Why is the horse riding so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ garbage

[Juan Solo the Smuggler]

I just bought the game, and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, the horse controls are so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad.
I played the ♥♥♥♥ out of the first one back in the days of PS3, and this so bad. Could they not conceive of a way of having horses control properly in all the years they had? And its been sop long since release and its still this bad? Horse completely ignoring input, or if you tap S once it turns around and full gallops opposite direction.
Just control movement with mouse, and lock direction once aiming, or have everything control like a car, with horse cruise control for input. But no "hold W to follow" but then shift to speed up? This results in some wonky controls.

[ED ~]

The horse have level type of bond so as you progress, It will have a better handling specially if you bought a better horse. Also "S" is not the button for stop, It was "Ctrl".

Try to read the prompt tutorial sometimes. This game wasn't really made for impatient people so don't go ap-es-hit on anything you don't like - that the other games have.

[Salt Strider]

Horses handle just fine. You simply don't know what you're doing and like you said, you just bought the game, so chill out and figure it out before you wanna go on a pointless rant about how crap you are. I use keyboard and mouse and I'm able to control the horse smoothly without issue. The whole snapping back when you look back is a bug and it's just one of those things you have to remember when you do it.

[Kain]

I really don't get what's so hard about the horse controls, but may you find peace and prosper.

[Juan Solo the Smuggler]

Originally posted by ThirdGen:

Horses handle just fine. You simply don't know what you're doing and like you said, you just bought the game, so chill out and figure it out before you wanna go on a pointless rant about how crap you are. I use keyboard and mouse and I'm able to control the horse smoothly without issue. The whole snapping back when you look back is a bug and it's just one of those things you have to remember when you do it.

"Horse handles fine"
"Snapping back is a bug"
I can ride fine, its just inconsistent and an un-intuitive system that could have been simplified. Also by default it controls movement by camera direction which is terrible for accurate controls, especially in fights. I switched controls to horse by default for everything and it fixed it, but there seems to be plenty of issues with following and speed control, which is my main point. The default system seems terrible, a horse should control just like any vehicle. The fact that one has to rebind keys and change settings is not good.

[Sagittarius A*]

Horse controls are stupid. I steer to avoid a tree, the game blocks my inputs and steers in its own direction to avoid a tree, it fails and I hit 3rd tree either killing (costing me a revive potion) or killing me.

Horse controls are garbage.

[Juan Solo the Smuggler]

Originally posted by ED ~:

The horse have level type of bond so as you progress, It will have a better handling specially if you bought a better horse. Also "S" is not the button for stop, It was "Ctrl".

Try to read the prompt tutorial sometimes. This game wasn't really made for impatient people so don't go ap-es-hit on anything you don't like - that the other games have.

I'm aware, I have a new keyboard so occasionally I hit other keys, its not fun every now and again to be in a gallop while trying to follow someone and then tap S once, for your horse to then do a full 180. That's ignoring issues with as I stated above for no responses to input, and the default settings basing horse movement off camera position.

[Adrien H Wallace]

Everyone else already covered it, but I'll simply it.

It gets easier as your bonding gets higher....max is Bonding Level 4

[Sagittarius A*]

Originally posted by Adrien H Wallace:

Everyone else already covered it, but I'll simply it.

It gets easier as your bonding gets higher....max is Bonding Level 4

Full bond with my Arabian and still garbage.

[Juan Solo the Smuggler]

The whole shift to speed up and ctrl to slow down thing is dumb. They could have just done it like mount and blade and that would have been amazing. Horses in that game handle amazingly.
Its a convoluted mess.
This is a horse, not war thunder.

[Adrien H Wallace]

Originally posted by EternalStoic:

Originally posted by Adrien H Wallace:

Everyone else already covered it, but I'll simply it.

It gets easier as your bonding gets higher....max is Bonding Level 4

Full bond with my Arabian and still garbage.

Not sure what to tell you then, I have zero issues with my handling of my horse. Also, you need to remember, this is not a car you are driving, it is an animal that has a mind of its own. So if you are trying to make your horse do something that goes against what it feels is safe, you are SoL. I think they did a great job at capturing the realism of what it would actually be like to ride a horse.

[Sagittarius A*]

Originally posted by Adrien H Wallace:

Originally posted by EternalStoic:

Full bond with my Arabian and still garbage.

Not sure what to tell you then, I have zero issues with my handling of my horse. Also, you need to remember, this is not a car you are driving, it is an animal that has a mind of its own. So if you are trying to make your horse do something that goes against what it feels is safe, you are SoL. I think they did a great job at capturing the realism of what it would actually be like to ride a horse.

The game cancels out personal inputs for its own.

Enough with your nonsense.

[Adrien H Wallace]

Originally posted by EternalStoic:

Originally posted by Adrien H Wallace:

Not sure what to tell you then, I have zero issues with my handling of my horse. Also, you need to remember, this is not a car you are driving, it is an animal that has a mind of its own. So if you are trying to make your horse do something that goes against what it feels is safe, you are SoL. I think they did a great job at capturing the realism of what it would actually be like to ride a horse.

The game cancels out personal inputs for its own.

Enough with your nonsense.

So because I told you my personal experience and it conflicts with yours, my input is nonsense? Well, I'm not the one who has the issues with my horse. Everything for me works fine and as intended. Maybe it's a player issue rather than a game issue? How's that for nonsense, pal. You can pull that out your rear and sniff it and tell us all how that smells, pal. What a joke... gtfo of here with that crap.

[Damien]

Never tried to play a GTA game with a KBMouse. Always a 360 controller. No matter if it's a horse, bike or a car, ♥♥♥♥ jus works.

[Juan Solo the Smuggler]

Originally posted by Adrien H Wallace:

Originally posted by EternalStoic:

The game cancels out personal inputs for its own.

Enough with your nonsense.

So because I told you my personal experience and it conflicts with yours, my input is nonsense? Well, I'm not the one who has the issues with my horse. Everything for me works fine and as intended. Maybe it's a player issue rather than a game issue? How's that for nonsense, pal. You can pull that out your rear and sniff it and tell us all how that smells, pal. What a joke... gtfo of here with that crap.

I've ridden before, and while its obviously nothing like the environment of this game, I'd agree to an extent, but to a point where it can actively harm gameplay? I get the immersion they're going for though.

[Adrien H Wallace]

Originally posted by Juan Solo the Smuggler:

Originally posted by Adrien H Wallace:

So because I told you my personal experience and it conflicts with yours, my input is nonsense? Well, I'm not the one who has the issues with my horse. Everything for me works fine and as intended. Maybe it's a player issue rather than a game issue? How's that for nonsense, pal. You can pull that out your rear and sniff it and tell us all how that smells, pal. What a joke... gtfo of here with that crap.

I've ridden before, and while its obviously nothing like the environment of this game, I'd agree to an extent, but to a point where it can actively harm gameplay? I get the immersion they're going for though.

I don't know, maybe I don't feel it harms the game in any way. Maybe not all would agree, but IMO there are way bigger fish to fry with this game than something as minor as this. For me though, it's not even a problem. You get used to how the horses in this game behave and know what to do and what not to do. See a cluster of rocks, even though there is enough space to go between them, you go around...horses don't like clusters of rocks and so forth. Wolves coming at you, calm your horse while running away to keep the horse from freezing up...you know, things like that. I have also learned that when riding through trees, if you just hold down shift while riding without holding W, the horse will self maneuver through the trees to keep from running into them.

I imagine the OP is having issues with things like this, that get easier as time goes on because you start understanding the mechanics of the horse. Same with anything else in the world in general, the more you practice the better you get. And if by some chance there even is an issue, perhaps a bug causing the horses to act in a way not intended, I would much rather see Rockstar fix other issues that are game breaking rather than anything going on with the horse.

I'm assuming you have been playing a while and know exactly where I am coming from.