Dynasty Warriors 7 - horse break-out
18Horse break-out is a powerful multi-purpose glitch that allows you to start riding a horse without your character actually getting on the horse. As a result, you control both the horse and the player character at the same time.
To start the glitch, you have to mount a horse during the first frames of a switch attack. For PS3, the input is R1 and X in a quick succession. If your timing was right, you can see a subtle change in camera altitude as the game thinks you're now riding a horse, even though your character remains on ground.
I think this can be done with every weapon, but it's recommended to not use any weapons that your character has a double jump with - the jump just messes things up.
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Some notes about the glitch:
- Running or blocking teleports you back on top of the horse and the glitch ends.
- Your character can go through walls or water surface unhindered while the glitch is active.
- There are two versions of this glitch: grounded and airborne. You can move around while grounded by doing regular attacks. This is of course pretty slow, but being able to phase through a wall and snipe some important enemy officer is still a valuable skill in a speedrun.
- If you jump or use any combo that launches your character into air, you start a different mode of this glitch: the airborne mode. While airborne you can fly around the map at horse speed and with very slippery controls. However, it becomes much harder to end the glitch at will after this point. Only saving and reloading or flying into a cutscene can do this. Other than that, you're forever stuck like that.
(Although, one time I did notice the glitch ended when I flew near a horse. Not sure why, and I couldn't reproduce this effect later.)
- Your offensive options are very limited while airborne. You can get your character stuck in a damaging pose by doing the air attack of either Flying Swords, Lance or the switch attack of Staff. This allows you to hit any enemy once while moving around. If you want to hit them any more times, you have to switch weapons to something else, and then back to the damaging weapon type. While arduous, it's possible to snipe important officers from far across the map this way too.
- If you get hit in either variation your character flies up into space as they are not stopped by gravity at the moment. You have to reload game if this happens.
- Saving and reloading returns you back to the coordinates of the horse.
- Another subtle trick that this glitch enables is crossing past triggers unnoticed. For instance, if there is a garrison with an ambush lying in wait inside. You can separate your character from a horse, ride through the garrison with the horse - the horse alone doesn't activate any in-game triggers - and then teleport back on top of the horse once you're past the ambush.
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0:00 - some basic info about the grounded variation.
1:24 - basic info about the airborne variation.
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Played on the unpatched PS3 version.
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Dynasty Warriors 7 speedrunning guide:
https://www.speedrun.com/Dynasty_Warriors_7/guide/zfqo9
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