The game has a good combat system, where skill matters a lot.
The thing is, when you have fun swordfighting, and mastering your skills, that is often stopped by an arrow to the ass.
Melee combat in M&B is good, it takes skill, it's fun, that's what you should focus on!!!
Ranged combat in M&B is bad, and boring, and literally any noob with 0 skill can just take a bow and kill an infantry player who spent thousands of hours playing this game.
People who want to use ranged weapons can, and even should go play CS:GO, or any other FPS. It's just objectively better for shooting.
However there is a reason, why they don't do it. In first person shooters every person has ranged weapon, and can protect themselves, so killing anybody is challenging and risky. But these people don't want challenge, they don't want risk. They just want to steal other player's kills, they just want to ruin other people's fun. They are cowards and noobs, who want to be away from fighting, be safe, and at the same time harass good players, by using weapon which they can't protect from, and which takes little skill to use effectively. They just want to win no matter what.
Ofc some archer fanboy who can't even block will say, that you can use shield. But that's stupid to need to use shield, and not be able to use 2h just because of these people, and it still doesn't stop them from killing you. Since archers can shoot from very far away, there often can be many archers having different angles on you, and you can't block all the arrows (unless you are spinning at light speed I guess?).
Also when you get close to them, they will just run away, and if you get engaged by someone else, only then will they stop, and shoot at your back. You can't win.
A story of mine: When I played one mulitplayer mod in Warband I noticed there is a lot of skilled players in this mod, and very often I had trouble with even landing a single hit on them, so I asked if there is any tip, that would allow me to kill them easier, other than simply being more skilled. The answer I got was to play archer
And I do play as archer if I want to piss off someone who I know is better than me
Even ancient Greeks despised archers, Paris is portrayed in Iliad as a coward. Imagine being Achilles, an elite fighter, a brave hero, who spent his whole life training, and in result can kill probably anybody, but then some scared boy shoots poisoned arrow at you from a safe distance, AND from behind you. Bruh.
Lack of bows would be unrealistic, but since M&B is a game it not only can be unrealistic, but even should be unrealistic if lack of realism is more fun.
And having melee fights, where kills depend on skill is WAY more fun than doing good in a fight just to suddenly get killed by a noob which you couldn't even see, and couldn't protect from.
The thing is, when you have fun swordfighting, and mastering your skills, that is often stopped by an arrow to the ass.
Melee combat in M&B is good, it takes skill, it's fun, that's what you should focus on!!!
Ranged combat in M&B is bad, and boring, and literally any noob with 0 skill can just take a bow and kill an infantry player who spent thousands of hours playing this game.
People who want to use ranged weapons can, and even should go play CS:GO, or any other FPS. It's just objectively better for shooting.
However there is a reason, why they don't do it. In first person shooters every person has ranged weapon, and can protect themselves, so killing anybody is challenging and risky. But these people don't want challenge, they don't want risk. They just want to steal other player's kills, they just want to ruin other people's fun. They are cowards and noobs, who want to be away from fighting, be safe, and at the same time harass good players, by using weapon which they can't protect from, and which takes little skill to use effectively. They just want to win no matter what.
Ofc some archer fanboy who can't even block will say, that you can use shield. But that's stupid to need to use shield, and not be able to use 2h just because of these people, and it still doesn't stop them from killing you. Since archers can shoot from very far away, there often can be many archers having different angles on you, and you can't block all the arrows (unless you are spinning at light speed I guess?).
Also when you get close to them, they will just run away, and if you get engaged by someone else, only then will they stop, and shoot at your back. You can't win.
A story of mine: When I played one mulitplayer mod in Warband I noticed there is a lot of skilled players in this mod, and very often I had trouble with even landing a single hit on them, so I asked if there is any tip, that would allow me to kill them easier, other than simply being more skilled. The answer I got was to play archer
And I do play as archer if I want to piss off someone who I know is better than me
Even ancient Greeks despised archers, Paris is portrayed in Iliad as a coward. Imagine being Achilles, an elite fighter, a brave hero, who spent his whole life training, and in result can kill probably anybody, but then some scared boy shoots poisoned arrow at you from a safe distance, AND from behind you. Bruh.
Lack of bows would be unrealistic, but since M&B is a game it not only can be unrealistic, but even should be unrealistic if lack of realism is more fun.
And having melee fights, where kills depend on skill is WAY more fun than doing good in a fight just to suddenly get killed by a noob which you couldn't even see, and couldn't protect from.
