

But from top to bottom, Red Dead 2 seems to care very little about controls that many people would deem clunky or obnoxious, almost by design, so I’m not going to hold my breath for this to happen. With most games I would say that if enough fuss is made about a certain system being annoying, a developer might choose to patch it in later as an option. Rockstar says that if you tap in a more rhythmic motion rather than just mashing the button as fast as you can, you will sprint better, but even doing this, you still have to do it pretty quickly, and very, very often.

While you can change tap register speed in accessibly options, I believe this is only for quicktime events (escape the grapple!) and it does not affect how fast you have to tap to sprint. I am not clear on why there is no option to change sprint to something other than mashing the run button, as this remains one of the most baffling decisions in the game. It does however allow you to “fast crouch walk” on a toggle as well, which I just realized.
