Mounted Combat Now Available in Skyrim Beta

[exfileme]

Now players can attack their enemies while riding a horse. Too bad there's no multiplayer -- this feature would make for some fun PvP!

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[Deleted member 217926]

Guess I have an excuse to spend another 100 or so hours of my free time hunting dragons. I wish they would hurry up with the DLC but since it took a year for the Oblivion DLC I guess we still have a few months.

 

[lutanistryan]

What's Skyrim?

 

[falchard]

Now just needs a multiplayer competition mod so I can play jousting with 63 of my friends.

 

[elcentral]

yet to play it. im still happy i waited for the hd texture going to check it out next sale.

 

[mrmez]

All you need is 62 more friends

 

[Guest]

multilayer would ruin the game there would be to many screaming 11 year olds using hacks

 

[keyanf]

Too bad even with 5 attempts, Bethesda still couldn't get the base combat to be any fun and a minor addition like this won't change things.

The really sad thing is Bethesda owns Arkane (Dark Messiah) who did some of the best melee combat out there, and is in competention with Gothic/Risen which does have a fairly decent combat system in an open world game. Plus Mount and Blade is an indie title with better combat.

 

[keyanf]

Todd Howard said in the lead up to Oblivion that "fantasy" to him was a knight running around on horseback killing things. What genre were the TES games in that 7 year period? Sci-Fi?

 

[molo9000]

Horse armour again?
It's never going to be as good as Mount&Blade. Why do they even try?

Adding such a major change to the combat system 6 months after release is just weird.
Is the world even designed for mounted combat? I bet you get stuck on terrain all the time.

 

[Zingam_Duo]

I have yet to see a game where mounted combat doesn't suck.

 

[derekullo]

Picture Twisted Metal 4 with horses instead of cars/vans. Perfect mounted combat game.

 

[Auroram]

I don't want to sound cynical and have clocked many an hour on Skyrim, but it almost seems like it's a good idea to not touch Bethesda titles until a couple months after the initial release date. There's simply so much content added and bugs fixed by then, that my enjoyment of (for example) Skyrim is much greater later on. And that's without even mentioning the amazing mod community!

Still, thumbs up to them for great and cost free support. I just hope that they won't break the unofficial community patches again, instead of simply integrating them into the game officially.

 

[Achoo22]

[citation][nom]falchard[/nom]Now just needs a multiplayer competition mod so I can play jousting with 63 of my friends.[/citation]

I was distressed to see the main article mention multiplayer, as your comment distresses me. I thought Skyrim was a phenomenally good game, but the combat is pretty rudimentary and the wide-open areas don't encourage pvp scenarios. PVP in Skyrim would reduce directly to a gear comparison, just like most MMOs, and there's absolutely no point. The announced TES MMO is a shameless money grab, and I'm troubled that there seem to be those who disagree.

 

[killerclick]

[citation][nom]Achoo22[/nom]PVP in Skyrim would reduce directly to a gear comparison, just like most MMOs, and there's absolutely no point. The announced TES MMO is a shameless money grab, and I'm troubled that there seem to be those who disagree.[/citation]

My thoughts exactly. First they sacrifice KOTOR3 for SWTOR, now they may shift focus to Elder Scrolls MMO (hope not, since it's an external studio). I can only hope that it fails like SWTOR did.

 

[Maxor127]

I don't care about competitive multiplayer, but co-op is always good. It's always fun to share exploring an open world with a friend. But I'm sure they'd rather hold back on such a feature for their crappy, uninspired MMO.

 

[airborne11b]

Ahh, only in america would people consider selling millions of copies of a game and making tons of money a failure.....

 

[airborne11b]

To all the children crying about multiplayer.... No one would be forcing you to play it, no more then anyone else can force what kind of character you make. Grow some nuts.

 

[osamabinrobot]

b..but i wawnted to play D3 this weekend

 

[frank_drebin]

it's fun to ride a horse in Skyrim. Plus the horse helps you to fight... wolfs at least

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]jacekring[/nom]Actually they already had horses, the terrain was designed with horses in mind. And you don't get stuck on terrain, hasn't happened to me yet 100+ hours of gameplay.Unfortunately horses die too easy against anything other then a wolf. I would rather the horse just run away so I can kill them with my 10,000+ damage bow, LOL.[/citation]
Just finish the Dark Brotherhood quest line and get Shadowmere. More health and respawns if killed:

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Shadowmere_%28Skyrim%29

 

[macpeteo]

Who cares, it's a boring game after about lvl30. Sold my game on ebay and have not looked back, play the Witcher2 if you want real entertainment!

 

[slicedtoad]

^witcher 2 also got boring fast. Dragon Age I, Oblivion and Fallout 3 were games that lasted. Now I'm stuck playing online games instead. Can't wait for another decent RPG to come out so I can stop playing BF3 and SCII.

 

[Achoo22]

[citation][nom]airborne11b[/nom]To all the children crying about multiplayer.... No one would be forcing you to play it, no more then anyone else can force what kind of character you make. Grow some nuts.[/citation]

You really can't see how multiplayer/MMO environs would destroy the story lines that truly make these games great? It just doesn't make sense for there to be an army of dragonborn nerevarines, and attempting to segregate the population with clan-only challenges and rare drops and so forth just absolutely dishonors the wonderful legacy of the series. THEY EVEN SAID SO THEMSELVES WHEN ASKED WHY SKYRIM HAD NO MULTIPLAYER.