Why can't I shoot my horse??!

[Ghostryderflyby]

I'm playing a paragon, trying to do right by folk, ain't startin no trouble, ain't ruffin folks up, treatin my kin with kindness etc. But DAMN I WANT TO SHOOT MY HORSE! Bought some fancy $405 dutch mare or some crap in Valentine and the thing is in a proverbial state of FTFO, with no amount of calming, brushing, feeding etc calming it down. I can tie it up in camp, feed it, hug it whatever and it's still FTFO, so I go sleep for 6 hours or 6 days, don't matter, come back and it's still FTFO. I seriously want to shoot it but the damn game won't let me!

[channel 27]

Ride it off a cliff !

[Banzai]

Don't know about shooting, but sometimes I really do wish there was a "punch horse in the head" button. I try to treat it well and be kind, but they are so unrealistically skittish and unreliable. I'm hoping better quality horses in late game are better but i'm not getting my hopes up lol.

[Askindale]

Originally posted by Banzai:

Don't know about shooting, but sometimes I really do wish there was a "punch horse in the head" button. I try to treat it well and be kind, but they are so unrealistically skittish and unreliable. I'm hoping better quality horses in late game are better but i'm not getting my hopes up lol.

press F near them, there you go.

[Banzai]

I meant while riding it, but yeah that could work too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8cDfnQD0ws

[Ihateeverybody]

Wait....people buy horses? I mean, they are all over the place.

Originally posted by Askindale:

press F near them, there you go.

I have done this so many times. I blame My Time at Sandrock because F is the default for mounting steeds in that game.

[Ghostryderflyby]

Originally posted by Ihateeverybody:

Wait....people buy horses? I mean, they are all over the place.

When you're early in the game and don't have enough stamina to hang onto the damn horse you do. I've since been able to catch them, but at that point my horse had been killed by wolves and I needed a horse and couldn't hang onto them yet, so I bought one and it gave me buyers remorse. ;)

[Ellorien]

What do you mean by “can’t hang onto the damn horse,” exactly? Why do you need stamina? The only horse I’ve ever bought in this game was a rose gray Arabian in the Epilogue. All my other horses were either tamed (starting with the white Arabian right after the mission with Hosea) or stolen. And they were the best horses in the whole game.

[Rusalka]

When you get to lvl 4 bonding, if the horse is freaking out, it's because you've let the cores get low or you haven't calmed it. Horse "personality" is identical for each, it's all programmed the same, and it's very generous, despite people like Juice claiming Arabians are worse.

[Jeff]

Trains can be efficient in removing a horse if you didn't want to just sell it.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Best way to send that brown generic replacement horse to hell is by placing dynamite at his feet, then ignite and run. Or get some distance from it and then shoot the stick of dynamite with scoped rifle.

Here is a screenshot of me using dynamite on my horse, just goofing around...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2406450496

[Junebug]

He's been playing so much Red Dead that he's actually starting to talk like Arthur

[Ghostryderflyby]

Originally posted by Ellorien:

What do you mean by “can’t hang onto the damn horse,” exactly? Why do you need stamina?

Your base stamina has to be high enough that when you lasso a horse, you can hang onto the rope as you move up on the horse (that is trying to get away) to mount it and then tame it. If you don't have enough stamina (and you don't early in the game), then the horse breaks loose and gets away.

[Ellorien]

Originally posted by Ghostryderflyby:

Originally posted by Ellorien:

What do you mean by “can’t hang onto the damn horse,” exactly? Why do you need stamina?

Your base stamina has to be high enough that when you lasso a horse, you can hang onto the rope as you move up on the horse (that is trying to get away) to mount it and then tame it. If you don't have enough stamina (and you don't early in the game), then the horse breaks loose and gets away.

You don’t need your lasso to tame horses. Ever. On PC you right click to focus on the horse. Move towards it, “call” it and periodically press G to calm the horse until you are close enough to just mount it. Use the corresponding buttons on your controller if you play on console.
I repeat, you do not need stamina at all because you do not need your lasso. I haven’t used lasso even once and I easily tamed dozens of horses. I buy a Morgan for $15 for the quest with Hosea and go for the white Arabian right after killing the bear. Literally takes one minute or less to tame the most skittish horse.

[Ghostryderflyby]

You and I have had a very different experience in this game then. I have tried calling horses and they ALWAYS immediately run away, with no chance to calm them. Moot point now, I have enough stamina to lasso and hang onto them now. Just not back when I bought the horse this post was about.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You can tame a horse as early as the game allows without the lasso method.

By getting off your horse (if on one) and move up on the other horse in a calm fashion while crouching helps. If the horse starts to get agitated then press button when avail on-screen to calm in, all while moving close enough to mount it. If it helps you you can use lasso, but early in the game you'd need to get closer before you lasso it. If on horse-back and you do that be careful as your horse could collide with the other horse.

Later on (around mid Chapter 2) you should have been able to upgrade your Stamina enough to where you can always use the lasso method. Not just to snag horses but also hunted game such as; deer, buck, elk, moose, ram, pig, boar, sheep, goat, cow, bull.

You can also use the lasso to move dead game (before skinned) and even move ones you can't pickup, such as a bear. This can help as some situations might have it going into the water. As long as water isn't deep you can lasso it and bring it into where it's easier for you to skin.

Captured game via lasso is the best way to stealth kill it and retain the pelt quality. As once you reel yourself in close enough, you have kill option which is a clean kill with knife to the neck.