I know the likelihood of anybody from Bioware seeing this is pretty null, but I just wanted to say, as someone who's owned and ridden horses all my life, I really love the horses in this game. Easily the second best I've encountered in any video game (behind, of course, Red Dead Redemption, but I assume Bioware didn't mocap their horses like Rockstar did). They're very well proportioned, which is something apparently hard to accomplish in a game (for comparison, Assassin's Creed horses are freakishly and unnaturally tall, Uncharted/The Last of Us horses are dangerously small/thin, Skyrim's horses look possessed half the time, etc). They also move beautifully, so much so that watching them in the game makes me want to ride them. Animations are great, their appearance is great, the color variations are great, overall you guys have made at least one equestrian happy.
That being said, I do have a few criticisms -
Horses are actually pretty quiet, they don't tend to neigh unless they're separated from their friends, answering another horse's neigh, or really hungry (but maybe that's just my horses), so of course I found the amount of neighing to be a bit much. That can also be said for the amount of idle rearing (not including the press X/A/Spacebar to rear), horses (at least, trained ones) don't rear often, usually only when they're startled, excited, fighting, or commanded to (for specially trained ones).
Their knees behaved a bit odd as well - whenever a horse puts weight on its front legs, its knees lock when fully extended, something the horses in the game tended not to do.
Oh, and the horse master, when giving you your first horse, refers to it as "the chestnut in the barn". Took me a while to find the horse, as I was searching for an actual chestnut, while all the horse master's horses are bay! I've seen this mistake other places too, how odd.
Overall, fantastic horses, thank you for putting so much time and effort into them (I know it couldn't have been an easy task to make them as good as they are)!





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