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Cougars are the Devil.
15 years ago
Am I the only person out there who goes out of his way to keep their horse alive in Red Dead Redemption? I like my horse; he's fast, he has a different colour than most other horses so I don't steal one by mistake. I like the thought of "My horse."
I think the game disagrees with me, though. Horses can take almost no damage, and the game seems to be treating them as more or less disposable, despite the little loyalty mechanic where the longer you've had a horse the faster it can go. This is becoming a serious problem now that I'm up in Rio Bravo looking for red sage, which sucks because that's cougar country. I'll fight a whole pack of wolves before I'll fight a cougar, because wolves have the decency to announce their arrival. They don't shoot out from under a bush, run beneath your horse so you cant shoot them, cut your horse's legs out from under it (killing it and wounding you), then swinging around for the kill, all without a sound.
So yeah, am I putting more narrative weight on the horse than I ought to be? Am I right to be reloading a save every time it dies, or am I supposed to suck it up and skin it like I do any other dead animal?
I think the game disagrees with me, though. Horses can take almost no damage, and the game seems to be treating them as more or less disposable, despite the little loyalty mechanic where the longer you've had a horse the faster it can go. This is becoming a serious problem now that I'm up in Rio Bravo looking for red sage, which sucks because that's cougar country. I'll fight a whole pack of wolves before I'll fight a cougar, because wolves have the decency to announce their arrival. They don't shoot out from under a bush, run beneath your horse so you cant shoot them, cut your horse's legs out from under it (killing it and wounding you), then swinging around for the kill, all without a sound.
So yeah, am I putting more narrative weight on the horse than I ought to be? Am I right to be reloading a save every time it dies, or am I supposed to suck it up and skin it like I do any other dead animal?
and I LIKE bears, too! and I play a coyote! Gah!. I mean, packs of coyotes? I thought they were the size of like, foxes or something! Jesus.
And yeah, I love that thrill you get going out into the desert, or when you have to leave yourself vulnerable for a moment to get something done.
out of SPITE
BTW when you finally get the flowers, the story is LOL with the wife :-P
That'll make you hate cougars even more. Until you think to shoot it in the leg then chase it down.
I usually will dismount a good distance away from the action to try and keep him safe. Despite that there was one mission where my horse panicked from all the gunfire and ran straight into town and was running back and forth in the street town while bullets were flying everywhere. I was both swearing and at him for blocking my shot and afraid I would lose him at the same time. Somehow he survived.
In the event the cougar is actually attacking your horse on purpose, clearly the horse has stepped on it's tail in a most unfriendly manner and the cougar is simply retaliating by pointing out your horse is actually a herbivore and thus a lesser being as it's lower on the food chain. This is a natural occurrence as Horses often deliberately step on feline tails with their nasty mean heavy hooves.
If you happen to own the Horse then clearly it's your fault for improperly disciplining your horse and it's horrible tail stomping habits.
Clearly then it's not the cougars fault for attacking the horse, but yours, because felines of all sorts are entirely innocent and never do anything wrong without being provoked in some extreme manner.
It's actually not as hard as it sounds to get though. I'd just peg the cougar with one gunshot to soften it up, then while it was limping away/regrouping, finish it off with the knife. Heh.
they don't exactly like to
make a rukus and crash the party.
they don't exactly like to
make a rukus and crash the party.
But yeah, the game doesn't match reality in that. Wildlife is too eager to get you, and gunfights, like in all games, too unlikely to kill you, but closer to realism in killing the horse. So the horses aren't having a good day. Getting your very own horse to survive would be a real nice accomplishment though. And if you are playing on PC there might be a mod to make the horses more "durable".