Short and sweet, we know it's broken. We know some people probably abuse it on purpose, others on accident. After putting a lot of thought into this I think it would serve better to remove mount stamina and go with a skill instead. Place it wherever you want on the hotbar, it makes the mount sprint for a predetermined amount of time and goes on cooldown. You can pick 2 options in the poll. Use one for the skill/no skill and one for the skill style options
Remove mount stamina/sprint, bring racial mounts back up to 400 hp, make blue tails faster than regular mounts, battlehorns same speed as regular mounts.
Remove sprint mechanic all together. Add new tiers of mounts. T1 slowest speed, T2 medium speed, T3 fastest speed. Health stays the same on all tiers. Higher tier require rare mats and are more expensive to make. Never hurts to have more content.
Yes, the mount that had less HP and only had the benefit of being faster as a result. The mount type that didn't allow people to run without fear because they didn't have a tank that runs at bluetail speed after begoning away. No one cares about unused gear. That's the whole point of being a game developer - to add - not reskin things once they've become obsolete for a particular group. Maybe if you were a small indie developer working alone, then I'd understand using old models from a prior game in a new one, but that isn't the case here.
They have 150 hp. racial mounts would have 400. I'm not asking for a big difference in speed, just get rid of the stupid mount stamina. I imagine people would ride a bluetail and keep a racial/bhorn in their paperdoll. Not opposed to exploring this idea either.
Increase steedgrass or cost then. Steedgrass is dirt cheap ever since mounts became the same. If a bluetail had less hp, ran faster and cost 2 or 3 grass each it might be a useful material again, although idk about now. Lotta grass in the system since everyone only needed to use 1 for the longest time. Also this statement is the exact same as it was before. Everyone uses normal mounts, they ignore bluetails unless map running, and bhorns are only used in sieges or for escape. Its basically interchanging bluetails with the racial mounts but its less grass used. Sure it gives the illusion of more diversity because racial mounts ARE different but its really just the same as it was, except were slower and grass is less valued.
I like the old mounts Everyone used them, yea but y’all can make skins in the cash shop if you are worried about our RP’ers. Blue tails was actually balanced to what we have now imo. You basically have blue tails with a timer with a ridiculous amount of health. It’s dumb trying to catch someone. Not to mention literally everyone abuses the sprint bug, making it even more so cancerous.
Ok how about just an extra tier. Tier 1 is current mount at current run speed and its 1 steedgrass. Tier 2 is perma sprint speed but is 3 steed and 1 rare ingot and 1 rare leather? Tier 1 is a cheap disposable option and tier 2 is a preferred option but more risky. Game could always use more sinks for resources.
I don't like managing a stam bar while I travel long distances, let alone a god damn cooldown, I'd prefer it's just one stable speed but I wouldn't mind some mounts being slightly faster than others I suppose idk
I prefer this as well tbh, people who travel Far will use blue tails and cost more grass that’s a plus, People will still use regular mounts thanks to being able to make mount in the open now. What grim said tho people who travel will prom make a blue tail and have a backup mount in their inventory. The old system wasn’t bad imo
I like the old mounts but bluetails were op for making quick escapes around the terrain.I do like Kael's idea of new mount tiers that cost new/better mats. I also like the idea of being able to feed/raise your mount to increase its stats.
What about the paperdoll mount being stock and more like a skill that has a 30min cooldown if it dies or something and the stock mount you can make unique some way in stats/looks? Idk just random ideas. Maybe some mount armor/skins or something.
none of this imo this is simple and its what we want: normal mounts : 300 hp normal speed bluetail : 150 hp 10% movement speed increase Battlehorn: 600 hp -10% speed 5% melee attack on mount increase REMOVE COMPLETELY the stam bar it was a bad system and its still bug after a long time.
I would say make blue tails 100-150hp 175 is to big imo Also prob don’t need the extra melee dmg on battle horns that extra hp is huge and enough to be used for a mount push with 1 handers
