Shield Bash??!?!?!

[Korgoth]

Ok I jsut saw this in the credits.

• xenoargh -  realism casualties, shield_bash

shield_bash?!?!  What button is the shield bash?

 

[Jhnking]

Send him a ****ing Pm with you're questions instead of making a whole entire thread about it.

Anyways, no clue.

 

[Korgoth]

Well I thought it would be good if everyone knew about this shield bash...

And its "Your" not "You're"

 

[Idibil]

Sorry, it was add in beta 0.97, but we had problems and quit it in 1.0.

Futuro, if it work well, we will add.

 

[Adorno]

Send him a ****ing Pm with your questions instead of making a whole entire thread about it.

It's a relevant question that could interest others. Please speak nicely.

 

[Jhnking]

I am sorry, i am too biased from Off-Topic. Please hurt me, whip me, and make me you're *****

Anyways, Why do we need shield bash? Isn't kicking enough?

 

[Adorno]

Anyways, Why do we need shield bash? Isn't kicking enough?

Can there be too many ways of kicking ass? 

 

[Jhnking]

No, but if their is already a very good implemented kick that does the same as a shield bash would, why would we need both? A shield bash wouldn't do much damage, and would just really stun you're opponent/opponents.

 

[makute]

As I see the shield bash, it's a more defensive maneouver than a kick, that it's focused on a single enemy. With the shield bash you seek to make "room" around you to use your weapon.

 

[Jhnking]

Hmph, darn kids, using logic on me. *JhnKing storms out of thread muttering about "Darn Kids"*.

 

[Korgoth]

Well i would rather have a shield bash then a Kick. If kick was taken away and replaced by shield Bash i wouldnt mind. And shield bashs are probably more realistic than kicks. If you tried to kick someone in a fight they would probably move and chop your leg off.

 

[Rad]

Shield bash would be good even as replacing of kicking. 

 

[King Ragnarok]

shield bash??? shield bash??? yeees!!

 

[Idibil]

But in 1.2 version 

 

[Crroatian]

But in 1.2 version 

there is shield bash in the native as i can see

i have this great 2 hander cleave , when i run and hit some 1 it does 1shoot-1kill and if i hit a shield it decipates

 

[romeo_longsword]

Well i would rather have a shield bash then a Kick. If kick was taken away and replaced by shield Bash i wouldnt mind. And shield bashs are probably more realistic than kicks. If you tried to kick someone in a fight they would probably move and chop your leg off.

Not really, kicking of any forms were more common than using shield to bash emermies. Combat were a lot more fluent in flow then how the computer game portray it, not all hide behind the shield and chop anything sticks out.

Beside that, in M+B kick apply to characters who do not use shield as well, if the game remove kick and replace with shield bash, it would negalate the non shield using players.

 

[jamesap]

actually it was way more common in European combat to use shield as offense than to kick. I dont think people realize how offensive shields were used back in the day, not so much "bashing" like using your shield as a giant "backhand" its hard to generate much power with our small rotation muscles as to make that very effective. now punching with the rim of your shield toward and enemys throat/face can cause tremendous damage. there are even accounts of opponents hurling their shields  frisby style at an opponent and let me tell you that HURTS, lol I had a shield thrown at me(frisby style) by an amateur friend, hit me in the mid section and gave me a fractured rib lol. another account is throwing your shield at the legs of an advancing enemy to trip him up, Now im not saying its a great Idea to throw your shield away but it did happen then, then you have shield binding where you pretty much grapple using your shield to tie up and control your opponents shield, though this is obviously more of a defensive
maneuver. shield techniques were much more evolved than just "you attack and I block.."  as far as kicking goes It can be effective but anything that puts your limbs out in the open is kind of risky, anytime anyone has ever tried to kick me ended up with a bruise on their leg lol, its just to easy to stepback and counter, If a kick lands in center of shield it doesnt do much if anything, if that same kick is landed closer to the edge of the shield it can leave the defender wide open because of all the leverage going against him, also a huge majority of the injuries back then were to the head and legs, telling us that the legs were in danger enough without throwing them at our opponent, or lol I guess it can say that people kept trying to kick and never learned.