2-hand weapon is insanly strong. compare to warband the main difference is the HIT per KILL, this is a concept from other gunshoting fps, and should never even be a issue in a melee base game.
but in bannerlord thanks for the classes system eveyone can afford heavy armor, even in heaviest armor infantry often take 1 hit from crouch lance , 3 hit from horeback spear to die, generally 1 to 3 hit to die from any kind of archer and cross bow, 2 or 3 hit from 2 hander. and for god sake it took at least 4-6 hit from a onehanded sword, 3-5 hit from a axe to die...hammer is great but generally speaking 1 hand weapon is way too slow to do anything against 2 hander even you pull away your shield in 1v1 situation, feint is way too slow so far.
the main difference of bannerlord 2 hand is they are significantly longer than warband, i think the longest 2 hand in warband is great axe, thats around 130. in bannerlord we even have 2 hand length more than 200.
the swing arc is already twice as wide than warband combine with this length i often see people just running back toward me and still hit and kill me with 2-hand weapon, crazy stuff
swing arc is further contribute to the fact that the game feel heavily like a spin contest, personallly right now i used left swing for attack right swing for defence it's work just insanly well. combat need to be modifiy more into use over swing and stab more since those take more positioning and skill rather than who spin the fastest...
i never saw people disscuss directional shield block, but personally i hate it very much, since it's one of the main reason where randomness die happen take list like two hand swing hit shoulder and arrow shot through the front hit neck and stuff, in general in competitive setting i dont like Randomness. it doesnt have that much of impact but does give people bad impression.