Should it take longer to charge slash?

As the tittle suggests, I am curios to hear what other people think of the current charge time required to perform a slash. At the moment I feel that charging a slash is a bit too quick, to the point that I had tiny lag spikes which made it seem as if my opponent almost instant-slashed me.

I also noticed that when compared to an archer's charged shot, a knight slash charges almost twice as fast, making retaliation or grappling hook attempts at escaping, impossible for an archer unless the knight misses (somehow). This also makes passing by knights, as an archer, very difficult given that they can one shot almost instantly and have a pretty big range, not to mention the ability to slash jump allows them to reach most archers that attempt to swing over them.

Besides the above, I think (in theory atleast) that by increasing the charge time, jabs would end up a bit more useful and make the option of charging forward and jabing the knight that's attempting to slash, a more viable option than at present. This might also remove the slash-lock where one knight keeps slashing the other until the defender is dead or managed to back away (if lucky). Of course it might also prolong knight duels a bit since it would force players to either back away and recalculate the distance and timing for their next slash or, if they wish to end it quickly while adding a bit of risk, have them try a jab or two at their opponent in hopes of finishing them off.

I think the knight could stand a small nerf given that he's already a power-house that can instant kill almost anything; with the exception of other knights (most last 2-3 seconds longer but eh), bisons or sharks.

 

Knight's slash is fine, it's the network code that needs fixing.

 

Nah. Make jabs not an insta-stun instead. Archers are fairly powerful in cqc already thanks to their stun, btw.

 

Yeah I think slash time is fine where its at. Its obviously something that the devs would be worried about over other things that are much more important. Beta is a much faster moving game compared to classic anyways so obviously things like slash time and loading arrows is going to be a little quicker than how things used to be. It's something you will just have to get used to because it will most likely not change.

 

The only issue I find with knight is probably the sword sprite, it's hard to judge where the tip of it lands and if it does even hit you.

 

You may probably notice how it has dark contour at the tip and you can't see that last few pixels there, I'll screw around with sprite and see what happens, like making that contour lighter.