T-pose invulnerable enemies?

[Zephyr]

Am I the only one who can't actually have effective combat because every attack makes the enemy t-pose and seems to cancel out whatever attack you use...

[Anatolius]

50 hours in - haven't seen any t-posed NPC yet

[Kohwalter]

You are not the only one.
Combos are very hard to land. I only managed to land the 3-combos and even then it is rarely due to perfect blocks or dodges.

Most of the time I just wait for an enemy to attack so I can riposte it (free damage on the automatic counter attack) and do a one or 2 quick attacks. Repeat this boring process until the enemy dies or the player dies from starvation.
Other than that, it is a really boring combat due to all perfect blocks and automatic riposte damage.

The other solution is just pick a bow and fire while walking/running. Much easier and faster.

[Zephyr]

@Caelum Thanks for the tip, but my issue seems different, neither I, nor the enemy ai can use any melee, combos or ordinary strikes, I only found out bows worked because I initiated on a bandit camp and used the bow to start with an advantage and up my bow skills in the process.

after a bit, I noticed that even if I did nothing, they couldn't harm me, either, (except the archer, but by the time I figured that out I had back pedaled to the point the archer went idle and went to sleep at camp)

and it's not really a full, "T" pose, the arms are lower angle, like less than 45deg out from the sides, but it just snaps the character model to it anytime the ai attacks, and freezes like that for a few seconds until, i guess, the attack action is timed out and then goes back to what could be described as 'aggressive walking'

doesn't even animate any attack action from player, either... I can only guess I'm doing the same 'T' pose

[pks]

Originally posted by Purple Flame:

50 hours in - haven't seen any t-posed NPC yet

I've seen T-posed corpses recently - non-ragdoll scenery corpses at some "accidents" that is.

I've seen Bernard glitch into a T-pose once.

But all NPCs T-posing is a seriously damaged game. Remove mods and verify files.

[Zephyr]

no mods, and I've tried to verify files already, still acted up on me though... yeah, it's pretty game breaking, not being able to fight or be fought in melee, and just standing there with a bow THUNKing arrows into the gathered mob of bandits because the only option that works is bows. I'm thinking about waiting untill the game updates next to try to run it, see if it is dealt with then...