Daily Poll: VIKINGS - Day 1 Balance Impressions! | Forums

[Ubi-Gaidheal]

Warriors!

We hope you've had a great first day in the Open Beta. We know it's still early days, but we wanted some of your initial impressions on the character balance. In addition to voting, please share your thoughts/opinions in this thread below the poll as well.

[Ubi-Gaidheal]

Warriors!

We hope you've had a great first day in the Open Beta. We know it's still early days, but we wanted some of your initial impressions on the character balance. In addition to voting, please share your thoughts/opinions in this thread below the poll as well.

[E-A-X]

I voted for warlord beeing overpowered, not exactly himself all out is overpowered, but the headbutt - it doesnt punish his stamina properly (headbutt spamming is a big thing tho) and its extremly difficult to dodge (too much autoaim, timing to react too short, the range) - in a 1v1 scenario with alot of areas that you can fly off its really a disgusting experience that can cause alot of frustration.

[Vaetherian]

Get rid of the god damn "block all and press heavy!"
It's too dumb if I can block all attacks, and then make a strong attack by pressing just a single button.

It's so "funny" if playing Warlord is actually easier then "Raider" which is claimed to be "easy" Vanguard

Other than that, Berserker and Raider are quite fun to play with.

[Master_Thorr]

I voted for warlord beeing overpowered, not exactly himself all out is overpowered, but the headbutt - it doesnt punish his stamina properly (headbutt spamming is a big thing tho) and its extremly difficult to dodge (too much autoaim, timing to react too short, the range) - in a 1v1 scenario with alot of areas that you can fly off its really a disgusting experience that can cause alot of frustration.

I 100% agree with you warlord is too strong and annoying to play against the headbutt is so buggy you can't dodge it and too strong because you can spam it.

[SirCranburry]

The warlord is generally very disappointing if you don't use headbutt and the raider has way too many unblockables (which shouldn't even be a thing in the game because it hurts anyone who isn't a pro)

[RhettButler1994]

I think the unblockables for the vikings are a little ridiculous. The raider in particular. You should not be able to do the unblockable as a startup. I think all unblockables in the game should rely on a combo with the hit before the unblockable having to hit the target, and for deflect/riposte attacks. I believe that is a legitimate idea and should be implemented.

[Greengrunt]

I voted Raider underpowered, mainly in 1v1 duels because his attacks are too slow and easily parried and predicted, even his light attacks are too slow. Everytime I attack an experienced player in 1v1 they simply do the parry combo where you just parry - guardbreak - free attack, because its so damn easy to do vs raider. As a raider if you parry then guardbreak someone your only guaranteed a light attack or a grab, because the heavies are too slow, which sucks because the heavies do nice damage but are too slow for a punish most of the time. The unblockable attack almost never works vs experienced players either cause its, well, so slow and easily parried/predicted, or side stepped... also 1 parry vs a raider and he seems to lose around 50% or more stamina which is nuts.
The raider is basically only good for stomping noobs who cant block or parry properly yet, but at a high skill level of 1v1s I think he sucks. He needs some love in the 1v1 area, allow a guardbreak to be punished by a free raider heavy instead of just a light or a grab... also when you knee someone to the face by carrying them into a wall it does no damage... shouldn't that do damage? it looks painful, maybe 1 light attack worth of damage. His stuns don't seem to help him that much, probably because you can just see the giant axe coming from a certain angle anyways so you don't even need your indicators. I think buffing stun in general could help the raider aswell, as its one of his main 1v1 mechanics, it would be fair to buff it, make it so you cant block/parry/sidestep or atleast take some health or stamina damage from blocking while stunned? could also make stun last longer? anything to make his 1v1 at high skill level better is what raider needs.

[Airi_Daodrri]

Warlord unlocks shield feat, Push into pit from across the map.

Raider can charge you and drop you anywhere into an unblockable/undodgeable/unparryable Side Unblockable attack and it will hit no matter what you do. :^)

[Kenbaee]

Just my opinion but the Warlord unblockable is so quick it's almost as bad as the wardens insane area attack. The damage after the attack is fine its basically nothing but it takes away so much stamina on the "victim". The rest of the moveset is nice but does rely far too much on the headbutt combo.

Raider is actually ok, has a nice mix of heavy and light attacks. The unblockable attack is so slow it's just asking to be deflected or parried and against high level players it just gets the raider killed. Nice feints and mix ups though was enjoyable to play.

Beserker by far my favourite class so far in the entire game! Love the speed of the character. damage doesn't seem to high compared to other classes. However one major flaw is that so far I have found out its the only class in the game that, if it's light attack gets blocked, it's a GUARANTEED guard break for the opponent. That's just insane!! If that happens against a Peacekeeper or Nobushi then the Beserker would lose half their health through poison/bleed?? Was this intended? Also more often than not, the so called "uninterruptable" leap attacks (both heavy and light) have been interrupted mid animation. This is when I was with plenty of health and didn't die

Apart from these few things the Vikings seem in a good place. Can't wait to see what the Valkyrie can do!

[Mewsan]

At high level, Raider is very underpowered. He has very predictable openers (yes, including feints), can't get a guaranteed heavy from wall stuns and overall has trouble punishing the enemy for mistakes.