Revert block cancelling changes

SillyPlay

Changes just feel weird. There are still some abilities that can be cancelled like before as well as others that feel/look glitchy when you try even though it works. Plus bash cancelling still exists so not sure why the other was changed

Taleof2Cities

That ship sailed a long time ago, @SillyPlay.

Are you saying you've been away from the game since February or before?

Most Sword & Board players have long adapted by now.

If you're trying to block without enough Stamina, well, that bug was fixed.

SillyPlay

Been away since mid February. Doesn’t have anything to do with sword and board. Just animation feel

NeillMcAttack

Yea, it has felt bad since U25. Not a single person I have talked to that played through it would say things are anyway better now. Fact is, ZOS made the changes for a reason that they claim had to do with just moving block server side. So that counter play makes more sense, as you can see what other players are doing during combat. This is certainly not the whole truth.

Synergies are much more delayed now, perhaps they also got moved server side. They can take 2-3 attempts to activate now. And you have to wait out the sunergy animation some times, particularly evident with Orb synergy, as you can activate it but it will move out of range by the time your click registers server side and then just fail. This was never the case prior to U25.
The Cyro lag was the biggest, most notable, negative effect of what changed after U25. It has become unplayable. And normal gameplay feels very different, less fluid, more inconsistent in the time of different delays that plague endgame progression. Desyncs making it very difficult to impossible to Rez others in trials etc. etc.

Maybe they moved more stuff server side to help with cheat detection, maybe it was to help with the release of Stadia. Sad thing is, we can honestly only guess, as they are certainly not willing to be honest with what happened. I just hope they have a good reason because they completely screwed over a lot of long time players with these “block changes”.

JSTCH

I still remember the old 1.6 days, where the pvp combat was so smooth. Now it’s a struggle to even black cancel a heavy attack with a skill, nothing fires. The struggle is real these days what happened to the old combat and game performance? How does such a great game go so far forward yet so far backwards at the same time?

Rungar

Maybe they dont really want people block cancelling every skill. How far is this farce going to go. Performance is bad because they moved things serverside but player behavior didnt change and the amount of players dramatically increased since covid

Just put minus 400 weapon and spell dmg for 3 seconds debuff after blocking and be done with it. It will no longer be useful for dps and become emergency only like it was designed to be.

TheRealDrRat

The changes to block are dangerous for players; it’s like throwing an unarmed person in a cage with deadly animals. I’m not sure why they thought it was okay to make random sudden changes to block and with block being used in serious situations it should never have been messed with to start - especially not like the genius devs thought to do in this case anyway. The worst about the changes is that you can’t block while sprinting. Before you were able to block while sprinting to stop sprinting and automatically go into block. Now you have to stop running in order to block. I never understood why people think it’s okay to change things when others are already fine with how it is and used to it. Maybe ZOS should buy a new server instead of trying to make idiotic changes to reduce lag - what are they saving the money for? They should’ve made a ton of money from scamming people into buying their expansion, promising bunches and then changing the things they promised in less than a month. Sheesh, and I thought Other RPGs were bad.

JSTCH

Rungar wrote: »

Maybe they dont really want people block cancelling every skill. How far is this farce going to go. Performance is bad because they moved things serverside but player behavior didnt change and the amount of players dramatically increased since covid

Just put minus 400 weapon and spell dmg for 3 seconds debuff after blocking and be done with it. It will no longer be useful for dps and become emergency only like it was designed to be.

unfortunately that decrease in weapon damage after block would make it ridiculously hard to heal when in trouble. You’d almost be safer eating the damage and keeping that 400 damage for your counter heals

Onefrkncrzypope

I just want to block while sprinting. It feels so bad. Yeah I adapted but it's so gross

Rungar

JSTCH wrote: »

Rungar wrote: »

Maybe they dont really want people block cancelling every skill. How far is this farce going to go. Performance is bad because they moved things serverside but player behavior didnt change and the amount of players dramatically increased since covid

Just put minus 400 weapon and spell dmg for 3 seconds debuff after blocking and be done with it. It will no longer be useful for dps and become emergency only like it was designed to be.

unfortunately that decrease in weapon damage after block would make it ridiculously hard to heal when in trouble. You’d almost be safer eating the damage and keeping that 400 damage for your counter heals

maybe that's a good thing.

Pinja

To show this wasn't really about performance, didn't bash damage reduction coincide with the block changes.

Spartabunny08

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

That ship sailed a long time ago, @SillyPlay.

Are you saying you've been away from the game since February or before?

Most Sword & Board players have long adapted by now.

If you're trying to block without enough Stamina, well, that bug was fixed.

adapted? You mean went to warframe? Lmao it don't work so...