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Slow Mounts
Khumbu
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Someone else brought this issue up in another thread, but it serves as confirmation that it isn’t just all in my head.
The mount speed appears to have recently been nerfed! I have multiple 60% speed characters and now my mounts go on a lazy jog even with sprint AND the pvp skill on. It honestly frustrates me more than the combat bugs because I’ve gotten what I’ve wanted out of current trials and am 100%ing the world for fun, AKA the game is already a horse riding simulator.
If these changes were made to improve server health it’s understandable but if not, is it possible to give our poor old nags a little kick with the spurs so they remember how to actually sprint again?
The mount speed appears to have recently been nerfed! I have multiple 60% speed characters and now my mounts go on a lazy jog even with sprint AND the pvp skill on. It honestly frustrates me more than the combat bugs because I’ve gotten what I’ve wanted out of current trials and am 100%ing the world for fun, AKA the game is already a horse riding simulator.
If these changes were made to improve server health it’s understandable but if not, is it possible to give our poor old nags a little kick with the spurs so they remember how to actually sprint again?
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Lysette✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭you need riding stamina as well now - if the bar for horse stamina is down your mount will fall back to normal speed now. This has changed to before, where you could ride at full speed endlessly as long as you held the sprint button down.1 -
Khumbu✭✭✭you need riding stamina as well now - if the bar for horse stamina is down your mount will fall back to normal speed now. This has changed to before, where you could ride at full speed endlessly as long as you held the sprint button down.
The characters I’ve noticed it on have all 3 bars maxed and I’ve been careful to recharge sprint after they’ve fixed the infinite bug (rip).Edited by Khumbu on March 13, 2020 1:20PM1 -
CMDR_Un1k0rn✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Rapids. Easy to get as you literally need to earn only 1 Alliance Point to unlock the skill.
From there, learn to balance your sprint, normal riding and Rapids use.
If anything I love the change. We need more skill, in riding, not less.In-game username: Un1korn | Happy member of the PCNA UESP guild (Resident Daggerfall Covenant enjoyer) | Main & basically only character: Crucian Vulpin, Imperial Dragonknight of the Daggerfall Covenant, and Undaunted Bulwark (I tank) | Mountain bike enjoyer and vulpine appreciator | If you know me from PCEU: No | To ZOS: THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BRING MY HORSE INTO BATTLE!0 -
Khumbu✭✭✭CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »Rapids. Easy to get as you literally need to earn only 1 Alliance Point to unlock the skill.
From there, learn to balance your sprint, normal riding and Rapids use.
If anything I love the change. We need more skill, in riding, not less.
My OP stated with Rapids. (Direct quote was “with the pvp skill on”). I’ve been playing since launch.
It’s not a matter of skill and in fact, I think slowing down mount speed is yet another exercise in dumbing down of skill. When mount speed was faster, you needed to balance when to use sprint and Rapids and basically play Tokyo Drift with your mount or you’d go flying off a cliff - it was fun! Now I feel like I’ve had my Corvette taken away and replaced with an old Corolla.Edited by Khumbu on March 13, 2020 1:42PM3 -
Lysette✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »Rapids. Easy to get as you literally need to earn only 1 Alliance Point to unlock the skill.
From there, learn to balance your sprint, normal riding and Rapids use.
If anything I love the change. We need more skill, in riding, not less.
Yeah, I like it too by immersion reasons - i would prefer mounts to be a lot slower anyway - even I somewhat like the super-car feeling when riding my senche-leopard - the roar at the start is like going from cruise in 5th gear down to 3rd gear in race mode in a ferrari. That isn't immersive but fun sometimes - overall all mounts are far too fast.
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✭Agreed - my pony is weary."One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
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CMDR_Un1k0rn✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »Rapids. Easy to get as you literally need to earn only 1 Alliance Point to unlock the skill.
From there, learn to balance your sprint, normal riding and Rapids use.
If anything I love the change. We need more skill, in riding, not less.
My OP stated with Rapids. (Direct quote was “with the pvp skill on”). I’ve been playing since launch.
It’s not a matter of skill and in fact, I think slowing down mount speed is yet another exercise in dumbing down of skill. When mount speed was faster, you needed to balance when to use sprint and Rapids and basically play Tokyo Drift with your mount or you’d go flying off a cliff - it was fun! Now I feel like I’ve had my Corvette taken away and replaced with an old Corolla.
I suppose now is the moment I should tell you I genuinely prefer a Corolla over a Corvette. :PIn-game username: Un1korn | Happy member of the PCNA UESP guild (Resident Daggerfall Covenant enjoyer) | Main & basically only character: Crucian Vulpin, Imperial Dragonknight of the Daggerfall Covenant, and Undaunted Bulwark (I tank) | Mountain bike enjoyer and vulpine appreciator | If you know me from PCEU: No | To ZOS: THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BRING MY HORSE INTO BATTLE!0 -
Lysette✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭This is off topic, but as far as acceleration goes, petrol cars have lost a lot of their appeal - Tesla has no roar, but it''s acceleration is hard to beat - and there are anyway not many countries left where you can go as fast as you like anymore. I still like to rent a Ferrari from time to time. If you miss your Corvette you should eventually do that too from time to time0 -
Khumbu✭✭✭IRL I’m in a Corvette... in my head. It’s actually an old Hyundai Accent
But to get back on topic, as a videogame speed junkie, if we can’t have the original speed back (since I believe this is the second nerf) maybe bump it up even a little? Or bump up the gain/aftereffect from Rapids? Just to get that “zoooom wheeeee” feeling back?0 -
Khumbu✭✭✭CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »Rapids. Easy to get as you literally need to earn only 1 Alliance Point to unlock the skill.
From there, learn to balance your sprint, normal riding and Rapids use.
If anything I love the change. We need more skill, in riding, not less.
Yeah, I like it too by immersion reasons - i would prefer mounts to be a lot slower anyway - even I somewhat like the super-car feeling when riding my senche-leopard - the roar at the start is like going from cruise in 5th gear down to 3rd gear in race mode in a ferrari. That isn't immersive but fun sometimes - overall all mounts are far too fast.
While I’m all about immersion and ESO is probably the best MMO on the market when it comes to it, MMO mounts in general are not immersion’s strong suit and ESO is no exception. Ludicrous speed doesn’t bother me so much as:
-water-soluble mounts. How does a Guar bred in the Black Marsh Nope out and vanish when a puddle gets too deep?
-mounts poofing in and out of existence when you summon them. This has been solved before in various ways by other MMOs - EQ2 has flavor text “your mount ambled over” for slow mounts iirc, and Age of Conan had an actual animation of your horse walking in from offscreen and you mounting it.
-Crown crate WoW-style kaleidoscope light show mounts. I know they have some tenuous but believable lore to handwave them into the TES universe but I just can’t feel immersed seeing a bear Storm Atronarch mount.
Anyway with a bit of imagination you can block the goofiness of that stuff out and still feel immersed, and I can honestly believe a fire atronarch horse blazing by at a zillion miles per hour even if it looked hilarious when a regular palomino did it.0