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Adam Monroe
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Finally! It's Happening!
Scarf Ace said:
First of all, we can't say that all of those things, such as forecfield shields, are still in the game or the same as in Warband. Combat doesn't look exactly the same to me, and personally I am very excited by what I've seen, though yes it is very similar in general appearance and recognisable as M&B combat. I think playing it will be the real proof of how much things have changed.
Having said that...attacking while blocking sounds good but I can see problems with it in terms of gameplay. Since each player would have their weapon facing the opponent's shield hand, it might reduce combat to waiting until the enemy shield breaks, and make the shield user almost invulnerable whilst he attacks against a shield-less opponent.
Certainly I have written often before about how I would like to see the end of forcefields, but other players have pointed out to me that they abstractedly simulate small movements that the player might make with the shield to cover themselves. However, I too, despite such assertions, think it would be better if they were done away with and the player given more options, such as crouching slightly to cover more of the player with the shield. Apart from the silliness of missiles being caught in thin air by forcefields, sometimes players can be attacked from almost behind and deflect the attack due to forcefields because the swing connects around the side of the player and clips the ff. The common argument in favour of ff in this instance is that the player in real life would shift the shield to the side, but of course often the shield user doesn't even know there is a player behind them, so gets defence against a strike they weren't even aware of, plus they may be aware of them but be busy fending off an attacker to the front- in which case, tough luck, they should get hit because that is natural. If the enemy has flanked you, you shouldn't get magic >180 degrees protection from your shield!
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