Updates for Life Guards

The Life Guards have been in the game for a long time, and since they were added they’ve only received a couple new additions. We’d like some more.

Starting with the big one, we need revamped horses. To put it lightly, the horses are terrible. The feedback on controls are horrible, and often lead to you crashing into things; the speed control is almost non-existent if you have even the slightest amount of lag, and that’s only if you haven’t lost all control of the horse. For example: one time I was riding to Buckingham Palace on horseback, and then I just suddenly lost all control; I couldn’t turn, I couldn’t stop or speed up, nothing. And because of how horses work that also meant I couldn’t dismount.

Secondly, another big problem which I think most people who play on the Household Cavalry can agree with, cuirasses. I don’t intend to insult the work of the developers but the look awful, and they can’t be taken off. In the case of cuirasses all we want are better looking cuirasses that are actually form-fitting to the roblox character, as well as the ability to take them on and off. The old uniform is too good to just throw away.

Onto some tertiary suggestions which aren’t necessary at all but would be nice to have:

Support Guards for Household Cavalry, or at least the Life Guards. To make it clear, we do not want combats, however in real life you can often find Life Guards in No. 8s taking care of horses, which is something that would be nice to have both for roleplay and practical purposes such as transit. Since some people are confused, I do NOT mean let anyone who joins the Life Guards automatically unlock SG. I mean let any support qualified guards in the Life Guards or Horse Guards be able to change into No. 8s while being on HG or LG, meaning that they’ll spawn at HGP rather than WB.

Farriers. Another tertiary suggestions, Farriers are a position in the Household Cavalry dedicated to the welfare and care of horses. When in ceremonial dress, they wear a very dark blue tunic along with black plumes on their helmet (image attached) with the biggest and most noticeable difference being the fact that they wield an axe, rather than a sabre. Having Farriers would serve as a nice new thing for the Household Cavalry, and if added could possibly work in the same way as a Guard Support Qualification, where you must pass a course before you can use it.

No. 2 Dress for Life Guards. Another simple addition, we’d like the option to wear No. 2 dress during events. With No. 2 dress, we’d also like the option to wear our helmets with our No. 2s, as is sometimes done in real life during parades.

Mess Dress (No. 10s) for Life Guards. Another uniform which would be nice to have for events and the like, No. 10s are used for formal events such as Balls and dinners.

I really do like this, all of these additions seem amazing and would 100% without a doubt up the player count of the Life Guards. However, when it comes to the farriers, the option of a Qualification course will be up to the digression and discussion of the Life Guard Headquarters and Royal Guard Headquarters, but i am interested to see how a Farrier Qualification Course would look like, so if the Farriers do get added then I’ll keep what you said in my books.

When it comes to the addition of Formal dress, NO.2’s would be great addition as we are a ceremonial regiment, it would only make sense that we have the ceremonial/Formal dress as well, for occasions where we’re not required to be on horseback/doing our duties.

However, the addition of the No. 10 is a bit too ambitious if you ask me, and i think if we do get formal wear, it would most likely just be the No. 2s not the No. 10’s as well sadly.

Overall i really support these ideas, they’re universal and exclusive, meaning both regiments inside the household cavalry will get an update. The problem that LG has been struggling with for a while is uniqueness, what’s the different between buying the Blues and Royal Game-pass and applying for LG excluding the uniform and the beneficial permissions you get from joining the regiment… Not too much.

All we’re really asking for is something to make us a bit more unique compared to the Horse Guards and enough to make us look appealable to people applying to divisions, such as GG having Combats, RMP maintain authority, OCS being taught how to be an officer. All LG has for itself is just sitting in the Throne Room and honor guarding, which other divisions do.

I really do hope the Developers hear and see this and help this poor division because it’s standing on very weak back legs at this point.

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I’d like revamped horses, but not because of the speed or the control of the horse. What I don’t like about the horses is the idle animation that makes them move to the left half a degree every second.

Regarding the cuirasses, never paid attention to the detail of them. I don’t think they need to be changed that much as they serve their purpose to show what a member of the household cavalry wears, however an option to take them off would be great as they shouldn’t always be worn.

About the Farriers now, I don’t see a reason to make it another qualification course as it only serves a ceremonial purpose. You don’t actually need to maintain the health of the horse. However, it could be implemented as an alternate role to Life Guards, kind of like the Royal Navy Police for RMP, which would have its own regulations on when you can wear it.

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I agree to all of this, please consider them developer team of volute.

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Got my vote :+1:

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wee sooooooo neeeeeeeeeeeeed thissss eveeeeennnnnn immm nooooot lggggggggggg

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As a former (vet) member of LG, I also agree with the following ideas for my best division in RG :heart:

This would be fire

LG should not have their own support guard class, people would only join LG to get support guard in there instead of doing the guard support qualification course. I know you want better additions to LG but maybe think about the LG bugs firstly and suggest a fix of those also we’ve already been told that LG support guard is not anything that the devs are planning, I’ve not heard the developers say no to a farriers suggestion tho but I think the devs are currently making some final updates for MPS and later they will focus on RG more.