Red Dead Redemption 2 Player Discovers Impressive Combat Detail After 4 Years

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Red Dead Redemption 2 is absolutely chock-full of minute details that often go unnoticed. Players have made discoveries and marveled at how much thought went into making the world of Red Dead Redemption 2 feel real and lived in, and it seems as though new findings are made all the time.

One player has now noticed a particularly interesting detail while engaging in combat in the game. What could have been an easily forgotten moment became a memorable one when an enemy NPC landed a particularly good shot.

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In a clip shared on Reddit, Illusivechris0452 shares the moment an NPC surprised them. Arthur is sitting in a boat and is about to enter a fight when the clip begins. However, Arthur has a low Dead Eye gauge, so Illusivechris0452 goes through their inventory and pulls out a tonic to restore Dead Eye. Arthur quickly takes a swig, as one would expect, but the moment of surprise comes when one of the enemy NPCs takes a shot that causes the tonic bottle to explode.

The likelihood of this happening seems to be pretty low, as many in the comments shared their surprise to see it happen. Drinking one of Red Dead Redemption 2's craftable tonics at just the right moment for it to be shot is a rare enough circumstance that it would have been easy for Rockstar to simply treat it like using an item from one's inventory in any other game, perhaps even placing the player in a state of temporary invincibility while in the animation. However, it chose this route instead, once again adding a shocking level of realism to the game.

Although fans of Rockstar Games are champing at the bit for a new entry in the Grand Theft Auto or Red Dead Redemption franchises, it's easy to