I need a slower horse! (Riding posture)

Tapio75 · February 2017

I have this slight problem.. Id like to keep increasing my horse speed, but if i go over 10%, the basic trot goes to slowly leaning more to gallop all the time and the basic walk speed does not look good either, it looks too slow to be slow trot and too fast to be, well walk

I would really like to have some more control over this, whether it be sliders where you can adjust your speed on different phases, disabling speed increase in modes walk and trot or reallocating or removing some points from speed atribute.

In some RP situations, it would be nice for example, to be able to be mounted while retaining the same speed as the fuy or gal next to me who is not mounted. Sometimes i would also like to have the basic trot as basic speed so the newbie beside me is same speed as i am..

Normally i would like to use the normal, relaxed trot, which is normal run without any speed increase added.

So i am asking some control over the horse speeds.

ZOS broke the thing themselves when Tamriel (un)limited wwas launched, they went from nice and innovative horse system to the basic "All the same" stuff where all mounts have same speed regardless of breed.

As far as i am concerned, the old system would have been totally fine with crown store if they would just made the riding skill points be character specific and then let us to put those points on individual mounts to make each mount different but they chose not to be creative and wwent the easy way.

Please improve the system so wwe can again, tweak different ounts to have different speeds.

starkerealm · February 2017

If you're on PC, there's a run/walk toggle that can be bound. This works while mounted and will slow you down.

Tapio75 · February 2017

starkerealm wrote: »

If you're on PC, there's a run/walk toggle that can be bound. This works while mounted and will slow you down.

I am aware of this and they have the problem as well. They increase in speed with thegallop so walk goes to slight trot something, trot goes to light gallop and gallop gallops more gallopy

The problem really is, that i dont want wwalk and basic run/trot to change with the gallop speed.

And we had a system where we had horses with different stats, id like something similar.

dvstansb14_ESO · February 2017

LOTRO has a system like you're describing for their war mounts, but I don't recall how you selected the different speeds (been years) - and I think the horse animated with different gaits at different speeds. I haven't felt the need to go slower in ESO, but in LOTRO the highest speed was needed due to large open areas you had to cross to get places. Unfortunately at top speed, the servers couldn't keep up with you causing major badness - especially in mounted combat. Ah the fun.

There are other recent solo RPGs with much much better horse physics, but I doubt such fine control would be possible in an MMO due to lag.

Tapio75 · February 2017

Well, id be happy if i could just "Opt out" the walk and trot from the speed increase and leave the gallop increase with the food i feed to me horse.

Especially the midle speed feels problematic as with faster than 20%, it starts to go off the saddle to riders legs like in fast gallop and that looks a bit weird to me. I just want to trot in relaxed upright posture

Just like it is when theree is 0% speed bonus added.

Nyx2 · February 2017

Use a gamepad and there you have your slider.

Tapio75 · February 2017

Gamepad is quite a poor controller in every other terms.. Wish the Razer Orbweaver had analog control stick but its digital

Dawnblade · February 2017

Maybe they could add some sort of RP walk toggle / setting for the normal walk / trot speed, but otherwise the old system or any system that requires training / allocating points to individual horses would be going backwards and most likely tick off way more people than the few RPers wanting a slow walk for their mount.

Tapio75 · February 2017

Dawnblade wrote: »

Maybe they could add some sort of RP walk toggle / setting for the normal walk / trot speed, but otherwise the old system or any system that requires training / allocating points to individual horses would be going backwards and most likely tick off way more people than the few RPers wanting a slow walk for their mount.

That kind of toggle would be good enough.

Though i think the original system was innovative AND creative compared to other tired old games having all the same. Nack at the day they were also thinking of horse racing which would be much more boring with current system.

But as for allocating points. I did not mean you train each horse individually like before, you would still train your own riding skill, but each mount would have an option to allocate those point how you wwish if you so choose. By default they would use your basic skill, but toggling the feature on at certain individual mount, would allow you to allocate points you have on your character the way you want.

So if you have total 180 points in riding skill, you could allocate them freely at any time to individual mount you choose by just pressing + and - like you do on your M/H/S bars when you level up exept you could tweak them at all tiime.

This would also open up the possibility for horse racing again. They could implement a certain system, where you are allowed to pick one of your mounts, and allocate 100 points for example, to speed or stamina how you choose. Making mounts used for racing different.

This could also open up a new alley for provisioning and alchemy, creating buff pots and foods for your horse.