Momentum-based movement - Feedback thread

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@Connor

Right after the starting sequence I walked a couple of steps and then let the keyboard go. The character slid on and on and on and on for a whole of 57 SECONDS! Yes, fitfy-seven!!! And he did that every time, maybe not every time that long, but if was beyond good and evil, believe me! I wasn’t even sprinting, just walking. This is NOT acceptable to be honest. And I really think in this case it’s a bug.

If it keeps happening with the new save, you definitely need to open a thread in the bugs forum. That’s clearly a bug. And it’s not what people are normally experiencing in the game.

@Connor

The turning radius for the horse is very big and extremely unhandy for fights other than having a wide desert space. I would turn it down quite a bit. Even if you say, you have to ride slower. Sure, but then there is this clumsy movement acceleration thing again.

In my in-game experience so far, riding slower is worse. The best way I found to achieve a tight turn is to accelerate to galloping speed and then press back and turn keys together for the duration of the turn, and then go back to accelerating. It also works marginally better with the saddles that are marked as “maneuverability” saddles, as opposed to “defense” and “speed” saddles.

Now, I don’t have any horse-riding experience to speak of, but I found the horse movement to be pretty fun once I got the hang of it. To me, that’s much more important than how realistic it is

@Connor

At the moment our (at least twice as big as normal) horses cannot jump over a garden fence that even a not so trained smaller person could jump over. That’s quite irritating and frustrating.

Even worse, they will run into a small log or a boulder and just … stop. They won’t automatically jump over it or steer around it. Like I said, I don’t know a lot about horses, but I’ve heard they can do that and, even if they couldn’t, it would make sense in the context of a video game.

@Connor

Left-right-movement of horses with keyboard controls is really unhandy. Is it possible to make horses respond to where the camera goes? It would be by far more practical. I do not necessarily need to look behind me while riding.

You do need to be able to aim your weapon for mounted combat. Conan Exiles is a multiplayer game with a competitive aspect, so they won’t implement any mechanism that will assist you in targeting. Therefore, you have to aim your weapon yourself. That’s why the steering requires keyboard, so you can aim with your mouse.

That being said, there are two solutions for that and they’re not mutually exclusive:

1. Allow players to switch between the existing keyboard-steering mode and a new mouse-steering mode. The former would be on by default. The latter would allow you to steer with the mouse, but it would fix your weapon’s aim on the horizontal axis in the same way the lance aim is currently fixed.
2. Fix the autorun logic so that it doesn’t automatically turn off when you steer your mount with the keyboard. There’s already a bug report for that and it has been relayed to the devs. I’m hoping they will choose to do this, at least.

@Connor

I cannot imagine, that they would implement something 60% of the players dislike. Being close to the players is not the worst thing to do! Yes, you have great ideas, but sometimes ideas make us go a little astray!

If you haven’t already done so, I would highly recommend watching the recording of today’s dev stream on YouTube:

Conan Exiles Dev Stream - Post-Update Mailbag

And stay tuned for @Multigun’s stream recap – he’s our hero who always goes to the effort of summarizing the dev streams in a forum post, so people can easily search for the details they’re interested in