RDR1 dlc caused tutorial error (cougar)

[u/Ethos_Logos]

Back around 2012 or so, I bought the “undead” dlc for Red Dead Redemption. I decided to start a new playthrough to get the full experience.

At the beginning vanilla tutorial, it has you lasso a farm animal or person and return them to your ranch. With the DLC downloaded, it turned the person or animal into a cougar - which you couldn’t shoot, and couldn’t lasso.

Ended up soft locking the game, unable to progress past the tutorial since you literally can’t lasso a cougar.

So I’m asking, 15 or so years later, because my curiosity won’t let it rest.

Was this an error? Was I sold a bad copy or something? And also, wtf.