I had this wierd bug today. i was fighting some bandits on horseback, when
my horse took off with me on it. I couldn’t turn it, or stop it, or get off it.
The only way to stop it was to quit the game. Keyboard was working fine as was
mouse. Very wierd. Windows 7 PC
I have experience both bugs regarding dismounting horses.
· camera separation making it impossible to dismount or reasonably steer your horse. Fast travel would not fix this. however, saving then exiting the game completely solved it. This bug has since been patched.
· Another horse bug recently rose up when you try to mount or dismount your horse in a spot not suitable (headroom, landing zone occupied, angle). Fast travel has corrected this issue for me, with Henry being situated dismonted. I must say, that if you experienced this bug while in combat I suspect you were target practice.
Open world games encounter glitches. We know this to be true because of the unpredictability of all players’ actions and input sequences. Linear type games tend to be more bug free, but for that “perfection”, the cost is freedom of movement and exploration. This particular glitch might be occuring because of an item of clothing, particular horse, encumberance, etc.
Fixing this bug is likely going to take more resources than are worth spending for a bug that is not game breaking. My solution has been to mind where i park my horse when dismounting or mounting up. I look at it as a personal immersion tool. Exercise poor safety around a 1200 lbs animal and it might just kill you.
I don’t mean to defend WH if it’s sounding that way, just suggesting how I solved it for myself.
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This happened again today. It has not been fixed. I’m on the latest patch. You are correct though that the only way
I have found to resolve it is to close the game, unfortunately due to the saving issue, that is not always possible if you don’t have a potion on you. I wish you’d fix this saving problem, Life should not have to take 2nd place to a game.
I am now permanently trapped on my horse. Reloading the game leaves me trapped on Pebbles which I mounted, just to move it. I have another horse. So turns out this IS a game breaking bug, as it’s broken my save game, and I will have to lose a days play, because I’ve just been doing RUIN missions all day long (6 hours). FIX THIS BUG. This never used to be a problem before the latest patch.
Found myself trapped between a rock and hard place again, this time I could not fast travel from there. My solution was shooting a few arrow into the old nag.
I’ve played the Steam version for almost 200 hours since v1.4 and the other day I encountered what was perhaps the third horse-unmounting bug ever for me.
I was fast-traveling at night wielding a torch, chose to fight an ambush, wielded my sword, unmounted and was unable to make Henry turn right with a mouse. Nothing I tried worked. Had to restart the game.
Yes, it happens when you press “Accelerate” (or your horse is impacted and start running wild) and “Dismount” keys simultaneously while on horse. Just avoid those.
Game design is not for horse battles in fact (horse is forbidden in major battles Pribyslavitz and Vranik), the horse is mainly for transport and carrying. Horse armour was left out of the game until FTA DLC that includes a simple plate chanfron (you can find some in two hidden -not so easy to reach- places as well), except for visual, may be in a future devs pay more attention to that issue, so, my best advice is to learn to enjoy your fights on foot! I did it, you can do it! haha
Greets.