The bird needs speed controls

[william_es]

The new bird mount is awesome, but oh man, is it hard to control.

We need some kind of speed control. W to speed up, S to slow down. Trying to land it at a specific spot, like on a landing pad made for the purpose at the top of my great tree base, was nightmarish.

Now, i just fly straight into the base of the trunk of a great tree, while spamming the "land" button. I leave it at the bottom of a great tree.

Also, while will the bird not sit still?

It constantly takes off and flies around. It also _lands_ and fights things, with was a near heart attack moment.

I learned it will defend itself, but after grinding 500 hoots, watching my bird land and pick fights with things was alarming. It takes off so frequently, that I spent over 15 minutes just trying to access it's menu to "leave party", so I could switch to a hornet. It was a little frustrating.

[LudwigVH]

Agree the controls for the bird need some work. Even had times where while on land the direction I wanted to move I had to press the opposite direction to move the way I wanted to until it corrected itself.

[Yumi]

I have also noticed that at the ruins if you fly into a wall you and the bird fall under ground, i had to unstuck to get out, was a little annoying, thankfully it happened on my single player world and I had keep invo on death

[Dslim]

It needs a hover command.

[Dslim]

I also leveled my up to like 25 now, i suggest going to the spider pits and killing stuff when its near by, lvls ups quick

[Dslim]

I also just dismount mid air and fly down with my wings where i need to go and just use the whistle to call it to me.

[Yumi]

After making my comment, my bird died glitching into a wall. 6 hours of my weekend wasted getting that bird.

[Dslim]

Originally posted by Yumi:

After making my comment, my bird died glitching into a wall. 6 hours of my weekend wasted getting that bird.

Rest in Peace, id be mad, the hardest part is the hoots, now that im almost max level killing stuff over and over again would become so tedious for the hoots.

[Yumi]

Originally posted by Dslim:

Originally posted by Yumi:

After making my comment, my bird died glitching into a wall. 6 hours of my weekend wasted getting that bird.

Rest in Peace, id be mad, the hardest part is the hoots, now that im almost max level killing stuff over and over again would become so tedious for the hoots.

Yeah I dont think I will be playing again anytime soon

[william_es]

Yeah, they need to add some kind of pet revive options. If they want us to name them, and level them up... they're asking us to get emotionally invested. Our player revives endlessly, why not the pets?

The way tames were before, it was clear that they were meant to be catch and release. Like taming one of the mechanial horses in Horizon Zero Dawn. Tame it, ride it, let it go. We weren't supposed to care about them. Do I get emotionally invested in the taxi or uber I took to get somewhere? no.

Have some kind of stable building (which is already announced on the roadmap), and have slots inside for each tame. Anything in a slot can be "de-summoned" and stored in the stable, and revived. Allow you to switch tames by accessing the stable (without the whole "leave party" thing).

I think some kind of cost maybe? either hoots, or maybe something more restrictive, like requiring a boss trophy? Blue hornet wings to revive a hornet, another bird egg to revive your tamed bird?

[ZzozZ]

I want to be able to re-bind the controles with the bird like other control please.

[Nicolaw]

It also sucks that we can't attack while mounted on the bird as well, and it honestly makes no sense... The thing only has 2 attacks while on the ground anyway, why we're not allowed to use his "peck" attack with M1 and stomp with M2 is beyond me.