Parrying feels ass on anything other than combat knife.

[MisinformedOwl]

Turns out it's an issue with relic.

WATCH BEFORE READING THIS IS WHAT THE POST IS ABOUT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48XCmFB3YUg

I dont get whats up with other weapons. I played through the game maining assault using chainsword. Did everything on ruthless all that stuff. I jump on sniper, theres such a night and day difference between combat knife and literally every other melee in the game. I can be in a horde and parry reliably and not get instantly ♥♥♥♥♥♥ when i get surrounded.

I went back to assault for a game because a friend of mine wanted to play sniper, and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ i couldn't parry anything. I dont get it. I go for a parry after seeing the swarm mob attack, perfectly reasonably timed. And i just... block? with a fencing sword? I really dont understand man. It feels super inconsistent.

I've been told various weapons have their own parry windows. But why? It's so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ jarring moving to any other weapon now. Because parrying is so much more difficult, i just think to myself. Whats the point? Why would i go any other class than vanguard or sniper at this rate.

[Yagger]

I main sniper but I'd rather have other melee weapons

[MisinformedOwl]

Originally posted by Yagger:

I main sniper but I'd rather have other melee weapons

But have you felt the other melees are just weird to parry with

[Yagger]

Originally posted by MisinformedOwl:

Originally posted by Yagger:

I main sniper but I'd rather have other melee weapons

But have you felt the other melees are just weird to parry with

I prefer the chainsword

[soviergn]

Fencing weapons afaik all have the same parry window. I've got all classes to at least twenty and use a variety of melee weapons. As long as the weapon is a fencing style weapon the parry window feels exactly the same. On vanguard that goes for balanced weapons as well since they get a perk for 50 percent longer parry window anyway. If you're going from balanced to fencing or god forbid block then yeah it'll feel weird. I'd have to see one of those slo-mo videos breaking down exactly parry timing but it literally feels the same so long as it's the same defense style.

[Tysere]

Originally posted by MisinformedOwl:

Originally posted by Yagger:

I main sniper but I'd rather have other melee weapons

But have you felt the other melees are just weird to parry with

The worst by far is Heavy parrying, and the default non-fencing Hammer. Heavy parry feels so incredibly awkward and mistimed it hurts my brain.

[MisinformedOwl]

Originally posted by Tysere:

Originally posted by MisinformedOwl:

But have you felt the other melees are just weird to parry with

The worst by far is Heavy parrying, and the default non-fencing Hammer. Heavy parry feels so incredibly awkward and mistimed it hurts my brain.

I just dont understand the benefit of having differnet parry times for weapons. It's not like anythign is different when you parry with different weapons. You kill small mobs. You gunstrike elites. It just makes the game feel ass and makes me stuck using specific melee weapons i dont particularly want to use.

[FromChaosTheory]

Pretty sure they all have the same timing. The defense type on the weapon is the key. Balanced and fencing don't feel different on different weapons.

[MisinformedOwl]

Originally posted by FromChaosTheory:

Pretty sure they all have the same timing. The defense type on the weapon is the key. Balanced and fencing don't feel different on different weapons.

Well i got told they are different. And i really feel it because i go to chain sword and it feels like i need to parry 10 business days before the attack to get the parry off. despite having a fencing weapon.

[Horrid]

Assault is the worst class, its just bad.

[SolusiRadikal]

Use fencing weapon
/Thread

[MisinformedOwl]

Originally posted by SolusiRadikal:

Use fencing weapon
/Thread

Literally am.

[MisinformedOwl]

Originally posted by Horrid:

Assault is the worst class, its just bad.

Not a post about assault but yes assault bad.

[zmanbuilder]

Originally posted by MisinformedOwl:

Originally posted by Horrid:

Assault is the worst class, its just bad.

Not a post about assault but yes assault bad.

Assault gets a bonus 50% to perfect dodge timing.

[MisinformedOwl]

Originally posted by zmanbuilder:

Originally posted by MisinformedOwl:

Not a post about assault but yes assault bad.

Assault gets a bonus 50% to perfect dodge timing.

Then i'm really glad i'm trying to parry waves of enemies arent i.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Originally posted by MisinformedOwl:

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Fairly certain the weapon is irrelevant and the only thing that matters is the parry type on the weapon (To clarify, there are almost certainly different parry types on different combat knives, just like every other weapon type has variations with the different types).