Melee Weapons Glitch?

[Kerry Malone]

Little curious. Tried playing again after a year and I decided to roll a new character and was using a 1h sword against like... 5 bandits. The sword does absolutely *NOTHING* to them once they gang up on me. Like, literally nothing.

I thought this was a glitch so spun up another game, got a 2h sword and a 2h axe and went after some bandits. I COULD NOT CAUSE DAMAGE ON SWING/CUT. Only pierce works, which is very annoying as it has the lowest stat and is much harder to achieve on horseback.

Only my bow works for me.

[flyingscot1066]

I have not encountered this issue. When you say nothing, do you actually mean 0 damage, or just not as much as you expected? Are you getting parried? Blocked? You say you are getting ganged up on. Are you getting your swings off cleanly? More data input required.

[Kerry Malone]

I'm fighting how I've always fought. Its as if the hits aren't connecting at all. In the data stream to my left I'm not seeing "blocked" or "parried" or anything like that just hits to me. When I use thrust I get the traditional damage notification of the 'X' on the bandit and the big notification saying "31 damage" etc just not getting it when I use swing attacks either from the side or overhead.

[RJboxer]

Originally posted by Adm. Kerry Malone:

I'm fighting how I've always fought. Its as if the hits aren't connecting at all. In the data stream to my left I'm not seeing "blocked" or "parried" or anything like that just hits to me. When I use thrust I get the traditional damage notification of the 'X' on the bandit and the big notification saying "31 damage" etc just not getting it when I use swing attacks either from the side or overhead.

Was there a "Sound". Yes vague I know.

One-Handers do do damage, but I expect that is not how the game envisions them (as the damage dealer). It seems to me 1 handers are designed for shield use, and time consuming mini duels in the field. Or fighting up stairs, or Having a weapon in hand, AND a shield to block the AI shooting you from the wall etc.


2 handers with slice, or weapons capitalizing on the speed mechanic work best. Bows are a close second, and you probably get more kills with a bow, due to their superior advantage in a siege. (where racking up 100-200 kills is not unheard of).

I ask about sound, because I feel this might be a graphical glitch (just guessing). I see this sometimes on my polearm or twohander, I swing, It looks like I hit, but they blocked it (or just as likely it hit the shield on that cavalry scrubs back and stopped my attack). This I feel should let me know it blocked, but it doesn't so I just assume it did. and I still hear the "thud" from the attack.

So if you hear a "sound" my guess would be it was blocked somehow.

I dunno. just a suggestion.

[Kerry Malone]

Originally posted by RJboxer:

Originally posted by Adm. Kerry Malone:

I'm fighting how I've always fought. Its as if the hits aren't connecting at all. In the data stream to my left I'm not seeing "blocked" or "parried" or anything like that just hits to me. When I use thrust I get the traditional damage notification of the 'X' on the bandit and the big notification saying "31 damage" etc just not getting it when I use swing attacks either from the side or overhead.

Was there a "Sound". Yes vague I know.

One-Handers do do damage, but I expect that is not how the game envisions them (as the damage dealer). It seems to me 1 handers are designed for shield use, and time consuming mini duels in the field. Or fighting up stairs, or Having a weapon in hand, AND a shield to block the AI shooting you from the wall etc.


2 handers with slice, or weapons capitalizing on the speed mechanic work best. Bows are a close second, and you probably get more kills with a bow, due to their superior advantage in a siege. (where racking up 100-200 kills is not unheard of).

I ask about sound, because I feel this might be a graphical glitch (just guessing). I see this sometimes on my polearm or twohander, I swing, It looks like I hit, but they blocked it (or just as likely it hit the shield on that cavalry scrubs back and stopped my attack). This I feel should let me know it blocked, but it doesn't so I just assume it did. and I still hear the "thud" from the attack.

So if you hear a "sound" my guess would be it was blocked somehow.

I dunno. just a suggestion.

No, there's no sound.

Also, its as if the weapon just isn't connecting to them at all. I swing it looks like it hits, but I get nothing. I'd accept the occasional miss-hit as that was a thing - this is *constant*. It *never* connects with any of them, no matter how much I move, swing, etc.

This is now with 1h swords/axes, 2h sword/axes. Genuinely, the swing/cut mechanic is broken.

[elysebluemoon]

Originally posted by Adm. Kerry Malone:

Little curious. Tried playing again after a year and I decided to roll a new character and was using a 1h sword against like... 5 bandits. The sword does absolutely *NOTHING* to them once they gang up on me. Like, literally nothing.

I thought this was a glitch so spun up another game, got a 2h sword and a 2h axe and went after some bandits. I COULD NOT CAUSE DAMAGE ON SWING/CUT. Only pierce works, which is very annoying as it has the lowest stat and is much harder to achieve on horseback.

Only my bow works for me.

Can you upload a video recording of this to upload.taleworlds.com? Please include this thread's link in the description as instructed in the below article so I can identify it.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/261550/discussions/17/5283252978690800581/

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[elysebluemoon]

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