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Red Dead Redemption 2 puts you in the shoes of Arthur Morgan, an outlaw cowboy on the run. He’s the key member of a gang and, as all outlaw gangs are wont to do, they commit crimes from time to time. However, given that Rockstar has created a game world that reacts to your behaviour and presents the knock-on effects of your actions to you, getting away with no good is much harder than you’d think.

The people that inhabit Red Dead Redemption 2’s wild west are always watching, and while some will turn a blind eye to your misbehaviours, others may feel compelled to do something about what they’ve seen. This means that if you break the law while people are around, they could narc on you. In our hands-on gameplay session we got a good example of this system in action.

While in a marshy area, we gunned someone down and were immediately informed that there was a witness who had seen the whole thing. As we turned to locate this person, a lady screamed and began running away. Naturally, not wanting to spend the night behind bars or even six feet under, we gave chase to stop her. Once close enough to her we fired Arthur’s gun into the air and she stopped in her tracks.

Using the game’s new conversation options, we selected the “Threaten” option and she replied by saying she wouldn’t tell anyone about what she’d seen. However, there was a boldness to her voice, and her tone and attitude presented her as someone who would do the right thing and tell on us at the next available opportunity. We chose to let her go and, as suspected, a few moments later the incident was reported. When we asked Rockstar if we could have guaranteed that she wouldn’t report it, a representative said we could have doubled down on the threat to effectively convince her that we meant business and scare her into staying hush.

Ensuring that things don’t escalate when you’re engaging in criminal activity feels like it’s going to take a fair amount of thought and careful planning. In addition to keeping in mind potential witnesses, there are also other small ways in which things can go awry if you’re not careful. For example, if you’re not wearing a bandana or covering your face in some other way, witnesses will also remember you and report you to the authorities.

Based on our time with the game, once things devolve into fisticuffs and gun fights it’s much harder to de-escalate and return to a neutral state than in previous Rockstar games. In the Grand Theft Autos of old and the previous Red Dead Redemption, calming things down usually involved breaking line of sight from witnesses or lawmen to simply hide out until things blow over. However, since the world is more reactive, even doing that can be difficult in Red Dead Redemption 2. Something like bad hygiene can change the way people behave towards you, so you can bet that walking around covered in blood is going to make escaping a whole lot harder for Arthur Morgan.

Red Dead Redemption 2 releases on October 26 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. There will be a bunch of special editions, and you can get the details on all of them in our Red Dead Redemption 2 pre-order guide. One month after the game’s launch, in November 2018, Red Dead Online will become available as a public beta.

Tuesday has brought with it the latest weekly reset in Destiny 2. That means players have numerous new opportunities to obtain some Powerful gear, along with a refresh of certain fixed activities–including the Dreaming City mission rotation, which has reached the end of its cycle for the first time.

At least so far, this week isn’t as big as last week, which saw new Exotic weapons become available and a new Crucible mode called Breakthrough debut. In terms of what to expect this week, here’s the full rundown on the Nightfall, Ascendant Challenge, and more.

Ascendant Challenge

For players who have advanced far enough in Forsaken, you may be ready for a high-end activity. The Ascendant Challenge is just the ticket, providing a difficult mission of sorts to take part in for some Powerful gear–provided you can find where to go. This time, you’ll enter the challenge through a portal located in the Bay of Drowne. This takes you to the Agonarch Abyss, where you’ll be platforming (probably to your death at least a few times).

Before starting, you’ll need to pick up the bounty from Petra and to secure a Tincture of Queensfoil, a consumable item that provides the Ascendant buff that allows you to see and travel through a Taken portal to enter the Ascendant Plane.

Spider Bounty — Wanted: Gravetide Summoner

The set of bounties available from Spider have rotated yet again. One of these in particular is worth grabbing, though you’ll need five Ghost Fragments to purchase it. Completing the bounty, Wanted: Gravetide Summoner, will reward you with Powerful gear. Yes, this is a repeat of last week, but it’s found in a slightly different spot, meaning you’re doing a different Lost Sector.

As always, this provides you with an Adventure to do. This one is located on Titan, right next to the Siren’s Watch landing zone (rather than The Rig last week).

Nightfall

Another avenue to Powerful gear is the Nightfall Strike. Taking part in the Nightfall allows you to pick from three different Strikes; this week’s choices include Lake of Shadows, Tree of Probabilities, and The Arms Dealer. The corresponding bounties for Powerful gear, as usual, ask you to complete a Nightfall and to complete one with a score above 100,000.

Eververse

Tess at Eververse has new weekly bounties, the most expensive of which is Crucible Crux, but it also rewards you with the most Bright Dust based on what you spend on the bounty. This requires you to complete matches in the Crucible, with wins netting you extra progress.

Tess has also cycled in a new wave of items to get your hands on. Most important to grab is the Rise to the Challenge bounty. This only asks you to complete a challenge to receive a Prismatic Facet. This item allows you to activate the Prismatic Matrix, which is just an overly complex term for what is basically a chest with 10 cosmetic rewards inside. The Matrix’s items rotate each week; here’s what’s available right now:

• Sanctified Vigilance Shell (Exotic Ghost shell)
• Transcendent Geometry (Exotic Warlock ornament for Vesper of Radius)
• Aim to Misbehave (Exotic ornament for Malfeasance)
• Dragonfly Regalia Grasps (Legendary Hunter gauntlets)
• Dragonfly Regalia Greaves (Legendary Titan leg armor)
• Smooth Dance (Legendary emote)
• Where Stars Collide (Legendary ship)
• Endymion Cavalcade (Legendary vehicle)
• Mappa Mundarum (Legendary vehicle)
• Jeweled Projection (Legendary Ghost projection)

Petra

Petra is the most important vendor and NPC in Forsaken, providing you with bounties in the Dreaming City. She continues to move around the area and this week can be found back in The Strand. She has multiple bounties offering Powerful gear, as well as Gateway Between Worlds, which rewards you with an Offering to the Oracle (which is now an easy ticket to a Seed of Light and third subclass tree).

Additionally, she’s again offering a bounty to do the mission Broken Courier; this marks the first reset of the rotation of Dreaming City missions she has. If your Power level wasn’t high enough to try this out in September, here’s your opportunity to do what you missed. Petra actually has some dialogue to acknowledge that things are back to the way they were three weeks ago.

Clan Bounties

At the Tower, head over to Hawthorne to grab your daily and weekly clan bounties. On the weekly side, this week has you doing the following with clanmates: complete Blind Well at Tier 3 or higher; clear three waves of Escalation Protocol; and do three Heroic Adventures. As per usual, completing enough clan bounties before the weekly reset will net you some Powerful gear, as will completing the standard weekly clan objectives. The weekly Raid challenge has you complete the Which Witch challenge for Powerful gear.

Vanguard Strikes

For standard Strikes, the weekly challenge is to complete three while using the same Light element as a team member. The modifiers for Strikes have rotated, and here’s what you can expect to encounter right now:

• Arc Singe — Arc damage increased
• Grounded — Damage taken while airborne increased
• Grenadier — Grenades deal more damage and recharge faster

Daily Heroic Story Missions

Five story missions have been swapped in for you to tackle as part of the daily Heroic story missions activity. Complete your choice of three before the next weekly reset to net a piece of Powerful gear. The modifiers are the same as Strikes, as outlined above. Here are the mission options:

• Fury — 280 Power level
• Chosen — 280 Power level
• The Gateway — 310 Power level
• Last Call — 500 Power level
• High Plains Blues — 500 Power level

Gambit

Gambit was already one of Forsaken’s best additions, and it took on greater importance last week as it became a mandatory step in the questline to obtain the Exotic hand cannon Malfeasance. You’ll sometimes encounter a special boss in place of the Primeval; defeat that to get an item called Seething Heart that will set you on the difficult path toward unlocking the gun.

For this week, The Drifter is offering a weekly bounty, On the Grind, that asks you to earn points in Gambit. Points are earned by defeating enemies and guardians, and by banking Motes. The reward is a piece of Powerful gear.

Flashpoint

The Flashpoint is not tied directly to the weekly reset, but it has nonetheless been shuffled. At the time of this writing, it can be found on Mercury. Complete Public Events, Lost Sectors, and Heroic Adventures in the zone to fill a meter and earn a piece of Powerful gear.

When Insidious: The Last Key hit theaters back in January, many believed this to be the final chapter of the horror franchise. It essentially told the origin story of Elisa Rainier (Lin Shaye), something fans of the franchise had been hoping for.

Could there be more story to tell from the Insidious lore, though? While another sequel to the series hasn’t been announced, producer Jason Blum admits a return is possible. While speaking to GameSpot to promote the new Halloween, he admitted “there’s a very good chance” another Insidious movie will happen at some point.

“What was our tagline on [The Last Key]? Do you remember? The Final Chapter or something,” he said. “I’m trying to fight it, I haven’t fought it successfully yet, but like I said I think there’s a good chance.”

Of course, should another Insidious movie happen, there are some questions to ask. Would Leigh Whannell–writer of all four films, director of Insidious: Chapter 3–be involved? Who would take over as director? How much of the franchise’s cast would return?

Outside of Shaye’s Rainier, the only characters to appear in all four films are Tucker (Angus Sampson) and Specs (Whannell). Surely someone from that trio would have to appear, if only to keep the continuity alive.

Whatever the case, without being announced yet, chances are it’ll be some time before another Insidious film comes to pass. As it stands, Blumhouse–the production company behind the franchise–has sequels to Happy Death Day and The Gallows in the works, along with a list of other horror films–including Jordan Peele’s next movie Us and M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass.

For fans of the franchise, though, Blum saying there’s a “good chance” of getting another Insidious movie is great news. Now you just need to wait patiently for it to hopefully happen.