Old style normal thrust for cav for specific weapons

[Beans]

The new thrust animation restriction I guess is acceptable for the big lances but can we get the full range of motion for the foot spears? Red tassle spears and war spear maybe the light lance(now that it's price increased)ect? It's how people used spears on horses for thousands of years, and they are sort so foot dudes have a chance to strike back.

[Digglez]

stabbing sideways would generate little to no power. you are relying on your upperbody only, instead of horses interia

a 80° frontal arc for thrusting is very realistic and makes sense game wise.  Now if they would change it so couch lances and lance thrusts would really outrange stuff like 2h swords (long/bastards) this would be great.

As it stands, frontal attack on 50% of the playerbase is suicide.  Only people you can safely attack are shielders that dont have 1h sword

[Beans]

Any weapon you wield on a horse while stationary only uses your upper body strength. Being technical and realism really don't matter it just doesn't make any sense why you can't thrust a spear down off a horse to the side.

If the animation change was to give other players a chance to strike back I think that the 150 length spears are surely short enough for that. So why should they be limited as well?

[Peasant_Woman]

Ideally a stopped or slow moving cav would be able to thrust in a wide arc which would get tighter the faster the cav is moving, as thrusting a lance at a right angle to your horse while going 40mph was a bit silly.