You can whistle a bonded horse and it will buck off a would-be horse thief. This is honestly one of my fave 'wild' encounters that happens from time to time in single player.
Oh really, I need to remember this the next time I encounter a possible horse thief…I usually just lasso the rider and commit “totally family friendly content” against them or shoot them outright lol
One thing I noticed today was that usually my horse, Spoon, stays where I leave him if I am wandering about on foot, but today when riding we came across a pretty gruesome scene, I got off to investigate and Spoon didn't stay put, he followed me until we had left the site behind. It reminded me of how pets sometimes look to their owners for comfort/protection in frightening situations.
You missed the part when you walk in mud, on stones, in snow or something you can actually see the hoof prints AND you can see the dirt falling from the hooves. Loved this video
When looting horses, they are less likely to kick you when their body is relaxed, head down and not swishing their tails. This mechanic is one of my favourites. You can pat the horss and see its head drop as it relaxes. Looting horses is one of my favourite activities just because I enjoy watching and reading their body language.
When you ride your horse on paving or cobblestones (typically in St. Denis), no matter your speed, the cores of your steed will drain faster. This illustrates that this type of surface is not very suitable for horse's articulations and their musculoskeletal system in general.
True that! I usually don’t go over a trot on pavement, just because my horse just doesn’t seem to appreciate it. Also, it looks like she doesn’t have horse shoes, so it’s def hard on her feet.
The one thing they need to add to the game is foals that would so cool having wild foals and maybe even have your horse have a foal that would be so cool
unfortunately most rdr2 players believe that rockstar games has abandoned this game and that it is now a dead game:( apparently there’s a funeral on the 13th.
You actually missed a very important one! I don't know online, but when playing history-mode, as long as you bond with the horse if you pet him while galloping him, his running out energy will increase and it will last a longer time. It'll be a little bit if you're in a low-level bond, but it'll increase notably if you're in high or full-level bond, acting as the respect that horse has for the player and how it wants to please them. I find this one a very beautiful one. ~
It never occurred to me that red dead 2 makes such a good horse game, because I mostly focus on the hunting and the exploring part of the game, but seeing this video really helped me see, once again, how many kinds of players can enjoy this game. Very nice! I'll have to check some of these things myself next time I play, especially the petting.
The only one I didn’t know was that you could free wagon horses, this is some nice information tho to know more about horses on red dead even if it’s a mare or a stallion they’re still different from what personalities they have or breed they are. Really enjoyed this ❤️ c:
I think the only one that you missed and can even see in the video is a horse sweating. When you gallop and ride your horse a lot in RDR2 you can see white sweat at the end of your saddle.
When you do this bareback the sweat will form all across the horses back too. If I remember correctly, the area a saddle coveres won't have sweat even if you take the saddle off. Downright insane the amount of detail they have added for the horses alone.
Yay I knew most of the details, on the topic of horse personalities though, I had an Arabian once and was the best, I had read that Arabians were supposed to be spooked easily and difficult to handle in fights, but my girl was a champ, she easily ran through wolf packs and raids, sad I sold her cause my newer stallion does not like me one bit XD love the video!
I wiiiish, spent 1k on an arabian for it to run off at every instance. Getting back to camp in storymode the swamp way outside of saint denis was a nightmare with my arabian lol
@@trinityg8511 I never buy the Arabian, I always either tame the wild white one or I steal the black one in Saint Denis lol. But my first play through my white Arabian was so brave and she never once threw me.
A detail I noticed with the Wagon horses was they have pulling shoes on! If you free them and take them in the stables their horseshoes will disappear! They have the shoes on to help them pull the wagons easier!
Someone's probably brought this up but I expected the fact that horses actually have realistic body language to be mentioned because its super cool and is an actual useful and practical mechanic. If you want to loot a stranger's horse, especially bounty hunter horses, you can watch their ears and head and they'll actually start tossing their heads and moving their ears back as they get more and more agitated. They'll also do those little agitated steps like they're trying to move away.
I feel like the creators of RDR should create a horse game with JUST horses. There skills with making everything so well detailed could definitely be used in a horse game!!
@@Zimtwolke Well they’re the same company that made a table tennis game a few years back so it wouldn’t be too far fetched 😂 But yeah I agree, the market is pretty small for horse games anyway
If you gallop a horse consonantly (say Rhodes to Valentine, I think was when I figured this out) they will lather and sweat, this can be seen barely under the saddle, without a saddle, or even in their stalls at the stable, I think it’s a cool little detail :)
I was never fully sure about the horse personalities but that's neat! I had a shire as my first horse for RDO and he was a champ. I got rid of him after my second horse (Thoroughbred, I think) who spooked easily with gunfire so I decided to go back to a shire but the horse was maybe just as cowardly.🤣
Bro, the shire Hosea gives you is horrible! I love him (I named him Raven) But he is so skittish and I can barely control him when he gets agitated LOL
@@firefly_the_rescue9308 I believe his personality is autogenerated each play through as i have used him several times and he has been different on each.
Another detail about the personalities me and my friends noticed with our horses is that when stationary some are more fidgety than others and the way they fidget can vary! Some will kick the ground or shake their head more etc. Also the mechanic for walking backwards is the same to riding backwards on a real horse, pulling on the reins and kicking, another amazing attention to detail!
Theres this one detail that is my absolute favorite, i think its for collector role, at first if you want to pick flowers or any plant off the ground you'd have to pick it up yourself, BUT with the collector role as your leveling up, your horse can pick up any plant off the ground while you are mounting it instead of you getting off the horse and picking it up yourself, its just a cute little detail!
To add to the detail about NPC's complimenting your horse, that only happens with certain breeds. However, I have had other members of the gang compliment me on how well I take of my horse. (It's happened 3X, once with Charles and the other two I can't remember). I assume that's because always keep my horse well fed and groomed.
@@Insertnukeexplosion NPCs compliment Elite horses (Arabians) and multi-class horses, like MFT and Turkoman. A mustang is technically a multi-class horse, so it gets the compliments, too :)
One of the I think directors in charge of essentially making the horses come to life in RDR2 was married to a horsewoman and had a daughter who loves horses - i think it really shows that this game had input from real horse people! They’d ask people with horses to send them videos of horses galloping uphill to hear how they sounded, like how their breathing was laboured etc! It’s amazing
Additional small fun fact about player owned horses for both Singleplayer and Multiplayer: there's chance for players horse to lay down on it's own while being idle, for example when player is using or relaxing at wilderness camp or even simply being idle while off the horse Sadly as far as I know there's no way to trigger this faster, you'll have to wait for this one btw very nice video showing the details, keep up the good work and as somewhat veteran player (just only about 1k hours in this game overall... give or take) there was nothing new to learn for me
I think I knew all of these but one. I was kind of suspicious about the personalities because all of my horses act differently. My favorite is an Andalusian who's an absolute champ when hunting. A cougar caught me off guard---ran right on top of us---but he did not spook and run. Wish I could find this personality more often.
@@xxyouramy I believe you have to go onto online options, then select horses, can't remember exactly but there's privacy options so other players can't get onto your horse if you choose to set it that way, or you can do it so only posse members can access your horse. You probably have it set to no access to any other players 😊
Have you jumped on the #SaveRedDeadOnline campaign? Its a shame Rockstar is abandoning this masterpiece to focus on GTA, a celebration of the worst elements of society.
You mentioned one but there’s more to it! Horses poop yes, but their poop also changes depending on their health and condition, a skinny or sick (maybe obese too but not sure) horse will have runny poop whereas a healthy horse will have healthy looking poop, I absolutely LOVE this detail honestly just because how in depth it is and all
Your horse will pick herbs with its mouth too, instead of you having to get off and pick them by hand. Just stand over them and it should work, super cute.
I knew all of them, as I love red dead and I love horses even more- one of my favorite things is Arthur’s ability to do a flying lead change x’D he’s incredible at it! Also, as you bond with your horse, you can do little trick gates. My favorite one is “horse drifting “, which is just essentially having the horse walk sideways like the walking horses do In shows. Pretty cool! Also! I had a suspicion about the horses and their personality’s but I had no idea it was true! My thoroughbred Calypso is very antsy, and refuses jumps pretty often (although I’ve been practicing with her and surprisingly she’s getting better). Very scared of predators and gunfire. My American standardbred is a lot more brave and level headed, and she’s a natural at jumping. Super cool.
Wagon horses also have a different walk, they walk just like one would if it was pulling something, so they take smaller steps to attack the ground strongly and get grip.
The only one I didn't know was about the testies getting smaller. I also like that the hooves make different sounds on different things, i personally LOVE the sound of horse hooves so this is awesome to me. lol
Sadly you can’t have two horses out on online rdr2 expect for tamed ones, stolen npc horses, or a friends horse to annoy them if in a possy of course. If there’s a way to have two horses out on online mode, please tell me! Because I want to so badly.
I really wonder how many floats the developers put into these horses. As in how many values go up with specific interactions. I know bonding plays a big role even in how close your horse approaches you when you whistle. Level 1 horses tend to just stand put a little further away while Level 4 horses come a lot closer. One of my horses in online was super skittish around bears and wolves, bucking me off pretty fast if I didn‘t spam pat it and move away. Today it really doesn‘t care anymore, I can get in really close without much of a problem. The thing is this had nothing to do with the Level of bonding, because it was still the same at Level 4. I really wonder if there are some kind of hidden mechanics happening with just positive reenforcement or if I‘m imagining things.
IK I WASNT THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED THE PERSONALITY!!!!! Even if its with the same breed same gender and same color they all have there own little personality.
You forgot that there is another way to tame a horse. Actually, aproaching them in a different way. You can walking slowly towards and try to calm them. When you are closer, you can mount on them and start taming. But i don't know if we can get closer enough to pet them, give food and gain their trust without mount it.
All my life I've grown up around horses, I've been rolled on, stomped on, bit, kicked, had a horse deliberately stand on my foot refusing to move, crushed between a stall and a horse, with intent from the horse 😂 and finally yes I've stepped in it 😂‼️ when I see this in Rd2 and NPCS being dumb around horses I find it hilarious, thank you for another wonderful gift, Semper Fidelis, Oorah Carry On and Beyond ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😘😂😀💥💥💥💯💯💯‼️‼️‼️
I don't know why, but my horse will do a heavy neigh when i burn through her stamina but then realise that she does this at random does anyone know why?
Wagon horses or horses bought from the stables usually have horse shoes! Over time they will fall off one by one creating the horse to become bare-footed!
Another cool detail that's not only for horses but still a cool one is that if you're walking on rocky slopes, certain rocks will slide down the slopes as if they were kicked out of the way. It's very noticeable on horses so I figured it'd fit c:
I got RDR2 relatively late on a sale about a month ago and now I can't stop playing the game. It's just so beautiful and serene and then there's the horse system. They are so gorgeous looking and actually made me interested in learning more about real horses. An absolutely masterwork of a game this is. This vid right here makes me appreciate and praise the game and its realistic horse system even more.
The jump-to-horse feature in this game is also in the first game! You can fall from a height and land right on the saddle. First game doesn’t get enough credit for some of its features it had for 2010!
Проработка всех деталий в этой игре зашкаливает и проработка лошади мне очень нравится так как сама ездию верхом. Много узнала парод лошадей которых у нас нет.
With your “personality” one, I’ve noticed one trait that drove me a bit mad in the game. The man who races you on his horse (was it a nokota?) to various spots on the map, I remember that he shoots his horse for losing but, if you shoot him before he gets the chance and you take the horse, the horse is forever “skittish” and will constantly whinny and kick up like it’s scared no matter what. I was trying to hunt bears and took his horse from him as my temporary horse to hold more pelts and it was non-stop reacting to nothing, making me even more nervous that a bear or cougar was close by when it just wasn’t. 🤦♀️
@@lucasmartinez5703 I can’t even tell you how many times I aimed at it (even though I know I couldn’t kill it) and punched it in the arse for annoying me. I think I eventually just set it on fire or something, ‘cos it was driving me too insane. Edit: I’m not known to get mad and rage in games but this one horse was really trying me.
There’s one you missed horses will protect the rider if there is a snake or a. Cougar I am not lying it happened to me my horse booked it wen it got to close and then gallup and and chased it away
Speaking on the behaviors, 3 of my stables horses all buck me off when they see wolves, and they were all stolen, however my wild buckskin I tamed does not even spook at the wolves, it’s a awesome detail
I have a question about your video "barn tour". How did you get animals on this farm? I was there and there weren't any. And you can't use mods online, right?
Another thing I noticed is that if you gallop for an extended period of time while covering long distances on the map, your horse will actually produce lather. This is especially visible in darker horses and will disappear as they dry off or if you brush them 😁 I love this game so much!
"Unhitching" horses from wagons is only in single player game. Unfortunately not online. (At least it's not a selectable option) HOWEVER, online it is possible to free horse from wagons by having an accident/crash (unlevel ground/rocks, or dynamite in the right place... risking killing the horse, but I've freed several horses. Great way to check out a draft horse test ride before buying one)
I can confirm that the horses have personalities! I got a turkoman and i got it to level 4 bonding but it was a very skittish horse especially near gunshots and wildlife! With the smallest threat it was throwing me to the ground! So i decided to get another one just to try! I bought the same horse, same coat and both are females! The 2nd horse now at lv 3 bonding is fearless compared to the first! I was standing next to a bear and it didn't throw me down! Same with the wolves! :) i really find this fascinating
I remember once I had just tamed a wild Mustang and a pack of wolves attacked us, the Mustang bucked me off but my dear and loyal Paula did not flinch and I could mount and scape while shooting them off. Had she been more flinchy I would have been killed for sure.
I have something funny atm in my second playthrough of the story. I'm in chapter 2 atm and since I'm avoiding a certain Strauss mission ( people who played the whole story know what i'm talking about :D ) AND because I'm petty and therefor keeping Micah in jail for the moment, I'm pretty high in honor. So mayby it's because I'm high in honor so early in the game. Anyway; to keep a certain fate on the backburner for now, I'm doing some challenges and was working on the gambling challenges. Since playing a few hours poker emaciated my horse who was outside the saloon I brought him to the stable, so he would get his feed. PLayed poker for a few hours and went on to the next challenge. So I go outside the saloon and whistle my horse; completely forgetting I stabled him and so ofcourse he wasn't coming. But I didn't realise right away so I whistled a few times.....and what do you know; a chestnut horse that I didn't know came to me; no saddle or bridle, but that doesn't matter in the game anyway. So I hopped on and rode to the stable, sold the chestnut and got my own horse. But thats not even all; now every time Arthur spends some time in the saloon gambling that same chestnut is waiting for me outside the saloon. I think I sold him 4 times already. I don't know if it's my high honor that gave me somehow a strange horse to hop on without getting negative honor or being accused of stealing or it's some glitch that never happened my first playthrough, because during the first playthrough I always had my own horse waiting outside. But I'm not complaining; saves me alot of running to the stable to get my horse back; I now can simply ride on some friendly chestnut that seems to have a liking for Arthur. If it happens again I will keep him/her, because now I'm writing this I realise how faithfull that little chestnut is so now I feel a little guilty having him sold several times now :D
While it could be a glitch I'm pretty sure that's actually "Scraggy Nag", who is the game's backup horse should yours be unavailable (usually because it's been killed).
As far as I know rockstar used real horses as reference with these cgi dots they put on people and animals to catch their movements in the most realistic way possible (idk what they're called...)
one thing i have so far found to be true for all horses in the game is that they hate uncontrolled fires. shoot out a lantern and the structure it was on catching fire will lead to a panicked flight reaction (unless you're riding it, then it will just show its discomfort). same goes for burning bodies and pretty much any fire that isn'ta camp fire or lamp. also, you don't need to lasso a temporary horse to lead it. simply whistle for it and it will stay on your heels. it's a great help to make hunting trips more lucrative, as you can now carry two big game pelts. it usually makes more sense to ride the temporary horse and have your main horse follow though, as your main horse is usually faster and like that you don't risk accidentally taking off and leaving the other horse behind. also, every step riding a horse helps bonding with it.
I remember a playing with a friend of mine and he walked up on his horse. He didn't realize he needed to actually keep up his horse so I did it for him. Poor things head was basically dragging on the ground 😭
Its not super realistic but if you rank up enoigh in the collector role you can stay mounted while collecting wild flowrrs. Your horse will pick it up and give it to you, i find that super cute
These are some of the reasons I would like your fellow players not be able to hurt you so you could role play freely or at the least let you choose if you could be hurt or not because I would love to play and role play in this game but I don't like when people hurt me when I'm trying to role play
Horses drink too! Its not easy to see it but sometimes if you stop near water theyll go and drink. I saw horses in Valentine in the paddocks drink and mine too when i was hunting near a river
How many did you know? ♥
All cus im a pro🫂
All of them lol❤️
Only 8 because I dont play the game, I just watch videos of it lol
I knew most of them but it was just amazing how they make it so realistic I have never seen a game like rdr2
All of them, comes from 1500 hours of playtime
You can whistle a bonded horse and it will buck off a would-be horse thief. This is honestly one of my fave 'wild' encounters that happens from time to time in single player.
No wayyy😭 idk why I never thought to try this
Oh really, I need to remember this the next time I encounter a possible horse thief…I usually just lasso the rider and commit “totally family friendly content” against them or shoot them outright lol
from what i heard, this is borrowed from real-life too!
One thing I noticed today was that usually my horse, Spoon, stays where I leave him if I am wandering about on foot, but today when riding we came across a pretty gruesome scene, I got off to investigate and Spoon didn't stay put, he followed me until we had left the site behind. It reminded me of how pets sometimes look to their owners for comfort/protection in frightening situations.
You missed the part when you walk in mud, on stones, in snow or something you can actually see the hoof prints AND you can see the dirt falling from the hooves. Loved this video
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Или после воды как она стекает с лошади, очень хорошо видно особенно на снегу.
When looting horses, they are less likely to kick you when their body is relaxed, head down and not swishing their tails.
This mechanic is one of my favourites.
You can pat the horss and see its head drop as it relaxes. Looting horses is one of my favourite activities just because I enjoy watching and reading their body language.
The horses also pick up the correct leads when cantering and galloping! They also have flying changes when you change directions!
Yeah thats so pretty cool
When you ride your horse on paving or cobblestones (typically in St. Denis), no matter your speed, the cores of your steed will drain faster. This illustrates that this type of surface is not very suitable for horse's articulations and their musculoskeletal system in general.
True that! I usually don’t go over a trot on pavement, just because my horse just doesn’t seem to appreciate it. Also, it looks like she doesn’t have horse shoes, so it’s def hard on her feet.
Wow, really?! I never noticed that! :0 I swear, I learn something new about this game every day.
@LucasHFTheWolf Yeah, maybe it's like, a lower class western thing? Like maybe arthur cannonically can't afford horse shoes idk x'D
@@loonaq4406 there are Boadicea's horseshoe hanging on Arthur's hanging collection thingy.
I can remember when a NPC in red dead online said to me "That horse looks better than my wife!"
The one thing they need to add to the game is foals that would so cool having wild foals and maybe even have your horse have a foal that would be so cool
rumor has it that horse breeding was an activity they wanted to put in the game but ultimately didn't. :( Maybe in the next one...
I would looooove that!!
I'd love that for online if you purchase a ranch. That'd be so amazing!
unfortunately most rdr2 players believe that rockstar games has abandoned this game and that it is now a dead game:( apparently there’s a funeral on the 13th.
Yup
You actually missed a very important one! I don't know online, but when playing history-mode, as long as you bond with the horse if you pet him while galloping him, his running out energy will increase and it will last a longer time. It'll be a little bit if you're in a low-level bond, but it'll increase notably if you're in high or full-level bond, acting as the respect that horse has for the player and how it wants to please them. I find this one a very beautiful one. ~
Works in online too. You can basically gallop for infinity if you have a good horse and a good bond
@@SuperSkyhorse Online also has the nachodoches saddle, which makes it impossible to run out of stamina, even on the lowest quality horse
did you just call story mode history mode
@@SamiKhan-ky6rb Aight, story mode*. I'm sorry I'm not english, I am spanish. Sorry abt that.
It never occurred to me that red dead 2 makes such a good horse game, because I mostly focus on the hunting and the exploring part of the game, but seeing this video really helped me see, once again, how many kinds of players can enjoy this game. Very nice! I'll have to check some of these things myself next time I play, especially the petting.
you said it, exploration is a big thing in the game and the main "tool" for that is your horse
The only one I didn’t know was that you could free wagon horses, this is some nice information tho to know more about horses on red dead even if it’s a mare or a stallion they’re still different from what personalities they have or breed they are. Really enjoyed this ❤️ c:
I don't know if you knew this, but you can only free wagon horses in story mode, not in Red Dead Online.
@@Saturdag i noticed
It means you never played story mode
Because there is a mission where the game teaches you how to free a horse from a wagon
@@crnoman9408 I got Story Mode 2 weeks ago and finished it I didn’t know that you could free a horse before because I didn’t have it
I think the only one that you missed and can even see in the video is a horse sweating. When you gallop and ride your horse a lot in RDR2 you can see white sweat at the end of your saddle.
When you do this bareback the sweat will form all across the horses back too.
If I remember correctly, the area a saddle coveres won't have sweat even if you take the saddle off.
Downright insane the amount of detail they have added for the horses alone.
Yay I knew most of the details, on the topic of horse personalities though, I had an Arabian once and was the best, I had read that Arabians were supposed to be spooked easily and difficult to handle in fights, but my girl was a champ, she easily ran through wolf packs and raids, sad I sold her cause my newer stallion does not like me one bit XD love the video!
I wiiiish, spent 1k on an arabian for it to run off at every instance. Getting back to camp in storymode the swamp way outside of saint denis was a nightmare with my arabian lol
@@trinityg8511 oh my I can imagine, that's how my new horse is, can't go anywhere at night lol
@@trinityg8511 I never buy the Arabian, I always either tame the wild white one or I steal the black one in Saint Denis lol. But my first play through my white Arabian was so brave and she never once threw me.
A detail I noticed with the Wagon horses was they have pulling shoes on! If you free them and take them in the stables their horseshoes will disappear! They have the shoes on to help them pull the wagons easier!
Someone's probably brought this up but I expected the fact that horses actually have realistic body language to be mentioned because its super cool and is an actual useful and practical mechanic. If you want to loot a stranger's horse, especially bounty hunter horses, you can watch their ears and head and they'll actually start tossing their heads and moving their ears back as they get more and more agitated. They'll also do those little agitated steps like they're trying to move away.
I feel like the creators of RDR should create a horse game with JUST horses. There skills with making everything so well detailed could definitely be used in a horse game!!
Great idea!
I aaaaalways say this, but I think it doesnt fit the image of Rockstar 😅
@@Zimtwolke Well they’re the same company that made a table tennis game a few years back so it wouldn’t be too far fetched 😂 But yeah I agree, the market is pretty small for horse games anyway
If you gallop a horse consonantly (say Rhodes to Valentine, I think was when I figured this out) they will lather and sweat, this can be seen barely under the saddle, without a saddle, or even in their stalls at the stable, I think it’s a cool little detail :)
I was never fully sure about the horse personalities but that's neat! I had a shire as my first horse for RDO and he was a champ. I got rid of him after my second horse (Thoroughbred, I think) who spooked easily with gunfire so I decided to go back to a shire but the horse was maybe just as cowardly.🤣
Bro, the shire Hosea gives you is horrible! I love him (I named him Raven) But he is so skittish and I can barely control him when he gets agitated LOL
@@firefly_the_rescue9308 I believe his personality is autogenerated each play through as i have used him several times and he has been different on each.
Tamed horses in the City are wearing horseshoes, the wild ones of course not :)
Another detail about the personalities me and my friends noticed with our horses is that when stationary some are more fidgety than others and the way they fidget can vary! Some will kick the ground or shake their head more etc.
Also the mechanic for walking backwards is the same to riding backwards on a real horse, pulling on the reins and kicking, another amazing attention to detail!
small detail but,
the players actually lean back and forth when going up and down hills
Theres this one detail that is my absolute favorite, i think its for collector role, at first if you want to pick flowers or any plant off the ground you'd have to pick it up yourself, BUT with the collector role as your leveling up, your horse can pick up any plant off the ground while you are mounting it instead of you getting off the horse and picking it up yourself, its just a cute little detail!
To add to the detail about NPC's complimenting your horse, that only happens with certain breeds. However, I have had other members of the gang compliment me on how well I take of my horse. (It's happened 3X, once with Charles and the other two I can't remember). I assume that's because always keep my horse well fed and groomed.
so do I and they never said anything! D:
@@Insertnukeexplosion NPCs compliment Elite horses (Arabians) and multi-class horses, like MFT and Turkoman. A mustang is technically a multi-class horse, so it gets the compliments, too :)
One of the I think directors in charge of essentially making the horses come to life in RDR2 was married to a horsewoman and had a daughter who loves horses - i think it really shows that this game had input from real horse people! They’d ask people with horses to send them videos of horses galloping uphill to hear how they sounded, like how their breathing was laboured etc! It’s amazing
I always free wagon horses after I’ve robbed and killed the driver, I may kill and rob people, but I have enough good manners to free the horses.
Additional small fun fact about player owned horses for both Singleplayer and Multiplayer:
there's chance for players horse to lay down on it's own while being idle, for example when player is using or relaxing at wilderness camp or even simply being idle while off the horse
Sadly as far as I know there's no way to trigger this faster, you'll have to wait for this one
btw very nice video showing the details, keep up the good work
and as somewhat veteran player (just only about 1k hours in this game overall... give or take) there was nothing new to learn for me
I think I knew all of these but one. I was kind of suspicious about the personalities because all of my horses act differently. My favorite is an Andalusian who's an absolute champ when hunting. A cougar caught me off guard---ran right on top of us---but he did not spook and run. Wish I could find this personality more often.
I knew them all. I’m a die hard red dead fan ❤️
We're two! I also pointed out a horse detail she missed! A pretty cool one. ~
how do another player go on my hourse it dont work
Same here! Apart from the testicle thing... Lol
@@xxyouramy I believe you have to go onto online options, then select horses, can't remember exactly but there's privacy options so other players can't get onto your horse if you choose to set it that way, or you can do it so only posse members can access your horse. You probably have it set to no access to any other players 😊
@@michaiahvanmuysen2354 I don’t know why I checked but I knew it
they also salivate/drool when they are running and getting tired it's easier to see it if you have a collector lantern on ur saddle
i almost peed my self watching this is swear 🤣 first the shrinking balls then you "dispatching" that one dude like i cant 🤣🤣🤣🤣
An other detail I love is how the sound of hoofsteps change depending on the ground you’re walking on.
Have you jumped on the #SaveRedDeadOnline campaign? Its a shame Rockstar is abandoning this masterpiece to focus on GTA, a celebration of the worst elements of society.
You forgot when you run and jump on the frozen lakes up in the mountains you can hear the ice cracking and moving. It’s pretty cool.
I love when game developers take the time to make horses realistic! This is one of the things I love about this game.
You mentioned one but there’s more to it! Horses poop yes, but their poop also changes depending on their health and condition, a skinny or sick (maybe obese too but not sure) horse will have runny poop whereas a healthy horse will have healthy looking poop, I absolutely LOVE this detail honestly just because how in depth it is and all
Also I knew twenty three of them! :)
Your horse will pick herbs with its mouth too, instead of you having to get off and pick them by hand. Just stand over them and it should work, super cute.
That is a great feature, and it's quicker than my character picking herbs. To get it you need to level up one of the roles, I think naturalist.
@@lonestarbuckeye6889 It’s the collectors role!
I knew all of them, as I love red dead and I love horses even more- one of my favorite things is Arthur’s ability to do a flying lead change x’D he’s incredible at it! Also, as you bond with your horse, you can do little trick gates. My favorite one is “horse drifting “, which is just essentially having the horse walk sideways like the walking horses do In shows. Pretty cool!
Also! I had a suspicion about the horses and their personality’s but I had no idea it was true! My thoroughbred Calypso is very antsy, and refuses jumps pretty often (although I’ve been practicing with her and surprisingly she’s getting better). Very scared of predators and gunfire. My American standardbred is a lot more brave and level headed, and she’s a natural at jumping. Super cool.
Amazing video! I actually didin't know all of them which is pretty cool! I especially like the personality one ^^
Wagon horses also have a different walk, they walk just like one would if it was pulling something, so they take smaller steps to attack the ground strongly and get grip.
2:34 oh the physics are oh so realistic
The only one I didn't know was about the testies getting smaller. I also like that the hooves make different sounds on different things, i personally LOVE the sound of horse hooves so this is awesome to me. lol
Sadly you can’t have two horses out on online rdr2 expect for tamed ones, stolen npc horses, or a friends horse to annoy them if in a possy of course. If there’s a way to have two horses out on online mode, please tell me! Because I want to so badly.
You also missed the feature that if you try and run your horse into a rock, it will avoid it
The dark bay turkoman has to be my favorite horse in this game.
couple years late but one of my favourite details is how the horses get foamy around the saddle after you really push them in a gallop for a while :-)
I really wonder how many floats the developers put into these horses. As in how many values go up with specific interactions. I know bonding plays a big role even in how close your horse approaches you when you whistle. Level 1 horses tend to just stand put a little further away while Level 4 horses come a lot closer.
One of my horses in online was super skittish around bears and wolves, bucking me off pretty fast if I didn‘t spam pat it and move away. Today it really doesn‘t care anymore, I can get in really close without much of a problem. The thing is this had nothing to do with the Level of bonding, because it was still the same at Level 4. I really wonder if there are some kind of hidden mechanics happening with just positive reenforcement or if I‘m imagining things.
IK I WASNT THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED THE PERSONALITY!!!!! Even if its with the same breed same gender and same color they all have there own little personality.
You forgot that there is another way to tame a horse. Actually, aproaching them in a different way. You can walking slowly towards and try to calm them. When you are closer, you can mount on them and start taming. But i don't know if we can get closer enough to pet them, give food and gain their trust without mount it.
My fun fact is that the best mount in RDR1 Online is the Zonkey, a donkey painted like a zebra!
Abi you also missed one. When too horses get too close they pin their ears.
All my life I've grown up around horses, I've been rolled on, stomped on, bit, kicked, had a horse deliberately stand on my foot refusing to move, crushed between a stall and a horse, with intent from the horse 😂 and finally yes I've stepped in it 😂‼️ when I see this in Rd2 and NPCS being dumb around horses I find it hilarious, thank you for another wonderful gift, Semper Fidelis, Oorah Carry On and Beyond ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😘😂😀💥💥💥💯💯💯‼️‼️‼️
I don't know why, but my horse will do a heavy neigh when i burn through her stamina but then realise that she does this at random
does anyone know why?
Wagon horses or horses bought from the stables usually have horse shoes! Over time they will fall off one by one creating the horse to become bare-footed!
Another cool detail that's not only for horses but still a cool one is that if you're walking on rocky slopes, certain rocks will slide down the slopes as if they were kicked out of the way. It's very noticeable on horses so I figured it'd fit c:
The black wild horse was gorgeous
Where do you get the draft up the paint that one’s really pretty please do a video about it
21/25, and ive only had the game a week! Im enjoying hunting and riding, and occasionally taking on quests
I got RDR2 relatively late on a sale about a month ago and now I can't stop playing the game. It's just so beautiful and serene and then there's the horse system. They are so gorgeous looking and actually made me interested in learning more about real horses. An absolutely masterwork of a game this is. This vid right here makes me appreciate and praise the game and its realistic horse system even more.
what is the name of the game because I have been wanting to spell this for 5 years and I can you say the name plssssssssssssss
workers for RDR2: ''how realistic you want this to be, manager?''
Manager: ''yes.''
Wild horses don't have horseshoes but npc broken horses have :D
The jump-to-horse feature in this game is also in the first game! You can fall from a height and land right on the saddle. First game doesn’t get enough credit for some of its features it had for 2010!
I always try to get dishonorable in RDO but always gets honorable maxed out back when I am taking care of the horses.
Branding???! Station +mare=baby
Проработка всех деталий в этой игре зашкаливает и проработка лошади мне очень нравится так как сама ездию верхом. Много узнала парод лошадей которых у нас нет.
With your “personality” one, I’ve noticed one trait that drove me a bit mad in the game. The man who races you on his horse (was it a nokota?) to various spots on the map, I remember that he shoots his horse for losing but, if you shoot him before he gets the chance and you take the horse, the horse is forever “skittish” and will constantly whinny and kick up like it’s scared no matter what. I was trying to hunt bears and took his horse from him as my temporary horse to hold more pelts and it was non-stop reacting to nothing, making me even more nervous that a bear or cougar was close by when it just wasn’t. 🤦♀️
So horses can get traumatized in this game too? Wow.
@@lucasmartinez5703 I can’t even tell you how many times I aimed at it (even though I know I couldn’t kill it) and punched it in the arse for annoying me. I think I eventually just set it on fire or something, ‘cos it was driving me too insane.
Edit: I’m not known to get mad and rage in games but this one horse was really trying me.
Jesus Christ you could have just told it to flee or something lol.
@@lucasmartinez5703 But then it comes back when I whistle for my regular horse! What’s a girl to do? 🤷♀️
I LOVE THE RED DEAD VIDS ❤️ keep ‘em coming Abi! Literally you are the best gaming UA-camr
RDO horses = chef kiss honestly o-o
This!!! ♥
you can see the breth in cold wether in star stable
Seeing all these amazing horse games,I’m starting to think that star stable could’ve done better! 😂 not hating on them I’m just saying
They can! Rn they are giving us more horses just so that they can get more money
There’s one you missed horses will protect the rider if there is a snake or a. Cougar I am not lying it happened to me my horse booked it wen it got to close and then gallup and and chased it away
Speaking on the behaviors, 3 of my stables horses all buck me off when they see wolves, and they were all stolen, however my wild buckskin I tamed does not even spook at the wolves, it’s a awesome detail
How do you remove your saddle in both rdr online and red dead 2 ??
I have a question about your video "barn tour". How did you get animals on this farm? I was there and there weren't any. And you can't use mods online, right?
You can only free the wagon horses In the story mode. Not online
You can free them online too
@@nicoleevans128 how? I’ve always tried but never get the option
@@CamelliaWictorin I want to say I accidentally shot them free. But maybe it was on story mode. I dont think so because I never play story.
Another thing I noticed is that if you gallop for an extended period of time while covering long distances on the map, your horse will actually produce lather. This is especially visible in darker horses and will disappear as they dry off or if you brush them 😁 I love this game so much!
I galloped past a person yesterday and they killed me and my fav horse :((( at least it wasn’t my white arab😂😂 edit: I got 19 Xx
i wish rockstar would make a game like this but from the early midages with knights and so on
How do you make yourself a girl in the game? Is it an online thing?
Mods or online
People doing this are hypocrites. The want wagon horses to be freed but continuously ride their horse without breaks, etc.
7:39 Not only that but at times they will tilt their heads towards you while brushing, patting, etc. :)
"Unhitching" horses from wagons is only in single player game. Unfortunately not online. (At least it's not a selectable option)
HOWEVER, online it is possible to free horse from wagons by having an accident/crash (unlevel ground/rocks, or dynamite in the right place... risking killing the horse, but I've freed several horses. Great way to check out a draft horse test ride before buying one)
what weirds me out slightly is how male horses have detailed genatilia... and mares have JUST an anus
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I can confirm that the horses have personalities! I got a turkoman and i got it to level 4 bonding but it was a very skittish horse especially near gunshots and wildlife! With the smallest threat it was throwing me to the ground! So i decided to get another one just to try! I bought the same horse, same coat and both are females! The 2nd horse now at lv 3 bonding is fearless compared to the first! I was standing next to a bear and it didn't throw me down! Same with the wolves! :) i really find this fascinating
Love it when your kust standing next to your horse taking I the view then you hear "pfffrrrrrrrrt"
I remember once I had just tamed a wild Mustang and a pack of wolves attacked us, the Mustang bucked me off but my dear and loyal Paula did not flinch and I could mount and scape while shooting them off. Had she been more flinchy I would have been killed for sure.
I have something funny atm in my second playthrough of the story. I'm in chapter 2 atm and since I'm avoiding a certain Strauss mission ( people who played the whole story know what i'm talking about :D ) AND because I'm petty and therefor keeping Micah in jail for the moment, I'm pretty high in honor. So mayby it's because I'm high in honor so early in the game. Anyway; to keep a certain fate on the backburner for now, I'm doing some challenges and was working on the gambling challenges. Since playing a few hours poker emaciated my horse who was outside the saloon I brought him to the stable, so he would get his feed. PLayed poker for a few hours and went on to the next challenge. So I go outside the saloon and whistle my horse; completely forgetting I stabled him and so ofcourse he wasn't coming. But I didn't realise right away so I whistled a few times.....and what do you know; a chestnut horse that I didn't know came to me; no saddle or bridle, but that doesn't matter in the game anyway. So I hopped on and rode to the stable, sold the chestnut and got my own horse. But thats not even all; now every time Arthur spends some time in the saloon gambling that same chestnut is waiting for me outside the saloon. I think I sold him 4 times already. I don't know if it's my high honor that gave me somehow a strange horse to hop on without getting negative honor or being accused of stealing or it's some glitch that never happened my first playthrough, because during the first playthrough I always had my own horse waiting outside. But I'm not complaining; saves me alot of running to the stable to get my horse back; I now can simply ride on some friendly chestnut that seems to have a liking for Arthur. If it happens again I will keep him/her, because now I'm writing this I realise how faithfull that little chestnut is so now I feel a little guilty having him sold several times now :D
While it could be a glitch I'm pretty sure that's actually "Scraggy Nag", who is the game's backup horse should yours be unavailable (usually because it's been killed).
As far as I know rockstar used real horses as reference with these cgi dots they put on people and animals to catch their movements in the most realistic way possible (idk what they're called...)
They bought the mocap data from a company that specializes in capturing anatomical data for film, simulation and medical/veterinary research.
one thing i have so far found to be true for all horses in the game is that they hate uncontrolled fires. shoot out a lantern and the structure it was on catching fire will lead to a panicked flight reaction (unless you're riding it, then it will just show its discomfort). same goes for burning bodies and pretty much any fire that isn'ta camp fire or lamp.
also, you don't need to lasso a temporary horse to lead it. simply whistle for it and it will stay on your heels. it's a great help to make hunting trips more lucrative, as you can now carry two big game pelts. it usually makes more sense to ride the temporary horse and have your main horse follow though, as your main horse is usually faster and like that you don't risk accidentally taking off and leaving the other horse behind. also, every step riding a horse helps bonding with it.
I want this came soooo bad but its like 50 bucks :,)
I asked my mom and she said she'll try to get it before the -50% offer ends :>
I remember a playing with a friend of mine and he walked up on his horse. He didn't realize he needed to actually keep up his horse so I did it for him. Poor things head was basically dragging on the ground 😭
It isn't just expensive horses. I got a ton of NPC compliments from a Grullo Dun Mustang found in the heartlands.
Its not super realistic but if you rank up enoigh in the collector role you can stay mounted while collecting wild flowrrs. Your horse will pick it up and give it to you, i find that super cute
I really want a horse like in the 6:50 video, but when I install it, her body disappears, but only her eyes, mane and tail remain..could you help?
These are some of the reasons I would like your fellow players not be able to hurt you so you could role play freely or at the least let you choose if you could be hurt or not because I would love to play and role play in this game but I don't like when people hurt me when I'm trying to role play
I keep on killing others for their horses so....
I got 300$ bounty CONSTANTLY
First!!! Love youre videos!!
Horses drink too! Its not easy to see it but sometimes if you stop near water theyll go and drink. I saw horses in Valentine in the paddocks drink and mine too when i was hunting near a river