What do people think of Shield Bashes and nudges?

[Joker86]

Can somebody explain me how this works exactly, so I can give feedback eventually? I mean the effect it has. Like a successfull kick or what?

[XyNox]

Can somebody explain me how this works exactly, so I can give feedback eventually? I mean the effect it has. Like a successfull kick or what?

Basicly you have to be on a DtV or Rageball server and then you press "V" + attack / block(?), with or without shield. For some reason though I cant get it to work, nor am I affected by shieldbashs or nudges from other players. It might have something to do with your build or equipment loadout.

[Kafein]

I tested the nudge a little bit, you have to be extremely close and very quick. That's why at least for me, V is a terrible key. Q would have been much better. Or, let us configure it.

[Tears of Destiny]

You can do some nasty feints, Thomas and I were testing it out and going from a swing to suddenly being bashed is literally instantaneous.

[XyNox]

Just tested it. If I am not mistaken you literally have to touch the targets playermodel to make a nudge/bash connnect. On DtV it was so increadibly funny, I just could not resist do launch some people off a cliff 

Although being a nice gimmick, I hope this never gets included in battle or siege in its current form. Unblockable-insta-megastun is not nice.

[Prpavi]

sure why not, buff shielders more we dont have enough of them 

[Tydeus]

Haven't been able to make use of the nudges, too short of range it seems. Shield bash is amazing.

[Abay]

awesome 

[Malaclypse]

Shield bash is amazing fun but would be pretty OP on Battle/Siege/Strategus. Nothing like punting an AFK around DTV with other shielders though, spent hours doing it this morning.

[LordLargos]

Shield bash is amazing fun but would be pretty OP on Battle/Siege/Strategus. Nothing like punting an AFK around DTV with other shielders though, spent hours doing it this morning.

Too low of range to be OP. Thank god for this defense against people who try to give me a hug congratulating me for my 90+ ping then do 2h ground attack to kill me.

[Malaclypse]

Too low of range to be OP. Thank god for this defense against people who try to give me a hug congratulating me for my 90+ ping then do 2h ground attack to kill me.

Well I just imagine it being sort of like Polestagger was. On it's own it wasn't so bad, but with teamwork it could be brutal (which I was fine with anyways, and poles still haven't been compensated in any way). I'd love to have it on other game modes, tossing dudes off of walls in siege, Strategus shield walls meeting and bodies flying backwards, haha.

[Paul]

I think 1h without shield can also knockdown a backpaddler with the body hook nudge(no attack/block+v). The victim has to be in an attacking anim though iirc.

The left straight (attack+v) should kd someone doing a kick animation.

[Patoson]

It's a nice and funny feature for DTV (haven't tried Rageball). It has a longer cooldown than kicking and QQV triggers it, which results in yelling while punching the air. 

[Zlisch_The_Butcher]

Paul imo the nudges could use a bit of a speedup though, they're extremely slow and silly looking atm.
Also, please, if it is possible could nudges be mapped to R and view changing be mapped to v? Ofc Q is another option, personally would prefer R though, and V is just annoying.

[Paul]

I can talk to cmp about adding additional gamekeys or something so the stuff can be on customizable keys next patch.