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I Like the game so far, but there are a couple things I think need to be worked on.
The factions seem pointless and with mixed fighters on a team none of this make much sense. Someone else mentioned maybe having bonuses for using characters from your faction. There is mention of faction challenges or objectives, but so far I haven't really figured out how any of that works. Sometimes I can't actually view anything anyways. The menus are a bit messy and confusing.
No matter what character I play as, there are issues staying locked on to a target. Randomly I am not locked on and instead of blocking I am looking all over the place. This happens most often when I am facing multiple opponents which usually ends up with me dead. Staying locked on is very important. Also I have had issues unlocking after killing an enemy and pressing the button. Once that led to being double teamed from behind after killing an enemy, which again resulted in my death.
Also blocking with the mouse seems slow and fairly ineffective. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I think what someone else mentioned in another post might be the issue, you have to move the mouse to far. Some times I get great blocking combos, even held off 3 other players for a while, but then issues like blocking not working or the target lock, unlocks and screws up everything.
Lastly, in many menu screens, I cannot exit the game. Some times I am stuck waiting for players, or waiting for enough players and most of them are disconnecting and I am stuck on that screen. i have to "alt+F4" to close the game. Sometimes doing that doesn't totally close the game (looks closed and doesn't show up in task manager but Uplay thinks it is open and Windows functions aren't working properly) and I have to restart the computer.
If these issues were ironed out, this game would be great. I don't know how many maps there will be, but I hope there are a decent amount so the game doesn't get boring. there aren't a lot of game modes and while the combat and customization are great, the game could get boring.
I like the look of the game, and the dynamics of the combat. Performance is pretty great on my system. I "can" play on maxed settings, but get 30-40fps, I put it on medium/high and get minimum 60fps.
System
CPU FX8320
GPU GTX 960 2GB
RAM 16GB 1333GHz
OS Win 10
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I agree with all of what you have said about the menus. For the blocking, I haven't touched the sensitivity, my mouse is already quite high. When I have issues unlocking from my target randomly, I am usually trying to block and my view spins around and then I am disoriented for a moment while getting beat down, usually by 2 or 3 opponents. I am sure others are having similar issues with blocking too since some times I can wipe out someone like they weren't even trying, and then they come back beat me like I'm a helpless doll. When the game does work though, and they block and I block and we have to get more strategic than walking up and smashing each other till one drops, this game is so much fun!
I hope they will fix some of this, but if they didn't change much since the alpha I won't hold my breath. I definitely want this game, but I probably wont get it right a away.
Edit: I was replying to someone who agreed with me, said the game hasn't changed much since the alpha and had some good points but their comment is gone...
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I just tried playing a custom match against a bot to practice with the characters I haven't tried and wow that was impossible. Seems I am only decent with the conquerer or whatever the knight is with the flail. The bots blocked almost every hit! I also noticed when someone attacks from the same stance and I have to block in the same direction, my mouse ends up with out room to move on my desk. Moving it to a neutral position leaves me open to getting hit. I'll try playing with my trackball mouse. I tried with a controller but still had issues with blocking.
Update: Tried with my trackball mouse. Definitely better, but still there is a bit of lag or something. Sometimes it just isn't responsive. Not sure how I feel about this game. Cool idea, I was excited, not as excited. Game seems a bit shallow and could get boring quick, guard seems clunky and my random unlocking from target doesn't help. Match making had some issues, loading me into a game that was basically over, 1400 to 500, I was on the losing team and couldn't spawn and had to wait a couple minutes for the inevitable lose. Just kind of a waste of a few minutes. Menus seemed better, at least when waiting for enough players there was an option quite that I didn't have before when I wrote the op. Anyways, I will probably wait for a sale, although by then there might not be many people playing this game and solo doesn't get new equipment.
