I know I'm gonna get a lot of hate for this, but cav in multiplayer really needs to be nerfed.
I've experienced multiple times not being able to do anything against cav when playing infantry. If the cav player has a large shield, the shield even protects their horse when you try to lance it, so you can't hit the horse. If you do manage to hit the horse, if it has any armor it takes 3-4 hits with a spear to kill it. So even if you do manage to stop/stun the horse, the player can double tap W to sprint away before you can even manage to get more hits in. Not even mentioning that if using a spear you'll glance half the time and do no damage anyway.
You can't protect yourself from cav either because if they are charging at you the momentum with the hitboxes and the length of their lance can out range pretty much everything except a pike. And if you try to block with your shield they can just bump you to drop your shield and get a hit in on the same pass through.
9 times out of 10 doing any 6v6 skirmish or clan battle the top players are cav players because there is nothing that can be done against them unless they are so bad that they allow archers to kill their horse.
I think the solution is mainly to not make shields able to block any portion of the horse's body, and to reduce the ability for a horse to escape situations when at a complete stop. That way they are punished more for diving into the middle of an infantry fight
I've experienced multiple times not being able to do anything against cav when playing infantry. If the cav player has a large shield, the shield even protects their horse when you try to lance it, so you can't hit the horse. If you do manage to hit the horse, if it has any armor it takes 3-4 hits with a spear to kill it. So even if you do manage to stop/stun the horse, the player can double tap W to sprint away before you can even manage to get more hits in. Not even mentioning that if using a spear you'll glance half the time and do no damage anyway.
You can't protect yourself from cav either because if they are charging at you the momentum with the hitboxes and the length of their lance can out range pretty much everything except a pike. And if you try to block with your shield they can just bump you to drop your shield and get a hit in on the same pass through.
9 times out of 10 doing any 6v6 skirmish or clan battle the top players are cav players because there is nothing that can be done against them unless they are so bad that they allow archers to kill their horse.
I think the solution is mainly to not make shields able to block any portion of the horse's body, and to reduce the ability for a horse to escape situations when at a complete stop. That way they are punished more for diving into the middle of an infantry fight