Horse PVP needs some sort of con

[WhatMightHaveBeen]

So got back on officials. Horse “PVP”??? Just wow. There is no way this was intended right. Alex should be outraged at how this is very meta. To the point one doesn’t need grit, aromor or anything outside of a dragon bone bone spear.
don’t get me wrong, there is a place for Horses in combat. But just wow. Maybe when swinging it effects the purple stamina bar??? Because i really hope it is a technical issue as to why one does not consume any stamina on horse back. To the point you could raid a water base with explosive arrows on horse back. OR just circle and spam arrows on a target. OR better yet hit the hand brake and trample them again before they even have a legit chance to recover. Now, i can avoid them yes ( and i do quite well getting NPC’s involved.) But i want to play Conan Exiles, not just troll them knowing i could be playing more intuitive games as far as pvp goes… As far as go get horse, well then there would be no combat at all as it would be demolition derby horses just running and hand-breaking. And not using anything else outside of 3 things-- bow, spear, horse. No armor, no other weapons needed. Just that. So wow. Really look at the balance and how you (Funcom) have cancelled almost everything else in combat.

horse PVP is akin to being able to level a kicker on Madden Football to kick 100 yard field goals. Sure i could get me a kicker like that. But field goal contest is not American football or what Madden would be trying to create thematically. I would pretty much play another game instead of play something like that. Hell i don’t play it now because a TE can rush for 2000 yards in a season on there. Pretty much breaks immersion when Travis Kelce has a 10.0 ypc average, and in real life he may be lucky to break 2.0 per carry.

[sestus2009]

A good reason for you to get your own server up and running again. Rule #7 no horses.

[WhatMightHaveBeen]

Yeah, or at least make it where there is some sort of area one can go and not worry about a broken mechanic.

[SirDaveWolf]

Basically this:

This game is unplayable

Im playing this game since 2 years , and I remember the old times when you really needed to show your skills in PvP and you were able to manage 3/4 enemies alone . I could understand the new roll ( that honestly I like), I could understand the new movements , the belance of weapons ( some really nerfed), but this horses really made this game unplayable. Everyone is running around with horses and thrall , and when you dress light you literally almost onetap by horseman. Don’t say me : “ use ho…

And those:

Suggestions to balance horses for PvP

They are still overpowered. Here is a list of actions, that could be taken, in order to make “normal PvP” (aka on foot PvP) great again: Remove bleeed/cripple debuffs when attacking from a horse Remove the 1.5 (or whjatever it is) damage multiplier, when you attack from a horse with a weapon (trample damage should stay like it is) Make players interruptable from getting on horses with attacks (cancel the mount animation when they get attacked by melee) Make players use stamina when attacking f…

Horse stamina addition!

Why is there no stamina cost for swinging weapons on horseback? I get the regen while just slowly moving but for real, Swinging a weapon or using a bow with no penalty during combat? I see a lot of players going with the venom pike etc on mount not even bothering with pvp. Sitting on a mount with a cheese pike is not what I would call pvp, especially when almost every player has nothing but the pike. There have been the odd player with a plan B and actually get off the mount to fight from tim…

Horses Debuff to balance open world PvP

Remove the status efffets (e.g. Bleed) from horses, reduce their damage, reduce damage needed to knock player off the horse, and increase the time needed to remount after being dismounted to 30s. Horses ruin PvP. [image]

[WhatMightHaveBeen]

Yep. I would honestly like to see Alex’s take on this. In the last stream he was in, he talked about bringing combat to a new level and to be more engaging (paraphrasing), This is totally the opposite of that view.
@hugo @Ignasi
Would love to hear from Alex if/when he has time on how they came to the following conclusions about the “broken” mechanics of Horse PVP.
No stam usage by player while on horse back.
Armor rating not needed by player on horse back.
Spear does bleed on every strike.
Damage 1.5 on Horse Back.
attacked foot player no recovery time once ran over.

[SirDaveWolf]

Also check this:

Conan Exiles - Horses are totally balanced