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It's kind of a lose-lose situation, but imo it's better to get small patches with Invasion, gameplay fixes etc out when we can. There's no 'right answer' to be honest.

well you could argue that a parry IRL isn't a block but a deflection

also if dagger just couldn't parry it'd be useless so might as well just delete the weapon at that point

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We do most small updates on discord, under the development snippets section. I'm working on consolidating info so it's easier for people to hear about new stuff, thanks for the feedback!

that's just predicting/punishing a feint. it can be a gamble, but it isn't only a gamble. if you actually see the feint and work off that, cool.

gambles can be awesome if you use them sparingly - you're going to take a stam hit but throwing out a basic stab when they're about to go into release will either make a less composed enemy FTP, giving you a free hit, or just serve as a discouragement for them to get too fancy. It can keep your opponent honest. If you rely on gambles and the enemy giving away their initiative, they're most likely to catch on and just start doing riposte overhead accels to counter that. If you continue to gamble you're in for a bad time, but on the other hand you've now just conditioned your opponent to not feint their attacks for a few exchanges.

to break down what gambling actually is you need to start with the concept of initiative.

initiative = Having a timing advantage.

For example, riposting gives you initiative - you can have a maul and them a dagger, but the maul riposte will land first compared to the dagger, as you have the initiative due to the riposte. Initiative is really important in Mordhau, as we have first hit flinch in most situations; if you hit first you're protected, and then enemy goes into flinch and you can combo, and keep the initiative etc.

Gambling is the act of attacking without initiative. If you have a timing advantage (initiative) and are mid attack while the other person is just winding an attack up, you will hit them first every time if you just commit to the attack. Why gambling is annoying is because, well, it's a gamble that revolves around someone doing an attack out-of-turn which shouldn't work, but if you happen to feint or do a big drag or something, they hi...

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IMO it takes much longer to get to the point of being consistent and error free with 240 compared to keybinds, but once you're there it doesn't matter. any difference imo is negligible, although certain types of drags require a bit more deliberate setup.

I've got 1500 hours with 240 and maybe make 1 mistake in terms of swing angle every 10 hours or so, which I would say is on par with using binds and misclicking

normal is for 1vX and fighting without that many friends nearby - normal fighting mode
alt mode is for pokes and distance slaps when you're supporting your team - support role

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quad feinting zweihander men are burning stam and there are counters to this, as well as the fact that if both people don't have shields you actually have to read the feints or go for chambers. against shields the shield user just negates a lot of the defensive skills for some annoying drawbacks.

shields aren't in a spot where they're massively OP at the moment, but in my (and a lot of other people's opinion) they're just not that fun to fight. we're looking to tweak them in the future but it's a tricky mechanic to balance

yeah but the chain is more accurate to the time period so it's an improvement :)

oh no no no

im giggling like an idiot in front of my computer right now.
mind if i post this on our twitter?

i'll take a look, and see what we can do.

the sweatlords have been breaking the animations since the very first alpha build, and then reporting them to us. we had like a year + of people just abusing the f*ck out of the game to get the combat to where it is now, so people actively looking to break things is good (provided they or someone else reports it to us)

smh my head

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What do you want communication wise? We put out snippets of what we're working on, and give some timeframes where possible. Since we all work remotely it's tough to organize things and share everything that we're doing internally, which means it's tough to do inform the players on what/when to expect new things.

That being said, there's definitely room for improvement and I'm all ears on what you and others would like to see.

We would tell you when the patches were dropping if we knew ourselves. Things are done when they are ready, not when we hit specific deadlines.