Build 200 released!

^Exactly.

You must do either huge improvements to the new system or reverse back to the old one.. :(

 

Everything about the new combat is unreliable. Attacks parry against people being launched through the air or not even facing you. Shields sometimes block power slashes and other times they don't block jabs. Shield bashing trajectories are unpredictable and overhead skull crushing sometimes does 3 hearts of damage when you fall from 3 blocks, or a half heart when falling from 20.

Do power slashes not have a hit box above and below the knight, following the slash's animation? I've tried swatting people out of the air as they try and jump over me and I miss. It does the same when I try and fall-slash at people directly below me.

I'm totally going to make a shako if we get the ability to make our own heads.

 

Im doing overall much better as a knight (i think its just practice), but I agree I keep getting into situations where NOTHING gets through. I dont even see the other guy swing and hes not shielded yet I still get a clash. Most of my success has been epic bombings.

Also some people with same ping as me are teleporting, like their position is only updating every few seconds.

EDIT: Also successful slashes now launch the enemy too far away to even hit them again, even with a second slash following the first. Basically my slash breaks their shield and they fly out of range only to shield again.

 

I've played tons of matches since the update and I'm still just as bad. I can honestly say that knight combat is ruined for me, and because I'm an awful archer and find building boring, the game just isn't fun anymore.

But, I love the game and I'll continue to play it, albeit I'll usually be in a rage-quitty mood.

 

I want mine back too.
I got the game a few days ago, and now I'm not premium.
It says 'Premium account verified' or something, and when I join games I'm not premium.

 

Post a thread in the help forum.

 

Eh you really shouldn't make the bottomless pit like this:



It has made many maps buggy.

 

Dunno I its been reported yet, but my TAB keeps breaking and the scoreboard no longer shows until I reconnect.

 

Well except that you are not stunlocked, you should be able to walk away from it, I think you should be able to block though after being hit, I mean why not? Would mean you can get hit once and then the fight continues normally.
From my experience though right now if you spam JAB you will be able to jab (and parry) while the enemy is jab spamming at you after the first hit, may be due to bug. I think if you don't block/backup you should be able to be stabbed to death without counter attacking inbetween incoming stabs. That would also make stab spamming harder as if you are just spamming the jab you will get hacked to pieces -> you gotta block and play defensively for a moment instead and then attack.

I noticed aswell that you can get parried AND hit at the same time, your attack gets parried while he hits you, which is really weird and shouldn't be possible.

The last one is a big one, I tried this out with Wonka, he didn't attack at all while I was stabbing him, we both seen that I hit him repeatedly and I got parried without him blocking OR attacking.

I think parrying (clashing) is a pretty random addition and only served to make the combat more convolouted and confusing. A lot of it is due to bugs or lags I am sure, but that is something we have to live with right now :/

Needs some serious fixing.

 

To be honest what's the point in keeping parry/clashes in when they just cause problems? Well, for most people i've spoken to anyway. Some seem to find it okay. Still, it was better without them IMO, and jab spam nor stun lock would happen without them, if you get hit once you should be unable to attack BUT still able to shield and move, so being hit once is the max you're going to get, so long as you actually react. Lag will dictate probably if you get hit again but at least you won't get killed by 3 hits like you were when stuns were in, cause you'd be continually stunned on each jab. If you can really fix clashes so that they're reliable, so that they respond reasonably to lag and so that knight combat is at least a bit more predictable, then i'll shutup, but if you ask me i'd say your job is easier if you just remove it. Just sayin'

 

Yeah, I can still do okay, but combat seems much less ordered. I cant predict the possibility of a favourable outcome for any given meelee, unlike before. Damn this is all just whining. You'll either fix it or revert it, and either is ok, I guess.

 

You still don't get it. We don't want specific heads locked to a specific class.
As I wrote it before, see it as Team Fortress 2 hats. I can have #1 hat on sniper, die, respawn as pyro and have hat #2.
Currently in KAG, when i have a pumpkin on my builder and go and change to knight, he has a pumkin too.
It's just a matter of changing the code and allowing to customize a class without affecting the others.

Capiche?

 

Oh nono, I meant that you would be able to choose a head for each class from the same custom head menu.
Some heads just look better on other classes, the big, closed helmet that looks so badass on knights but crap on archers and builders being a good example.

The menu would work like this:

 

Epic drawing skills :D

You should all just rock the tophat like me.

 

Mmyeah, that'd work too.

 

You could probably save yourself some work by parenting the hat itself to the default head, Geti, on certain hats this would work, because they don't change the sprite between Idle/Action/Death.

On others, you'd need the current system, but it allows implementation of further hats with less work.