Please speed the whole gaming speed up

[Byrdi]

Learn to feint (well), castor swing and chamber block.

Chamber blocks are far too easy to block nowadays, they are simply too slow.

[Teeth]

Chamber blocks are far too easy to block nowadays, they are simply too slow.

Yep, I've gotten pretty good at them lately, really dissappointed to see that everyone mostly just blocks them.

Thus, SPEED THIS SHIT UP!

The pretty much flawless blocking of atleast half the players in 1 vs 1 has really accentuated the shittyness of mechanics like polestun and kicks. The whining about them has increased as the blocking skill increased. They are in a lot of duels the only thing that can end the duel, apart from boredom. Bypassing the ability the block is now the way to go.

Really suprised to see the negative votes on the OP. When 80% of the players is nearing the skill ceiling, why not just heighten it by speeding up the game?

[Tears of Destiny]

All three are usually blocked more often than not, unless it's from Truly Exceptional Players^TM. It's all down to footwork, now.

And yet oddly, people still die in droves rather quickly on Battle and Siege and Strategus. I'm not terribly concerned with blocking being too easy to be honest. The "heat of the moment" fighting creates mistakes far more often then controlled Duels. There is a reason why I have never beaten SaulCanner in a duel (and probably never will), yet have managed to kill him a dozen or so times in battle, once even one on one.

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[BlindGuy]

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most productive post in this thread.

[CaptainQuantum]

I do think Phase has a point, combat is too slow nowadays, in comparison to native the combat speed is terrible. Although the native combat speed was too high since it allowed for spam and macro feinting to be too effective, an increase to the cRPG speed slightly would be a good idea.

It does seem however that the devs do not want to increase combat speed itself and so what I would like instead is an increase in damage across all weapon types. This would force people into playing carefully again and not just "I have more health so I will try to spam" as it currently is. To be honest I don't actually play cRPG for melee any more (it's so boring I just play native duel).

[polkafranzi]

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I am [M]anning the siege tower

[Torben]

phase is a strenth stacking noob that dont know shit about 2h fighting.  go back to masturbating dude.

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not -.-

[Kafein]

Yep, I've gotten pretty good at them lately, really dissappointed to see that everyone mostly just blocks them.

Thus, SPEED THIS SHIT UP!

The pretty much flawless blocking of atleast half the players in 1 vs 1 has really accentuated the shittyness of mechanics like polestagger and kicks. The whining about them has increased as the blocking skill increased. They are in a lot of duels the only thing that can end the duel, apart from boredom. Bypassing the ability the block is now the way to go.

Really suprised to see the negative votes on the OP. When 80% of the players is nearing the skill ceiling, why not just heighten it by speeding up the game?

This is a very good point. The only lacking element is that the increased melee defense due to blocking skill is a strong indirect buff to ranged, which are unblockable, and a strong indirect nerf to shields, which are less useful because you can block without them anyway, and also because they hinder your footwork and force you to use small weapons. Weapon reach and footwork increased in prevalence with the blocking skill increase, because as you said the way to go is to bypass blocks, instead of making them fail with feints and holds.

Even though all of this is true, I don't think speeding the game up will help, as it also makes footwork easier. Increasing the damage of melee weapons across the board, and reducing the speed penalty of shields sound like safer changes.

[Logen]

I don't think speeding the game up will help, as it also makes footwork easier.

How so? Afaik, its quite the otherwise.
Anyway, I agree with phase.

[Tzar]

Phase is correct

[Gurnisson]

Let the ones with bad computers/bad connections have a chance too. Keep it as it is.

[Mlekce]

I can't block with speed like this,and you want to increase it? Good for you if you play that good.
I used to block before when game was slower,now i block every second-third attack. I dont see half of weapons that are comming for me.
Some are unblockable because of agi whores and their 10 WM builds. I am going to be shielder next gen. i just can't live like this anymore.

[Digglez]

you mean we might have to double or triple team GREAT players like in sports? GASP

[robert_namo]

I for one suck at this game. If it sped up, I don't know how much worse I will get.