Inversing Melee Swings?

[[BRE] Rufus]

I freaking hate hate hate hate hate how I have to look up to do an overhead swing and look down to do an underhand stab. I'm way too used to moving the mouse down to do an overhead and pushing it forwards to stab like in Mount and Blade which makes a LOT more sense to me. Same with the swings, I want my blade to be moving in the direction my mouse is moving, not the opposite. It's completely counter intuitive.

Anyways, all that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ out of the way to ask: How the hell do I inverse my swings? I can't find that option at all in the menu and it seems so simple a feature.

[MiSFiT77]

Dya mean swing to the right instead of the left ?

But yeh melee is not intuitive. It is also not (I anticipate calls to the contrary) broken. It's true that you will sometimes be killed by a guy who is "nowhere near me" but that's most often down to lag. And in many cases it was the guy you didn't see behind you that actually stabbed you. But as I say many will disagree. Preferring to assume they are melee gods and if someone killed them there must surely be something wrong with the game.

Having to face down to swing up (low attack) is hard to master since melee seems to be defaulted to high attack. Low block seems similarly difficult compared to high block. And going to side block when you meant to high block is just about the most embarrassing way to die in the game.

Swinging right to left is easy, especially if you learn the dark arts of spinning and breaking blocks and attacks. You can speed up the attack like this. Swinging the other way is much slower, hard to use the break block trick and even more counter intuitive. If you are attempting to spin into the attack your hand will be moving to the right, which is off the edge of the table for most of us. Swinging attacks left to right (high or low) are doable, but they are always much slower and can leave you vulnerable.

Go onto and empty server and practice attacking a tree.

[[BRE] Rufus]

Thanks for the time spent responding, seems the answer is no. I have no issue with the melee combat in general, I'm actually not terrible at it, I just think the directions for attacking make NO sense at all. I can't believe such a simple toggle option is missing, even Warband had that option and that game is decades old.

[Tom Shaftoe]

Currently, the melee attacks go in the opposite direction of mouse movement, and there's no way to invert them in the settings. Blocks go in the correct, intuitive direction, but melee attacks are backwards. If a setting gets added to reverse the direction of melee attacks, I'd buy the game again. As is, its just too frustrating to keep.