Just finished Half-Life: Alyx. (big thanks to
@Orion for letting me buy his Evga queue 3080) Valve's first VR game is an absolute blast, and makes me want more AAA quality VR games. Being able to just pick **** up with your almost actual hands is freaky cool, and killing zombies and combine in for rizzle first person feels perfect.
Started playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance again, and holy **** I forgot just how terrible the combat is. It all looks so fancy and detailed with motion-capped HEMA moves, stances and combos. Too bad none of that **** matters, because actually attacking is a terrible idea thanks to the Master Strike mechanic. When an enemy melee attacks you, you can dodge, block, do a (way, waaay too easy) perfect block that prevents stamina loss, or if you block slightly before the game tells you to for a perfect block, you do a master strike instead. It's the same as a perfect block but also counter attacks, dealing significant damage, often enough to cripple or kill with that single blow. It's super easy to do, and is absolutely zero risk because unlike chambering in Warband, master striking has no punishment for failure. If you mess up the easy timing, you'll just perfect block instead. Actually attacking is the worst thing you can do because the ai will happily master strike
you and you can't do a single damn thing about it. Feinting? Master strike. Switching stances? Master strike! Wanna do that cool, super deadly high level combo that takes a lot of practice to perform correctly? lol get ****ed retard, each one of those 3-5 strikes are actually just opportunities for the ai to master strike you, deleting half of your health and making you bleed! It's fascinating just how much work went into melee, but it's all so thoroughly disincentivized by master strikes that effective combat is just a game of chicken, with whoever siezes the initiative and attacks first being the loser. I hate it so goddamn much, it's a testament to how wonderful the RPG part of this game is that it's still a cool game despite the dumpster fire combat.