Horse Riding 1st time!

[Hotrod2go]

I can't steer the horse properly when escaping from the enemies in 1st time you have to ride a horse to get away from enemies in the MQ.
I read the instructions but the horse keeps veering onto the fields when I get over the 1st river bed.
This is incredibly frustrating this mechanic & how do I attend quickly to the wound from the arrow in my leg whilst riding quickly away from enemy?

Imo, this game should have had an opportunity to practice horse riding before being thrown into an emergency situation like this. I don't think I'm being unreasonable here. After all you get to practice sword fighting b4 a real fight.

Any hints or tricks appreciated in advance, thanks!

[cretedog]

You guide the horse with the A key for left and D key for right. W is to either walk or trot the horse. If you want to gallop press the L Shift and if the horse is on a path it will see the road. To stop it just press the W key. This instruction is for KB.

[cretedog]

To change from walk to trot press the caps lock key.

[dick]

I have this problem to, the horse just goes of the road and gets stuck ? There really should be a ttraining possibility on horse like on sword fighting. I have died now about 50 times and have barely get the horse to move ? How do you stear the horse on PC keyboard ?
I have read the instructions but i dont understand what im doing wrong ?

[Lieste]

Originally posted by cretedog:

You guide the horse with the A key for left and D key for right. W is to either walk or trot the horse. If you want to gallop press the L Shift and if the horse is on a path it will see the road. To stop it just press the W key. This instruction is for KB.

That is for canter.
To gallop, as the instructions indicate in game, press W, then hold it and tap, release, hold shift to increase speed to the gallop. Steer wide/apex/wide around corners using A or D. Rest when horse stamina drops by reverting to canter.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

I also had the same very scary experience, I was sick of trying.
Guys what I realized to solve it using a keyboard dont use the mouse.

Press X to whistle for it and press X to mount
Hold down W with the shift to gallop release shift when nearing a corner to trot
steer horse using the Left and right arrow on the keyboard between Ctrl < > num lock .

Just tap them even if you fall off the horse jump back on and just keep going , turn left to follow up the road to the next town not far and your free as it goes to the cut scene and you've done it.
You jump for joy saying you'll never play that run quests again ha ha.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1894224879
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1812573448

[theo]

You control it exactly like cars in GTA, only you have to double tap and hold shift all the time to gallop (which is also identical to nitro mechanics in some racing games). No rocket science

[❤ FL☰☰K⬤]

Holding Shift will autopilot the horse on whatever pathway it's on.
If you press W+Shift, he will just move forward largely disregarding the path.
A and D are to turn the horse, but if you're only holding Shift when you do that, he will still largely be stuck autopiloting the pathway and will turn off of that pathway without resistance, therefore for manual turning controls: W+Shift to run forward as regular, but mix in your A/D (as in, W+Shift+A to go left, W+Shift+D to go right).
Lastly, you cannot autopilot a gallop, so to gallop you would go W (hold)+Shift (tap)+Shift (hold), and then mix in the A/D to turn left or right as per the former instructions so you stay on your path.

[bbfloyd]

I hated that stupid a$$ mission.. my real problem was I didn't learn to trigger actual gallop until much later.
1) Make sure you've figured out how to full gallop.
2) Don't ride straight line far. Learn timing of archers and zigzag accordingly; it seems a long ride when you are new, and you are squishy AF.
3) As far as steering IDK what to tell you - A for left, D for right in my world, tap keys gently. Do slow down for strong corners, then re-enter Gallop.
4) Its okay to off road some, you can often delay your pursuers, but you can easy hang yourself up on a tree or creekbank too.

[crazyorse]

First time I tried I had to use a controller. I died numerous times with M+K cos I hadn't figured out the double tap for gallop.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

They were banking on the fact the new emphasis NEW player will see on the screen the controls to ride the horse..yeah right while being stressed to hell lol. It was a good a mind test to stay in foucs.
Since the Run quest I have always used shift plus W combined with left and right arrow to steer the horse.

[Hotrod2go]

Thanks for the replies, but it seems the old mistake devs meke when porting a game to PC doesn't make use of the mouse look that is common in most PC games.

If your use to playing PC games only, of course your going to automatically use mouse look to steer an object ( car, horse, etc..)

Forcing the player to use keyboard keys to steer an object is just lazy programming imo.

This game was marketed as an open world RPG game. This is not the case at all in this game. There should be more than 1 way to escape those enemies, like on foot & hiding in the bushes or something like. But the devs "insist" you play it their way in this part. Kinda reminds me a bit of FC4.

[theo]

Originally posted by Hotrod2go:

If your use to playing PC games only, of course your going to automatically use mouse look to steer an object ( car, horse, etc..)
Forcing the player to use keyboard keys to steer an object is just lazy programming imo.

What an 15 IQ statement.
Almost every PC game since the beginning of 3d era that involves car/horse steering, or any type of tank controls, does that with keyboard keys. Mouse steering is a rare optional or experimental feature at best. And there's a good reason for that, as it's important to be able to look around without changing movement direction. Especially when there are features like mounted combat and shooting. Obviously. 'Lazy programming', sure, tell me more.
And if you are used to PC games as you say, you should have zero issues actively utilizing WASD, LShift, Spacebar, mouse and a number of extra keybinds at the same time, unless you have crab claws. It's a basic thing.

Originally posted by Hotrod2go:

This game was marketed as an open world RPG game. This is not the case at all in this game.

'At all'? Are you sure?
It's absolutely open world as soon as you finish 2 hour-long prologue, which you haven't done yet it seems.

[theSeb]

The game absolutely does make use of mouse look. Hence why you can look around everywhere using the mouse whilst still going straight on a horse.

I found the run mission hard when I started the game a long time ago. It’s meant to be hard. You are a peasant that cannot ride a horse properly. This isn’t Skyrim.

I managed to get through this mission on the third attempt.

[Noeat]

Originally posted by Hotrod2go:

Thanks for the replies, but it seems the old mistake devs meke when porting a game to PC doesn't make use of the mouse look that is common in most PC games.

If your use to playing PC games only, of course your going to automatically use mouse look to steer an object ( car, horse, etc..)

Forcing the player to use keyboard keys to steer an object is just lazy programming imo.

This game was marketed as an open world RPG game. This is not the case at all in this game. There should be more than 1 way to escape those enemies, like on foot & hiding in the bushes or something like. But the devs "insist" you play it their way in this part. Kinda reminds me a bit of FC4.

:-DDD lol
1) its not port
2) freeč mouse look is common in most games steering with mouse mean lazy programing - usually u need look around WITHOUT steering.. like in real life (hopefully u dont steer when u look around
3) u can use gamepad, if using keyboard is a problem for you
4) it is open world game.. but u need learn basic in prologue first

anyway.. nothing hold your hands, u can kill all Cumans there and then just ride away in peace (almost) ..and ye, its doable, but its hard a bit ;-)

[MacSuibhne]

Originally posted by Noeat:

anyway.. nothing hold your hands, u can kill all Cumans there and then just ride away in peace (almost) ..and ye, its doable, but its hard a bit ;-)

Yeah? How do you kill three Cumans (with more coming) and "ride away in peace" when you're more dangerous to yourself with a sword than to others?

I'm from Missouri, show me.