Played it for about an hour or so. I'll admit the combat seems a bit improved. Much less glancing, feels a tad less clunky and slow. But they still have a lot of the old faults. Dodgy hit detection, spastic combat, etc. Though it is an alpha so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. What I really dislike though is how hitting an enemy doesn't stun them or anything, so say you hit and enemy as they wind up a swing, you'll hit, but their swing will still go through and hit you right after. Removes a lot of the skill in combat imo. Hope it's changed to be more similar to Warband's. I think the main reason I actually had a good bit of fun is because coming from c-RPG to this, well, it's extremely easy. Just like WotR. I think I died maybe three or four times in the hour I played lol.