#clockwork queue

Anyway, I’ve found that by galloping up a slightly angled cliff face, I can make it so the horse doesn’t enter freefall and sometimes even GAIN altitude when travelling along said cliff.

So since it’s such a round-about way from Whiterun to High Hrothgar, I thought I might try this technique to cut a corner or two en route to Ivarstead. All was going well for the first five minutes, when suddenly the horse ‘slips’ (my mouse angles out too far and my character isn’t directly facing the cliff’s slope anymore) and then the horse enters freefall.

It dies, and the player character slips past it, bounces off a rock and continues to ‘ragdoll’. This keeps happening for a solid minute, until they FINALLY reach solid, even ground and there’s an undiscovered chest there too.