It had a LOT more depth to it then mount and blades melee combat, each weapon had it's own movesets and dodging/blocking were just as important as offense. Pretty clever actually, they simply had your mouse button work as an 'action' key and then your w/s/a/d keys work as attacks and combo initaors (combination of key presses = different moves). It just felt so perfect, but even if it didn't feature stances, but it got around the entire 'ice skating' effect that similar games had (Jedi Knight, Rune, etc). I still don't get why a game like Severance, from 2001, is still to his day (imo) the best melee combat system we've gotten as far as action/adventure games go. Then have guards for defending and actually allow dodging. Having each attack with full body mo cap the animations for doing moves from a stance, with each stance having moves that are superior in that stance (just like real life).

They need to develop a system that actually uses stances/guards, which are the cornerstone of proper middle ages combat and what they trained in during those times. The melee combat is just so ugh, it's extremely 'gamey,' nothing near realistic melee combat and has way too much ice skating (like Jedi Knight) going on, where your movements have no impact on what your actions are in relation to the animations or anything. I really really wish they would overhaul the melee combat.Įverything else? Love it, the archery, mounted combat, all good.

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