We’re not sure why you’d do such a thing, unless you’re particularly mean-spirited, or perhaps just morbidly curious. But much like real life, you can’t casually smack your own pets without ramifications. If an NPC spots you doing it, a Wanted sign pops up in the corner of the screen and you’re branded a criminal, with a bounty placed on your head. This can also occur if you’re caught attacking random NPCs, which sees you wanted for assault and prompts high level guards with guns to hunt you down.<\/p>
You can remove your bounty yourself by taking out any and all witnesses, but we suspect many players who try this will only get themselves killed. Death is the only other way to remove the Wanted warning, but that’s obviously not ideal, since dying causes you to drop all your items (unless you’re playing on the easiest difficulty).<\/p>
