For those of you who know who i am, im sure ive *****ed at no end how much bull**** i think there is in warband with some of the ridiculous lolfeints and such, and i do stand by those opinions. Im more of an advocate for fights relying more on the seizing of openings your opponent makes, spacing, timing and trying to throw them off their game with misdirection. Ive always wanted the brute force method of throwing out 6 feints in half a second to be gone. Despite the fact it may take more "Skill" to do it, and i know an awfully large percentage of this game aspires to play that way, it really feels like a cancer on warband.
So if its getting toned down in bannerlord, yeah - im pretty happy about it.
But no, feinting shouldnt be removed, and i do think the janky-ness of warband is an important part of what makes it so enjoyable. Im sure many of you have experienced what i like to called elastic swings - where someone presses a bunch of buttons and their character kind of stalls, then you find out your dead and *then* they swing. I dont know if its a ping issue, or a server side thing or whatever - but smoothing out and slowing down the animations a little might fix that kind of ****.
But still, feinting shouldnt go away. Hell, implement unique animations for it if someone throws out 6 feints in half a second, but they have to stay.
M&B Has always been the game where i could go into someone, and know what i should have done to come out of top. Everything can be countered, everything can be stopped. You face up against 10 guys? Yeah, you are probably ****ed - but it still feels possible to win. Even if you know *you* cant do it, it still feels like if you could just practice it a little bit more, you would be able to.
I love that about this game, and yeah, however much i hate alot of the bull**** in warband, it still has to stay.
Im have faith in taleworlds to know what makes this game good, what everyone has loved about it all these years - theres no way they cant realise that, right?
Also, if we could get some more attention paid to how animations look in first person and get less like - hands blocking your face and stuff. Makes it a **** nightmare to use polearms and two handers. Also those bow animations felt like they kept clipping horribly into the camera. Tweak them a little Taleworlds. I know not many people use it, but its been my life for almost 8 years now.
EDIT: I would much rather have all the flaws and jankiness of warband stay, than a more "improved" and streamlined experience in Bannerlord. Even if i hate them, they are a part of this game.