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I'll keep it short.

Do our specials work while on a mount? I know weapons specials don't but I would think that ours should.

-ob

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Nope.

"You can't use Form Up while mounted." Every time.

Sucks too, I was kinda lookin forward to riding my stallion (kaadu) into battle, shouting orders.

No kidding. That's bantha crap. I can't use rifle specials anyways because of the mind cost of SL moves. I would, therefore, be only helped by mounts. Why in God's name wouldn't SL specials be able to work from a mount? I know why: when our SL DEV was working on mounts instead of us, he compleatly forgot we exhisted. Does he remember now?

Question: Can one use /aim on mounts? If not, then perhaps mounts only effect the one special, and the rest work.

Either way, we need that added to the report to the DEVs.

Have you tried /retreat? It works on other player mounts soI was curious if it would work on your own mount...if you can use it while mounted.

/retreat doesn't work for you under any circumstances. You sacrifice yourself so that the group can escape. When it works you get combat spam telling you which characters put on a burst of speed and when they slow down.

Oh...so you did it while on your mount which, if buggedas I assume it would be, is considered a separate entity? And if it is considered separate then if you can /retreat while mounted its highly likely it will work for your mount....

I tried it. I grouped with my mount, and tried a /retreat.

Doesn't work. "You cannot retreat while mounted". None of the SL special work while mounted.

---Also pets don't seem to benefit from /retreat under any circumstances.

There were reports at one time that /retreat did increase mount speed for other players in the group. Not pets in general, but mounts (when mounted).

Might be a fluke tho, I haven't tried.

It's not a fluke. I tested it quite a bit post-patch. But I didn't have a mount for myself so I couldn't try out the abilities while mounted. And terrain Neg works for mounts as well. Two-legs are supposed to climb hills slowly but while grouped with a Squad Leader they climb at the same speed as four legs. Retreat works for mounts, and when combined with /gallop it gives a x4 speed burst, just as if the player himself had used /burstrun.

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Yeraze wrote:

None of the SL special work while mounted.

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One would that that, with the Squad Leader developer being pulled away from his duties in order to get mounts out, we would at least get SOME **edit**ING LOVE!!!