the one thing m&b desperately needs....

[olliewilliams01]

Crouching. It seems like a basic, staple function in any kind of third/first person action game. You may ask, "how could crouching help in a medieval sword fighting game?" Well, on the hand-to-hand front, it would add an entire new dimension to combat. Being able to duck under sweeping blows would change a lot. Of course that's a lot harder to do with a hundred pounds of armor on, so there would have to be something to count for that, but for the non-tanks among us it would be a game changer.

There's the obvious using cover on top of castles or behind stuff on the ground to avoid archer fire.

then, this is the biggest thing in my opinion, mods. Taleworlds made this game awesomely mod friendly, and they had to have guessed there would be gun mods. A shootout without a way to effectively use cover is none too realistic. Like WWII china battlefield, my favorite mod for original m&b, would be so much better if you had a better way to use cover. I remember williamberne making it so you could go prone, but you couldn't shoot or reload from there so it was pretty pointless.

tl;dr? crouching would help a lot

what do yall think?

 

[Pistol Pete]

Crouching has been implemented in certain mods. 1866 and the musket mods come to mind.

As for Native, I don't know if I'd want it. Perhaps if you were an archer and wanted to conceal yourself until the right opportunity...

 

[rapier17]

Biggest uses I'd find would be;

1. Hiding from missile fire
2. Ambush
3. Waiting until attackers are almost at the battlements, on a castle map, before rising up and killing them (so sort of an ambush, but the enemy know you are there - so bit of 1 & 2)

It's not needed NOW NOW NOW!, but it'd be nice to have in the future, especially as a Rhodok pikeman.

 

[captain lust]

Lots of mods have crouching already. Personally, I don't think it would add anything to the native game.

Also, don't be stupid with your thread titles. Write "Crouching" or something.

Anyway, there's already a very recent, well titled thread about crouching (and some others, in the suggestion board, which is probably the correct place for suggestions.) So I'm locking this one up.