Idea HorseMaster - new kit idea

tbh, it sounds like a tankier soldier that can run sightly faster without its wall-climbing ability. definitely needs it's armor toned down

 

Ok, cool idea. Just a few things that may be a problem: do sponges work for the horse? Do headshots count? How about assassinations on the horse (it can’t block but you can)? Does pyro frenzy have the same effect? Will you still suffocate when going through two high hallways/openings? Does the horse take fall damage? When a horse dies, what happens? Do potion effects work on the horse(like damage, poison, regeneration, etc)? Can the horse fit through 1x1 holes? How about mage spells such as the ice spell? Does that create a 2x1x1 space or a space big enough for you and your horse? Are successive elf pure element shots on your horse transferable to the horse master? Do necro zombies target horses? Does engineer turret target the horse? Does medic/engi cake/mage Heal spell regen work on the horse?

There are quite a few things to fix if you wanted to add a horse into the game, but it sounds like fun class.

 

On Night Raid if you abused your mod powers you could release the horses and run around with them - I'd go Mage and use heal spell to keep the horse alive, and run around shooting people with damage spell.

A few things to consider:

• Low horse armor makes it useless for capping
• High armor makes it OP for capping
• Passing the flag to someone on horseback would be kind of OP
• Horses get completely stuck in water, to the point that they're unusable
• Horses aren't affected by sponges (@Claod)
• Certain maps would be completely useless for horses (e.g. Beaver Creek)

If it were to happen, I'd make it a roaming, low-armor recovery/support class, where the horse and player act as one entity. Realistically I think there's too many hurdles to make it work, but it would definitely be a lot of fun.