Willie
Recruit
As a new player I was excited to get in game and use one of my favourite weapons, the simple spear. after playing about 8 hours and all if ever done is charge on horseback at looters, the spear felt.... meh. Surely a horseman charging a guy with at best a leather or cloth vest would do SIGNIFICANT damage? Its not easy to turn round and get another charge off unless you go galloping off for a few mins and turn around, but this attack only seemed to take them down to half health at best.
Ok so what about the spear infantrymen... oh dear... attacks feel slow and weak and you cant keep an enemy at range, a swordsman can run in and slash left and right wildly until you are dead, but the act of drawing back the spear to make a thrust is slow, couldn't this be balanced by allowing them to do more damage? Once an enemy walks inside your "minimum range" of the spear its hard to hit them again anyway and off they go doing their slice and dice combo of wildly flaying left and right.
This feels awful and I think I may drop all further use of the spear in favour of the sword which is a real shame because historically spears are very good. I refuse to believe a weapon that has been used since the dawn of mankind by people all over the world is bad. But sadly they are in this game.
Ok so what about the spear infantrymen... oh dear... attacks feel slow and weak and you cant keep an enemy at range, a swordsman can run in and slash left and right wildly until you are dead, but the act of drawing back the spear to make a thrust is slow, couldn't this be balanced by allowing them to do more damage? Once an enemy walks inside your "minimum range" of the spear its hard to hit them again anyway and off they go doing their slice and dice combo of wildly flaying left and right.
This feels awful and I think I may drop all further use of the spear in favour of the sword which is a real shame because historically spears are very good. I refuse to believe a weapon that has been used since the dawn of mankind by people all over the world is bad. But sadly they are in this game.