LightKnight
Recruit
1. This is the most major of all of them... One thing that really pisses me off about the game is if you're knocked off your horse in combat or just not on horseback... Say you have a shield or are parrying an attack, the enemy can just sit there all day long and whack on you forever until your shield breaks or you miss a parry and die. They don't suffer one bit for when you block or parry and sometimes it's impossible to get an attack off because as soon as you try to they'll hit you.
Edit: found this already mentioned, not a lot of feed back on it though.
Now, wouldn't it make sense to have some kind of diminishing returns for people that hit you when you block/parry? For example, the enemy that hits a person block/parry should suffer a knock-back, stun or some sort of delay. This is how it is in Oblivion and I know oblivion is light years ahead of Mount and Blade in graphics, but it would still be nice to maintain some degree of realism in this game. This, along with shield bashing--already suggested--would make the game much more fluid.
2. Crossbows and Lances need to be fixed. Crossbows do surprisingly low damage and do not pierce shields or light mail armor. They are meant to pierce plate and heavy shields, that is why they were made. Otherwise no armies would use them. Hit boxes for crossbows should be fixed and damage done should be increased, especially if you shoot someone in the head (actually hit boxes for several things need to be fixed and sometimes attacks never hit). Lances need to break shields more often; at full speed on a horse they should at least break wooden shields and anything below steel.
3. Damage done should be increased instead of decreased the longer the range (distance traveled) of a ranged weapon. Falling from the sky an arrow, bolt or throwing weapon has more velocity, thus falling much harder on the unfortunate victim. In other words, the further a projectile travels the harder it should hit, thus doing more damage. Registry and hit boxes for weapons should be reassessed and recalculated--if necessary. (For example, hit someone in the head, do 20 damage, then hit someone in the arm and do 25 damage.) In my opinion, all head shots should be one hit kills for ranged weapons, esp. if it is from a crossbow or if the guy you hit doesn't have a helmet or has a weak helmet.
4. Reins/crop/whip for a horse--these should be standard with all horses... To make them move/start up/giddyup faster because we all hate getting stuck in a big group and knocked off our horse and after an attack or the horse winnies they get lazy and won't move.
Now, these are some currently bugged things with the game; I think most of these could be easily fixed:
5. When attacking on foot or horse (esp. horse) and behind someone an attack to the flesh will sometimes be confused with a hit to the shield. This is also the case when shooting someone in the back or head with an arrow--it will hit their shield instead. I suppose shield coverage could use a little tweak.
6. There is a few bugs in the arena (not tournaments, at least I don't think). The most major is not being able to pick up most of the weapons (yes, I have slots open and sometimes only one weapon when I try to pick them up). This is also the case on the battlefield, if you run out of arrows or need a weapon and there is one on the ground, you most likely will not be able to pick it up (no idea why, just the icons to pick the weapons up won't show up).
This sucks mostly because when I want to pick up arrows or a bow and sometimes can get either or neither. Also, another bug in arena is if you start as an archer and enemy gets close you cannot switch to unarmed (fists) and fight, you can only shoot. Now, I am sure this is a bug because I saw the other archers hitting each other (unarmed) all the time.
7. Least important, I found some issues with the tutorials. These should be last on the priority list, but should eventually get fixed. I sometimes got stuck on doors while doing tutorials and sometimes can't get out (got stuck on 2 doors to date)... The first door I got stuck on was the one in the first tutorial after you leave the room after you destroy the four targets with your sword. The other door I got stuck on was the door in the second tutorial after you leave the room where you have to block arrows with your shield.
Another thing is that the mace man in tutorial two is surprisingly hard to beat (maybe it's because I am playing on max difficulty), but it took me literally 8 or so tries to kill him. He takes virtually zero damage, unless you hit him in the head and even when you do hit his head the attacks don't seem to register the awful majority of the time. His leather jerkin also acts like a piece of concrete making him immune to damage everywhere except the head--he also attacks very quickly. Anyways, you should probably just try it to see what I mean--he might need a little tweaking.
All right, thank you for your time and I hope you consider my suggestions. I really enjoy the game, I just want to make it more fun for myself and everyone that plays it.
Edit: found this already mentioned, not a lot of feed back on it though.
Now, wouldn't it make sense to have some kind of diminishing returns for people that hit you when you block/parry? For example, the enemy that hits a person block/parry should suffer a knock-back, stun or some sort of delay. This is how it is in Oblivion and I know oblivion is light years ahead of Mount and Blade in graphics, but it would still be nice to maintain some degree of realism in this game. This, along with shield bashing--already suggested--would make the game much more fluid.
2. Crossbows and Lances need to be fixed. Crossbows do surprisingly low damage and do not pierce shields or light mail armor. They are meant to pierce plate and heavy shields, that is why they were made. Otherwise no armies would use them. Hit boxes for crossbows should be fixed and damage done should be increased, especially if you shoot someone in the head (actually hit boxes for several things need to be fixed and sometimes attacks never hit). Lances need to break shields more often; at full speed on a horse they should at least break wooden shields and anything below steel.
3. Damage done should be increased instead of decreased the longer the range (distance traveled) of a ranged weapon. Falling from the sky an arrow, bolt or throwing weapon has more velocity, thus falling much harder on the unfortunate victim. In other words, the further a projectile travels the harder it should hit, thus doing more damage. Registry and hit boxes for weapons should be reassessed and recalculated--if necessary. (For example, hit someone in the head, do 20 damage, then hit someone in the arm and do 25 damage.) In my opinion, all head shots should be one hit kills for ranged weapons, esp. if it is from a crossbow or if the guy you hit doesn't have a helmet or has a weak helmet.
4. Reins/crop/whip for a horse--these should be standard with all horses... To make them move/start up/giddyup faster because we all hate getting stuck in a big group and knocked off our horse and after an attack or the horse winnies they get lazy and won't move.
Now, these are some currently bugged things with the game; I think most of these could be easily fixed:
5. When attacking on foot or horse (esp. horse) and behind someone an attack to the flesh will sometimes be confused with a hit to the shield. This is also the case when shooting someone in the back or head with an arrow--it will hit their shield instead. I suppose shield coverage could use a little tweak.
6. There is a few bugs in the arena (not tournaments, at least I don't think). The most major is not being able to pick up most of the weapons (yes, I have slots open and sometimes only one weapon when I try to pick them up). This is also the case on the battlefield, if you run out of arrows or need a weapon and there is one on the ground, you most likely will not be able to pick it up (no idea why, just the icons to pick the weapons up won't show up).
This sucks mostly because when I want to pick up arrows or a bow and sometimes can get either or neither. Also, another bug in arena is if you start as an archer and enemy gets close you cannot switch to unarmed (fists) and fight, you can only shoot. Now, I am sure this is a bug because I saw the other archers hitting each other (unarmed) all the time.
7. Least important, I found some issues with the tutorials. These should be last on the priority list, but should eventually get fixed. I sometimes got stuck on doors while doing tutorials and sometimes can't get out (got stuck on 2 doors to date)... The first door I got stuck on was the one in the first tutorial after you leave the room after you destroy the four targets with your sword. The other door I got stuck on was the door in the second tutorial after you leave the room where you have to block arrows with your shield.
Another thing is that the mace man in tutorial two is surprisingly hard to beat (maybe it's because I am playing on max difficulty), but it took me literally 8 or so tries to kill him. He takes virtually zero damage, unless you hit him in the head and even when you do hit his head the attacks don't seem to register the awful majority of the time. His leather jerkin also acts like a piece of concrete making him immune to damage everywhere except the head--he also attacks very quickly. Anyways, you should probably just try it to see what I mean--he might need a little tweaking.
All right, thank you for your time and I hope you consider my suggestions. I really enjoy the game, I just want to make it more fun for myself and everyone that plays it.
