Comments on: Mounted Combat in Warhammer Online?

By: Exhaler

Exhaler — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:13:12 +0000

There wont be mounted combat in Warhammer Online.
And thank god for that.

Mounted combat is far to hard to calculate and get working properly.
The pitfalls are simply to many to get it into the game without disturbing balance and gameplay.
And as I previous wrote it simply makes unmounted combat inferior to mounted.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:43:46 +0000

I think is great idea. In Aoc - as i heard - this will be an essence of combat.
In battles guild vs. guild if you are on foot, you will be probably dead after few moments…
I hope i will see similar model in Warhammer Online

By: Exhaler

Exhaler — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:04:15 +0000

It also gives an unfair advantage for ranged classes.
Ranged simply need to stay on their horse while firing arrows/magic.
Melees will have no option but to mount and try to get the ranged on the horsebacks themselfs.
Which lead to mounted combat as the only option.

By: Exhaler

Exhaler — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:52:14 +0000

I for one hope they dont add mounted combat in Warhammer.
The complexity of it will force the developers to release a rather “basic” form of mounted combat which most likely only will lead to unbalanced and unfair combat scenarios.

For instance.
-Will mounts have health and are they damageable?
-Can a rider be thrown from the mount, for instance with pikes and lances. (thats some serious physics to account for all scenarios)?
-Can ppl on foot defend against a mounted attack?

Three simple questions that actually require months and months of both scripting and mindstorming.
So imo they should focus on balancing the combat on foot and have mounts only for transport.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:35:58 +0000

Nice! I’ll definitely check that out Bildo - thanks for the link.

By: Bildo

Bildo — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:08:42 +0000

AoC actually does, and they’re taking it pretty seriously. It’s one of a handful of reasons my ears are starting to perk up around that title. Here you go…

http://bildos.blogspot.com/2007/12/age-of-conan-and-mounted-combat.html