why does everyone swing faster than me?

[Achillezzz]

see above

[sparrowbird611]

First off, the weapon you are using, and your opponents weapon is using is a big factor. However, the two biggest factors would be initiative and accels. Accels are moving your screen towards you foe, effectively making your swing faster. Initiative transfers when you parry, so if a maul parries your arming sword, he will attack faster, even though his weapon is slower.

[Spagootnoodels]

Everyone drags their attacks to make people with poor reaction times miserable.
Also could be latency issues, but I dunno.

[LauraSaurusRAWR]

its not you. the servers get more ♥♥♥♥ every day. today i played with ping above 80. my mate with 64, we usually have 20-30 pings in online games.

its simply lag. i never swung or shot through so many people without a hit registering or not hitting them but getting the kill.

[David Fifield]

Originally posted by Achillezzz:

see above

I notice this a lot too. I'll accel an attack and people seem to easily block it. They accel and I pretty much get hit in what looks like windup lmao. I have 180-200ms reaction time ( changes depending on how much sleep I get) so I don't think I'm retardedly slow.

[Spray]

Originally posted by Trumpet:

Originally posted by Achillezzz:

see above

I notice this a lot too. I'll accel an attack and people seem to easily block it. They accel and I pretty much get hit in what looks like windup lmao. I have 180-200ms reaction time ( changes depending on how much sleep I get) so I don't think I'm retardedly slow.

Originally posted by Achillezzz:

see above

This is very subjective on what weapon they are using and what weapon you are using, for instance a Longsword and Greatsword look similar however one is faster then the other, you can also accelerate attacks by moving into the enemy. In real life terms imagine swinging your hips towards the enemy to gain speed. This can also work the opposite as if you starts swinging, face away from an opponent and time your end of the swing to turn back you can make the swing longed by a few hundred miliseconds making people misstime parries

[Crytek]

Originally posted by Dankie420:

Because people are exploiting game mechanics.

Well i think youre wrong here. They even teach it to you in the Tutorial how to do accels and drags.

[Edge_Master]

Originally posted by Train with me :):

Originally posted by Dankie420:

Because people are exploiting game mechanics.

Well i think youre wrong here. They even teach it to you in the Tutorial how to do accels and drags.

They DO NOT teach accels in the tutorial.

I have ran through the sword elements of it four times and have not once seen or heard accels or drags ever mentioned.

If they were it was insanely brief.

[p10k56]

This game mekes my fingers hurts faster you click bigger is chance to actualy swing.
Absolute pro macroist game.

[Crytek]

Originally posted by Dick_Cheese_Machine:

Originally posted by Train with me :):

Well i think youre wrong here. They even teach it to you in the Tutorial how to do accels and drags.

They DO NOT teach accels in the tutorial.

I have ran through the sword elements of it four times and have not once seen or heard accels or drags ever mentioned.

If they were it was insanely brief.

Gonna try it again this evening. But i wonder if it didnt show up there how did I learn it? Im by no means a genius or top tier, etc. so why do ppl struggle.
If you do a right to left swing and want to accel just move your screen so far to the left that the char model of your opponent is barely visible at the right side of your screen. For a drag just do the opposite and look to the right once the swing starts.

[Roll for Sanity]

Try being a shield user for a match and hold up your shield when you think an enemy will strike at you. Practice lowering your shield when someone is about to kick and take the blow so you can follow up with a block, or counter-kick when someone feels cocky and punish them with a follow up attack.

Then try a match without a shield.

It's a night and day difference when you don't have to worry about people dragging and acceling or having people with seizures feint spam.

[red_dot]

If you played the tutorial you would know why they swing 'faster' than you do. Also, if you want to know how fast they are, just look at the advanced stats of the weapons.

[David Fifield]

Originally posted by Spray:

Originally posted by Trumpet:

I notice this a lot too. I'll accel an attack and people seem to easily block it. They accel and I pretty much get hit in what looks like windup lmao. I have 180-200ms reaction time ( changes depending on how much sleep I get) so I don't think I'm retardedly slow.

Originally posted by Achillezzz:

see above

This is very subjective on what weapon they are using and what weapon you are using, for instance a Longsword and Greatsword look similar however one is faster then the other, you can also accelerate attacks by moving into the enemy. In real life terms imagine swinging your hips towards the enemy to gain speed. This can also work the opposite as if you starts swinging, face away from an opponent and time your end of the swing to turn back you can make the swing longed by a few hundred miliseconds making people misstime parries

I can accel a cleaver and somehow get hit with a battle axe or messer even though I started my attack first and they didn't have a riposite.

[David Fifield]

Originally posted by Квад дамачь:

If you played the tutorial you would know why they swing 'faster' than you do. Also, if you want to know how fast they are, just look at the advanced stats of the weapons.

People understand how to accel. The problem is when you start an LMB, accel it and somehow the guy who you didn't see visually start an attack until after you somehow beats you with an LMB.

[[CNT] Malov]

I think its a combination of the servers and animations that are causing your issue. I've had many times I start to swing and just before I hit them the player does a freakisly fast animation and I'm dead. The weird thing is that it shows that I hit them and got points but it didn't stop their attack.

[Atmospherocephalic]

i saw a guy swinging the zweihander around like a dagger today, i think there might be some cheaters in this game