Horses run when attacked. That is a good thing. However, when you are trying to kill the enemy they are running from, it is annoying to stand there and wait for the mob to get bored chasing the horse while your thrall chases the enemy. I stand and watch and let a Calliope playing music of a Merry-Go-Round play in my head.
Ideally, it would be great to have a command to tell the horse to stop so your thrall can catch up to the mob chasing the horse.
Edit: I changed my mind
Please play Merry-Go-Round music with a Calliope when the horse is running from an enemy, and I am standing still. It might be easier to implement as well.
I’d take the Benny Hill chase music as a good alternative
(Side note - I’m still getting an intermittent bug where the horse runs into combat instead of away from it, and often actually shoves me away from whatever I’m attacking - believe me, I’d rather have the running in circles - if anyone else does get this bug, the short term solution seems to be to mount and then dismount - that seems to reset whatever is going wrong. I still haven’t figured out a reproducible cause, so no point in me adding to the basic reports I’ve already made on the problem - although I think I’m getting closer, so may have something more useful to offer at some point.)
(Second side note: - I’d actually quite like it if at least some followers could have this behaviour added as a behaviour setting option - Gazelles/Camels for example. It’d be far more useful than the current ‘Attack nothing’ option which results in them just standing there to be killed. I’d really like to see some sort of ‘flee’ option added - it’d make more sense and would make these sorts of ‘combat weak bearer-pets’ much more viable. If that can also have the music added, that’d be even better )
Horse running in circles is the best thing they did to mounts for me. The greatest reason I didn’t use mounts from the beginning was the babysit. I lost a lot of horses trying to implement in to my fight, disturbing me and loosing focus on fight so we both end up dead. Imagine ofcurce that back then your horse was the only follower you had, you couldn’t have a horse and a thrall. But this traumatic experience kept my horses as decorations in my yard and nothing more.
I started using horses at Siptah again. Since then I use horses again in Exile lands.
I am really happy they did this to horses, I am grateful actually.
I’d like to have a command to tell my horse to move (in those cases where they trap you and you cannot mount them) and to stop as they don’t always stop after combat.
Oh my, yes. Lost another thrall last night as my horse decided to teleport onto my head as I was dragging my new …employee home (long boring story, suffice to say, my thrall disappeared…again)
Yes, I’m happy they made the horse run too, but I just want to be able to stop the horse when I am ready to kill the enemy that is chasing the horse. When the horse is kiting an enemy around the battlefield, that is a good thing, as it is one less enemy to worry about. However, when I am ready to kill that one last enemy it is comical to watch the horse constantly running circles around me. I would prefer a command, or to stop the horse so I can engage the enemy or to “hang a lantern on it” and play the appropriate music.
- if anyone else does get this bug, the short term solution seems to be to mount and then dismount - that seems to reset whatever is going wrong. I still haven’t figured out a reproducible cause, so no point in me adding to the basic reports I’ve already made on the problem - although I think I’m getting closer, so may have something more useful to offer at some point.)