This is how my skirmish experience has been this month... and the 3 other months before this

[Greedalicious]

You can make the shield larger than a Rhodok board shield and arrows and swords will still pass through the top and sides to hit the wielder if the hotbox perfectly matches the shield due to clientside

Fair, but if you can see everything below their knees, you should be able to footshot. You just shouldnt be able to see someones knees.

 

[Kripaz]

U ok bud?

Quite well, thanks.

 

[Einarcf]

I don't want to see room below the shield, correctly aim at it, and hit an invisible wall.

Make shields bigger if you have to.

 

[jon01]

I agree most of that is bad, but even if it turns out that the weapons (and/or shield) technically touched, you still ought to be facing the enemy while blocking.

Although, I remember when playing for a while in May last year, there was the opposite problem:

 

[Jymy175]

For those wondering what my ping is. Its stable 54 every match and I have ''optical fibre'' if thats the right word for it. I dont have any ping related issues in any other games.

 

[Tork789]

"We dont need larger invisible hitboxes surrounding our shields like in warband to prevent this. We want shields to be realistic"

-Taleworlds day 1 of the closed alpha when this same stuff was brought up by myself and others.
-Tork and other Devils Advocates unironically when the game first released.

I still stand by it. If shields were realistic they wouldn't stop protecting you as soon as you let go of the RMB.

 

[Terco_Viejo]

I agree most of that is bad, but even if it turns out that the weapons (and/or shield) technically touched, you still ought to be facing the enemy while blocking.

Although, I remember when playing for a while in May last year, there was the opposite problem:

Well... these inconsistencies are still present as they were from day one. Here is a Noudelle thread from November 2019 and here is one of mine from March 2020.

b0.3.1 - by Noudelle	b0.8.5 by me	e1.5.3 (SP - October 26, 2020) by me

Scroll lateral / 3 videos.

Here is the NIN3 's commentary from November 2020 where explained how the blocking system works...in case anyone might be interested....

Personally I still think there are too many inconsistencies for the current stage of the game development...