In the online mode of Red Dead Redemption 2, Red Dead Online, some of your human players are targeting your horses. Here’s how you can make life difficult for horse thieves.
In Red Dead Online, you explore the vast map of Red Dead Redemption 2 with other players. You complete story missions, participate in events, or try your luck in various PvP modes. However, your human players are not always friendly and occasionally try to snag your horse right from under your nose.
Fortunately, with a small setting, you can easily prevent this.
Small setting secures your horse
This is what it’s about: In the world of Red Dead Online, you can interact with other players almost as you would with NPCs in the single player of RDR 2. You can rob them, engage in wild fistfights, or simply shoot them down. These features await you in online mode.
Some particularly nasty trolls even encourage like-minded players to steal the unsuspecting outlaws’ beloved horses from behind.
Fortunately, there is an option in the online settings to protect your horses and leave the thieves looking foolish.
Where do I find the option? In online mode, press left on the D-pad to access the free roam menu. Under the “Stable” section, you can access a lot of information about your horse and find the option to protect the animal from thieves. A good system, since players are already complaining about griefers in RDO.
Under “Stable,” you will find the options “Access to Horse” and “Allow Leading.” If you set “Access to Horse” to only allow you to ride it, other players can get on your horse or jump from another horse onto your animal, but they won’t get very far.
Your horse will not move an inch with another player on it if you have this option enabled. If your horse gets fed up, it will even try to throw off the intruder. Alternatively, you can also manually force other players to get off your animal with the “Dismount” option.
Remember to also change the “Allow Leading” option. Otherwise, thieves will try to simply run off with your horse.
By the way: Even if you have set both options to only allow you access to your steed, other players can still interact with it. Feeding and petting other horses is still possible with these settings.
But beware of particularly sinister characters: Players are already being warned in the Red Dead Redemption 2 subreddit about those who kill horses simply if they cannot steal them. Arthur Morgan is surely not the only one who sheds a few tears at the death of a beloved horse.
