A new patch for Astride is now available. Here are the new features and changes/fixes that have been made. More patches and updates will come soon.
You may have to restart your Steam client if the update is not immediately available.
Patch highlights
Added content & features
- Listen to the clippity-clops as your horse moves on the terrain, hoof sounds are now added amongst other sound effects
- Music and ambience sounds have made their way into the game, adjust the volume levels in the settings menu
- The horse’s hooves now leave behind a faint trail of dust particles while it is gracefully moving across the map
- Petting the horse from horseback while moving and standing still, press G to give it a nice pat on the shoulder for working so hard
- Greying and tobiano patterns now affect the horse’s mane and tail colors
- Hyperpigmentation before a horse turns grey has been implemented
- The visuals for the striding indicator has been updated and refreshed with a new look and feel
- Added the option to toggle on/off the visuals of the striding/striding help
- Option to toggle the gait text on/off in game settings
- A show jumping course has been added in the indoor arena, start the course by using the board outside the arena
- Options for VSync to sync PFS with monitor refresh rate or half of refresh rate
- Added FPS Limit option for when Vsync is disabled
- Horse pathing has been implemented, the horse will automatically follow the road when pressing V on the keyboard or the North Button on the gamepad
- The horse will now automatically speed or down up to the required speed for gait changes when switching gait, making gait changes easier especially from canter to trot
Fixes & adjustments
- The horse will no longer spin out of control over jumps when approaching them at a turn, the horse has has been told to maintain its composure for the future
- Players can now mount the horse while crouching without getting stuck underneath it
- Press “,” to hide UI in case you want to do some cool recordings without disturbing elements
- The textures for the horse’s teeth, tongue, and gums are assigned and are no longer just white and lifeless (also, why are you looking inside the horse’s head?)
- The normal map of the mane and tail has been tweaked to add more depth
- The chestnut coat textures have been slightly desaturated in order to for the horses to not look like carrots
- Fixed a minor animation problem in hands while riding
- Fixed a crash that happened when players disconnected while holding a ball
- Added collision to some stones that did not have colliders
- Fixed some areas where the striding plane would hover above the ground
- The main menu splash art has been replaced with something more seasonally appropriate
- The human character is no longer bald
- The horse now speeds up and slows down more quickly to make it easier to handle when riding through courses
- Removed the Terrain Detail Density option
- Some tweaks to post-processing, and lowered the bloom intensity
- Fixed shadows sometimes disappearing from horse, this was due to reflection probe placement
- Added a second texture option for greying, this has previously been available but at random
Known issues
- The horse sometimes disobeys the follow-road command
- The game crashes when shutting down a server if there are players online in that server
- The ambience and music might cut out if there are too many sounds playing at once
- Sounds for character footsteps, the ball and the Eldhests have not yet been implemented
- The in-game music will play every track after each other and then stop
- Authentication issue when you've recently disconnected from a server and you're trying to re-join
- Cannot change horse tack
- The gray option in the horse creator doesn’t completely gray out and currently has only one gray texture option
- Some horse animations, like turning while standing and the piaffe, won’t play as they should while standing still
- Petting animations not aligning properly at some speeds and while turning
- If the horse is turning slow and the striding plane appears jittery or laggy, enable on VSync and set it to Every V-Blank, this should solve the issue
