As much as you want it to be mounted combat. Its up to you.. dont want to ride a horse then dont ride a horse. Use the terrain to your advantage..run into a dense forest and a mounted player should be at a disadvantage.
To me personally i think a horse archer/mage would be really fun. It will be interesting to see how they handle collison detection with horses. But i think you will be pleasently surprised how fun mounted combat can be and how you can have an effective strike team doing guerrilla type warfare.
So i heard stuff about horse mounts and driving boats and even vehicules( correct me if im wrong) .. But i am wondering how will that player driven boat stuff work. Controls? Catapults on boats and all the rest. I am also wondering any other types of mounts other than the horse. Like for an orc on a horse . Well whatever happens.. This will be a great game
there are siege vehicles, but those arent really like vehicles as you may think them, not like bf2's vehicles and whatnot. about the boats, you cant just man a warboat or pirate ship alone, you NEED a crew for that. i mean alone you could only do one thing at a time. if its just for sailing you should be fine, but in any sort of battle situation your basically fcuked unless you have a good crew. so basically the controls arent gonna be uber crazy where 1 guy is controlling an entire boat...
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there are siege vehicles, but those arent really like vehicles as you may think them, not like bf2's vehicles and whatnot. about the boats, you cant just man a warboat or pirate ship alone, you NEED a crew for that. i mean alone you could only do one thing at a time. if its just for sailing you should be fine, but in any sort of battle situation your basically fcuked unless you have a good crew. so basically the controls arent gonna be uber crazy where 1 guy is controlling an entire boat...
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The noob formally not known as not being the formally not unkown known APEist; The Stone Cold Killer of Tarq.
I've never played mounted combat before save for the mockery in Zelda ocarina of time. Shooting a bow from horse back doesn't count when as soon as y6ou mount the horse it's like "Flash! Zomg! wall of invinicibility, now no one can hurt me so long as I stay on my horse" So yeah I've never done mounted combat but it looks cool
I've longed looked forward to a game with good mounted combat.
If having 10 or more peeps in some shiny armor riding atop warhorses charging into a group of enemies on foot or horseback doesn't sound cool then your in no way similar to me.
At the moment, I play EVE, and the skill based system, and clans PVP setup sounds similar and that is definately great news to me cause I love it. So I hope they get it right, and if they do, I bow to them.
This game hopefully lives the hype cause it sounds awesome to me, I'll cross my fingers for it, till then I'm gonna sit back and relax on EVE and beat the crap outta my pals on Fight Night Round 3 on XBOX 360
I would imagine that having a horse would give you somewhat of an advantage over enemies on foot, but not too big of an advantage that your best bet against a mounted opponent is to hide before you get stomped on. Maybe using an arrow or a pike gives you an advantage against a mounted foe.
Originally posted by Bestius I would imagine that having a horse would give you somewhat of an advantage over enemies on foot, but not too big of an advantage that your best bet against a mounted opponent is to hide before you get stomped on. Maybe using an arrow or a pike gives you an advantage against a mounted foe.
They may have a small advantage, but the devs said that while you're on a mount you won't be able to use many of the combat skills. That should even the field. Somewhat.
After seeing the screenshots of mounted combat and playing M&B for a while I am really looking forward to mounted combat in Darkfall. One thing that those of you playing games like EQ and DOAC need to remember is you are not constrained in those little zones where you run into a wall every 30 seconds. Not only will we have the space to ride and manuver but you will want a mount to go places.
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Well.. if it are well done, i could image it can also perform good group battles with mounts.
Maybe you should look and playtest Mount&Blade
(download the playable Demo), and you can see how mounted combat could be.
And the DF devs said, the combat will be similar(70% to) to mount&blade, but sure, m&b isnt
multiplayer and we can only judge if we can playtest DF.
But i have a good feeling.. hope they start Beta soon.
Mount & Blade combat is kickass.. devs have stated it's something along the lines of 70% similar to Darkfall combat..
Manually aimed attacks is the way to go, only 1 hitbox in DFO though, so no headshots
How much of the game will be mounted combat though? blaaahahh
As much as you want it to be mounted combat. Its up to you.. dont want to ride a horse then dont ride a horse. Use the terrain to your advantage..run into a dense forest and a mounted player should be at a disadvantage.
To me personally i think a horse archer/mage would be really fun. It will be interesting to see how they handle collison detection with horses. But i think you will be pleasently surprised how fun mounted combat can be and how you can have an effective strike team doing guerrilla type warfare.
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Games looking forward to: Fallen Earth, Mortal Online
The noob formally not known as not being the formally not unkown known APEist; The Stone Cold Killer of Tarq.
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Games looking forward to: Fallen Earth, Mortal Online
The noob formally not known as not being the formally not unkown known APEist; The Stone Cold Killer of Tarq.
I wonder if there will be specialization for overrunning people. Heh heh.
I've longed looked forward to a game with good mounted combat.
If having 10 or more peeps in some shiny armor riding atop warhorses charging into a group of enemies on foot or horseback doesn't sound cool then your in no way similar to me.
At the moment, I play EVE, and the skill based system, and clans PVP setup sounds similar and that is definately great news to me cause I love it. So I hope they get it right, and if they do, I bow to them.
This game hopefully lives the hype cause it sounds awesome to me, I'll cross my fingers for it, till then I'm gonna sit back and relax on EVE and beat the crap outta my pals on Fight Night Round 3 on XBOX 360
Mounted combat is gonna be supersweet.
M&B online hehe.
Hopefully all combat aspect will be successfull..
I would imagine that having a horse would give you somewhat of an advantage over enemies on foot, but not too big of an advantage that your best bet against a mounted opponent is to hide before you get stomped on. Maybe using an arrow or a pike gives you an advantage against a mounted foe.
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They may have a small advantage, but the devs said that while you're on a mount you won't be able to use many of the combat skills. That should even the field. Somewhat.
the racial mounts are as follows.
human, big warhorses
orc, giant lizards
alfar, giant spiders
mirham(wolfman things) sont have mounts, they run on all fours.
elves and dwarfs dont have a mount announced yet.