Sluggish movement

[modus_pwnins]

People move so slow in this game, why is there no sprint?
Why is there no dodge?

Moving backwards is also incredibly slow. There is no point to giving ground in a fight because moving backwards is so slow, it's hard to fight defensively if blocking is basically impossible (with anything but a shield) and you can't back up at all.

Having said this, this is the start of a great game. It's a good game right now.

 

[darksoulshin]

https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/non-spamable-directional-step-dodge-suggestion.412700/

It's my suggestion thread.
It's about a very balanced dodge mechanic.
I hope you like it and if so, it would be a good thing to send it to who you think might be interested.
Unfortunately, developers only consider proposals with more participation, but often the greatest participation is due to the simplicity with which the topic is treated.
And often the apparent simplicity is nothing more than superficiality.
And this leads to apporssimative suggestions, unbalanced and that the community tends to reject.
Vice versa, well-acted threads are ignored either because they are not written by users who have 30 thousand friends in the forum, or because people do not want to read a thread that is not really short and often does not comment.
And the lack of comments, perhaps due to hesitation or a lack of understanding of the mechanics, tends to be mistaken for lack of participation.

 

[modus_pwnins]

Your post is longer but I think the devs will appreciate you basically writing the feature spec for them ?

User story; When I turn a corner and see 100 people who are about to kill me I want to run away. Right now I can only slowly lumber around like I'm on the moon. If I try to back up it's incredibly slow. There is no dodge. There is no 'jog'. *This feels like an old game.*

 

[Arkyll]

You, the player are initially slow because you begin with terrible athletics.

I think that movement for higher tier units is too fast.

 

[modus_pwnins]

You, the player are initially slow because you begin with terrible athletics.

I think that movement for higher tier units is too fast.

I have terrible athletics so I can only walk like I'm drowning in pudding? And can't dodge or jog? I've been playing for a while and it's still incredibly slow and feels (and looks) very unnatural.

 

[Arkyll]

I have terrible athletics so I can only walk like I'm drowning in pudding? And can't dodge or jog? I've been playing for a while and it's still incredibly slow and feels (and looks) very unnatural.

You should be able to jog.

There is no dodging and I am glad.

I am content with the combat at the moment. Athletics is something that needs rework though.

 

[xdj1nn]

yeah, athletics feel unnatural, and it cripples the player if he doesn't waste some focus points on the skill. On the other hand, fast units should be faster than you, but not Usain Bolt. At least if we've had stamina based sprinting it would be better. Apply a 0.1% speed bonus to normal run every 25 skill points to the unit, and a whooping 0.025% bonus for sprinting speed, then slap in some better stamina "management" making it consume less, allowing running for longer. That was a guess on values, but I think it should at least come close to be less supernatural

 

[Caps]

they just need to up the base athletics a bit. or just unequip ur horse on the campaign map