member of the gang feel unique and distinct, and this extends into minor details many players may never have noticed. One such minor detail is that many members of the Van der Linde gang own unique hunting knives that are different to the knives that the player can acquire in Red Dead Redemption 2. Now a Reddit user named ult1matum has compiled all of these unique knives into a single image.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is full of these small details, and most players will likely never notice these knives, or perhaps never even see them equipped as most NPCs will never draw their knife except under specific circumstances. The gang’s unique knives do reflect certain attributes of their owners, however. Since the hunting knife is used for both killing enemies and
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