Rust has a 'horse shield' meta problem, so one enterprising player has come up with a 'horse baiting' meta to fix it

If you play Rust then the mere sight of the words "horse shield" probably have you gnashing your teeth and cursing the cheap no-gooders who rely on it. The whole thing is very simple. Ride a horse, equip a shield, and players on-foot have almost no chance against you.

Facepunch has already taken steps to address this on the game's staging branch, but for now it remains an issue in vanilla Rust. Cometh the hour, cometh the man: Take a bow, Rust YouTuber Fyx, who has, erm, fyxed the issue in their own inimitable way. They turned the horse into bait.

Necessary context here is that, while horses do spawn in the wild in Rust, and can be tamed with a saddle, and the fastest way to get one is to buy one at a Ranch. This is also the easiest way to get a thoroughbred (the fastest kind of horse). In other words, horses are valuable and desirable things in the world of Rust, and one just standing around with no rider is one hell of a temptation.

This is what Fyx relies on, and they've come up with four different methods of using the horse as bait to tempt players, who then get an extremely nasty surprise. Fair warning: a lot of videogame horses were harmed in the making of this YouTube v...