AKheon | Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate - horse high jump @AKheon | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
One small quality-of-life improvement the developers added in WO3U is being able to sprint off with your horse immediately as you begin mounting it instead of having to wait for your character's mounting animation to complete. However, it turns out that this innocuous detail actually allows a unique high jump tactic.
If you immediately do a horse jump as you are mounting your horse, your character undergoes some small break-out during the jump and you can then access some inputs that are normally disabled in air. The most obvious use for this is being able to dismount mid-air to gain some unintended height. This can be done with any character to universally gain a fair amount of height with only a fairly simple setup. It seems you gain slightly more height if you do this trick with the special horses (e.g. Red Hare) since they are taller and jump higher.
You can also use the exploit to switch characters, block or do horseback attacks during the horse jump, but so far I haven't noticed any particularly devastating effects from any of this. Any horseback attacks appear to cancel upon landing from the jump. Doing a Samurai-style musou in air works normally, but a Dynasty-style musou interrupts the jump and immediately returns the horse back to the ground level. If done over water surface, you actually clip under it temporarily, which looks funny.
This trick doesn't work in the original WO3 since you can't run or jump with your horse as you are mounting it. You also can't use TTA in air while on horse-back, small break-out exploit or not.
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WO3U general speedrunning guide:
speedrun.com/wo3u/guide/4ba8z
One small quality-of-life improvement the developers added in WO3U is being able to sprint off with your horse immediately as you begin mounting it instead of having to wait for your character's mounting animation to complete. However, it turns out that this innocuous detail actually allows a unique high jump tactic.
If you immediately do a horse jump as you are mounting your horse, your character undergoes some small break-out during the jump and you can then access some inputs that are normally disabled in air. The most obvious use for this is being able to dismount mid-air to gain some unintended height. This can be done with any character to universally gain a fair amount of height with only a fairly simple setup. It seems you gain slightly more height if you do this trick with the special horses (e.g. Red Hare) since they are taller and jump higher.
You can also use the exploit to switch characters, block or do horseback attacks during the horse jump, but so far I haven't noticed any particularly devastating effects from any of this. Any horseback attacks appear to cancel upon landing from the jump. Doing a Samurai-style musou in air works normally, but a Dynasty-style musou interrupts the jump and immediately returns the horse back to the ground level. If done over water surface, you actually clip under it temporarily, which looks funny.
This trick doesn't work in the original WO3 since you can't run or jump with your horse as you are mounting it. You also can't use TTA in air while on horse-back, small break-out exploit or not.
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WO3U general speedrunning guide:
speedrun.com/wo3u/guide/4ba8z
