Think there's a chance we'll get some horseback combat? It would be pretty cool decapitating your enemy with his last hps from a mount...

Turk-style horse archery would be amazing fun. I don't normally use marksmanship but if I horse archery was possible I would get marksman for that very reason.

Considering thiis was a major point of interest and complaints for fans last time, I think Bethesda will include mounted combat.

I don't see why they wont add it, just don't add the decapitating part..
TES isn't the gory type.

Yes. If it is in, it better be done well too.

It'd be awesome charging in to battle on an armored horse... and not having to get off every time you want to attack.

Absolutely. Otherwise horses are useless. And it's just wrong to see a mounted soldier who dismounts to attack you instead of charging you with his horse.

Hopefully they had the time to balance mounted combat if it's in. It was supposed to be in Oblivion but was cut due to horse combat being overpowered. Probably combat AI as well.

I doubt it. The series has a heavy emphasis on interior combat, so to put a great deal of effort into a feature that will be such a small part of the game seems unlikely.

This would be a great help for hunter.
And horse chases? Oh my, dont even get me started how much fun I would have with this.

Hope not..

I can't control th ehorse directions vs. my visual direction combining with button mashing for swinging. :toughninja:

Now if we can eat the horses, use horse apples for potions, or even sleep in the belly of one because it's too frickin' cold out and my buddy just found me half frozen, then I might try combat...

Yes, definitely. I think they should have jousting too, as long as they do it right.

I would love having horse mounted combat. I HATED having to get off my horse all the time to kill the wolves attacking my horse.

Ummm, not it the way fall out 3 was but it'll still be gory and I think it will be M rated this time.

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I also hated how enemies seemed to prefer attacking my horse instead of me, at times.

Yes, but if were talking realisticly, a man on a horse is naturally more powerful then one without a horse.
You attacking a man without a horse is just as overpowered as a man on a horse attacking you, this will make horses more then just slaves of transportation, hopefully they also add saddlebags?
That would be nice, and also remember you cant bring horses in caves and places like that, so you cant really be overpowered when you would need it most.

mount and blade please.

I'm not opposed, but I have Mount and Blade and it has multiplayer....

also, horse combat would necessitate lances, which would mean spears and I am all in favor of spears.

Yes! And I hope they also add a lance like weapon.

This wouldn't be such a hard thing to do at all, would just require a single animation or two more for being on horse.

I'd like to see it a lot, and it would be easily implemented for melee weapons, however I'm not sure how would they do bow shotting. I mean how would one direct a horse, and aim at the same time?

Also if they do this they should definitively put restriction to only one handed weapons.

only if the horse part is done right. like shadow of the colossus or red dead redemption.

Indeed.

But I believe they had to take more time to work on the combat AI so that the enemies would be able to take you down while on a horse.
For instance, while Mount & Blade has awesome horse combat mechanics, the AI is poor when trying to fight you on a horse.
They will keep running after you, even if they're mounted. So you can just circle around them, crossbow in hand, shooting until they die.
If foot-based enemies want to take you down, they'd have to use strategies such as waiting until you pass close to flank you, hiding behind a tree and hitting the horse as it passes by, etc.
So they probably didn't have the time to revamp this.

Plus, without spears, killing mounted units would be pretty hard!

Of all the things fans were begging for with Oblivion, this one interests me the least. Regardless, the fans have spoken and if they don't add mounted combat then they're not paying as much attention to fan feedback as they claim they are.

I don't really see the need. Like I want to be flying past a bandit back and forth swinging my sword at him. It just doesn't feel right in TES to me, maybe if it was more of a war game, but not the way it is now.

I would like though better animations for getting off of the horse. Like jumping off the back. It's kind of annoying to have to stop and slowly get off of the horse while a bandit is chopping your legs off.

You clearly never played Mount & Blade, which for the record has at least a couple of things to teach to TES about a proper combat system, mounted or not.

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Horses should be able to crush people if they don't jump out of the way. :yes: