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So apparently the next patch from Bethesda will add mounted combat to Skyrim. I am quite excited about this new feature and it is something that I have been wanting since Oblivion. I HATE having to get off of my horse just to kill a wolf or a saber cat that starts chasing me down the road. It is especially annoying when my dumb*** horse tries chasing down enemies and gets in my way during fights. I think this is a great addition to the game. What do you guys think? Any stories about horses annoying you/getting in your way?

All I know is my dragon battles are going to get a lot more epic.

The whole getting chased and having to dismount thing was always annoying. It drove me nuts in Oblivion and followed me to Skyrim. Truth be told I often just run away because I can't be bothered (and I can always out-gallop my enemies). But with the advent of dragons that's becoming quite the pain.

Skyrim horses dislike me greatly, though. They're always dying. Such fragile creatures...

I can now properly make a rider of Rohan. I am pumped.

Not to mention my little Bosmer Irriwen bounding about in the bush, stuffing everything that moves with arrows. <3

I wonder if this means we will be chased about by scary mounted archer guards? x|

Archer guards would be awesome. Bandits and such on horse? Come on...that could be pretty cool.

It'll probably just extend to the player character, but you never know. It has some serious potential!

Avron the S'wit wrote:Skyrim horses dislike me greatly, though. They're always dying. Such fragile creatures...

Yeah, I remember having one die about 5 minutes after I bought it because it tried to kill a pack of wolves I was fighting. I was a mage character and I couldn't shoot spells because it was in front of the wolves. It was my first horse too and I didn't have enough money to buy another one.

This is something I haven't expected. I always thought if they would add mounted combat than we would have to pay for it (dlc content), great work Beth! Hopefully it is not to bugged^^.

That's going to be fun as heck, especially if there's mounted kill-cams.
I usually play ranger characters that travel on foot, but I'll definitely be making some characters to fit the feature.

This is very good news - I just hope the game won't freeze or CTD when I mount a horse. After that mess with the water update, one can't be too careful.

Imagine Lightning Storm from a horse => A moving magic gatling that disintegrates everything^^.

I hope it isnt something as simple as swing swing from side to side dynasty warrior style.

They should ad a tree for horse riding perhaps your bow would be less acrruate on horseback and have a perk reduce it

Nevastar wrote:That's going to be fun as heck, especially if there's mounted kill-cams.

A tear just came to my eye as I thought of decapitating a bandit from the back of a horse in slow motion. It would be a glorious sight to see.

FYI we've been talking about this in the Bethesda patch discussion sticky (in this the Skyrim: General forum). You can get it now on the PC by subscribing to the steam beta releases for Skyrim if you haven't already. There are some pictures in that thread and the Skyrim photography sticky

Archea47 wrote:FYI we've been talking about this in the Bethesda patch discussion sticky (in this the Skyrim: General forum). You can get it now on the PC by subscribing to the steam beta releases for Skyrim if you haven't already. There are some pictures in that thread and the Skyrim photography sticky

I'm sorry, I didn't think to look in that thread. I just checked the recent threads and didn't see anything about mounted combat, so I started this one.

It will be interesting how they implement it, I am pretty happy to see it put in, I feel with Skyrim's mountainous climate a horse is essential to travel around on since I don't like to fast travel. But yeah its annoying to have to keep running from wolves and such and dismount for combat so I am happy its being added

Won't affect me, I don't use horses. Ever. Not even Shadowmere.

Laughing so hard right now..

Fus, RO!

No, seriously. Dova-balance.

The mounted combat add simply WANTS the ulterior addition of spears! Now that would be a proper mounted knight!

Or I can always go with a Dothraki screamer.

Still need a proper Arakh, eh?

Neigh

Eltee wrote:Still need a proper Arakh, eh?

I was thinking of going with Windshear.

Why use a bow on a horse when you can use a staff?

You can be Gandalf the White and the dragons can be the Fell Beasts.

Avron the S'wit wrote:Archer guards would be awesome. Bandits and such on horse? Come on...that could be pretty cool.

It'll probably just extend to the player character, but you never know. It has some serious potential!

Let's combine this with...

Eltee wrote:Fus, RO!

No, seriously. Dova-balance.

Wherein we find great joy in blasting mounted enemies and their mounts all over the place (extra points if they could program the knockback to also knock the enemies off their mounts).

I just hate getting off my horse to shoot a deer, only to have it run off because I've got off my horse.