Yes, actually. Born-again.

Thank you GOG!

I don't use the horse most of the time, I'd rather let Geralt run, it's quicker. The horse randomly stops or changes direction, runs straight at trees, gets stuck.

Awful programming. It can't even run straight on path...

What control scheme? I can't say I've ever had that happen.

What the heck you mean, control scheme? :P

Edit: Wtf gog, post wouldnt even show up...post another and both show up.

Controller or mouse+keyboard.

Keyboard and mouse of course.

Ah, well I use a gamepad. Between the character momentum and what not I don't even want to imagine kb+m.

It's annoying to say the least.

Game is good, but another 4 to 6 months of dev wouldn't have harmed it...

Yeah, I had more the bugs in mind when I wrote that. Controls are usually dreadful. Combat is OK but sometimes Geralt does whatever he pleases.

Combat was never this IP's forte anyway. It's just passable now.

But as I've said, running/sprinting > horsing.

I've tried both, and honestly prefer the keyboard and mouse. Combat is better with a controller, but holding W when riding a horse and steering with the mouse is much more fluid, and less prone to the sudden jerks to the right and left that cause the horse to randomly stop.

Beard and haircut is an option if you go to a barber, they're in all the major cities.

Temerian Armor is at the first merchant Bram or whatever his name is in White Orchard.

Alternative look for Yennifer is automatic when you see her, can be disabled from main game menu.

The Nilfgaardian armor is apparently at the Bloody Baron's blacksmith (haven't went back there since I headed to Skellige yet tho to confirm).

No idea where the elite crossbow set is, probably Crow's Nest or whatever it's called.

No idea where the new Gwent deck is, probably scattered across many merchants and gwent players like the other decks.

Missing Miners quest is in Ard Skellige

Not sure where Fool's Gold is, haven't ran into it yet.

HTH

I believe he's talking about how the game automatically changes the horse direction and/or camera movement after so many seconds if you don't constantly move in a different direction yourself. This can cause the horse to shift direction right into a tree or something sometimes. When you move the horse in any given direction with the camera pointing wherever you like, if you do not move the camera or horse left/right at all a countdown timer starts and after so many seconds (5-10 or so) the game engine resets your camera view to wherever it thinks it should be pointing instead of leaving it the F alone, and sometimes it adjusts the direction the horse is moving also. When it's out in the open it's not too big of an issue, but when there are lots of trees and obstacles that cock-block the horse he ends up running right into them and having a temper tantrum fit.

The problem is it will move the horse around when it doesn't matter, sometimes causing you to go off trail and other things, and when it would be actually useful to move the horse such as to slightly deviate a few degrees to the left or right to avoid a tree or other small obstacle, it'll let the horse run right into it and then freak out acting all surprised.

Either way the horse is still a million times faster than Geralt can run when you double tap the shift key and get him going into a full tilt gallop. The horse can run at least 2-3 times the speed Geralt can, and if you let go of the W key while the horse is in cantor or gallop mode, the horse will attempt to follow the road/trail you're on with some degree of success on straightaways/curves, and only gets confused to hell at forks in the road in which case it usually chooses to go the wrong way even if you move the mouse around to indicate your preference.

The horse controls definitely could use some improvements but the horse is an asset in the game even as-is IMHO and 10 times better than the stupid aggro-horses in Skyrim. :)