I don't generally join the whole whine-train as I have a lot of faith in the devs. This, however, is silly.
The nerf to lance range has, finally, turned cav into a class that can only kill unaware people. With old lance ranges, it was possibly to 1v1 against infantry and even pikes with very good awareness, precision timing and baiting mind-games.
This is a lot of fun. Often it failed and I died, but often enough it worked and I won because of my deftness in control of my horse. As far as I understand, a 'class' in a game has certain abilities/strengths that, when used correctly and with some imagination, allow them to overcome the abilities of other 'classes'.
That is now gone. Cavalry now exist only to kill other cav, stab unaware infantry and get shot down by archers. It is now hardcoded that we are hard-countered by 90% of aware players.
Why?
I don't understand.
You tried this before, then took it away. I was glad, because it destroyed my class.
Why now?
I've been training myself to use the heavy lance for 9 generations. All of that is now for nothing. That's no exaggeration.
This nerf has totally changed how cav play and obsoleted 80% of the skill involved in the class.
