Astride Patch 0.3.24.9

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

• The Arabian horse has been added to the horse breed roster

• The Rabicano gene is now available for the Arabian horse

• Third-person and first-person view while riding or grounded have been added and can be toggled with Tab

• Added saving and loading of the camera mode

• Horse refusals have been implemented

• Updated and added more leg markings variations

• Added lead changes while turning

• Added four more show jumping courses and updated show jumping course 3 with a new course

• Added a new dressage course and a new dressage training course

• Added lead change for slow canter

• Added idle and halt animation with transitions from different gaits

• Added rein-back (reverse, backing up) on horseback

• Added Silver Buckskin and Silver Smoky Black gene combination

• Added a hard stop animation for the horse, activate by pressing X

• Added walk-to-canter transition

• Added look-at IK for third person character view, the character will now look towards where the camera is pointed

• New UI that includes gait and speed indicators while mounted on the horse

Fixes & adjustments

• Terrain texture has been updated

• Water shader has been adjusted

• World lighting and shader has been updated and adjusted

• Increased the scroll sensitivity range in the controls options

• Fixed a multiplayer bug for force animations

• Fixed various LODs

• The world fog has been adjusted

• Reflection probes have been swapped and replaced

• Fixed issue with horse jumping delayed because of changing strides before the jump

• Splashed white face markings have been updated for better eye textures

• Fixed animation looping issues

• The horse shader has had some updates and tweaking

• Minor fixes of the shadows

• Adjusted the horse’s textures to be less shiny

• Changed the render order of some materials

• Added object shadows

• Updated colors and textures for the house and stable buildings

• Adjusted arena fence to hide the fence foundation mesh

• Reduced sizes of numbers of textures to help with optimization

• Pangare textures have been replaced with new ones that do not have visible seams

• Some white patterns, such as Tobiano, have increased texture size and quality

• The main menu camera angles for the horse have been adjusted

• Tweaked the existing dressage training course to have less gait transitions

• Updated the transition from idle to turning standstill

• Updated the textures inside the stable building

• Fixed stirrup placement based on breed

• Fixed neck position and deformation on scaled horse heads

• Updated control scheme in the escape menu

• Added scaling to the scroll sensitivity when playing with a save from an older build

• Adjusted the turning of the horse

• Made post-processing and shadows change with the quality set in the graphics options

• Updated transitions from and to halt and transition between reverse and walk

• Updated show jumping training course 2 with a new training layout and exercises

• Fixed the transition between piaffe and passage

• Fixed issue with transition from piaffe to walk, trot, and canter

• General updates and tweaking of the UI, including changing the backdrop with blur and shadows for text

Known issues

• The reins sometimes clip through the neck and both reins end up at the same side of the neck

• Mane clipping issue with some breeds, especially the Arabian

• There are some clipping/skinning issues with tack