Remove Polearm Right Swing

[Legs]

Polearm right swing is THE most used attack out of all of them in the whole world and looks 10x goofier than the 2h thrust.

Pls fix this, mirror the left swing or something.

[Tiger]

If you hold a weapon, you would probably have one side swing slightly different with the dominant hand/arm. It's like a baseball bat, you're not going to switch the right and left hand grip on your handle to make each side swing symmetrical. You're going to stick with one side more.

[Rando]

Full support, the polearm swings are pretty spastic.

[Golem]

+1 to make teh right swing as fast and deadly as left 

[Jona]

I think half the people reading this don't know their right from their left... the OP is referring to the polearm right-to-left swing, you know.. the actually useable polearm sideswing.

For those wondering why it is the most used polearm animations, it is quite simple:
 
A) it has the most reach of all the pole animations; the stab may reach farther, but glances at any distance near its max reach
B) the left swing sucks donkey dick
C) the pole overhead is a lot harder to land than a 1hand or 2hander overhead which is swung pretty much vertically - the polearm overhead is swung diagonally
D) pole stab is ironically the weakest stab (now it is perhaps tied with 2handers), save for longer 2d weapons with higher pierce damage

Now that that mystery is solved, let's ponder why 1handers only stab!

[Akavirius]

It's not about a swing "slightly different". In real life the right swing portrayed in the game would be weak and slow as fuck, and a mere hit to the weapon would disarm you. (you don't ever cross your arms like that, unless you want to be disarmed) In real life, you would change your grip if you wanted to do a right swing, or you wouldn't do a right swing at all and stick to the other directions of attack.

One thing that could be done if you really wanted to attack from the right without changing your grip would be a hit with the back of the polearm. It would still be somewhat weak, but less, much less goofy looking.

Edit : I don't care about gameplay elements like balance and "OMG POLARM OP PLZ NERF". Balance can be discussed later.

Edit2 : The left swing is the fastest (read the only useful swing) of them all. I remember when i thought that reach was the most important and used only stab and right swing. I got killed all the time because of facehugging 2handers.

[Byrdi]

The only reason why right swing is used so often is because left and stab (at least on non spear weapons) swings are so bad in comparison.
It is really flawed to compare polearms to 1h and 2h. Because 2h has 3 good attack direction (left, right, and overhead) and all of 1h four attack directions are pretty decent nowadays.

In fact the 1h right swing is far better than polearms right swing. Since 1h swing adds far more range and is a lot faster and easier to aim for head shots.

[Kadeth]

In real life

Realism in cRPG? Don't even bother at this stage.

The polearm right swing definitely feels like it has the largest sweet spot. But I feel like 1h still has the best animations all round.

In an ideal world, each class would have equally strong animations. But how much can we expect from a free mod?

[Gravoth_iii]

Is this for real?

[Akavirius]

Realism in cRPG? Don't even bother at this stage. [...] But how much can we expect from a free mod?

Well, much better than Chivalry.

By realism, I mean : no exploits, and minimal min-maxing. But i guess most people don't want realism from all I read on the forum and only want an arcadey gamey game.

[Teeth]

C) the pole overhead is a lot harder to land than a 1hand or 2hander overhead which is swung pretty much vertically - the polearm overhead is swung diagonally

It's the other way around. The pole overhead goes exactly vertically through the center of your screen, the 2h overhead doesn't. Polearm overhead is the easiest to hit with, at least until they fucked up the hit detection when they sped it up.

[Rebelyell]

It is very reson why I dont play pole.
I always find myself spam right swing.

[Jona]

The pole overhead goes exactly vertically through the center of your screen, the 2h overhead doesn't.

...No, no it doesn't. If you want to hit someone in the head you need to aim at their right shoulder, or slighty to the left of their head, from your perspective. This is why landing overheads with really long polearms can prove difficult until you get used to it. The 2handed overhead isn't perfectly vertical, however it's a lot closer to the 1handed (which is pretty much vertical) overhead than it is the pole.

[korppis]

In fact the 1h right swing is far better than polearms right swing. Since 1h swing adds far more range and is a lot faster and easier to aim for head shots.

Don't forget that 1h also has nearly no turnrate penalties.

...No, no it doesn't. If you want to hit someone in the head you need to aim at their right shoulder, or slighty to the left of their head, from your perspective. This is why landing overheads with really long polearms can prove difficult until you get used to it. The 2handed overhead isn't perfectly vertical, however it's a lot closer to the 1handed (which is pretty much vertical) overhead than it is the pole.

This. Trying to bash gates with full lineup always scares the hell out of me because it looks like I have to aim too close to teammate just to hit the door. With 2h and 1h it's so much easier to aim overheads.

[Gravoth_iii]

If anything id rather have them make the left swing more viable, over nerfing the right swing. I think i've heard that left swing is suppose to be faster, but i use it constantly and it actually feels way slower. Speed it up/make it more hiltslashable and there would be a bigger mix in polearm swings.