Tournaments are no longer fun!

[TheDoog]

Taleworlds committed the cardinal sin of gaming. They took something that was too easy but fun and in attempting to make it harder (mostly for the best players) they made it not fun. Can I still win tournaments, yes sometimes. Do harder tournaments make the game more fun? HELL NO! I can't imagine a single person who enjoys blocking and swinging for 5 minutes straight while their hand slowly seizes into a cramped ball.

The blocking is just plain stupid.

If you think tournaments are more fun now than they used to be you probably enjoy other hobbies like slapping yourself in the sack.

[Angelus Mortis]

Tournaments are still easy. Stop ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Redmacinton]

Tournaments are so easy, hell i play on bannerlord and its still too easy.

[Steven Seagull]

Originally posted by TheDoog:

Taleworlds committed the cardinal sin of gaming. They took something that was too easy but fun and in attempting to make it harder (mostly for the best players) they made it not fun. Can I still win tournaments, yes sometimes. Do harder tournaments make the game more fun? HELL NO! I can't imagine a single person who enjoys blocking and swinging for 5 minutes straight while their hand slowly seizes into a cramped ball.

The blocking is just plain stupid.

If you think tournaments are more fun now than they used to be you probably enjoy other hobbies like slapping yourself in the sack.

What's wrong with a little ball slapping?

[Caelestus]

Do you just want to automatically win all Tournament matches? Turn down the difficulty then.

[Lathanx]

Tournaments are exactly the same as they were in 1.2.4, the AI is very easy to exploit and bait attacks, stop swinging wildly.

[TheDoog]

To be clear, talking about the beta. Secondly for everyone saying it's easy, I have watched several streamers with 1000s of hours in game all state the same thing, so the gitgud internet flex is a bit silly.

Regardless, of what others say, I really hope they AT LEAST fix kick and shield bash which have both been rendered useless. At least for me, the AI recovers and blocks after either a kick or bash 100% of the time.

[Kusarigama]

Originally posted by TheDoog:

To be clear, talking about the beta. Secondly for everyone saying it's easy, I have watched several streamers with 1000s of hours in game all state the same thing, so the gitgud internet flex is a bit silly.

Regardless, of what others say, I really hope they AT LEAST fix kick and shield bash which have both been rendered useless. At least for me, the AI recovers and blocks after either a kick or bash 100% of the time.

The beta still has exploits as in the circleout swing exploit. You run out and swing into the enemy real fast and its almost a guaranteed hit. If you are faster with Athletics I am sure you can still circle them and get them that way. Fighting straight up with a fresh character without exploits... Your going to have a hard time. And it is the Steam forums so there is that. The AI is blocking noticeably better.

[Default Exploit]

No wenches?

[Honnes G.]

A pretty bad take. Tournaments as a system logically get more "challenging" as you go through the rounds. Doesn't it make sense that the last round would be between the two best fighters who survived all the previous rounds? What exactly do you want here? Because it's certainly not tournaments. I use RBM and the tournaments are still relatively easy while at the same time being more predicated on blocking. My main issue is that the tournaments are boring and extremely repetitive. After landing 40 wins to get first place on the leaderboard, I was so jaded and pretty much done with them. But that's not because of blocking. It's because there's no flavor left in them after you've done them maybe five times. The rewards are scant, you can't bet as much money as you used to be able to, and the fact it's so easy to farm influence and renown with them makes it feel less like an RPG aspect and more of a loophole to raise clan tier.

[justfaded]

This is a good thing.

[Cantung]

More blocking is good in actual battles as allows the battle to mature a bit longer.

But in the tourney's not so great.
If they had improved the counter mechanic of kicking in line with the extra blocking I would have been happier.

[shuro che ko]

i mean ... they do have a sheild .. might as well block lol.

[Urmel]

my wife do this work for me. 1 click and i get the price 99% of all tournaments.

siega and corain have good fighting skills 200+

[Action Man]

Since you want it to be easier, turn on the cheat console. I think it's Ctrl Alt F4 to KO all enemy targets.

Boom. Easy. No blocking. You auto win.

[Ruffio]

Originally posted by Urmel:

my wife do this work for me. 1 click and i get the price 99% of all tournaments.

siega and corain have good fighting skills 200+

Silvind is a good choice as well.