Constructive Feedback on the Mount and Tameable Companion System

[Mago Guitarrista]

Hello everyone!

I recently tried the mount and tameable companion system with some friends, and I've encountered several issues that I want to share in hopes that they can be considered for future improvements.

Firstly, the mount system, especially with the Askvin, is a disaster. In biomes like Ashlands, it's almost impossible for them to be useful. If you leave them alone for just a few seconds, they wander into the lava to fight other creatures until they get killed. This is especially frustrating given the effort it takes to tame them. Additionally, when you are mounting, enemy archers can kill them with just two shots, even if they are two-star. At this rate, they aren't worth the trouble, except for farming their parts easily.

I understand that the game is still far from being finished, but I believe the system has a lot of potential that could be better utilized. Here are some suggestions:

1-Transport system for tamed creatures: It would be great to be able to put them in the inventory, whether it's the character's inventory or a ship's. The mount itself could even be an item for summoning or storing them. Alternatively, they could be transported through portals.

2-Simple commands system: Being able to give them simple commands like "stay and defend" or "follow" the character would greatly improve their control and usefulness.

3-Mount button: It's incomprehensible that at this point the button to mount "E" is still the same as the one to remove the mount item. This detail needs urgent adjustment to avoid confusion and frustration.

4-Equipping armor: Being able to equip the creatures with different armors, just like normal armors with their various bonuses or penalties, would give them more utility and customization.

5-Combat usage: Any improvement that allows us to use them for attacking while mounted would be a great advance. Currently, the lack of offensive options severely limits their usefulness.

6-Experience system: A separate experience system for mounts and companions, where they can level up as they accompany us, would allow us to keep a companion throughout our entire gameplay experience, making them more valuable and cherished.

For now, they seem more of a burden than a help. Not just the Askvin, but all animals as companions, unless you want to use them for farming when tamed. I hope these suggestions can be helpful and contribute to improving the game.

Thank you for your attention!

Best regards.

[Nerevar]

a 2 star asksvin isnt 2 shot by archers. what are you talking about there? thats just not the case.

effort to tame them. make a pit or raise some earthwalls. trap lure it inside with a simple grausten staircase. toss fiddlehead in. done. wait for it to be tamed. pretty simple to do.

then have them breed a few times to get a stack of eggs. eggs can be teleported freely to get the tame wherever you want them to hatch. only fire source needed near egg. this way if you lose one of them its no big deal.

and with a pen somewhere else on the map outside of ashlands you can have infinite eggs. thus loseing one or a bunch is no big deal. the saddle costing flametal is a problem tough if you lose it with the mount. maybe remove that requirement.

so they are already as transportable as it gets currently.

asksvin do attack things while you mount them. or do you mean you yourself beeing able to attack on top?

wolfs can be told to follow and stay. system is already in the game. they just choose to not use it for lox and asksvin. dont ask me why. maybe because wolfs are smarter? no idea really on this one. would make sense to prevent them from running into lava atleast definitly for asksvins.

the item to remove the mount is the same? what?

there is only really 3 tames for combat in the entire game and only 2 can be rideable aswell and the 2nd one just got added now after years. its clearly not a major fokus to have rideable anything in the game. so not sure adding armor for them is worth it given thier usefulness is very limited as a mount since portals exist anyway.

if you wanna tame creatures and have permanent companions i would say ARK is a much better game for doing that than valheim will probaly ever be.

overall tames are mostly for getting thier meat easy and fast longterm. for anything else there is faster and better methods.

still a good post overall. and constructive.

[Mago Guitarrista]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Nerevar:

a 2 star asksvin isnt 2 shot by archers. what are you talking about there? thats just not the case.

effort to tame them. make a pit or raise some earthwalls. trap lure it inside with a simple grausten staircase. toss fiddlehead in. done. wait for it to be tamed. pretty simple to do.

then have them breed a few times to get a stack of eggs. eggs can be teleported freely to get the tame wherever you want them to hatch. only fire source needed near egg. this way if you lose one of them its no big deal.

and with a pen somewhere else on the map outside of ashlands you can have infinite eggs. thus loseing one or a bunch is no big deal. the saddle costing flametal is a problem tough if you lose it with the mount. maybe remove that requirement.

so they are already as transportable as it gets currently.

asksvin do attack things while you mount them. or do you mean you yourself beeing able to attack on top?

wolfs can be told to follow and stay. system is already in the game. they just choose to not use it for lox and asksvin. dont ask me why. maybe because wolfs are smarter? no idea really on this one. would make sense to prevent them from running into lava atleast definitly for asksvins.

the item to remove the mount is the same? what?

there is only really 3 tames for combat in the entire game and only 2 can be rideable aswell and the 2nd one just got added now after years. its clearly not a major fokus to have rideable anything in the game. so not sure adding armor for them is worth it given thier usefulness is very limited as a mount since portals exist anyway.

if you wanna tame creatures and have permanent companions i would say ARK is a much better game for doing that than valheim will probaly ever be.

overall tames are mostly for getting thier meat easy and fast longterm. for anything else there is faster and better methods.

still a good post overall. and constructive.

1- Does figurative speech ring a bell? I meant even the 2 stars askvins are too weak.

2- As I said, what's the point of all that? Just for them to run away and hit anything nearby in the lava and lose it? You're missing the point.

3- Still the same as point 2, I know eggs can be teleported...

4- "Its clearly not a major fokus to have rideable anything in the game" then remove the mount item, why would it exist? Just leave the creature for farming in a pit like you've said, it makes no sense.

5- "if you wanna tame creatures and have permanent companions i would say ARK is a much better game for doing that than valheim will probaly ever be." We are talking about making the game richer in content and better. If not, what's the point of having an ideas topic forum? Sending people to play other games is not the way.

As I have said several times before, if the point of taming is just to get materials faster, then remove the mount items since it's not the focus and it's not useful as it is...