The lack of Auto-Blocking really annoy me.
It is not that I can't play the game, but each time I go in combat I get absolutely destroyed by the AI.
I can't really use a shield either since most of the time I am blinding myself since I play in first person.
And I like playing in first person, so I don't want to switch to third person, not to mention that it won't help me block.
Movement-based blocking don't help either, since it basically mean that I move in the attack :
Enemy attack from the left? Move left.
Attack from the right? Move into the swinging sword to block it.
Low attack? Get back and don't get the chance to block since you get out of range.
High attack? Get in your opponent's face.
Shield Combat for me isn't fun either since it is just me and the enemy bashing each other's shield until one of us get a lucky hit in.
The only way I managed to defeat the trainers without a shield was because I got them stuck on the invisible wall surrounding the area that I could go through but not them, with the remainder of the combat being me kiting them.
For the life of me I couldn't manually block in Warband, what make you think that I magically can in Bannerlord ?
"Git gud" isn't a valid answer since the game isn't that centered on combat.
In games like Cuphead and Dark Souls, where the whole thing is hard combat and getting good, I would accept an answer like that because it is the whole game.
In this game, combat isn't the whole game, there are a lot more non-combat option that matter.
I am not forced to fight most of the time, but when I am, I lose because even when I get a shield, I get attacked by multiple enemies at the same time, and when I don't have one, I get destroyed in 1-1.
In the same vein, Multiplayer isn't the center of the game, and Singleplayer isn't practice for MP either, that's just stupid.
Most people don't play SP to practice for MP, most people play SP to play SP.