I have taken one too many rocks in the face, too many super accurate bow shots in legs, too many throwing spears that were never supposed to hit me, WAY too many slices in legs that instagibed me and had WAY too long reach to hit me (234 long spear vs 45 axe? yea right) while I ran at 200+mph on horse. Why bother fighting in this game when NPCs are this overpowered? You're literally forced to cheese it with ranged weapons to win a fight. 1 guy armored up, using spears vs 10 looters? Stoned to death, about 300 times already. Don't you even dare getting close to them, you WILL lose your legs instantly. Lancing? Literal suicide, you will get shot, stoned, and chopped to pieces if there is but 1 enemy near your target. Running into spears and dying is alright in my book, they are there as anti-cav and it's your responsibility as a rider to keep watch for them, but getting shredded by pickaxes, small hammers that are everything but long weapons, or getting shot in your legs that you can't protect with shield while you zig zag trying to evade fire, and getting stoned to death with shotgun salvo is just plain horse****. Stones being the worst, tell me, why did they even bother with all the fletching in middle ages when all they had to do was to give stones to all their soldiers and it easily took out heavily armored troops? And all this on "normal" difficulty. I sunk nearly 1400hrs into this game since it came in EA, and there were always problems in balance, like armors - they were an expensive piece of tinfoil that gave you 3% more protection, which went on for 2 years before TW finally got around to fix it (they still suck, but it's lot better than it used to be). Such a crucial thing in a game where you fight all the time, and it took two years. Throwing weapons, I remember the EA where they were even more accurate than now (which is extremely accurate), literally laser guided missiles that took you down no matter where you dodged. Now, we're at supposed "full release" which is obviously everything but finished game, and we're still suffering from BS like this? That's some sloppy work.
I'll return back to Warband to find comforting solace of dying only because it was my own mistake and not 850+ skills of Middle Ages terminators.
