I'm wondering why Rockstar never implemented swimming physics in Red Dead Redemption 1, as you can see in this clip; John's clothes can get fully wet when he gets submerged in water, almost as if they left this detail intentionally

John Marston canonically cannot swim

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I really think they just made Jon canonically not being able to swim just cause

It is due to the map design. Some parts of the map is blocked by lakes and river and they did not want you to be able to see the invisible wall.

Swimming was not invented until 1915

There really is no point to swimming in the first red dead. So they must have omitted it cause it did not serve any gaming purpose. Clothes getting wet is an added detail to general wetness, even rain.

NPCs can also get wet. Just because John can also get wet doesn't mean Rockstar thought about making him being able to swim.

Bro must've forgotten that it can rain in game and get the character wet just like this.

Allow the player to swim add a lot of constrain in a video game ( specially in a open world). But you can easely detect if a player is "submerged in water" and change some value in the player shader. :)

They obsess over little details. Of course they're gonna allow him to get wet. Don't forget it rains in the game too. This has little to do with swimming or no swimming.

John cannot swim

prob so you cant get to the far away lands

Because he can't swim?

Problems with swimming across the Rio Grande into Mexico too early in the game

It’s how they prevent you to go to other parts of the map early.

Our initial plan included enabling swimming, we faced some unavoidable constraints that necessitated prioritizing other core functionalities for our release schedule. Regrettably, this feature was deferred to ensure we met our project deadline.

probably due to when it rained

Because he can't swim duh

probably they had the idea for it back on 2011 but it wasn't ready until max payne 3

I come from a long line of seafaring men, and no one knew how to swim till like 1988

Cause it’s boring

they'll fully wet when raining so...

Uh,it rains?

He just can't swim. Some characters have this flaw.

Why would his clothes getting wet be relevant?

- John doesn't know how to swim

Canonically John can’t swim In reality, they didn’t want you hitting the game map border so they surround every place they don’t want you to be with water

You do know that it rains in that game right?

you got it wrong, they implemented the physics, john just cant swim.

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