Horse wont walk backwards.

[Endalrin]

So far i've had a hiccup or two with modding but nothing major.
right now I am wondering why when i tell my horse to walk backwards it just turns....-.- more annoying then you'd think. sometimes i just need it to take a step back and it starts running all over.
dumb horse.

I wonder if that has anything to do with convieneint horses?

[necro]

They're designed to control that way. You can argue whether or not that is realistic. Horses don't usually like to walk backwards since they aren't good at seeing in that direction. IRL if you want to change direction with a horse, you turn it around.

I think the idea behind the control scheme, too, was to cement the idea that you are not the horse, but the person riding the horse. I'm not experienced horse rider, but seeing as pulling back on the bit usually means stop or "woah" there really is no command to make the horse back up, nor do I think a horse is all that comfortable doing that. Horses actually aren't the most graceful creatures in the world.

In any case, it isn't a bug or a mod, it's by design.

[Brandybuck]

Horses do walk backwards, but only rarely. I've only seen in it parades with trick riders.

[Endalrin]

I could have sworn I got it to walk backwards before. >_>
but thanks though. I was wondering if maybe I just ThoughT they did. ah well.