please can someone understand before i die of frustration
the old right swing was
not supposed to be used to hit someone in the faceif you were trying to use it for that you were frankly using it wrong. it was the slowest and longest reach swing (not stab), and it was supposed to be used for target switching (because of it having the WIDEST arc, and the longest range of any swing), and for surprise out-reaching (because again, of it's WIDE arc and it's LONG range).
if you were trying to use it to hit people to their faces
you were using it wrong.
the new one is
marginally better for hitting people to the face than the old one was. but the new one is significantly
shorter,
easier to see, and hits a
lot earlier in the animation. these 3 factors mean it is basically useless for target switching, and out-ranging, as it is no longer the attack with the widest arc and longest range as described above.
because 1h players can
no longer target switch and out-range effectively with medium length 1h weapons, my playstyle has been reduced to either doing nothing but spamming people in their face and hoping they're incredibly bad, or taking a stupidly long 1h like the nordic champion sword and out-reaching with that. if the big plan here was to remove what
was a skill mechanic (out-reaching longer weapons with shorter weapons), and make it so everyone either has to facehug and spam, or take one of the ridiculously long weapons to have half a chance, then you've done a great job at that devs.
please for the love of god can we just have the old one back?